Wow! If the wind blew them down, we had to ‘make do’ with rabbit ears and possibly get CBUT, CHAN…and if we were really lucky KVOS! Without them, a metal coat hanger sometimes ‘did the trick.’ In the beginning TV years we envied those families (pressured successfully by their kids) to buy a ‘huge’ seventeen inch Motorola, R.C.A., or Philco at Wosks, Woodwards and Eatons. Here’s a few new song lyrics to reprise those primitive days.
What did that early TV program, TOAST OF THE TOWN BECOME?
The “reeaallly big SHOOOO”,
the Ed Sullivan SHOW.
Sponsored by a car called a Mercury, you remembered, son of a GUN!
Where did those good old days GO?
Do you recall, from Canada, Wayne and Schuster, and from France, Maurice CHEVALIER.
“I told you Julie once, I told you Julie twice”…”Ah yes, I remember it WELL.”
Do you connect Dinah Shore and CHEVROLET?
Wow, did TV ever make those Detroit cars ever SELL!
There was I’ve Got A Secret, with Gary MOORE
and WHAT’S MY LINE?
The 64 Thousand Dollar Question, Revlon did well, for SURE.
All those cosmetics plus ‘Top Brass For Men’, wasn’t that a TIME.
Enjoying Swanson T.V. Dinners, on our LAPS
while watching an R.C.A., Motorola, or PHILCO.
Wearing Davie Crockett HATS.
A few years later, do you remember Phil Silvers as SARGEANT BILKO?
And of course, The Life of RILEY, with WILLIAM BENDIX.
Then suddenly, those TV screens were too TINY.
Before long, some of us wore a self-winding TIMEX.
Hi-fidelity turned into STEREOPHONIC.
Soon, without antennas, we became CABLED.
Today, with internet, isn’t it IRONIC,
it’s the old black and white TV shows make some of us dinosaurs feel so ENABLED.