Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????

Subject: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: InOBU
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 02:56 PM

OK folkies... you have shown your prowess in the past, but here is a real challenge for you... a bunch of us Quakes were taking the subway out to the Flushing Meeting (built in 1693... very cool...) as we past Jackson Hights, Richard and I said the Traffic is backed up to Jackson Hights, CAR 54 Where are you!? We were really showing our age, we were the only ones who remembered the show, and the tune but could not remember the rest of the words, something about Kruschev being at the UN, and a riot (up in Harlem?) Well, it was Fred Gwin, and another fellow... anyone remember the rest of the words?
Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: 53
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 04:15 PM

Al Lewis who played grandpa on the Munsters.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 04:24 PM

There's a hold-up in the Bronx,
Brooklyn's broken out in fights,
There's a traffic jam in Harlem
That's backed up to Jackson Heights.
There's a Scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev's due at Idlewyld,
Car 54, Where Are You?

(Are there more?)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: 53
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 04:28 PM

Good job Sorcha,we can alwqays count on you.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: InOBU
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 04:29 PM

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/csmiths/index.html While the cat was down... (ore so it seemed to me...) I found this! What a great memory! Sorcha! YOU WIN! Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 04:33 PM

I believe the line was "Kruschev's still at Idlewild." I think the rest is correct, though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: InOBU
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 04:40 PM

Sorry Eric... I think Sorcha has it... Cheers Larry

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: kendall
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 05:25 PM

the other guy was Gunther Toody. hehehe can't recall his real name.

and, it is K is DUE at..

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 05:58 PM

Hmmm. These names are gonna bug me. there's a Gunther Toody's diner chain in Colorado ("Not just a restaurant but a place to eat"). I see no connection with Car 54. Where did the name come from?

This site says Gunther Toody was played by Joe E. Ross, and Francis Muldoon by Fred Gwynne (later of the Munsters). Note that it's claimed that Ross played Gunther Toody in a 1955 striptease movie called "Teaserama" - could that be true? I doubt it, but I do wonder about the diner connection....

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: 53
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 06:47 PM

Good show.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 08:21 PM

As a Jackson Heights former resident, I concur. K was "due" at Idlewild (now Kennedy Airport).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From:
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 09:40 PM

The lyrics apparently are correct, according to this TV Theme site Car 54 Where are You?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 10:26 PM

Confession time.....I didn't remember it, I found it with Google.

Subject: Patty Duke Show theme song
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 11:34 PM

Well I remembered it...but that doesn't do me much good now, does it? My only way to save face is to tell y'all that the airport's name was spelled Idyllwild.

How about The Patty Duke Show?

Our Cathy has been most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Barkley Square
But Patty's only seen the sights a girl can see from Brooklyn Heights
What a crazy pair
But they're cousins, identical cousins all the way
One pair of matching bookends, different as night and day

Now Cathy adores a minuet, the Ballet Russe and crepes suzettes
But Patty loves to rock 'n' roll, a hot dog makes her lose control
What a wild duet
But they're cousins, identical cousins and you'll find
They laugh alike, they walk alike, at times they even talk alike
You can lose your mind
When cousins are two of a kind

Google? We don't need no steenkeen' Google!

Aloha,
Mark

(And yes, I know the original line is "We don't need to show you..."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Peter Kasin
Date: 23 Oct 02 - 11:58 PM

Wasn't Al Lewis also in the cast, as a police sergeant?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 06:51 AM

jOHNNY yUMA WAS A REBEL
hE ROAMED THROUGH THE WEST.
jOHNNY yUMA, A REBEL
hE WANDERED ALONE.
hE GOT FIGHTING MAD, THIS RESTLESS LAD...

tO wORK!

Subject: Travels of Jamie McPheeters - Theme Song
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 08:41 AM

Anybody remember "The Travels of Jamie MacPheeters"? I think it was only on for part of a season mid-'60s, but it had a great theme song:

By river boat or wagon train
Old Doc MacPheeters crossed the plain
And on his mind, keep moving on
There's gold in old California,
There's gold in old California.

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: 53
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 09:36 AM

NOt in DC.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 11:21 AM

OOh, OOh

I guess that's folk process. Of course the reason for developing writing and other recording methods was to eliminate the vagaries of memory.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Naemanson
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 11:33 AM

The Travels of Jamie MacPheeters! My sister fell in love with Kurt Russell watching that one. Was it really only on for a short run? I remember it fairly clearly.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 02:00 PM

I can't remember Al Lewis, but a Google search tells me he played Patrolman Leo Schnauzer. Don't remember him, either.
Ooooh, oooh.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 02:10 PM

Jeez, Naemanson. I fell in love with Dan O'Hirlihy in "Travels of Jamie MacPheeters." (I always WAS precocious.)

Did you ever read the book it was based on?

"Symptoms: absence of breath, no heartbeat, small round blue hole in forehead.

Diagnosis: Dead -- of gunshot wound.

Treatment: Folded hands on chest and placed coins on eyes."

(Or something like that.)

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: bill kennedy
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 02:18 PM

THough Cathy was from Scotland, the songwriters were probably from the Bronx, & it most likely should have been Berkeley Square, though they wrote it Barclay Square, and pronounced it correctly as Barkley Square

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: jimmyt
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 02:35 PM

To Bill Kennedy, Is there still a nightengale singing there?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: bill kennedy
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 02:36 PM

BTW FYI The Travels of Jamie MacPheeters won the Pullitzer Prize in 1959 for literature, the Theme song to the Tv series was recorded by the BEE GEEs and the Osmond Family, & Jay Osmond himself played a young character in the series

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 24 Oct 02 - 03:02 PM

Yeah, and I've been spelling it wrong, too -- "Travels of Jaimie McPheeters". Several of the young Osmonds were in it: Alan Osmond        was Micah Kissel, Jay Osmond was Lamentations Kissel, Merrill Osmond was Deuteronomy Kissel andWayne Osmond was Leviticus Kissel. I guess the show did last a full season (1963-64). David McCallum made an appearance before "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

Oh, and apologies to Dan O'Herlihy for misspelling HIS name, too.

Linn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: Naemanson
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 10:51 AM

Linn - Yeah, I read the book and, if I remember rightly, there was a sequel that took Jamie into the swamps of Florida.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: beadie
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 10:56 AM

Was that the Joe Ross who did a short stint with the Three Stooges as "Curly Joe" (not to be confused with the original Curly)?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: 53
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 10:59 AM

no.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 11:11 AM

his most famous role was Gunther Toody, you would have seen him previously on the Phil Silvers Show, and later on It's About Time with Imogene Coca as neanderthal cave people. It was funny, but short lived.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 11:18 AM

It's About Time

It's about time, it's about space,
About two men in the strangest place.
It's about time, it's about flight -
Traveling faster than the speed of light.
This is the tale of the brave crew
As through the barrier of time they flew.
Past a fighting minuteman,
Past an armored knight,
Past a Roman warrior,
To this ancient site.
It's about caves,cavemen too,
About a time when the earth was new.
Wait'll they see what is in sight!
Is it good luck or is it good night?
It's about two astronauts, it's about their fate,
It's about a woman and her prehistoric mate.

It's about time, it's about space,
About two men in the strangest place.
They will be here right on this spot
No matter if they like it or not.
How will they live in this primitive state?
Will help ever come before it is too late?
Will they ever get away? Watch each week and see!
Will they be returning to the 20th Century?
It's about time for our goodbyes
To all these prehistoric gals and guys. IT'S ABOUT TIME!

When the show's concept changed mid-season and the cave people moved to 20th century New York, the theme song changed as well:

It's about time, it's about space,
About cave-people in the strangest place.
It's about time, it's about flight-
Traveling faster than the speed of light.
About cave-people and the brave crew
As through the barrier of time they flew.
Past a Roman warrior, past an armored knight,
Past a fighting minuteman to this modern site.
It's about time for you and me
To meet these people from 1,000,000 BC.
It's about two astronauts and how they educate
A prehistoric woman and her prehistoric mate.

It's about time, it's about space,
About cave-people in the strangest place.

They will be here with all of us,
dodging a taxi, car or bus.
Where will they go? What will they do
In this strange place where everything is new?
Will they manage to survive? Watch each week and see.
Will they get accustomed to the 20th Century?
It's about time for our goodbyes
To all these prehistoric gals and guys. IT'S ABOUT TIME!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: GUEST,Chanteyranger
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 04:00 PM

Beadie, you're thinking of Joe Besser.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: GUEST,Mark S
Date: 25 Oct 02 - 11:26 PM

Yup - Joe Ross played the mess sergent on the Phil Silvers show. Anybody remember the name of the character?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 02:08 PM

Pritzky? or something like that I think, shouldn't be hard to find out

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You????
From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy
Date: 26 Oct 02 - 02:34 PM

Sgt Rupert Ritzik