Re: Tales of the City

[G.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> 
> Rob Frantz asks about the harmonica player in the score to the
> PBS series "tales of the City." Harmonica? I thought it was
> Michael Tolliver's panpipes.
> 
> I called KQED, the San Francisco affiliate. I didn't expect them
> to have the information, and they didn't, but they gave me the
> address of the company that made the series:

***********LOTS OF STUFF TRASHED HERE******************
> 
> (Check out Morgan's work on old Twilight Zone episodes, where he
> accompanies fight scenes with a Polyphonia, or the classic one
> where Andy Devine plays a know-it-all teller of fibs and
> whoppers who plays awful harmonica licks between tall tales at
> his rural general store. Space aliens get wind of him, and, taking him
> for the world's greatest genius, try to kidnap him in their
> flying saucer. At first he tries to get away, but when, resigned
> to his fate, he sits down to play his harmonica, he finds that
> the aliens get extremely upset, then pass out cold. He quickly
> makes his escape, and goes home to tell his tale. For once he's
> telling the truth and NObody believes him.)
> 
> Winslow
> 
> 

I just HAD to say that I love posts like this, fun to read and full of
really strange (useless? ;-)) information.
 
I wish I'd seen this episode, Salvador Dali meets the soaps!

We need more of this stuff!

Gordon.