The pied piper
In my lifetime, I’ve had one pie thrown at me, which puts me one behind Ann Coulter, and many thousands behind the late Soupy Sales, who took his first pie in 1950.
For your dining and dancing pleasure, we present the redoubtable Mr Sales not being hit with a pie, but demonstrating the fine art of filling time and singing (well, lip-synching to) his big hit “The Mouse.”
To those who are puzzling over the phrase “big hit,” well, it did make #76 in Billboard in 1965 (as ABC-Paramount 10646), and some name-brand pop technicians were on hand: Charles Calello, who arranged all those 4 Seasons hits, did the charts and led the band, and the song itself was written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, who later that year would rework a Bach minuet into “A Lover’s Concerto” for the Toys, which reached #2 with the help of yet another Calello arrangement.
Kay Dennison »
24 October 2009 · 9:53 pm
Ohhhhhhhhhh God!!!!!! A blast from the past!!!!!!! He used to have a bunch of shows — for kids and adults when I was in grade school. I can’t recall if they were done in Detroit (In Toledo Ohio we got TV from Detroit ) or were national. What I do know is we all knew how to do the ‘Soupy Shuffle’ and practiced it on our walks to and from school. (If I tried it now, I’d prolly sprain some thing.) My parents hated him.