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| tirebiter |
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From our friends at Wikipedia:
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, syndicated as The Banana Splits and Friends Show, was an hour-long package television program featuring both live action and animated segments, that ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings from September 7, 1968 to September 5, 1970.
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Amazingly, the Banana Splits theme song, "The Tra-La-La Song," made it as far as Jamaica, where Bob Marley cited it as his influence for the bridge to the Wailers' hit song "Buffalo Soldier." |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:02 am |
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A punk version of The Banana Splits theme by a group called The Dickies ("I think they were Americans," he says without a hint of disdain) also made it to No. 7, I think, in the Uk singles charts sometime around 1979.
Only 31 episodes - it seemed to go on for ever...oh for those endless childhood summers...I blame Melanie Hopwood...Summers could never be long enough after... |
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| lady wakasa |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:45 am |
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Foiled by the Banana Splits! Grrr...
Although technically we're both right %^D |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:39 am |
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lady wakasa wrote: tirebiter wrote: Bob Marley trivia I just learned yesterday: he admitted to stealing the yo yo yo, yo yo yo yo riff from the 60s kids' show "The Banana Splits." What would Bingo, Snorky, Drooper and Fleagle say?
Only problem: The Banana Splits ran in the 1970s.
Actually, it started in 1968 and ran till 1970.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Banana_Splits
And I had heard the Bob Marley story some years ago, but wasn't sure how true it was and how lifted the chorus from whom. Now it can be told... and was by tirebiter. |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:40 am |
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| Damn! foiled again by tire... |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:41 am |
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Rod wrote: chillywilly wrote: Trish wrote: and then there's Shine a Light - opening this year sometime
This is one I would see in a heartbeat. Love the Stones and would love to see how Scorsese lays out the story.
From what I've read, he doesn't. It's more or less a concert film, like The Last Waltz. Not that that's anything to sneeze at.
Oh well. I still wouldn't mind seeing it, just now from a different perspective. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:48 pm |
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tirebiter wrote: From our friends at Wikipedia:
The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, syndicated as The Banana Splits and Friends Show, was an hour-long package television program featuring both live action and animated segments, that ran for 31 episodes on NBC Saturday mornings from September 7, 1968 to September 5, 1970.
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Amazingly, the Banana Splits theme song, "The Tra-La-La Song," made it as far as Jamaica, where Bob Marley cited it as his influence for the bridge to the Wailers' hit song "Buffalo Soldier."
I LOVED that show as a kid (I guess I saw re-runs in the 1970s) - especially the episodes that featured "Danger Island" |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:38 pm |
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"The Tra-La-La Song" is one of the top ten television themes ever, up there with The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, Law & Order, Mary Tyler Moore, and I Love Lucy.
Humming "Tra-La-La" is guaranteed to make me feel good instantly. |
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| Marj |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:43 am |
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The only "Tra-La-La" song I know is by the one by Gershwin. I feel like I'm missing out on something special.
Anyone care to sing a few bars for me? |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 3:09 am |
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| Rod |
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AndI'm just putting this in because it rocks. And the dancers are a hoot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar-Z_l907DY |
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| whiskeypriest |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:28 am |
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billyweeds wrote: "The Tra-La-La Song" is one of the top ten television themes ever, up there with The Greatest American Hero, Hill Street Blues, Law & Order, Mary Tyler Moore, and I Love Lucy.
Humming "Tra-La-La" is guaranteed to make me feel good instantly.
Back to to trying to figure out why the DVD cover for No Country has Josh Brolin's name unde Tommy Lee Jones's picture. I'll report back. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:50 am |
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whiskeypriest wrote:
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Back to trying to figure out why the DVD cover for No Country has Josh Brolin's name unde Tommy Lee Jones's picture. I'll report back.
"It's is usually an argument over the bill," he says, just about avoiding the temptation to re-work the Christopher Marlowe joke from Shakespeare In Love. The formula for determining where a stars name and picture end up on a poster is all but unwritable. It is indicative of both the relative importance of stars and their roles and the power of their agents. Size (of picture and text) matters, but also top left is considered better than bottom right. When a poster needs to accommodate two stars of roughly equal status, a common solution is for one to have their name on the left-hand side and their picture on the right and vice versa. There may also be subtle differences in size and level. Clarity or common sense has nothing to do with it. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:42 am |
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Neither one of these clips is perfect. The Dickies play the whole tune, the way it should go (with the first theme repeated twice), but the original has the right feel. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:08 am |
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| what does any of this have to do with current film? |
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