The great Soupy Sales died

Saddened to hear this.
Enjoyed him very much.
RIP "Onions Oregano"!

I was shocked to hear the MIT college radio station (WMBR Cambridge) playing "pie in the face" this morning. It's hard to believe that 20 YO college kids would even know who Soupy was. Guess he left a mark on future generations....

That's it Dgarretson!!! Thanks for the memory. Remember how they made an elderly woman fall for their routine and she would end up pouring stuff over her head. Wierd quirky stuff back then.

I can see Midnight the cat sitting in her chair as if it was yesterday.

Soupy's sons, Hunt and Tony Fox Sales, played with Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop and Tin Machine.  Drums and bass, respectively.

Soupy Sales:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales

Including:

Sales also hosted a nighttime show, Soup's On, to compete with11 O'Clock News programs.[17] The guest star was always a musician, often a jazz performer, at a time when jazz was popular in Detroit and the city was home to twenty-four jazz clubs. Sales believed that his show helped sustain jazz in Detroit, as artists would regularly sell out their nightclub shows after appearing on Soup's On.[17]

Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Stan Getz were among the musicians who appeared on the show; Miles Davis made six appearances.[8] Clifford Brown's appearance on Soup's On, according to Sales, may be the only extant footage of Brown, and has been included in Ken Burns' Jazz and an A&E Network biography about Sales.