Benny Hill, The FBI, James Stricklin, and Randy Haney
This evening, digitized the next five episodes from "season four" of the Tape and Record Show Enterprises flagship series "The Tape and Record Show" from the original cheap "broadcast" version cassettes...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 364, Broadcast Friday, November 5, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: A Piece of Cake 2(Jerry Reed). "Hound Dog"(Randy Haney/Elvis Presley) / "The Unexpergated Benny Hill Show" - The popular British comic is featured in this show of music and comedy. Sketches include: Gypsy Wedding, Man For Hire, not A Lot of People Know That!, You Gotta Run(Featuring Hill's Angels), Foreign Exchange Student, Wonder Gran. / Surfin' USA(The Beach Boys, announced by Jerry Sanders) / "The Elvis Presley Story, Part 16: Too Much".
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 365, Broadcast Friday, November 12, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: James Bond Theme(Monty Norman). "The James Stricklin Happy Hour: Episode 1" - A comedy show starring James Stricklin and Albert Sims, with an appearance by Ronnie Linder. Skits include: Who's On First?, Jerry Sanders Type of Music, Preparation H, James and Ronnie Jack Off, The Druggest, The Dil Phonahue Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Ronnie's Imagination, and The E.T. Food Palace-which features a Randy Haney impersonator.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 366, Broadcast Friday, November 19, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: A Piece of Cake 2(Jerry Reed). "Loving You"(Randy Haney/Elvis Presley) / "The F.B.I. In Peace and War: The Traveling Man" - A car thief travels with his fiancee and steals cars all over the country. / "Tonight Is So Right For Love", "Love Machine"(Elvis Presley) / "Down South Camp Meeting", "Limehouse Blues"(Benny Goodman and His Orchestra) / "Shut Down"(The Beach Boys, announced by Jerry Sanders) / "The Elvis Presley Story, Part 17: Uncle Sam".
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 367, Broadcast Friday, November 26, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Runaway(Bill Conti). "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" - American Trilogy Thanksgiving Special. Re-edited and expanded version of the half hour 1981 episode. Songs Include: Follow That Dream, Walk On, Peace In The Valley, So High, Where Could I Go But To The Lord, By and By, Amazing Grace, Crying In The Chapel(1st version), Put Your Hand In The Hand, If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side, Run On, I Believe, How Great Thou Art, If I Can Dream, Where No One Walks Alone, Crying In The Chapel(2nd version), In The Ghetto, Graceland To the Promised Land, I Look Out My Window, You Gave Me A Mountain, Sing You Children Sing.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 368, Broadcast Friday, December 3, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: A Piece of Cake 2(Jerry Reed). "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis: Memories of Elvis" - Songs include: All Shook Up, Memories, Wear My Ring Around Your Neck, Blue Hawaii, Burning Love, Don't Cry Daddy, Hard Headed Woman, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, You Gave Me A Mountain, Greased Lightning, Rock-A-Hula Baby, I Wanna Be Free, Viva Las Vegas, It Hurts Me, Mystery Train, Suspicious Minds, Hound Dog. / "Johnny B. Goode"(Chuck Berry, announced by Jerry Sanders) / "The Elvis Presley Story, Part 18: Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear" / "Love's Been A Little Hard On Me"(Juice Newton)."
Episode 354 featured the audio from a HBO special compilation episode of "The Benny Hill Show". Since "The Tape and Record Show" was a fake radio show, most of the Benny Hill episode doesn't really transfer well as audio only. A few bits DO work however, the dialog heavy skits. My younger voice is also heard introducing the separate segments in this "Tape and Record Show" episode. Also, Jerry Reed's "A Piece of Cake" was brought back briefly as the theme music, with a new intro by me, adding Randy Haney and Jerry Sanders to the "Starring" announcement. James Stricklin wasn't "officially" part of Tape and Record Show Enterprises yet at the time the episodes were edited/compiled.
Episode 365 was the first episode of the occasional TRSE "original series" of "The James Stricklin Happy Hour". Since I had already digitized that episode several months ago, tonight I just copied/pasted the file into "The Tape and Record Show Season Four" folder and renamed it to the proper episode number. The "Happy Hour" has its own digitized folder for all the episodes.
Episode 366 featured a June 10, 1953 episode of the radio drama "The F.B.I. In Peace and War", with various short interstitials to pad out the hour.
Episode 367 was a Thanksgiving special edition of "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis". This episode was also duplicated a few months ago, so I was able to copy/paste the files into the "Season Four" folder of "The Tape and Record Show", saving a lot of time.
Episode 368 was a "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" special episode which somehow "slipped through the cracks" back when I was converting all the "Life of Elvis" episodes several months ago. Didn't notice it in the "season file" index card boxes, so didn't look it up in the boxes containing the season "broadcast" audio cassettes at the time. The "main feature" of this "Tape and Record Show" WAS digitized earlier however, in slightly different edited form, as a "regular half hour broadcast" version of the standalone "Life of Elvis" series, episode 12, originally "broadcast" nearly a year and a half later on February 29, 1984. So, opposite to a couple other episodes in my digitization project this evening, converted this one tonight, and copied/pasted "The Tape and Record Show" version into the "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" computer folder.
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 364, Broadcast Friday, November 5, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: A Piece of Cake 2(Jerry Reed). "Hound Dog"(Randy Haney/Elvis Presley) / "The Unexpergated Benny Hill Show" - The popular British comic is featured in this show of music and comedy. Sketches include: Gypsy Wedding, Man For Hire, not A Lot of People Know That!, You Gotta Run(Featuring Hill's Angels), Foreign Exchange Student, Wonder Gran. / Surfin' USA(The Beach Boys, announced by Jerry Sanders) / "The Elvis Presley Story, Part 16: Too Much".
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 365, Broadcast Friday, November 12, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: James Bond Theme(Monty Norman). "The James Stricklin Happy Hour: Episode 1" - A comedy show starring James Stricklin and Albert Sims, with an appearance by Ronnie Linder. Skits include: Who's On First?, Jerry Sanders Type of Music, Preparation H, James and Ronnie Jack Off, The Druggest, The Dil Phonahue Show, The Bob Newhart Show, Ronnie's Imagination, and The E.T. Food Palace-which features a Randy Haney impersonator.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 366, Broadcast Friday, November 19, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: A Piece of Cake 2(Jerry Reed). "Loving You"(Randy Haney/Elvis Presley) / "The F.B.I. In Peace and War: The Traveling Man" - A car thief travels with his fiancee and steals cars all over the country. / "Tonight Is So Right For Love", "Love Machine"(Elvis Presley) / "Down South Camp Meeting", "Limehouse Blues"(Benny Goodman and His Orchestra) / "Shut Down"(The Beach Boys, announced by Jerry Sanders) / "The Elvis Presley Story, Part 17: Uncle Sam".
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 367, Broadcast Friday, November 26, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Runaway(Bill Conti). "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" - American Trilogy Thanksgiving Special. Re-edited and expanded version of the half hour 1981 episode. Songs Include: Follow That Dream, Walk On, Peace In The Valley, So High, Where Could I Go But To The Lord, By and By, Amazing Grace, Crying In The Chapel(1st version), Put Your Hand In The Hand, If The Lord Wasn't Walking By My Side, Run On, I Believe, How Great Thou Art, If I Can Dream, Where No One Walks Alone, Crying In The Chapel(2nd version), In The Ghetto, Graceland To the Promised Land, I Look Out My Window, You Gave Me A Mountain, Sing You Children Sing.
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 368, Broadcast Friday, December 3, 1982 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: A Piece of Cake 2(Jerry Reed). "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis: Memories of Elvis" - Songs include: All Shook Up, Memories, Wear My Ring Around Your Neck, Blue Hawaii, Burning Love, Don't Cry Daddy, Hard Headed Woman, Are You Lonesome Tonight?, You Gave Me A Mountain, Greased Lightning, Rock-A-Hula Baby, I Wanna Be Free, Viva Las Vegas, It Hurts Me, Mystery Train, Suspicious Minds, Hound Dog. / "Johnny B. Goode"(Chuck Berry, announced by Jerry Sanders) / "The Elvis Presley Story, Part 18: Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear" / "Love's Been A Little Hard On Me"(Juice Newton)."
Episode 354 featured the audio from a HBO special compilation episode of "The Benny Hill Show". Since "The Tape and Record Show" was a fake radio show, most of the Benny Hill episode doesn't really transfer well as audio only. A few bits DO work however, the dialog heavy skits. My younger voice is also heard introducing the separate segments in this "Tape and Record Show" episode. Also, Jerry Reed's "A Piece of Cake" was brought back briefly as the theme music, with a new intro by me, adding Randy Haney and Jerry Sanders to the "Starring" announcement. James Stricklin wasn't "officially" part of Tape and Record Show Enterprises yet at the time the episodes were edited/compiled.
Episode 365 was the first episode of the occasional TRSE "original series" of "The James Stricklin Happy Hour". Since I had already digitized that episode several months ago, tonight I just copied/pasted the file into "The Tape and Record Show Season Four" folder and renamed it to the proper episode number. The "Happy Hour" has its own digitized folder for all the episodes.
Episode 366 featured a June 10, 1953 episode of the radio drama "The F.B.I. In Peace and War", with various short interstitials to pad out the hour.
Episode 367 was a Thanksgiving special edition of "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis". This episode was also duplicated a few months ago, so I was able to copy/paste the files into the "Season Four" folder of "The Tape and Record Show", saving a lot of time.
Episode 368 was a "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" special episode which somehow "slipped through the cracks" back when I was converting all the "Life of Elvis" episodes several months ago. Didn't notice it in the "season file" index card boxes, so didn't look it up in the boxes containing the season "broadcast" audio cassettes at the time. The "main feature" of this "Tape and Record Show" WAS digitized earlier however, in slightly different edited form, as a "regular half hour broadcast" version of the standalone "Life of Elvis" series, episode 12, originally "broadcast" nearly a year and a half later on February 29, 1984. So, opposite to a couple other episodes in my digitization project this evening, converted this one tonight, and copied/pasted "The Tape and Record Show" version into the "Randy Haney's Life of Elvis" computer folder.