Post by OldFred on Oct 28, 2009 8:53:03 GMT -5
Soupy Sales, who was a large part of kids entertainment and comedy in the 1950's and 60's, died last week. He was 83. He was very ill in his last years. He was a huge Pop culture favorite in the 1960's and had a Top 10 hit with his dance song 'Do The Mouse'. Known for corny jokes and pie fights, everyone from Frank Sinatra to Alice Cooper would appear on his show for the honor of getting a pie in the puss from Soupy. Soupy was the only guy to hit Sinatra in the face with a pie and lived to tell the tale.
I met Soupy on two occasions. The first time when he was a contestant on the $10,000 Pyramid which was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in the 1970's, where almost a decade earlier he was on that stage performing his hit 'The Mouse' on the same 1965 show that the Beatles performed on the day before their Shea Stadium concert. I got his autograph which I still have somewhere. I was a huge fan of his show in the 1960's and I can say he was an inpiration for me as an actor and entertainer. I also saw him at a club in Times Square in the mid-1980's, and the cast of the Uncle Floyd show attended his performance.
The second time I met him was a few years ago at the Thalia Theater in New York City when they had a Three Stooges film festival. By this time, Soupy was very ill and had to get around in a wheel chair. He was sitting in the back of the theater when I saw him and went up to say hello. He was very nice but you could tell that he was not in good health. It was very sad to see him this way.
Soupy was a very funny guy and was an inspiration to a lot of performers. He gave lot of people who loved him a lot of great laughs. He's going to be greatly missed.
I met Soupy on two occasions. The first time when he was a contestant on the $10,000 Pyramid which was taped at the Ed Sullivan Theater in the 1970's, where almost a decade earlier he was on that stage performing his hit 'The Mouse' on the same 1965 show that the Beatles performed on the day before their Shea Stadium concert. I got his autograph which I still have somewhere. I was a huge fan of his show in the 1960's and I can say he was an inpiration for me as an actor and entertainer. I also saw him at a club in Times Square in the mid-1980's, and the cast of the Uncle Floyd show attended his performance.
The second time I met him was a few years ago at the Thalia Theater in New York City when they had a Three Stooges film festival. By this time, Soupy was very ill and had to get around in a wheel chair. He was sitting in the back of the theater when I saw him and went up to say hello. He was very nice but you could tell that he was not in good health. It was very sad to see him this way.
Soupy was a very funny guy and was an inspiration to a lot of performers. He gave lot of people who loved him a lot of great laughs. He's going to be greatly missed.