Attention Tap fans......
As the successor to my previous Tap discography site (don't look for it, it was bad - Netscape Composer bad), I've started a new one - with a TON more information than the previous version ever had. The bells and whistles and images have yet to be added, but I put up a temporary version yesterday just so the information is out there.
Take a look!
http://www.steveworek.com/tap/index.html
http://www.steveworek.com/tap/printable.html (black-on-white printable edition)
Friday, April 13, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Grease - the deleted scenes! (Part 1)
Yes, it's been quite a while since I posted anything here... and I realize that any frequent readers I may have had have likely disappeared. But, nonetheless, I thought this was worth a post.
Some time ago, when our local used bookstore was clearing out their VHS tapes, I snagged the 20th anniversary of "Grease" for a whole dollar. Along with a CD single of the "Grease Megamix", the tape came packaged with a miniature reproduction (no reference intended) of the film's shooting script.
Admittedly, when the Special Edition DVD came out, one of the biggest disappointments was the 'deleted scenes' which were brief black-and-white fragments of existing scenes shorn of an uninteresting line or two. While the holy grail of deleted scenes (Rizzo and Kenickie's fight outside the Frosty Palace) is still lost completely, here are a few more tidbits from the shooting script that may or may not have been filmed.
================================
[First, the first several minutes of the movie were almost entirely different, up to the end of the opening credits.]
EXT. SEASIDE RESORT - DAY
OPEN with a small-screen ratio with a blue and white tint. It is a fashionable resort. SOUND of distant gulls.
SANDY OLSSON, a lovely ingenue, in a Rose Marie Reid swimsuit lies alone on a beach towel. "LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING" PLAYS on her portable RADIO. She looks at her watch.
EXT. HAMBURGER STAND ON PIER - DAY
DANNY ZUKO, a good-looking teenager, is wrapping up his day's work at a hamburger stand. Even though he wears a short order cook hat there is a look of a hero about him. His eyes glisten with unfulfilled romantic longing. The same SONG is PLAYING on a RADIO in the hamburger stand. He glances at the clock over the sink which reads six o'clock.
He finishes his work for the day and opens a closet where there are clothes hanging. A picture of James Dean is tacked on the inside of a closet door. He quickly grabs the clothes and begins to change.
EXT. SEASIDE RESORT - DAY
Sandy sits alone looking forsaken, tears in her eyes as the SONG continues to PLAY on her RADIO.
EXT. BEACH
Danny dashes madly along the beach away from the pier, zipping up, buttoning up and trying to make himself presentable in what he thinks are fashionable clothes, but almost everything is a little bit off.
EXT. BEACH COVE - DAY
Sandy rises, about to leave, just as Danny, breathless, slides down a sand dune toward her.
SANDY
I thought you'd forgotten.
DANNY
(still out of breath)
How could I forget?
SANDY
You know what they say about summer romances.
DANNY
No, what do they say?
Sandy looks disappointed. He looks confused.
SANDY
I have to leave in the morning. My father wants to beat the Labor Day traffic.
They look at each other for a moment then Danny kneels to the sand and pulls her with him. He looks into her eyes, then kisses her urgently. After a moment she pulls away.
SANDY
(continuing)
Oh, Danny, don't spoil it.
DANNY
This isn't spoiling it. This is making it better.
They sit side by side. He is about to put his arm around her. Then suddenly something is wrong. He stops. She opens her eyes.
SANDY
What is it?
He looks away in embarrassment. She turns his face to her.
SANDY
(continuing; tenderly)
You can tell me.
DANNY
I'm left-handed.
SANDY
Huh?
He pantomimes changing positions. They change sides.
SANDY
(continuing; as if it were precious)
Left-handed.
DANNY
In a world full of right-handed people.
They kiss again.
SANDY
I feel like this is the last time we'll ever see each other. Going to two different schools is like being in two different worlds.
They look at each other in sad acknowledgement of this impossibility.
SANDY
(continuing)
Oh, Danny, Danny, Danny. Is this the end?
He cups her face in both his hands and smiles gently at her.
DANNY
Of course not, Sandy. It's only the beginning.
GO TO COLOR IMAGE AT THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN
INTRO KENICKIE
CLOSE on an alarm clock radio.
KENICKIE, a tough, macho-to-the-teeth teenager, sits bolt upright in bed looking as if he has just been electrocuted. The pillow where his head has been is covered with grease stains. His hair stands out wildly. He shuts off the alarm and pants for breath as thought he has been running.
The VOICE of VINCE FONTAINE is HEARD on the RADIO and continues throughout the opening MONTAGE.
VINCE FONTAINE (V.O.)
This is the main brain... Vince Fontaine... beginning your day with the only way... Music, music, music... I gotta message for every scholar and fool... GET OUTTA BED; IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL... Don't be a slob... Don't get a job... Go back to class... You can pass... And to start this day off nice and fine... I'm gonna play a new old favorite of mine...
The new title song GREASE BLASTS on the SOUNDTRACK as each of the main characters is introduced.
NOTE: The background in each introduction is a sort of limbo in which only the character and certain vital props are used. As each character is introduced, they will occupy a large portion of the center screen. At the conclusion of their introduction, they will continue their actions in panels that frame the center action. In this sequence the audience is the mirror into which each of the characters is looking.
INTRO FRENCHY
CLOSE on a pink angora sweater. First disembodied arms are SEEN protruding from the tight sleeves. The hands hold the neck of the sweater, stretch it and slowly, painfully -- like something being born -- FRENCHY's head appears. She is a basically plain teenaged girl, with close cropped hair. She reaches OFFSCREEN and produces a flamboyant wig which she places on her head, transforming herself. She begins to comb out the wig.
INTRO DOODY
CLOSE on a Howdy Doody puppet.
Another ALARM GOES OFF as if in time to the music as DOODY, a teenager who looks like Howdy Doody opens his eyes and smiles at the puppet he has slept with. Then his features set as if he is remembering who he is. He throws the puppet aside and gets up.
INTRO JAN
JAN, an overweight girl who has the posture of a hen and wears baggy clothes, eats a piece of buttered-jellied toast as she contemplates the grim reality of her appearance. She turns sideways trying to hold in her stomach and as she does a glob of jelly falls on her jumper. She spits on a napkin and tries to rub it out.
INTRO SONNY
If SONNY could choose to be any animal it would be either a stallion or a prize bull. He blows the cobwebs off his toothbrush, looks at it in distaste, tosses it away, picks up a vicious looking long-handled comb and rakes it through his greasy hair. There is such a deposit of grease on the comb that there is hardly any room for his hair to get through. He practices looking tough.
INTRO RIZZO
CLOSE on a head that looks like a minefield of torpedo rollers. A long, lacquered nail is thrust into each roller, deftly withdrawing it while another finger holds the curl in place.
RIZZO looks like a cross between Ava Gardner and Annette Funicello and she works hard at it. She repeats the roller withdrawal with practiced precision.
INTRO PUTZIE
PUTZIE is a ruddy guy with an air of quiet derangement. He brushes his teeth as if he were operating a pneumatic drill, the foaming toothpaste encircling his mouth with a clown's makeup.
INTRO MARTY
MARTY, a breathing pastry, looks at her reflection. She is curvaceous every place but at the top. She grabs a box of Kleenex and remedies that situation by stuffing her bra.
CLOSE ON VARIOUS SHOTS
A hand reaches into a stuffed closet and pulls out a mass of crinolines.
A tube of Brylcreem is squeezed directly onto an already greasy head. Hands begin to massage the grease into the hair.
A can of spray net is held directly above a beehive hairdo and is sprayed like a crop duster.
A Thunderbird jacket is taken from a closet.
A brown bag lunch is picked up off a table, as a rapid tatto is HONKED out by a CAR HORN.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
A carload of students drive along with the top down.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
Students on foot making their way to school.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
A yellow school bus filled with very active students drives along.
EXT. RYDELL HIGH SCHOOL
From HIGH POV the school is still and deserted. An American Flag flutters in the breeze. Suddenly, cars, bicycles, busses and students on foot APPEAR pouring down the driveway and into the parking lot in a rousing FINALE, a choreographed procession not unlike a Busby Berkeley production number.
The cars are decorated in 50's emblems and decals with glimpses of each of the major characters (except for Danny and Sandy).
Students hang out of car windows, sit on convertible backs, ride on hoods, roofs and running boards -- hooting and hollering with youthful energy as the finale reaches is crescendo.
[Note that in the final film, the school exterior is already occupied; this opening is more reminiscent of "Grease 2."]
EXT. PARKING LOT
As the production number ends, the students suddenly become real people again breaking into groups and heading towards the building.
[The following scene IS in the film, just in another spot, and rewritten.]
A Studebaker pulls up and Rizzo gets out in her Pink Ladies jacket. She stands for a moment looking toward the school in bored resignation as the others rush around her.
Marty and Jan coming walking up.
MARTY
Hey, Riz!
JAN
Great to be back, huh?
RIZZO
It was great when we were Freshmen. It was good when we were Sophomores. It was okay when we were Juniors. But now that we are Seniors, it's just boring, boring. I can't wait for this year to be over so life can really begin.
Rizzo gives a world-weary sigh and starts toward the school. Marty and Jan adopt her air and the three of them walk along with their noses skyward as several excited younger girls rush past and look at them as though envying their exhaulted positions.
CUT TO:
[And we join the T-Birds in more or less the same scene that appears in the film; except that Kenickie is already with them (and delivers the "You're not supposed to eat this, you're supposed to bury it" line).]
================================
[A brief scene that takes place before Sandy enters the principal's office:]
INT. HALLWAY
Both sides of the hall are lined with lockers and students are busily applying locks and decorating the insides of them to match their personalities. There is also a lot of ritualistic, un-self-conscious hair combing, by members of both sexes.
Frenchy and Sandy come down the hall.
FRENCHY
You better check in the office to find out what homeroom you got. Pray you don't get old lady Lynch, the math teacher.
SANDY
Is she bad?
FRENCHY
Bad? All I know is she flunks people in homeroom.
Sandy grimaces and heads for the office.
================================
[Before the Pink Ladies are seen at the lunch table...]
INT. CAFETERIA - CLOSE - ELABORATELY FOLDED HANDKERCHIEF
PULL BACK TO SHOW that it rests on the ample bosom of MRS. OVERTON, the chubby dietitian who beams over the serving dishes of murky substances.
She wears a white uniform complimented by aqua costume jewelry.
Sandy and Frenchy come down the line with trays.
FRENCHY
That's Mrs. Overton, the dietitian. Everybody calls her Mrs. Over-a-ton. If you're friendly with her, she gives you extras... Hi, Mrs. Overton.
Mrs. Overton beams and walks toward the line. Her voice is as sugary as most of her dishes.
MRS. OVERTON
Hello, darlin'. We got peach cobbler today.
FRENCHY
This is Sandy Olsson. She's new.
She looks at Sandy and puts her hand to her heart.
MRS. OVERTON
Why, dear, you're nothing but skin and bones.
She picks up a dessert plate, slides two cobblers on it and slides it onto Sandy's plate with a wink.
MRS. OVERTON
(continuing)
Just remember, men like women with meat on their bones. My husband hasn't looked at another woman in thirty years.
FRENCHY
(sotto voce)
The reasion is he can't see around her. Come on, I wantcha to meet the Pink Ladies.
Sandy stifles a giggle as they line up for the cash register.
Mrs. Overton picks up a dessert and nibbles on it as she walks down the line where Danny and Doody are in line stuffing themselves as they go. They also shake bowls of jello in imitation of the voluptuous Marty who walks past in a tight skirt and sweater set.
Doody copies whatever Danny does.
Danny swallows part of a stuffed tomato as Mrs. Overton walks up.
MRS. OVERTON
The hash is good today.
DANNY
It always is on Monday.
The boys continue on down the line. Doody decides to do something on his own, takes a spoon and takes a big bite out of a dish of applesauce.
Danny sees this, does a take and shakes his head sadly.
DANNY
(continuing)
Hey, man, that applesauce will put you outta commission.
DOODY
Why?
DANNY
Saltpeter.
Doody grabs his throat as if dying. Danny shakes his head and goes on down the line, grabbing the dessert off the tray of a passing girl, taking a few bites and tossing it in the drink cooler.
Danny looks at the cashier as he arrives with his empty tray.
DANNY
(continuing)
No appetite today. Must be the early lunch period.
Doody catches up and they head out of the cafeteria.
================================
[Before cutting away from the Pink Lady lunch table:]
RIZZO
(rising; fake English accent)
I'm going to have a Viceroy on the verandah!
FRENCHY
Which means, Sandy, she's sneaking behind the cafeteria garbage dump for a ciggie-butt. You get caught; you get suspended.
================================
[As the Pink Ladies set off for class after lunch:]
EXT. RAMP
The Pink Ladies walk under a ramp as the Thunderbirds climb over the top, not seeing each other.
SONNY
Her knockers. Tell me about her knockers.
Danny sculpts an overly endowed female form in the air and Putzie pretends to grab them in the air. A flicker of uncertainty crosses Danny's face as the others laugh.
SONNY
(continuing)
One hour with me and she'd be my slave for life.
DANNY
That's because one hour with you makes the brain go bye-bye.
PUTZIE
What about her hinie?
DOODY
I'm a leg man myself.
KENICKIE
You'll take anything you can get.
A BELL RINGS and the boys split up.
================================
That takes us up to the bonfire... more coming soon!
Some time ago, when our local used bookstore was clearing out their VHS tapes, I snagged the 20th anniversary of "Grease" for a whole dollar. Along with a CD single of the "Grease Megamix", the tape came packaged with a miniature reproduction (no reference intended) of the film's shooting script.
Admittedly, when the Special Edition DVD came out, one of the biggest disappointments was the 'deleted scenes' which were brief black-and-white fragments of existing scenes shorn of an uninteresting line or two. While the holy grail of deleted scenes (Rizzo and Kenickie's fight outside the Frosty Palace) is still lost completely, here are a few more tidbits from the shooting script that may or may not have been filmed.
================================
[First, the first several minutes of the movie were almost entirely different, up to the end of the opening credits.]
EXT. SEASIDE RESORT - DAY
OPEN with a small-screen ratio with a blue and white tint. It is a fashionable resort. SOUND of distant gulls.
SANDY OLSSON, a lovely ingenue, in a Rose Marie Reid swimsuit lies alone on a beach towel. "LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING" PLAYS on her portable RADIO. She looks at her watch.
EXT. HAMBURGER STAND ON PIER - DAY
DANNY ZUKO, a good-looking teenager, is wrapping up his day's work at a hamburger stand. Even though he wears a short order cook hat there is a look of a hero about him. His eyes glisten with unfulfilled romantic longing. The same SONG is PLAYING on a RADIO in the hamburger stand. He glances at the clock over the sink which reads six o'clock.
He finishes his work for the day and opens a closet where there are clothes hanging. A picture of James Dean is tacked on the inside of a closet door. He quickly grabs the clothes and begins to change.
EXT. SEASIDE RESORT - DAY
Sandy sits alone looking forsaken, tears in her eyes as the SONG continues to PLAY on her RADIO.
EXT. BEACH
Danny dashes madly along the beach away from the pier, zipping up, buttoning up and trying to make himself presentable in what he thinks are fashionable clothes, but almost everything is a little bit off.
EXT. BEACH COVE - DAY
Sandy rises, about to leave, just as Danny, breathless, slides down a sand dune toward her.
SANDY
I thought you'd forgotten.
DANNY
(still out of breath)
How could I forget?
SANDY
You know what they say about summer romances.
DANNY
No, what do they say?
Sandy looks disappointed. He looks confused.
SANDY
I have to leave in the morning. My father wants to beat the Labor Day traffic.
They look at each other for a moment then Danny kneels to the sand and pulls her with him. He looks into her eyes, then kisses her urgently. After a moment she pulls away.
SANDY
(continuing)
Oh, Danny, don't spoil it.
DANNY
This isn't spoiling it. This is making it better.
They sit side by side. He is about to put his arm around her. Then suddenly something is wrong. He stops. She opens her eyes.
SANDY
What is it?
He looks away in embarrassment. She turns his face to her.
SANDY
(continuing; tenderly)
You can tell me.
DANNY
I'm left-handed.
SANDY
Huh?
He pantomimes changing positions. They change sides.
SANDY
(continuing; as if it were precious)
Left-handed.
DANNY
In a world full of right-handed people.
They kiss again.
SANDY
I feel like this is the last time we'll ever see each other. Going to two different schools is like being in two different worlds.
They look at each other in sad acknowledgement of this impossibility.
SANDY
(continuing)
Oh, Danny, Danny, Danny. Is this the end?
He cups her face in both his hands and smiles gently at her.
DANNY
Of course not, Sandy. It's only the beginning.
GO TO COLOR IMAGE AT THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN
INTRO KENICKIE
CLOSE on an alarm clock radio.
KENICKIE, a tough, macho-to-the-teeth teenager, sits bolt upright in bed looking as if he has just been electrocuted. The pillow where his head has been is covered with grease stains. His hair stands out wildly. He shuts off the alarm and pants for breath as thought he has been running.
The VOICE of VINCE FONTAINE is HEARD on the RADIO and continues throughout the opening MONTAGE.
VINCE FONTAINE (V.O.)
This is the main brain... Vince Fontaine... beginning your day with the only way... Music, music, music... I gotta message for every scholar and fool... GET OUTTA BED; IT'S THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL... Don't be a slob... Don't get a job... Go back to class... You can pass... And to start this day off nice and fine... I'm gonna play a new old favorite of mine...
The new title song GREASE BLASTS on the SOUNDTRACK as each of the main characters is introduced.
NOTE: The background in each introduction is a sort of limbo in which only the character and certain vital props are used. As each character is introduced, they will occupy a large portion of the center screen. At the conclusion of their introduction, they will continue their actions in panels that frame the center action. In this sequence the audience is the mirror into which each of the characters is looking.
INTRO FRENCHY
CLOSE on a pink angora sweater. First disembodied arms are SEEN protruding from the tight sleeves. The hands hold the neck of the sweater, stretch it and slowly, painfully -- like something being born -- FRENCHY's head appears. She is a basically plain teenaged girl, with close cropped hair. She reaches OFFSCREEN and produces a flamboyant wig which she places on her head, transforming herself. She begins to comb out the wig.
INTRO DOODY
CLOSE on a Howdy Doody puppet.
Another ALARM GOES OFF as if in time to the music as DOODY, a teenager who looks like Howdy Doody opens his eyes and smiles at the puppet he has slept with. Then his features set as if he is remembering who he is. He throws the puppet aside and gets up.
INTRO JAN
JAN, an overweight girl who has the posture of a hen and wears baggy clothes, eats a piece of buttered-jellied toast as she contemplates the grim reality of her appearance. She turns sideways trying to hold in her stomach and as she does a glob of jelly falls on her jumper. She spits on a napkin and tries to rub it out.
INTRO SONNY
If SONNY could choose to be any animal it would be either a stallion or a prize bull. He blows the cobwebs off his toothbrush, looks at it in distaste, tosses it away, picks up a vicious looking long-handled comb and rakes it through his greasy hair. There is such a deposit of grease on the comb that there is hardly any room for his hair to get through. He practices looking tough.
INTRO RIZZO
CLOSE on a head that looks like a minefield of torpedo rollers. A long, lacquered nail is thrust into each roller, deftly withdrawing it while another finger holds the curl in place.
RIZZO looks like a cross between Ava Gardner and Annette Funicello and she works hard at it. She repeats the roller withdrawal with practiced precision.
INTRO PUTZIE
PUTZIE is a ruddy guy with an air of quiet derangement. He brushes his teeth as if he were operating a pneumatic drill, the foaming toothpaste encircling his mouth with a clown's makeup.
INTRO MARTY
MARTY, a breathing pastry, looks at her reflection. She is curvaceous every place but at the top. She grabs a box of Kleenex and remedies that situation by stuffing her bra.
CLOSE ON VARIOUS SHOTS
A hand reaches into a stuffed closet and pulls out a mass of crinolines.
A tube of Brylcreem is squeezed directly onto an already greasy head. Hands begin to massage the grease into the hair.
A can of spray net is held directly above a beehive hairdo and is sprayed like a crop duster.
A Thunderbird jacket is taken from a closet.
A brown bag lunch is picked up off a table, as a rapid tatto is HONKED out by a CAR HORN.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
A carload of students drive along with the top down.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
Students on foot making their way to school.
CUT TO:
EXT. STREET
A yellow school bus filled with very active students drives along.
EXT. RYDELL HIGH SCHOOL
From HIGH POV the school is still and deserted. An American Flag flutters in the breeze. Suddenly, cars, bicycles, busses and students on foot APPEAR pouring down the driveway and into the parking lot in a rousing FINALE, a choreographed procession not unlike a Busby Berkeley production number.
The cars are decorated in 50's emblems and decals with glimpses of each of the major characters (except for Danny and Sandy).
Students hang out of car windows, sit on convertible backs, ride on hoods, roofs and running boards -- hooting and hollering with youthful energy as the finale reaches is crescendo.
[Note that in the final film, the school exterior is already occupied; this opening is more reminiscent of "Grease 2."]
EXT. PARKING LOT
As the production number ends, the students suddenly become real people again breaking into groups and heading towards the building.
[The following scene IS in the film, just in another spot, and rewritten.]
A Studebaker pulls up and Rizzo gets out in her Pink Ladies jacket. She stands for a moment looking toward the school in bored resignation as the others rush around her.
Marty and Jan coming walking up.
MARTY
Hey, Riz!
JAN
Great to be back, huh?
RIZZO
It was great when we were Freshmen. It was good when we were Sophomores. It was okay when we were Juniors. But now that we are Seniors, it's just boring, boring. I can't wait for this year to be over so life can really begin.
Rizzo gives a world-weary sigh and starts toward the school. Marty and Jan adopt her air and the three of them walk along with their noses skyward as several excited younger girls rush past and look at them as though envying their exhaulted positions.
CUT TO:
[And we join the T-Birds in more or less the same scene that appears in the film; except that Kenickie is already with them (and delivers the "You're not supposed to eat this, you're supposed to bury it" line).]
================================
[A brief scene that takes place before Sandy enters the principal's office:]
INT. HALLWAY
Both sides of the hall are lined with lockers and students are busily applying locks and decorating the insides of them to match their personalities. There is also a lot of ritualistic, un-self-conscious hair combing, by members of both sexes.
Frenchy and Sandy come down the hall.
FRENCHY
You better check in the office to find out what homeroom you got. Pray you don't get old lady Lynch, the math teacher.
SANDY
Is she bad?
FRENCHY
Bad? All I know is she flunks people in homeroom.
Sandy grimaces and heads for the office.
================================
[Before the Pink Ladies are seen at the lunch table...]
INT. CAFETERIA - CLOSE - ELABORATELY FOLDED HANDKERCHIEF
PULL BACK TO SHOW that it rests on the ample bosom of MRS. OVERTON, the chubby dietitian who beams over the serving dishes of murky substances.
She wears a white uniform complimented by aqua costume jewelry.
Sandy and Frenchy come down the line with trays.
FRENCHY
That's Mrs. Overton, the dietitian. Everybody calls her Mrs. Over-a-ton. If you're friendly with her, she gives you extras... Hi, Mrs. Overton.
Mrs. Overton beams and walks toward the line. Her voice is as sugary as most of her dishes.
MRS. OVERTON
Hello, darlin'. We got peach cobbler today.
FRENCHY
This is Sandy Olsson. She's new.
She looks at Sandy and puts her hand to her heart.
MRS. OVERTON
Why, dear, you're nothing but skin and bones.
She picks up a dessert plate, slides two cobblers on it and slides it onto Sandy's plate with a wink.
MRS. OVERTON
(continuing)
Just remember, men like women with meat on their bones. My husband hasn't looked at another woman in thirty years.
FRENCHY
(sotto voce)
The reasion is he can't see around her. Come on, I wantcha to meet the Pink Ladies.
Sandy stifles a giggle as they line up for the cash register.
Mrs. Overton picks up a dessert and nibbles on it as she walks down the line where Danny and Doody are in line stuffing themselves as they go. They also shake bowls of jello in imitation of the voluptuous Marty who walks past in a tight skirt and sweater set.
Doody copies whatever Danny does.
Danny swallows part of a stuffed tomato as Mrs. Overton walks up.
MRS. OVERTON
The hash is good today.
DANNY
It always is on Monday.
The boys continue on down the line. Doody decides to do something on his own, takes a spoon and takes a big bite out of a dish of applesauce.
Danny sees this, does a take and shakes his head sadly.
DANNY
(continuing)
Hey, man, that applesauce will put you outta commission.
DOODY
Why?
DANNY
Saltpeter.
Doody grabs his throat as if dying. Danny shakes his head and goes on down the line, grabbing the dessert off the tray of a passing girl, taking a few bites and tossing it in the drink cooler.
Danny looks at the cashier as he arrives with his empty tray.
DANNY
(continuing)
No appetite today. Must be the early lunch period.
Doody catches up and they head out of the cafeteria.
================================
[Before cutting away from the Pink Lady lunch table:]
RIZZO
(rising; fake English accent)
I'm going to have a Viceroy on the verandah!
FRENCHY
Which means, Sandy, she's sneaking behind the cafeteria garbage dump for a ciggie-butt. You get caught; you get suspended.
================================
[As the Pink Ladies set off for class after lunch:]
EXT. RAMP
The Pink Ladies walk under a ramp as the Thunderbirds climb over the top, not seeing each other.
SONNY
Her knockers. Tell me about her knockers.
Danny sculpts an overly endowed female form in the air and Putzie pretends to grab them in the air. A flicker of uncertainty crosses Danny's face as the others laugh.
SONNY
(continuing)
One hour with me and she'd be my slave for life.
DANNY
That's because one hour with you makes the brain go bye-bye.
PUTZIE
What about her hinie?
DOODY
I'm a leg man myself.
KENICKIE
You'll take anything you can get.
A BELL RINGS and the boys split up.
================================
That takes us up to the bonfire... more coming soon!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
An unofficial Spinal Tap discography...
This is something I've been working on for a few years now - an attempt to fill out Spinal Tap's entire discography, using titles that not only suit the mentality of the band, but whatever style they adopted at the time.
Of course, this is nothing more than my own vision of these albums, but I thought someone might find it interesting. :-)
(Though, credit where it's due - titles marked with '*' stem from Bernard Anderson's site 'Maximum Tap'.)
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SPINAL TAP SINGS "(LISTEN TO THE) FLOWER PEOPLE" AND OTHER FAVORITES
(Megaphone, 1967)
SIDE ONE
1) (Listen To The) Flower People
2) Break Like The Wind
3) Green Leaves / Our Hideaway*
4) Red Robin*
5) A Good Different Thing*
6) Rainy Day Sun [removed from line-up]
7) (Again With The) Flower People
SIDE TWO
1) Have A Nice Death
2) Gimme Some Money [added to US version]
3) Cups and Cakes [added to US version]
WE ARE ALL FLOWER PEOPLE
(Megaphone, 1968)
SIDE ONE
1) We Are All Flower People
2) Get Me Away From The Ground
3) An Astounding Aerial Escapade
4) To Fly
5) Cloud Cover Light (Prepare for Takeoff)
SIDE TWO
1) I Am Flight
2) Aerially Dynamic
3) Red Skies At Noon
4) Cloud Cover Dense (Prepare for Collision)
5) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
THE INCREDIBLE FLIGHT OF ICARUS P. ANYBODY
(budget album - Megaphone, 1969)
SIDE ONE
1) Get Me Away From The Ground
2) An Astounding Aerial Escapade
3) To Fly
4) Cloud Cover Light (Prepare for Takeoff)
SIDE TWO
1) I Am Flight
2) Aerially Dynamic
3) Red Skies At Noon
4) Cloud Cover Dense (Prepare for Collision)
5) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
SILENT BUT DEADLY
(live - Megaphone, 1969)
SIDE ONE
1) Short 'n' Sweet
SIDE TWO
1) Breakfast of Evil
2) Silent But Deadly
BRAINHAMMER
(Megaphone #NLA184, 1970)
SIDE ONE
1) Big Bottom
2) Springtime
3) Lie Back and Take It
4) Swallow My Love
5) Brainhammer
SIDE TWO
1) Shackle 'n' Stone
2) Child of Squatney
3) Hey Buddha [instrumental]
4) Death Warrior
5) Stonehenge [original version]
[There is a 1970 interview with Nigel in which he mentions 'Stonehenge,' so it's certainly possible that an early version could've existed at this time.]
NERVE DAMAGE
(Megaphone, 1971)
SIDE ONE
1) Nerve Damage
2) A Sting in the Tail
3) Pity No Prisoner
4) Glandlocked
5) Flaming Red Taxi
SIDE TWO
1) Plant the Demon Seed
2) Fear of a Black Strap
3) Miss Scarlet [also known as "Cluedo-sex"]
4) Calm Lydia (Can't Catch Me)
5) Snake Shake Boogie [instrumental]
BLOOD TO LET
(Megaphone, 1972)
SIDE ONE
1) Blood To Let
2) Brain Drain*
3) Feel the Flesh
4) Razor Blade Love
5) Sally She-Devil
SIDE TWO
1) Ring Around the Ribcage
2) Swinging Blade (Cut Me Down To Size Again)
3) Handshake with Hades
4) Crimsonfinger
5) The Eve of the Day
INTRAVENUS DE MILO
(Megaphone #DST2891, 1974)
SIDE ONE
1) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2) Intravenus de Milo
3) Saliva of the Fittest
4) Women Are A Piece Of Cake
5) My Axe Collection
SIDE TWO
1) Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
2) Nice 'n' Stinky
3) Eye of the Snake
4) Hell's Children
5) Tease Me, Squeeze Me
THE SUN NEVER SWEATS
(Megaphone #DS201, 1975)
SIDE ONE
1) Mighty Ouroboros (Prologue)
2) Daze Of Knights Of Old
3) The Princess and the Unicorn
4) The Garden of Mists
5) The Obelisk
6) The Sun Never Sweats
SIDE TWO
1) Devil Take the Hindmost
2) Nocturnal Mission [instrumental]
3) Stonehenge
4) Mighty Ouroboros (Epilogue)
JAP HABIT
(live - Megaphone, 1975)
[UK VERSION:]
SIDE ONE
1) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2) Intravenus de Milo
3) Saliva of the Fittest
4) Swallow My Love
5) Big Bottom
SIDE TWO
1) Gimme Some Money
2) (Listen To The) Flower People
3) Break Like The Wind
4) We Are All Flower People
5) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
SIDE THREE
1) Brainhammer
2) Lie Back and Take It
3) Nerve Damage
4) Blood To Let
5) Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
SIDE FOUR
1) Band Intros
2) Nice 'n' Stinky
3) Silent But Deadly
4) Heavy Duty
SIDE FIVE
1) Daze Of Knights Of Old
2) The Sun Never Sweats
3) Devil Take The Hindmost
4) Nocturnal Mission [instrumental]
5) Stonehenge
SIDE SIX (ENCORES)
1) Rockin' Robin
2) Short 'n' Sweet
[US VERSION:]
SIDE ONE
1) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2) Intravenus de Milo
3) Swallow My Love
4) Big Bottom
5) (Listen To The) Flower People
SIDE TWO
1) Break Like The Wind
2) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
3) Brainhammer
4) Blood To Let
5) Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
SIDE THREE
1) Daze Of Knights Of Old
2) The Sun Never Sweats
3) Devil Take The Hindmost
4) Nocturnal Mission [instrumental]
5) Stonehenge
SIDE FOUR
1) Band Intros
2) Nice 'n' Stinky
3) Heavy Duty
4) Short 'n' Sweet [edit]
BENT FOR THE RENT
(Megaphone, 1976)
SIDE ONE
1) When A Man Looks Like A Woman
2) High Heels, Hot Wheels
3) Heavy Duty
4) Cardiff Cutie Cruisin' ['Cleveland Cutie Cruisin'' on US pressing]
5) Bent For The Rent
SIDE TWO
1) Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
2) Panties and Lipstick
3) Leather Lucy
4) High School Ball
5) Stay Out of Angela
TAP DANCING
(Megaphone, 1976)
SIDE ONE
1) Tap Dancing
2) Big Bottom
3) Heavy Duty
4) High Heels, Hot Wheels
5) Stonehenge
SIDE TWO
1) Tap Dancing [reprise]
2) Break Like The Wind
3) (Listen To The) Flower People
4) Short 'n' Sweet
[All tracks are disco-flavored remakes, save the new title track.]
ROCK AND ROLL CREATION
(Megaphone #NLA1249, 1977)
SIDE ONE
1) Rock and Roll Creation Suite
* a) When There Was Darkness
* b) Rock and Roll Creation
* c) The Answer Is Clear
SIDE TWO
1) Young, Smug and Famous
2) Death On A Stick
3) Cock a Doodle
4) Dusty Devils (In Dirty Drawers)
5) Silence the Rock, Suffer the Roll
SHARK SANDWICH
(Polymer #D18892, 1980)
SIDE ONE
1) Shark Sandwich
2) No Place Like Nowhere
3) Throb Detector
4) Devil In A Hairpiece
5) Ride the Pink Stallion
SIDE TWO
1) Sex Farm
2) Scratch 'n' Sniff
3) Feel Me Up, Feel Me Down
4) The Wetter The Better
5) No One's Watching (But The Moon)
+ 'Satan's Salacious Sandwich' [unlisted, instrumental reprise of title track]
SMELL THE GLOVE
(Polymer, 1982)
SIDE ONE
1) Hell Hole
2) Chrome Plated Mistress
3) Greasin' the Beast
4) Tooth In Nail 'n' Wound In Plaster
5) Blistered Sisters
SIDE TWO
1) Smell the Glove
2) Red Hot Breezes (Satan's Sneezes)
3) Penetrating Eyes
4) Hell Hath No Heartburn
HEAVY METAL MEMORIES
(compilation - Metalhouse #D404, 1983)
SIDE ONE
1) Hell Hole
2) Sex Farm
3) Stonehenge [1975 version - single edit]
4) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
5) Blood To Let
SIDE TWO
1) Big Bottom [1982 synth version]
2) Brainhammer
3) Silent But Deadly [single edit]
4) Bent For The Rent
5) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
SIDE THREE
1) Break Like The Wind
2) Cups And Cakes
3) Rainy Day Sun
4) (Listen To The) Flower People
5) Heavy Duty
SIDE FOUR
1) The Sun Never Sweats
2) (Again With The) Flower People
3) Nice 'n' Stinky [live]
4) Rock and Roll Creation [single edit]
5) Gimme Some Money
===============================================
Of course, Tap's later three albums (the 'This Is Spinal Tap' soundtrack, Break Like The Wind, and Back From The Dead) are still available, thus not requiring discussion.
Of course, this is nothing more than my own vision of these albums, but I thought someone might find it interesting. :-)
(Though, credit where it's due - titles marked with '*' stem from Bernard Anderson's site 'Maximum Tap'.)
===============================================
SPINAL TAP SINGS "(LISTEN TO THE) FLOWER PEOPLE" AND OTHER FAVORITES
(Megaphone, 1967)
SIDE ONE
1) (Listen To The) Flower People
2) Break Like The Wind
3) Green Leaves / Our Hideaway*
4) Red Robin*
5) A Good Different Thing*
6) Rainy Day Sun [removed from line-up]
7) (Again With The) Flower People
SIDE TWO
1) Have A Nice Death
2) Gimme Some Money [added to US version]
3) Cups and Cakes [added to US version]
WE ARE ALL FLOWER PEOPLE
(Megaphone, 1968)
SIDE ONE
1) We Are All Flower People
2) Get Me Away From The Ground
3) An Astounding Aerial Escapade
4) To Fly
5) Cloud Cover Light (Prepare for Takeoff)
SIDE TWO
1) I Am Flight
2) Aerially Dynamic
3) Red Skies At Noon
4) Cloud Cover Dense (Prepare for Collision)
5) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
THE INCREDIBLE FLIGHT OF ICARUS P. ANYBODY
(budget album - Megaphone, 1969)
SIDE ONE
1) Get Me Away From The Ground
2) An Astounding Aerial Escapade
3) To Fly
4) Cloud Cover Light (Prepare for Takeoff)
SIDE TWO
1) I Am Flight
2) Aerially Dynamic
3) Red Skies At Noon
4) Cloud Cover Dense (Prepare for Collision)
5) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
SILENT BUT DEADLY
(live - Megaphone, 1969)
SIDE ONE
1) Short 'n' Sweet
SIDE TWO
1) Breakfast of Evil
2) Silent But Deadly
BRAINHAMMER
(Megaphone #NLA184, 1970)
SIDE ONE
1) Big Bottom
2) Springtime
3) Lie Back and Take It
4) Swallow My Love
5) Brainhammer
SIDE TWO
1) Shackle 'n' Stone
2) Child of Squatney
3) Hey Buddha [instrumental]
4) Death Warrior
5) Stonehenge [original version]
[There is a 1970 interview with Nigel in which he mentions 'Stonehenge,' so it's certainly possible that an early version could've existed at this time.]
NERVE DAMAGE
(Megaphone, 1971)
SIDE ONE
1) Nerve Damage
2) A Sting in the Tail
3) Pity No Prisoner
4) Glandlocked
5) Flaming Red Taxi
SIDE TWO
1) Plant the Demon Seed
2) Fear of a Black Strap
3) Miss Scarlet [also known as "Cluedo-sex"]
4) Calm Lydia (Can't Catch Me)
5) Snake Shake Boogie [instrumental]
BLOOD TO LET
(Megaphone, 1972)
SIDE ONE
1) Blood To Let
2) Brain Drain*
3) Feel the Flesh
4) Razor Blade Love
5) Sally She-Devil
SIDE TWO
1) Ring Around the Ribcage
2) Swinging Blade (Cut Me Down To Size Again)
3) Handshake with Hades
4) Crimsonfinger
5) The Eve of the Day
INTRAVENUS DE MILO
(Megaphone #DST2891, 1974)
SIDE ONE
1) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2) Intravenus de Milo
3) Saliva of the Fittest
4) Women Are A Piece Of Cake
5) My Axe Collection
SIDE TWO
1) Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
2) Nice 'n' Stinky
3) Eye of the Snake
4) Hell's Children
5) Tease Me, Squeeze Me
THE SUN NEVER SWEATS
(Megaphone #DS201, 1975)
SIDE ONE
1) Mighty Ouroboros (Prologue)
2) Daze Of Knights Of Old
3) The Princess and the Unicorn
4) The Garden of Mists
5) The Obelisk
6) The Sun Never Sweats
SIDE TWO
1) Devil Take the Hindmost
2) Nocturnal Mission [instrumental]
3) Stonehenge
4) Mighty Ouroboros (Epilogue)
JAP HABIT
(live - Megaphone, 1975)
[UK VERSION:]
SIDE ONE
1) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2) Intravenus de Milo
3) Saliva of the Fittest
4) Swallow My Love
5) Big Bottom
SIDE TWO
1) Gimme Some Money
2) (Listen To The) Flower People
3) Break Like The Wind
4) We Are All Flower People
5) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
SIDE THREE
1) Brainhammer
2) Lie Back and Take It
3) Nerve Damage
4) Blood To Let
5) Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
SIDE FOUR
1) Band Intros
2) Nice 'n' Stinky
3) Silent But Deadly
4) Heavy Duty
SIDE FIVE
1) Daze Of Knights Of Old
2) The Sun Never Sweats
3) Devil Take The Hindmost
4) Nocturnal Mission [instrumental]
5) Stonehenge
SIDE SIX (ENCORES)
1) Rockin' Robin
2) Short 'n' Sweet
[US VERSION:]
SIDE ONE
1) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
2) Intravenus de Milo
3) Swallow My Love
4) Big Bottom
5) (Listen To The) Flower People
SIDE TWO
1) Break Like The Wind
2) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
3) Brainhammer
4) Blood To Let
5) Rock 'n' Roll Nightmare
SIDE THREE
1) Daze Of Knights Of Old
2) The Sun Never Sweats
3) Devil Take The Hindmost
4) Nocturnal Mission [instrumental]
5) Stonehenge
SIDE FOUR
1) Band Intros
2) Nice 'n' Stinky
3) Heavy Duty
4) Short 'n' Sweet [edit]
BENT FOR THE RENT
(Megaphone, 1976)
SIDE ONE
1) When A Man Looks Like A Woman
2) High Heels, Hot Wheels
3) Heavy Duty
4) Cardiff Cutie Cruisin' ['Cleveland Cutie Cruisin'' on US pressing]
5) Bent For The Rent
SIDE TWO
1) Stinkin' Up The Great Outdoors
2) Panties and Lipstick
3) Leather Lucy
4) High School Ball
5) Stay Out of Angela
TAP DANCING
(Megaphone, 1976)
SIDE ONE
1) Tap Dancing
2) Big Bottom
3) Heavy Duty
4) High Heels, Hot Wheels
5) Stonehenge
SIDE TWO
1) Tap Dancing [reprise]
2) Break Like The Wind
3) (Listen To The) Flower People
4) Short 'n' Sweet
[All tracks are disco-flavored remakes, save the new title track.]
ROCK AND ROLL CREATION
(Megaphone #NLA1249, 1977)
SIDE ONE
1) Rock and Roll Creation Suite
* a) When There Was Darkness
* b) Rock and Roll Creation
* c) The Answer Is Clear
SIDE TWO
1) Young, Smug and Famous
2) Death On A Stick
3) Cock a Doodle
4) Dusty Devils (In Dirty Drawers)
5) Silence the Rock, Suffer the Roll
SHARK SANDWICH
(Polymer #D18892, 1980)
SIDE ONE
1) Shark Sandwich
2) No Place Like Nowhere
3) Throb Detector
4) Devil In A Hairpiece
5) Ride the Pink Stallion
SIDE TWO
1) Sex Farm
2) Scratch 'n' Sniff
3) Feel Me Up, Feel Me Down
4) The Wetter The Better
5) No One's Watching (But The Moon)
+ 'Satan's Salacious Sandwich' [unlisted, instrumental reprise of title track]
SMELL THE GLOVE
(Polymer, 1982)
SIDE ONE
1) Hell Hole
2) Chrome Plated Mistress
3) Greasin' the Beast
4) Tooth In Nail 'n' Wound In Plaster
5) Blistered Sisters
SIDE TWO
1) Smell the Glove
2) Red Hot Breezes (Satan's Sneezes)
3) Penetrating Eyes
4) Hell Hath No Heartburn
HEAVY METAL MEMORIES
(compilation - Metalhouse #D404, 1983)
SIDE ONE
1) Hell Hole
2) Sex Farm
3) Stonehenge [1975 version - single edit]
4) The Incredible Flight of Icarus P. Anybody
5) Blood To Let
SIDE TWO
1) Big Bottom [1982 synth version]
2) Brainhammer
3) Silent But Deadly [single edit]
4) Bent For The Rent
5) Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight
SIDE THREE
1) Break Like The Wind
2) Cups And Cakes
3) Rainy Day Sun
4) (Listen To The) Flower People
5) Heavy Duty
SIDE FOUR
1) The Sun Never Sweats
2) (Again With The) Flower People
3) Nice 'n' Stinky [live]
4) Rock and Roll Creation [single edit]
5) Gimme Some Money
===============================================
Of course, Tap's later three albums (the 'This Is Spinal Tap' soundtrack, Break Like The Wind, and Back From The Dead) are still available, thus not requiring discussion.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Summer wistfulness....
You know what I just realized is a nice feeling?
Spending time on a blazing hot summer day in an icy cold, perfectly air conditioned store. And I mean, a big store, like a Wal-Mart, where the chilly air is complemented by the chatter of a dozen televisions and the beeping of price scanners.
Even if you don't buy something, who cares? It's pleasant.
:-)
Spending time on a blazing hot summer day in an icy cold, perfectly air conditioned store. And I mean, a big store, like a Wal-Mart, where the chilly air is complemented by the chatter of a dozen televisions and the beeping of price scanners.
Even if you don't buy something, who cares? It's pleasant.
:-)
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Fifty-seven James Bond films - and then some?! (updated Oct 10)
I thought I would try something absolutely crazy, and compile the most complete Bond film chronology *ever*. This is divided into four parts - authorized usage of Bond, unauthorized adaptations of Bond (that still use his name), spinoffs and related films, and notable copycats (obvious ripoffs, like '070' and '777'.) Hold your breath, it's about to get crazy.
[UPDATE - Oct 10 - Added to almost every section. This list keeps on growing...]
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I. Authorized Usage of James Bond
10/1954 - CASINO ROYALE
starring Barry Nelson
Origin: United States
TV adaptation, featuring an Americanized Bond.
10/1962 - DR. NO
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
First EON production.
10/1963 - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
09/1964 - GOLDFINGER
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
12/1965 - THUNDERBALL
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
12/1966 - CASINO ROYALE
starring David Niven, Terence Cooper and Peter Sellers
Origin: England
Not an EON production, and not considered part of the series.
06/1967 - YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
12/1969 - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
starring George Lazenby
Origin: England
12/1971 - DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
06/1973 - LIVE AND LET DIE
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
12/1974 - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
07/1977 - THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1979 - MOONRAKER
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1981 - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1983 - OCTOPUSSY
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
10/1983 - NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
Not an EON production, and not considered part of the series.
05/1985 - A VIEW TO A KILL
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1987 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
starring Timothy Dalton
Origin: England
06/1989 - LICENCE TO KILL
starring Timothy Dalton
Origin: England
11/1995 - GOLDENEYE
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
12/1997 - TOMORROW NEVER DIES
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
11/1999 - THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
11/2002 - DIE ANOTHER DAY
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
11/2006 - CASINO ROYALE
starring Daniel Craig
Origin: England
10/2008 - QUANTUM OF SOLACE
starring Daniel Craig
Origin: England
========================
II: Unauthorized Adaptations of James Bond
10/1965 - THE AMAZING DOCTOR G
[aka TWO MAFIOSI AGAINST GOLDGINGER]
(DUE MAFIOSI CONTRO GOLDGINGER)
featuring George Hilton
Origins: Spain / Italy
Bond has a small role, and is killed.
05/1966 - 07 CON EL 2 DELANTE (AGENTE: JAMIE BONET) [trans?]
starring Casto Sendra Barrufet [aka Cassen]
Origin: Spain
07/1966 - FUNNY 007
(YOCHEOL BOKTONG 007)
starring Shi-Ja Cheon
Origin: South Korea
??/1966 - JAMES BATMAN
starring Rodolfo Quizon [aka Dolphy]
Origin: Philippines
Dolphy would star in a number of other Bond spoofs as well, but not as James Bond himself.
??/1966 - GOLDEN BOY
(ALTIN COCUK)
starring Goksel Arsoy
Origin: Turkey
??/1966 - LAW OF THE GUNS
(SILAHLARIN KANUNU)
starring Yilmaz Guney
Origin: Turkey
??/1966 - SEVEN JAMES BONDS
(PITONG JAMES BONDS)
starring Mariano Contreras (aka Pugo), Lopito, Ben Cosca (aka Bentot), Perfecto Pinon (aka Tugak), Pugak, Cachupoy, and Apeng Daldal
Origin: Philippines
??/1967 - GOLDEN BOY IN BEIRUT
(ALTIN COCUK BEYRUT'TA)
starring Goksel Arsoy
Origin: Turkey
??/1967 - ORTA SARK YANIYOR [trans?]
starring Goksel Arsoy
Origin: Turkey
The third "Golden Boy" film.
??/1970 - THE SPY WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
(ALTIN TABANCALI ADAM)
starring Murat Soydan
Origin: Turkey
Interestingly enough, the similarly-titled "The Man With The Golden Gun" was also released in Turkey as "Altin Tabancali Adam."
??/1970 - CEHENNEMDE SENLIK VAR [trans?]
starring Yilmaz Koksal
Origin: Turkey
??/1971 - JAMES BOND 777
starring Krishna Ghattamaneni
Origin: India
??/1977 - AGENT VINOD
starring Mahendra Sandhu
Origin: India
The name 'James Bond' is never used, but unlike other foreign knock-offs whose characters merely mimic Bond, the intended identity of this character is obvious. Incidentally, the 2011 film of the same title has no connection to this one.
03/1977 - THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN
[aka THE DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG-FU]
(LE SAN JIAO WEN ZHEN DI YU MEN)
featuring Alexander Grand
Origin: Hong Kong
Though the film does not center around James Bond, he appears prominently, alongside a number of other familiar characters.
04/1983 - THE RETURN OF THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
featuring George Lazenby
Origin: United States
Lazenby's Bond (referred to as "J.B.") has a cameo appearance.
??/1984 - JAMES BOND 999
starring Suman
Origin: India
No copy of this film appears to be in public circulation.
??/1985 - BOND 303
starring Jeetendra
Origin: India
??/1987 - THE MAHJONG INCIDENT
[aka THE GREEN JADE MAHJONGG]
featuring Ron D. Cohen
Origin: China
Bond makes a brief cameo.
04/1992 - MR. BOND
starring Akshay Kumar
Origin: India
10/1994 - FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE
[aka MADE IN CHINA 007]
(GUOCHAN LING LING QI)
starring Stephen Chiau
Origin: Hong Kong
10/2001 - STEALING DAGMAR
(JAK UKRAST DAGMARU)
starring Jaroslav Sypal
Origin: Czech Republic
========================
III: Bond Without Bond - Spinoffs and Related Films
03/1964 - HOT ENOUGH FOR JUNE
[aka AGENT 8 3/4]
starring Dirk Bogarde
Origin: England
Concerns the agent who replaces now-deceased James Bond.
07/1966 - KALEIDOSCOPE
starring Warren Beatty
Origin: England
A Bond-less, unauthorized adaptation of Fleming's Casino Royale.
09/1966 - KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE
[aka IF ALL THE WOMEN IN THE WORLD]
(SE TUTTE LE DONNE DEL MONDO)
starring Mike Connors
Origin: Italy
This is primarily a spoof of Sixties spy films, but earns a spot on this list, as it was largely adapted into "Moonraker."
??/1966 - VALLAVAN ORUVAN [trans?]
starring Jaishankar
Origin: India
Not a Bond film, but rather, a plagiarism of "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love" with a Bond-like character. (Other portions of the film rip off the French spy film "Banque a Bankok pour OSS 117.")
??/1966 - MONEY-COLLECTING AGENT 007
(EISPRAKTOR 007)
starring Nikos Stavridis
Origin: Greece
Outside of the title, the connection to Bond is unknown; the character himself doesn't seem to appear.
04/1967 - OPERATION KID BROTHER
[aka OPERATION DOUBLE 007 and OK CONNERY]
starring Neil Connery
Origin: Italy
Centers around Bond's look-alike brother. Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Adolfo Celi, and Daniela Bianchi also appear.
03/1968 - BONDITIS
starring Gerd Baltus
Origins: Switzerland / West Germany
Concerns a man who merely thinks he is James Bond.
12/1975 - FROM HONG KONG WITH LOVE
(BONS BAISERS DE HONG KONG)
starring Les Charlots [musical group]
Origin: France
Bond is actually killed during the gunbarrel sequence; Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell recruit a group called Les Charlots in his place. Clifton James also appears.
06/1981 - THE CANNONBALL RUN
featuring Roger Moore
Origin: United States
Obviously not a Bond film, but Roger Moore appears as a man who believes himself to be Roger Moore's Bond.
09/1981 - SHUT UP WHEN YOU SPEAK!
(TAIS-TOI QUAND TU PARLES!)
starring Aldo Maccione
Origins: France / Italy
Concerns a man named Giacomo (Italian for 'James') who dreams he is James Bond.
01/1984 - OUR MAN FROM BOND STREET
(ZUIJIA PAIDANG ZHI NUHUANG MILING)
featuring Jean Mersant
Origin: Hong Kong
Part of the "Aces Go Places" (or "Mad Mission") series. The villain is a jewel thief who poses as James Bond. Oddjob (not played by Harold Sakata) appears, as does Richard Kiel.
========================
IV: Bond Without Bond - Notable Copycats
AGENT 007 1/2
??/1966 - 007 1/2 NO CARNAVAL [trans?]
starring Larry Carr
Origin: Brazil
AGENT 707
03/1965 - DRAGNET
(LAMBAT)
starring Bernard Bonnin
Origin: Philippines
Despite the title, this has no relation to the American TV series.
09/1965 - KARATE SA KARATE [trans?]
starring Bernard Bonnin
Origin: Philippines
BOB FLEMING, AGENT 077
04/1965 - SECRET AGENT FIREBALL
[aka 077: CHALLENGE TO KILLERS and THE SPY KILLERS]
(LE SPIE UCCIDONO A BEIRUT)
starring Richard Harrison
Origins: Italy / France
??/1966 - KILLERS ARE CHALLENGED
[aka MISSION CASABLANCA]
(A 077, SFIDA AI KILLERS)
starring Richard Harrison
Origins: Italy / France
BOND CALLAGHAN
10/1966 - OPERATION COUNTERSPY
(ASSO DI PICCHE OPERAZIONE CONTROSPIONAGGIO)
starring George Ardisson
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
COPLAN, AGENT 777 [aka AGENT FX 18]
03/1964 - KILL SECRET AGENT 777 - STOP
[aka AGENT SECRET FX 18]
(UCCIDETE AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - STOP)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: France / Italy / Spain
First released in France, with the character referred to as 'FX 18'. The Italian edition rebranded him '777', to make the Bond connection more obvious. The next Coplan movie would not be renamed to cash in on Bond.
10/1965 - AGENTE 777 MISSIONE SUMMERGAME
[aka COPLAN FX 18 CASSE TOUT]
starring Richard Wyler
Origins: France / Italy
The third Coplan film. One unidentified country seems to have taken the renaming scheme one step further by calling the character '077'. (Incidentally, none of the future Coplan productions would be altered anywhere to reflect the '777' number.)
CHARLES DUFF, AGENT 070
[aka DAN COOPER]
??/1965 - ONE TANGO FROM RUSSIA
(UN TANGO DALLA RUSSIA)
starring Dan Christian
Origin: Italy
The character is known as Charles Duff.
??/1966 - THUNDERBAY MISSIONE GRASSHOPPER
starring Dan Christian
Origins: Hong Kong / Italy
For reasons unknown, 070 has been renamed Dan Cooper.
DICK MALLOY, AGENT 077
08/1965 - MISSION BLOODY MARY
(AGENTE 077 MISSIONE BLOODY MARY)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
09/1965 - FROM THE ORIENT WITH FURY
[aka FURY IN ISTANBUL]
(AGENTE 077 DALL'ORIENTE CON FURORE)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
08/1966 - SPECIAL MISSION LADY CHAPLIN
(MISSIONE SPECIALE LADY CHAPLIN)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
Co-stars Daniela Bianchi.
DR. BARDIN, SECRET AGENT 777
11/1965 - SECRET AGENT 777
(AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - OPERAZIONE MISTERO)
starring Mark Damon
Origins: Italy
Followed by "A Ticket To Die" (see below), which seemingly focuses on a different 777.
GEORGE FARRELL, AGENT 077
10/1965 - ESPIONAGE IN LISBON
(MISION LISBOA)
starring Brett Halsey
Origins: Spain / Italy / France
JAMES BONDAT
??/1970 - JAMES BONDAT
starring Augusto Valdez Pangan (aka Chiquito)
Origin: Philippines
Like Dolphy, Chiquito would star in many other Bond spoofs, though not which such a close character name.
JAMES TONT
??/1965 - JAMES TONT: OPERATION U.N.O.
starring Lando Buzzanca
Origin: Italy
??/1965 - JAMES TONT: OPERATION D.U.E.
[aka OPERATION GOLDSINGER and THE WACKY WORLD OF JAMES TONT]
starring Lando Buzzanca
Origin: Italy
LEWIS JORDAN, SECRET AGENT 777
??/1967 - A TICKET TO DIE
(AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - INVITO AD UCCIDERE)
starring Tiziano Cortini
Origin: Italy
Follows "Secret Agent 777," though this is apparently a different character.
MIKE MURPHY, AGENT 077 [aka MARC MATO, LEMMY LOGAN and ROBBY LOGAN]
08/1965 - ESPIONAGE IN TANGIERS
(MARC MATO, AGENTE S. 077)
starring Luis Davila
Origins: Spain / Italy
It is often said that George Lazenby has a small role in the 92-minute cut of this film; this seems to be untrue.
08/1966 - YPOTRON - FINAL COUNTDOWN
(AGENTE LOGAN - MISSIONE YPOTRON)
starring Luis Davila
Origins: Spain / Italy
Agent 077's name was changed here for reasons unknown - different editions called him Lemmy Logan or Robby Logan, except in West Germany, where he was still referred to as Mike Murphy.
SECRET AGENT 077
??/1968 - GOLDEN EYES SECRET AGENT 077
starring Mumtaz Askari
Origin: India
========================
Phew! If anyone has something to add, let me know...
[UPDATE - Oct 10 - Added to almost every section. This list keeps on growing...]
========================
I. Authorized Usage of James Bond
10/1954 - CASINO ROYALE
starring Barry Nelson
Origin: United States
TV adaptation, featuring an Americanized Bond.
10/1962 - DR. NO
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
First EON production.
10/1963 - FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
09/1964 - GOLDFINGER
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
12/1965 - THUNDERBALL
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
12/1966 - CASINO ROYALE
starring David Niven, Terence Cooper and Peter Sellers
Origin: England
Not an EON production, and not considered part of the series.
06/1967 - YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
12/1969 - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
starring George Lazenby
Origin: England
12/1971 - DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
06/1973 - LIVE AND LET DIE
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
12/1974 - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
07/1977 - THE SPY WHO LOVED ME
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1979 - MOONRAKER
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1981 - FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1983 - OCTOPUSSY
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
10/1983 - NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN
starring Sean Connery
Origin: England
Not an EON production, and not considered part of the series.
05/1985 - A VIEW TO A KILL
starring Roger Moore
Origin: England
06/1987 - THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
starring Timothy Dalton
Origin: England
06/1989 - LICENCE TO KILL
starring Timothy Dalton
Origin: England
11/1995 - GOLDENEYE
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
12/1997 - TOMORROW NEVER DIES
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
11/1999 - THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
11/2002 - DIE ANOTHER DAY
starring Pierce Brosnan
Origin: England
11/2006 - CASINO ROYALE
starring Daniel Craig
Origin: England
10/2008 - QUANTUM OF SOLACE
starring Daniel Craig
Origin: England
========================
II: Unauthorized Adaptations of James Bond
10/1965 - THE AMAZING DOCTOR G
[aka TWO MAFIOSI AGAINST GOLDGINGER]
(DUE MAFIOSI CONTRO GOLDGINGER)
featuring George Hilton
Origins: Spain / Italy
Bond has a small role, and is killed.
05/1966 - 07 CON EL 2 DELANTE (AGENTE: JAMIE BONET) [trans?]
starring Casto Sendra Barrufet [aka Cassen]
Origin: Spain
07/1966 - FUNNY 007
(YOCHEOL BOKTONG 007)
starring Shi-Ja Cheon
Origin: South Korea
??/1966 - JAMES BATMAN
starring Rodolfo Quizon [aka Dolphy]
Origin: Philippines
Dolphy would star in a number of other Bond spoofs as well, but not as James Bond himself.
??/1966 - GOLDEN BOY
(ALTIN COCUK)
starring Goksel Arsoy
Origin: Turkey
??/1966 - LAW OF THE GUNS
(SILAHLARIN KANUNU)
starring Yilmaz Guney
Origin: Turkey
??/1966 - SEVEN JAMES BONDS
(PITONG JAMES BONDS)
starring Mariano Contreras (aka Pugo), Lopito, Ben Cosca (aka Bentot), Perfecto Pinon (aka Tugak), Pugak, Cachupoy, and Apeng Daldal
Origin: Philippines
??/1967 - GOLDEN BOY IN BEIRUT
(ALTIN COCUK BEYRUT'TA)
starring Goksel Arsoy
Origin: Turkey
??/1967 - ORTA SARK YANIYOR [trans?]
starring Goksel Arsoy
Origin: Turkey
The third "Golden Boy" film.
??/1970 - THE SPY WITH THE GOLDEN GUN
(ALTIN TABANCALI ADAM)
starring Murat Soydan
Origin: Turkey
Interestingly enough, the similarly-titled "The Man With The Golden Gun" was also released in Turkey as "Altin Tabancali Adam."
??/1970 - CEHENNEMDE SENLIK VAR [trans?]
starring Yilmaz Koksal
Origin: Turkey
??/1971 - JAMES BOND 777
starring Krishna Ghattamaneni
Origin: India
??/1977 - AGENT VINOD
starring Mahendra Sandhu
Origin: India
The name 'James Bond' is never used, but unlike other foreign knock-offs whose characters merely mimic Bond, the intended identity of this character is obvious. Incidentally, the 2011 film of the same title has no connection to this one.
03/1977 - THE DRAGON LIVES AGAIN
[aka THE DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG-FU]
(LE SAN JIAO WEN ZHEN DI YU MEN)
featuring Alexander Grand
Origin: Hong Kong
Though the film does not center around James Bond, he appears prominently, alongside a number of other familiar characters.
04/1983 - THE RETURN OF THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
featuring George Lazenby
Origin: United States
Lazenby's Bond (referred to as "J.B.") has a cameo appearance.
??/1984 - JAMES BOND 999
starring Suman
Origin: India
No copy of this film appears to be in public circulation.
??/1985 - BOND 303
starring Jeetendra
Origin: India
??/1987 - THE MAHJONG INCIDENT
[aka THE GREEN JADE MAHJONGG]
featuring Ron D. Cohen
Origin: China
Bond makes a brief cameo.
04/1992 - MR. BOND
starring Akshay Kumar
Origin: India
10/1994 - FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE
[aka MADE IN CHINA 007]
(GUOCHAN LING LING QI)
starring Stephen Chiau
Origin: Hong Kong
10/2001 - STEALING DAGMAR
(JAK UKRAST DAGMARU)
starring Jaroslav Sypal
Origin: Czech Republic
========================
III: Bond Without Bond - Spinoffs and Related Films
03/1964 - HOT ENOUGH FOR JUNE
[aka AGENT 8 3/4]
starring Dirk Bogarde
Origin: England
Concerns the agent who replaces now-deceased James Bond.
07/1966 - KALEIDOSCOPE
starring Warren Beatty
Origin: England
A Bond-less, unauthorized adaptation of Fleming's Casino Royale.
09/1966 - KISS THE GIRLS AND MAKE THEM DIE
[aka IF ALL THE WOMEN IN THE WORLD]
(SE TUTTE LE DONNE DEL MONDO)
starring Mike Connors
Origin: Italy
This is primarily a spoof of Sixties spy films, but earns a spot on this list, as it was largely adapted into "Moonraker."
??/1966 - VALLAVAN ORUVAN [trans?]
starring Jaishankar
Origin: India
Not a Bond film, but rather, a plagiarism of "Dr. No" and "From Russia With Love" with a Bond-like character. (Other portions of the film rip off the French spy film "Banque a Bankok pour OSS 117.")
??/1966 - MONEY-COLLECTING AGENT 007
(EISPRAKTOR 007)
starring Nikos Stavridis
Origin: Greece
Outside of the title, the connection to Bond is unknown; the character himself doesn't seem to appear.
04/1967 - OPERATION KID BROTHER
[aka OPERATION DOUBLE 007 and OK CONNERY]
starring Neil Connery
Origin: Italy
Centers around Bond's look-alike brother. Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Adolfo Celi, and Daniela Bianchi also appear.
03/1968 - BONDITIS
starring Gerd Baltus
Origins: Switzerland / West Germany
Concerns a man who merely thinks he is James Bond.
12/1975 - FROM HONG KONG WITH LOVE
(BONS BAISERS DE HONG KONG)
starring Les Charlots [musical group]
Origin: France
Bond is actually killed during the gunbarrel sequence; Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell recruit a group called Les Charlots in his place. Clifton James also appears.
06/1981 - THE CANNONBALL RUN
featuring Roger Moore
Origin: United States
Obviously not a Bond film, but Roger Moore appears as a man who believes himself to be Roger Moore's Bond.
09/1981 - SHUT UP WHEN YOU SPEAK!
(TAIS-TOI QUAND TU PARLES!)
starring Aldo Maccione
Origins: France / Italy
Concerns a man named Giacomo (Italian for 'James') who dreams he is James Bond.
01/1984 - OUR MAN FROM BOND STREET
(ZUIJIA PAIDANG ZHI NUHUANG MILING)
featuring Jean Mersant
Origin: Hong Kong
Part of the "Aces Go Places" (or "Mad Mission") series. The villain is a jewel thief who poses as James Bond. Oddjob (not played by Harold Sakata) appears, as does Richard Kiel.
========================
IV: Bond Without Bond - Notable Copycats
AGENT 007 1/2
??/1966 - 007 1/2 NO CARNAVAL [trans?]
starring Larry Carr
Origin: Brazil
AGENT 707
03/1965 - DRAGNET
(LAMBAT)
starring Bernard Bonnin
Origin: Philippines
Despite the title, this has no relation to the American TV series.
09/1965 - KARATE SA KARATE [trans?]
starring Bernard Bonnin
Origin: Philippines
BOB FLEMING, AGENT 077
04/1965 - SECRET AGENT FIREBALL
[aka 077: CHALLENGE TO KILLERS and THE SPY KILLERS]
(LE SPIE UCCIDONO A BEIRUT)
starring Richard Harrison
Origins: Italy / France
??/1966 - KILLERS ARE CHALLENGED
[aka MISSION CASABLANCA]
(A 077, SFIDA AI KILLERS)
starring Richard Harrison
Origins: Italy / France
BOND CALLAGHAN
10/1966 - OPERATION COUNTERSPY
(ASSO DI PICCHE OPERAZIONE CONTROSPIONAGGIO)
starring George Ardisson
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
COPLAN, AGENT 777 [aka AGENT FX 18]
03/1964 - KILL SECRET AGENT 777 - STOP
[aka AGENT SECRET FX 18]
(UCCIDETE AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - STOP)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: France / Italy / Spain
First released in France, with the character referred to as 'FX 18'. The Italian edition rebranded him '777', to make the Bond connection more obvious. The next Coplan movie would not be renamed to cash in on Bond.
10/1965 - AGENTE 777 MISSIONE SUMMERGAME
[aka COPLAN FX 18 CASSE TOUT]
starring Richard Wyler
Origins: France / Italy
The third Coplan film. One unidentified country seems to have taken the renaming scheme one step further by calling the character '077'. (Incidentally, none of the future Coplan productions would be altered anywhere to reflect the '777' number.)
CHARLES DUFF, AGENT 070
[aka DAN COOPER]
??/1965 - ONE TANGO FROM RUSSIA
(UN TANGO DALLA RUSSIA)
starring Dan Christian
Origin: Italy
The character is known as Charles Duff.
??/1966 - THUNDERBAY MISSIONE GRASSHOPPER
starring Dan Christian
Origins: Hong Kong / Italy
For reasons unknown, 070 has been renamed Dan Cooper.
DICK MALLOY, AGENT 077
08/1965 - MISSION BLOODY MARY
(AGENTE 077 MISSIONE BLOODY MARY)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
09/1965 - FROM THE ORIENT WITH FURY
[aka FURY IN ISTANBUL]
(AGENTE 077 DALL'ORIENTE CON FURORE)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
08/1966 - SPECIAL MISSION LADY CHAPLIN
(MISSIONE SPECIALE LADY CHAPLIN)
starring Ken Clark
Origins: Italy / Spain / France
Co-stars Daniela Bianchi.
DR. BARDIN, SECRET AGENT 777
11/1965 - SECRET AGENT 777
(AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - OPERAZIONE MISTERO)
starring Mark Damon
Origins: Italy
Followed by "A Ticket To Die" (see below), which seemingly focuses on a different 777.
GEORGE FARRELL, AGENT 077
10/1965 - ESPIONAGE IN LISBON
(MISION LISBOA)
starring Brett Halsey
Origins: Spain / Italy / France
JAMES BONDAT
??/1970 - JAMES BONDAT
starring Augusto Valdez Pangan (aka Chiquito)
Origin: Philippines
Like Dolphy, Chiquito would star in many other Bond spoofs, though not which such a close character name.
JAMES TONT
??/1965 - JAMES TONT: OPERATION U.N.O.
starring Lando Buzzanca
Origin: Italy
??/1965 - JAMES TONT: OPERATION D.U.E.
[aka OPERATION GOLDSINGER and THE WACKY WORLD OF JAMES TONT]
starring Lando Buzzanca
Origin: Italy
LEWIS JORDAN, SECRET AGENT 777
??/1967 - A TICKET TO DIE
(AGENTE SEGRETO 777 - INVITO AD UCCIDERE)
starring Tiziano Cortini
Origin: Italy
Follows "Secret Agent 777," though this is apparently a different character.
MIKE MURPHY, AGENT 077 [aka MARC MATO, LEMMY LOGAN and ROBBY LOGAN]
08/1965 - ESPIONAGE IN TANGIERS
(MARC MATO, AGENTE S. 077)
starring Luis Davila
Origins: Spain / Italy
It is often said that George Lazenby has a small role in the 92-minute cut of this film; this seems to be untrue.
08/1966 - YPOTRON - FINAL COUNTDOWN
(AGENTE LOGAN - MISSIONE YPOTRON)
starring Luis Davila
Origins: Spain / Italy
Agent 077's name was changed here for reasons unknown - different editions called him Lemmy Logan or Robby Logan, except in West Germany, where he was still referred to as Mike Murphy.
SECRET AGENT 077
??/1968 - GOLDEN EYES SECRET AGENT 077
starring Mumtaz Askari
Origin: India
========================
Phew! If anyone has something to add, let me know...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Please identify this PBS kids show!!
This is driving me crazy. Someone must know this.
I specifically remember a PBS show... I believe it aired on Sundays... about a guy with a beard who, I *think*, lived on a farm. He had a dog named Blue, who was a puppet. I can't remember anything else about the show, except that there was an episode where Blue got sick, and the guy carried him to the vet. On the way home, he sang a song about how many miles from home they were.
I can't find a damned thing about whatever this show was, and it's making me bonkers. Someone must know.
EDIT - The guy's name *may* have been Jack. I'm not 100% sure though, that just popped into my head. I think the guy used his real name for his character, and his name may have even been in the title of the show.
I specifically remember a PBS show... I believe it aired on Sundays... about a guy with a beard who, I *think*, lived on a farm. He had a dog named Blue, who was a puppet. I can't remember anything else about the show, except that there was an episode where Blue got sick, and the guy carried him to the vet. On the way home, he sang a song about how many miles from home they were.
I can't find a damned thing about whatever this show was, and it's making me bonkers. Someone must know.
EDIT - The guy's name *may* have been Jack. I'm not 100% sure though, that just popped into my head. I think the guy used his real name for his character, and his name may have even been in the title of the show.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Girl, you know it's confusing.
See, this is why I got frustrated and gave up on trying to put together my multi-disc completists edition of "Girl You Know It's True" (which that single disc I put on here a while back was meant to be a preview of).... seems like every single version I find has different variations of the songs!
Here's a round-up of what I've found so far. Anyone think they have one I'm missing?
===============================================
ALL OR NOTHING - the German (and elsewhere) version
GENERAL
* Original tracklist; contains "Can't You Feel My Love", "Boy In The Tree", "Money", "Dance With A Devil", "Is It Love", and "Ma Baker."
* "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" appears in its original form.
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" appears in its original form: similar to the single version, through with the chorus like that of the US album version, rather than the single version's hip-hop chorus.
GERMAN LP
* "All Or Nothing" ends with a few seconds of German chatter.
* "All Or Nothing" is 3:23.
* "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" appears in its original form.
* "Girl You Know It's True" is 3:58 - most likely the heavily edited 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' that appeared on the "Greatest Hits" CD.
* "Hush" is included.
GERMAN CD
* "Girl You Know It's True" is the 8:49 'Super Club Mix'.
* "Too Much Monkey Business (Maxi Mix)" is included as a bonus track after "Hush."
SPANISH/MEXICAN LP
* "Girl You Know It's True" is the 4:12 US album version.
* "Hush" is missing.
* "All Or Nothing" is allegedly 3:44.
ALL OR NOTHING / 2x2 - the English versions
GENERAL
* "All Or Nothing" is missing its German chatter.
* "Hush" is missing.
* "Girl You Know It's True" is the 8:08 uncut 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix.'
"ALL OR NOTHING" - CD
* "Too Much Monkey Business (Maxi Mix)" is included as a bonus track after GYNIT.
"2x2" - 2-LP SET
* Packages the complete English version of 'All Or Nothing' with 'All Or Nothing: The US Remix Album.' The 8:08 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' of GYNIT appears twice.
"2x2" - CD
* The first 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' of GYNIT has been removed, as this version is a single disc.
* The standard version of "All Or Nothing" is missing.
* "Too Much Monkey Business (Maxi Mix)" does not appear.
GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE - the American version
GENERAL
* Several of the tracks (listed above) from the German LP are gone. "More Than You'll Ever Know", "Blame It On The Rain", "Take It As It Comes" and "It's Your Thing" appear.
* Both the 4:12 album version and an edited 6:27 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' of GYKIT are included.
* "All Or Nothing" is missing its German chatter.
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is mostly a new version, with the chorus of the German album version. (Except on an unknown numbered pressing - see below.)
EARLY CD PRESSING
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is a strange remix lasting 6:28. As this version doesn't really have the structure of a proper song, and resembles the remixes on the maxi single, it was likely included by mistake.
* "More Than You'll Ever Know" appears in its original 4:00 length.
* "Take It As It Comes" appears in its original 3:41 length.
* The original form of "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" from the German LP is used.
RECORD CLUB / MATRIX "-3" CD PRESSINGS
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" appears in its proper US album form.
* "More Than You'll Ever Know" has been extended to 4:32.
* "Take It As It Comes" has been extended to 4:15.
MATRIX "-4" CD PRESSING
As above, except:
* "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" has been remixed; the beat has been changed slightly, and the new length is 4:24.
===============================================
Well, there's *nine* variations! Any more?
(Also, credit where it's due - information about the US versions was sourced from here:
http://www.crapfromthepast.com/millivanilli/firstlp.htm)
Here's a round-up of what I've found so far. Anyone think they have one I'm missing?
===============================================
ALL OR NOTHING - the German (and elsewhere) version
GENERAL
* Original tracklist; contains "Can't You Feel My Love", "Boy In The Tree", "Money", "Dance With A Devil", "Is It Love", and "Ma Baker."
* "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" appears in its original form.
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" appears in its original form: similar to the single version, through with the chorus like that of the US album version, rather than the single version's hip-hop chorus.
GERMAN LP
* "All Or Nothing" ends with a few seconds of German chatter.
* "All Or Nothing" is 3:23.
* "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" appears in its original form.
* "Girl You Know It's True" is 3:58 - most likely the heavily edited 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' that appeared on the "Greatest Hits" CD.
* "Hush" is included.
GERMAN CD
* "Girl You Know It's True" is the 8:49 'Super Club Mix'.
* "Too Much Monkey Business (Maxi Mix)" is included as a bonus track after "Hush."
SPANISH/MEXICAN LP
* "Girl You Know It's True" is the 4:12 US album version.
* "Hush" is missing.
* "All Or Nothing" is allegedly 3:44.
ALL OR NOTHING / 2x2 - the English versions
GENERAL
* "All Or Nothing" is missing its German chatter.
* "Hush" is missing.
* "Girl You Know It's True" is the 8:08 uncut 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix.'
"ALL OR NOTHING" - CD
* "Too Much Monkey Business (Maxi Mix)" is included as a bonus track after GYNIT.
"2x2" - 2-LP SET
* Packages the complete English version of 'All Or Nothing' with 'All Or Nothing: The US Remix Album.' The 8:08 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' of GYNIT appears twice.
"2x2" - CD
* The first 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' of GYNIT has been removed, as this version is a single disc.
* The standard version of "All Or Nothing" is missing.
* "Too Much Monkey Business (Maxi Mix)" does not appear.
GIRL YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE - the American version
GENERAL
* Several of the tracks (listed above) from the German LP are gone. "More Than You'll Ever Know", "Blame It On The Rain", "Take It As It Comes" and "It's Your Thing" appear.
* Both the 4:12 album version and an edited 6:27 'N.Y. Subway Extended Mix' of GYKIT are included.
* "All Or Nothing" is missing its German chatter.
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is mostly a new version, with the chorus of the German album version. (Except on an unknown numbered pressing - see below.)
EARLY CD PRESSING
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" is a strange remix lasting 6:28. As this version doesn't really have the structure of a proper song, and resembles the remixes on the maxi single, it was likely included by mistake.
* "More Than You'll Ever Know" appears in its original 4:00 length.
* "Take It As It Comes" appears in its original 3:41 length.
* The original form of "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" from the German LP is used.
RECORD CLUB / MATRIX "-3" CD PRESSINGS
* "Baby Don't Forget My Number" appears in its proper US album form.
* "More Than You'll Ever Know" has been extended to 4:32.
* "Take It As It Comes" has been extended to 4:15.
MATRIX "-4" CD PRESSING
As above, except:
* "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" has been remixed; the beat has been changed slightly, and the new length is 4:24.
===============================================
Well, there's *nine* variations! Any more?
(Also, credit where it's due - information about the US versions was sourced from here:
http://www.crapfromthepast.com/millivanilli/firstlp.htm)
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