Radio Lady's Trivia: In the movie Muppets in Space (1999), there was a character named

[Radio_Lady]

Gonzo. I never saw the movie and the grandkids don't want to rent it.

Does anyone remember the lyrics to the song he sang in the movie? Or who the singer was?

[Aristus]

1. The song debuted in "The Muppet Movie" 1979. Here are the lyrics:

This looks familiar, vaguely familiar,
Almost unreal, yet, it's too soon to feel yet.
Close to my soul, and yet so far away.
I'm going to go back there someday.

Sun rises, night falls, sometimes the sky calls.
Is that a song there, and do I belong there?
I've never been there, but I know the way.
I'm going to go back there someday.

Come and go with me, it's more fun to share,
We'll both be completely at home in midair.
We're flyin', not walkin', on featherless wings.
We can hold onto love like invisible strings.

There's not a word yet for old friends who've just met.
Part heaven, part space, or have I found my place?
You can just visit, but I plan to stay.
I'm going to go back there someday.
I'm going to go back there someday.

They used a slightly different arrangement for the "Muppets From Space" rendition.

Sorry, Radio Lady...I'm a Muppet Fanatic... B-)

[Radio_Lady]

4. Wow! Aristus! You are FAST..... and AWAKE! Thank you SO much!

I found out it was CD Track #11 "I'm Going to Go Back There Someday" - Dave Goelz

The Muppets? I love them, too! I am such a kid at heart.

I found this dusty demo CD someone left in the lunch room at Oregon Public Broadcasting and played it a couple of times last night. I ended up singing along with Dave in an alto voice.

Maybe I'll teach this song to my grandkids this weekend.

Peace, Love and Happiness,

(Sign off we used on our children's show on WTVJ, CBS, Miami, Florida 1957 - 1978. The show stayed on with other co-hosts and clowns until 1979. "Skipper" Chuck is gone, but "First Mate" Ellen lives on...)

[Radio_Lady]

6. Aristus, just a quick edit. The movie was from 1999, not 1979.

Just check the demo CD and the IMDB.

[Aristus]

17. "Muppets From Space" was from 1999. "The Muppet Movie", the first

full-length feature film with the Muppets, was released in 1979. Both films include the song. The version from "TMM" was nearly a capella, with just a harmonica and, I believe, banjo. The newer version from "MFS" has a more elaborate instrumental accompaniment.

Had to defend my Muppets lore, there. B-)

BTW, I can sing the song in a perfect Gonzo voice. Muppet voices are my only real talent. :crazy:

[Radio_Lady]

19. Thanks for the info. Do you use this talent in your work???

Oh, I remember you now! You're from Puyallup, Washington! Hard to remember folks around here.

I'd love to speak with you sometime. Just to hear your voice. Want me to PM you the radio station telephone number -- I'm there on Friday mornings only.

UPDATE: I used to do the voice of Strawberry Shortcake, a cute little horse arm-puppet we used on the Popeye show in 1957-58. Strawberry would talk to "Skipper" Chuck and I'd operate the puppet and use my female (falsetto) voice to speak with him while wearing a lavalier microphone. I was behind the set with my arm through the set window.

Gratefully, there are no kinescopes of those productions. I'm a pretty good ad-libber and can write funny dialog. I have dolls all over my house -- plush, porcelain, clothe, and each room has a theme. I guess you could say I'm a latent "thrifty" interior decorator. I just did a downstairs powder room in a Hawaiian motif. It came out very nicely at very little cost.

[Aristus]

26. Sure, PM me the number. It'd be fun to talk to you.

As for using my talent at work? No, not in an official capacity. B-)

[Radio_Lady]

32. UPDATE: To Aristus -- I've just spent about 20 minutes watching YouTube renditions of

Muppets' songs.

What a hoot!

Thanks again, pal!

[MorningGlow]

22. Awww I LOVE that song!

Used to sing it all the time. Viva Gonzo! :toast:

[Radio_Lady]

23. Hi MorningGlow...

I didn't know it until two days ago! Now I'm singing it along with Gonzo on CD. Trying to remember the alto part, because it's not pitched right for me.

CU@theDU

Radio Lady

[auntAgonist]

2. Here it is on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkfJwcskrTY

[SeattleGirl]

3. Pardon the temporary hijack, but aA!!!

How nice to see you!! :loveya:

[auntAgonist]

5. Thanks SeattleGirl. I was just checking in on OMC's update

and saw RadioLady's question. Nice to see you too.

:loveya:
:hug:

aA

[Radio_Lady]

8. Aside to Seattle Girl and aA --

What happened to OMC's wife? PM me...OK? I saw the hospital photo...haven't been keeping up with the dialogue on Stacey.

God, this brings back memories of my husband's first wife, in a hospital bed, down to 91 pounds, almost at the end of her life, dying of stomach cancer. One photo! October 1971... she's trying to smile and she died at age 34.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

7. I remember Link Heartthrob, the captain, from the show.

[Radio_Lady]

10. I cried so much when Jim Henson died... just couldn't believe it...

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/M/htmlM/muppetshow/muppetshow.htm

[Blue-Jay]

9. Wasn't Gonzo a chicken fucker?

I seem to remember him always being surrounded by chickens who, I assume, he had sexual relations with.

[Radio_Lady]

11. Blue-Jay, you kids say the darndest things...

You're probably remembering Chicken Run. Check out your local capons. They look pretty much untouched. Maybe they are two males in a civil union.

Now, I won't say the same for the two old white-haired farts who used to sit in the upper balcony box...

Did those geezers have names?

[Lars39]

12. No, Gonzo really did have a thing for chickens.

He was a strange bird/thing himself. :D

[Blue-Jay]

13. See? That's what I'm sayin'.

I think that hook-nosed bastard was buggering chickens.

[Lars39]

14. That was always the impression I had.

There was also a kinda running joke about no one really knowing what type of animal Gonzo was.

[Richard Steele]

15. Statler and Waldorf, IIRC. nm

[Blue-Jay]

16. They sexed-up the chickens too.

Off-stage, obviously.

[Radio_Lady]

21. ... named after two high class hotels in New York!

The Waldorf chain was purchased by the Hilton folks. We stayed at the Waldorf in London near the Strand on our vacation last spring.

We actually stayed in the Waldorf on Park Avenue on one of our NYC visits a few years ago. Great room, fabulous 30s look inside, and a view out on that famous street.

One problem: No air conditioning above the lobby level!

It was 85 degrees one night.

I spent most of the night lying in front of a big fan -- or soaking in a cool bathtub (with four little feet). That was a tough vacation.

[Richard Steele]

34. Hotels named for wealthy white guys- it's come full circle! nm

[Aristus]

18. Statler and Waldorf. Loved 'em!

[Radio_Lady]

20. Yep, those are the guys.

They could be members of the newly formed DU Geezer Club, headed by my husband, who just selected Audio_Al as his username.

He's 73 and so far, he's the only person who will admit his age as "three score and ten plus three" -- just such a nicer, kinder way of saying it.

Judging from your webjournal, you must be very well read in Shakespeare.

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave
When first we practice to deceive..."

"Out, out, damned spot."

"To die, to sleep, perchance to dream
Ah, there's the rub..."

Do you ever get to Ashland, Oregon for any Shakespeare performances?

And, yes, you're right. Those purity balls are creepy. But somehow you have to find a way through childhood, and at least she's not being raped or slashed, sold into slavery, forced to have a clitorectomy, or marry her cousin. (Sorry, I've been listening to and watching lots of heavy stuff this week.)

Peace, Love and Happiness

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Aristus]

27. I've done some Shakespeare on stage, and met my future wife while she was

playing Goneril from "King Lear". I own The Compleat Works Of William Shakespeare, The Yale Shakespeare, The Library Shakespeare, and The Riverside Shakespeare, plus assorted other books about him and the plays. When it comes to Shakespeare, I've got some game...

Haven't been to the festival at Ashland, though. I'm setting my sights higher; I hope to see some plays at the Globe Theater in London someday. Shakespeare the way God meant it to be seen! B-)

[Radio_Lady]

29. We went to London twice, and we didn't get to the Globe. I mean I didn't.

First time (2006) it was raining too hard to venture across the bridge to the South Walk of the Thames.

Second time (2007) I had a really bad sore throat and had to rest. (Hubby Audio Al shot some digital photos of the outside. I'll try to find them.)

Hey, that gives us another chance to go someday.

One of the changes from Shakespeare's original plan, as you must well know know, is that men played all the female parts.

That won't be happening in London these days.

[Aristus]

30. Hey, when do I get the radio station phone number?

I'll try and call next Friday, if you want. B-)

[Radio_Lady]

31. Check your PMs, Aristus. Please do try next Friday... early is better.

Sorry, I just saw your message a few minutes ago. We went out to dinner, came home and watched "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Thanks for your comments.

Radio Lady and Audio Al

[Critters2]

24. This song?

This isn't from Muppets in Space, but he sings it there, too, I think. I assume the singer is Jim Henson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0pS37iVqS8&mode=related&search=

[Radio_Lady]

33. Hi mycritters2 -- Appreciate your joining in and I've been watching it for a good while.

Must have been Henson... so sad that he left us so soon.

Peace, Love and Happiness

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Nevernose]

25. It was so bad my three year old asked if we could walk out on it.

And after we left, thirty minutes into it -- and after a conversation with the owner about the many, many flaws in Muppets in Space, -- I was made the manager of the movie theater.

Long story, and not entirely appropriate for the kiddies.

Good times. Bad movie. But thanks for the memories!

[Aristus]

28. Yeah, Jim Henson would never have allowed any of his Muppets to say:

"I've got to pee!" His death hurt in more ways than one...