TV Is the Thing (This Year): Old NYT Listings

Based on something I found here: The Dead End Kids/The Little Tough Guys/The East Side Kids/The Bowery Boys

Like this for example:
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/04/09/archives/television.html

1:00 (4) DON KIRSHNER'S ROCK CONCERT: The Aver age White Band, RaY Barre to, David Soul, Tom Dreeson the Mine Company, guests. (5) Movie: “The Story of Mankind” (1957). Ronald, Colman, Hedy Lamarravincent Price, the Marx Brothers, Agnes Moorehead, An all‐star catastrophekind strikes out (2 hrs.) (9) Disco ‘77: Rose: Royce host. Gloria Gaynor, Harold. Melvin and the Blue toted; Carol Douglas, guestS (11 )Music Hall Arrieritit: Jim Stafford, guest Mickey Newberry, Charlie Daniels, The Oakridge Boys,

Disco '77 sounds fun - was that a Soul Train-type lip-synch show?

I have no recollection of that one.

IMDb has the scoop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38hBsN0EmYc

Found this comment in discogs.com:

skylerpresident Sep 17, 2017
The song was really great. I was with the group Sassy and performed when the group was featured on the Hit TV show Disco '77. I was the male Violinist, seated behind the Guitar player. My name was Michael Campiglia, but I later changed it to Sky President. We cut the record in the factory district of Hialeah, Florida and the show was taped at Pete and Lenny's in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I still have an original version of the Album sided-45 rpm recording given to me by Ray Martinez (the composer). He gave it to me on my Birthday and he had it signed by two big names of Disco with whom we were performing, that night. Ray Martinez, the composer, was a genius and had many other songs that never made it but that were exceptional. The picture at the top of the Discog's site of the recording is spot-on.

Cool! Seems like that was a Henry Stone label, maybe.

Crap — I was just about to file paperwork to change my legal name to Sky President, and that guy beat me to it.

Suspicion seems correct - the songwriter mentioned, Ray Martinez, worked for Henry Stone at TK Records. Martinez was also behind the disco studio group Amant ("If There's Love" - a cool track).

Maybe I should finally read that book I have on Florida Soul/pvmic

If nothing else those pages will provide examples of the legendary wit that is this NYT television listing micromini capsule movie review.

legendary brevity is the soul of wit I should say

Holy shit back in the day you could see Pasolini on Channel 7!

I’m old enough to remember when TV stations showed random old movies, but something like Pasolini would have been on a public tv station not WABC!

Clicked on this thread and suddenly had a vision of John Byner.