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<div><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Interesting,</FONT></div>
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<div>I thought BOZO moved to Libya and became Moammar Gadhafi, looks just like him, especially when he is wearing his black yamaka and if he died his hair red.</div>
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<div>Hey, I remember the original "Bozo" from the late 40's or early 50's, I met him at a show in Albany, NY. That must have been one of the greatest days of my life. He was quite a singer.</div>
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From: Dave Sieg <dave@zfx.com><br>
To: Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>
Sent: Mon, Mar 28, 2011 11:06 pm<br>
Subject: [QuadList] Quad tape of Bozo<br>
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<div id=AOLMsgPart_2_d2bfbd04-9884-48d4-a297-4d58376b0d88>Well, this does have to do with Quad....
<div>This story by Vince Staten from Sunday's Kingsport Times News tells part of the story...</div>
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<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Johnny Carson used to rail against NBC, his employer, for its shortsightedness in the sixties and early seventies.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Every afternoon the network would record his “Tonight” show on videotape for replay later in the evening. The shows were saved for a time until sometime in the early seventies when an employee, intent on saving the company money on purchasing videotape, which was expensive at the time, recorded over the Carson library.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Carson complained that much of his best work on the show was lost.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>It was. In fact much television from the early years of TV is gone. Broadcasters reused tapes again and again.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>But there is surviving tape from Kingsport’s Bozo the Clown Show, thanks to Dave Sieg, who was just a high school kid in 1969, working part time at WKPT-TV after school.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>But we are getting ahead of ourselves.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Let’s got back to 1967. “D-B was brand spanking new,” remembers Dave, “and they had a TV studio!”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5><SPAN> </SPAN>Dave was trying to negotiate his way up and down the ramps of the new D-B when he walked past a half-open doorway. “I got a glimpse of plastic-wrapped racks of equipment and a guy scratching his head looking at some drawings. Not being able to resist, I stepped in and asked him what all the equipment was for. ‘This is going to be a TV studio! Do you want to help me put it together?’ he asked. His name was Gary Smith and that invitation undoubtedly changed the course of my life. I had always tinkered with old radios and electronic kits, but this was on a completely different level! I thought I had died and gone to heaven!”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Dave, who owns the technology consulting company ZFx, credits Gary Smith with teaching him everything he knows about video.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>“We had a great time playing video production and doing live homeroom ‘broadcasts’ every morning.”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>When Kingsport’s local cable company was sold to United Transmission of Kansas City, the new owner began originating local programming on cable channel 12, KUTI-TV. It was mostly stuff like Felix the Cat cartoons and a live newscast, which Dave says, “consisted of a guy reading the paper aloud weekday afternoons.” But they needed workers. “I was hired with two other guys. We lugged one of the cameras and a 100 lb videotape recorder to the National Guard Armory and shot ‘Wrasslin’’ every Wednesday night and then we did the same thing every Saturday night at the old Gem Theatre, shooting the ‘Lonesome Valley Jamboree.’”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Then when WKPT-TV signed on the air August 20, 1969, Dave got a job working there after school on, among other shows, the Bozo the Clown kids’ show. Also working on the Bozo show was George Hilton. “George had done lighting at the Olde West dinner theatre and so he was our set and lighting man.”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Bozo made its debut the first week in September 1969.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Bozo was played by Rusty Cury, a WKPT deejay. “Rusty had been to Larry Harmon’s ‘Bozo School’ where he learned to apply all the makeup, wear the costume and talk like Bozo.<SPAN> </SPAN>He took over the women’s restroom every afternoon getting ready.”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>The show featured a live studio audience of Kingsport kids who played games for prizes and watched cartoons. The show ran for two years but George Hilton left before the end of the run.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>“On George’s final day at work, we convinced Bozo (Rusty Curry) to drag George out in front of the camera and dance around with him during the musical kiddy-pan.”</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Dave recorded it on a two-inch videotape and then wound the tape up on a pencil because video reels were expensive.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>He put it away and forgot about it. “Then a couple of years ago, I visited my friend Larry Odham [CQ], who has managed to keep some of the old 2-inch quad videotape machines working in his basement lab. We unrolled the tape onto a reel and lo and behold, it played perfectly!”<SPAN> </SPAN></FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Dave later posted the clip, which runs almost three minutes, online.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>The segment features Rusty Cury as Bozo dancing around and cavorting with Hilton.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>If you were on the Bozo show, you’ll want to check out the video because the camera pans the studio audience, some twenty or so kids who look to be six to ten. One of them could be you.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>The clip is at <A style="COLOR: rgb(6,88,181)" href="http://www.vimeo.com/3814121" target=_blank>www.vimeo.com/3814121</A>. I have a link on my blog, <A style="COLOR: rgb(6,88,181)" href="http://vincestaten.blogspot.com/" target=_blank>vincestaten.blogspot.com</A>.</FONT></div>
<div style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=5>Those kids are now almost fifty. Let me know if you are one of them or if you can identify any of the kids.</FONT></div>
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</SPAN>- And I KNOW the QuadGroup has some Bozo stories....<br>
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Dave Sieg<br>
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