Milner is a good one, and taking it back to TV, I imagine Fonzie or Richie Cunningham was pretty '50s Rockist on Happy Days, which predates WKRP.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 16:22 (two years ago) link
Ick, they're using the old syndication versions, and whoo-boy those replacement cues are awful!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 17:50 (two years ago) link
One neat thing about this though is that the version of "The Contest Nobody Could Win" has the original, lighter ending with Vincent Schiavelli as the scammer who attempts to steal the prize money before getting found out by Johnny. This version wasn't included in the box set.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:21 (two years ago) link
One last thought on the "first rockist" question. I really don't want to detour the WKRP thread--actually looked for an "origins of rockism" thread, and even though there are five screens of rockism threads, none are on the origins.
Anyway, a drunk David Proval/Tony in Mean Streets, same year as American Graffiti: "Play only old ones tonight...only old ones." I think there's sort of an implied rockism there. (His request is followed by the Chips' "Rubber Biscuit," vintage doo-wop.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link
Had no idea there were two endings to The Contest!
― pplains, Saturday, 5 February 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
I don’t know whose hand she’s holding but I invite you to join me in imagining it’s Herb Tarlek’s. pic.twitter.com/mrkQiVuFFv— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) March 7, 2022
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 01:33 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2Nja7Vb.jpg
Well, it's not Herb Tarlek, but ... one of the Waltons?
(Hi, Lou.)
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 02:38 (two years ago) link
Good catch--it was Judy Norton Taylor, a/k/a Mary Ellen Walton.
This was from the "Battle of the Network Stars," memorably sent up by SNL as "Battle of the Network Ts and As."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link
Well, that's not a nice way to refer to Ed Asner!
― pplains, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 03:07 (two years ago) link
Don't devalue Asner's tits!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 March 2022 04:23 (two years ago) link
Anyone know what this shirt was about? Looks like it said "Firme" or something, very glittery.
https://i.imgur.com/P5Wvpmj.jpg
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 2 April 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
This eBay store is selling off Howard Hesseman's record collection: https://www.ebay.com/str/bananalouiestore
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
Some rad shit in there... hardly any bids, either
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 28 April 2022 20:53 (one year ago) link
wow he really was johnny fever eh?
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 29 April 2022 09:40 (one year ago) link
Got my eye on that August 1979 Trouser Press.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2022 11:41 (one year ago) link
May and September 1979 too.
― Eric B. Mash Up the Resident (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 29 April 2022 11:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPibSwtZhzw
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 June 2022 03:09 (one year ago) link
i die every timethe classic-est
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 03:19 (one year ago) link
They've started showing it on Decades, but they're the ones with the soundalikes. That episode was on tonight, with <the moment> now soundtracked by a similar riff and an ott cock rock vocal singing on the nose lyrics about how "You got style!"
Terrible, but still funny.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 18 June 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
yeah foreigner makes it extra-funny
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 June 2022 05:46 (one year ago) link
https://super70ssports.com/arcade/turkey-drop/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 23 November 2022 03:23 (one year ago) link
Jan Smithers was a singer in a group called Hot Cup of Friends in 1973. She was the girlfriend of the band leader, who was Henry Mancini’s son
This was posted on fb, including a link to a Midnight Special in which this group appears (at about 37:00 if this link doesn't go the correct spot).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_XNR6QwMg
― nickn, Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:01 (three months ago) link
OK, may have to rewind a bit.