The Captain Kevin Show Part 4

And parting is such sweet sorrow - - made sweeter still when it is only 3:38.
It's Part 4 of the Captain Kevin Show Trilogy. Please stick around for the epilog - - it's the long lost (In Color!) farewell moment when the good Captain signs off after 34 years on the air. Historically it's right up there with Clarabelle talking, Bill Jackson's clip-trip down memory lane, and making the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, please take it, Captain Kevin (there won't be a dry seat in the house.)

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Part 4 of the CAPTAIN KEVIN SHOW trilogy will be up this weekend. Hope you'll check back to see if the Butler did it. . .

A Little Pady Story by Olga

PADY BLACKWOOD never toured with me during my magic-time with Nicolo Marionettes, but we finally got to work together at Bil Baird's Theatre. One of my favorite Pady stories is when we were in the middle of performing THE WIZARD OF OZ.

We were on the bridge with LIVE mics. I was wearing this blouse . . .

. . . which buttoned up the back. I'm totally involved in performing Dorothy, when Pady strolls over on the bridge and starts unbuttoning my blouse! I couldn't say anything because the mics were hot, so I'm moving my mouth and yelling in mime "stoppit! Pady!" Then the blouse slowly- -falls - - doooooooooown over my hands, onto the controls! I couldn't stop performing. Meanwhile, the whole cast is convulsing with laughter. Including me! I was hysterical at the funnyness and totally embarassed at the same time. Soon Pady's better nature took over (unless that WAS his better nature?) and he calmly returned to my side , slid the blouse up over my shoulders and rebuttoned me up. The audience didn't notice a thing, but it became indelibly etched in my head. I love Pady Blackwood!

next? The HOWDY DOODY CONVENTION!

The incomparable PADY BLACKWOOD

I used to go to the World's Fair in Queens just to visit the Chrysler Show-Go-Round. Not that I cared at all about cars (when I finally learned to drive @ age 23, my friend asked what kind of car I wanted, and I said "orange.") No, the Chrysler Show-Go-Round was home to THE BIL BAIRD MARIONETTES.

I would watch it over and over, get back on line, and watch it again. But that's another post for another time.

(pictured: Carby Carburator, more often than not manipulated by Rod Young)


Then one day I discovered there was another puppet show on the Fair grounds - - LES POUPEE de PARIS (pronounced Paree)

It was created by Sid & Marty Krofft, several years before they hit it super big in TV with the clunky HR PUFENSTUFF et al.

The show was an extravaganza - - filled with celebrity puppets and spectacle and glitz. It was really pretty great. After the show they would let us go backstage! You'd enter an auditorium door SR, they'd lead you across the backstage area, then out you'd go into the Fair SL. But not me. I was backstage and I wasn't leaving. I saw an artistic-looking fellow in black, and I caught his eye and blurted out "I'm a puppeteer too." He said "I bet you are." "I even make my own puppets" I said. "That's what a real puppeteer does" he replied in a way that I never forgot (no, duh.)

Then he asked if I "would you like to watch the next performance from back. . ." "YES!!!!!" ". . stage?" He showed me where to sit (if I remember correctly through these rosy bifocals) it was on a raised platform off-stage left. Ocassionally during this amazing production, he would come over to make sure I was alright, that I could see OK, etc. It was thrilling. After the show, this puppet artist who made such a great impression on me, shook my hand at the stage door - - (once the audience had filled past yet again) - - and said "My name is PADY BLACKWOOD" and off I went, walking on Air-Thru-The-Fair, thinking about Pady Blackwood. Somehow - - I found myself on line once again at the Show-Go-Round.

Next post, Olga reminices about many a Pady shenanagin at Baird's theater. . .

THE CAPTAIN KEVIN SHOW Part 3

Pictured is one of the true prizes in my Mutual Media Broadcasting System memorabilia collection: the ORIGINAL BOAT MODEL used in the ORIGINAL CAPTAIN KEVIN SHOW OPENING (you can see it in action in Part 1 which I posted earlier).
Now without any adieu of any kind, here it be, gang. Part 3 of the CAPTAIN KEVIN SHOW, brought to you by Roy's Brown Stuff, and, as you'll discover, The Captain Kevin Dress-Up Kit (please leave a COMMENT if you had one.) BTW? If anyone knows the wearabouts of that kid from the commercial, let him know that film archivist and Mutual Media historian Howard Bacaaazeo would like to interview him. You're also going to see a promo for THE COACH KENNY SHOW ("With the taste kid's love.")
So "Ahoy, for God's Sake!" Click below, and enjoy. . .

CAPTAIN KEVIN SHOW RETURNS THIS WEEKEND

I'm sorry. Pictured: Mutual Media producers $hel Marino (l) + Roger Zeebach (R) in what we're told is a typical pose.

HIGH DEF RADIO

A loooooooooooong time ago, before there actually was such a thing as High Def Radio (way back in ought-five) we did a parody of the concept in our kidult series THE HAMPTOONS. SAM SIMIAN invented it; music was written and played by New York City's late lamented psychedelic rock band EARTH STOOD STILL, and the visuals were created by MIKE CAMPBELL and me.


PS: The dancing blobbing flashback-inducing florps are actual artifacts performed and filmed back in the day by the man himself - - my friend Josh White and the JOSHUA LIGHT SHOW!