On Captain Kangaroo there was a truly psychedelic segment with a man called Banana Man. Not some Nick at Nite program from the 80s, this was an old vaudevillian named A. Robbins, but that is about all I can find on him. Well, other than his costume was too complicated to clean so it stank whenever he came in to film. And that there was a glimpse of him on an episode of American Masters.
Anybody else remember him?
http://www.psu.edu/dept/inart10_110/inart10/vaude.html
Outline of PBS Special on Vaudeville
Here’s a website for A. Robbins
THE BANANA MAN?!?
“Please help me. I swear I saw a phenomenon on Captain Kangaroo! His name was 'The Banana Man”, and he would pull watermelons, more watermelons, this and that, and a little bit of everything would seem to come from his coat. Then, finally, he would start pulling bunches upon bunches of bananas from his coat.
"He did not speak, but only would say “wow” in soprano. I sat there mesmerized by this strange man. Then, finally, and the end of his show, he would take his props in the background, and turn them into a locomotive with cars following, I think he even generated smoke from the front of the “locomotive”.
“I have done research on this gentleman, and I have been unsuccessful. Who was he?”
“I remember the Banana Man on “Captain Kangaroo” very well & Terry Koch described his act perfectly but he said he didn’t know who the Banana Man really was. “American Masters” on PBS did a documentary on vaudeville 2 years ago. On that program, they said that someone named A. Robbins was the Banana Man. They showed a film clip of him & I’m certain that’s who it was.”
“The Banana Man was, indeed an old vaudevillian. Only problem was, so was his costume, which was so complicated, it could not be cleaned. Every few years (when the set was updated or something) they had to get him back in to retape his bit, and the entire studio stank to high heaven so badly no one wanted to be near it.”
link for above quotes
http://www.tvparty.com/lostterrytoons.html
Um, I was speaking of a SPECIFIC “A. Robbins.” This guy isn’t even close. 
Far less psychedelic, for one thing.
As for the other links, they are the same ones on which I based my OP, but thanks for them.