Promo RADIO SHOW 3 Record set NM Vinyl GARY OWENS SUPERTRACKS #164 W CUE SHEETS

Description: ULTRA RARE RADIO SHOW "SUPERTRACKS" PLAYED ONCE TO AIR AND NEVER PLAYED AGAIN FROM THE ESTATE OF A FORMER PROGRAM DIRECTOR AT A DETROIT MICHIGAN HISTORIC RADIO STATION !! ---------- About Gary owens.... Gary Owens(bornGary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 February 12, 2015) was an American disc jockey, voice actor, radio announcer and personality. His polishedbaritonespeaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer onRowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials. He was best known, aside from being the announcer onLaugh-In,for providing the voice of thetitular superheroonSpace Ghost. He also played himself in a cameo appearance onSpace Ghost Coast to Coastin 1998. Owens' first cartoon-voice acting was performing the voice of Roger Ramjet on theRoger Ramjetcartoons. He later served as voice of the over-the-air digital networkAntenna TV. Early life Owens was born in Mitchell, South Dakota, the son of Venetta (ne Clark), an educator and county auditor, and Bernard Joseph Altman, a county treasurer and sheriff. Career 1950s Owens started his radio career in 1952 as a news reporter atKORN, Mitchell, South Dakota and two years later was promoted to news director. In 1956 he left KORN for a newscaster job atKMA, Shenandoah, Iowa before moving on to a disc jockey job atKOIL, Omaha, Nebraska. He also worked inDallas,New Orleans,St. Louis, and atKIMNinDenverbefore relocating toCaliforniain 1959, working atKROYinSacramentoandKEWBinOaklandbefore finally settling in Los Angeles. 1960s Owens moved to KEWB's sister stationKFWBin Los Angeles in 1961. From there, he joined the staff ofKMPCin 1962, where he remained for the next two decades, replacing previous afternoon hostJohnny Grant, working the 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. shift Monday through Friday. A gifted punster, Owens became known for his surrealistic humor. Among his trademarks were daily appearances byThe Story Lady(played byJoan Gerber); the Rumor of the Day; myriad varieties of "The Nurney Song"; and the introduction of thenonsense word"insegrevious," which was briefly included in theFunk & WagnallsDictionary. His regular on-air radio terms included "krenellemuffin," as in "We'll be back in just a krenellemuffin." Gary always credited his radio engineer at the end of his broadcast: "I'd like to thank my engineer, Wayne Doo, for creebling at the turntables" (referring to KMPC engineer Wayne DuBois). He also created the previously non-existent colors "veister" and "krelb". In the early 1960s, like punster-TV star comic colleaguesErnie Kovacs,Steve Allen, andJonathan Winters, Gary Owens created a few comic characters of his own, such as the gruff old man Earl C. Festoon and his wife Phoebe Festoon, the stuffy old businessman Endocrine J. Sternwallow, and the goofygood ol' boy, Merle Clyde Gumpf. Another character was crotchety old cantankerous Mergenthaler Waisleywillow. Owens also did amusing radio promotions, such as sending in for "Yours," which turned out to be a postcard from him at the radio station which simply said "Yours" on it;autographedpictures of theHarbor Freewayin Los Angeles; and his famous "Moo Cow Report," in which Gary and his character Earl C. Festoon would describe where cows were moving inbound on the crowded freeways of Los Angeles. During this time Owens was also known as "Superbeard," because like his contemporary radio iconWolfman Jack, he sported a goatee-beard, Hawaiian shirts, baggy Bermuda shorts, and his "1941 wide necktie with a hula girl on it." Often during these comedy sketches on the air, he would have the assistance of other radio comics, most notablyBob Arbogast(known as "Arbo" to his adoring fans), Stan Ross (of "Drowning in the Surf" fame in 1963), and Jim "Weather Eyes" Hawthorne. According to IMDb, Owens appeared on eight episodes of the 1966-67 television seriesThe Green Hornet. Owens also did his famous "Good Evening Kiss" on KMPC when he was on from 9 p.m. to midnight, by saying, "Now I'll just snuggle up to a nice warm microphone, andembracemoi,"making a big wet kiss sound effect followed by the sound effect of a gong striking. In 1966, Owens collaborated with Bob Arbogast,June Foray,Daws Butler,Paul Frees, and others on a comedy spoof record album titled "Sunday Morning With the Funnies" with the Jimmy Haskell Orchestra on Reprise Records. During this period, Owens became more widely known as the voice of the eponymous television cartoon characters inRoger RamjetandSpace Ghost;the excitable narrator/announcer fromThe Perils of Penelope Pitstop;and perhaps most well-known, as the hand-on-the-earannouncerin the booth onRowan & Martin's Laugh-In,all the while continuing his show on KMPC. He also hosted its daily game show spin-off,Letters to Laugh-In,during its brief run in 1969. Capitalizing on Owens' "Laugh-In" fame,Mel BlancAudiomedia, an audio production company based inBeverly Hills, California, developed and marketed "The Gary Owens Special Report," a 260-episode package of syndicated radio comedy shows. Gary Owens appeared in theSesame Streetpilots in a sketch called "The Man from Alphabet" as the title character, a bumbling spy in a trench coat who, with the help of a young paperboy called H.B., tried to catch the villainous Digby Dropout and his henchman Dunce using clues from H.B.'s "Alphabet Book." Initially, the Man was also to have had a chief, "Teacher." The segments were created by Sesame Street executive producer David Connell and referenced such tongue-in-cheek spy series asGet SmartandThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.. Despite the advance publicity, and Connell's investment in the series, "The Man from Alphabet" proved to be a failure with test audiences. The combination of the Man from Alphabet's constant bungling and problem solving attempts confused kids, and the lessons never came across. H.B.'s role as the true problem-solver was not clearly understood, a fact exacerbated by the child actor's stilted delivery and poor diction. As assessed by Edward L. Palmer, "The amount of truly effective educational content, relative to our goals, is virtual nil." The Man from Alphabet also walked through the window of his door to enter his office, a violent movement which might have proved imitable. After reviewing the test results, producer Connell advised that the segments be shelved, referring to them as "Connell's Folly". The segments never aired on Sesame Street. He was a scriptwriter forJay Ward Productions, appeared in many series forWalt Disney, and did over 30,000 commercials. He was also a guest star onThe Munsters,I Dream of Jeannie, andMcHale's Navy. During the late 1960s, when the films of 1930s comedians such as theMarx Brothers,W. C. FieldsandMae Westwere finding a new audience, Owens narrated phonograph records containing sound clips from the films. He appeared as the racing correspondent in Disney'sThe Love Bug (1968). 1970s In 1972, he released the comedy LPPut Your Head On My Fingerfor the MGM-Pride label. In 1973, Owens wroteThe (What to Do While You're Holding the) Phone Booka comedic look at the history of thetelephone. On the albumUptown Rulers,Owens can be heard on the first track introducing New Orleans funk band, The Meters. The live recording took place on March 24, 1975 at Paul and Linda McCartney's release party for theVenus And Marsalbum held aboard theQueen Mary. Owens did the humorous news blurbs that are interspersed throughout the 1975 filmThe Prisoner of Second Avenue.In 1976-77, he hosted the first season of the nighttime version ofThe Gong Show; he was replaced by the show's creator,Chuck Barris.The same year Owens became the voice of a new cartoon character, the Blue Falcon, a character who fought crime in fictional Big City with the "help" of his clumsy sidekick, Dynomutt, also known asDynomutt, Dog Wonder.The series was a parody ofBatman, specifically the live-action version starringAdam West. It was not uncommon to see the Blue Falcon use various "falcon gadgets," much like Batman used various "Bat-Equipment" items. The falcon belt was used in a similar fashion to Batman'sutility beltwith an endless supply of weapons and other devices. Owens would provide the voice of the Blue Falcon from 1976 through 1977 in 20 half-hour episodes. The 1977 episodes were broken into two parts that ran 11 minutes each 16 episodes in 1976 and 4 episodes in 1977. Also, he narratedYogi's Space Racein 1978 and announced for Disney's Wonderful World, starting in 1979. 1980s Owens received aHollywood Walk of FameStar in 1980, between those ofWalt DisneyandBetty White. On August 30, 1983, Owens emceed the unveiling ceremony for theHollywood Walk of FameStar forThe Three Stooges. Owens, a long-time friend of the Stooges, had been a major driving force in helping the Stooges get the Star. The ceremony was featured onEntertainment Tonight. In the 1980s, he announced onjazzradio station KKJZ (then KKGO-FM) inWestwood, Los Angeles, California. On the weekend of September 1213, 1981, Owens substituted for his old KEWB station partnerCasey KasemonAmerican Top 40; this was his only appearance on radio's first nationally syndicated countdown show. In that same year, Watermark chose Owens to replaceMurray "The K" Kaufmanas permanent host ofSoundtrack Of The Sixties,an oldies retrospective show that ran in syndication through 1984. Immediately afterward, he hosted Creative Radio'sGary Owens' Supertracks,which was an oldies retrospective show similar toSoundtrack Of The Sixties,except it presented the fifties, sixties, and seventies. He was the narrator ofWalt Disney World'sEPCOT Centerpavilion,World of Motion, which operated between 1982 and 1996. His television special was "The Roots of Goofy" which aired from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Owens moved from KMPC to KPRZ-1150AM (also in Los Angeles) in the early 1980s, hosting mornings at the "Music Of Your Life"-formatted station. Owens in the morning and Dick Whittinghill in afternoon drive was an inversion of Owens' KMPC years. WhenRoger Barkleysurprisingly walked out of the long-running "Lohman and Barkley Show" onKFIin Los Angeles, Owens briefly teamed withAl Lohmanfor the successful morning commute show. Jeff Gehringer was brought on as producer. The program ended after the station changed format to talk. Owens had a hilarious bit part as an emcee for "Pimp of the Year", a dream scene in the 1988 comedy, "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka!" Owens also co-starred in a number of documentaries aboutdinosaursin the 1980s alongside Chicago'sEric Boardman. These documentaries were distributed by theMidwich Entertainmentgroup for theDisney Channelbefore it went from being a premium pay channel on cable to a standard channel. Owens guest starred on an episode of "The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!" Owens was the voice narrator on the ABC Saturday morning animated series,Mighty Orbotsin 1984. 1990s In the late 1990s, Owens hosted the morning show on theMusic of Your Liferadio network, where he later had the evening shift and hosted a weekend afternoon show until 2006. He also announced pre-recordedstation IDsforParksville, British Columbiaradio stationCHPQ-FM(The Lounge), and for humoristGary Burbank's long-running afternoon show onWLWinCincinnati, Ohio(Burbank took his stage name from Owens). Owens was also the announcer forAmerica's Funniest Home Videosfrom 19951997, the last two years of Bob Saget's hosting tenure, replacingErnie Anderson. The cartoonSWAT Kats: The Radical Squadronfeatured Owens as the voice of Commander Ulysses Feral, a police chief constantly butting heads with the two main protagonists. Owens guest starred on "The Ren & Stimpy Show" as the voice of Powdered Toast Man. Last years In 2004, Owens co-wrote a book titledHow to Make a Million Dollars With Your Voice (Or Lose Your Tonsils Trying). In his last years, Owens was the promotional announcing voice forAntenna TV, an over-the-air digital network dedicated to classic shows of the past, likeThree's Company,The Monkees,Adam-12andGidget.He was married to his surviving wife Arleta for 47 years. Death Owens died on February 12, 2015, at age 80 from complications due totype 1 diabetes, a condition with which he was first diagnosed at the age of eight. Voice acting Owens provided the voices for: The title character ofRoger Ramjet. The narrator for the cartoon seriesThe Perils of Penelope Pitstop. TheSpace Ghostfor the originalSpace Ghost(19661968) cartoon series (credited as Gary Owen) and onSpace Stars(19811982). He later reprised his role in a 2011 episode ofBatman: The Brave and the Bold. The announcer forGarfield and Friends. The narrator ofDr. Phibes Rises Again. The narrator in two episodes ofDinosaurs Powdered Toast ManofThe Ren & Stimpy Show. Captain Squash onBobby's World. Inspector Gadgetin the pilot episode. Cartoon characters in various letter-of-the-alphabet cartoons onSesame Street. The narrator for the "Secret Drawing" cartoon series onSesame Street. Dirk Niblick on PBS'sSquare One Television. A substitute announcer forBill Nye the Science Guy. The announcer and Principal in two episodes of2 Stupid Dogs The Blue Falcon inDynomutt, Dog Wonder.(He later reprised the role in both an episode ofDexter's Laboratoryand an episode ofJohnny Bravo.) Badly Animated ManinRaw Toonage. Commander Ulysses Feral inSWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. The narrator for the pilot episode ofAdventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. The narrator for the U.S. commercial ofSuper Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins. Opening narration forBuzz Lightyear of Star Command. The voice of Nick / The Dark Talon from the episode ofTeamo Supremo. The voice ofCyfrom theGalactica 1980episode "The Return of Starbuck." The announcer and himself forSpace Ghost Coast to Coast. The 1950s-styledBatmaninThe New Batman Adventuresepisode "Legends of the Dark Knight." The announcer forSuperhuman Samurai Syber-Squad. The voice of theAntenna TVpromotions (20112015), intoning "Vintage...without the funny smell." Namorin the "7 Little Superheroes" episode ofSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends. He also narrated or announced dozens of other cartoons, as well as thefourthandsixthinstallments of theSpace QuestPC gameseries. Trademarks When appearing "in character" on camera as "Gary Owens, the announcer," Owens held his right hand up to his right ear while speaking into agimbaledboommicrophone. This was done in imitation of the announcers in the early days of radio, who had to rely upon the acoustic feedback of their cupped hand to hear how they sounded to the audience. Owens used this as arunning gagand gave various outlandish reasons for this pose: on his KMPC radio show in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he claimed that this was because a piece of shrapnel took off his ear during the war; sometimes it would come loose and he had to hold it on; at other times he said that he was given a wooden ear, and was keeping the termites warm. This gag was later parodied byLes Lyeon the Canadian children's sketch-comedy showYou Can't Do That On Television. Owens coined the phrase "Beautiful downtownBurbank" which was later used onLaugh-InandThe Tonight Show. His trademark self-introduction was "This is Gary Owens, friend of those who want no friends, going places and losing things", or occasionally "Hello, and also hi; but not necessarily in that order" as a shorter version. Blast from the Past In 2001,TV Landreleased two computer games titledBlast from the Past, hosted by Owens and featuring other TV celebrities includingFlorence Henderson,Ed Asner,Davy Jones,Bob Denver,Don Adams,Barbara Eden, andMarion Ross, and others. The games spoofed a game show and the prize for winners was an interview with the chosen celebrity the contestant selected at the start of the game.

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