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23 Oct 02 - 02:56 PM (#809496) Subject: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: InOBU 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 |
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23 Oct 02 - 04:15 PM (#809508) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: 53 Al Lewis who played grandpa on the Munsters. |
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23 Oct 02 - 04:24 PM (#809512) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Sorcha 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?) |
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23 Oct 02 - 04:28 PM (#809514) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: 53 Good job Sorcha,we can alwqays count on you. |
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23 Oct 02 - 04:29 PM (#809515) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: InOBU 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 |
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23 Oct 02 - 04:33 PM (#809521) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: EBarnacle1 I believe the line was "Kruschev's still at Idlewild." I think the rest is correct, though. |
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23 Oct 02 - 04:40 PM (#809529) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: InOBU Sorry Eric... I think Sorcha has it... Cheers Larry |
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23 Oct 02 - 05:25 PM (#809568) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: kendall the other guy was Gunther Toody. hehehe can't recall his real name. and, it is K is DUE at.. |
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23 Oct 02 - 05:58 PM (#809594) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Joe Offer 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- |
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23 Oct 02 - 06:47 PM (#809632) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: 53 Good show. |
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23 Oct 02 - 08:21 PM (#809719) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: SINSULL As a Jackson Heights former resident, I concur. K was "due" at Idlewild (now Kennedy Airport). |
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23 Oct 02 - 09:40 PM (#809752) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: George Seto - af221@chebucto.ns.ca The lyrics apparently are correct, according to this TV Theme site Car 54 Where are You? |
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23 Oct 02 - 10:26 PM (#809771) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Sorcha Confession time.....I didn't remember it, I found it with Google. |
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23 Oct 02 - 11:34 PM (#809813) Subject: Patty Duke Show theme song From: Mark Cohen 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..." |
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23 Oct 02 - 11:58 PM (#809837) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Peter Kasin Wasn't Al Lewis also in the cast, as a police sergeant? |
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24 Oct 02 - 06:51 AM (#809978) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: SINSULL 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! |
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24 Oct 02 - 08:41 AM (#810038) Subject: Travels of Jamie McPheeters - Theme Song From: Bat Goddess 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 |
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24 Oct 02 - 09:36 AM (#810092) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: 53 NOt in DC. |
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24 Oct 02 - 11:21 AM (#810193) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: EBarnacle1 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. |
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24 Oct 02 - 11:33 AM (#810209) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Naemanson 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. |
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24 Oct 02 - 02:00 PM (#810323) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Joe Offer 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- |
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24 Oct 02 - 02:10 PM (#810334) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Bat Goddess 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 |
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24 Oct 02 - 02:18 PM (#810340) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: bill kennedy 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 |
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24 Oct 02 - 02:35 PM (#810347) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: jimmyt To Bill Kennedy, Is there still a nightengale singing there? |
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24 Oct 02 - 02:36 PM (#810350) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: bill kennedy 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 |
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24 Oct 02 - 03:02 PM (#810363) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Bat Goddess 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 |
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25 Oct 02 - 10:51 AM (#811059) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: Naemanson Linn - Yeah, I read the book and, if I remember rightly, there was a sequel that took Jamie into the swamps of Florida. |
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25 Oct 02 - 10:56 AM (#811067) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: beadie 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)? |
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25 Oct 02 - 10:59 AM (#811071) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: 53 no. |
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25 Oct 02 - 11:11 AM (#811092) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy 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. |
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25 Oct 02 - 11:18 AM (#811105) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: GUEST 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! |
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25 Oct 02 - 04:00 PM (#811351) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: GUEST,Chanteyranger Beadie, you're thinking of Joe Besser. |
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25 Oct 02 - 11:26 PM (#811674) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: GUEST,Mark S Yup - Joe Ross played the mess sergent on the Phil Silvers show. Anybody remember the name of the character? |
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26 Oct 02 - 02:08 PM (#811926) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Pritzky? or something like that I think, shouldn't be hard to find out |
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26 Oct 02 - 02:34 PM (#811935) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Car 54 Where Are You???? From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Sgt Rupert Ritzik |