Screaming Yellow Theater (Svengoolie) - "Show #5 - Sven Sings" (1971?)

Here's a segment from Screaming Yellow Theater - the original Svengoolie, which aired on WFLD Channel 32 from 1970-1973. Svengoolie was played by Jerry G. Bishop.

With no clapboard segments, we can only guess that this was Break #1 (from "Show #5") - although on these master tapes sometimes they didn't save all of the breaks, so this could be Break #2 or Break #3 for all we know. This one features Sven singing a parody of "Button Up Your Overcoat" with backup vocals by Zelda, his skull pal. (voiced by Jerry G himself in a pre-recorded tape)

The song you hear after the introduction is Svengoolie's theme song, the 1958 instrumental "Rumble" by Link Wray and his Ray Men. (with a loop of some screams added for good measure)

One other thing I wanted to mention - I have seen other copies of this segment and it appears like whoever originally compiled this version (probably not the YouTube poster) tried to "correct" the color of the master tape by jacking up the tint or hue level. The result is a bit garish, and bleeds quite a bit I think. But I don't believe it is true to how it looked when it was broadcast - although maybe the master tapes were damaged after so many years and the color faded? I don't know - all I know is I think I'd rather look at the original version before it was attempted to be "corrected". Maybe there's a better way to do it without having it bleed so much.

This aired on local Chicago TV on a Friday likely sometime in mid-1971.

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