I got this from my good friend, and sometime DadWagon guest contributor, Gabe. It’s from a television show whose house band was known as the “Banana Splits.” Four singers, each named Leegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky, if Wikipedia is to be believed. But to me, this is just a small item of videographic evidence of why all Sixties children are batshit crazy…and kinda groovy. Enjoy.
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Theodore Ross is an editor of Harper’s Magazine. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, Saveur, Tin House, the Mississippi Review, and (of course), the Vietnam News. He grew up in New York City by way of Gulfport, MS, and as a teen played the evil Nazi, Toht, in Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation. He lives with his son, J.P. in Brooklyn, and is currently working on a book about Crypto-Jews.
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Dude, don’t talk about this like it is old. I grew up with the Banana Splits. Fleagle was cool. They had a great theme:
Dude, don’t talk about this like it is old. I grew up with the Banana Splits. Fleagle was cool. They had a great theme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxhoGTq_Sms
I don’t know. I think I remember them. Chocolate coco puffs sponsored them, I think. Groovy.