THE SUNDAY COMMENTS ( 02 - 22 - 26 )

Rich Appel’s annual Top TV Themes Countdown has just been announced … and, with more voters than ever, there’s been some shuffling of the favorite tunes this year!

Spurred largely by the death of Rob Reiner, the theme to “All In The Family,” “Those Were The Days,” leaped to #2 … and “Gilligan’s Island” reached the top spot for the first time this year.  (Only three other themes have ever topped Rich’s list … “Hawaii Five-O,” which has been OUR Top TV Theme in all of our Forgotten Hits Readers Polls, “Love Is All Around,” the theme from “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” and “Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” the theme from “Cheers.”

TY	LY	SHOW	ARTIST - THEME
1	3	Gilligan's Island	Eligibles - Ballad Of Gilligan's Isle
2	19	All In The Family	Carroll O'Connor & Jean Stapleton - Those Were The Days
3	1	The Mary Tyler Moore Show	Sonny Curtis - Love Is All Around
4	2	Hawaii Five-O	Ventures - Hawaii Five-O
5	8	Laverne & Shirley	Cyndi Grecco - Making Our Dreams Come True
6	4	Cheers	Gary Portnoy - Where Everybody Knows Your Name
7	20	I Dream Of Jeannie	Hugo Montenegro - Jeannie
8	36	The Flintstones	Hoyt Curtin - Meet The Flintstones
9	14	Friends	Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You
10	9	Mission: Impossible	Lalo Schifrin - Mission-Impossible
11	--	Bewitched	Howard Greenfield - Bewitched Theme
12	--	Happy Days	Pratt & McClain - Happy Days
13	15	The Monkees	Monkees - (Theme from) The Monkees
14	16	WKRP In Cincinnati	Steve Carlisle - WKRP In Cincinnati
15	--	The Munsters	Jack Marshall - The Munsters' Theme

Here is Ross On Radio’s recap of this year’s event … as well as a link to our own results.

https://radioinsight.com/blogs/340259/gilligans-island-discovered-by-tv-theme-voters/

https://fhfavoritetvthemes.blogspot.com/

Thinking about The Dave Clark Five and their "live" appearances ... 

After watching a few appearances of the Dave Clark Five on various TV shows (including Ed Sullivan) on YouTube, one thing always stood out:

I don't think I ever saw a "live" appearance where they did NOT lip-synch to their records.

However, there was one time on the Ed Sullivan Show where they were set to "lip-synch" to Glad All Over when there was a "tape malfunction" and there was over 30 seconds of the "deer in the headlights" look by the group members and a short fade to black until the situation was rectified.  It looks like they HAD to sing and play on the fly, or at least sing over a back up instrumental track.

https://youtu.be/MTQf26sZxYw?si=ext3VX1uB9pLLMT_

Yet in future appearances, they still faked it in front of the theatre and television audiences.

By the late 60's, more artists were faking it on Ed's show, but the DC5 seemed to be the first.

I always wondered why they were so gung ho at lip-synching when most of the other Ed Sullivan appearances at the time were at least sung live with the in-house orchestra or with an instrumental-only backing track.

By the late 60's, more artists were faking it on Ed's show, but the DC5 seemed to be the first.

Regards,

Uncle T. Jay

The Vinyl Arkhives

KAFM Community Radio

The Sullivan show always boasted "live" performances ... and I think the greatest majority of them probably were ... but I've seen an awful lot of obvious lip-synching going on as well.

Dave Clark was a complete control freak when it came to his band's performances, nearly all of which were lip-synched to their records no matter what program they were appearing on.  Their Ed Sullivan appearances have never been commercially released and that's a real shame as I believe there is still an audience out there for these.  (I know I would love to have a complete collection!)

Clark finally released his own "best of" clips DVD several years ago ... actually, it's a TWO-disc compilation running about four hours that was eventually distributed thru PBS.  It looks like it's still available thru Amazon ...  https://www.amazon.com/Dave-Clark-Five-Beyond-Region/dp/B01I06JCY0/ref=sr_1_2?crid=FB2F8DLMSL6G&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.8nc6m-iPzxYIzcDDguUu_QQwc7ozEex-vjr8hq8eCAw.6RnrUOC-Znp3tHfBiD2g6zUqlsV6lsF2ZkJHHzGSV9M&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+dave+clark+five+and+beyond&qid=1771611960&s=movies-tv&sprefix=the+dave+clark+five+and+beyond%2Cmovies-tv%2C116&sr=1-2

These are top-quality prints as opposed to the numerous bootlegs discs that are also available.  

Wouldn't it be great to see a dedicated dvd release of ALL of The Dave Clark Five's appearances on the Sullivan show, collected to view all in one place?

Actually, Ed had ALL of the British Invasion acts on his show, several of them making multiple appearances ... acts like Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Animals and Petula Clark could fill disc collections of their own.

Or how about a series of British Invasion DVD's ... you could probably due six complete chapters and capture all of these performances for posterity's sake ... run it as a 6-part PBS special and then offer the DVD's (with bonus tracks) as an extra special bonus for fans who want to own the complete series. 

I'm telling you, there's some serious potential here!!!  Andrew and Josh Solt ... are you listening???  Do it while their prime audience is still around to see it!!!  (kk)

 

Billboard celebrates fifty years of Foreigner with this article this week ... https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/foreigner-50-anniversary-interview-1236182616/

Giving another shout out to our FH Buddy Sam Tallerico ...

His LAFOS (Lost And Found Oldies Show) consistently mixes the popular hits of the day alongside records that for one reason or another failed to make the grade.  (I swear I end up downloading two or three songs every week after listening to his show.)

His latest show salutes music from this week in 1971 ... and features some GREAT tunes! 

You can find a whole bunch of 'em here ...

https://www.mixcloud.com/LAFOS/ 

>>>Dear, Casey,  Is it too late to have you ask Shelley if she'd be my long distance Valentine for this year?  Signed, CB  (Curious Boy in Colorado.)

I have been waiting, but it is obvious Casey is preoccupied and will not be contacting me so let's agree that I was your long distance Valentine for this year ... but it is all over now. (Valentine's Day 2026)

Shelley

Lovin’ the Super Charts …

Top 40 days with my transistor radio!

Just reviewing the list is a cosmic sonic! trip back in time

Phil

Sorry to hear that Peter Asher has had to cancel a few of his upcoming appearances due to a new injury to his leg and ankle.  Apparently, this will require surgery ... so until his recovery time can be calculated, everything is kind of in limbo right now ... but he is planning on rescheduling all cancelled dates.  (kk)

We've sure all gotten older . . .

Ran into Alfred the other day!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I asked him his secret to a long life.

He said, "What, me worry? Never do!"

CB!

No, that was NOT meant to be a cruel Peter Asher joke ...

But I supposed I COULD have found a better place for it.  (kk)  

Tom Cuddy sent me this posting by former Journey frontman Steve Perry ...

To quote Taylor Swift, they are apparently never, ever getting back together.

I would imagine Bobby Troup who wrote "Route 66" is in the Illinois Route 66 Rock and Roll museum?

Here is Bobby waiting for a table at Matteo's in West L.A. His wife Julie London was having a smoke too! You can see Bobby on reruns of "Emergency" everyday. 

Jim Roup

 

And, when it comes to bathroom humor, we can ALWAYS count on Chuck Buell to give us his #2-cents …

>>>Did anybody really buy these things?!?!? (kk)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Buell responds!

AND for the convenience of enjoying that first cigarette of the morning ~~~

    "Convience!"

         "Endless supply of Cigarettes!"

              "Laughter Galore!"

                   "Be the FIRST on your block to get one of these ... Don't be a "Number 2!"

(And no, I’m NOT pulling your chain on this one!)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CB  ( which stands for "Commode Boy!" )

Those radio T.P. holders didn't look like they could hold most rolls of contemporary T.P.

And it doesn't say what type of batteries it needed!

Bob Frable

The last place I worked was making sure that we never an out of toilet paper on the job ... have you ever seen a toilet paper dispenser like this one before???

 

But they also had very stringent flushing rules due to a previous occurrence ...  

 

This cracked me up when the final notice was posted!!!  (kk) 

 

 

 

Absolutely 100% legit!!!  (kk)