Do you remember watching the show? One of my favorite sketches was Billy Lick A Lolly which you'll find in the Songs That Get Stuck in your head thread.
If you didn't know, Morgan Freeman was a regular of the cast as Easy Reader, as was Letterman (no not the late night one...), Spiderman, Silent E, and some guy in a gorilla suit!!!
Did you have a favorite sketch or character?
I do hope that the new show does better than the New Muppet Show did... that sucked.
Steady work has been scarce for actors in gorilla suits since The Electric Company went dark in 1977.
But all that changes this week as shooting begins in Washington Heights and the Lower East Side on an ambitious reboot of the PBS literacy series that turned on a generation of schoolchildren to the rudiments of reading. The first graduates of Sesame Street found in The Electric Company a companion piece that relied on pun-filled sketches, Spider-Man cameos, and lots of primate shtick, all backed by a Motown beat.
DANNY FEDERICI
"Danny and I worked together for 40 years - he was the most wonderfully fluid keyboard player and a pure natural musician. I loved him very much...we grew up together."
—Bruce Springsteen
Danny Federici, for 40 years the E Street Band's organist and keyboard player, died this afternoon, April 17, 2008 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City after a three year battle with melanoma.
The Federici family and the E Street family request that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Danny Federici Melanoma Fund. A web site for the Fund is being established and we'll post its link when it is on line.
Bruce Springsteen's concerts scheduled for Friday in Ft. Lauderdale and Saturday in Orlando performance are being postponed. Replacement dates will be announced shortly.
All of the Rat Pack performed in Las Vegas, from time to time you'd see a billboard that stated that one of them was performing, and chances were pretty good, that if one was performing the others would show up as guests.
All these songs were originally released as a B side. Get Into the Groove was on the back of Angel. Pink Cadillac was Springsteen's B side to Dancing in the Dark. Dear God by XTC features the Jasmine Veillette, the young daughter of Todd Rundgren who produced the song. Erotic City introduced Sheila E. and was on the back of Let's Go Crazy. Finally How Soon Is Now was paired up on the back of Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want.
As a lead off regular post I will be posting what I have coined, 5 in 20. Five songs in twenty minutes. The goal is to try to keep them around a total run time about 20 minutes. The idea came from a post I made in Tilted Forum Project called Be the Radio DJ: 5 in 20. The five songs are linked together in some fashion which can be any connection. Maybe they were written by the same individual, appeared in a movie or TV show, have a similar word or subject in the song or title. They could be different from the same decade, genre, or artist. There are many many different connections that can be threaded together.
