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Anyone interested in getting a TRAVELOCITY GNOME? Here is how, courtesy of one of our website users. Thanks TB.

Here is the website: http://leisure.travelocity.com/Promotions/0,,
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In 2004, lots of people were interested in the song on the Geico Insurance commercial that played lyrics like  "Hey little honey what's your 20/20 got my ears on and I wanna get chummy chummy".

Here's the answer:

 The song is The Legendary Shack Shakers "CB Song" available on the "Cock a Doodle Dont" release on the Bloodshot label. You can get it at Amazon.com.

You can get it at Amazon.com.

 

Here is the group's official website.
http://www.cockadoodledont.com

Here's a nice email dated Monday January 20, 2003  from Mr. Ed Golick who has his own web site called  www.detroitkidshow.com. He was kind enough to share his knowledge on THE  SOUPY SALES SHOW and the puppeteers Clyde Adler and Frank Natasi who manipulated and/or provided voices for the puppets on the show. He said:

Hi,
 

I'm hoping you can make a correction on your website regarding Clyde Adler and Soupy Sales. You state that Clyde Adler operated the White Fang and Black Tooth puppets, while Frank Nastasi did the voices. You are half right- sort of.

 

Soupy Sales created the format for Lunch With Soupy at WXYZ, here in Detroit. Clyde Adler, a floor director at the station, worked all of the puppets and did all of the voices for the show. Clyde was also the unseen man behind the door. When Clyde would go vacation, Frank Nastasi replaced him. At the time, Frank played Gramps on another local WXYZ kid show, Wixie Wonderland.

 

Soupy's show went national in 1960. Soupy and Clyde Adler moved  to Los Angeles, and did a carbon-copy of the show they perfected in Detroit. Frank Nastasi moved to New York, to work on the legitimate stage. After a couple of years Lunch with Soupy was cancelled, so Clyde moved back to Detroit. In 1965 Soupy brought the puppets out of hibernation for another show in New York. Clyde didn't want to move again, so Soupy hired Frank Nastasi to do all of Clyde's characters.

 

Clyde worked with Soupy one last time on the 1979 syndicated "The Soupy Sales Show" where he once again was Pookie, Hippy, White Fang, Black Tooth and the man at the door. They taped thirteen weeks of shows, but the old magic wasn't there, mainly due to bad writing and poor direction.

 

I own the original White Fang and Black Tooth puppets used in Detroit, given to me by Jane Adler, Clyde's widow

 

Ed Golick

www.detroitkidshow.com

Recently, TV ACRES received an email from Dave Dietmeyer of Crestwood, Kentucky. Sent September 30, 2002, Dave kindly points out a "real" obituary from a newspaper in the Chicago area that reports the death of Phyllis Lindstrom, Of course, in TV LAND Phyllis Lindstrom (played by Cloris Leachman) was the landlord of TV producer Mary Richards on classic CBS comedy series THE MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW.

Does anyone remember the series RICHARD DIAMOND?
This show had a sexy phone operator named Sam who fielded phone
calls for private detective Richard Diamond (played by David Janssen).
The role of Sam the sultry-voiced operator was first played by
Mary Tyler Moore.Her replacement was Roxane Brooks. Roxane
recently emailed TV ACRES and informed us that her name was
spelled wrong. We quickly corrected the mistake. Her name has been
mistakenly spelled in a variety of TV resources. TV Acres lets
Roxane get the  last word on the subject. Below is the text of the
email and a follow up email that explains the problem: