Showing posts with label Osmonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Osmonds. Show all posts

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Finding the Top 40 in a Saturday Morning Cartoon

Doug:  Last Wednesday Karen kicked off our now-ongoing retrospective on Saturday morning cartoons with a nice discussion of the Banana Splits.  Like many of you, I came to that show in syndication, vividly remembering it on weekday afternoons.  I didn't make any comments at the time, but I'll belatedly toss out a big "thanks!" to those of you who jogged this old guy's memory with such things as the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.  I had completely forgotten about that!

Doug:  Which brings us to today.  A few weeks ago when Karen and I were discussing this "series", some of the shows that came to my mind were cartoon versions of the Osmond Brothers and the Jackson 5.  Does anyone remember those?  I don't recall a lot of details -- like many of you, I do have recollections mainly of waiting for the songs.  I've included some clips below, so you can see the quality of the animation.  As these were undoubtedly snatched straight from the TV, the quality is sketchy.  But you'll get the idea if you've never seen this before.  And, let's not limit ourselves to just these two shows.  If you know of other musical acts that were "cartoon-ized", then by all means toss 'em out for all of us to discourse on (Beatles, anyone?)!


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