1/4/2024 0 Comments Theme song sergeant preston![]() ![]() And we share a fondness for that misguided musical cue accompanying Strawberry’s burial party! When I watched the film with my sister she cracked up when the pall bearers began walking down the steep stairs of the bandstand. However, my piece on it just scrapes the cocaine-dusted surface of all the nuttiness this film contains. Once it came out in Blu-ray (who’d a thunk it?) I couldn’t resist. I’ve been wanting to write about it for a long time, too. Thanks for the hooty take on this crazed film. I was never too hot on the other "vocalists" in the movie like George Burns, Steve Martin, those hideous robots and even Alice Cooper, but I do agree that Earth, Wind & Fire, Aerosmith and even Ms. I think their harmony is so wonderful it actually takes some of the music to a new level. I was too young to know or appreciate The Beatles in their years together as a band, though I can appreciate their legendary place in music history, so The Bee Gees' take on their songs never bothered me the way it did many others. shopping with a friend when someone casually asked her if she'd like to be in the finale of SPLHCB and she was basically like, "Okay, what the hell." but then after standing there for take after take lip-synching to the prerecorded number she grew bored and wandered off! LOLOL I picked up the DVD later and a friend of mine and I BROKE my DVD player from repeatedly watching the finale in super-slow motion, trying to pick out and name each star as they went through the ridiculous posturing and "choreography." I still scream with laughter over the enthusiasm that Helen Reddy was demonstrating (and there is, of course, our recently deceased Carol Channing in there swinging, too!) As an example of how lackadaisical the whole thing was, I was told by Margaret Whiting's daughter Debbi that her mother was in L.A. In fact, I was in my mid-30s before ever seeing it!! My jaw, needless to say, hit the floor. I was eleven when this came out and didn't see it. You even captured one of my favorite moments of lunacy (when the boys are taking Farina's coffin down the steps as the soundtrack blares, "you're gonna carry that weight."!!) I couldn't help cackling at the Sid and Marty Krofft and variety show comparisons. There's no reason to now! Your spot-on assessment and HILARIOUS references render any further attempts moot. I have been dying to (threatening to) profile this movie for years and never got around to it. Your patience for making it to the end of the film is rewarded by a WTF? cluster of "stars" from all walks of the '70s entertainment industry spectrum gathered to recreate the cover of the Sgt. Pepper weather vane was sold at auction for $1,265 in 2012. Standing 6'3'' and made of plaster over a fiberglass frame, The solo albums by Dianne Steinberg (1977) and Sandy Farina (1980)įailed to cause much of a ripple in the music industry An eBay auction purchase donated by Allan R Jones. One of two prop trumpets created for the film by Dominic Calicchio is housed at the National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD. His feature film career took a hit when SPLHCB flopped so tremendously (taking several other careers with it) but he continues to work steadily in television, and in 1991 Schultz was inducted into The Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Schultz became the first African-American to helm a big-budget musical. The cocaine flowed freely, so at least I hope everyone involved enjoyed a splendid time.įilmmaker Michael Schultz was Robert Stigwood's first choice to direct the film Grease. Happily, its plentiful cons have since morphed into pros, rendering SPLHCB so-bad-it's-good status in perpetuity.Ĭareers and reputations were decimated by the film's flop reception, but by all accounts As the years have gone by, the new-kid-in-town veil has lifted from my eyes, leaving me aghast that I had at one time found this largely clumsy enterprise in shameless commerce so entertaining. The theater was full that first day, but by the time I saw the film for the 3rd time that summer, the house was nearly empty. Steven Tyler and Aerosmith as Future Villain Band To this day, Sandy Farina's rendition of George Harrison's "Here Comes the Sun" is my absolute favorite cover of the song, and I thought Aerosmith's version of "Come Together" was a major improvement on the original. Having grown up in a household with a dyed-in-the-wool Beatle maniac (my older sister), I always loved the music, but didn't revere it to the degree that I had a problem with other artists having a crack at it. I actually had to stand in line to get in, and theĪudience was so hyped they laughed readily and applause actually broke out when Billy Preston appeared.īilly Preston as Sergeant Pepper (the weather vane, anyway) I saw the film the day it opened at the Pacific Theater on
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