tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post2388215028714020996..comments2024-03-27T22:27:16.556-04:00Comments on It's About TV: Around the dialMitchell Hadleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08695771505209080030noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-44839747147966276632018-08-24T16:08:35.091-04:002018-08-24T16:08:35.091-04:00Thanks for the nice remarks!Thanks for the nice remarks!Jack Seabrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02216640325305820140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-60529315685215006572018-08-24T12:25:10.452-04:002018-08-24T12:25:10.452-04:00Thanks for posting the link to the Carson clip. T...Thanks for posting the link to the Carson clip. The link has the wrong date on the Carson video, as it's even 3 days older than the link states. Carson states a couple times "It's Friday", and August 24, 1964 fell on a Monday. August 24 was also the date when the Democratic Convention opened in Atlantic City, so this show was taped the Friday prior, August 21, 1964.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042603612494762084.post-79796806841960954602018-08-24T11:38:06.648-04:002018-08-24T11:38:06.648-04:00I gotta mention that six-minute Carson clip:
Beca...I gotta mention that six-minute Carson clip:<br /><br />Because I was around in '64, I knew what he was referring to, in re the '64 AL pennant race.<br />All most people nowadays would know is that the Yankees won that year, but the whole story (as written up in detail later on) is way more complicated.<br /> In August, the sale of the Yankees to CBS had just been announced, coinciding with a really bad losing streak that everybody in NY was blaming on the rotten job that Yogi Berra was doing as manager.<br /> The incident with Phil Linz and the harmonica that Johnny's talking about was front-page on all of NYC's daily papers (I think they still had six dailies back then), and the sports writers were all giving up on the Yankees and blaming Berra, etc.<br />Bill Veeck wrote all this up in his second book, <i>The Hustler's Handbook</i> (years afterward, Jim Bouton confirmed much of this in <i>Ball Four</i> and its follow-ups); seldom have so many proved to have been so wrong at the time.<br /> But on taping day, nobody knew any of this; that's the fascinating part of this clip.<br /> That, and the runup to the Democratic Convention, which in '64 was basically a formality; LBJ was all but reelected anyway, helped by the GOP picking Barry Goldwater a couple of weeks before (That Was Then - now is another story …)<br /> <br />In a way this ties in with the recent fixation hereabouts on how the Current Generations seem to know little about context - apparently by choice. <br />I've been holding back about that, because it works both ways; hardliners of all stripes tend to edit context according to their own agendas (and it's been that way all my life - and long before).<br />But that's another argument for another time, I guess … Mike Doranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427528138598549103noreply@blogger.com