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Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Wilderness Road" - Musical Number (Segment #1-5, 1973)

Views: 1431

Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard is of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This segment (#1-5) is from Show #59 (according to the clapboard). However, there is no recording date.

In this segment, "Greaser-Polka Band" Wilderness Road...

WLUP - 'The Loop' FM 98 - "Do You Like Music?" (Commercial, 1978)

Views: 6725

Here's a curious early commercial for "The Loop", WLUP FM 98 (97.9) featuring DJ Tom O'Toole. (still a jock at 94.7 WLS FM!)

Historical background courtesy ChicagolandRadioAndMedia.com - "O'Toole was the station's first-ever morning show host and first host heard on-air for the iconic rock station. O'Toole personally selected and played WLUP-FM's first-ever song to be broadcast on the station, "Morning Has Broken" by Cat Stevens. He later shifted to afternoons on The Loop."

WMAQ Channel 5 - NewsCenter 5 at 6pm (Part 3, 1981)

Views: 2569

Here is Part 3 of NewsCenter 5 at 6pm on WMAQ Channel 5 featuring Jim Ruddle and Carol Marin. Includes:

Weather with Terry Burhans - 1st half

Commercial: Rex Harrison stars in My Fair Lady at the Arie Crown Theatre

Commercial: Bon Jour jeans available at Wieboldt's (Jim Hill voiceover)

2nd half of weather with Terry Burhans

Carol Marin gives the market closing numbers

Moneywatch with Terry Savage - Terr...

Toy Gallery (Commercial #1, 1975?)

Views: 2718

Here's a commercial for the Toy Gallery, a local business at 1825 North Lincoln that advertised on WSNS Channel 44's Popeye with Steve Hart.

In this ad [which comes after a brief CG slate marked "VTR: 586 - Cut: 1 - Toy Gallery (CM :30) - M.T./D.M." - the M.T. standing for director Mike Torchia; not sure what the D.M. is], we see shots of such products as Rack Ten, Cadaco's Happy Birthday Game Party Pak, Monopoly, Tool Belt, Parcheesi, Juggling, a stuffed Little Lulu d...

Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Wilderness Road" (Opening, 1973)

Views: 3786

Here's another segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop. By this point, if the clapboard is of any indication, the SYT title had been eschewed in favor of Svengoolie.

This opening segment is from Show #59 (according to the clapboard). However, there is no recording date.

In this opening segment, the members of the local Ch...

WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunday (Break #1, 1984)

Views: 2939

Here is a commercial break for Super Cartoon Sunday (Sunday version of Super Cartoon Sunrise) from 1984. Includes:

Tom & Jerry Super Cartoon Sunday bumper (Jeff Lupetin announcing)

Super Tiger Snap Caps and Party Poppers

Get-Along Gang

Showbiz Pizza Place

Tom & Jerry Super Cartoon Sunday bumper (Jeff Lupetin announcing)

Tom & Jerry Super Cartoon Sunday bumper (Jeff Lupetin announcing)

Gene...

WLS Channel 7 - Special Report - "No School Bailout" (1980)

Views: 1335

Here's a special report on WLS Channel 7 interrupting normal programming momentarily - at least they waited until the end of a commercial. :-) Includes:

Ending of a commercial for Long Chevrolet in Elmhurst - champagne party for first Chevrolet of the 1980s (voiceover by ??)

Special Report (voiceover by Mike Rapchak, who identified himself at the end of this report) about a report from Eyewitness News' Hugh Hill about Governor James Thompson's adjournment of a ...

WLS Channel 7 - The 4:30 Eyewitness News (Part 4, 1983)

Views: 2169

Here's Part 4 of the 4:30 Eyewitness News with Mary Ann Childers and Tim Weigel. Includes:

Recap of that hour's top story: Students at Crown Elementary sickened by apparent food poisoning. Jim Avila again gives the latest on the situation.

Republican mayoral candidate Bernard Epton meets with hispanic leaders as Alderman Vito Marzullo mulls supporting him. Hugh Hill reporting.

Harold Washington asks for Democratic party support at a breakfast fo...

Jewel Food Stores - "Midnight Jewels" (Commercial, 1972)

Views: 4849

Here's a pretty awesome super-vintage commercial for Jewel Food Stores (A.K.A., "Jewels" as we called them back in de olde neighborhood), advertising their "Midnight Jewel" service with over 70 stores open until midnight seven days a week.

Features three people with differing stories - a man who ran out of food while throwing a party (Dick Orkin), a woman who works days and thus can't shop until the evening (Cherie Mason), and a younger woman on the hunt for Corn Flakes for h...