And this is the way it was in Hoy, West Virginia with Hugh Weinstock and his news team. Hugh was the initial inspiration for "Anchorman." Only his sign off was, "You stay sparkling, Hoy."
Interesting how this station had an 'emeritus' anchor decades older than the others- but the usual genders were reversed. Back in the 70's it must have been unique in the US to have a woman anchor clearly in her 80s with her male colleagues in the 40s or younger instead of vice versa! Even now, the female anchors in my city who are in their fifties do their derndest to look no older than 40! Mrs. Fuldheim seems to have been quite the character! Thanks for posting this.
Wow. This is really very 70s. It makes me to remember my childhood. Although i spend most of my childhood in the late 80s and early 90s. My country tv at the time always relied in chromakey & scanimate, which i feel this is.
About the hair and sideburns.....With John Hambrick's hair and sideburns the way that it is, he kinda reminds me of Doctor Kelly Brackett (circa 1973-74) from the TV show "Emergency!".
And the weatherman, Dave Webster, looks like the actor/comedian Fred Willard---Fred Willard from the 1970's, that is.
And you just gotta love Gib Shanley's classic early 1970's suit, don't ya? It's at about the 41 second mark.
@unconventionalmeans I was thinking the same thing about John Hambrick looking similar to Dr. Brackett on "Emergency" (which I wish was still on TVLand or someplace).
Okay, so is it just me....or when the jingle first starts off it kinda sounds like a Beach Boys tune? I swear, when the lead vocal kicks in....it sounds like the Beach Boys!
Good point! This clip was made in the md-1970's, at the latest. And by then Dorothy would have been in her early 80s (her bio says she was born in 1893). She doesn't look like she's 80 years old in this clip....but maybe she was.
Gib Shanley passed away in 2008. I met him a few times. He was a great football announcer for the Browns up until he gave it up (out of frustration with the losing team) in 1984. I still remember when he called the Kardiac Kids games in 1980. I was at that freezer bowl game at old Cleveland Brown stadium when they lost to the Oakland Raiders when they intercepted in the end zone with about 20 seconds to go. Everyone immediately became cold in the stadium.
@tyrese3745 so thats when this WEWS promo was used i was just wondering cause that was a few years before i born i came into this world on 04-08-1978 a while after they stopped using this promo.....
Yeah, 1974-75 sounds about right. All of the men in this video have hairstyles and long-ish sideburns from that era. And they are all wearing such God-awful clothing that literally screams 1973!!!!!.
So the fact that this commercial appeared in 1974 and ran thru 1975 makes sense.
@jgerard56 And I still remember to this day when Gib Shanley burned the Iranian flag to protest what was going on in the late 70's in Iran (and Dorothy Fultheim watching in total shock as it burned). Classic stuff. Gib was always the troublemaker on that station. May he rest in peace...
Hey, there my Dad when he was a young 'un! Nice suit dad!
Dave Patterson is my father and it's great to see this - not much video of him on-air anymore. He's still doing great, lives in Phoenix and S. Africa, married to my mom still and spent many years on TV in Phoenix before beginning a business leading tours to Africa. And he's neither bald nor fat! :-) Aloha.
welcome 2 cleveland. that team was actually great and had a wonderful chemistry. remember when gibber burned the iranian flag during the hostage crises? a true clevelander. honest and forthright. the rest of the world should be so.
Damn you!!! Now I feel all warm and funny inside. As I look at so of your other videos to the left, I have a feeling that I will feel even more fuzzy. Thanks for the memories Dagnabit...somebody pass me some tissue.
John Hambrick (brother of Judd and Mike Hambrick), Dave Patterson, Don Webster, the late Dorothy Fuldheim and the late Gib Shanley were featured in this classic WEWS TV-5 promo.
This was absolutely cutting-edge stuff when it first aired! It was also the best promo music investment WEWS ever made. The "Catch 5" theme (same jingle, new arrangements) was still being used in the mid-80s!
Local news sure was more compelling to watch in those days. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to put a sassy senior commentator like Dorothy Fuldheim on the air now! The corporate owners and their bootlicking consultants would haul the general manager away in a white coat.
Your'e right..at least he still looks good, and he still has his hair (even if it's gray). I seen an updated photo of John Hambrick on a acting agency website, and he's old and bald..too bad you can't turn the clock back 35-40 years...
I was raised in Shaker Heights and would have been about nine when this was used (I'm thinking 1971/72/73) and what I remeber about this promo was that WEWS made a HUGE deal about it, and the new theme music, etc. John Hambrick even went so far to point out on air that the "Dancers were from California"
Now if only someone could find a tape of Ms. Fuldheim throwing Jerry Rubin of the set of her show that would be a real BLAST!
Holy cow, it all came rushing back to me. I don't remember this specific promo (I was too young to remember John Hambrick) but I remember the music because they continued to use this jingle for many years till the early '80s at least. And I do certainly remember the legendary Dorothy Fuldheim, still a feisty on-air personality into her 90s!
Wow, it all came back to me in about two seconds...pretty hilarious now, looking back, that they used modern dance to promote a news show..."Everyone reach out now and Catch 5! Jazz Hands!"...And those old shots of the team are priceless...that group of guys in their slick, fake hair with the long sideburns, surrounding Dorothy Fuldheim always looking as if she is laughing riotously at something one of them said...that was it in a nutshell!
This was the best WEWS TV5 promo. Wished this was played for a very long time with the famous circle 5. Always been great music during those great Catch 5 years
John Hambrick later worked at WNBC in NYC, and WTVJ in Miami, as well as WCIX (now WFOR) in Miami, i believe he is still alive and retired here in South FL.
that promo aired about the time I was in junoir high school in cleveland, and it always struck me as a bizarre mix of Laugh In, and The Mary Tyler Moore show...
A fabulous effort from Mr. Frank Gari. What an amazing news imaging talent he is, and still cranking them out. I want to meet him just once, and maybe sing the "Turn to 3" jingle with him. Now THAT would be cool.
Yes, and her last few years weren't good ones. Her physical condition landed her in a nursing facility and she made everyone around her miserable. I suppose that's to be expected considering her personality and background but it's still sad.
To the OP of this video: This is actually a promo for WEWS, TV-5 in Cleveland Ohio. There were many versions of this song and promo over the years. Any Clevelander would recognize the legendary Dorothy Fuldheim, one of the city's best and original female anchors.
This was back when they still put ugly people on TV -- you know, choose newscasters for their journalistic prowess rather than their sex appeal. Those were the days...
Right on. Dorothy Fuldheim rocked major socks. Interesting that this commercial seems to be the reverse of newscasts nowadays- good-looking young men (well, with the exception of Gib Shanley) plus a much older woman. Now it's old men plus young beautiful women. Yeesh.
WMC Channel 5 in Memphis used this same music to open its newscasts in the late 1970s, except that it was a disco instrumental version. We weren't subjected to the lyrics or the LSD effects.
I went to jr. high and High School with John Hambrick's son Jack. (class of '84) and I remember John Hambrick speaking at career day in junior high approx. 1978. I think at that time he was Bay Area CBS ch. 5 then moved to NY local news. What a trip to happen upon this video.
There's a legend going around the Newschannel 5's studios are haunted with Ms. Fuldheim's ghost, stating that the doors open themselves. In short, she "checking up on them".
I remember this promo when it was broadcast as a kid. We would say it over and over. I think it was before the Morning Exchange went on the air. I definitely remember Dave Patterson and Dorothy Fuldheim's commentary. A lot of the commericals and tv shows used that type of graphics. The last time I seen this was at least 35 years ago. Thanks!
A little trivia--John Hambrick is the brother of Judd Hambrick, who did the news on TV 8, then TV 3 until 1998 when he retired back home to Texas. Gib Shanley has returned to TV 5 after over 20 years away, doing sports commentaries on the "Sports Sunday" show (think Andy Rooney on "60 Minutes"). Don Webster is now promoting a cruise line, where viewers can make reservations and take cruises with him and his wife (who was a child when this old clip was made).
I thought Dorothy Fuldheim's name was familiar, so I looked her up on Wikipedia. She was the first female commentator. She joined WEWS in 1947 when she was 54!
Fuldheim and Rose used to go at it pretty good. There were some good clips of her on the 50th anniversary special the WEWS aired and a special right after her death. She kicked Joe Namath and Jerry Rubin out of the studio.
gnolt I miss those days of REAL music playing during the scoreboards....yep it was pretty much always jazz at that...and it made us go get what was playing.
the Weahter Channel should do that...tell us what song they are playing.
Wow, I was a high school freshman when this commercial was playing. Thanks for posting it.
MisterRightAway 4 months ago
And this is the way it was in Hoy, West Virginia with Hugh Weinstock and his news team. Hugh was the initial inspiration for "Anchorman." Only his sign off was, "You stay sparkling, Hoy."
rondunderfunk 4 months ago in playlist TV news and other junk
I'm Ron Burgundy. You stay classy, Cleveland!
WestwardOneOH 7 months ago
John Hambrick looks like a well known gay porn actor.
neopatriot777 9 months ago
Wow, I don't remember that!
mg196 9 months ago
Interesting how this station had an 'emeritus' anchor decades older than the others- but the usual genders were reversed. Back in the 70's it must have been unique in the US to have a woman anchor clearly in her 80s with her male colleagues in the 40s or younger instead of vice versa! Even now, the female anchors in my city who are in their fifties do their derndest to look no older than 40! Mrs. Fuldheim seems to have been quite the character! Thanks for posting this.
Mktryk 11 months ago 3
Almost sure of it now-this is based on ABC's 1971 season promo graphics.
batterymaker 1 year ago
I wonder if that was based on the 1970 or '71 ABC promos?
batterymaker 1 year ago
This is excellent. Good job WEWS Cleveland.
irocz72 1 year ago
OMG, that takes me back to my childhood. I found myself singing the jingle and I haven't heard it in more than 35 years....
dsnic68 1 year ago
LSD for sure.
chrisman737 1 year ago
You stay classy San Diego. I'm Ron Burgundy.
pocketfudgy 1 year ago
Wow. This is really very 70s. It makes me to remember my childhood. Although i spend most of my childhood in the late 80s and early 90s. My country tv at the time always relied in chromakey & scanimate, which i feel this is.
happyapple7 1 year ago
this sounds like a song that Donny and Marie would sing
level242 1 year ago
john hambrick..what a sexy man even WITH that hair!!
jeepgayguy 1 year ago
Like many of the commenters, this brought back many memories for me as well. Now it will be running through my head like it did back then!
122457 1 year ago
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MarkNF82 1 year ago
WDAF, Channel 4 in Kansas City(now Fox 4) used that theme for "Catch 4".
dandydonaldo 1 year ago
Everyone has sideburns..including Dorothy..
jjjack12 1 year ago
@jjjack12
About the hair and sideburns.....With John Hambrick's hair and sideburns the way that it is, he kinda reminds me of Doctor Kelly Brackett (circa 1973-74) from the TV show "Emergency!".
And the weatherman, Dave Webster, looks like the actor/comedian Fred Willard---Fred Willard from the 1970's, that is.
And you just gotta love Gib Shanley's classic early 1970's suit, don't ya? It's at about the 41 second mark.
unconventionalmeans 1 year ago
@unconventionalmeans I was thinking the same thing about John Hambrick looking similar to Dr. Brackett on "Emergency" (which I wish was still on TVLand or someplace).
ChristianKidsShowFan 1 year ago
wow, hadn't seen this in 30 years! so cheesy!
chicagoman58 1 year ago
Oh, no, now that song will be in my head again, just like it was when I was a child and this commercial was first on TV.
scott97 1 year ago
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Okay, so is it just me....or when the jingle first starts off it kinda sounds like a Beach Boys tune? I swear, when the lead vocal kicks in....it sounds like the Beach Boys!
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MiguelKertsman 1 year ago
I must be really old. Even Dorothy Fuldheim looked (relatively) young to me in this video. Glad I escaped Cleveland, though.
Maloyo 2 years ago
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We're glad you moved.
SFCMAC57 1 year ago
@Maloyo
Good point! This clip was made in the md-1970's, at the latest. And by then Dorothy would have been in her early 80s (her bio says she was born in 1893). She doesn't look like she's 80 years old in this clip....but maybe she was.
unconventionalmeans 1 year ago
@unconventionalmeans
I agree she must have been in her 80s...I'm the one who feels real old seeing this, LOL!
Maloyo 1 year ago
Got anymore cuts of the Catch 5 Package?
newscaster13 2 years ago
Nope. I pilfered this one from another web site.
doctorsuarez 2 years ago
WOW>... if I didn't feel old before I do now. :)
hjptv 2 years ago
This is why the number 5 was my favorite number for so many years when I was a kid.
benvolio15 2 years ago
remember when gibber burned the iranian flag? welcome to cleveland! what a great news team!
eurolease24 2 years ago
Gib Shanley passed away in 2008. I met him a few times. He was a great football announcer for the Browns up until he gave it up (out of frustration with the losing team) in 1984. I still remember when he called the Kardiac Kids games in 1980. I was at that freezer bowl game at old Cleveland Brown stadium when they lost to the Oakland Raiders when they intercepted in the end zone with about 20 seconds to go. Everyone immediately became cold in the stadium.
tritonrocks 2 years ago
Good old red right 88, LOL!
Maloyo 2 years ago
They used this promo from 1974 to 1975. Great to hear Dave Patterson is doing well. How old is he now? I'm guessing in his 70's.
tritonrocks 2 years ago
Are you sure? This kinda looks and sounds like around 1972-73.
tyrese3745 2 years ago
@tyrese3745 so thats when this WEWS promo was used i was just wondering cause that was a few years before i born i came into this world on 04-08-1978 a while after they stopped using this promo.....
FeuDduDe29 1 year ago
@tritonrocks
Yeah, 1974-75 sounds about right. All of the men in this video have hairstyles and long-ish sideburns from that era. And they are all wearing such God-awful clothing that literally screams 1973!!!!!.
So the fact that this commercial appeared in 1974 and ran thru 1975 makes sense.
unconventionalmeans 1 year ago
@unconventionalmeans I still this was from the 1972-73 season because of the "Catch 5" promo music.
tyrese3745 1 year ago
@tyrese3745
Well, yeah, sure....I mean, just look at the outifts and sideburnsthat these guys have going on! LOL!!!
unconventionalmeans 1 year ago
@tritonrocks: I'm guessing that it was a year or two earlier by the way I reacted to it. It brought back memories of a fond part of my childhood.
jgerard56 1 year ago
@jgerard56 And I still remember to this day when Gib Shanley burned the Iranian flag to protest what was going on in the late 70's in Iran (and Dorothy Fultheim watching in total shock as it burned). Classic stuff. Gib was always the troublemaker on that station. May he rest in peace...
tritonrocks 1 year ago
Hey, there my Dad when he was a young 'un! Nice suit dad!
Dave Patterson is my father and it's great to see this - not much video of him on-air anymore. He's still doing great, lives in Phoenix and S. Africa, married to my mom still and spent many years on TV in Phoenix before beginning a business leading tours to Africa. And he's neither bald nor fat! :-) Aloha.
BathysVideo 2 years ago
Really? Tell me something: When did Ted Henry replaced the oldest of the Hambrick brothers (John Hambrick)???
tyrese3745 2 years ago
Ted Henry became a full time weeknight anchor in 1976--a job he held until May 2009.
vjmlhds 1 year ago
Every time I see Dorothy Fuldheim, I think of how The Ghoul used to go after her.
And every time I see this promo, I think of the winter I had the mumps.
OctoberWytche 2 years ago
The current announcer for WJW once worked at WEWS in the 1970s.
What is his name? I forgot.
LogoAttitude 2 years ago
Bill Ward.
usa02 2 years ago
welcome 2 cleveland. that team was actually great and had a wonderful chemistry. remember when gibber burned the iranian flag during the hostage crises? a true clevelander. honest and forthright. the rest of the world should be so.
eurolease24 2 years ago
Damn you!!! Now I feel all warm and funny inside. As I look at so of your other videos to the left, I have a feeling that I will feel even more fuzzy. Thanks for the memories Dagnabit...somebody pass me some tissue.
rdw14 2 years ago
This takes me back to my childhood. Do you know what year this promo was first aired? My guess would be pre-1974.
jgerard56 2 years ago
I guess 1972. The 1972-73 season.
tyrese3745 2 years ago
John Hambrick (brother of Judd and Mike Hambrick), Dave Patterson, Don Webster, the late Dorothy Fuldheim and the late Gib Shanley were featured in this classic WEWS TV-5 promo.
usa02 2 years ago
It's often said it, "All roads lead to Cleveland."
(%^~
mediamadman747 2 years ago
I wonder who choreographed this.
OctoberWytche 3 years ago
Frank Gari
SaleGuy 2 years ago
Dick Blake!
stuka52 2 years ago
Don Webster hasn't changed a bit!!
shaneypoo11 3 years ago
I remember fondly how The Ghoul would put a pic of good ol' Dorothy on a Barbie doll, ram a boom-boom up her skirt, and...POW!
OctoberWytche 3 years ago
a beautiful thing
metamorph777 3 years ago
groovy man!
VelvetVellocet 3 years ago
wow I'd watch local news every day if it was still like this.
obiwankaczynski 3 years ago 10
I remember this promo!
(I actually started singing along with it!)
Mike (formerly from Euclid, Ohio)
seenthat 3 years ago
Not just Ohio. I have a feeling the entire U.S. was like this in the 70s.
dandiacal 3 years ago
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u stupid stupid video
dandrapp 3 years ago
Where's Ron Burgundy?
ChopstickBrando 3 years ago
I wonder if the images in this promo would make sense to me if I dropped three or four hits of LSD before viewing. ;)
vanillacokehead 3 years ago
Wonderful show!! It reminds me of Your Local Community!
klineandspellner 3 years ago
Is Ohio just like this?
neopatriot777 3 years ago 2
Yes it is.
groundhog713 3 years ago
LMAO
If it were, I never would have left.
muskie97 3 years ago
LMAO! Yes, Ohio is *exactly* like this. ROFL!
Ddugand 3 years ago 2
I wish Brian Williams had to dance at the top of his newscast limke this,then we would all enjoy the news a lot better.
BayRidge86 3 years ago 2
This was absolutely cutting-edge stuff when it first aired! It was also the best promo music investment WEWS ever made. The "Catch 5" theme (same jingle, new arrangements) was still being used in the mid-80s!
Local news sure was more compelling to watch in those days. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to put a sassy senior commentator like Dorothy Fuldheim on the air now! The corporate owners and their bootlicking consultants would haul the general manager away in a white coat.
RetroSho 3 years ago 3
SO very true...I remember Dorothy never seemed to bite her tongue at all.
MsTexas73 3 years ago
Oh Lord this music brings back memories. Don Webster still hasn't changed one iota. LOL
muskie97 3 years ago 2
Your'e right..at least he still looks good, and he still has his hair (even if it's gray). I seen an updated photo of John Hambrick on a acting agency website, and he's old and bald..too bad you can't turn the clock back 35-40 years...
runnerduck 3 years ago
I remembered EVERY single word of this jingle, and it's been 30+ years since I've heard it.
FlatusRN 3 years ago 6
Me too. LOL!
kittenmommy 3 years ago
RIP Gib Shanley - Thanks for the memories!!
runnerduck 3 years ago 2
R.I.P.....Gib Shanley
Omgitszztop 3 years ago
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That was so gay; just like Clevelanders and their lowly sports teams!
nflsmackdown 3 years ago
I was raised in Shaker Heights and would have been about nine when this was used (I'm thinking 1971/72/73) and what I remeber about this promo was that WEWS made a HUGE deal about it, and the new theme music, etc. John Hambrick even went so far to point out on air that the "Dancers were from California"
Now if only someone could find a tape of Ms. Fuldheim throwing Jerry Rubin of the set of her show that would be a real BLAST!
studebaker62 3 years ago
@studebaker62: If you google, you'll find that tape of Ms. Fuldheim throwing Jerry Rubin off her show; I remember finding it a couple of years ago.
jgerard56 1 year ago
Out of the three news crews at the time, I thought these guys were suavest.
Newtuber1964 3 years ago
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All these guys should be in jail. Just look at those fuckup side-burns.
neopatriot777 3 years ago
I saw lots of herb when I caught 5...hilarious.
djdeac 3 years ago
1972 I think.
tyrese3745 3 years ago
I remember when John Hambrick did the news on channel 5 back then. I liked him and Dave Patterson...
groundhog713 3 years ago 3
That whole thing looked like some sort of acid trip.
LivengoodTodd 3 years ago 2
This is grotesque. Like a velvet painting.
skunkfromtheashes 4 years ago
amazing how many people remember that......where's Mr. Burgandy?
burningbushmen 4 years ago
I also know all the words, ah I miss Dorothy!
catgivens 4 years ago
Wow, I can still sing the song!
hokiejane 4 years ago
I wonder how this promo would look if I took one or two hits of LSD before watching it. :)
vanillacokehead 4 years ago 2
Exactly the same
doctorsuarez 4 years ago
ha!
skunkfromtheashes 4 years ago
ha!
skunkfromtheashes 4 years ago
@doctorsuarez that would be some bad lsd
doctordoctormpc 1 year ago
@vanillacokehead imagine how hits they musta done to MAKE this thing. lol
zadrhion 1 year ago
This is by the same scanamate animation team who also did the circa 1970-1972 Magical World of ABC promos?
heine71 4 years ago
OMG! That brought me straight back to my childhood. I expected to see Liz Richard and Fred Griffith next.
jgerard56 4 years ago
Holy cow, it all came rushing back to me. I don't remember this specific promo (I was too young to remember John Hambrick) but I remember the music because they continued to use this jingle for many years till the early '80s at least. And I do certainly remember the legendary Dorothy Fuldheim, still a feisty on-air personality into her 90s!
Chaosrunsthrume 4 years ago
I just learned the catch 5 jingle today, it's classic. Happy 60th birthday WEWS!
AgentReid007 4 years ago
Ya, try to catch five. They had the worst signal of any TV station in Cleveland and never tried to fix it... I could say something but...
GBS1043 4 years ago
but what?
AgentReid007 4 years ago
They still do. The equipment they use is old. Their picture and sound quality isn't great. WJW Channel 8 is the best in these areas.
Buckpenn 4 years ago
That's because the people who owned WJW (years ago and today) had more money than God.
veritasvg 4 years ago
Notice the lead trumpet - kind of burt bacharach styled arranging.
dandiacal 4 years ago
I grew up in Cleveland, and I remember hearing this promo theme song. Kinda reminds me of the open song for the Mary Tyler Moore song.
sabrinaoregon 4 years ago
I wish all news programs had to begin with this theme music!This is da BOMB!
BayRidge86 4 years ago 2
Around the 1972-73 season, I think.
tyrese3745 4 years ago
YES!
jbartz 4 years ago
Wow, it all came back to me in about two seconds...pretty hilarious now, looking back, that they used modern dance to promote a news show..."Everyone reach out now and Catch 5! Jazz Hands!"...And those old shots of the team are priceless...that group of guys in their slick, fake hair with the long sideburns, surrounding Dorothy Fuldheim always looking as if she is laughing riotously at something one of them said...that was it in a nutshell!
TruWatcher 4 years ago
This was the best WEWS TV5 promo. Wished this was played for a very long time with the famous circle 5. Always been great music during those great Catch 5 years
CrestwoodRocks 4 years ago 2
Hmmm. Maybe I need to drop a couple of hits of LSD and then see how this promo looks. :)
vanillacokehead 4 years ago
John Hambrick later worked at WNBC in NYC, and WTVJ in Miami, as well as WCIX (now WFOR) in Miami, i believe he is still alive and retired here in South FL.
grahambrunk 4 years ago
That was so groovy. Now the news just wants you to be terrified.
danmethanimation 4 years ago
OMG. I remember this. I even caught myself singing along; how sad is *that*?
Loving your vids, BTW. What great memories!
kittenmommy 4 years ago
Editing promos now is so different from the 1970s. Wow things have changed.
drewsiu 4 years ago
wow...thanks for that. I was singing along too. I was a 10 year old back then. Cool stuff!
mjmidas 4 years ago
OMG -- I remember that promo, word for word. Thanks!
thecritic2000 4 years ago
Loved that! I was a little kid then, but I still remember it and I knew all the words! Thanks!
moonsista 4 years ago
*shudder*
And the creepiest part was that I could sing along.
Every single word....
thatbobbiegirl 4 years ago 2
positively terrifying! :)
thylacine550 4 years ago
I was a wee lass back then, so it totally reminds me of the more trippy stuff they'd have on Sesame Street and Electric Company.
cokaneinthemembrane 4 years ago
at the Florida Moving Image archive, we have a somewhat similar promo for WPTV in West Palm Beach, but for action 5 news.
grahambrunk 4 years ago
that promo aired about the time I was in junoir high school in cleveland, and it always struck me as a bizarre mix of Laugh In, and The Mary Tyler Moore show...
Wow, what a flashback....
matman1490 4 years ago 2
A fabulous effort from Mr. Frank Gari. What an amazing news imaging talent he is, and still cranking them out. I want to meet him just once, and maybe sing the "Turn to 3" jingle with him. Now THAT would be cool.
ikegamiHL55 4 years ago
Surrender Dorothy !
maddymud 4 years ago
where's my xanax?
kezpanel 4 years ago
is Dorthy still alive?
xnugyen 4 years ago
According to Wikipedia, Dorothy Fuldheim died 11/3/89
cbsfm101 4 years ago
Yes, and her last few years weren't good ones. Her physical condition landed her in a nursing facility and she made everyone around her miserable. I suppose that's to be expected considering her personality and background but it's still sad.
veritasvg 2 years ago
omg i think i just had a flashback... Dorothy Fuldheim!
supagrrrl 4 years ago
To the OP of this video: This is actually a promo for WEWS, TV-5 in Cleveland Ohio. There were many versions of this song and promo over the years. Any Clevelander would recognize the legendary Dorothy Fuldheim, one of the city's best and original female anchors.
teflon 4 years ago
I love the name "John Hambrick". He'd be an awesome secondary character in an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.
katrus 4 years ago
Ahead of its time.
petenice666 4 years ago
Wow, doctor who-esque
rethcir 4 years ago
damn! this thing just made my day.
stevespencer12 4 years ago
I <3 psychedelic rotoscoped animation. Very reminiscent of the "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" sequence in "Yellow Submarine." Groovy, man.
arfies 4 years ago
This was back when they still put ugly people on TV -- you know, choose newscasters for their journalistic prowess rather than their sex appeal. Those were the days...
romulusnr 4 years ago
Right on. Dorothy Fuldheim rocked major socks. Interesting that this commercial seems to be the reverse of newscasts nowadays- good-looking young men (well, with the exception of Gib Shanley) plus a much older woman. Now it's old men plus young beautiful women. Yeesh.
arfies 4 years ago
WMC Channel 5 in Memphis used this same music to open its newscasts in the late 1970s, except that it was a disco instrumental version. We weren't subjected to the lyrics or the LSD effects.
DarthDarr 4 years ago
I remember this Cleveland spot, and would love to have seen the Memphis version...
Yes, I am old enough to have a certain fondness for disco...
JanSafran 4 years ago
Yes folks, they did a LOT of drugs in the '70s.
ramoorhead 4 years ago
I went to jr. high and High School with John Hambrick's son Jack. (class of '84) and I remember John Hambrick speaking at career day in junior high approx. 1978. I think at that time he was Bay Area CBS ch. 5 then moved to NY local news. What a trip to happen upon this video.
dryder1000 4 years ago
Did Hambrick replace Bill Jorgensen in 1967 while he was going to WNEW in New York at the time?
dgendvil 4 years ago
awesome video, I love this kind of stuff!
ctsamurai 4 years ago
I remember Dave Patterson on Newscenter 10 in Phoenix during the 80's
knbuck 4 years ago
There's a legend going around the Newschannel 5's studios are haunted with Ms. Fuldheim's ghost, stating that the doors open themselves. In short, she "checking up on them".
BadGurl404 4 years ago
That trumpet reminds me of a Burt Bacharach type of tune and the easy-going music is like the Carpenters. :)
jigglar 4 years ago
Anyone remember Gib Shanley burning the Iranian flag in the studio in 1979?
jigglar 4 years ago
Yep, It was quite funny..
groundhog713 4 years ago
I do. It was funny. Me and my folks were cracking up!
groundhog713 3 years ago
I've never had the urge to get high... until now.
Alex43499 4 years ago
I remember this promo when it was broadcast as a kid. We would say it over and over. I think it was before the Morning Exchange went on the air. I definitely remember Dave Patterson and Dorothy Fuldheim's commentary. A lot of the commericals and tv shows used that type of graphics. The last time I seen this was at least 35 years ago. Thanks!
darkguardian1314 4 years ago
its good to take drugs with this.
Myrolex 4 years ago
A little trivia--John Hambrick is the brother of Judd Hambrick, who did the news on TV 8, then TV 3 until 1998 when he retired back home to Texas. Gib Shanley has returned to TV 5 after over 20 years away, doing sports commentaries on the "Sports Sunday" show (think Andy Rooney on "60 Minutes"). Don Webster is now promoting a cruise line, where viewers can make reservations and take cruises with him and his wife (who was a child when this old clip was made).
vjmlhds 4 years ago
A 1970s iPod commercial!
I thought Dorothy Fuldheim's name was familiar, so I looked her up on Wikipedia. She was the first female commentator. She joined WEWS in 1947 when she was 54!
eximod 4 years ago
Fuldheim and Rose used to go at it pretty good. There were some good clips of her on the 50th anniversary special the WEWS aired and a special right after her death. She kicked Joe Namath and Jerry Rubin out of the studio.
jigglar 4 years ago
ahaha I love the 70s
MercuryOne 4 years ago
A full minute of profit making ad dollars down the drain.
genzyme 4 years ago
Hmm, looks awfully a lot like my NBC channel WPTV's logo, which they used from the sametime WEWS did and still use it.
grahambrunk 4 years ago
It is the same logo, and WEWS; if you don't know, recently revived the logo...sort of. (It's an angular version)
WVECSpirit 4 years ago
Jugg Hamhead was a great anchor.
Go Mentor Cardinals!!!
oidad 4 years ago
Jugg Hamhead. Now that's funny. :) He had this nervous habit of continually flicking his ball point pen and swiveling around in his chair.
jigglar 4 years ago
"superhost" did a parody of the 5 newscast, and played Jugg Hamhead in the skit. best line- "we'll be back after the break with tonight's fire".
oidad 4 years ago
Do you know if any of the Superhost videos on YouTube have it?
doctorsuarez 4 years ago
Look out, Ron Burgundy, Catch 5 is close behind in the ratings!
skylarkingz 5 years ago
Using the Fifth Dimension would have added some flava
(and color)!
swinterich 5 years ago
Titles by Peter Max. With your hosts John Hambrick, Hunk Hugelarge and Slam Ripchest!
smartbunny 5 years ago
Anyone who can quote Space Mutiny is AOK with me.
doctorsuarez 5 years ago
I personally prefer "Big McLargeHuge" and "Crunch Buttsteak" myself. :p
arfies 4 years ago
quick, get me a quaalude or twelve!
matthew11222 5 years ago
Gib Shanley and Don Webster were the first co-hosts of the Ohio Lottery game show they had back in the mid-70s..
professor1966 5 years ago
Dang does this bring back some memories... I miss Cleveland.
maxpower1974 5 years ago
Great video.I remember when they used to roll the sports scorboard and play music by jazz groups like spyro gyra.
gnolt 5 years ago
gnolt I miss those days of REAL music playing during the scoreboards....yep it was pretty much always jazz at that...and it made us go get what was playing.
the Weahter Channel should do that...tell us what song they are playing.
MsTexas73 3 years ago
This was the first ever local news