tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post5837809936542058000..comments2024-03-28T21:16:57.556-07:00Comments on Yowp: Wally, Lippy and the Guy Who Bought Laurel and HardyYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-40135365490105788852013-11-16T20:01:11.146-08:002013-11-16T20:01:11.146-08:00The "Wally Gator"/"Lippy and Hardy&...The "Wally Gator"/"Lippy and Hardy"/"Touche Turtle" cartoons were shown on a daily half-hour series in New York (on WPIX-TV) in the fall of 1962- as "CARTOON ZOO". Milt Moss was the live-action host {and "Zookeeper"}, delivering live introductions to the individual cartoons [and commercials]. The setting he appeared in was, of course, a zoo, with "life-size" cardboard cutouts of Wally, Lippy, and Touche in "cages". This format lasted at least a year. bgraumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07481033911573623806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-13882205229850092802012-10-12T11:21:23.962-07:002012-10-12T11:21:23.962-07:00Sometimes owning one's image or intellectual p...Sometimes owning one's image or intellectual property can be a very scary premise. I remember reading a few years back, Stan's daughter Lois Laurel attempted to create a webpage selling Stan Laurel memorabilia. Harmon had it stopped because at the time, HE owned the intellectual property and image of Stan Laurel....her dad. ScaryErrolnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-91161330677388234562012-10-11T11:55:04.876-07:002012-10-11T11:55:04.876-07:00I've heard the Dal McKennon version of Salty (...I've heard the Dal McKennon version of Salty (and Sinbad Jr, too, sounding like Archie) in the pilot film, but I really don't think that's Jerry in the regular series. Something about the inflections makes me think it could be Junius Matthews, but that might be just as wild a guess as any of the others.Tim Hollishttp://www.facebook.com/tim.hollisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-78305384877855646072012-10-11T07:08:28.097-07:002012-10-11T07:08:28.097-07:00Durocher and Lippy? From the studio that gave us ...Durocher and Lippy? From the studio that gave us "Roger Marble" (Maris), I wouldn't be a bit surprised.Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-10146497897622503102012-10-11T00:40:03.731-07:002012-10-11T00:40:03.731-07:00Mike, thanks for your helpful and expert insight a...Mike, thanks for your helpful and expert insight as usual. Hausner makes sense.<br />Chris, thanks. I'd seen that before, with Hal Smith and Capitol Hi-Q music all over the place. What's baffling is how the project went from Jim Morgan and a company I've never heard of to Walter Bien at SIB and Scheimer/Sutherland's Filmation. Maybe Scheimer's book has the answer.<br />Jade, the 1963 ad didn't come up in a search of "Hanna Barbera". I've now tried using "Lippy" as the search term and found it. So I've added it to the article. <br />J.L., I was watching one of those dreadful Bozo cartoons and you can't miss Charlie Shows' dialogue.<br />Joe, this post came about because I decided to search for some trade ads. The search also brought up the 1962 syndicated cartoon article and because there were cartoons I didn't know about, I felt it should be recorded somewhere. The L&H cartoons are an insult to the memories of one of the greatest comedy film teams of all time (if not <em>the</em> greatest) but because the cartoons were mentioned in the article and I found an ad for them, I augmented the post with the information.<br /><br />I keep wondering if Lippy the Lion morphed from Leo Durocher's name. Leo is, of course, a lion and Durocher known as "Leo the Lip" or "Lippy."Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-30792027190377732192012-10-10T17:38:32.281-07:002012-10-10T17:38:32.281-07:00Ruh-Roh! If Yowp is up to Wally, Touché, and Lipp...Ruh-Roh! If Yowp is up to Wally, Touché, and Lippy… not to mention Laurel and Hardy, the end just might be near after all! <br /><br />I’d like to be the one to start the collective cyber-chant of “Don’t do it!”! Who's with me?! <br /><br />The great Hanna-Barbera (in my opinion) lasted until fall, 1965! That means there’s plenty of time and subjects to cover. Please consider it, won’t you! <br /><br />BTW, great piece, revealing lots of information that is new to me. That’s exactly what I’ll miss… <br />Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-24339211943428110762012-10-10T16:58:41.766-07:002012-10-10T16:58:41.766-07:00Here's Rod Rocket!
http://www.youtube.com/watc...Here's Rod Rocket!<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACz3TTTp_ToChris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-60084511961182084462012-10-10T15:55:55.758-07:002012-10-10T15:55:55.758-07:00Big plans for Creston/TV Spots. Too bad Calvin and...Big plans for Creston/TV Spots. Too bad Calvin and the Colonel put them out of business.<br /><br />For whatever it's worth, the voice of Salty the Parrot in those Sam Singer Sinbad cartoons is actually Jerry Hausner. Dal McKennon had quit working for Singer by then for the same reason everybody else did... no money. Singer tried to sell the Sinbad idea years earlier and even made a pilot cartoon. Dal did the voices in the pilot. Not wanting to let the footage go to waste, Singer used it for an episode of Bucky and Pepito (!)<br /><br />Mike Kazalehnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-90558395346695701872012-10-10T14:51:56.031-07:002012-10-10T14:51:56.031-07:00Geebus, I go off to do the research that intereste...Geebus, I go off to do the research that interested me using the suggestion of a whole site with info from one of your last articles, and then it turns out you've done it pretty much simultaneously!<br /><br />What I did find was that the "New Hanna-Barbera" package had a pretty long initial period of advertisement for stations; there's one ad for it dated January 1963 in 'Broadcasting', which is nearly a whole year from when it was first publicised. It also apparently benefited well from being one of Screen Gem's only syndicated colour packages, since there are reports about it being marketed to stations as late as 1967 (the other show being marketed was Ruff and Reddy).<br /><br />I'm really not an expert on these older shows though, I'm just a yuppie who wants to sink her teeth into something that hasn't been looked at a whole lot. For all I know, I could be interpreting some stuff completely wrong.Jade-Amethyst-Scaleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16464076946866266449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-55338835617872576752012-10-10T13:58:42.822-07:002012-10-10T13:58:42.822-07:00If Creston Studios had been as good at selling the...If Creston Studios had been as good at selling their concepts as they were about writing their press releases, they might have lasted longer. The only series that made it onto the air was the KFS Beetle Baileys, and that was actually a sub-contracting project through Paramount Picutres, has they had done with the KSF Popeye shorts.<br /><br />(Clampett of course always had a million ideas, with only a handful ever coming to fruition, and he was perpetually late with his cartoons at Schlesingers, so it's not a shock to see his concepts never got off the ground, as for the L&Hs, I doubt the stories would have been better if the cartoons had been made four years earlier -- though for good or bad, we likely would have ended up with Stan and Ollie mouthing a bunch of Charles Shows' rhyming couplets, just like Huck, Yogi and the rest did in 1958-59 and the way the Bozo and even some of the Popeye characters did when Shows moved over to Harmon's studio in '59.)J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com