Candid Calls, Classic Film, and Extraterrestrial Food
Tonight, I continued the Tape and Record Show Enterprises archives audio cassette digitization project, by converting the next two episodes of the flagship "Tape and Record Show" from season seven...
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 443, Broadcast Friday, August 9, 1985 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Portable Radio (Daryl Hall and John Oates). Candid phone conversation between Ricky Bargery and his girlfriend / "Fifty Years of Film Music" - This sequel to the "Fifty Years of Film" special of September 10, 1982 features the music from the last fifty years of Warner Brothers motion pictures. The conclusion features music from "Golddiggers of 1933"(1933), "Melody For Memory"(1934), "Casablanca"(1943), "A Star Is Born"(1954), "Going Places"(1938), "Pete Kelley's Blues"(1955), "The Young At Heart"(1954), "Calamity Jane"(1953), "Romance On The High Sea"(1948), "Rhapsody In Blue"(1945), "Night and Day"(1946), "Yankee Doodle Dandy"(1942).
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 444, Broadcast Friday, August 23, 1985 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Portable Radio (Daryl Hall and John Oates). "Roxanne Roxanne", "Roxanne's Back Side"(UTFO) / "The E.T. Food Palace" - Dr. Tongue is unamused by Bruno's treatment of the restaurant patrons, and as a result, fires him. Then a commercial break for the law firm of "Harvey Wallbanger and Associates". After the break, Dr. Tongue and Count Floyd introduce the opening act, "Hugo Saurinari the Magician". Musical guest Bruce Springsteen sings "I'm on Fire". Bruno comes back to "talk terms" of being rehired. After being rehired, the next stage act "Junior Junior" comes out, a short impressionist, who does impersonates Redd Foxx, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley(utilizing an old recording of Randy Haney singing "Hound Dog"), and John Wayne. Also, a "dig" at Neville High School near the end. Stars: James Stricklin, Albert Sims, and Randy Haney."
Episode 443 begins with a "cold open" featuring a phone conversation between Ricky Bargery (who was in the TRSE "studio" late one evening participating in some recordings) and his girlfriend Janna (sp?) at the time, who didn't know until the end of the call she was being recorded. I have a feeling that recording probably broke some kind of law at the time. Then, the third and final installment of "Fifty Years of Film Music".
Episode 444 is another episode which highlights how terrible James Stricklin and I were at ad-libbing comedy, with another episode of the "James Stricklin Happy Hour" spin-off series "The E.T. Food Palace", which itself stole the characters and plot from SCTV's "3-D House of Beef" sketch. Even the added laugh track and sound effects I dubbed in at the time thanks to the cheap Radio Shack audio mixer doesn't really help the "humor" situation. The "broadcast" is still, like all the other recordings I've been digitizing, an interesting "time capsule" from my high school days and a few years afterward however.
"The Tape & Record Show: Episode 443, Broadcast Friday, August 9, 1985 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Portable Radio (Daryl Hall and John Oates). Candid phone conversation between Ricky Bargery and his girlfriend / "Fifty Years of Film Music" - This sequel to the "Fifty Years of Film" special of September 10, 1982 features the music from the last fifty years of Warner Brothers motion pictures. The conclusion features music from "Golddiggers of 1933"(1933), "Melody For Memory"(1934), "Casablanca"(1943), "A Star Is Born"(1954), "Going Places"(1938), "Pete Kelley's Blues"(1955), "The Young At Heart"(1954), "Calamity Jane"(1953), "Romance On The High Sea"(1948), "Rhapsody In Blue"(1945), "Night and Day"(1946), "Yankee Doodle Dandy"(1942).
The Tape & Record Show: Episode 444, Broadcast Friday, August 23, 1985 at 10:00pm central. Theme Music: Portable Radio (Daryl Hall and John Oates). "Roxanne Roxanne", "Roxanne's Back Side"(UTFO) / "The E.T. Food Palace" - Dr. Tongue is unamused by Bruno's treatment of the restaurant patrons, and as a result, fires him. Then a commercial break for the law firm of "Harvey Wallbanger and Associates". After the break, Dr. Tongue and Count Floyd introduce the opening act, "Hugo Saurinari the Magician". Musical guest Bruce Springsteen sings "I'm on Fire". Bruno comes back to "talk terms" of being rehired. After being rehired, the next stage act "Junior Junior" comes out, a short impressionist, who does impersonates Redd Foxx, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley(utilizing an old recording of Randy Haney singing "Hound Dog"), and John Wayne. Also, a "dig" at Neville High School near the end. Stars: James Stricklin, Albert Sims, and Randy Haney."
Episode 443 begins with a "cold open" featuring a phone conversation between Ricky Bargery (who was in the TRSE "studio" late one evening participating in some recordings) and his girlfriend Janna (sp?) at the time, who didn't know until the end of the call she was being recorded. I have a feeling that recording probably broke some kind of law at the time. Then, the third and final installment of "Fifty Years of Film Music".
Episode 444 is another episode which highlights how terrible James Stricklin and I were at ad-libbing comedy, with another episode of the "James Stricklin Happy Hour" spin-off series "The E.T. Food Palace", which itself stole the characters and plot from SCTV's "3-D House of Beef" sketch. Even the added laugh track and sound effects I dubbed in at the time thanks to the cheap Radio Shack audio mixer doesn't really help the "humor" situation. The "broadcast" is still, like all the other recordings I've been digitizing, an interesting "time capsule" from my high school days and a few years afterward however.