Posts Tagged ‘puppet’

Howdy Doody Goes Rick Astley

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

Because of the similarities I’ve observed with the video for Never Gonna Give You Up and an episode of Howdy Doody, I decided to make it happen.

Howdy Doody dancing

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

dance doody

HOWDY DOODY NABISCO WHEAT HONEYS COMMERCIAL

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Buffalo 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, 2009

Howdy 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 …

HOWDY DOODY HOSTESS TWINKIES COMMERCIAL 1950s

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Beloved Buffalo Bob Smith (birth name Richard Schmidt) gives 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 appeared on additinal radio and …