austinberries Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 down here in texas, i think i've come across all the old raspberries video footage *except* one that i remember vividly (& except whatever rare stuff else bernie may have tucked away to post to the multimedia section). it was maybe a couple minutes long featurette that was placed in between saturday morning cartoons, forget the name of the program, only remember it for one cartoon season at most. but if i recall, they were in their white-ish suits, & in a studio, & the whole "American version of the Beatles" angle was played up. it's not the studio video footage that has commonly been traded around or is available on youtube.com, it was narrated, & it was very short (i remember thinking "wait, more! i wanna hear more!"), as it was quickly placed in between cartoon episodes. does this sound familiar to anyone, does anyone recall the program, & does anyone have the clip? i've never been able to find it... thanks, kyle / austin tx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris hess Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 i think i remember that!! if memory serves me right,the song was "i wanna be with you" ..anyone else remember,cause i dont recall the show..lol,chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted October 6, 2006 Author Share Posted October 6, 2006 yes, i meant to include that, i'm pretty sure this was the song featured (brief clips of it, anyway) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris hess Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 hah!! we are not crazy,we remember that!!...join the club austinberries!!! i thought i was alone on that vision!! anyone else remember this???!!lol,chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Could it have been a promo for "Go!", which I recall was a Saturday mornings kid's show?Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 ok, now this is really ringing familiar - i believe it might well have been the program 'go'! - where could we turn a copy of this up? anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Mississippi Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 You know, it also could have been a promo for an appearance on American Bandstand. I remember that episode and Dick Clark definitely referred to them as "the new Beatles" during the intro. The promo could have certainly aired during ABC's Saturday morning lineup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC1215 Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 The Berries did a "Go!" that showed how Tonight was recorded from start to finish. I think it was on NBC Saturday mornings. I have a really bad copy somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Krider Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 It wasn't the "Go!" show, because the guys didn't wear suits on that show.Since you said it "may have been a couple of minutes long featurette," what you may be talking about is one of two things.It may be the Capitol promo videos that were distributed around the time of "Fresh" --- there's one very short segment where they've synched the recording of "I Wanna Be With You" to a live performance by Raspberries in which the band is wearing the white suits.Or it may have been a network news feed. One of the networks in 1972-73 had little news briefs for kids (I think it was CBS) between Saturday morning shows and there was a brief Raspberries segment on one of those reports as well. It was short, the band was in suits doing "I Wanna Be With You," and the reporter compared the band to The Beatles."Go!" was a half-hour long show that alternated topics every Saturday morning (sometimes serious, sometimes entertainment, but always aimed at a teen audience) --- Raspberries got the full half-hour treatment on NBC's "Go" in the fall of 1973 (in a segment hosted by Don Imus). The opening credit segment of "Go!", however, showed a variety of scenes (cars, boats, drummer, etc.), including a suitless (Mod-dressed) Jim Bonfanti playing drums, and that aired every week from 1973-74 (which probably means that Jim had more on-air television time than any member of the band, even after he had left the group).The Capitol promo videos were shown like advertising on Saturday mornings briefly, with the synched "I Wanna Be With You" performance and the guys riding in a boat and a dune buggy, and just looking darn cute (such was Capitol's marketing), all promoting "Fresh."Just suggestions for what you may have seen.Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbB Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 You are right about the "Go" show. Our oldest daughter used to wake us up on Saturday mornings to let us know that "I saw daddy on TV again this morning". That was a couple of years after Jim left the band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Mississippi Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Now that is cute... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Krider Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 You are right about the "Go" show. Our oldest daughter used to wake us up on Saturday mornings to let us know that "I saw daddy on TV again this morning". That was a couple of years after Jim left the band. Hi Barb,Barb, that is such a cool memory. I'm glad the children and grandchildren of band members are getting to see Jim in action again.Your comments also make me want to ask what it was like to be around Jim when he won the title of the "Foxiest Raspberry" from Star magazine contest? He has such a sense of humor that I bet he had fun with it (I've got a copy of the audio tape of when the band played on rdaio in Germany and the interviewer asks Jim where the band is going next, and Jim's not sure, so he responds by asking the other guys, "Where *are* we going next?" --- really cute moment).I think NBC really liked Jim and Dave, because the Thanksgiving of 1973 Raspberries appearance on the Bill Bixby Thanksgiving Show aired on NBC (the 90-minute version, with the tail end of "Go All The Way," then "Last Dance" and "I'm A Rocker") and then they re-aired the special a year later in 1974, again on Thanksgiving, after Jim and Dave had left the group, in a shortened hour-long format (minus "I'm A Rocker") --- it was so strange to see the 1973 lineup on TV while the 1974 lineup was charting with "Overnight Sensation."Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbB Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Don, having our girls "getting to see Jim in action again" was actually one of the best parts of the reunion tour. Our oldest daughter actually attended the first concert only one week after giving birth to our grandson! Both girls were born after Jim left the band, so they never really got to see him at his best. Needless to say, they are both very proud of their dad!I remember when Jim won the "Foxiest Raspberry" title. He was very surprised (I wasn't...he's always been foxy to me!) because he has probably always been the most quiet/reserved of the group. Needless to say, he took a lot of ribbing about that one! He does have a great sense of humor!Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Krider Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I remember when Jim won the "Foxiest Raspberry" title. He was very surprised (I wasn't...he's always been foxy to me!) because he has probably always been the most quiet/reserved of the group. Needless to say, he took a lot of ribbing about that one! He does have a great sense of humor!Barb Thanks for sharing that, Barb. I've always tried to imagine the look on the other guys' faces when they found out ("Jim won?" "Ballot stuffing!" "I demand a recount!").Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris hess Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 wow!! don,you're killin me w/the memories..i remember that!! i could never remember what it was on!!! thanks don for rekindling that memory!!!lol,chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HT from Mo Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 Gee, I don't remember the show "Go". I think I was immursed in "Sesame Street" I don't really remember a whole lot prior to kindergarten. Oh well..... HT from Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie Mississippi Posted October 27, 2006 Share Posted October 27, 2006 I was fortunate to have seen that "Go" episode twice when it aired on NBC and then later got it and sone other TV performances on a compilation tape from somebody on eBay sevreral years ago. The "Go" episode really brought back not only great memories when I saw it for the third time... twenty five or more years after I had originally seen it twice... I had forgotten just how fun that episode had been! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 don - i now realize i have seen & have a copy of the 'go' episode & the capitol promo spots - i am now almost certain that what you describe below is what i saw, the cbs news feed - do you have a copy of it or know where we can track one down?btw, how do you enable the quote feature you used in some posts? i couldn't find it, just copied & pasted belowthanks again!-------Or it may have been a network news feed. One of the networks in 1972-73 had little news briefs for kids (I think it was CBS) between Saturday morning shows and there was a brief Raspberries segment on one of those reports as well. It was short, the band was in suits doing "I Wanna Be With You," and the reporter compared the band to The Beatles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted October 27, 2006 Author Share Posted October 27, 2006 oops, never mind don, i found the quote feature... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trindy Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Barb and Don are bringing back such great memories...yes, I remember tuning in "Go!" every week just to see those few seconds of Jim on the drums! My sisters and I watched the Raspberries episode every time it was on, of course. The host was Don Imus--he was a big New York DJ at the time. Today I think he's a number-one a-hole so it's bizarre to think of him in this capacity...and sans the cowboy hat. Anyway, this was before Don had turned into a complete shrunken apple-doll head. I'll never forget him referring to "Let's Pretend" as "Pretend."The Thanksgiving special was called "Magic Man" and was themed on Bill Bixby's TV series "The Magician." All the rest of the acts were magic acts, and the 'Berries were the musical act. Their introductions were, accordingly, done with "magical" special effects. For the first one, they "appeared" in a crystal ball, and for the second, a "picture" was painted with chromakey blue or green paint so that as the paint was painted onto the canvas, a moving video picture of them appeared in the paint. Pretty impressive visual effects for a 1973 TV show, actually.I remember having to go to the house next door to watch this the first year, because at the time we didn't have a color TV--our old one was broken and we couldn't afford to get it fixed, and at the time color TVs were still quite expensive new. That December, though, we got a color TV and from then on could watch at home.I still remember Bill Bixby holding up that crystal ball and saying "There are Raspberries in your future!" By that time, the band that appeared in his crystal ball, the original lineup, had already split. But perhaps Bill really did have the ability to tell fortunes. He was certainly right about that prediction! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 ok, this bill bixby episode sounds cool, & classic- does anyone have a copy i can get from them? thx, kyle/austin tx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 A request for the next ETV offering, perhaps?Bernie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austinberries Posted October 28, 2006 Author Share Posted October 28, 2006 bernie, i guess you are saying you have a copy - so yes, please post, i (& presumedly others) would get a fantastic kick out of that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HT from Mo Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Pleaaase?? It might jog my memory! HT from Mo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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