MLT Club Member David Herrick
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Cookie Monster is a close second on my monster roster. I give Grover the edge, though, because his humor is a little more subtle, whereas Cookie Monster is more in-your-face. But you’ve got to love the pure gluttony!
People forget that the monsters on Sesame Street weren’t all cute and cuddly at first. This sketch from the first season terrified me at the time, although I can laugh at it now. The song dates from 1935.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2zq9APDeZM
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No big deal, Jacki, especially if you haven’t seen the show since you were a kid. I got back into it when I was in college, and then later got to see some early episodes on a cable channel called Noggin. I had forgotten that Oscar was orange in the first season, and that Snuffy was originally the stuff of nightmares:
As far as purple characters, I remember a story arc on Mr. Rogers where Purple Panda came down from the planet Purple and turned the entire neighborhood of make-believe purple. Could that be what you had in mind?
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I don’t know what sort of color filters the CBC employed, Jacki, but in the U.S. Snuffy was brown!
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That’s right, Jacki. It was basically an excuse for the Archie people to create Scooby-Doo type adventures. But the climactic chase scenes featured some groovy bubblegum songs.
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I know what you’re talking about, Thomas. I was a little too young to interpret my “Joy” reaction as a crush, but I thought that if my mom broke down and I had to get a new one, she would certainly be my first choice.
I posted this once before, but since we’re so Joyful at the moment…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrc-B-su2gU
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Thank you for finding and sharing that, Howard! Grover has always been my favorite monster on the Street.
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Jung, if I had been a couple of years older, I would have been right there by you in spirit watching the Banana Splits. Very groovy song, and that show kicked off a long run of Krofft Brothers productions that I just ate up.
This is probably the rockingest Saturday morning theme song from my memory vault:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUT820fpO0
Hey, I just thought of something: a red-haired guitar player and a blonde drummer. Hmmm…
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Jacki, I suspect we watched a lot of the same shows, although I’m not familiar with a few that you mentioned. (Canadian only, perhaps?) Of course, before cable we had no choice but to watch the same shows!
I viewed all the new American sitcoms that I could during prime time in the 70’s. And the programming in the late afternoons was mostly reruns of sitcoms from the 60’s, so I got to enjoy those too.
I don’t know if this was universal at the time, but where I lived it was very rare to see anything on TV that dated from the black-and-white era. I can think of several sitcoms that went to color in the middle of their run (Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Gilligan’s Island), and I never saw any of the B/W episodes until many years later. Maybe it was because color TV had only been around for a few years, so black-and-white shows seemed very behind the times.
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I agree with you, Jung. Apart from “She’s Leaving Home”, I can’t think of a single Beatles song that is not at least somewhat hopeful and uplifting lyrically, even if it’s sad melodically.
In fact, overall I can only think of two 60’s songs that pack that double punch of a somber tune and hopeless words: Elvis’ “In the Ghetto”, and “Patches” by Dickey Lee. It takes despair on all levels like that for a song to get to me.
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Jacki, you’re the first person I’ve ever encountered who remembers Wait Till Your Father Gets Home! The first time I saw Family Guy, it seemed to me to be artistically ripped off from WTYFGH.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8RDEAZnuDE
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Many of my earliest musical memories come from the Saturday morning kids’ shows of the early 70’s, when bubblegum had pretty much run its course among mainstream listeners and was repurposed for the only audience that had never heard it. I was happy to see a plug in this video for the Bugaloos, whom I adored when I was six years old. Had the lunchbox (seen at 13:21) and everything.
At some point when I was getting into 60’s music in the 80’s, the Mamas & Papas’ sound rekindled my memory of the Bugaloos, and that’s when I realized that I was a child of the 60’s after all. My hippiedom had just been dormant for about 15 years.
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Hi, Gary, and welcome to the club!
As a follow-up to Jacki’s question, which Albion, NY do you live in? According to Wikipedia there’s one in Orleans County and one in Oswego County. I thought that sort of thing was illegal…
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I remember that Bugs Bunny intro, Jung! One of the highlights of my Saturday mornings to be sure. I always sang along with it, despite not being familiar with the word “overture” at the beginning, and just making something up there that sounded similar.
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I’d love to know if those unusual harmonies are associated with one of those weird musical modes. I’m not good at separating the parts by just listening, so I’d need a transcription of the notes before I could even get started working that out.
Jung, you reminded me of one of my favorite MTM show moments:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XquQO_kHg
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Sesame Street didn’t emphasize the banjo in particular, but it introduced me to a lot of musical sounds that I otherwise wouldn’t have heard until many years later. I’ll never forget this magical combination of steel drum and horse hooves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkNDMUidYo
