Then there was the thing about telling the kids in the audience to "send all that green stuff in mommy's wallet to Soupy" that got him kicked off the air 
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There's also a video on youtube showing Clifford Brown playing trumpet on a nighttime Soupy Sales show in 1955. It is here. There was another one where he is interviewing Clifford Brown after the song he plays, but that one's been removed for some reason. According to one of the commenters of that video, he had Charlie Parker on his show too.
.There's also a video on youtube showing Clifford Brown playing trumpet on a nighttime Soupy Sales show in 1955. It is here. There was another one where he is interviewing Clifford Brown after the song he plays, but that one's been removed for some reason. According to one of the commenters of that video, he had Charlie Parker on his show too.
You can't be that old, White Fang was written before the transistor was invented!
We didn't have Soupy in the Midwest -- instead of throwing pies in OH they threw kielbassa and pierogies, or made fun of your lawn ornaments.
Yeah, just looked that up -- he got kicked off the air in 1953 -- the only thing I remember from that era is the test pattern.
Ohio has such great luck with talent -- the starting pitchers for the Yanks and Phils were let go by the Indians 2 years ago.
Rockefeller started Standard Oil in Ohio...
Ohio has such great luck with talent -- the starting pitchers for the Yanks and Phils were let go by the Indians 2 years ago.
Rockefeller started Standard Oil in Ohio...
We had Soupy in Milwaukee as well as kielbassa and pierogies. I remember "The Ghoul" making fun of Parma and the "silver ball busters".
OK, so now do you believe in sychronicity? Ghoul power! Actually my favorite Ghoul moment was at the height of the Nixon nonsense and he just put on a Nixon Halloween mask and sat and stared at the camera, I almost lost my dinner laughing.
Another "Ghoul" retrospective -- 50th anniversary -- will crack open a package of pierogies:
Ghoulardi, ovah dey! Fans of Cleveland late-night legend to celebrate his 50th anniversary with Ghoulardifest | cleveland.com
Ghoulardi, ovah dey! Fans of Cleveland late-night legend to celebrate his 50th anniversary with Ghoulardifest | cleveland.com
I'm trying to get up the energy to make a batch of my father's favorite, zwetschgenknödel (the other side of the family).
Ha! No doubt my dad the ham dragged me to those places, but at that age I was just learning to walk to first grade! The program was actually scary at that age.
FWIW......
I remember seeing Soupy live at NY City's Paramount theater back in the '60s.
He MCed a rock show that included the Hollies when Graham Nash was still with them .
It was actuality my very first rock concert.
Also one Saturday afternoon, I just happened to run into Soupy in "Times Square" and had a brief conversation with him.
I did not even live in NY City city but, in upstate NY.
I remember seeing Soupy live at NY City's Paramount theater back in the '60s.
He MCed a rock show that included the Hollies when Graham Nash was still with them .
It was actuality my very first rock concert.
Also one Saturday afternoon, I just happened to run into Soupy in "Times Square" and had a brief conversation with him.
I did not even live in NY City city but, in upstate NY.
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Cleveland and Dayton, their surrounding towns were big hubs for automotive and defense electronics. Thus there were many jobbers and distributors all over the place. Also quite a few surplus outlets, a government surplus depot in Columbus, and Fair Radio Sales in Lima OH!
Then there was the thing about telling the kids in the audience to "send all that green stuff in mommy's wallet to Soupy" that got him kicked off the air
The statement actually wasn't that bad. It was when he was in New York and it was still winter and cold out. His whole act was actually aimed at teenagers and the fact that it was ostensibly a kid's show just made it more of an in joke.
So he said on New Year's Day that the audience should sneak into their parents' bedroom when they're sleeping and take out the little green pieces of paper and send it off to him, and he'll send them back a nice postcard from sunny Puerto Rico.
The show wasn't really aimed at kids, but some went ahead and did it anyway and it came back on him. When it hit the newspapers, I showed the article to my mother who was fairly strict about broadcasting standards, and even she laughed and thought Soupy shouldn't have been kicked off.
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