Classic Television Showbiz

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Generation Exploitation Podcast #66 (REPOST)

Here's the playlist for this week's podcast. You can subscribe to the program on Itunes, store it on yer computer or your Ipod by searching for Generation Exploitation in the Itunes store. It's free and there's an archive of 66 mixed podcasts plus another 20 or so full length comedy records available.

Listen to The Generation Exploitation Podcast #66

Beatle Teen Beat - Larry Holloway
Drive-In - Frank DeVol
Georgy Girl - Matt Monroe
Georgy Girl - Chet Atkins
Automatic Reaction - Nino & The Ebb Tides
Prison Barber Shop - Ken Thorne
Shape of Things to Come - 13th Power w/Les Baxter
Shape of Things to Come - Davie Allen & The Arrows
Wild in the Streets - 13th Power w/Les Baxter
Wild in the Streets - Davie Allen & The Arrows
The Young Rabbits - The Jazz Crusaders
Dimension Five - The Fifth Dimension
Ain't That Nice - The Dixie Cups
I Can't Control Myself - The Troggs
The Fox - Hugo Montenegro
To The Flower Power - Victor Lundberg
Every Mother's Daughter - Dave Grusin & The Byrds
Sperry New Holland Cropping Radio Ad 45
Tiger in My Tank - Del Reeves
Let Me Be - The Turtles
The Funky Mule - Marvin Holmes & The Uptights

What's My Line with mystery guest An R.C.M.P. Inspector (1959)

R.C.M.P. (1959) - Footage Offline - 10/09/09

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

What's My Line with mystery guest Stevie Wonder (1973)

Tubby Boots Live (1988)

You'll either love this or hate this - or like me, both of those things simultaneously. Learn everything you ever need to know about Tubby Boots in a piece (that at one point resulted in a cease and desist order!) I wrote here.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Generation Exploitation Podcast #65

Listen to the newest podcast!

Playlist:
Tomorrow Radio: 1976 - TM Productions
How to Speak Hip - Del Close
Funky Drums - James Brown
Money Won't Change You - Aretha Franklin
Cayatano - Perez Prado
The Human Tornado Radio Trailer - Rudy Ray Moore
Experiment in Terror Twist - Henry Mancini
Eleanor Rigby - The Baroque Inevitable
Glamor Stretcher Time - Jack LaLane
Shutdown! - The Hollyridge Strings
Pink Panther Theme - The Anita Kerr Singers
Both Sides Now - Bing Crosby
Zounds! What Sounds! - Dean Elliot Orchestra
Cancer of Communism - Father Daniel A. Lord
Sunny - The Baroque Inevitable
Sunny - Robert Mitchum
Pour Man - Lee Hazlewood
Nitty Gritty - Lincoln Chase
Themes from Stingray! Hullabaloo! Wacky Races!
Muriel Cigars Jingle - Edie Adams
Riding the Rails - Kenyon Hopkins
Little Red Book - Burt Bacharach

Juvenile Jury (1952)

Leave it to Beaver (1958)

Friday, February 13, 2009

The Gene Autry Show with special guest star Glenn Strange (1955)

I'm the Law starring George Raft (1953)

Something to Say with guest George Burns (1970)

CBC's Tony Thomas conducted a wealth of interviews in the late sixties and early seventies for his radio program. I even found a CD way back when that was pressed by some makeshift company in the States that put out Thomas' great interview with Jack Benny. Here is just under an hour with George Burns from June, 1970, an insightful and often serious discussion about George Burns, his philosophy on life, comedy and music today. Listen to the whole thing here.

More about Tony Thomas courtesy the internet:

Tony Thomas spent much of his life preserving Hollywood history through his 30-odd books, 50-plus record albums, and television documentaries. His interest in Hollywood dated back to the beginning of his career when the England-born Thomas -- who emigrated to Canada at age 18 -- served as an announcer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The 21-year-old worked his way up in the company to become a writer and producer for the CBC radio network. Thomas specialized in programs about cinema and Hollywood. He moved to Tinseltown in 1966 to become a distinguished film historian who specialized in movie music. Thomas was very active in movements recognizing movie scores as legitimate orchestral music and co-founded the Society for the Preservation of Film Music, serving on its advisory board for many years. His books include Music for the Movies (1973) (considered a seminal work in the serious appraisal of film scores), The Films of 20th Century Fox, and The Busby Berkeley Book. As a documentary filmmaker, Thomas contributed to a number of biographies in Citadel's "Films of" series, including those of Jimmy Stewart, Marlon Brando, and Gene Kelly. In conjunction with the release of MGM's compilation film That's Dancing, Thomas released a complimentary book with the same title. In regard to recording, Thomas produced compilation albums of great scorists as well as individual albums featuring soundtracks composed by such greats as Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Alfred Newman. Thomas has written and produced many PBS-aired documentaries, including Hollywood and the American Image, The West That Never Was, Film Score: The Music of the Movies, and Michael Feinstein: Sing a Song Hollywood, for the American Movie Classics Channel in the mid-'90s. Tony Thomas died from complications of pneumonia in Burbank, CA, at the age of 69