INTERVIEW

The article on RENDERED SERVICES should be in tomorrow's Chicago Tribune RED EYE NEWSPAPER.

BRUSHA, BRUSHA, BRUSHA

New IPANA Toothpaste! Here is one of my favorite advertising characters. I have several of the commercials. The jingle was written by JIMMY DODD (Leader of the MICKEY MOUSE CLUB) and many of the commercials aired during THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB.

Another NEW song...

Working on yet another NEW song for my current recording project called "Manic (You're going to be alone, at the end of the road)." It is a rocker!

Good RANKIN/BASS things coming for the Holidays of 2008!

I am told this new WB DVD box set will include the unreleased THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, BOOK 2, THE STINGIEST MAN IN TOWN and THE LEPRECHAUN'S CHRISTMAS GOLD. Not sure why they mix in the GRINCH and they could have called this a RANKIN/BASS DVD set. WB used the RANKIN/BASS logo and name on the JACK FROST DVD. THE YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS disc is the same as the single disc and does include the RANKIN/BASS Documentary.

FRAZIER THOMAS: GARFIELD GOOSE & FRIENDS

My pal RON MURPHY sent over another pic for our CHICAGO KID'S TV Project!

WALT DISNEY'S IMAGINEERING LEGENDS

My friend, Jeff Kurtti, sent me his new hardcover DISNEY book! What is not to like?...It is all good. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! This is my 1,000th post on my blog!

SAMBO's art

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HAPPY RANKIN/BASS Monday!

BREEZLY & SNEEZLY

Josh and I have quite a BREEZLY & SNEEZLY collection! We have this now THANKS to my friend TOM MARGARITES!

KILLER JOE PIRO

Here are a few clippings from my pal RON MURPHY! They are of KILLER JOE PIRO. KILLER JOE choreographed the dance sequences in the RANKIN/BASS hit 'ANIMAGIC' feature film MAD MONSTER PARTY (1967)!

THAT GIRL

THAT GIRL Season 4 came out on DVD this past Tuesday and it is pretty darn cool! Love the packaging! My friend RON MURPHY gave me this magazine this past week too.

Sara's party pics (set #2)

Tom Margarites takes his turn on the skins

Margy on Josh's guitar

The TOM MARGARITES TRIO

Josh forgot his skateboard

Sara opens some gifts...

Den working the scales

Sara's Birthday Party pictures (set #1)

We played well into the night!

The always reliable DENNIS RIORDAN on bass and MIKE CARNEY on drums (who made a key repair on the HI-HAT!)

"Give me a G#"

Josh the Skateboarder

Rick on the RICKENBACKER

My sister Stacey on drums to start us off on "You can see it in my eyes"

The Ice Cream cake was still a bit frozen and we broke a knife or two

My sister Lindsey and my Mom

We had four drummers tonight including myself.

Sara and her southside guests..

Tom Margarites on some lightning fast solos!

Sara's Birthday Weekend

From VOGUE Courtesy of RON MURPHY

VACATION

This has been quite a vacation week and tomorrow is the big smasharoo Birthday party for my daughter Sara! Played Golf, Baseball and football again today with Josh. Visited MIRA today for a hair styling and got my packages mailed to date! Had my ring cleaned and getting all sorts of things done.... Party pictures to come!

A visit with my pal RON MURPHY

A cool MARY BLAIR book cover!

A Wonderful MARY BLAIR Christmas image...

LOVE Advertising characters!

Josh and I drove out to Aurora to visit with my pal RON MURPHY and his son WYATT. He always saves cool clippings and various items he knows I collect, like these cool things and I will be posting a few more things in coming days. We went to a few ANTIQUE stores and picked up some cool things as well and had lunch at GOODIES.

BOWLING for dollars

Josh and I bowled three more games today in addition to playing baseball, football, riding bikes, etc. Mr. Energy keeps me busy!

BJ & DIRTY DRAGON Bill Jackson has a NEW book!

Who could forget BJ & DIRTY DRAGON, if you grew up in Chicago? Or GIGGLESNORT HOTEL if you lived elsewhere? Well now, Bill Jackson has a new book out about his early years. His memoirs tell the story of how he got his creative genius. He actually started his career in entertainment after studying with Daws Butler and Don Messick. The rest is CHICAGO KID's TV History! I wrote an article about BILL at www.tvparty.com and it was later published in the very cool TV PARTY book!

His programs won four Chicago Emmys and two Iris Awards as Best Major Market Children’s Television in America. One of Jackson’s series, The Gigglesnort Hotel, achieved nationwide syndication in over seventy markets, plus Canada, Italy, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. Jackson is listed on the internet’s Wikipedia, and featured in the books TVparty, Children’s Television?Part II, In Their Own Words?Vol. III, and The Golden Age of Chicago Children’s Television. In recognition of his career, Jackson was inducted in 2005 into The Silver Circle, Chicago television’s Hall of Fame.

The Only Kid on the Carnival is a humorous, heart-tugging story that stirs the dreamer in all of us. It is available for purchase on the internet at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/

RANKIN/BASS: The RARE Stuff!

E-mail me for the RARE RANKIN/BASS titles on DVD at Rickgoldsc@aol.com I offer deals on packages. With the holidays coming....the demand becomes greater and greater, so let me know as soon as possible.