Thursday, February 04, 2016

ANOTHER HUMORIST GONE

"Write if you get work!"   and   "Hang by your thumbs!"

Bob Elliot died Tuesday at 92 -- Half of the Bob & Ray (Goulding) comedy team I fondly remember first laughing with beginning in "radio days".  Click on the following link for a taste of their low-key deadpan type of humor that influenced future comedians:
 
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10 comments:

  1. Bob and Ray were a national treasure in their time.
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  2. Two more old-timers I don't know or remember, and I usually remember odd things and people.

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    1. They were an acquired taste with a quirky sense of humor as their famous program sign-off quotes above attest.

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  3. I am so sad. Remember Leona Anderson singing the Bob and Ray theme song? Few do, and I can't find any recording of it anywhere.

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    1. Ahhh, the glorious voice of Leona Anderson! No, I don't specifically recall her singing the theme song but I do recall her and the spectacular voice.
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      http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2007/08/365-days-238---.html
      Can listen to what's described as a "theme song" there -- "Rats In My Room". On Bob and Ray's show they reportedly often had a gunshot in the middle of her vocalization, then silence.

      The Bob & Ray website has programs on discs for sale including "theme song" on Disc 3, but I don't have any of the CDs so haven't listened to it. Also there are excerpts from some of their shows on the website that can be listened to, i.e. Wally Ballou
      http://www.bobandray.com/albums/classic4.html




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  4. She would also "say a song:" Reciting the lyrics to songs like "You Go to My Head" to a snare drum accompaniment.

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    1. Gee, I can't specifically recall that either. I didn't hear the show regularly, so either I missed some of that or have lost the memory.

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  5. So interesting that you wrote Bob & Ray. I've just scheduled my next post on the same subject and remembering, in 1949, when my dad took me to Boston to their radio show. I was wondering if anyone would remember them.

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    1. Oh, that sounds like an interesting experience. I'll look forward to reading about it.

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