KABC Los Angeles complete sign-off 12/30/78
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- After-movie commercial and closing, then the sign-off clip starts falsely only to be stopped and rolled back for one more round of commercials! Always wonder how these slots were sold to advertisers. They had stopped doing the sign-off news reports by this point, announcer Len Beardsley says goodnight and listen to KABC-AM if you're still up, then a High Flight film and Moog Star-Spangled Banner before the signal goes off.
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Music on the movie bumpers is "Laia Ladaia," from the 1968 Pat Williams album _Shades of Today_ . Seems that one got around in television circles -- at least two game show pilots and three aired programs used music from this release!
"Laia Ladaia" itself also appeared as the opening music for WJW/WJKW-TV Cleveland's "Late Night Movie" (the type whose open was enough to give some sensitive people seizures).
That theme song to "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" (at 2:07) certainly had a long shelf life.
Good call! It was driving me nuts what that theme was from.
@@londonmay1That had been a promo for the KABC-TV morning one-hour 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. program called "A.M. Los Angeles", which aired from 1971 to 1991. Notice in this December 30, 1978 promo that mentioned hairstyles for men for 1979, that the host was Regis Philbin speaking those words. That was before his 1985 switch over to WABC-TV in New York City, when he was joined by Kathie Lee Gifford. Regis Philbin hosted "A.M. Los Angeles" with Sarah Purcell, before she was one of the hosts on the national NBC-TV show, "Real People", from 1979 to 1984 and the ABC "Home Show" from 1992 through 1994. In between, she had the nationally syndicated show,"Publuc People, Private Lives".
As far as the "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Fampus" theme, that show did not air until 1984 and went through 1995. It was a weekly nationally syndicated show hosted by Robin Leach.
The theme song was first used, however, on "A.M. Los Angeles", beginning in 1978. The title is "Come As You Are" and it is an instrumental by Bill Conti. "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous" used it as their beginning and end theme from 1984 to 1988, then from 1988 through 1995, for the opening theme only, as their ending theme was replaced with "Champagne Wishes And Caviar Dreams", co-written and sung by Dionne Warwick.
"A.M. Los Angeles" used the theme from 1978 through at least 1983, then "Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous" used it from 1984 through 1995 in some form or another. I had first known it as the "A.M. Los Angeles" theme song first, as many in the Los Angeles region had, as it was used on their local show.
KABC-TV Channel 7 Los Angeles continued to sign off at night through the late 1980s.
Love that Moog Star-Spangled Banner!
Though I’ve upgraded my TV a lot over the years, I miss the days of the CRT. I was born in 84 and my family bought a Sony 25” trinitron soon after and it ran for almost 20 years without issue, and in between we bought a large screen 32” Sony Trinitron in 95. The latter was still being used by my Grandma until 2010. 4K and full HD is still great though, but old stuff looks better on CRT.
KABC's sign-offs might make modern audiences think of the _Bluey_ episode "Sleepytime", which uses a similar arrangement of the Holst piece "The Planets, Op. 32: IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity".
The music during Len Beardley's sign off was "I Vow to Thee, My Country"
A young Regis Philbin!
Contrast this with, say, New York sister WABC-TV, which after the movie was over would have one or two ads followed by a PSA, then the sign-off slides-only "Eyewitness News" (with PSA breaks), more PSA's, the morning prayer read by staff announcers, the sign-off and - at this point in time - the same Moog SSB KABC signed off with. Moreover, WABC rotated late-night shift announcers by day of the week and all that, including Wally Parker, Tedd Lawrence, Bob Lloyd, Allan Jefferys, sometimes Ed Williams or Barbara Korsen . . . until about 1977, Ed Jordan also handled the sign-off shift . . .
Of course, by the mid 80s, only Wally Parker’s voice was heard, right?
@@jareddicarlo7816 - And on occasion, Ed Williams.
RIP Regis Philbin, & Florence Henderson aka Miss Brady.
Meanwhile, in New York, WABC's morning show was still "A.M. New York" then, with Clay Cole as main host (the show ended up in a death spiral after Stanley Siegel - one of those comets that shone brightly and burnt out quickly - left to host his own show on rival WCBS). I don't know if Janet Langhart was with Mr. Cole yet, or what.
Fred Foy is the announcer for the "America's Singing Sweethearts" record offer.
And Gene Edwards handled the ending tag. (Both voices were omnipresent through at least the '80's on many a Suffolk Marketing mail-order record offer ad.)
7:38 local58 brought me here
@The Media Hoarder: Jeanette MacDonald's older sister was Blossom Rock, better known to TV fans as the grandma on The Addams Family.
10 days before this sign off, in England their BBC Television was taken off air totally by a strike of the unions. No television at all on BBC One or BBC Two from December 21st until December 23rd, when the unions agreed a pay increase. TV resumed on the BBC on December 23rd. Nearly ruining Christmas for millions.
Caught them in a screw-up. They started the sign-off before they showed the last commercials.
You know what...I think the very beginning of this video is the final second or two of The Beatles Help! from 1965. I recognize the name Walter Shenson there. I was watching that night...great memory.
Yes, that’s what was taped that night and they just let it keep running.
I would like to know if you have any more video clips of commercials aired on KABC-TV Channel 7 in 1977, 1979 and 1980 and if you could please upload them because they bring back memories of my childhood.@TheMediaHoarder
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Beardsley's sign-off is definitely being played from a cart. He was probably recording everything in advance by this point, which would explain why the late news bulletins had been discontinued.
Anyone know the title for the Saturday Night Movie theme?I Love it!
@The Media Hoarder: I know you're doing the best you can on this, but I hope you have the ad to Irving (Fabulous Fingers) Fields' 50 Songs You'll Always Love album, released by Suffolk Marketing, also responsible for the Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald treasury. (I know you have a lot of tapes with content from WUHF)
Saturday December 30th 1978, television in England would not start their Saturday until 9.30am on BBC One, 11.45am on BBC Two and 8.50am on ITV.
And over in Oz, ABC-TV started at 10.55am with the 3rd Ashes cricket test (Australia v England), Channels 7 and 10 started at 7.00am with Saturday morning cartoons and Channel 9 was the only 24-7 broadcaster at the time (this was in Sydney, other cities and states would have been different)
@@GarfieldFan83 You forget Channel 9 in Melbourne one, they also 24/7 since 1976 after Summer Olympics in Montreal concluded.
Was it common to play the national anthem with the station closure for the night? IE did other stations do it too or just an ABC thing?
Yes
It was a tradition for a long time.
2:25 R.I.P. Sidney Poitier 1927-2022
I ain’t worried by onereupblic cane national anthem performed by gronk and choir conductor Bessie Stanley of the orechestera and her closest friends playing the orchestra instruments introduced by Laura trevelyan and Adam Devine from 4kids tv Los Angeles sign off narrated by Adam Devine august 20 2018
3:46- Parley Baer is "Walt".
8:50 - The flag from MTV.
Those were the days before Disney purchase and their take-back of many union perks.
Here's what's meant in terms of the contrast between coasts of ABC O&O sign-offs . . .
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@The Media Hoarder: It has long been believed that Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald had an off-screen love affair. Not only that, rumors circulated for years that the two hated each other, yet nothing could be further from the truth. In 1994, a book about their relationship titled Sweethearts hit bookstores. The 20th anniversary edition, released in 2014, included startling new information and uncensored quotes of Nelson Eddy's sensual writings and comments about he and MacDonald's relationship off screen. Among the revelations in the new book... details of Nelson Eddy's spy work during World War II, the sex, name and burial location of Jeanette MacDonald's premature child with Eddy in 1938, her futile other attempts to have another child, why MacDonald once tried to shove soprano Rise Stevens' head in the toilet, MGM studio boss Louis B. Mayer's hatred toward Eddy, and MacDonald's admittance of an early heart attack at 26 years old.
Then there was their reunion in 1958 for re-recordings of their old chestnuts for RCA Victor, in hi-fi and stereo.
WNET complete opening 6/28/99
Hi @TheMediaHoarder. I'm a producer on a documentary and we've been trying to find an episode of KABC's 'AM Los Angeles' from 1976.
I wondered if you might have come across this kind of thing. Please let me know if you're able to have a quick chat.
Sorry, I don’t have any AM Los Angeles but let me know if you’re looking for anything else I might have.
@@TheMediaHoarder Thanks for letting me know. I don't suppose you have any tapes of KTTV (Fox 11) from 1976?
@TheMediaHoarder
I would like to know if I can have your email address so that I can make requests.