[78-L] Mr. Magoo

[David Lennick]

Okay, don't know that one!

dl

On 10/29/2013 12:21 AM, David Weiner wrote:
> 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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