Archive for Books
Mountain Songs – 1937 Songbook
Mountain Songs from Belmont Music Company. Chicago, 1937. Kinda cool rustic artwork in this book. It’s really just line drawings without much detail, but it matches the content pretty well.
TV Super Stars ’78
TV Super Stars ’78 by Ronald Lackmann. Xerox Publishing 1978. Guess what, there isn’t a table of contents! But at least these are all people that I remember, unlike yesterday’s 1978 Television book.
People mentioned here include Farrah Fawcett-Majors, her hubby at the time, Lee Majors, David Soul, Cindy Williams, Pamela Sue Martin, Mackenzie Phillips, Robert Blake, Linda Carter, Levar Burton, Penny Marshall, Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Lindsay Wagner, Vince Van Patten as the Bionic Boy.
TV Time ’78
TV Time ’78 by Peggy Herz. Scholastic TX 4219, 1978. Man, she wrote a zillion of these books!
TV shows covered this year are: Thunder (anyone hear of this one?); Welcome Back, Kotter; Happy Days (and she profiles Erin Moran! Hardly anyone did that.), Willie Ames in Eight is Enough, Grizzly Adams, Kristy McNichol in Family; Ernest Thomas in What’s Happening!!; Wonder Woman; Wojo in Barney Miller; The Tony Randall Show? I don’t remember that! Brad Savage was in Red Dawn.; The Fonz in Happy Days. Hey! Happy Days gets two chapters!
Get most of these shows from Netflix.
TV’s Fabulous Faces
TV’s Fabulous Faces by Peggy Herz. Scholastic TX 3709, 1977.
Includes Lavern and Shirley, John Schuck in Holmes and Yoyo (anyone remember that show? I do.), Gabe Kaplan in Welcome Back, Kotter, Lindsay Wagner in The Bionic Woman, Donny and Marie, Barney Miller, Mike Farrell in M*A*S*H, Space: 1999 (My dad was in love with Barbara Bain since Mission: Impossible), Starsky and Hutch (I’ve never even seen one episode of this show), and One Day at a Time.
TV Close-Ups 1975
TV Close-Ups by Peggy Herz, special Arrow edition of TV People. Scholastic TX 3028, 1975.
This is my first of several years of books on TV. I’ll be posting them over the next week or so. They’re pretty interesting to look back at. This is a kid’s version of the book TV People. They have Radar from M*A*S*H and Michael Landon from Little House on the Prairie, then Darren McGavin in the Night Stalker? I suppose a lot of kids watched it which may explain Generation X. And Rhoda, which I wasn’t allowed to watch.
What surprises me after showing my 3 books on Fonzie, all these books between 1975 and 1980 and only one talks about Henry Winkler and this one talks about Happy Days.
Does anyone remember Patti Cahoon and Apple’s Way? I sure don’t. Others are Freddie Prinze and Chico and the Man, the fabulous Kurt Russell in New Land (another I don’t remember), Clifton Davis That’s My Mama, Angie Dickinson and Police Woman, Richard Thomas of the Waltons (I wasn’t allowed to watch this one either. Actually my Dad hated the show so we never watched it), and Roddy McDowall in the TV show Planet of the Apes.
Grease Fotonovel – Full Color Pictures of the Movie
Grease by Allan Carr based on the screenplay by Bronte Woodward based on the musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. “Over 350 color pictures from the hit movie!” “For the first time, take the movie home with you!” What, no Blu-ray? I may have underpriced mine. I’ve got it at the flea market for something like $8.95, but it’s between $19.99 and $50 online.
