Soupy Sales songs

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I can't seem to find any.

Why isn't anyone re-issuing this stuff?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Ever since Soupy stopped smacking Sammy and Sinatra with strudel, something's been stopping his scintillating songs from summoning a sizable selection of spectators -- they just won't sell.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I believe some of his sons' recordings are still in print.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Well his sons were in Tin Machine with David Bowie.

They were a pretty bad band but still, pretty impressive.

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm thinking perhaps of some slightly earlier material from them.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 17 June 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

i once picked up soupy from his hotel in Southfield, MI and brought him to WDET-FM in Detroit. i just wanted you all to know that.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

Did you kiss him?

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Is it true that the reason his children's show got cancelled was because he made a joke about how if women's skirts got any smaller they were going to need two hairdos?

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 17 June 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

Ha. Never heard that one. I think he (also) got in trouble for suggesting that kids find their parents' credit cards and call the station/network with the numbers.

The Sales brothers also played with Iggy for a while, of course.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 June 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Or was it asking them to send in cash?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 June 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Snopes says no on the dirty jokes (though not the particular one that Tim reports), yes on the cash (and a suspension).

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/soupy1.htm

"Hey kids, last night was New Year's Eve, and your mother and dad were out having a great time. They are probably still sleeping and what I want you to do is tiptoe in their bedroom and go in your mom's pocketbook and your dad's pants, which are probably on the floor. You'll see a lot of green pieces of paper with pictures of guys in beards. Put them in an envelope and send them to me at Soupy Sales, Channel 5, New York, New York. And you know what I'm going to send you? A post card from Puerto Rico!"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Fuck downloading. I found the album *Soupy Sales Sez Do the Mouse and Other Teen Hits* for $1 at Princeton Record Exchange last year, and it is amazing.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

that was on fluxblog like 2 years ago dude.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 18 June 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

I found that same album for $1 at a antique store in Dover, NJ.

Weird. It might be the same album

― Michael Costello (MichaelCostello1), Saturday, 18 June 2005 05:42 (twenty years ago)

I saw Soupy in the Macys T'giving parade when I was 3. He was my idol!

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 18 June 2005 16:56 (twenty years ago)

For the longest time, a used vinyl store here in Chicago had Soupy's Motown album in their soul section. Either they were too young to know who he was, or they shrewdly figured they'd get the Motown collectors by filing it under "soul" instead of "comedy."

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 18 June 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

RIP

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 October 2009 04:12 (sixteen years ago)

love this guy, rip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs

― ...And You Will Know Us by the BLAZE of YA DEAD HOMIE (los blue jeans), Friday, 23 October 2009 04:24 (sixteen years ago)

four months pass...

"Muck-Arty-Park" is kind of fantastic, isn't it?

― a black white asian pine ghost who is fake (Telephone thing), Saturday, 27 February 2010 06:38 (sixteen years ago)

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