Kirk Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Is Santa Bernie coming to town? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santa Claus Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Who is this "Santa Bernie" you speak of? Ho. Ho. Ho. There should be presents for ALL the good boys and girls this year, as always! Don't forget to leave out the milk and cookies. 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 😉 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 13 hours ago, Santa Claus said: Who is this "Santa Bernie" you speak of? Ho. Ho. Ho. There should be presents for ALL the good boys and girls this year, as always! Don't forget to leave out the milk and cookies. And carrots for the reindeer. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 I just wrote to Kay Bryson & Jim Bonfanti on Facebook & The Raspberries appearance on "American Bandstand" (from 1973) I guess they don't have the master tape!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Matthew, what did I miss? Your comment is a little of a non sequitur, unless something went over my head. (Which would not be a surprise!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 LC: Both Kay or Jim do NOT have the appearance either on VHS or DVD. So there!! It is lost due to the studio fire back then!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen G Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Santa Bernie - Hurry down the chimney tonight! 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GirlFan Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 I’m getting so excited I can’t wait until Christmas 🎁🎅🏻 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted December 25, 2022 Author Share Posted December 25, 2022 I found 7 this year! Make sure you go to the home page. Every year there's a few people who have the message board as their start page for EC.com then wonder why they didn't get any presents! Thanks, Santa B!! 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew Bundles Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Bernie is the man…(although if Kirk didn’t tell us to go to the home page I never would have discovered the gifts…)…I wonder how many I have missed over the years… 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Thank you, Santa Baby! 💋 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 I found 7 of them including some Christmas eggs too!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 I found 4, very enjoyable opening and playing with them. So glad I didn´t receive clothes. : ) 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen G Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Thank you, Santa Bernie! 💖 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Thank you Bernie. The Bandstand interview was cool — I think I've heard it before but can't be sure. Dick Clark was digging that Rollswagon! Of course, after they finished the interview, the boys went right into "Let's Pretend," and we got a snippet of that. I wish the video for that performance was readily available. Haven't seen it on YouTube. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Also... that "Last Night" 1975 live reading: Pretty cool. That song gets overshadowed by all the hits on Eric's first solo album, but it's very solid. The bridge is cool — so much drama laid on a pretty innocuous act: "I walked across the street to the drugstore and I bought a magazine / Then I came back home and read it throooouuugghhh." I always got a kick out of that. I love the way that song ends on the album; in this live version, I noticed that after the a cappella bit (which closes the song on record), the band kicks back into the chorus. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Also... my favorite find of the day (on the copyright line—slick click, Santa!) was the live version of "On the Beach." Whew. We got one of my top three favorite Raspberries songs of all time in a fittingly urgent, almost frantic live performance with lots of treble and grunge and noise. Good one, Bernie! No, great one! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LC Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 I'd say this was the best package of Santa treats ever. Between the things noted above and the "Run Away" demo and "Wild Heart" (which I forgot, per an interview, was originally written for a Disney Movie called The Journey of Natty Gang) and "Run Away," lots of rarities to enjoy. Santa, you should post more often. You don't have to bring gifts, but pop in every now and then just to kibitz. We need the traffic. See you in the spring? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raspbernie Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 3 hours ago, LC said: The Bandstand interview was cool — I think I've heard it before but can't be sure. Dick Clark was digging that Rollswagon! Of course, after they finished the interview, the boys went right into "Let's Pretend," and we got a snippet of that. I wish the video for that performance was readily available. Haven't seen it on YouTube. As Matt noted above, this episode of American Bandstand no longer exists due to a fire at the facility that housed their master videotapes. The existing audio comes from a viewer who recorded the show on a portable tape recorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WC1215 Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 There were actually 8 if you count the Youtube link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 The 1985 Disney movie "The Journey Of Natty Gann" starring John Cusack & Meredith Salinger is a great movie BUT is only on DVD NOT on blu-ray. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 Siskel & Ebert review "The Journey Of Natty Gann" (1985) & both of them gave it "Two Thumbs Up"!! (starts at the 8:00 mark till 12:58 mark) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew C. Clark Posted December 26, 2022 Share Posted December 26, 2022 BUT they dislike the other John Cusack movie "Better Off Dead" (which also starred Diane Franklin) "Two Thumbs Down". In that movie, the cartoons were drawn by "Savage" Steve Holland (when the Van Halen 1980 song "Everybody Wants Some" while John is sleepy at the job doing hamburgers) who drew the "Whammy" for the CBS daytime game show "Press Your Luck" with the late host Peter Tomarken (who died in a plane crash with his wife in late January of 2006). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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