Sharms Member Username: Sharms
Post Number: 81 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 12:59 am: | |
Im a former Detroiter living in Utah....yesterday afternoon I was channel surfing and what did I find? Soupy Sales....what a treat. I guess they must be syndicating his LA based show. I grew up with Soupy on Channel 7 in Detroit...ran home most days to have lunch with him and his gang. The show I saw yesterday wss on an obscure indy station in the SLC area. I laughed at his nonsensical comedy bits with White Fang, Black Tooth and Pookie. Not sure if this is running in Detroit, but what a thrill to see him. |
Rsmack Member Username: Rsmack
Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 1:25 am: | |
Remember how there was always knock at the door and he would answer and some sort of silly nonsense would go on. Well once on his birthday the crew hired a woman to knock on the door nude. WOW he didn't know what to do just speechless. This was live TV too. Of course this only came out years after he was off the air. |
Rid0617 Member Username: Rid0617
Post Number: 400 Registered: 03-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 2:16 am: | |
Remember my Soupy Sales TV moments to this day |
Slick Member Username: Slick
Post Number: 55 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:20 am: | |
Soupy words of wisdom "Ignore your teeth and they will go away" so boys and girls brush your teeth. That is the only one I remember, not that it helped my teeth. Anyone have any more? I had my birthday mentioned by Willy the Worm, used to live in the trailer on his lunch table. Of course he mangled the Polish last name but it was close enough. and eat the crust on the bread! |
Daddeeo Member Username: Daddeeo
Post Number: 476 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 10:49 am: | |
Be true to your teeth or they'll be false to you |
Kenp Member Username: Kenp
Post Number: 1368 Registered: 03-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 11:00 am: | |
on a previous post there is a pic of the nude lady knocking on the door. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 965 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 11:39 am: | |
The syndicated New Soupy Sales Show aired in Detroit on WXON TV20 in 1979. They taped 13 weeks of shows featuring Soupy and Clyde Adler, the original White Fang and Black Tooth. You can read about the famous naked lady and see the clip on my website. http://www.detroitkidshow.com/ naked_soupy.htm The original White Fang and Black Tooth puppets, along with other Soupy memorabilia from my collection, will be on display at the Detroit Historical Museum, beginning March 14. The show runs thru the Summer and also features memorabilia and photos from Bill Bonds, Bill Kennedy, John Kelly and Marilyn Turner, Emery King and Amyre Makupson. http://www.detroithistorical.o rg/main/dhm/upcoming_exhibits_ details.aspx?ID=24 |
Switchmanjim Member Username: Switchmanjim
Post Number: 25 Registered: 10-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 1:27 pm: | |
Thanks Ed, that clip is just too funny. Tears. |
Crash67 Member Username: Crash67
Post Number: 86 Registered: 05-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 4:23 pm: | |
Thanks for the heads up about the exhibit at the DHM ... I bet a lot of Motown boomers will want to see that. I can't believe you've got the original puppets from Soupy's show! |
Chiclette Member Username: Chiclette
Post Number: 12 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 5:08 pm: | |
Sad that my ex-Grandfather inlaw "Captain Jolly" is not in this. He was a wonderful man. He wrote a book about his life to give to each family member to have & I'll pass it down to his Great Grandchildren with the kindest of words. He passed away in Arizona when my children were still young so they don't remember him. |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3727 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 5:16 pm: | |
Question??? Can anyone here still do the Soupy Shuffle? One of my 66-year-old friends can still do it like when she was a teenager! Gotta love Soupy! Thanks Ed! |
Daddeeo Member Username: Daddeeo
Post Number: 481 Registered: 09-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 5:17 pm: | |
Him and Joe Gentile did well on radio. |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1527 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 5:34 pm: | |
Erie, I can still do the Soupy Shuffle! Woo hoo! |
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie
Post Number: 3730 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 6:01 pm: | |
All Right Dodger! Way to go! - I never was coordinated enough to learn it in the first place! Two left feet here... |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 966 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 6:36 pm: | |
Chiclette, Captain Jolly has not been forgotten. http://www.detroitkidshow.com/ toby_david.htm |
Lodgedodger Member Username: Lodgedodger
Post Number: 1530 Registered: 05-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 6:39 pm: | |
Hugs to you, Ed_golick. |
Alexander72 Member Username: Alexander72
Post Number: 3 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:37 pm: | |
I grew up in New Jersey ,I watched soop every day.There was one segment he did ,that no one I talk to in Detroit seems to remember.The guy was a private eye. The skit was called "The misadventures of Phylo Kevetch" .Who remembers? WAS THE BANANA CREAM JOKE TRUE ? |
Chiclette Member Username: Chiclette
Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 8:43 pm: | |
But Ed he didn't make the list on the Detroit Historical Society. He did a lot for children. |
Zephyrprocess Member Username: Zephyrprocess
Post Number: 645 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 12:00 am: | |
Chiclette--his son (a middle school math teacher of mine) is a good man, too. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 967 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 7:58 am: | |
Alexander, The Philo Kvetch sketches were created for the mid 60s syndicated show in NYC. Here's the lowdown on the risque jokes. Soupy swears up and down that it never happened, but truth be told, it did. When his show was live, and seen only in Detroit, a lot of dirty stuff was snuck in. When he left Detroit and became national he couldn't do that kind of material anymore. Chiclette, Toby David, by far, did more for the children of Detroit than any other TV personality. Gerry David told me that every Saturday, after visiting the terminally ill leukemia patients at Bons Secours , his dad would come home, go to his den and close the door for about an hour. One day Gerry decided to find out what dad was doing in the den after his hospital visits. He was crying for the dying children and needed that hour to wind down. The Detroit Historical Society has limited space and room for only one kid show guy in the exhibit, and Soupy won out. |
Chiclette Member Username: Chiclette
Post Number: 18 Registered: 02-2009
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 11:01 am: | |
That was sweet Ed, I have tears in my eyes thinking back of him & his wife Ginny. Good people. Thank you. |
Pythonmaster Member Username: Pythonmaster
Post Number: 251 Registered: 12-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 4:22 pm: | |
Milt Supman was/is a cool guy. |
Lpg Member Username: Lpg
Post Number: 117 Registered: 02-2008
| Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 5:21 pm: | |
My wife and I went to a show with Soupy Sales in Southgate many years ago. He did his nightclub act which was very funny. At the very end, he mentioned White Fang, Blacktooth and the others and the place went wild. We left with tears in our eyes from laughter. As a kid in the mid 50's I ran home to have lunch with him almost every day. |
Sharms Member Username: Sharms
Post Number: 82 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 4:25 pm: | |
When I was about 5 years old, I went to kindergarten at the Avondale Elementary school in Inkster. My mother was in charge of some kind of function for the school and she contacted Soupy at Channel 7 to see his availability to make an appearance. HE SAID YES!!! Don't have any idea what kind of money they paid, but here's the best part. He wanted the check up front so we went to his house. I remember walking in (it was a duplex or some kind of multifamily on Schaeffer (spelling?) He and his wife and baby were there.....we stayed for 10 minutes and they couldn't have been nicer. On the day of his appearance at the school my mom met him and took him to the teacher's lounge. In that room.......Soupy Sales taught me the Soupy Shuffle....yep, right there in that room....a private lesson. I don't remember much else other than how cordial he was to everyone.......what an experience. |
Ed_golick Member Username: Ed_golick
Post Number: 971 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 - 5:45 pm: | |
Local kids show hosts weren't paid much by their employers. They made more by doing personal appearances. For example, WWJ paid Milky the Clown 50 bucks a week. The exception to the rule was Soupy. His starting salary at WXYZ was 200 bucks a week. When he left Detroit in 1960 his paycheck had jumped to $100,000 a year |