God Bless Soupy ...... a GREAT AMERICAN a true comic GENIUS and a pioneer of TV along with after school entertainment for millions of baby boomers... the Man was always 10 years ahead of everyone .. LONG LIVE the spirit of SOUPY SALES !
God bless Soupy. Thank you for the memories and all the laughs. You helped shape my sense of humor and that is a gift you gave to all your kids. I feel so sad upon hearing the news . You will always be remembered.
Wonderful memories! Thanks so much for posting this. I'm from NY, and he made me laugh way back when, and he still does today. Soupy didn't have a studio audience. His crew is what you hear off stage. He was one of a kind.
Tully2Shoes: You may not realize this (I just discovered it myself a few weeks ago) but, if you can receive channel "Retro TV," they air the old "Soupy Sales Shows"a/o this date 9/19/17 (those from 1965 and 1978) on Sunday afternoons from 1:00-1:30 pm, eastern time! If you live near New York City, "Retro TV" airs on digital channel 32.4 with a good antenna connected to your TV.
I remember this song and dance and dance it at lunchtime in elementary school and some of my classmates did the same. For me he had the best kids show on TV. I remember the classic live one when 3 of the Rat Pack were invited over for a dinner with him and when he gave them a pie, they eventually got into an arguement with each other and threw many pies to each other's face. I laughed like crazy and my late mother came to the living room and asked 2hat happened. Wat a moment in Old NYC in Old America in the 1960s Mad Men era.
My twin brother met him live a few months ago. Soupy can longer speak, but still has that twinkle in his eyes. He STILL loves his fans more than anything else.
lol, he sounds just like Randy Newman when he sings. I used to watch Soupy in Detroit as a kid. I still know the Soupy Shuffle. That means I'm really old!
It wasn't just Soupy's comedy or sense of' humor that made him special. It was the kind and considerate person he was. Soupy was special in every way! God bless you!
Soupy Sales' program was my favorite early Saturday morning show when I was a little girl. Unfortunately, the show disappeared from TV. Found out later what happened, that the network cancelled his show. Every so often in later years, I'd see him on a game show. The "Mouse" was one of my favorite memories of his show. The other was of his interaction with Fang. Happy memories!
we all watched "Soupy Sales" as kids of the 1960's! on channel 5 WNEW. I remember him doing "The Mouse" I guess he wanted to be relevant with what was going on, like The music scene man!!! All that great music happening, The British Invasion and.... The Beatles! 🚶🏽♀️🚶🏽♀️🚶🏽♀️🚶🏽♀️. He was thrown off the air. Not sure but they say he use to tell his viewers to go into their Daddies wallet, take out the money and mail it to him. I never seen him do this? I dont know if its true but, it sounds like something Soupy would do LOL! He's passed on to Heaven, and I bet he's still making them laugh! 🤣
I never saw his show, but, I used to see him on the Ed Sullivan Show. Very funny. This segment seems like someone on LSD, before it was discovered by the masses, when only a few cutting edge people were in on it. Fantastic!
On this day in 1965 {April 11th} Soupy Sales performed the novelty song "The Mouse" on the CBS-TV variety program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... One week later on April 18th, 1965 the "The Mouse" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #100; four weeks later it peaked at #76 {for 1 week} and it spent six weeks on the Top 100... Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman, passed away on October 22nd, 2009 at the age of 83... May he R.I.P.
I love this clip. I cannot stop watching it. Soupy was great with spontaneity. Very loose. And, what was he on that day...man! "The Mouse" segment is very surreal.
The small studio, ad-lib vibe, talking directly to and getting feedback from the people who work off-camera -- very reminiscent of the current show Talk Soup. I wonder if that is more than coincidence.
I was in high school, and he was very popular with the teenagers. We loved his slapstick comedy. I do believed a large amount of teenagers watched him as well as the kids dud. We loved the "Mouse song" too. It really hurt when I found out that he was in hospice care. If felt like a part of my happy childhood memories, were being erased. God bless the soul of this wonderful man. RIP 👍💕💯🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👼👼👏👏👏 The forever funny man, "SOUPY SALES". (Milton Supman)
That's just why I left the whole segment there, Soxogram!! Sounds like everyone in the room was having fun!! It's all so silly, you have to smile at it!!
We had a LOT of fun in the studio with Soupy. He was a practical joker too. Always played games with the crew. My dad used to do his sound effects right on the studio floor with him, not in the control room
I was about 5 and had a CRUSH on Soupy! I had his records, too. I remember him singing Your Brains Will Fall Out with Fang. The Soupy Sales Show was my favorite show. My Dad would tease me about it an I think I cried.
I remember watching this show w/ my brother who is 2 years older than I am. I remember him loving the show, and I was along for the ride being about 3-4 years old. I seem to remember my bro having Soupy's records too. I don't remember there being such a huge lag between one bit and the next. I do remember the pies in the face, but I don't recall them as being humorous. My bro used to walk around the house doing "The Mouse". How things have changed!!
God bless Soupy,we ain't gonna have another one like him.How did R. Meltzer describe "The Mouse"? : "A very early sign of the indistinguishability of novelty from mainstream,but also indistinguishability of external parody-of-rock novelty from mainstream", but Meltzer never even said if he liked the song! It's just a darn good dance tune as far as I'm concerned. And having heard Soup's son Hunt sing backup for Iggy Pop and in Bob Welch's band Paris I can hear where he got his vocal chops from.
This particualr show was done in NYC. I knew Ralph Spinardo, and Burt King my dad did sound effects for Soupys Shows. I was in the Studio many many times. It was a fun show to watch. The floor mangaers name was Lenny. The director was Artie Forest.
can you imagine modern 'talent' being able to do 30 minutes of live without a prompter? egads! Great fun and never knew what was coming up next....thanks Soup!
It was just the crew. No one from the outside was allowed in the studio it was a liability issue. I used to go in all the tine to watch the show being recorded as my dad did his sound effects. soupy loved his NY crew. They were like family
A great, classic single from May 1965. Soupy did a great, great garage band-type record for Capitol a year later called "That Wasn't No Girl". Would LOVE to see a clip of that! God bless Soupy Sales. He is greatly missed.
A true genius... another one gone. I also loved "Pachaloficha" (sp?) and was actually singing it the other day! Soupy... we all love you and always will.
Where's the unscripted, raw, unedited talent like that today? Live - fresh - screwy and completely original American humor. I met him and have his autograph in my collection - He's a gem. RIP Soupy. You were one of the few, precious, comedic moments each week in my dysfunctional childhood.
@wxyz777 My 9th grade Algebra teacher blamed our poor test scores on Soupy Sales, and said we should be studying in the house instead of dancing and singing the mouse. He was right.
I will always listen to any song whose lyrics invite me to "do the [whatever]". Soupy is an acquired taste, of the strength of fierce jalapeno. I can only handle a little, but what i like i love. Like those certain items at your store or restaurant, where experience has shown you the other items are too strong or too weak. Yes, my (remaining) friends DO call me Goldilocks. What? Oh, yes, Soupy: when i discovered the Soupy Shuffle (dark courtesy of a college-station eclectic DJ) it fixed me right up; i got spry as a pup. Now it looks like i gotta get a Mouse license too.
When I was a kid, we slyly organized a day in which all of the boys came to school wearing a dark sweater, a white shirt and the polka-dot bow tie Soupy wore. None of our parents guessed what was happening or why we begged them to buy a polka dot bow tie!
Taking away nothing from this clip, but his live appearance doing Mouse on Sullivan in '65 (immortalized in the complete Beatles live appearances on Sullivan DVD from 10 years ago is fantastic. Guessing it's not here because of copyright
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I did the mouse in 1965 in front of nuns in South Jersey, they had no idea what I was doing,now 72 I still do the mouse to my son's little boy,he loves it.🤠
Good clean humor...balanced in order for the adults would get it...and the children would wonder? What we observe as comedian today...doesn't come close.
Soupy's sons, Tony & Hunt, played in Iggy Pop's band on the "Lust For Life" tour, when I first saw Iggy in 1977. So we can see there's an ancestry of rock & roll here! I think Soupy also did a bit of "The Mouuse" when he hosted an episode of "Hullabaloo," on which his sons' group, "Tony & The Tigers," appeared. As Soupy's show was originally local to Detroit, the Iggy connection makes sense, where his band, The Stooges, started their career.
@dennis3880 -- Same here! We loved Soupy in Chicago! We ate our lunch with him every Saturday afternoon. I also thought the lead singer of The Guess Who sounded like Soupy on that Star Baby song.
