Great. If you send me a cassette, I can create MP3's
and send them off to the guy with the webspace. How
can I send you my mailing info without it being posted
here?

K

--- Robert Dayton <moustachedpainless@...>
wrote:

>
>
> Oh geeesh, I am pretty old school in my little land
> o'
> technical capabilities but what I would gladly do is
> make an audiocassette of said material and put it in
> the mails, best I can muster I'm afraid.
> On a similar tangent, I should state that i often
> make
> mix tapes for pals and Archie and his Friends have
> been going on them for years. When David Wisdom
> hosted
> the Nightlines show on CBC radio it was a dream for
> me
> to go on this highly inspiring show, it showed what
> free form radio truly was, i eventually got my
> chance
> and wound up playing a variety of material including
>
> a song from the Funtown album. There is another show
> on late nite CBC radio called One Night Stand where
> one time hosts play choices under a thematic banner.
> I
> did one late last year and my theme was childrens'
> music- natch, I again played something from Funtown!
> That record really affected me!
>
> --- Kristyn Kelly <kvkwpg2002@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi, as a child I had the last Christmas album you
> > talk
> > about, but have no idea what happened to it. I
> > searching for video as well but would also like to
> > get
> > some audio. Would you be able to post or email me
> > an
> > mp3 of the album you have? It would be greatly
> > appreciated
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Kriastyn
> > --- moustachedpainless
> > <moustachedpainless@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi gang! I am fairly new to this group and
> thought
> > > that i would introduce myself. My name
> > > is Robert Dayton and I live in Vancouver. I am
> > > pretty obsessed with Archie and his friends
> > > so finding this group makes me happy. It has
> > > affected me ever since I was a child and I
> > > often ask people from Winnipeg any facts that
> they
> > > might know about it. The funny thing
> > > is that I have never even seen the show!
> > > I have paid tribute in my musical act Canned
> Hamm
> > > (www.cannedhamm.com) and wrote
> > > about some of the albums for a Chipmunks-related
> > > (ie. anything with sped-up voices)
> > > issue
> > > of the music mag Roctober (www.roctober.com) out
> > of
> > > Chicago. I reprint the write-up
> > > here below. Since the write-up i have gotten the
> > > earlier white cover Funtown album with
> > > order sheet for a
> > > Petite puppet: did anyone out there ever get the
> > > puppet? What other Archie albums are
> > > there in existence, anyone know? Anyone have
> > spares
> > > they would sell? Also, I really would
> > > love to see the show, I seem to have learned so
> > much
> > > about it through the LPs and
> > > anecdotes of friends but still really need to
> see
> > > it! I will pay postage and video tape costs,
> > > etc. if anyone has access, thanks muchly!
> > > TTFN,
> > > Robert
> > >
> > > FUNTOWN: Favorite 20 Selections LP (K-tel NC 498
> > > 1978)
> > >
> > > Petite Sings For You-Pet Care Tips (CM-100
> > > distributed by Clay-Mor, a custom product of
> > > Pickwick Canada)
> > >
> > > Archie Wood and his Friends Christmas Album
> > (E-500)
> > >
> > > As a kid, I used to stare and stare at the
> > > "FUNTOWN" album while listening to it
> > > repetitively. The circular photos of the puppets
> > > would peer out at me- the ventriloquist
> > > dummies Archie Wood (wood, get it?), Grandpa
> Wood,
> > > and Tammy True, the cute little dog
> > > puppet Petite, and Marvin Mouse. "Who are
> they?,"
> > > I'd wonder. "Do they exist beyond this
> > > record?" In the early 90's I found out that they
> > did
> > > indeedy! I was out drinking one night
> > > with my friends Julian and Lester and they
> > happened
> > > to bring up Funtown. I flipped! "You
> > > know of Funtown?!?" This caused them to burst
> out
> > > laughing! Julian and Lester are both
> > > from Winnipeg, Manitoba, home of K-tel and where
> > > Funtown ran for 25 years on Winnipeg
> > > television. This was an institution that was
> > called
> > > "Archie Wood and his Friends" on
> > > weekdays and "Funtown" on Saturdays. It was
> hosted
> > > by "Uncle Bob" Swarts, who was
> > > known around Funtown as "Mayor Bob." The first
> > time
> > > that I heard "Hey Jude" I thought
> > > that these "Beatles" were ripping off Marvin
> > Mouse's
> > > and Tuttle Turtle's "Hey Tuttle" and I
> > > didn't think that "Hey Jude" was anywheres near
> as
> > > good! Now as an adult, I realize that
> > > Mayor Bob was just improvising and character
> > acting
> > > overtop of a track from Marty Gold's
> > > "Moog Plays the Beatles" LP. In tribute, my band
> > > Canned Hamm took the very same
> > > backing track along with Marvin Mouse and Tuttle
> > > Turtle's banter to make "Hey, Lil'
> > > Hamm." In later years, Mayor Bob had developed
> an
> > > oft rumoured reputation as an
> > > alcoholic and one can sure hear it on this
> album,
> > he
> > > stumbles and slurs over stock backing
> > > tracks like "Can't Buy Me Love" (where Tammy
> True
> > > tries to woo Mayor Bob by giving him
> > > ten bucks and singing this song) and "Put A
> Little
> > > Love In your Heart" (where Grandpa
> > > Wood literally misses a cue to a verse and has
> to
> > > catch up, leading me to believe that this
> > > whole album was done in one take). But where do
> > the
> > > sped up vocals come in? On Petite,
> > > the cute little female dog's numbers. This
> cuddly
> > > little bitch's vocals aren't just sped up!
> > > They speed up the whole stock pop song! "Paper
> > > Tiger," "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog," "The
> > > Doggie in the Window," and "Mocking Bird Hill"
> are
> > > all sped up! Possibly even from 33 1/3
> > > to 45 RPM! How brilliantly shoddy! All on an
> > > original K-tel album (the only other "original"
> > > K-tel album I know of is "Rock Fantasy," an
> > equally
> > > amazing album that takes place in, "the
> > > land where animals are people" that was most
> > likely
> > > made with some Jewel Akens stock
> > > backing tracks of "Vegetable Love Song," "Birds
> > and
> > > The Bee," etc. at a K-tel staff party).
> > > Former Winnipegers tell me that Uncle Bob often
> > used
> > > to yell at kids to get off of his lawn.
> > > And, in fact, my ex-girlfriend Kim's mom went on
> a
> > > date or two with Uncle Bob! I would
> > > have loved to have seen this show.
> > >
> > > Michael Dumontier of The famed Royal Art Lodge
> > out
> > > of Winnipeg sent me the "Petite
> > > Sings…" record. Much earlier Uncle Bob than
> > > "Funtown." This cover has a huge circular
> > > photo of Petite with a much smaller photo
> > underneath
> > > of Uncle Bob waving up to her. The
> > > back cover gives us 8 pet care tips (#7. Never
> pet
> > a
> > > strange pet). Although Uncle Bob
> > > sounds somewhat more coherent and less slurred
> > than
>
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