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extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 200
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 8:44 pm: |     |
Did anyone else watch this show when they were younger?
--John |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10199
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 9:07 pm: | |
Yes.
David Bird baby. Netto.
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greeneyes
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Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 380
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 9:39 pm: | |
I watched, but Looney Skip Rooney would give me the heebie jeebies. |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 201
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 9:44 pm: | |
This thread will sort out the Park Slopers.
Did any of you actually think it was funny? I remember it being hilarious but was left unimpressed by some "best of" tapes.
--John |
ml1
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1235
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 10:01 pm: | |
I loved the corny rock star parodies:
Abbott Presley and the Distractions
Neil Yuck
Bruce Stringbean |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 733
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 10:28 pm: | |
My kids know all the words to "Deep in the Heart of Jersey"...and Floyd Vivino is performing live a couple of nights a week, with Oogie, in Wayne, NJ (he also deejays a standards show on a CT radio station...the NYTimes NJ section did a story on him in the past year and there may be an archive of an interview with him on wfmu.org..Glen Jones' Jonesville Station show). |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2044
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 - 11:11 pm: | |
We had a good reminiscence about Uncle Floyd on this board a while back. In the mid-70's, before MTV, Uncle Floyd would have rock bands on (for example, the Ramones) lip-synching their songs in the studio.
Extuscan - It was funny, especially when you were 15. Man, kids today don't know how good we had it! |
harpo
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Username: Harpo
Post Number: 918
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 12:49 am: | |
Not so, extuscan. I first watched it in Park Slope. I suspect it's an under-reported reason why so many New Yorkers relocate to New Jersey. |
Ukealalio
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Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 36
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 9:15 am: | |
Floyd had NRBQ on. Anyone who put the best rock & roll band in the world (besides the Beatles) on TV, is alright in my book.
Did you know David Bowie does a song about Uncle Floyd on his last CD ?. |
OK, it's Straw Man
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Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1008
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 10:26 am: | |
Was it taped out of Montclair??
When Marshall Crenshaw (spelling?) Had a hit record I remember him visiting the show. It was probably the beginning of the end for him.
There's nothing like being on the Ocean! |
ros
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Username: Ros
Post Number: 95
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 11:00 am: | |
One of my career "highlights" was performing on the Uncle Floyd Show, around 1984. It was taped in Newark. |
Pierce Butler
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Username: Pierce_butler
Post Number: 53
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 5:33 pm: | |
Not so, extuscan. I remember watching (and loving) it as a kid on L.I. I think it was broadcast on some crazy channel way up there in UHF-land (pre-cable). My best friend and I were huge fans -- and were the only two kids in school who watched it. I have only vague memories of it now, but I remember how awesome the Ramones were even though they were so obviously lip synching. |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 202
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 9:16 pm: | |
I guess the song is "Slip Away" but I can't find it online. Anyone got free time? email it to me mgmagnette@aol.com
---John |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2053
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 10:10 pm: | |
quote:Sailing over
Coney Island
Twinkle twinkle Uncle Floyd
We were dumb
but you were fun, boy
How I wonder where you are
Oo-o
"Slip Away", David Bowie (Lyrics are at this link).
An mp3 may be at this link, but I haven't tried to download it. |
freddy
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Username: Freddy
Post Number: 8
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 10:31 pm: | |
I LOVED Uncle Floyd when I was younger. When I was in elementary school, I would watch him every night. He was always fantastic for a great laugh, not to mention Oogie (sp?), Looney Skip Rooney, and the countless various skits, and parodies, that were done. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 10201
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2003 - 11:08 pm: | |
Forgive me: this is all from memory
Uncle Floyd started out on WHT - Wometco Home Theatre in about '74 . I have an original -(still in the envelope) of the first fan letter he sent out. WHT at the time was only available through UHF Channel 68 during the day and through a prehistoric satellite dish/descrambler used to watch movies on the channel after roughly 8pm.
It was priceless. Watching Floyd at 6pm was an exercise in holding the UHF antenna at various positions like Ed Norton in that famous Honeymooners episode.
Early on the cast was Floyd, Skip, Netto, Muggsy, Oogie and the incredibly funny David Burd who left to become an animator I believe. Back then there were a lot of yucks that he went to work on some Japanimation. Burd was a legitimate comic genius.
Among other characters, back then Floyd was fine tuning his Hubie Smalllips, a gentleman who always tried to eat grapefruit through lips that were the size of a dime. It was a problem!
In 1976 or 1977 SNL did a skit where Dan Akroyd was impersonating Julia Child. Floyd did it on his show a year earlier. It was a total ripoff by the SNL guys. Same dish: chicken cordon bleu.
I had the chance to see Floyd and the crew at the Bottom Line in roughly 1980 and it was a riot.
He performs regularly at his own club in NJ and someday soon I'm going to pay him a long overdue visit to get him to re-autograph my almost 30 year old fan letter.
I might even pull out my copy of Deep in the Heart of Jersey and play it for the family.
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michael
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Username: Michael
Post Number: 370
Registered: 1-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 1:08 am: | |
sbenois, let me know when you are going. I'd love to share the experience. (really, I'm not being sarcastic) |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 738
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 7:05 am: | |
www.floydvivino.biz
The Official Site
He does private parties and makes lots of appearances and his schedule through October is on the site. Maybe someone can book him locally. |
Nohero
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Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2056
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 8:35 am: | |
Thanks for the recollection, S. I'm glad there's someone else here who remembers the early Floyd years. Hank, that's an excellent idea - that could be the basis for a local fund-raiser.
S., did you ever make it up to "Wild West City", which was a sponsor back then? |
Hank Zona
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Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 739
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 9:04 am: | |
Uncle Floyd is not a bad idea at all for a local fundraiser. On the site, it looks as if he plays alot of town fairs and local group functions, along with club shows and opening for the likes of Pat Cooper and Jimmy Roselli. I also mentioned last year that I thought Robert Randolph, who has lived in Maplewood, would also be an excellent performer for a local fundraiser. |
ml1
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Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1239
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 9:15 am: | |
If you want to hear Floyd singing the Wild West City commercial jingle, go here. |
extuscan
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Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 203
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, September 5, 2003 - 7:40 pm: | |
The David Bowie Uncle Floyd song is terrible. Horrible. The rest of the album is just as bad. Now if I could only have an album of "I'm lookin' over, my dead dog Rover... lying... on the kitchen floor..."
--John |
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