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To Send your message to the WBMUTBB Digest address it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wbmutbb-digest Sunday, January 21 2001 Volume 03 : Number 029 Topics in this issue: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #22 Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 Laugh Tracks laugh track Theme Re: Background music Laugh Track Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 When Life imitates Mayberry Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 Summer Place Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 those Darling boys ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:33:24 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #22 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:47:11 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 <<From: "Linda Poindexter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <<Subject: Laugh Tracks <<I've noticed the same thing about laugh tracks. Although I thought that woman said "uh-oh" with a chuckle on the end. It's on at least once every "I Love Lucy" show.>> The woman in the audience who could often be heard saying "uh-oh" on "I Love Lucy" was none other than DeDe, Lucy's mother. Lucy always said she was her best audience, and she always had a front row seat for every episode of all her daughter's shows (including "The Lucy Show" and "Here's Lucy"). The recorded laughtrack came from earlier "I Love Lucy" episodes, and DeDe's voice can be heard in many Desilu shows like "TAGS." The laughtrack was even used to enhance reactions in shows filmed before a live audience, like "Make Room for Daddy" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Not every joke went over, but the laughtrack sure tries to tell you different. Brent ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:15:09 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Laugh Tracks In a message dated 1/19/01 2:12:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Wow, Mike, we must be kindred souls. I've noticed the same thing about > laugh tracks. Although I thought that woman said "uh-oh" with a chuckle on > the end. It's on at least once every "I Love Lucy" show. Oh, and remember > The woman who says "Uh-oh...hahaha" is actually Lucy's mother DeDe Ball. The same track can be heard on a few other sitcoms, including "Alice", which was produced by longtime Lucy writers Madelyn Pugh and Bob Carroll Jr. As for shows being taped infront of a live audience, it still continues today, just not nearly as often. One that pops to my mind is All in the Family. During the final season when Norman Lear was no longer involved with day to day operations, Carroll O'Connor requested that the show no longer have a live audience, but rather be played back to audience with their laughter being incorporated into the show. This is why on the last season of the show, the voice over (by then being provided by O'Connor himself) changes from "...was recorded on tape before a studio audience." to "...was played to a studio audience for live responses." Interesting. Also, many of the laugh tracks used today were actually recorded in the '50s and '60s...so many of the laugh tracks heard on TAGS may very well be used today in one form or another. Just my two cents. - -Josh ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:46:35 -0600 From: Paul Mulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: laugh track >>>Here is a little bit of trivia I read in Lucille Ball's autobiography, "Love, Lucy". She mentions that her husband, Desi, made a point of recording the laughter in the audience, and that he made the laugh tracks from his beloved I Love Lucy available for OTHER shows to use. >>> According to one version of the story, the distinctive high-pitched laugh belonged to Lucille Ball's mother, who was always in the audience. This story may be apocryphal, but it sounds good to me. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:52:33 -0600 From: Paul Mulik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Theme >>>Does anyone remember a 60's song called "Summer Place" or it might be called "There's a Summer Place"? The reason I ask is because the song playing in the diner during Flora's first appearance sounds alot like "S.P." It's the episode where Goober keeps hanging out at the diner because he wants to go out with Flora. - - -Charlie >>> You're thinking of the theme song from the 1959 film "A Summer Place." This could be one of those cases where the song has endured after the movie is all but forgotten. (The song "Silver Bells" is such a song -- it was from a long-forgotten movie entitled "The Lemon Drop Kid.") Anyway, the tune you heard in the TAGS episode is "Flora's Theme," but it does indeed sound very much like the theme from "A Summer Place." I'm sure this was intentional on Earle Hagen's part. - --Paul ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:04:00 -0800 From: Bob Bravetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Background music > Does anyone remember a 60's song called "Summer Place" or it might > be called "There's a Summer Place"? The reason I ask is because the > song playing in the diner during Flora's first appearance sounds > alot like "S.P." You're probably thinking of The Theme From "A Summer Place" from 1959. Although there is some similarity, that is not the song being played on TAGS. - -Bob ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:57:01 -0600 From: Rodney Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Laugh Track I seem to remember reading once that the "oh-oh, hee hee hee", heard on so many I LOVE LUCY and AGS episodes was actually the voice of Lucille Ball's real mom. Anyone else ever hear this? YENDOR "just HAD to have an apple!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:58:11 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 So is there any info out there about MAYBERRY RFD? Like an episode guide, do they show up ever. I know when I was a kid, at my Grandparents place in Alabama they would show them on a local station down there. Has TV Land ever thought about airing them? But I am very interested in an episode guide. And has the episode of GOMER PYLE USMC with opie running away shown up on TVLAND yet? Now TAGS was a spin off (sort of) The Danny Thomas Show, and Mayberry RFD and Gomer Pyle were spin offs of TAGS. Now am I wrong or was there some type of spin off from Gomer Pyle's show? Steve, "the selfish giraffe" Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:00:24 -0500 From: "GRITTON, JOE A. (AIT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: When Life imitates Mayberry We have discussed in here before about situations in life that reminds us of particular Griffith shows. Today I went to my local bank, a small branch with a couple tellers. There was some lady walking around taking pictures, both in front of and behind the counter...with no restriction to access. I looked on the floor and there were two big packages of money just laying there. I couldn't decide whether to go get my dress and mop bucket or start quizzing the teller on the Countermeasures in the event of a 10-12. We've all noticed Barney's hair switching from combed to mussed up and back again when he is reciting (ha ha) the preamble to the Constitution. Has any one ever counted how many times it is automatically recombed? I think 3 if you count when Opie comes in and it combed again. I'm enjoying the references to No Time for Sergeants. I got out that tape recently to watch it with an Andy fan who had never seen it. He thought it was quite a treat....Then this week I saw the Ernest T Bass episode where he wants to join the army. Lots of similarities! I always thought of Gomer Pyle USMC being the a spin-off of NTF-Sergeants, but the Ernest T episode mirrors the part where Will Stockdate had to go through all the testing. Instead of Don Knotts and the wacky Psychiatrist...it was the recruiter played by Allan Melvin and ole Harry Becktoris/Corporal Boyle who did the testing. Who you callin' a creatcher The Untrained Voice ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 22:51:52 -0500 From: Lisa Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 > > > Does anyone remember a 60's song called "Summer Place" or it might > be called "There's a Summer Place"? The reason I ask is because the > song playing in the diner during Flora's first appearance sounds > alot like "S.P." Yes, I know the song you're talking about. My mom and dad had it on a record (that was in the good old pre-CD days!). The record was by the Lettermen, but I'm sure that other groups may have recorded it also. I'll have to watch that episode and pay attention to the music. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:30:07 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Summer Place hello tags fans!!! i have only responded once before now, but, enjoy reading the "board" daily. To the person who asked about the song playing in the diner. There's A Summer Place is (I think) the name of the song. Also for my best guess, I believe it was the Letterman? that recorded it. I will have to check on Napster or go through the 1,000's of LP's I still have. (Or 45's). Love to all the tags people, and the board that gives me a lift every time I read it. Tell-em-mel-says-hey! melvis8 (Mel Doyle) @ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:29:55 -0800 From: Stacey Bry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 on 1/19/01 1:31 PM, wbmutbb-digest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here is a little bit of trivia I read in Lucille Ball's > autobiography, "Love, Lucy". She mentions that her husband, Desi, made a > point > of recording the laughter in the audience, and that he made the laugh tracks > from his beloved I Love Lucy available for OTHER shows to use; > After all, The Andy Griffith Show was filmed at Desilu. Perk up your ears! > Who knows, you might one day hear "Ricky" laugh during a scene in TAGS!! Who > knows........ Hey..... I never thought of that..... I'll listen very carefully from now on! I read her bio but I didn't make the connection. Wasn't using my bucket that day I guess. Stacey 50sgirl ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:33:28 -0800 From: Stacey Bry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: wbmutbb-digest V3 #28 on 1/19/01 1:31 PM, wbmutbb-digest at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Who can > name the cast member and the song? (I'll bet Mike Creech knows this one!) > > - --Paul Mulik I'm guessing Jim Nabors, since he has such a fine voice..... I've never heard the particular song (or any of their songs) though, so I can only guess. I remember them (Rockapella) from Carmen Sandiego, though! Stacey 50sgirl ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 10:29:24 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: those Darling boys In a message dated 01/19/2001 4:47:32 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > . if i'm wrong > it may be because of the mullberry squeezins the boys let me drink! tim > hutcherson > Tim, your post put me in mind of the episode where Barney drank the mulberry squeezins. I found it interesting that Barney implies that the boys actually spoke to him. Even though they only use words in one episode, we think of them as being a silent group. So, can anyone remember any other episodes where the boys supposedly said something and someone else tells us that they said something but we never actually hear it? Crystal M. in AL ------------------------------ End of wbmutbb-digest V3 #29 **************************** ************************************************** ~ Visit our sponsor ~ Weaver's Department Store ~ http://www.mayberry.com/tagsrwc/weavers/ ************************************************** You must send your comments to the Digest from the address you used to join WBMUTBB or your message will not be posted. Only members may post to this mailing list. 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