Re: TV tie-in to musicals: It's a Bird...

On Jun 21, 6:53=A0pm, ElBo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (robert armstrong) wrote:
> >There was an I've Got a Secret episode from '66
> >shown recently in which the celebrity guest was
> >Bob Holiday from the cast of It's a Bird, It's a Plane,
> >It's Superman: The secret was that he was going
> >to teach emcee Steve Allen to fly!
>
> I should add, later in the same year fellow game-show host Bud Collyer
> (To Tell the Truth) would play the voice of Superman in the New
> Adventures of Superman cartoon series on television.
>
> Collyer had originally done Superman on radio in the early '40s; If you
> listen to the soundtrack on the Paramount theatrical cartoons of that
> time you'll hear that that Clark/Superman voice is also unmistakably
> Collyer. Radio show had wanted to use two different actors but Collyer
> showed that he could do both >Supe and Clark convincingly.


Two actors would have been altogether wrong; unlike Bill Bixby/Lou
Ferrigno playing essentially one character, given that the latter's
differences were far more numerous than Kent/Supe's mere change of
garb and removal of gl*****.


> I remember the comic books in '66 (I, uh, saw one lying on a table)
> advertised both the musical and the coming TV show. Ironically, by the
> time the mag was on newsstands the Broadway show would have closed or
> would be getting ready to do so.
>
> Bob A
>
> "Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"