Allen Swift, born Ira Stadlen (1924 –2010) was a NY-based character and voice actor. Swift’s career began in 1947, and he was known as the voice of Simon Bar Sinister on the 1960’s Underdog cartoon series. From 1956 to 1960 he hosted The Popeye Show on WPIX-TV, as the old salt, Captain Allen. Here, he appears on The Howdy Doody Show in 1954 and 1955.
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Howdy Doody Christmas (1957) Classic TV Puppet Show
Friday, December 11th, 2009XmasFlix.com ► http The Howdy Doody Show ( tr.im ) was one of the first and easily the most popular children’s television show in the 1950s and a reflection of the wonder, technical fascination, and business realities associated with early television. While Howdy and his friends entertained American children, they also sold television sets to American parents and demonstrated the potential of the new medium to advertisers. The idea for Howdy Doody began on the NBC New York radio affiliate …
Classic Early Television: 1953 Closing Credits for “Howdy Doody” (NBC-TV)
Friday, September 25th, 2009Classic Early Television closing credits for “Howdy Doody”, taken from a 1953 episode. A Kinescope Recording.
Howdy Doody Show 1950s
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Howdy Doody Show 1950s
HOWDY DOODY THREE MUSKETEERS CANDY COMMERCIAL
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown extoll the mertits of Mars’ Three Musketeers candy bar to the members of the Peanut Gallery and the viewres at home in this “live” commercial from the mid 1950s. Three Musketeers was introduced in 1932 and was the third candy confection from the family-owned Mars, Inc., following Milky Way (1923) — orginally advertsed as a “chocolate malted milk in a candy bar” — and Snickers (1930), which was named after one of the Mars’ family’s …
Howdy Doody Show 1950s
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Howdy Doody Show 1950s
HOWDY DOODY NABISCO WHEAT HONEYS COMMERCIAL
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Buffalo Bob Smith (birth name Robert Emil Schmidt) joins the “Buffalo Bee” puppet to give a pitch for Hostess Twinkies on an episode of HOWDY DOODY. Smith was an enormously talented musician and a popular radio personality before co-creating the HOWDY DOODY show, which combined puppets, music and a live-action cast. It soon became one of the highest-rated shows on on television and, perhaps, the most fondly remembered children’s television show of the 1950s. So in demand was Smith that he …
HOWDY DOODY RICE KRISPIES COMMERCIAL 1950s
Monday, August 24th, 2009Howdy Doody and Buffalo Bob Smith bookend this 1950s animated commercial for Kellogg’s Rice Krispies, one the sponsors of the popluar HOWDT DOODY televsion show. Rice Krispies were first test marketed in 1927 and then offered to consumers at large in 1928. Thei famous “snap – crackle – and pop” sound is the result of the crisped rice grains (–a process which inlcudes baking, drying and toasting leavining each individual grain a hollow, puffed shell –) collapsing whenever milk is added. To …
Bring Back Howdy Doody / Pow Wow ( Cover ) By Eshniner Forest.
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009okapifigmentdroll.blogspot.com is my blog. I recorded this version of this song quite some time ago. The Pictures of Howdy Doody, stuff I picked up off the internet. I put the original version of the song at the credits. In my opinion this song is sort of a lost track by the 1910 Fruitgum Co. & I think it would make J. Kasenetz, J.Katz, & M. Gutkowski pretty happy. UPDATE: Oct 23 2007. The guy that actually wrote this song contacted me via Youtube. Here is a letter he wrote me about it all …
Howdy Doody
Monday, July 27th, 2009The Howdy Doody Show was one of the first and by far the most popular children’s television shows in the 1950’s and a reflection of the wonder, technical fascination and business realities associated with early television. www.millcreekent.com
