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Difference between revisions of "The Bugaloos"
(New page: From the downright wacky 1970 TV show of the [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065280/combined same name]. Sid and Marty Krofft, the kids' TV show producers/maniacs who held the color-saturate...) |
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| − | From the downright wacky 1970 TV show | + | From the downright wacky 1970 TV show ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065280/combined The Bugaloos]''. Sid and Marty Krofft, the kids' TV show producers/maniacs who held the color-saturated, puppet-inhabited childhoods of a generation in their hands, created this fake band of British bugs who live in Tranquility Forest and try to rock out, when evil rock star wannabe Benita Bizarre (a consistently over-the-top Martha Raye) isn't trying to bite their style or harsh their mellow. |
| − | Lineup: Joy, the singing butterfly (Caroline Ellis) | + | Lineup: |
| + | *Joy, the singing butterfly (Caroline Ellis) | ||
| + | *Harmony, the bumblebee on keyboards (Wayne Laryea) | ||
| + | *IQ, a grasshopper guitarist (John McIndoe) | ||
| + | *Courage, a drum-playing male ladybug (tee-hee!) (John Philpott). | ||
| − | Their tunes were written by the team who wrote the themes to ''Happy Days'' and ''Laverne & Shirley''. An album called, appropriately enough, Bugaloos, was released in 1970 on Capitol Records. | + | Their tunes were written by the team who wrote the themes to ''Happy Days'' and ''Laverne & Shirley''. An album called, appropriately enough, ''Bugaloos'', was released in 1970 on Capitol Records. |
Trivia time! Did you know that Phil Collins of Genesis was almost a Bugaloo?! True! He auditioned for the role of IQ, but was turned down. | Trivia time! Did you know that Phil Collins of Genesis was almost a Bugaloo?! True! He auditioned for the role of IQ, but was turned down. | ||
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| + | [[Category:1970|Bugaloos]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Television series|Bugaloos]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Rock|Bugaloos]] | ||
| + | [[Category:Fictional nonhumans|Bugaloos]] | ||
Revision as of 05:48, 24 July 2018
From the downright wacky 1970 TV show The Bugaloos. Sid and Marty Krofft, the kids' TV show producers/maniacs who held the color-saturated, puppet-inhabited childhoods of a generation in their hands, created this fake band of British bugs who live in Tranquility Forest and try to rock out, when evil rock star wannabe Benita Bizarre (a consistently over-the-top Martha Raye) isn't trying to bite their style or harsh their mellow.
Lineup:
- Joy, the singing butterfly (Caroline Ellis)
- Harmony, the bumblebee on keyboards (Wayne Laryea)
- IQ, a grasshopper guitarist (John McIndoe)
- Courage, a drum-playing male ladybug (tee-hee!) (John Philpott).
Their tunes were written by the team who wrote the themes to Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley. An album called, appropriately enough, Bugaloos, was released in 1970 on Capitol Records.
Trivia time! Did you know that Phil Collins of Genesis was almost a Bugaloo?! True! He auditioned for the role of IQ, but was turned down.
