Oh my God—Wojo! "How do you spell your name?" "...Like it sounds." I had no idea that Max Gail did this kind of piano bar thing. Was this before or after "Barney Miller"? I'm guessing before but you never know.
Abe Vigoda was another great character actor on that show. His character Sgt. Fish was like a tuna fish sandwich with the mayo about to spoil.
I was channel surfing one afternoon and stopped to watch. 1) the music is fantastic and 2) there's that great fisticuffs/brawl scene between Peck & Heston.
Somehow I stumbled onto that movie...I think it was showing on my PBS station. I'd give it a 7 out of 10. I got the impression that it was a big-budget movie that Hollywood wanted to be a blockbuster hit and so everything was BIG and DRAMATIC. Beautiful cinematography, Greg Peck is always fun to watch and Jean Simmons
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Aug 23, 2018 - 10:17am
ptooey wrote:
It's actually pretty good. Ives did unhinged surprisingly well in that.
I was channel surfing one afternoon and stopped to watch. 1) the music is fantastic and 2) there's that great fisticuffs/brawl scene between Peck & Heston.
I have never heard of that series of serieses. I have never seen Burl Ives in a non-animated snowman role. Well maybe a couple of jolly singing neighbor roles.
I had to google Farantino. Joe was cool.
watch the movie The Big Country. Ren & Stimpy got a lot of lines from Burl Ives in that movie.
I have never heard of that series of serieses. I have never seen Burl Ives in a non-animated snowman role. Well maybe a couple of jolly singing neighbor roles.
I had to google Farantino. Joe was cool.
The only "live action" thing of Burl Ives I remember, other than that show, is "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof". I only watched a few episodes of that show, probably hoping he would break out into "Silver & Gold" or some other song. I saw Ives perform once when I was a kid; I'm pretty sure it was one of the Sloop Clearwater Festivals that Pete Seeger used to have along the Hudson River. I remember he did "Froggy Went A-Courting", but he didn't do any of the numbers from "Rudolph" - probably because it was summer.
I have never heard of that series of serieses. I have never seen Burl Ives in a non-animated snowman role. Well maybe a couple of jolly singing neighbor roles.
I had to google Farantino. Joe was cool.
watch the movie The Big Country. Ren & Stimpy got a lot of lines from Burl Ives in that movie.
I have never heard of that series of serieses. I have never seen Burl Ives in a non-animated snowman role. Well maybe a couple of jolly singing neighbor roles.
Did It even make noise/show his face? All I remember is hair. Like R2D2, it doesn't seem like there needed to be a specific actor associated with the part.
Apparently different actors dubbed the "voice" parts (it was some sort of sped-up and reversed gibberish), but it was always the same actor in the costume - with the derby and sunglasses usually.
Felix Silla as "Cousin Itt" on The Addams Family, 1965.
Did It even make noise/show his face? All I remember is hair. Like R2D2, it doesn't seem like there needed to be a specific actor associated with the part.
Jaye P. Morgan had some good some songs (more in the "torch singer" genre), but that song is pretty lousy - really weird tempo change early in. Even Fred MacMurray and William Demarest seem a little bemused, and those guys rocked. Odd similarity with the Blondie tune though; I wonder if Chris Stein knew that episode of My Three Sons.
William Demarest was brilliant, the crabby essence of "Hey, what's the big idea?!?!" He was far better than "My Three Sons."
Yeah, that "Gonna Getcha" song is pretty bad and Jaye P. Morgan wasn't much better. Apparently she plays a singer at the end of her career in that episode. She's a lot better doing this song—got to #3 on Billboard in 1954 with it.
aka: Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz 
That's a recommendation!
