He reveals to Dinah Shore that his mom worked at a military technology company that made bombs and missiles, and his dad ("Mister Pop") taught media communications at a local high school. At the time, brothers Tony and Hunt Sales, sons of the recently departed comedian Soupy Sales, were playing in the Stooges in Iggy's band. Iggy Pop on the Dinah Shore show.
The clip stops right as Iggy gets ready to launch into a performance, but I believe this is the stupendous performance that followed, with some guy named David Bowie on the keyboards! Looks like this was another performance from the same show.
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Previously: Alice Cooper on the Soupy Sales show, 1979.
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Is that blonde guy David Bowie? He sure looks like Bowie and Iggy and Bowie used to be roomies in 1977 in Berlin with Iggy writing songs for Bowie and vice-versa.
Iggy Pop on the evening news in Cincinnati, 1970. The commentary from the broadcaster is precious.
No, he says he's going to do "Sister Midnight". I think it's this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdciK2Axc4A
@John Napsterista, awesome!
@Mista Spakuru - Ah thanks, updated the post to include both! They're clearly from the same show.
"That's...peanut butter."
What a great find... "Who do your parents feel about your working without your jacket on?" Hahahaha. And he gets his influence from electric shavers. Priceless.
Iggy singing about dark incestuous desire on Dinah Shore's squeaky clean TV show. Pinch me. I must be dreaming.
I love how she calls him by his real name and he's almost humbled by her. A friend of mine always imitates this interview, saying Jimmy in that soft spoken southern belle accent.
Oh, yeah. Soupy Sales sons were Tony and the Tigers in the 60's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqxSd6EfIg
The Sales brothers were never in The Stooges. They were the rhythm section for Iggy solo on Lust For Life and the following tours. (Later they were, lest we forget, the same for Tin Machine. Oh dear.)
I love the cut to Bowie, smoking on the set. It was a different time...
I had Iggy's dad for English at Fordson High School in Dearborn MI (go Tractors!). I remember his dad (Mr. James Osterberg Senior) telling us that Junior was going to be on Dinah Shore and I caught the show after school. There was a time when the mere mention of Iggy's name brought immediate retribution from Mr. Pop, but by this time (1976?) they had reconciled, and Mr. Osterberg would regale us with stories from the road (kids were shooting staple guns at the band in Russia) and home ("we had Bowie over for spaghetti last night"). Take a picture of Iggy today, give him a flat top in photoshop and he'd look exactly like his dad.
One of my favorite teachers...
@annoyingmouse, corrected, thanks!
@gpeare, WOW. Amazing!
Hey, @gpeare, don't forget Iggy's appearance as a suburban dad (and recurring character) in The Adventures of Pete and Pete in the mid-1990s. That show also featured Syd Straw and some other fabulous weird actors and musicians. And a freaking awesome theme song.
The performance with Bowie was on the same show. Iggy talked about mutilating himself on stage with a broken bottle with Dinah and David was just grinning away in the background with a "That's my buddy Iggy!" look on his face.
However what was even more strange was the guest that followed Iggy was Rosemary Clooney, another self mutilator.
This is one of my favor moments in TV history
This is one of the best things I've ever seen. Love how humble and polite Iggy is with Dinah. He's a nice boy. Makes his parents proud. Proud enough to fix his teeth. Every single thing about that interview is awesome.