The Classic/Retro Pop Culture Thread

RJDiogenes · Sep 3, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
Diahann Carroll sings "Am I Blue?"

That must have been good, assuming it's the song from the 30s that I'm thinking of.

Zeno Baroda, who was recently pardoned by M'Guigan.

A nice subtle clue in retrospect.

Jim takes interest in a mantle clock that could have a bomb in it (whether or not it does is ambiguous, but Jim tosses it in a bucket of water, alarming Bulvon and his men)

He was just messing with them. :rommie:

Baroda isn't interested, having sniffed out Jim as an investigator and indicating that he only blows people up for social causes.

What if Jim told him the guy was the judge? It would be a moral dilemma for him. :rommie:

After this, M'Guigan wants to move to a safer locale, but is reluctant to stay on the train.

What reason does he give for that?

a person-sized cake topper he's had Artie make of that newfangled gift statue from France that's in the works

There we go. It's 1876 or early 1877. Although I don't know if the final design was even known then.

Jim deduces that Baroda has been strongarmed into making his bombs for M'Guigan, who intends to knock off his rivals for a Supreme Court seat.

Which is basically the same plot as the last episode.

After the agents free themselves, Artie nabs Vashti

On screen? :eek:

putting out the torch from the trapeze with a seltzer bottle

A little touch of slapstick. Nice. :rommie:

(Does the government really need an inept spy agency to do this sort of work?)

It's probably all just a distraction so that the ept agencies can do the real espionage work.

Working under a 72-hour deadline, Max decides for some reason that his best option is to get arrested and sentenced to the state pen.

Because that's not enough time to have the Chief contact prison authorities. :rommie:

His first couple of attempts backfire, and when he's finally brought into court for defying an officer and is about to be let go with a warning, he has to engage in increasingly bad behavior with the judge (Howard Wendell), eventually succeeding with attempted bribery.

Max can't even get arrested. :rommie:

Once on the inside, Max indulges in his Cagney impersonation and 99 gives him a cake with dental instruments baked into it.

Cute, but I thought the thing just popped on and off.

In the coda, Max has been inside for six weeks and counting because the Chief is having trouble getting him out...

The Chief hasn't even made the call yet. :rommie:

and isn't sure of Max's future with CONTROL given his record.

Well, that sounds ominous.

They should be, they're canned.

Yes, definitely in this case. :rommie:

Woulda been nicer if they'd had a clip.

Indeed. I'd love to see it.

It was a ruse; he was a past-his-prime desk jockey; and if the Secret Service was a new agency in this era, he was probably assigned to the position, rather than working his way up through the ranks.

Could be. The SS was about ten years old at that point.

He's in heaven...
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We have gathered here to pay final tribute and bid our last farewell to one who must be classed as a prince among men. Who was this Artemus Gordon, who did bestride the world of his friends like a veritable colossus?

Love Artie. :rommie:

When he's wearing them on his face?

Well, he could put a couple of mousetraps in there. Or just mice.

Nerys Myk said:
The woman on the left in the screenshot looks a little like Pat Benatar.

She could have out-sung the whole troop. :rommie:

The Old Mixer · Sep 4, 2022

RJDiogenes said:
What reason does he give for that?

Said it would be like living in a fishbowl.

There we go. It's 1876 or early 1877. Although I don't know if the final design was even known then.

They showed a drawing of it in a magazine...labeled the Modern Colossus or somesuch.

On screen?

Yep...basically just grabbed her trying to run.

the ept agencies

Max can't even get arrested.

First he wouldn't pay a bill at a restaurant, so everybody there was trying to help him; then he tried to mug a guy who turned out to be a psychiatrist and tried to drum up some business.

Cute, but I thought the thing just popped on and off.

Yeah...maybe a little harder if it's somebody else's mouth.

The SS

An abbreviation to be avoided...the Squadron Supreme could never just go by their initials like the JLA.

Love Artie.

I used to find him a bit hokey, but he's definitely grown on me.

RJDiogenes · Sep 4, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
They showed a drawing of it in a magazine...labeled the Modern Colossus or somesuch.

The New Colossus? They're definitely fudging the timeline a bit. Which is fine for an Alternate Adventure Universe.

First he wouldn't pay a bill at a restaurant, so everybody there was trying to help him; then he tried to mug a guy who turned out to be a psychiatrist and tried to drum up some business.

"How long have you thought you were a spy?" This may actually be the underlying truth of the show. :rommie:

An abbreviation to be avoided...the Squadron Supreme could never just go by their initials like the JLA.

SecSe? SSOTUS? USSS?

I used to find him a bit hokey, but he's definitely grown on me.

Hokey is the name of the game for Wild Wild West. :rommie:

DarrenTR1970 · Sep 4, 2022

Thought I would do a little Santana today, with their cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Black Magic Woman'. The lead singer is Gregg Rolie, and the second guitarist is Neil Schon, soon to leave the group and form the band Journey.

The 'Black Magic Woman' in question was Peter Green's girlfriend at the time Sandra Elsdon, who was practiced witchcraft and 'Magic Stick' refers to Peter and Sandra's nickname for his p*nis.

The lline "Got me so blind I can't see", is a reference to masturbation, which would be the subject of the subsequent Fleetwood Mac single 'Rattlesnake Shake', and 'Tryin' to make a Devil out of me', how he's going to Hell because he does it so much when his girl isn't around.

The Old Mixer · Sep 5, 2022

55 Years Ago This Week

September 3

At 5:00 in the morning local time, all road traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left hand side of the road to driving on the right hand side. Preparation for Dagen H (Dagen Högertrafikomläggningen or "day of right-sided traffic conversion") had been made for the past four years. Beginning at 1:00 in the morning, all non-essential traffic had been barred from the roads. At 4:50, all remaining vehicles were brought to a stop at checkpoints. Ten minutes later, police directed vehicles to move to the other side of the road.
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was elected President of South Vietnam after receiving a plurality of 4.74 million votes. Thiệu and his running mate, vice-presidential candidate Nguyễn Cao Kỳ got 1,649,561 of the votes cast, or 34.8% of the total. The runner-up, Trương Định Dzu, had campaigned on a platform of negotiating with the Viet Cong and got 817,120 votes or 17.2%; former President Phan Khắc Sửu received 513,374 (10.8%) and former Prime Minister Trần Văn Hương had 474,100 (10%).
The game show What's My Line? broadcast its last episode after having been a television mainstay on CBS since February 2, 1950. John Charles Daly, the last of the original members, moderated the last episode, which included longtime panelists Arlene Francis and Bennett Cerf.

September 4

Operation Swift began as the 1st and 3rd battalions of the United States Marines 5th Regiment engaged the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong in the Que Son Valley in the Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín provinces of South Vietnam. Over a period of five days, 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese were killed. A former Viet Cong soldier would observe 30 years later, "in the Que Son Valley in 1967, we killed more Americans than at any time or place during the war."
In Centreville, Mississippi, 25 armed members of the African-American group Deacons for Defense intervened when a mob of white supremacists attempted to disrupt a demonstration for black voting rights in Wilkinson County. When one of the white members pointed a gun at the demonstrators, the group from Natchez began unloading weapons and the mob dispersed without incident. According to one activist, "hearing the name 'Deacons for Defense' invoked was almost as effective in scattering the racist mob as the guns".
Michigan Governor George Romney, who was considering a run for the Republican Party nomination for the presidency in 1968, appeared on The Lou Gordon Show on Detroit's WKBD-TV for an interview, and was asked to explain why he had changed his position from support to opposition of the Vietnam War and said that when he and other American politicians were given a tour of South Vietnam in 1965, "I just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get when you go over to Vietnam, not only by the generals, but also by the diplomatic corps." "For all practical purposes", a historian would write later, "that single honest remark removed Romney from serious presidential consideration."
Died: Father Vincent R. Capodanno, 38, U.S. Navy chaplain and Roman Catholic priest, was killed in battle while rendering aid to U.S. Marines who had been ambushed by the North Vietnamese Army in the Que Son Valley. Lt. Capodanno would be awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his heroism in rushing into the battle zone despite being wounded by an exploding mortar round. A Navy frigate, the USS Capodanno, would later be named in his honor.

September 5

Hurricane Beulah formed in the Caribbean Sea and then began traveling a west-northwest course. Over a period of 17 days, it would grow and diminish as it swept across Mexico and Texas, killing 59 people and causing more than one billion dollars in property damage.
The British science fiction television series The Prisoner, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, was broadcast for the first time, premiering in Canada on the CTV Television Network. The show would not appear in the United Kingdom until September 29. Syndication in the United States would begin on June 1, 1968.

September 6

Walter E. Washington was appointed as the first African-American mayor of a major American city, as President Lyndon Johnson announced his nomination as Mayor-Commissioner of Washington, D.C. For the previous 93 years, there had been no mayor for the nation's capital, which was administered instead by three appointed commissioners.
On the single bloodiest day of the battle in the Que Son Valley, 69 U.S. Marines and 149 of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces were killed. In addition, 201 Marines and an undetermined number of the North Vietnamese were wounded.
Died: U.S. Marine Sergeant Rodney M. Davis, 25, was killed when he jumped upon a live grenade to protect his fellow Marines from the blast. Davis, an African-American and one of the casualties of the battle of Que Son Valley, was credited with saving five other soldiers in the 2nd Platoon from death, and at least seven others from serious injury. He would be awarded the Medal of Honor, posthumously, in 1969. A U.S. Navy missile frigate, USS Rodney M. Davis, would later be named in his honor.

September 7

The United States launched Biosatellite 2 from Cape Kennedy, with a cargo of insects and other life forms to study the effects of weightlessness and gamma radiation on cellular development. NASA would successfully recover the craft two days later. The first Biosatellite, sent aloft on December 17, 1966, had burned up in the atmosphere after the malfunction of its retrorockets prevented it from a controlled re-entry. The living things on board included "parasitic wasps, flour beetles, vinegar gnats, and amoebae", as well as paramecia and frog eggs, wheat seedlings and bread mold.
The Flying Nun premiered on ABC at 8:00 in the evening. Starring Sally Field as a Roman Catholic novice in Puerto Rico who discovered that she had the power of controlled flight ("Whenever a stiff wind caught the starched cornette worn by her order, off she went."), the show was based on a novel, The Fifteenth Pelican, written by Tere Rios and would run for three seasons.

September 8

U.S. President Lyndon Johnson met at his ranch in Texas with two longtime friends, Texas Governor John Connally and U.S. Congressman Jake Pickle, as well as his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, to get advice about announcing a decision not to run for re-election in 1968. According to Mrs. Johnson's biographer, Johnson intended to announce his decision in December, and Connally argued that Johnson should announce his decision in his State of the Union address in 1968. Johnson would reconsider his decision and attempt a run for a renomination before withdrawing on March 31, 1968.
Purr-Chance to Dream, the final Tom and Jerry theatrical short, was released to theaters with a title that was a pun on a quote from Shakespeare's Hamlet ("to sleep, perchance to dream"), after which there were no further MGM releases of cartoons to precede the featured attraction. An author would comment later, "It is the final irony that, in the last Tom and Jerry cartoon, Purr-chance to Dream (1967), Tom actually takes sleeping pills to help him sleep - a sleep, of course, from which he never wakes."

September 9

The three American television networks premiered their Saturday morning cartoon lineups on the same day, most of them featuring established superheroes or creating new ones. ABC featured Marvel Comics heroes, with The Fantastic Four at 9:30 and Spider-Man at 10:00, while CBS relied on DC Comics for The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure at 11:30. NBC offered Super President, in which President of the United States James Norcross secretly worked as a super hero in his spare time, in a 30-minute show that also featured Spy Shadow. Other shows introduced during the day were the comedy George of the Jungle (which included Super Chicken and Tom Slick) on ABC, The Herculoids on CBS and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio on NBC.
The pilot episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, which would become the number one rated television show in the nation in 1968, was shown as a "sneak preview" on the NBC television network at 9:00 p.m. Eastern time. Hosted by comedians Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, the fast-paced variety show featured an ensemble of regular players and would become a weekly series on January 22, 1968. The guest stars on the first telecast were Barbara Feldon, Ken Berry and Pamela Austin.

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "Ode to Billie Joe," Bobbie Gentry
2. "Reflections," Diana Ross & The Supremes
3. "Come Back When You Grow Up," Bobby Vee & The Strangers
4. "Baby, I Love You," Aretha Franklin
5. "The Letter," The Box Tops
6. "All You Need Is Love," The Beatles
7. "You're My Everything," The Temptations
8. "Light My Fire," The Doors
9. "Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie," Jay & The Techniques
10. "San Franciscan Nights," Eric Burdon & The Animals
11. "Cold Sweat, Part 1," James Brown
12. "Words," The Monkees
13. "Pleasant Valley Sunday," The Monkees
14. "Brown Eyed Girl," Van Morrison
15. "Thank the Lord for the Night Time," Neil Diamond
16. "You Know What I Mean," The Turtles
17. "There Is a Mountain," Donovan
18. "Funky Broadway," Wilson Pickett
19. "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher," Jackie Wilson
20. "(I Wanna) Testify," The Parliaments
21. "Heroes and Villains," The Beach Boys
22. "I Was Made to Love Her," Stevie Wonder
23. "Silence Is Golden," The Tremeloes
24. "I Had a Dream," Paul Revere & The Raiders feat. Mark Lindsay
25. "Never My Love," The Association
26. "I Dig Rock and Roll Music," Peter, Paul & Mary
27. "Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon)," The Mamas & The Papas
28. "Things I Should Have Said," The Grass Roots
29. "Gettin' Together," Tommy James & The Shondells

31. "Groovin'," Booker T. & The M.G.'s

33. "Gimme Little Sign," Brenton Wood
34. "A Girl Like You," The Young Rascals
35. "Fakin' It," Simon & Garfunkel
36. "Carrie-Anne," The Hollies
37. "To Love Somebody," Bee Gees

39. "Love Bug Leave My Heart Alone," Martha Reeves & The Vandellas

43. "I Make a Fool of Myself," Frankie Valli
44. "A Whiter Shade of Pale," Procol Harum

46. "Hypnotized," Linda Jones
47. "Get on Up," The Esquires
48. "The Cat in the Window (The Bird in the Sky)," Petula Clark

51. "Knock on Wood," Otis & Carla

55. "Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)," Bill Cosby

61. "Expressway to Your Heart," The Soul Survivors

63. "Run, Run, Run," The Third Rail
64. "The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil," Jefferson Airplane

68. "The Look of Love," Dusty Springfield

73. "Your Precious Love," Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
74. "To Sir with Love," Lulu
75. "Dandelion," The Rolling Stones

77. "Let Love Come Between Us," James & Bobby Purify

79. "Soul Man," Sam & Dave
80. "How Can I Be Sure," The Young Rascals

83. "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)," The Buckinghams
84. "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," Tom Jones
85. "Get Together," The Youngbloods

Leaving the chart:

"Can't Take My Eyes Off You," Frankie Valli (16 weeks)
"Let the Good Times Roll & Feel So Good," Bunny Sigler (11 weeks)
"Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," The Buckinghams (12 weeks)
"My Mammy," The Happenings (8 weeks)
"Purple Haze," The Jimi Hendrix Experience (2 weeks)

Recent and new on the chart:

"Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)," The Buckinghams
(#12 US)

"Your Precious Love," Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
(#5 US; #37 AC; #2 R&B)

"How Can I Be Sure," The Young Rascals
(#4 US)

"Soul Man," Sam & Dave
(#2 US; #1 R&B; #24 UK; #458 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time [2004])

"To Sir with Love," Lulu
(#1 US the weeks of Oct. 21 through Nov. 18, 1967; #9 R&B; #1 on Billboard's 1967 Year-End Chart of Pop Singles)

And new on the boob tube:

That Girl, "Pass the Potatoes, Ethel Merman" (Season 2 premiere)
Dark Shadows, episodes 311-315
The Wild Wild West, "The Night of the Bubbling Death" (Season 3 premiere)
Hogan's Heroes, "The Crittendon Plan" (Season 3 premiere)
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (pilot special)

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month.

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The Old Mixer · Sep 5, 2022

55 Years Ago This Week Addendum

RJDiogenes · Sep 5, 2022

DarrenTR1970 said:
Thought I would do a little Santana today

Very nice. Gotta love Santana.

The Old Mixer said:
At 5:00 in the morning local time, all road traffic in Sweden switched from driving on the left hand side of the road to driving on the right hand side.

"Wait, wait! Your right or my right?!"

The British science fiction television series The Prisoner, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, was broadcast for the first time

A unique classic.

Died: U.S. Marine Sergeant Rodney M. Davis, 25, was killed when he jumped upon a live grenade to protect his fellow Marines from the blast.

Man, some people just have heroism in their bones.

The United States launched Biosatellite 2 from Cape Kennedy, with a cargo of insects and other life forms to study the effects of weightlessness and gamma radiation on cellular development. NASA would successfully recover the craft two days later.

The bugs would all be... green!

Starring Sally Field as a Roman Catholic novice in Puerto Rico who discovered that she had the power of controlled flight

They don't make 'em like this anymore. Or previously.

An author would comment later, "It is the final irony that, in the last Tom and Jerry cartoon, Purr-chance to Dream (1967), Tom actually takes sleeping pills to help him sleep - a sleep, of course, from which he never wakes."

Whoa, man, that's dark.

ABC featured Marvel Comics heroes, with The Fantastic Four at 9:30 and Spider-Man at 10:00, while CBS relied on DC Comics for The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure at 11:30. NBC offered Super President, in which President of the United States James Norcross secretly worked as a super hero in his spare time, in a 30-minute show that also featured Spy Shadow. Other shows introduced during the day were the comedy George of the Jungle (which included Super Chicken and Tom Slick) on ABC, The Herculoids on CBS and Birdman and the Galaxy Trio on NBC.

FF was my favorite. I wasn't much of a Spider-Man guy. I liked Herculoids and I vaguely remember catching Birdman and the Galaxy Trio occasionally. I have no memory of Super President whatsoever. :rommie:

"Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)," The Buckinghams

This is a good one.

"Your Precious Love," Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell

This is not so much of a good one.

"How Can I Be Sure," The Young Rascals

Oldies Radio Classic.

"Soul Man," Sam & Dave

Another classic, now forever associated with Blues Brothers.

"To Sir with Love," Lulu

This is lovely.

The Old Mixer said:
55 Years Ago This Week Addendum

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You'd think a super-spy would have been better prepared, but a classic opening nonetheless. :rommie:

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Classic lyrics.

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Nothing about this show makes any damn sense whatsoever. :rommie:

DarrenTR1970 · Sep 6, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
The British science fiction television series The Prisoner, created by and starring Patrick McGoohan, was broadcast for the first time, premiering in Canada on the CTV Television Network. The show would not appear in the United Kingdom until September 29. Syndication in the United States would begin on June 1, 1968.

RJDiogenes said:
You'd think a super-spy would have been better prepared, but a classic opening nonetheless.

Back in the summer of '85 my family spent 6-8 weeks in Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) to visit some family friends that Mom and Dad had made when Dad was in the Air Force stationed in England during 'Nam.

One of the locations we visited was Portmeirion, where they filmed the exteriors of 'The Prisoner', because it was a program that Mom and Dad had watched during their time there.

I, myself, was unaware of the program and really didn't pay much attention while we were there. I do remember that the actual location was about a half hour/45-minute drive from the nearest town and that you had to park in a field and either walk down about a half mile or so or take one of those taxis seen in various episodes.

We had lunch at the cafe seen in the opening episode, and my brother and I played on the stone boat and sat on the rim of the fountain where 'Rover' makes his first appearance. I don't remember if the lawn was set up for chess or not. Number 6's home was the tourist shop. Only the front parlour was actually there; filled with postcards, books and various other sundry items. The back half of the apartment, where the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom would be, was a wall with a door marked "Private. No admittance." (This is where having the photo album would be nice. Mom and Dad took enough pictures of Portmeirion to fill one. Unfortunately, it's been lost, most likely through my parents' divorce, dividing of assets and the subsequent moves over the years.)

It's only been in the years following the vacation that I grew to watch 'The Prisoner' and nod in familiarity at the various exterior locations seen throughout the episodes.

The Old Mixer · Sep 6, 2022

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50 Years Ago This Week

September 4

Bob Barker began a 35-year run as host of one of America's most popular game shows, as The New Price Is Right was shown for the first time on CBS. Barker would host the show (later simply The Price Is Right) until June 15, 2007.
Mark Spitz became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games, swimming as part of the American team in the 400 meter relay.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear live on US television in Jerry Lewis's annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon.

September 5

What would end as the Munich massacre began at the 1972 Summer Olympics...eight members of the Palestinian terrorist group Black September broke into the Olympic Village in Munich, killed two members of Israel's Olympic team, and took nine others hostage. A rescue attempt the next day would end in disaster.
Died: Yossef Romano, 32, Israeli weightlifter; Moshe Weinberg, 33, Israeli wrestling coach

September 6

The Munich massacre took place following a bungled attempt by West Germany police to rescue kidnapped members of the Israeli Olympic team, held at Fürstenfeldbruck airport, Palestinian gunmen murdered all nine of their hostages. Five of the terrorists and one policeman died. The Olympic games resumed after a brief interruption.
Died:
- David Mark Berger, 28, Israeli weightlifter
- Ze'ev Friedman, 28, Israeli weightlifter
- Yossef Gutfreund, 30, Israeli wrestling referee
- Eliezer Halfin, 24, Israeli wrestler
- Amitzur Shapira, 30, Israeli athletics coach
- Kehat Shorr, 53, Israeli shooting coach
- Mark Slavin, 18, Israeli wrestler
- Andre Spitzer, 37, Israeli fencing coach
- Yakov Springer, 51, Israeli weightlifting judge
- Luttif Afif, Palestinian terrorist who kidnapped Israeli athletes, along with four accomplices

September 7 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi gave scientists at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre the go-ahead to manufacture India's first nuclear bomb. India became the world's fifth nuclear power with the successful explosion of the bomb on May 18, 1974.

September 8 – In retaliation for the killing of nine Israeli Olympic athletes in the Munich massacre, Israel's air force bombed Palestinian strongholds in Syria and Lebanon.

September 9

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, the American men's basketball team, which had 64 victories and no defeats since the sport was added in 1936, lost to the Soviet Union, 51–50, on a shot at the buzzer by Alexander Belov. The U.S. team had been ahead, 50–49, when time first ran out, but Olympic officials added three seconds to the clock. The Soviets won the gold medal, and the Americans voted unanimously to refuse the silver medal.
The three American television networks introduced their new cartoon schedules on the same morning. Among the new series being shown for the first time was Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

Charles B. DeBellevue became the last American flying ace, registering a fifth and sixth shootdown, the most during the Vietnam War.

Selections from Billboard's Hot 100 for the week:

1. "Alone Again (Naturally)," Gilbert O'Sullivan
2. "Long Cool Woman (in a Black Dress)," The Hollies
3. "I'm Still in Love with You," Al Green
4. "Baby Don't Get Hooked on Me," Mac Davis
5. "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)," Looking Glass
6. "Back Stabbers," The O'Jays
7. "Rock and Roll, Part 2," Gary Glitter
8. "You Don't Mess Around with Jim," Jim Croce
9. "Black & White," Three Dog Night
10. "Saturday in the Park," Chicago
11. "The Guitar Man," Bread
12. "Hold Your Head Up," Argent
13. "Honky Cat," Elton John
14. "Goodbye to Love," Carpenters
15. "Go All the Way," Raspberries
16. "Beautiful Sunday," Daniel Boone
17. "Join Together," The Who
18. "Power of Love," Joe Simon
19. "Motorcycle Mama," Sailcat
20. "Run to Me," Bee Gees
21. "Play Me," Neil Diamond
22. "Everybody Plays the Fool," The Main Ingredient
23. "Popcorn," Hot Butter
24. "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right," Luther Ingram
25. "Pop That Thang," The Isley Brothers
26. "Ben," Michael Jackson
27. "Lookin' Through the Windows," Jackson 5
28. "Nights in White Satin," The Moody Blues
29. "Speak to the Sky," Rick Springfield

31. "My Ding-a-Ling," Chuck Berry
32. "Coconut," Harry Nilsson
33. "Use Me," Bill Withers
34. "The Happiest Girl in the Whole U.S.A.," Donna Fargo

36. "The City of New Orleans," Arlo Guthrie
37. "Get on the Good Foot, Pt. 1," James Brown

39. "Sealed with a Kiss," Bobby Vinton
40. "Burning Love," Elvis Presley

42. "Garden Party," Rick Nelson & The Stone Canyon Band
43. "Why" / "Lonely Boy", Donny Osmond
44. "Starting All Over Again," Mel & Tim
45. "You Wear It Well," Rod Stewart

49. "Tight Rope," Leon Russell

53. "Freddie's Dead (Theme from 'Superfly')," Curtis Mayfield

60. "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her," Simon & Garfunkel

62. "Listen to the Music," The Doobie Brothers

66. "From the Beginning," Emerson, Lake & Palmer

70. "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues," Danny O'Keefe
71. "If I Could Reach You," The 5th Dimension

78. "Witchy Woman," Eagles

84. "I Can See Clearly Now," Johnny Nash

88. "Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts

Leaving the chart:

"Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast," Wayne Newton (20 weeks)
"Happy," The Rolling Stones (8 weeks)
"How Do You Do?," Mouth & MacNeal (19 weeks)
"Where Is the Love," Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (13 weeks)

New on the chart:

"If I Could Reach You," The 5th Dimension
(#10 US; #1 AC)

"Witchy Woman," Eagles
(#9 US)

"Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts
(#6 US; #4 AC)

"I Can See Clearly Now," Johnny Nash
(#1 US the weeks of Nov. 4 through 25, 1972; #1 AC; #38 R&B; #5 UK)

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Timeline entries are quoted from the Wiki pages for the month or year and Mark Lewisohn's The Beatles Day by Day, with minor editing as needed.

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RJDiogenes said:
"Wait, wait! Your right or my right?!"

Dave Hoeffel is obviously consulting the same Wiki entries as I in preparing trivia items for his Sirius Satellite Surveys. I heard him mention this Saturday before putting together my post.

A unique classic.

And covered in full upthread as 50th anniversary business, for the benefit of relative newcomers.

The bugs would all be... green!

Or orange and rocky...everybody knows that flying into space exposes you to cosmic rays.

They don't make 'em like this anymore. Or previously.

This is a show that I've long been aware of, and seen bits of in the background, but never really watched.

FF was my favorite.

See above.

I have no memory of Super President whatsoever.

Checking the lineup, that would be because it was on against the FF and Herculoids--it's a wonder that anyone remembers Super President!

This is a good one.

A playful oldies radio classic that rings true.

This is not so much of a good one.

Not especially memorable, but perfectly good.

Oldies Radio Classic.

And particularly pretty.

Another classic, now forever associated with Blues Brothers.

This week's uber-classic.

This is lovely.

Guess the 55th anniversary of the film (also covered somewhere upthread) snuck up on us.

You'd think a super-spy would have been better prepared, but a classic opening nonetheless.

Nobody expects the Village! (ETA: Well, except tourists, I guess...)

Classic lyrics.

The '67 Spidey cartoon theme is an uber-classic as Saturday morning fare goes.

Nothing about this show makes any damn sense whatsoever.

Definitely a distinctive bit of business. This was either revived or rerun when I was a kid in the '70s.

TREK_GOD_1 · Sep 6, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
50 Years Ago This Week
John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear live on US television in Jerry Lewis's annual Muscular Dystrophy telethon.

That poor TV audience did not need to hear that.

The three American television networks introduced their new cartoon schedules on the same morning. Among the new series being shown for the first time was Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

Landmark series both for its "cast" being black kids actually behaving like real kids and not racial stereotypes (e.g. most things found on Norman Lear TV series) in a poor neighborhood, but for once, the then-expected trope of many cartoon characters either playing in a music group, or accompanied by music was not an exercise in cranking out horrid, 30th-rate Bubblegum songs (see: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, etc.).

There was nothing on TV like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, with one of its strongest points being devoid of the gross racial stereotypes still added to U.S. cartoons of the era (Harlem Globetrotters--who were nothing like the real men, the aforementioned The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, etc.), and what would be known as Filmation's "message" codas had their best and most organic application in this series.

Leaving the chart:
"Where Is the Love," Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway (13 weeks)

Very underrated part of Flack's (and Hathaway's) catalog.

New on the chart:

"If I Could Reach You," The 5th Dimension
(#10 US; #1 AC)

"Witchy Woman," Eagles

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(#9 US)

From their earliest releases, they were truly a distinctive sound no one could see coming.

"Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts

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(#6 US; #4 AC)

Instant classic.

The Old Mixer · Sep 6, 2022

TREK_GOD_1 said:
That poor TV audience did not need to hear that.

I can agree about part of it. I'll say this for Yoko's song...it's very times-signy, if bludgeoning you over the head repeatedly with said times-signiness. And more than a bit short-sighted...what century in human history hasn't been known for killing?

Landmark series both for its "cast" being black kids actually behaving like real kids and not racial stereotypes....There was nothing on TV like Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

It was a staple of my Saturday morning viewing as a tyke. Checking my memory against the network TV schedule for its early seasons, I was surprised to learn that it was running nationally at 12:30 p.m. I was watching it at 7:30 a.m., as the first cartoon in my Saturday morning lineup, when the other networks weren't running cartoons yet. I see now that it must have been a local programming idiosyncrasy, but it made me a captive audience.

DarrenTR1970 · Sep 6, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
"Soul Man," Sam & Dave

RJDiogenes said:
Another classic, now forever associated with Blues Brothers.

The Old Mixer said:
This week's uber-classic.

DarrenTR1970 · Sep 6, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
It was a staple of my Saturday morning viewing as a tyke. Checking my memory against the network TV schedule for its early seasons, I was surprised to learn that it was running nationally at 12:30 p.m. I was watching it at 7:30 a.m., as the first cartoon in my Saturday morning lineup, when the other networks weren't running cartoons yet. I see now that it must have been a local programming idiosyncrasy, but it made me a captive audience.

I think it varied on my local CBS station. Sometimes it would air early in the morning; other times I think it was pre-empted and run later (but not 12:30 p.m. later).

The Old Mixer · Sep 6, 2022

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Always good to see/hear some genuine psychedelia still knockin' around in the 50th anniversary timeframe.

The 'Black Magic Woman' in question was Peter Green's girlfriend at the time Sandra Elsdon, who was practiced witchcraft and 'Magic Stick' refers to Peter and Sandra's nickname for his p*nis.

The lline "Got me so blind I can't see", is a reference to masturbation, which would be the subject of the subsequent Fleetwood Mac single 'Rattlesnake Shake', and 'Tryin' to make a Devil out of me', how he's going to Hell because he does it so much when his girl isn't around.

TMI, dude!

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Not that's some live audio!

RJDiogenes · Sep 6, 2022

DarrenTR1970 said:
One of the locations we visited was Portmeirion, where they filmed the exteriors of 'The Prisoner', because it was a program that Mom and Dad had watched during their time there.

That's a fantastic story. So sorry about the pictures, though.

The Old Mixer said:
Mark Spitz became the first competitor to win seven medals at a single Olympic Games, swimming as part of the American team in the 400 meter relay.

That legendary mustache. :rommie:

We used to make jokes about it because my infamous Uncle Mike (of Dark Shadows and using me for a wing man infamy) had one just like it that pre-dated Mark Spitz by at least five years.

The Munich massacre took place following a bungled attempt by West Germany police to rescue kidnapped members of the Israeli Olympic team

That was grim, and had everyone worried about it escalating out of control.

The three American television networks introduced their new cartoon schedules on the same morning. Among the new series being shown for the first time was Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids.

I used that line, "If you're not careful you might learn something," frequently. :rommie:

"If I Could Reach You," The 5th Dimension

I forgot about this one. Very nice.

"Witchy Woman," Eagles

Classic Eagles.

"Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts

Another beauty.

"I Can See Clearly Now," Johnny Nash

And another one.

And covered in full upthread as 50th anniversary business, for the benefit of relative newcomers.

Yep, we talked a lot about that one. :rommie:

Or orange and rocky...everybody knows that flying into space exposes you to cosmic rays.

Yeah, but they specifically said gamma rays. I actually went back and forth a bit about it in my head. I probably should have made a Sasquatch joke. :rommie:

This is a show that I've long been aware of, and seen bits of in the background, but never really watched.

I don't think I've ever seen an episode all the way through either. If I had known it was set in Puerto Rico, I might have paid more attention.

See above.

Oh, I know all about the science of cosmic rays. In fact, I'm still disappointed that Roy Thomas never followed through on his story about the effects of cosmic rays on the Apollo astronauts.

Nobody expects the Village! (ETA: Well, except tourists, I guess...)

He was lucky to make it home. :rommie:

The '67 Spidey cartoon theme is an uber-classic as Saturday morning fare goes.

Those lyrics are probably better known than a lot of Classic Rock.

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Very cool.

TREK_GOD_1 · Sep 7, 2022

The Old Mixer said:
I can agree about part of it. I'll say this for Yoko's song...it's very times-signy, if bludgeoning you over the head repeatedly with said times-signiness. And more than a bit short-sighted...what century in human history hasn't been known for killing?

Exactly, but it was the pomposity of certain entertainers--particularly a number in the music industry--who bought into the inflated value of their cultural / political relevance at that time, thus they myopically bolstered their opinion by making the time they lived in the "most / violent / dangerous / corrupt, etc., when even an elementary flirtation with history instantly debunks that belief.

There are so few clips of Ono that offset the generally negative view she's presented over the decades.

It was a staple of my Saturday morning viewing as a tyke. Checking my memory against the network TV schedule for its early seasons, I was surprised to learn that it was running nationally at 12:30 p.m. I was watching it at 7:30 a.m., as the first cartoon in my Saturday morning lineup, when the other networks weren't running cartoons yet. I see now that it must have been a local programming idiosyncrasy, but it made me a captive audience.

Now that--Saturday morning schedules lasting past 12 noon--are a thing of the remote past. I remember watching Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, and sticking around for the CBS Children's Film Festival at 1 PM, and if it was not an episode of interest, my siblings would turn the channel to ABC for re-runs of The Monkees.

As in the case of many kids, sometimes networks scheduled series of interest against one another, so we had to make the instant decision about which show was the bigger draw. By fall 1973, I remember there were no other Saturday morning shows that would win out in our house over Filmation's Star Trek (10:30 AM on NBC that fall), certainly not crud such as Goober and the Ghost Chasers (CBS) or Jeannie (ABC), the re-imagined spin-off from I Dream of Jeannie. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids' afternoon timeslot pretty much guaranteed we could watch it with consistency throughout the early years of its run.

The Old Mixer · Sep 7, 2022

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Of Course, the Old Really Big Post-55th Anniversary Viewing Trick!

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The Ed Sullivan Show
Season 19, episode 16
Originally aired December 25, 1966

Performances listed on Metacritic:

Ed presents European circus acts in this show taped at the Krone Circus Arena in Munich, Germany.

The Bronleys (husband-and-wife acrobatic team)
The Atlas-Sahara Troupe (8-person acrobatic team)
Trio Rivels (musical clowns)
The Ferkos (tumblers-balancers)
Eddie Windsor and his donkey
The Titos (trampoline artists)
Adolf Althoff's trained animal act (Bangall tiger rides a horse Fattini (sway-pole artist)
The Three Winters (balancing act)
Trio Rennos (comedy acrobats)
Fatima Zohra (contortionist)
Kristelle Sembach-Krone's Circus Horses
Akeff (acrobatic act)
The Two Mascots (balancing act featuring sisters)
Bentos Clowns
The Veterans (comic tumblers)

I got nothin'.

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Because the Decades Wild Wild West Binge included some mid-season 2 episodes out of order while it was otherwise earlier in Season 1, I missed recording the next couple of installments--"The Night of the Lord of Limbo" (December 30, 1966) and "The Night of the Tottering Tontine" (January 6, 1967).

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Get Smart
"Kiss of Death"
Originally aired December 31, 1966

Wiki said:
A rich socialite (Geraldine Brooks), head of "Daughters of KAOS", pretends to be in love with Max to seek vengeance. Max had killed her father, a KAOS operative, a year earlier.

Max is dining at a sidewalk restaurant table when a kidnapping attempt on the limo-chauffeured Tracy Dunhill pretty much falls right on his table before he intervenes.

Tracy: It must have been fate that brought you here.
Max: No, it was the salad.

Max recognizes one of the kidnappers as a KAOS man but can't identify him, so he attempts to reconstruct his face with the Idento-Man, a dummy with interchangeable pieces for eyes, nose, ears, mouth, etc., that operates on pretty much the same principles as Mr. Potato Head. At her swinging pad, Dunhill answers to regional KAOS head Victor Slade (Larry D. Mann) about the false kidnapping attempt, by which she means to lure Max in so she can kill him on the anniversary that Smart killed her father, the founder of KAOS in America. She then pays a visit to Max at his place and invites him to her ongoing party that night. Back at home, she picks out her murder weapon--poison lipstick, which she tries out on Kane, the operative whom Max recognized.

After a visit to CONTROL's tailor, Max arrives at the party, followed by 99 and the Chief posing as other guests. Max makes contact with Agent 13, whom the Chief has had smuggled in via a couch that Dunhill ordered. Max finds Agent 13 very sauced and sharing the inside of the couch with also-partying female agent 93. Max goes back out to Tracy, we get the Frndly interruption, and we come back to the party guests ringing in the New Year, but Max and Tracy have become separated. She gets him into her study, kisses him exactly at midnight, and he falls to the floor. Once she boasts of her success to Slade, Max gets up and puts a gun on the pair, revealing that, having been tipped off to an attempt on his life by 13, he wore plastic lips, and recorded her confession with a miniature tape recorder in his belt.

In the coda, 99 confronts Max with flirtations he had with other guests that were caught on his recorder, which the Chief listens to with interest once in private.

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RJDiogenes said:
That legendary mustache. We used to make jokes about it because my infamous Uncle Mike (of Dark Shadows and using me for a wing man infamy) had one just like it that pre-dated Mark Spitz by at least five years.

Sounds like that would have been a Pepper 'stache.

I used that line, "If you're not careful you might learn something," frequently.

Hey, hey, hey!

I forgot about this one. Very nice.

I forgot about it while I was listening to it, I'm afraid. This will be the 5th Dimension's last Top 30 hit.

Classic Eagles.

Very much so, and on my Halloween playlist.

Another beauty.

A little late to the party for the season it was released, but it's on my Summer! playlist. A good example of the '70s soft rock sound.

And another one.

"It's gonna be a bright, bright Glass Plus day..."

Yeah, but they specifically said gamma rays. I actually went back and forth a bit about it in my head. I probably should have made a Sasquatch joke.

Did they ever establish that Sasquatch was green if you shaved him?

He was lucky to make it home.

Did he, though...? :shifty:

Those lyrics are probably better known than a lot of Classic Rock.

TREK_GOD_1 said:
By fall 1973, I remember there were no other Saturday morning shows that would win out in our house over Filmation's Star Trek (10:30 AM on NBC that fall), certainly not crud such as Goober and the Ghost Chasers (CBS) or Jeannie (ABC), the re-imagined spin-off from I Dream of Jeannie.

I was watching Jeannie... :shifty:

DarrenTR1970 · Sep 7, 2022

Tonight I'd thought I'd do 'Hard Rock/Heavy Metal'.

How normal Ozzy looks.

RJDiogenes · Sep 7, 2022

TREK_GOD_1 said:
even an elementary flirtation with history instantly debunks that belief.

An elementary flirtation with history would debunk a lot of beliefs. :rommie:

The Old Mixer said:
I got nothin'.

Bummer. I'm always up for some musical clowns.

Tracy: It must have been fate that brought you here.
Max: No, it was the salad.

James Bond would have said something about having a pretty girl on the menu. :rommie:

Max recognizes one of the kidnappers as a KAOS man but can't identify him

Seems odd that Max and CONTROL wouldn't recognize the daughter of such a high-ranking KAOS personage.

her father, the founder of KAOS in America.

I remember we talked about the timeline of CONTROL and KAOS, but I forget what we decided. I wonder if this is consistent with that.

Back at home, she picks out her murder weapon--poison lipstick

Presumably she's pre-dosed with an antidote.

Max finds Agent 13 very sauced and sharing the inside of the couch with also-partying female agent 93.

You go, 13. :rommie:

having been tipped off to an attempt on his life by 13

Sauced or not, you can depend on 13. :mallory:

he wore plastic lips

I remember him peeling off the plastic lips. :rommie:

Sounds like that would have been a Pepper 'stache.

Probably, although I don't remember Uncle Mike having more than a cursory interest in music.

Hey, hey, hey!

Did that a lot too. :rommie:

I forgot about it while I was listening to it, I'm afraid. This will be the 5th Dimension's last Top 30 hit.

I suppose it's not one of their enduring classics, but I like it.

"It's gonna be a bright, bright Glass Plus day..."

Oh, man, I don't remember that. Maybe I blocked it out. :rommie:

Did they ever establish that Sasquatch was green if you shaved him?

That would be hilarious. I don't know if it was actually in a book or just in a Byrne interview, but apparently the Sasquatch guy (Langowski, I think) got his powers by exposing himself to gamma rays leavened with cosmic rays, which is why he was orange instead of green. If he was green under there, that would just be perfect. :rommie:

Did he, though...?

Did I ever mention that my favorite episode is "Many Happy Returns?"

I was watching Jeannie...

I don't remember that one either.

DarrenTR1970 said:
Tonight I'd thought I'd do 'Hard Rock/Heavy Metal'.

Nice. Two of my favorite Ozzy classics.

How normal Ozzy looks.

I had a little Ozzy scare this past Saturday morning on my way to Mom's. A local Rock station played three Ozzies in a row, including "Mama, I'm Coming Home." It was a little worrisome, considering how his health has been lately.

The Old Mixer · Sep 7, 2022

55 Years Ago This Week Overflow Special

Also recent and new on the chart the week of September 9, 1967:

"Get Together," The Youngbloods
(Sept. 2; #62 US; #37 AC; reissued in 1969, reaching #5 US)

"The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil," Jefferson Airplane
(Sept. 2; #42 US)

"I'll Never Fall in Love Again," Tom Jones
(Sept. 9; #49 US; #28 AC; #2 UK; rereleased in 1969, reaching #6 US, #1 AC)

"Let Love Come Between Us," James & Bobby Purify
(Sept. 9; #23 US; #18 R&B; #51 UK)

"Dandelion," The Rolling Stones
(Sept. 9; #14 US; #8 UK)

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RJDiogenes said:
I remember we talked about the timeline of CONTROL and KAOS, but I forget what we decided. I wonder if this is consistent with that.

The one point I recall coming up was that it was established that the Chief and Max were in the same academy class, suggesting a young agency. I don't recall offhand what (if any) info may have contradicted that.

Presumably she's pre-dosed with an antidote.

She applied a protective coating to her lips first.

Oh, man, I don't remember that. Maybe I blocked it out.

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That would be hilarious. I don't know if it was actually in a book or just in a Byrne interview, but apparently the Sasquatch guy (Langowski, I think) got his powers by exposing himself to gamma rays leavened with cosmic rays, which is why he was orange instead of green. If he was green under there, that would just be perfect.

While he was saying that in interviews at one point, in the Alpha Flight series, he revealed that Sasquatch wasn't a radiation mutate at all, but that Langowski had opened a portal that released one of the Great Beasts whom Snowbird was charged with destroying.

Did I ever mention that my favorite episode is "Many Happy Returns?"

Yes, but I was thinking of the last beats in the finale, when he actually got home but there were suggestions that he'd just brought the Village with him.

I had a little Ozzy scare this past Saturday morning on my way to Mom's. A local Rock station played three Ozzies in a row, including "Mama, I'm Coming Home." It was a little worrisome, considering how his health has been lately.

I caught a recent home page headline about the Osbournes moving back to the UK--because of gun violence, I think--so maybe that's what it was about.

When the ex and I did a California trip 17 years back, when their reality show was current, we went by Ozzy's house and saw their dog in the driveway.

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