[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by TopHat

Anyone a fan of This is Spinal Tap?

YES!...My wife and I have that movie and that segment is our favorite scene from it (it took years for her to get me to watch it)...We refer to it quite often..."it's one loudah"...Too funny!

[Cardinal]

Originally Posted by Spinnaker

I remember going to the neighbours house because they had a black & white TV (and we had none!). Geez, I'm showing my age???

You're kidding Spinnaker! Do you mean to say they're actually available in colour ... Whatever next?

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

YES!...My wife and I have that movie and that segment is our favorite scene from it (it took years for her to get me to watch it)...We refer to it quite often..."it's one loudah"...Too funny!

It's hard to pick a favorite scene since there are so many really funny ones, but that has to be my fav. The look of his face when he says, "These go to eleven" is priceless!

[djjeffhall]

RE: Spinal Tap - I manage a music distributor and the boss and myself are constantly commenting on having either Spinal Tap moments or High Fidelity customers. Two classic music movies that "Get it". (Whatever it might be?)

[Alph]

Hi guys,
One of the members of Spinal Tap was an actor during Happy Days "oops" I BROKE MUD WIND"

[MoMo]

djjeffhall

Dear Djjeffhall,

' High Fidelity ' is one that crept past me. Is it any good...worth tracking down?

I love " Spinal Tap". When I was in my late teens and twenties I seemed to be surrounded by Mussos ( musicians ) and Luvvies ( actors ). Spinal Tap didn't seem to be too far from the realities of the age.

Another big rock-musical extraveganza which I love is " The Blues Brothers ". I love the part where they charge at the " Illinois Nazis " and force them to jump into the river! BUT...there are too many great moments from that movie to go into right now.

Who remembers Cheyenne?

THIS IS THE THEME TUNE'S LYRICS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO CAN REMEMBER THE SHOW :

Theme from Cheyenne" by William Lava, with lyrics by Stanley D. Jones

Cheyenne, Cheyenne where will you be camping tonight? Loney man, Cheyenne, will your heart stay free and light? Dream Cheyenne of a girl you may never love Move along, Cheyenne like the restless cloud up above. The wind that blows, that comes and goes, has been your only home. But will the while will one day see and you'll no longer roam. Move along, Cheyenne the next pasture's always so green. Driftin' on, Cheyenne don't forget the things you have seen, And when you settle down where will it be Cheyenne. Cheyenne!

Cheyenne was one of the original three (along with Gunsmoke and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp) 'adult' westerns to hit TV in the fall of 1955, kicking off a trend that would dominate all three networks for the next five or six years, until the once original concept turned to formula and all the fun went out of the genre owing to overexposure. In truth, there was no one quite like Clint Walker - to say that he was tall in the saddle is to understate the case. Like Fess Parker as Davy Crockett (on the same network, ABC) one year earlier, his huge physical stature but gentle country voice won him instant stardom and, adult western or no, the hero of every kid in America. Actually, Cheyenne wasn't a series in the true sense during its first season, but broadcast one out of every three weeks as part of an anthology called WARNER BROS. PRESENTS. The other two entries were King's Row with Robert Horton and Jack Kelly (soon to reappear on Wagon Train and Maverick) and Casablanca, a take off on the old Bogart movie of that name. Immediately, the ratings for Cheyenne went through the roof while the other two just sat there. By mid-season they were gone and Cheyenne was seen on reruns every week through the summer. Two things about that first season: though the show ran an hour, each episode was not a normal hour length installment (50 mins.) but between five and ten minutes less than that, owing to 'behind the scenes' previews of upcoming WB movies. Also, this was the only season when Cheyenne had a sidekick, played by L.Q. Jones, later a regular in the Sam Peckinpah stock company. One last thing about the opening season - the episodes were far more spectacular than any to follow, as WB actually did mini remakes of big budget western films, using the stock footage from them and simply replacing whoever had starred with Clint. So the feature film Charge at Feather River with Guy Madison became West of the River with Clint. The Indian charge is identical in both. Most of us didn't know anything about stock footage then and were under the impression (for a while) that WB was knocking out a major league western for TV every three weeks. When Cheyenne came back in 1956, it was a full hour, no sidekick, and ran every other week, alternating with CONFLICT, mostly composed of pilots for possible future WB shows. the next year, Conflict was gone and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins became the rotating item with Cheyenne, this western also quickly becoming a hit. The following year, Cheyenne was on the air but Clint wasn't. He'd left WB in a salary dispute. So the weirdest thing happen - Cheyenne ran with no Cheyenne in sight, rather Ty Hardin as Bronco Lane. When Walker returned the following fall, Cheyenne shifted to Monday (often, it ran weekly now) with Bronco and Sugarfoot rotating on Tuesdays. By this time, the western was playing out, so both Sugarfoot and Bronco were absorbed into Cheyenne, the package now called "The Cheyenne Show," each of the three seen once every three weeks. In one episode, all three were together. Then Sugarfoot was dropped and Cheyenne and Bronco rotated. By this time, the heyday of the western was over. Warner Bros. replaced Cheyenne late in 1963 with another western, Badlands, which lasted less than half a year. And, in truth, during its final two or three seasons, Cheyenne was awfully routine, in terms of scripting, direction, etc. But that first season was a real winner, and the next two or three were strong too. Worth catching again at least those heyday episodes.

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by Alph

Hi guys,
One of the members of Spinal Tap was an actor during Happy Days "oops" I BROKE MUD WIND"

First of all, as my stepdaughter would say, TMI!

The actor is Michael McKean and he played Lenny in Laverne and Shirley, an offshoot of Happy Days. I think he also wrote some of the L&S episodes.

In Tap, he played David St. Hubbins . . . According to David, St. Hubbins was the patron saint of quality footwear.

[Alph]

I'm alright! I knew he was on one of those shows.towars the end they would meld the shows together with Fonzie or vise versa.Alph

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by Alph

I'm alright! I knew he was on one of those shows.towars the end they would meld the shows together with Fonzie or vise versa.Alph

I think you are correct. If I recall, Laverne & Shirley, including Lenny and Squiggy, first appeared as characters in an episode or two of Happy Days. The episode was so popular, they made a separate series out of it. Then they kind of blended together around the time Fonzie jumped the shark.

They lost me with Joanie Loves Chachi (sp?).


Squiggy = Skunky?? Maybe, perhaps . . . anyone?

[Alph]

Yeah I think the guy from All in the family Rob Riner AKA Penny Marshalls brother produced the three programs? What was that Joanie loves Sloppy? All in the family was pressing the envelope of subjects one could elude to in that when ever Archie would flush the Lou the audience would laugh???? Um I might have missed something but is going to the POTTY FUNNY? Alph