Around twenty years ago, I found on YouTube a mid-1960s commercial which featured Jack Dempsey endorsing Tabby Treats cat food. He opened with the declaration “I like cats better than dogs. Take it or leave it.”
About ten years ago I read that legendary ad man George Lois was involved.
Dempsey closed with “I hope my dog doesn’t see this”.
Late 70s (probably) there was a guy on a variety show or maybe a Tonight Show type show. It was sort of a parody with I’m in You by Peter Frampton. The part I remember is that when the song had “I’m in you” he would pour water from one glass to another. Then with “you’re in me” he would pour it back. I’ve tried finding out who did it and what show to no avail.
Back in the 60s a Washington DC radio station was playing a daily comedy bit about Chickenman, a comic super hero of some sort, “He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!”. I only heard a few episodes when it suddenly disappeared from the radio and there’s was some kind of rumor about the guy playing Chickenman being fired, as if he worked for that radio station. After leaving the DC area a couple of years later I never encountered anybody else who had ever heard of Chickenman… well until about 3 years ago. I don’t know why I brought it up but I mentioned listening to Chickenman on the radio and he said “Chickenman, he’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!”. I was stunned, I asked him where he had heard of this and he said he couldn’t remember. Well, now we have the internet and I looked it up, Chickenman wasn’t just a local DC thing, it came from a Chicago radio station and it was played around the world on Armed Forces Radio. While my friend was in the Army he said he never heard it there but was sure it was someone else he served with who listened to AFR constantly and often repeated the “He’s everywhere!” line. It’s not on the Old Radio Programs site because of copyright issues, but there are some episodes played online and maybe I’ll find a way to go back and hear all of the episodes I missed, which is close to all of them.
When I was a kid, my grandparents lived in Sacramento. I remember visiting there and going to a park. There was something there that was similar to a labyrinth; a structure a foot or two high that you could walk along and follow a circuitous path. It wasn’t as intricate or geometric as a proper labyrinth, though; just random curves and switchbacks. I seem to remember it was called a mile walk, although I’m sure it wasn’t nearly that long.
I’ve searched google a few times to try and find it; even used the satellite image feature. I would have been there in the 1970s so it may not even exist anymore.
Fernando Lamas, or Ricardo Montalbán?
And if anyone knows that reference without looking it up, I’ll be quite surprised.
@Robot_Arm, could you be referring to the “Crooked Mile” at Fairytale Town in William Land Park? (No. 6 on this map)
P.S. Loved that Bill Murray skit!
I remember Chickenman. Also grew up in DC (Alexandria) in the 60s.
Holy shit, I think that’s it! Many thanks.
I meant to post this link too…
When I saw your first post, I did a search to find pictures and see if that was the right place. That was one of the sites I found.
If I’m ever in Sacramento again, I’d like to check it out, but it says you must be accompanied by a child.
Around 1985, Johnny Carson had a guest on the Tonight Show. He was a middle-age white man named Bob Dochsauer (no idea of the spelling) who had a savant-like ability to balance things. I can’t remember the stunts he performed on the show, but he held records for balancing the most coins on edge, and for swmiming across a pool while holding a large number of stacked chairs. He made his living as a swimming instructor, adding that he had learned to swim relatively recently.
What made him memorable was the combination of his unusual talent, and the fact that he was kind of a dork, so, unwittingly funny. E.g., when Carson asked him about how he got his start, he said, “Uh, I was in college when I started doing these things”. This led Carson to ask him where he went to college, and Bob replied, “Oh, I ended up attending up several different colleges… because I was always doing these things”.
I remember Chickenman playing on WPTR from Albany, NY in the early sixties.
I haven’t been able to find a Hong Kong movie that was filmed around or after 2002. It featured mafia gangsters betting on the outcome of the World Cup final (contested between Brazil and Germany) and one side had a man dress up as Ronaldo and fake poisoning cramps (via “secret camera footage”) in order to fool the bettors into thinking Germany had the advantage. It also involved someone creating a billion-dollar jackpot in which the entry fee for gamblers was a million dollars.
Was it this?
Ah, yes! I think so. I had somehow confused Germany with France, which made me think it was the 2002 World Cup when it was 1998. (Brazil was in both World Cup finals.)
Setlist fm is your friend.
I can’t recall any other two people ever saying that. Even my friend mentioned above never heard it himself. But it was widely broadcast. Here’s a couple of episodes on YouTube.
Alright, you Super-sleuthers, try this: Song I heard on the radio, exactly once about 4-5 years ago. Lyrics I can remember are “Don’t do me like that”. NOT Tom Petty.
Song was kinda mid-tempo, bluesy/jazzy and with female vocals. Think something like Cowboy Junkies, or Sue Foley or the likes.
Can’t find it.
Also NOT Lucinda Williams, but pretty darn similar style. More jazzy and less twangy.
Closest I can find is Danielle Nicole: How You Gonna Do Me Like That? Rings a bell?
I can’t be certain that is what I heard that March morning, but DAMN! That’s good! And it so narrowly fits the description as well. I don’t recall the Hammond organ being so prevalent, and the vocals were not quite as up-beat. I recall a little more subdued.
Sadly, I don’t think that is it. But Ms. Nicole is going into rotation. Thanks for unearthing that gem for me. A good find!