Martin Mull 'Soundstage: 60 Minutes to Kill' (1975)

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6 жыл бұрын

This edition of the 'Soundstage' series produced by WTTW Television in Chicago and networked through PBS featured Martin Mull and his band (sometimes known as His Fabulous Furniture) along with special guests Flo and Eddie originally aired in 1975. Apologies about the sound quality. This is the best I could do with the muffled audio on the video I found. Network TV audio quality was roughly equivalent to AM Radio prior to 1978. Extreme equalization was required to discover even the latent upper midrange frequencies. The high frequencies just aren't present. There was a stereo simulcast available on FM radio stations in some markets, but that was not the source for the audio in this case.
00:00:00 Simulcast introduction
00:00:14 End of the show and '60 Minutes to Kill' introduction
00:02:00 Sweet Steaks commercial
00:02:42 "Licks Off of Records"
00:06:44 Bun 'n Run commercial
00:07:45 Editorial by U.S. Postal Service employees Flo & Eddie
00:08:41 "Do the Dog"
00:14:32 Mailman Jack introduces Flo & Eddie (eventually)
00:15:21 Flo & Eddie "Cheap"
00:18:49 Flo & Eddie "Eleanor"
00:22:04 Flo & Eddie in their living room
00:23:29 "Hors D'Oeurve"
00:25:08 Mulling It Over with Host and Guest Martin Mull
00:26:16 "Noses Run in My Family"
00:28:47 Martin introduces a song by his favorite songwriter
00:30:34 "Normal"/"This Land Ain't Your Land"/"Normal"
00:36:00 "Flexible"
00:39:58 "Just Tonight"
00:44:49 Flo & Eddie "Nikki Hoi" Rock Star medley
00:51:46 "The Nothing"
00:55:35 "Just a Dream"
00:37:04 Martin introduces the term "The Tragically Hip,"
six years before Michael Nesmith used it in 'Elephant Parts'

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@somestupidwithaflaregun3788 3 жыл бұрын

I was there! About the funniest night of my life. I went for Mull but Flo & Eddie stole the show with their Joni Mitchell -Led Zeppelin medley. I’ve been looking for this for years. Holy crap, that’s me at @ standing up behind Wolfman, er, Mailman Jack.

@perryamberson 3 жыл бұрын

How cool is that! I only got to experience '60 Minutes to Kill' via PBS. But it was the first time I had the feeling that an hour of television programming had been created especially to appeal to me.

@holden190 Ай бұрын

Cool!

@mitchell9110 4 жыл бұрын

In these troubled times, the world could really use a Martin Mull and His Fabulous Furniture reunion tour. C'mon, Martin. Make the world smile again.

@kinkle_Z 2 жыл бұрын

The situation is - Martin is pushing 80... time to just relax and kick back...ya know?

@tomv4408 Жыл бұрын

I saw this on WTTW in the 70s. I thought, "Aren't those the guys from the Turtles?" Great satire, which I couldn't fully appreciate as a teen. A pre-Cars Greg Hawkes on baritone sax, too!

@poolside123canadian7 Ай бұрын

RIP Martin.😰 Almost nobody living could make me laugh harder than you. Now you’re gone.😰

@paulgeorge1238 Ай бұрын

So sad to hear that Martin has passed, I still listen to his albums and treasure this Soundstage watch

@erik_griswold 4 жыл бұрын

At 00:12:00 Martin Mull introduces Greg Hawkes, who after this tour, would return to Boston to rejoin a group he had been in with Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr. They would be renamed "The Cars" and released their debut album in 1978.

@GreasyFilms-qc1xo 5 жыл бұрын

Martin Mull was the thinking man's Steve Martin. Too smart to be a superstar, but fantastic none the less.

@whitneyhowlandspropcomedy6924 3 жыл бұрын

An apt characterization!

@paulgeorge1238 2 ай бұрын

I remember recording this off the tv on audio cassette. So cool 2 see it again! I still have at least 6 martin mull albums.

@seereadnhear Ай бұрын

Rest In Peace!!! 😢

@feinstei 5 жыл бұрын

Now if they'd only officially release Fernwood/America 2Night!!!!

@kinkle_Z 2 жыл бұрын

I've got every DVD... I lived on that/ose series! 💝 Magic Lantern Productions - Fernwood Tonight.

@tonym994 Жыл бұрын

no no, "get down. get down". but seriously, I'd welcome re-runs of Fernwood/America tonite. remember Tony Roletti as ELVIS? Fred Willard: " well, Tony, we all remember what a painful time it was when we lost the KING, and you certainly brought that pain right back to us w/ your performance". the writers on that show were just too funny.

@Pittie21 Ай бұрын

I Wish! Miss "Drool Cup"dude😅

@completeMonti 6 жыл бұрын

Changed my life and made me a lifetime Mull fan. Still stands up, too.

@lazyrrr2411 6 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU Perry !! for over 40 yrs i been telling people about THIS show & they smile an' patronize me . . . Great Save 🏆👏

@ddthor Жыл бұрын

This on TV when it came out. Brilliant!

@mwright80 Жыл бұрын

Wow I've been trying to find this for years! This was funny as hell. I especially remember Do The Nothing and the Cereal Bowl Troll.

@mumblesslam Ай бұрын

RIP Martin Mull. Shoutout Greg Hawkes!

@thecandyman9308 4 жыл бұрын

Martin Mull is a goddamn genius.

@JoeMama-xg9ug 5 жыл бұрын

When I bought my first VCR, it included a one hour cassette. This was the first thing I recorded and I watched until I wore it out. Thanks so much for the upload. PS: I still refer to fast food places as Bun and Run.

@tonym994 Жыл бұрын

it's not dinner /it's just... FUN!

@wouzal74 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I have been looking for this ever since I saw the original broad cast. Saw his club act a few times in the 70s. Still have vinyl of his.

@robbiecube6107 Ай бұрын

A gaggle of us were at the taping, then the following night that The Quiet Knight, again with Flo & Eddie. Two nights of big laughs & sizzlin' guitarrio. RIP, Marty. *A shout out to our friend Tony R, who delivered Marty's pizza with 'elan and panache.

@Tmanaz480 3 жыл бұрын

Wow...look at how Eddie holds the mic perfectly without blocking the phase ports on the barrel.

@saminabinet 4 жыл бұрын

Have loved this for many years but never knew it existed until now. Thank you very much for making it accessible here!

@peterjamesfoote3964 Жыл бұрын

Soundstage was a great program!

@tonym994 Жыл бұрын

I must agree w/ you. quality music, w/ no floor wax ads.

@BobHodge 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Perry. It's funny that over the 40 years since this aired, I somehow morphed it in my mind to being a Flo & Eddie show, with Martin Mull guesting.

@feinstei 5 жыл бұрын

I have bootleg copies of Fernwood/America 2Night and it's amazing to me to see how many "descendents" of the routines that Martin Mull performed here made it onto those shows... Of course "Bun 'N'Run" became Happy Kyne's (played by the genius musician and arranger Frank DeVol) fast food joint. "Hors D'Oeurve" made it pretty much intact. The duplicate Martin Mulls on "Mulling It Over" was adapted for the very last "America 2Night" show. "Noses Run In My Family" made it intact to Fernwood (the audience went crazy with the lyric about Jewish big noses).

@daveidmarx8296 Ай бұрын

Do you have Martin's Here Comes Summer HBO special from 1980? Saw that when it first aired (I was nine) and have been dying to see it again ever since.

@rix66pix79 3 жыл бұрын

So funny. 🤗 Clever madness!! 👏Bravo Martin Mull👏 Glad this got recommended after being reminded of his guitar skills watching MM do "Licks Off of Records" with Glen Campbell . The band is great ands got the Funk (hit me 3 times!). Flo and Eddie. HA!! Those two (and FZ) are a riot on "the MOTHERS Fillmore East - June 1971" edit spelling

@KintyreOfMull Ай бұрын

What a blast to see Martin and Flo and Eddie at Moody Coliseum in Dallas when I was just a teen! SO MUCH FUN!!!

@boco1951 4 жыл бұрын

This pandemic needs a theme song and I nominate "What I really need right now is a Nurse!"Martin Mull. Of course "Noses run in my family" is pretty good too.

@AmyKaribian 4 жыл бұрын

Ditto what lazy RRR commented. I've been searching for this for 40 years also. Thank you so much for saving and sharing!

@garygibson5983 5 жыл бұрын

Wow...Haven't seen this in over 40 years. I recorded it off the TV onto an audio cassette back when it aired and then played it over and over while on a cross country vacation with my parents. I probably drove them nuts singing along to Let's Get Normal.

@perryamberson 5 жыл бұрын

I recorded it on audio cassette too. I didn't even have a means of plugging into the family TV's wiring, so I had to prop my microphone in front of the speaker. Good times, bad sound.

@tonym994 2 жыл бұрын

@@perryamberson I can't remember if I'd finally got one of those recorders w/ a built-in mic (we thought we were in the future), for this, but I taped rock shows even before this by keeping the volume at a moderate level,(so you could play it 'loud' later w/ no distortion, on a stereo 'deck') in mono, w/ the attached mic sort of hanging over the side of the TV ,so it'd be level w/ the TV's one speaker. but those were the times, a bit before VCR's. but this was rare even for PBS. I thought Flo & Eddy were part of Zappa's MOTHERS, because my friend had the record 'at Fillmore East'.

@tonym994 2 жыл бұрын

Mull would go on to jam w/ BB King on the tonite show, I think it was. wish I had a tape of that. but again, it's probably here.

@tonym994 Жыл бұрын

I saw it live (or ,on tape delay). but I unfortunately didn't have my recorder ready. now, I'm sure I can find it here.

@PeterChoyce 5 жыл бұрын

THANX FOR THE UPLOAD NOW I CAN DIE IN PEACE!!

@riley4emma7katie0 Ай бұрын

RIP Martin Mull

@billrebel1373 Жыл бұрын

This is so great to have. I made an audio recording of it at the time. And listened to it for years. To find video. Incredible. Thank you. I lived near the wttw studio where it was filmed. I must of watched it since I was a fan of Mary Hartman and more of fernwood.

@terminalpictures 6 жыл бұрын

Works pretty well at 3AM.

@ChrisRiesbeck 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for posting this! I saw it when it first aired, and forty years later I still remembered Sweet Steaks, Bun 'n Run, Licks off of Records, and the Nothing.

@perryamberson 6 жыл бұрын

I made an audio cassette of it myself back when it was repeated in 1976. A few years ago I found it online somewhere, and I just got around to restoring (such as I could) and uploading it.

@ChrisRiesbeck 6 жыл бұрын

Now if someone could just post a complete copy of Reiner's The TV Show from a few years later, not just the Spinal Tap part....

@PixelLingoMultimedia 4 жыл бұрын

Massively entertaining! I thought "Man, I would love to have been in that audience." Could have happened...I was the ripe old age of 9 at the time.

@perryamberson 4 жыл бұрын

I missed it when it originally aired, but I saw the repeat broadcast a year later and recorded the audio on my portable cassette recorder. That was sometime in '76, the year I turned 15.

@Robert30025 Ай бұрын

I saw him at the Great Southeast Music Hall in Atlanta back in the 1970's. He was a hoot then. It was courtesy of my high school buddy, Rick Edwards. Rick worked at one of the smallest country music stations in Atlanta. Their offices were in the MONY (Mutual Of New York) Building. Rick didn't get paid well, but he got a lot of free tickets to hot venues around Atlanta.

@guitarvocs 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for putting this up!

@DavidLee-rx6uo Жыл бұрын

Wow!!! Haven’t seen this in years.Thanks

@RobbsHomemadeLife 6 жыл бұрын

thank you for uploading this.

@thecandyman9308 Ай бұрын

I mean he just hits EVERYBODY.

@TheGB1950 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for this

@yoosernem 6 жыл бұрын

O M F G ! ! !

@yoosernem 6 жыл бұрын

PSOooo TiMeLy!! ( i YaM dRuNk!! )

@MrMisterChiliPepper88 4 жыл бұрын

5:49 Beatles Day Tripper

@perryamberson 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, followed by quotes from Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love" and The Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."

@adp5R3x Ай бұрын

Never hearda' Mull until this 📺 show Never saw him as anything but a Guitar Player - - - Him & his Band shoulda' got 'lot more recognition

@briancattani5109 Ай бұрын

I watched fernwood tonight for years and don't remember him playing guitar. Now after his passing I am watching and rewatching everything about him and find out he is a great musician and composer. Amazing. He and George Carlin should have teamed up to run america and the world would have been a better place for it.

@EricThompsonN6SPP 4 жыл бұрын

America Tonite w Mull & Fred Willard.. Martin Mull- "Sex and Violins"

@tonym994 2 жыл бұрын

It's just like I remember it. I made an audio cassette (so, Perry ,don't worry about the sound). using a tape recorder, hoping nobody would drop a stack of dishes in the kitchen. yeah, kids, we were bootleggers . I haven't seen it in quite a while. I was just out of high school. PBS w/no commercials. NOT. hilarious!!! Bun 'n' Run "heck w/ dinner, have some fun". I think ol' Marty said, "oh, we'll have commercials, alright".

@jsorensen 5 жыл бұрын

Greg Hawkes from the Cars??? on giant sax...

@perryamberson 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, he was in Martin's Fabulous Furniture band between 1974 and 1976 while also playing in the band Richard and the Rabbits with fellow future Cars Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr.

@erik_griswold 4 жыл бұрын

@@perryamberson My recollection was that he left Ric and Ben to tour with Martin Mull. Here is an early version of Bye Bye Love with Ocasek on lead vocal and Danny Schlifman on keyboard. It is, um, different: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jq1pa82DzpysXYE.html

@thecandyman9308 Ай бұрын

"Do the Dog" is perhaps the funkiest shi$5 ever recorded.

@billwilson4353 4 жыл бұрын

Gene parmesan...ahhhhhh....!!!!

@gatemouthwighat 3 жыл бұрын

Pretty fun stumbling over this time capsule. And no disrespect, but can you imagine trying to explain this to millennials? Cheers!

@perryamberson 3 жыл бұрын

No disrespect taken, I'm 60. And I imagine it would take copious footnotes to allow those who weren't in their teens by the mid-1970s to understand most of the references.

@ChristopherSobieniak 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad if people never thought to keep audio cassette recordings of those FM simulcasts.

@mrgalaxyman57 6 жыл бұрын

on a old 26 inch bandw tv when first aired...could barley see the picture...lol

@ChrisMaxfieldActs 6 жыл бұрын

Thanks SO much for uploading this! I have an old audio cassette I recorded off the TV in 1976. It's wonderful to finally see it again. Now if I could just find a copy of WHITE STRESS from The History of White People in America. I have WHITE RELIGION and WHITE CRIME already, and those are the only ones on KZfaq.

@dmalzahn 5 жыл бұрын

I did a lot of cassette recording off the TV back then too, think I have this one as well, but no "History of White People in America."

@gplunk Ай бұрын

In sad; but sweet (and maybe a little silly), Memorium....

@sexobscura 3 жыл бұрын

*I've got the most terrible case of dust contamination* *My joints are almost frozen*

@perryamberson 3 жыл бұрын

Who doesn't?

@FlamingRobzilla 4 жыл бұрын

45 Years ago this was funny. Flo and Eddie, You must know there is a guy back stage flipping the lights on and off for stage effects. Just knowing that is a hoot.

@kinkle_Z 2 жыл бұрын

REALLY GENIUS 46:18 - Yeah... there comes a time in every performance when ya just gotta get serious for a minute ... I've been giving this a lot of thought lately.... We are really here in the 70s victims of a giant cultural GAP... (Oh right on brother! ) I know you dig it bro but the thing is that it's not like it used to be man, when Woodstock was happening in the 60s and we could all relate to each other man; we all sang along with the lyric sheet on every Country Joe album, I mean we were into it man ...I remember there was the one person in that era that really changed my life more than anybody I think in the world really valid lyrically, and physically attractive, Joni Mitchell, I think really said it.... she was the first one who .... etc, etc, etc... genius....

@GR_BackingTracks 3 жыл бұрын

31:18 Get Normal

@briancattani5109 Ай бұрын

martin Mull for president.

@tonym994 2 жыл бұрын

but I must admit, I had no idea then, that these guys wrote all those Turtle classics(I saw a doc on them last month on YT). those guys really 'built' a song, the way they wrote lyrics and placed chords. w/ walls, ceilings, and a foundation that'd never let you down. that's as close (w/mere words) as I can come to describe musical pop genius.

@elfcounsul Жыл бұрын

Howard Kalyan wrote a book about Flo and Eddie and their time with Zappa. It’s very good. “Eleanor” was written by request of the record company. They wanted “another Happy Together”, so they complied in an interesting way. The book is “ “Shell Shocked.”

@whitneyhowlandspropcomedy6924 3 жыл бұрын

WHoa!

@funzo1159 4 жыл бұрын

Howard Kaylan was only 28 here? Jeez!

@perryamberson 4 жыл бұрын

Shocking, isn't it? He started going gray at an extremely early age. He's already showing a little gray in TV appearances with The Turtles in 1967 when he was only 20.