Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
I first sang this for Soupy Sales at the NY Friars Club and uploaded the music video to YouTube in 2008. Over the years it occurred to me I should amend the video to include at least one slapstick comedy clip -- an homage to the silent film comedies Soupy made liberal use of on his 1959 ABC network series "Lunch With Soupy Sales". "Lunch" was a Saturday afternoon show, first broadcast from WXYZ-TV Detroit, then in 1960 originating from KABC-TV Los Angeles. In 1962 "The Soupy Sales Show" ran for twelve weeks as a KABC prime time network series. Then in 1965 Soupy packed up his pies and puppet menagerie and moved to WNEW-TV New York where his late afternoon show was widely syndicated. (That's me taking a pie in the face from Soupy at 1:41.)
I first sang this for Soupy Sales at the NY Friars Club and uploaded the music video to YouTube in 2008. Over the years it occurred to me I should amend the video to include at least one slapstick comedy clip -- an homage to the silent film comedies Soupy made liberal use of on his 1959 ABC network series "Lunch With Soupy Sales". "Lunch" was a Saturday afternoon show, first broadcast from WXYZ-TV Detroit, then in 1960 originating from KABC-TV Los Angeles. In 1962 "The Soupy Sales Show" ran for twelve weeks as a KABC prime time network series. Then in 1965 Soupy packed up his pies and puppet menagerie and moved to WNEW-TV New York where his late afternoon show was widely syndicated. (That's me taking a pie in the face from Soupy at 1:41.)
