Spanky and "Our Gang"

[MORTARDUDE]

One of my sons got me a great Christmas gift. It is called " Hiya, Kids... A 50s Saturday Morning" with 9 1/2 hours of complete episodes of 22 different shows. It has most of the ones we remember, plus some I have never heard of like : "Captain Z-RO", "Juvenile Jury", "Super Circus", "The Magic Clown",
"Kids and Company", and ""Time for Beany".....all I need now is an old 1950s era black and white TV to watch them on....of course it would be kind of hard to play DVDs on it ...lol

Larry

[Seascamp]

The first TV kid’s show I saw was the Buster Brown show. Something about plunk your magic twanger, foggy. Moma, moma, what’s a magic twanger; smack. Oh well.

Scamp

[Seascamp]

Nevada Appeal
9 January 2009

LOS ANGELES — Cheryl Holdridge, the beautiful blond with a winning smile who joined “The Mickey Mouse Club” as a Mouseketeer in the 1950s, has died. She was 64.

Holdridge died Tuesday at her Santa Monica home following a two-year battle with lung cancer, Doreen Tracey, another former Mouseketeer, told the Los Angeles Times.

Born Cheryl Lynn Phelps on June 20, 1944, in New Orleans, Holdridge moved to Los Angeles when she was 2 and became a Mouseketeer in 1956 at the start of the second season of the “The Mickey Mouse Club.” Aged 11, she was one of 24 talented singing and dancing youngsters.

“She was a good technical dancer, but I think she was picked mostly because she had this angelic look and a great smile; she’s known for her smile,” Tracey said. “We used to try to keep her quiet when she started singing because she sang off key.”

Holdridge soon became a core part of the group, which appeared on the Mouseketeer roll call at the start of each show. The roll call also featured the likes of Tracey, Annette Funicello, Tommy Cole, Cubby O’Brien, Sharon Baird, Bobby Burgess, Karen Pendleton, Lonnie Burr and Darlene Gillespie.

Another reason Holdridge was kept in the core group was because she had got large amounts of fan mail, Tracey said.

“Annette had the highest rating, but Cheryl came pretty close,” Tracey said.

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Trivia Question:

What was Buster Brown's dog's name?

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Cheryl...

[covan]

Tige

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Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!...

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Tige is correct!


Buster Brown and Tige from "Andy's Gang".

[Seascamp]

A bit of a historical connect, maybe. Cheryl married up with Lance Reventlo; Revlon rich boy. I got treated to a road race in Riverside Ca, oh my, a sight sound overdose. Reventlo had two Scarabs in the race; corvette engine powered road race cars. Max Balchalisky in the Buick powered “Old yeller” , Phil Hill in a Ferrari, Chuck Diegh in one Scarab and Lance Reventlo in the other. What a battle, Reventlo busted up his Scarab, tried to get Diegh to come in, but not to be. Diegh was in the hunt, right on Hill and finally made a pass through the S’s and opened that Scarab up, yikes, pure music. There was one kiddo with eyes as big as saucer plates with all that. Reventlo was cruising around on a motor bike with a real, real hot babe on the back., oh my again, repeat saucer sized eyes. Not Cheryl, she was but 12 at the time. So sure, got the racing fever but found out that the hot babes weren’t so hot after all. Aarrgg, pit lizards, a different species.

Scamp

[82Rigger]

Okay,

It's time for another TV trivia question.

A TV series featuring a gorgeous private investigator with long legs, a beauty mark, and an ocelot...