Frank Converse & The Cake perform "She's Leaving Home" (1967)

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, July 10, 2008 11:09 AM | permalink

kraftwerk2010 says: "Frank Converse (with a little help from ultra cool girl band The Cake) recites 'She's Leaving Home' William-Shatner-style on the 1967 TV program Popendipty." (via A Hole in the Head)

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#1 posted by mikerbaker , July 10, 2008 11:28 AM

Anyone else notice the girl at 2:38?

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#2 posted by ployntabs , July 10, 2008 11:38 AM

Yeah, I feel the way she does.
This could have worked if Frankie baby had actually done a little acting or emoting.
Oh well, not all art is for everyone.

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#3 posted by Antinous , July 10, 2008 11:42 AM

The pain, the pain. Anybody else remember Ali McGraw reclining on a recamier on the Ed Sullivan show whilst reciting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese?

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#4 posted by Nawel , July 10, 2008 11:46 AM

Yep.

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#5 posted by TulsaTV , July 10, 2008 12:07 PM

"Deep down inside my brain, I keep hearing that wild refrain, Coronet Blue..."

Frank Converse is also notable for starring in an unusual TV series, "Coronet Blue":

From TVAcres.com - Password needed to unlock the mystery of Michael Alden (Frank Converse), a man (suffering from amnesia) fished out of the East River on the mystery adventure CORONET BLUE/CBS/1967). The only thing that he remembered was the phrase "coronet blue." As the theme song revealed "deep down inside my brain, I keep hearing that wild refrain, coronet blue." The series was not renewed after it filled as the summer replacement for THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW/CBS/ABC/1967-79, so the viewers never discovered what the cryptic phrase "coronet blue" really meant. Frank Converse resurfaced on the crime drama NYPD the following fall season.

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#6 posted by JIMWICh

, July 10, 2008 12:27 PM

Will Chandler!

The white line is a lifeline to the nation
And men like Will and Sonny make it move
Livin' like a gypsy, always on the go
And doin' what they best know how to do
Jammin' gears has got to be a fever
As men become addicted to the grind
It takes a special breed to be a truck drivin' man
And a steady hand to pull that load behind

Big wheel's rollin', big wheel's rollin', movin' o-on
Big wheel's rollin', gotta keep 'em goin'
Big wheel's rollin', movin' on

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#7 posted by the specialist , July 10, 2008 12:39 PM

people are sheep. this is why we have wars. and marketing.

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#8 posted by shutz , July 10, 2008 1:41 PM

to The Specialist: You win the award for today's best non sequitur. To claim your prize, simply bounce rag diagonal, sudden peanut phrase.

Pointer tension role condition.
Shopping subset variant landing exempt.

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#9 posted by EH , July 10, 2008 3:57 PM

Wow, this performance is possibly the most effective and complete evisceration of a work of art, removing everything that makes it interesting and leaving only its bones.

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#10 posted by Takuan , July 10, 2008 4:09 PM

he sounded like Orson Welles

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#11 posted by Reverend T , July 10, 2008 5:13 PM

This guy... has nothing... on... SHATNER!

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#12 posted by Yep , July 10, 2008 7:04 PM

Is that a kazoo that's accompanying? Sweet fancy Moses.