rrg@sftig.UUCP (R.R.Gomes) (06/21/85)
A long time ago (the early 1960s) a group of people appeared on "I've
Got a Secret"; their collective secret was that their names, when
strung together in the right order, more-or-less spelled out the lyrics
to "In the Good Old Summertime". They were all lined up and each of
them in sequence had to sing his name while holding up a card on which
it had been printed. I think their names had just been pulled from the
Manhattan white pages. The song began (and ended) "Inda Good Old
Summerstein". Does anyone remember the rest of this piece? (This is
not a quiz--I don't remember them myself.)
Ron Gomes
{decvax,ihnp4,allegra}!sftig!rrggadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly) (07/26/85)
-- > A long time ago (the early 1960s) a group of people appeared on "I've > Got a Secret"; their collective secret was that their names, when > strung together in the right order, more-or-less spelled out the lyrics > to "In the Good Old Summertime". They were all lined up and each of > them in sequence had to sing his name while holding up a card on which > it had been printed. I think their names had just been pulled from the > Manhattan white pages. The song began (and ended) "Inda Good Old > Summerstein". Does anyone remember the rest of this piece? (This is > not a quiz--I don't remember them myself.) > > Ron Gomes It's not possible that anyone else could remember this. Mr. Summerstein, it turned out, was quite a ham, and they brought him back to sing other pieces of his name (full name--George Martin Summerstein. How the hell do I remember this??) There was an obligatory oompa-pah introduction, too, created by some folks named Ompa and Paar, respectively. If it helps, the "tootsie-wootsie" before the final "In the good..." came from folks named "Tootsie" and "Woosey". If someone told me the rest of the real words to the song, I think I could recall what they did to it. The only bad kludge they had was from some plural word in the middle: They could only find people with the singular as their name, so they brought two of them. The die-hard "I've got a secret" fan remembers that for at least two seasons they misplaced the apostrophe ("Iv'e") in the name as it appeared on some curtain or other. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 26 Jul 85 [8 Thermidor An CXCIII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7753 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!iwsl8!ken *** ***