Word: freberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andy Williams Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). It is not easy to make a musical variety show seem different from all the others. Somehow Andy manages. This time he does it with Musicomedy Star Carol Lawrence, Comedian Stan Freberg and the Mills Brothers...
Anyone buying a new Capitol 45-r.p.m. record titled Green Chri$tma$ can study these and other atrocities at yuletide leisure. Lyricist Stan Freberg is an adman himself, with an executive suite on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard and a reputation for the cute commercial (TIME, Aug. 4).) But Freberg also had a solid Baptist upbringing (his minister father still has a church in Pasadena), and for years he has felt Christmas commercialism gnawing away at his religious vitals. "The funny thing is," he says, "that businessmen would sell as much soap or soft drinks at Christmas if they never...
...When Freberg gave his satire to Capitol Records-donating his profits to charity -the lower ranks happily waxed it. When the brass heard the record, it was yanked off the release list while Capitol's board of directors threshed over the propriety of such uncommercialism. As Freberg and his carolers...
...America plug brings two spacemen to life with the line, "We'd like to see something in earth money." During the one month that the ad ran on radio, the bank reported that time-plan loans were up 33%. One Salt Lake City station was so impressed with Freberg's words and music that it put on a half-hour show consisting of nothing but Freberg commercials...
...unorganized wet-rock people-who behave as if they've just crawled out from under wet rocks and accuse me of being a Red for poking fun at Johnnie Ray, Lawrence Welk, Jack Webb, the whole State of Nevada and hearing aids." At the prices he now commands, Freberg reckons he can stand the complaints...