RIP Soupy Sales

As noted

i remember he tried to comeback in the 70s(?) with a new version of his show. it was not funny at all, but he tried hard and was likable

oh shit.

My first TV idol. My dad took me to see him in the Macys T'giving parade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1_F9zEF7o

He was before my time but I remember him from the underrated direct-to-video gem "And God Spoke" where he played himself playing Moses. He was pretty great in that.

Sales was born Milton Supman

: D

latebloomer otm!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x33fj6_the-soupy-sales-show-frank-sinatra_fun

Synchronicity: without knowing anything about Soupy's death, about an hour ago I downloaded a YouTube clip of Jackie Robinson on What's My Line that I'm going to show my grade 6 class tomorrow (in advance of Saturday, the anniversary of Robinson's death in 1972). Here's the clip, with Soupy featured prominently:

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Okay, maybe I'll try following instructions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaRkuU-YjM

I saw him introduce Iggy Pop at New York's Palladium, when his two sons were in Ig's backing band. He said, "On the count of three, I want you all to breath out. One, two....three!" (Everyone breathed out.)

Soupy recoiled in mock dizziness. "OK, I am now stoned."

We laughed.

RIP.

RIP dude even tho I hate pie gags, that "take your parents money and mail it to me" bit was classic.

Used to watch his late-70s show after school. Great stuff.

Also, MST3K nod in "The Thing That Wouldn't Die": "White Fang! Noooooo!"

I'll be sending my parents' money to heaven.

I love pie gags :-(
RIP Soupy.

I never saw his brief late '70s show, probly cuz it was up against his smartass kiddie-TV heir in the NYC area, Uncle Floyd. After SS went off the air, Floyd said of his revival "The Soup was too cold."

Here we are in England.

We don't know.

man, i dont remember uncle floyd at all! was it on channel 11? that would explain cause 11 was some yankees shit.

haha, for his prime era Floyd was on UHF, Ch. 68! Then he moved to Ch. 4 latenight for awhile, and then New Jersey public TV.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Vivino

also, when will TCM be showing this?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060169/

i got uncle floyd in connecticut. i loved him and joe franklin. i remember when soupy was on the radio in new york. wasn't howard stern always making fun of him?

my dad was a big soupy sales fan. i was a fan of the mouse 45 for sure.

was 68 in long island? i got it very weakly in connecticut, but i dont think i ever noticed it until the early 80s.

No, it was based in East Orange, NJ.

yeah, i never watched uncle floyd because 68 didn't come in very well in nyc. didn't he turn out to be some creepey perv?

I don't think so - he still performs live shows, and his 2 brothers are in the Tonight Show Band.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qq_Mr1txFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlgvly_PJ9g

Don't see it mentioned on this thread and don't know if there is any footage out there on youtube but apparently when ever any big jazz musician came through Detroit they appeared on the Soupy Sales show and played with some of the formidable talent that there was in the Motor City, such as Motown guitarist Joe Messina, who was a member of Soupy's house band.

I guess there's this, the only extant footage of Clifford Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9iuP3CfFZDQ#!
which I found over here
http://www.thegearpage.net/board/showthread.php?t=767278

Here's some more info about the show. Motown percussionist Jack Brokensha was also in the house band. http://www.detroitkidshow.com/soupys_on.htm

Messina talked about backing up Bird, Miles, and Trane on Soupy's show. It's amazing that one could count on seeing such titans of music on TV in those days.

Howard Stern about as hateable as usual in that clip. Marx Bros = pie throwing, fucking ignoramus. I also remember him trashing Sales constantly in the mid '80s.

Glad I didn't click on it.

ya thank god

fuck the marx brothers imho

Which movie was the one in which they threw all the pies?

duck sauce, the great dictator fuckin damn near all of them someone was getting hit with a pie

Right. I forgot about those two.

Howard Stern about as hateable as usual in that clip. Marx Bros = pie throwing, fucking ignoramus. I also remember him trashing Sales constantly in the mid '80s.

the fuck? Was Sales even on anyone's cultural radar in the 80s? I mean, he should've been, obviously, but for Stern to single him out seems like some weird-ass paranoid vendetta shit.

soupy was his idol, first person that exposed him to any kind of adultish or subversive humor
then when he was way off everyone's cultural radar he was hired by wnbc where stern worked
stern had a combative relationship with fellow radio personalities
he realizes he was a dick

gtfo this thread

Hey, Steve Allen is in that clip!