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You appear to have been sitting at your keyboard, impatiently waiting for me to ask that one. Yours.

lol...I'm a fan, and I read Clapton's autobiography about a month ago, so the info wasn't really buried deep.

 

 

next:  Two of Glenn Ford's teeth were broken by which actress while filming a scene?

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Lav, everytime put your head on my shoulder came on the radio, I would just melt. He made every girl feel a little special. LOL

 

 

 

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This record is a satire of my favorite TV show. It's a fictional episode of the show with the plot described by break-in hits of the day.

 

Some of the hits were - - Artificial Flowers by Bobby Darin, You're 16 by Johnny Burnette and Rubber Ball by Bobby Vee.

 

The top 40 hits should give you the correct chronological setting for the record. Please name the artist, the title and the TV show that they were so cleverly satirizing.

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It's a Dickie Goodman 1961 break-in classic - - based on a popular hour-long TV dramatic series that was a Period Piece. And some of the artists in the break-ins are Bobby Darin singing Artificial Flowers, Elvis singing Are You Lonesome Tonight? Johnny Burnette singing You're Sixteen and Bobby Vee singing Rubber Ball-- all hits of the day.

 

It was called The Touchables based on the TV show The Untouchables. Goodman did 2 other break-in records with The Untouchables theme.

 

Dickie Goodman was the Weird Al of his era.

 

Basically what he did was to use pieces of hit records of the day to describe a plot from a popular TV show. The plot of this record centered on the St.Valentine's Day Massacre.

 

Goodman even did a break-in record for a congressional hearing featuring Bobby Kennedy and Senators questioning mobsters, as those hearings were very current at the time--preempting the daily soap operas on television.

 

The Touchables reached number 60 on the Hot Billboard 100.

 

I declare this thread is open.

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The first name that popped into my head was Norman Lloyd but then realized Leo G. Carroll was in at least 5 films:

starting with "Rebbeca"

"Spellbound"

"Suspicion"

"Strangers on a Train"

and "North by Northwest"

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I just saw Gene in a TV Movie called "Prescription Murder" and it had Lt. Columbo in it and that seemed to start the "Columbo" TV series.

But that doesn't seem to fit what you are looking for?

 

 

Actually, I think it does, because a lot of detective TV series of the 1970s shared a Movie of the Week night such as Columbo, MacMillan and Wife, etc.

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