Listener comments!

🍭 ♥ 6:51pm
: foot hear? ♥ 6:58pm
Zrp: Hi Becky! I miss Danger Island and the Banana Splits Adventure Hour!!! Watch out for Captain Mu-Tan!!! 🍭 ♥ 7:00pm
Jay S.: Good evening Becky, Aitch, Zrp 🍭 ♥ 7:00pm
Scott From Boston: Hi Becky!! 7:01pm
Skinny Robbie: Barely functioning, but here. :) ♥ 7:01pm
Zrp: Hi Jay, a nice spring night. 🍭 ♥ 7:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Hello! 🍭 ♥ 7:01pm
Jay S.:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:00

Hello Scott, SR 🍭 ♥ 7:01pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Me, too, Zrp! 7:01pm
Skinny Robbie: Hi to all! 🍭 ♥ 7:02pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:01

Oh, no, Robbie! Work overload? We will overload you with fun, hopefully… ♥ 7:03pm
Woo:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:00

Scott! I missed your show yesterday. I actually had things to do. I couldn't believe it! 🍭 ♥ 7:03pm
Jay S.:

↳ Woo @7:03

Good evening Woo 🍭 ♥ 7:04pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Jay S. @7:01

Hola Jay!! 7:04pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:02

Yeah, work, new meds, same ol' same ol'. Mostly just tired from oblong sleep schedule. But this show always heals. ♥ 7:04pm
Zrp:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:00

Hi Jay! Boston Scott!! Woo! 🍭 ♥ 7:04pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Woo @7:03

You didn’t miss much!😂🤣 I hope you had a productive day 🍭 ♥ 7:05pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Zrp @7:01

Hi Zrp!! ♥ 7:05pm
Zrp: Hi Skinny Robbie! 🍭 ♥ 7:06pm
Becky Ebenkamp: You work hard, too, Scott! 🍭 ♥ 7:06pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:04

Hope youre ok! 7:06pm
Skinny Robbie: Thanks, y'all. My team! ;) 🍭 ♥ 7:08pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Here Come the Hardys" by "Hardy Boys"

This is like an American Breed song 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I went out and did fun stuff yesterday—for a change. There was this cool pop art nun in the ‘60 named Sister Corita Kent and there’s an art center in L.A. for her. They had an event where you could go and see an exhibit and do fun projects. Wd was an antiwar activist, etc. 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Aitch: Footsie thing looks diabolical.
Wrong kind of tripping hazard 🍭 ♥ 7:09pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Song: "Here Come the Hardys" by "Hardy Boys"

Those hunky Hardy Boys!! I thought I would always look good with an ascot! 🍭 ♥ 7:10pm
Jay S.:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:09

According to cartoons, 1969-70 were the age of the ascot. Somehow, I never saw anyone wear one at school. 🍭 ♥ 7:11pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:09

Super familiar… she did the famous gas tank Art in Boston still there to this day though overpainted 🍭 ♥ 7:11pm
Aitch:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:09

had to look that up. 7:11pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Jay S. @7:10

Good enuff 4 Frank Hardy, good enuff 4 me! 🍭 ♥ 7:12pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Jay S. @7:10

Oh, I had a couple one silver and black very shiny satin… The girls would just swoon!😂 🍭 ♥ 7:12pm
Jay S.:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:12

It might look good, but you also have to solve mysteries 🍭 ♥ 7:12pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Aitch @7:09

I had to do a lot of research on it regarding the song, tho I remember the toy. While researching on Reddit all these former kids mentioned injuries! 7:13pm
Blissland: evening 🍭 ♥ 7:13pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Aitch @7:11

Right? ! Ascots make you better looking is that what you look up? 🍭 ♥ 7:13pm
Jay S.:

↳ Blissland @7:13

Hello Blissland 🍭 ♥ 7:14pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:12

All the Hanna-Barbera characters wore fancy neckwear. They didn’t like to animate the necks for some reason! Mostly kerchiefs! 🍭 ♥ 7:14pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Blissland @7:13

Hi, Bliss! 🍭 ♥ 7:14pm
Aitch:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:13

absolutely.
no where's my Twilly? 🍭 ♥ 7:15pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:14

Or they just didn't give them a neck at all, like Barney Rubble   🍭 ♥ 7:15pm
Jay Current: Here a bit late, but I made it! 7:15pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Song: "Honey From The Honeycombs" by "The Rubinoos"

Good stuff! 🍭 ♥ 7:15pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:15

Hello JC 🍭 ♥ 7:17pm
Richard Whig: Hola ODers! 🍭 ♥ 7:17pm
Jay S.:

↳ Richard Whig @7:17

Good evening Richard! 🍭 ♥ 7:19pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay Current @7:15

Hi, Jay C.! 🍭 ♥ 7:19pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Richard Whig @7:17

Hi, Richard! 🍭 ♥ 7:19pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Do the Bear" by "The Hillbilly Bears, Pa Rugg, Ha...

Ed Sullystone 🍭 ♥ 7:20pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Richard Whig @7:17

Hi Richard! 🍭 ♥ 7:21pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay S. @7:08

Ha ha ♥ 7:23pm
Zrp:

↳ Song: "Do the Bear" by "The Hillbilly Bears, Pa Rugg, Ha...

LOL, Ed Sullivan. We lived in Tujunga in the 60s. I just had no clue why my Grandpa and Grammy were laughing. ;) 🍭 ♥ 7:24pm
tim: Hey Becky and gang! 🍭 ♥ 7:24pm
Jay S.:

↳ tim @7:24

Hello tim 🍭 ♥ 7:24pm
Aitch: Hanna-Barbera had a studio in Sydney. I knew a few people that painted/coloured in cells for the animations. mid 80's, was about 50c/cell. 7:26pm
Skinny Robbie: Just noticed, where's Brinley? 🍭 ♥ 7:26pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ tim @7:24

Hey, Tim! 🍭 ♥ 7:26pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Aitch @7:24

Wow! I didn’t kno2 the6 ha$ a studio there   🍭 ♥ 7:27pm
Jay Current: Hanna-Barbera was always in an odd situation where they were the biggest thing in the animation industry for the better part of three decades, yet always somehow felt a bit behind the times culturally. That naivety was often a part of their charm though. 🍭 ♥ 7:27pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Zrp @7:23

They could relate? ; ) 7:27pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Jay Current @7:27

good point! ♥ 7:27pm
Zrp:

↳ Aitch @7:24

I worked production doen the street from the Burbank Hanna-Barbera and NBC. When I could as I used to smoke, I would walk down and hang with the two Land of the Lost Sleestaks 🍭 ♥ 7:28pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay Current @7:27

You nailed it there ♥ 7:28pm
Zrp:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:27

The 60s. I believe all of the adults were crazy, and one day I turned into one. :) 🍭 ♥ 7:29pm
Aitch:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:26

close to asia I suppose.
lots of production here, cheaper than USA 🍭 ♥ 7:29pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Loud! 🍭 ♥ 7:29pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:27

Hanna-Barbera did the most business, while Jay Ward did the cooler stuff 7:31pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Jay S. @7:29

Yeah, but Hanna-Barbera were pretty cool considering how much output they were delivering.   🍭 ♥ 7:31pm
Jay Current:

↳ Zrp @7:28

My Dad has told me that he remembers Ed Sullivan being huge when he was young, but he felt he was a bit awkward as a host. 🍭 ♥ 7:31pm
Jay S.:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:31

H-B was especially notable for "borrowing" concepts and voices   🍭 ♥ 7:31pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:31

Often from their own shows ♥ 7:32pm
Zrp:

↳ Jay Current @7:31

I agree, but I grew up with a Zeneth Black and White TV. :) 🍭 ♥ 7:32pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:31

Ed Sullivan being super-stiff was his whole identity 7:32pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Jay Current @7:31

It was familiar, and wonderful. ♥ 7:34pm
Woo:

↳ Jay S. @7:32

Ed Sullivan is one of the kings of rock n roll, even if he had a problem with some lyrics. It was the times. 🍭 ♥ 7:34pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay Current @7:31

I think he was a newspaper man? ♥ 7:35pm
Zrp: When we got a Color TV.. We had HR Puffinstuff! 🍭 ♥ 7:35pm
Jay S.:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:34

Yes, a Broadway columnist   🍭 ♥ 7:37pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:29

Aside from Jay Ward, Hanna-Barbera's only other major domestic competitors during the '60s and '70s were Filmation and, towards the end of the '70s, Ruby-Spears. To be a bit fair to H-B, I'd easily place them over those two in terms of quality. 🍭 ♥ 7:38pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:31

HB had Iwao Takamoto, who did all the great psych sequences for the Cattanooga Cats et al 🍭 ♥ 7:38pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay Current @7:31

Yes, ha!   🍭 ♥ 7:38pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:35

That's an interesting career to transition into TV from. 🍭 ♥ 7:38pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:37

DePatie–Freleng was in the mix too 🍭 ♥ 7:39pm
Scott From Boston: I may have had some strange dreams about the electra woman and Dynagirl 7:39pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:38

Yes! Considering how many titles they were juggling, they kept it pretty fresh, and catered to our pre-teen musical interests! 🍭 ♥ 7:40pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Becky & the Red Pony sounds like slang for heroin or something 🍭 ♥ 7:40pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:38

Sulivan started on TV back in 1948, when they'd put almost anyone on TV. He had the contacts to put a show together and that was enough. 🍭 ♥ 7:40pm
Scott From Boston: Oh i never was coordinated enough for that footsie game ♥ 7:40pm
Zrp: Ruby-Spears: Scooby-Doo worked, but most of the story lines were silly. 🍭 ♥ 7:41pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Scott From Boston @7:40

One had a lemon on a string 7:41pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Jay S. @7:38

You're right, NBC was all over the DP stuff. And it was very hip. ♥ 7:42pm
David Shortell:

↳ Song: "Little Doll (Piccola Pupa)" by "The Peppermint Ki...

Piccola Pupa was the stage name of the Italian girl singer whose brief career included a role in "The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini". 🍭 ♥ 7:43pm
Jay S.:

↳ Zrp @7:40

I would never have guessed in 1970 that Scooby-Doo would be a 60+ year franchise 🍭 ♥ 7:43pm
Becky Ebenkamp: So the original Chosen Few Footsee song was an instrumental and it was sampled later for the Wigam thing. I want to know what the lyric song I played was. I got it from one of the Sunshine & Rainbows comps. It is labeled as TCF. ♥ 7:43pm
Zrp:

↳ David Shortell @7:42

I LOVED American International Pictures!   🍭 ♥ 7:44pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:38

DePatie-Freleng's mega-hit Pink Panther is a bit odd because it's a theatrical cartoon, but was primarily seen on television due to how bad theater audiences had fallen off around that era. 🍭 ♥ 7:44pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "I’ve Got to Get You Off My Mind" by "Ginny Tiu & ...

WOW! Ginny again? YEAH 7:45pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ David Shortell @7:42

Cool info, did not know that. Speaking of ghosts, a plug for "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" (the TV series) 🍭 ♥ 7:45pm
Jay S.:

↳ WLSClark @7:44

Hello Clark! 🍭 ♥ 7:45pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ David Shortell @7:42

What was her real name? I like her song Skateboard. ♥ 7:45pm
Zrp:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:45

I agree! 🍭 ♥ 7:46pm
WLSClark: Hi Becky, jay and all!   🍭 ♥ 7:46pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:43

I saw someone online count up all the Scooby-Doo knockoffs made by HB and Ruby-Spears (counting shows where teenagers solve mysteries with a mascot character), and there were like 17 of them during the '70s and '80s. And that's not including the 7 or 8 different Scooby shows that ran during that time. 🍭 ♥ 7:46pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ WLSClark @7:46

Hi, Clark!   🍭 ♥ 7:46pm
Jay Current:

↳ Song: "That’s Mighty Childish" by "The Mummies"

The most Whig Out song on Bubblegum OD. 7:48pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Song: "Pinch Me (Baby, Convince Me)" by "Ohio Express"

I picked up this 45 skipping school in the 11th grade at an old antique store, along with a Jerry & Jeff 45. Good times. 🍭 ♥ 7:48pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:46

I believe the orignal Scooby-Doo idea was for them to also be a band, which was thankfully dropped. Music for the chase scenes was a better idea. 🍭 ♥ 7:48pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay Current @7:46

Hi, Clark!i hung out with Russell a coupla weeks ago. I used to live in SF ; ) 🍭 ♥ 7:48pm
Jay S.:

↳ Song: "Neil Jung" by "Teenage Fanclub"

GREAT tune. 🍭 ♥ 7:49pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Dropped a letter from your name — my fave line 🍭 ♥ 7:49pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Neil Jung" by "Teenage Fanclub"

NICE song! 🍭 ♥ 7:49pm
Becky Ebenkamp: We all know this guy. Great character profile.   🍭 ♥ 7:50pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:48

Of course, said idea showed up in Josie & The Pussycats shortly afterward, based on an Archie comic spinoff that had nothing to do with bands or solving mysteries. 🍭 ♥ 7:50pm
Aitch:

↳ WLSClark @7:49

whole album 7:50pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Song: "Neil Jung" by "Teenage Fanclub"

Gimme "Sugar Mountain"... 🍭 ♥ 7:51pm
Jay S.:

↳ Jay Current @7:50

And the earlier-played Hardy Boys   🍭 ♥ 7:51pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:48

As many Teenage Fanclub songs are 🍭 ♥ 7:51pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:48

Ha. I forgot that Joey didn’t sing it. ♥ 7:51pm
David Shortell:

↳ Jay Current @7:37

Nearly all Saturday morning cartoons were drek, but John Kricfalusi blames Filmation the most for ruining animation. His theory is H-B Studios looked at their work and thought "We've been working too hard". So they decided to churn out ultracheap crap too. ♥ 7:51pm
Zrp:

↳ Jay Current @7:50

By this time, I was looking forward to Soul Train!   7:52pm
Scott From Boston: Have some great old Josie comics!! 🍭 ♥ 7:52pm
Jay S.:

↳ David Shortell @7:51

It's true, Filmation made H-B look good 🍭 ♥ 7:52pm
WLSClark:

↳ Aitch @7:50

What year?   🍭 ♥ 7:53pm
Jay Current:

↳ Jay S. @7:51

At one point, HB made a Dukes of Hazzard cartoon, and then somehow made a knockoff of that cartoon that was also a knockoff of Scooby-Doo. 7:53pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Jay S. @7:52

I did like "Spiderman". It was Filmation, right? 🍭 ♥ 7:53pm
WLSClark:

↳ Song: "Truth of the Matter" by "Hudson Brothers"

THIS LP IS FABBB! 🍭 ♥ 7:53pm
Becky Ebenkamp: That just allowed Krofft and the live actuon stuff to thrive inbthe early ‘70s 7:54pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ WLSClark @7:53

You're right! 🍭 ♥ 7:54pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Jay Current @7:53

No way! 🍭 ♥ 7:54pm
Scott From Boston:

↳ Jay Current @7:53

Daisy Duke!!! Starting young boys out early 🍭 ♥ 7:54pm
Scott From Boston: Fantastic show Becky thank you! Have a great week 🍭 ♥ 7:55pm
Jay S.:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:53

Apparently not, the 60s Spiderman was Grantray-Lawrence Animation 🍭 ♥ 7:55pm
tim: Thanks, Becky! 🍭 ♥ 7:55pm
Aitch:

↳ WLSClark @7:52

Grand Prix '95 🍭 ♥ 7:56pm
Jay S.: Thanks Becky!   🍭 ♥ 7:56pm
Jay Current:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:53

Grantray-Lawrence Animation/Krantz Films did animation for the '60s Spider-man cartoon, and DePatie–Freleng did the '80s ones. Filmation did do Spider-woman in the '70s though. ♥ 7:56pm
Zrp: Thanks Becky! 🍭 ♥ 7:56pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I was looking at all the cartoon synopses once for overlap of themes since HB like to repeat certain tropes. One I noticed was Robots. Every. Singles. Show. My favorite was Squiddly Diddly, which had an episode titled “Robot Squid.” 7:57pm
Skinny Robbie: Ya know, when I came here, I felt sick as a dog, but this group and this music lifted me out of it. Thanx Becky and the best gang chat on the planet! 🍭 ♥ 7:57pm
WLSClark:

↳ Aitch @7:55

Thanks! 🍭 ♥ 7:58pm
Becky Ebenkamp: I don’t know if this sounds any different to me. I am listening on an ipad, however. 🍭 ♥ 7:58pm
Aitch: thanks Becky 🍭 ♥ 7:58pm
Becky Ebenkamp:

↳ Skinny Robbie @7:57

So glad… 🍭 ♥ 7:59pm
Becky Ebenkamp: Did that just happen? 7:59pm
Skinny Robbie:

↳ Becky Ebenkamp @7:58

You're the queen of bubblegum.