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The Munsters live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1964
03.18.2016
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The Munsters live at the Hollywood Bowl, 1964


 
I know where I would rather be right now: watching the Munsters at the Hollywood Bowl with 10,000 screaming teenagers. Just me, Yvonne De Carlo, and Pat Priest sharing a vanilla Coke in one of those fancy boxes up front as the Munster Koach revs, the Munsters band rocks and the go-go girl frugs. Why, that sounds just fine…
 

 
This audience footage of the Munsters comes from “Y-Day in Hollywood,” which apparently was an annual event sponsored by the YMCA. It sounds more like a county fair than anything the Bowl hosts these days; according to a contemporary newspaper account, the prizes at Y-Day included “enough pancake batter to feed 1,000 people.”

From the October 18, 1964 issue of the Valley News:

The show is being put together by master-of-ceremonies Art Linkletter and will include acts to interest every age group.

Entertaining will be Linkletter, Fess Parker, James Drury and Randy Boone of “The Virginian,” Paul Petersen and Fluffy the lion.

Others are Ray Walston of “My Favorite Martian,” Al Lewis, who plays Grandpa on “The Munsters” and the Munster Singers. Teenage musical favorites on Y-Day include Round Robin, the Superbs, Jan and Dean and John Andrea.

 

 
The Munsters: A Trip Down Mockingbird Lane says the Munsters’ appearance was broadcast on Art Linkletter’s Hollywood Talent Scouts, but fails to report that it is on a constant loop in my beautiful daydreams.
 

 

 
H/T Tom Recchion

Posted by Oliver Hall
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03.18.2016
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