I was down at 190 North State street bright and early this morning for my guest appearance on Erich Mancow Mueller's radio show!
The girls are on the air.
They have a really nice lobby! waited to be brought up to WLS here.
Fahey and Joel!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
ABC TV Studios
I was down at 190 North State street bright and early this morning for my guest appearance on Erich Mancow Mueller's radio show! The girls are on the air. They have a really nice lobby! waited to be brought up to WLS here. Fahey and Joel! 
Monday, December 15, 2008
MAURY LAWS RANKIN/BASS Musical composer
Click to enlarge. This is an article from a few years back that I thought you would enjoy! www.maurylaws.comfrom my pal JIM ENGEL
My pal JIM ENGEL sent me this Holiday gift of the BLOB. It is Jim's original art on a standee!
THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS Deluxe DVD at TARGET, BEST BUY, etc.
There is a documentary on the deluxe edition DVD of THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS that includes interviews with ARTHUR RANKIN, JR., PAUL COKER, JR., MAURY LAWS, DON DUGA, RHODA MANN, BRAD BOLKE and myself called "We are Santa's Elves." It is also available on the RED BOX SET. 
BOOK orders...
JINGLE, JINGLE, JINGLE...I CAN HEAR THOSE SLEIGH BELLS RING, I AM OL' KRIS KRINGLE, I'M THE KING OF JINGLING! I am keeping up with my book and DVD orders! As long as you order by December 20th, you should get them by the holiday! I send the books PRIORITY MAIL with tracking. I have the week of Christmas off and a few days this coming week, so I can keep up. I decided to keep the ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO at $50 for a while. I am down to less than 50 books....so first come, first served! I am also still offering the $100 package: both books, the original 1964 RUDOLPH DVD with commercials/DRUMMER BOY with commercials and GRINCH with bank bumpers PLUS the signed PAUL COKER, JR. FROSTY THE SNOWMAN card. PAYPAL: Rickgoldsc@aol.com or e-mail me for mailed payments! HAVE A HOLLY, JOLLY CHRISTMAS!
Sunday, December 14, 2008
THE STARVING ARTISTS: Practice at the Sanchez's
VICTOR SANCHEZ: One of the BEST drummers I have ever played with.
Juan Sanchez on bass! Juan is an AWESOME bass player and filled in for DENNIS RIORDAN...who is coming down with a cold. I am sure we will be playing alot more with Juan in the future. Dennis can play some keyboards and guitar. 
My double cutaway Gibson Les Paul.
STAR TREK by Bob Bentavoja!
Absolutely love this art by one of my very favorite artists....BOB BENTAVOJA!
THE 3 STOOGES CHRISTMAS
I was listening to this one as I was getting things done! Always fun to hear this again!WLS RADIO SHOWS
I will be on Chicago's very own WLS RADIO this week as an in studio guest both Tuesday and Wednesday! I will be on MANCOW's show Tuesday December 16th from 9am to 11 am and then on THE ROE CONN SHOW Wednesday December 17th at 6pm with ROE & BILL! We will be talking RANKIN/BASS for the Holidays! WLS is 890 AM on the dial....the BIG 89 we grew up with! It's a 50,000 watt clear channel station that reaches the entire midwest!MISER BROS CHRISTMAS
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Watching that new MISER BROS CHRISTMAS thing on ABC FAMILY was like watching a train wreck. I knew it would be bad BUT could not believe how awful it was! I had to turn it off after about 5 minutes. RANKIN/BASS classic Holiday TV specials have lasted over forty years....things like this last about 5 minutes and then are forgotten about forever.
Friday, December 12, 2008
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK 2
THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK 2 was left out of the RED BOX set release but was advertised as included? It was the only RANKIN/BASS special nominated for an EMMY!
ARTHUR RANKIN, JR.
NO "MERRY" FOR THIS CHRISTMAS ICONArthur Rankin, Jr., creator of such holiday TV classics as RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN, THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS, THUNDERCATS and THE HOBBIT is dealing with a BURGERMEISTER MEISTERBURGER in the form of WARNER BROS. It seems that WARNER BROS. had underpaid RANKIN/BASS in various ways, including 19 years of impermissible $200,000 annual deductions from the pool of revenues from which Rankin's profit participation is paid.
"It was an accounting mistake on WARNER BROS., part, a mistake that the company's accountants readily admit, right down to the penny," said Rankin. "However, WARNER BROS. is now claiming I caught their error too late. So instead of doing the right thing and fairly compensating RANKIN/BASS for helping generate years of viewer enjoyment, not to mention an awful lot of revenue,WARNER BROS.is hiding behind the statute of limitations."
The dispute dates back to the 1980's, when WARNER BROS. acquired from RANKIN/BASS, the rights to several of the RANKIN/BASS Christmas classics and other animated properties, including the enormously popular 1980's animated television series THUNDERCATS and SILVERHAWKS. The recent WARNER BROS. home video DVD box set releases of THUNDERCATS sold over a million DVDs and they are getting ready to release SILVERHAWKS. Mr. Rankin even graciously appeared on Set #2 of THUNDERCATS in a documentary and did the same for the WARNER BROS. Deluxe DVD release of THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS (Which is also available in a new box set).
"This is obviously not the right thing to do to a creator of such wonderful programming and the rest of his staff," says Rick Goldschmidt RANKIN/BASS Historian/Biographer. "As in all RANKIN/BASS specials, writer Romeo Muller would reform the villains. This villain needs to be reformed."
"As far as I am concerned," continues Rankin, "There is no question as to what is right and what is wrong. If you take something by mistake, you put it back. You don't get to keep it. We put those kinds of ethics into our shows for children. Maybe the folks at WARNER BROS. should watch a few of them."
SEASON'S GREETINGS!
Going on the MANCOW show next week...possibly in studio. Have a few days off next week and a vacation the week of CHRISTMAS...so can ship orders for the holiday rush with no problems!THE ENCHANTED WORLD OF RANKIN/BASS: A PORTFOLIO
When I started work on my 3rd printing, PAUL COKER did this early design for the NEW cover!Thursday, December 11, 2008
Another RADIO INTERVIEW in the am...
Doing a morning interview with my friend Todd Michaels, Host of "The Wound-Up Wake-Up"Dial-Global 24/7 Radio Network which will be broadcast over 50 affiliates in the coming weeks! Todd worked on the LEEZA LIVE! radio show a few years back and had ARTHUR RANKIN and myself on....then LEEZA went on to DANCING WITH THE STARS.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE in ANIMAGIC by RANKIN/BASS
a few ANIMAGIC figures from an unproduced series on SHIRLEY TEMPLE from RANKIN/BASS!
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Restoring SANTA!
Robin Walsh restores SANTA! www.screen-novelties.com Listen to her talk about it at the NPR website! My interview is there too!
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
INTERVIEW for NEWSHOUR with JIM LEHRER: ART BEAT
Doing an interview on Rankin/ Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for a new arts blog on the website of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Art Beat (to launch Dec. 15) with Zoe Pollock Wednesday on my lunch! The photograph above is from the BROOKFIELD ZOO last year at this time! That is KEVIN KRIESS of www.timeandspacetoys.com talking about the restoral of the SANTA & RUDOLPH ANIMAGIC figures!
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