Soupy Sales Meets the Rat Pack

[MROBERTS46]

just to clarify this show was taped and aired in June of 1965--it got such great response that Channel 5 re ran it as a Friday evening special broadcast......Willie B is the boy's father...Ted Brown the maitre'd---where the information this show was aired in 1961 is beyond me

[originalmatchgame]

I want my dollar back

[rolko52]

@originalmatchgame - A check is in the mail.

[Aggedor1959]

An amazing bit of classic TV

[funkhauser81]

just heard about this on the Dennis Miller show, funny stuff

[rolko52]

It's taken many views of this video, and Ira Gallen's version, to determine that Soupy was the character "Pierre". Ted Brown is just identified as the "maitre d'".

[rolko52]

I am not going to belabor this point, but just run a search on YT for The Bell Telephone Hour and get a feel for the level of programming. Knowing the corp mindset of AT&T, no one in their right mind would ever suggest that this clip would appear. I remember ACTUALLY VIEWINGthe first ran clip on WNEW TV. Regardless of jb20092009 stated opinion, it could not have happened. You would have a better odds seeing Howard Stern on Pat Robertson's network than this SS sketch on the old BT Hour.

[jb20092009]

Another FYI---this was not on TSSS in 1965as depicted on the 1st vid, but on "The Bell Telephone Hour" in 1961 and originally shot in color. I'd believe this was the first time SS and FN had performed together as Soupy's partner of the time was Clyde Adler. RIP to the 3 of them.

[JTPolo101]

@jb20092009 Not sure what show this skit was on, but it must have been from 1965. Sinatra mentions to Sammy about going to see his film "Von Ryans Express" and that film was released in 65

[rolko52]

As an FYI, the man who Soupy pulled in front of the camera as "the Italian dressing" was Sinatra crony and former NYC restaurantur Jilly Rizzo.

[jb20092009]

Sorry, dude, but I just saw Soupy's interview with Bob Costas and he claimed that the "Waiter" sketch WAS 1960-61 and someone long ago had told me it was on THE FRANK SINATRA SHOW, which was The Bell Telephone Hour at the time. Look, from time to time some of the vintage skits were rerun on the NYC Channel 5 show---including the one with Burt Lancaster. And as to color, that would have been for the live cycle anyway. No color video tape until the mid '60s.

[rolko52]

The Maitre D' (Pierre) is WNEW-AM radio personality the late Ted Brown.

[gmonet46]

The man with the small boy/girl? I was guessing William B. Williams at first, but realized you hit the nail with Ted Brown..they were almost clones in appearence and voice..but great personalities with distinct styles..WBW was Sinatra's host and also Joey Bishop if I recall right.

[rolko52]

@gmonet46 - The man who walked in with small boy (played by Frank Nastasi) was indeed William B. Williams. Towards the end of the clip, "Pierre" the Maitre D', is fellow WNEW-AM radio personality Ted Brown.

[Robert4770]

The great William B. was the man who gave Sinatra the nickname "Chairman of the Board". He was the voice of WNEW for over 40 years.

[beccacyrus93]

RIP Soup.  You were the best.

[rolko52]

Frank Nastasi, the "bratty kid", was probably in his late forties or early fifties when this video was shot!