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 …
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HOWDY DOODY NABISCO WHEAT HONEYS COMMERCIAL
Thursday, August 27th, 2009HOWDY 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 HOSTESS TWINKIES COMMERCIAL 1950s
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Beloved 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 …
Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009The first big time TV show for kids…Howdy Doody….Clara Belle..the Peanut Gallery and Buffalo Bob…..HUGE among children from 1947 to 1960…..Major cultural force for chidlren raised in those days…..He was full life…..I talked to him in the early 90′s he died in 1998 he was 80 and died from cancer..survived a heart attack in 1954….TV hall of Famer and pioneer…great guy!
Howdy Doody
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Canadian Children’s show dating way back when. Still love it, though.
