[78-L] Mr. Magoo

[David Weiner]

MONSTER RALLY is pretty amusing - Hans Conreid & Alice Pearce and perhaps
the greatest Jack Davis cover design!

Dave Weiner

On 10/28/13 8:35 PM, "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

>dl wrote:
>>> RCA's sense of humor was sometimes very hard to detect.
>
>Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band is not funny?????  Homer and Jethro is not
>funny?????   "Sing Along with Jonathan and Darlene Edwards" is not
>funny?????  Bob Arbogast "The Chickens Are In the Chimes" is not
>funny????   Wingy's "Stop the War the Cats are Killing Themselves" is
>not funny????  "Am I Dreaming or Are All My Favorite Bands Playing?" is
>not funny?????  And check out "Bob and Ray On A Platter" instead of
>"Throw a Stereo Spectacular".
>
>Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: [78-L] Mr. Magoo
>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>Date: Mon, October 28, 2013 7:17 pm
>To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESE0RGxpqf8
>
>Never heard this one before!
>
>As for Magoo, the music by Dennis Farnon is funnier than the sketch, and
>it's 
>not top drawer either. CJBC in Toronto used a couple of portions of it
>as the 
>opening and closing for their daily dose of Bob and Ray. (I did the same
>years 
>later on a daily comedy bit on another station.)
>
>dl
>
>On 10/28/2013 6:34 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>
>>
>>> An album that's nowhere near as funny as you wish it would be, as I
>>>recall.
>>> Like the Bob and Ray Stereo Spectacular, or Lord Buckley's Hipsters
>>> Flipsters,
>>> or Allan Sherman's Peter. RCA's sense of humor was sometimes very hard
>>> to
>>> detect. (Defend 'em all you want, but I have never laughed at any of
>>>those
>>> albums.)
>>
>> Re Magoo in Hi-Fi -
>>
>> I have a very nice copy of it, which I bought because I always thought I
>> loved *everything* Jim Backus did (with the exception of Gilligan's
>>Island).
>> It's pretty unimaginative stuff. Magoo is building a Hi-Fi. He reads
>> that he needs woofers and tweeters, so naturally he goes out and gets
>>some
>> dogs and birds. The jokes go down hill from there. All this inanity is
>> commented upon by his doofy nephew Waldo - and that's insipid doofiness,
>> not comic doofiness.
>>
>> Re "Why Don't You go Home for Christmas" -
>>
>> It's a monologue by Backus, delivered to his apparently shrewish wife,
>> emploring her to go spend Christmas with her parents "So *I* can have a
>> Happy New Year." ("If you had any class, you would go by bus.") You
>> can almost imagine him in a smoking jacket, hoisting a martini and
>>leaning
>> against a console stereo, as he begins "Every year, about this time, Old
>> Jingle-Bells-Ville..." Much more humor in three minutes than the whole
>> Magoo LP.
>>
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