Soupy Sales

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Milton Supman (January 8, 1926-2009), also known as Soupy Sales, was an American comedian, actor, radio/television presenter, and jazz aficionado.

He was best known for his local and national children's television show Lunch with Soupy Sales (1953–1966), a series of comedy sketches that ended with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his signature.

He served on a syndicated revival of What's My Line from 1968 to 1975. He appeared on several other television game shows.

During the 1980s, Sales hosted his own show on WNBC-AM in New York City.

Early life

Milton Supman was born in Franklinton, North Carolina, to Irving Supman and Sadie Berman. In 1894, his father, a Jewish dry goods merchant, emigrated from Hungary. He was the only Jewish family in town; sales joked that local Ku Klux Klan members bought the sheets used for their robes from his father's shop.

Sales got his nickname from his family. His older brothers were referred to as "Ham Bone" and "Chicken Bone" in their names. Milton's nickname, "Soup Bone," was later reduced to "Soupy." Soupy Hines began to perform as a disc jockey and began using the stage name Soupy Hines. When he first arrived, it was decided that "Hines" was too close to Heinz soup, so he chose Sales, in part after vaudeville comedian Chic Sale. In 1944, Huntington High School in Huntington, West Virginia, graduated him. He joined the US Navy and served on the USS Randall (APA-224) in the South Pacific during the second half of World War II. He and his shipmates were often amused by making comedies and portraying ridiculous characters about the ship's public address system. "White Fang" was one of the he created's most popular seamen's parody. The sounds for "White Fang" appeared on a recording of The Hound of the Baskervilles.

At that time, Marshall College, where he obtained a master's degree in journalism, was accepted by sales. He performed in nightclubs as a comedian, singer, and dancer.

Personal life

Barbara Fox was married twice from 1950 to 1979, the first to Barbara Fox, first to Barbara Fox. They had two sons, both of whom were rock stars: bassist Tony Sales and drummer Hunt Sales (who were in the band Tin Machine with David Bowie). Trudy Carson, a 1980s dancer who hasn't lived, married salesman Trudy Carson, who survives him.

Sales died at Calvary Hospice in Bronx, New York, on October 22, 2009. He is buried at Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York.

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Career

Sales began as a script writer and disc jockey at radio station WHTN (now WVHU) in Huntington after graduating from Marshall. In 1949, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was a morning radio DJ and appeared in nightclubs. He started his television appearance on WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, Soupy's Soda Shop, television's first teen dance program, and Club Nothing!, a late-night comedy/variety group.

Lunch with Soupy Sales is the most well-known daily children's television show. It was originally called 12 O'Clock Comics and later became known as The Soupy Sales Show. It was an impatient and slapstick show, with the exception of Sales getting a pie in the face, which became his signature. He turned pie-throwing into an art form: straight to the face, on top of the head, a pie to both ears from behind, and countless other variations. During his career, he said he and his visitors had been struck by more than 20,000 pies. He recalled a time when a young fan mistakenly dropped a frozen pie at his neck and "dropped like a pile of bricks."

Soupy Sales' lunch began in 1953 from the WXYZ-TV, Channel 7, in Detroit's historic Maccabees Building. Salespeople occasionally took the studio cameras to the Detroit Public Library's lawn, across the street from the studios, and chatted with local students walking to and from school. On the ABC television network, a Saturday version of Sales' lunch show debuted no later than July 4, 1955. On weekdays, his lunchtime service was changed to early morning, alongside Today and Captain Kangaroo.

Soup's On, a nighttime show, that aired in Detroit, Sales also hosted Soup's On to contend with 11 O'clock News programs during the same time as Lunch with Soupy Sales aired. The guest artist was always a pianist, often a jazz performer, at a time when jazz was a hot commodity in Detroit and the city was home to 24 jazz clubs. Since appearing on it, sales believed his performance helped sustain jazz in Detroit.

Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Stan Getz were among the performers on the program; Miles Davis appeared on six occasions. According to Sales, Clifford Brown's appearance on Soup's On may be the only extant photo of Brown, and he appears in Ken Burns' Jazz and an A&E Network biography about Sales.

A third dinnertime show was shot mainly in Palmer Park, Michigan, for a brief period of time. His three shows were expected to bring him more than $100,000 per year. Willy the Worm, a "balloon" propelled worm that emerged from its house and used a high pitched voice to announce birthdays or special events on the noontime show, but the character did not appear until Soupy moved to Los Angeles. Sales had always wore an orlon fabric jacket in his lunchtime display. In several of his appearances, he was dressed in costume, performed his dance, the Soupy Shuffle, etc., and brought "zillions" of pies in the face.

In 1960, sales moved to Los Angeles' ABC-TV studios. In March 1961, ABC dropped his show in March 1961, but it remained on KABC-TV as a local service until January 1962. It appeared on the ABC network for a short time as a late night fill-in for The Steve Allen Show in 1962, but it was cancelled after three months. All of the puppets on the show during their Los Angeles run were also operated by Clyde Adler, who was also known as "West Coast disk jockey and comedian" in a 1962 TV Guide listing. His success made him hire him as a Tonight Show guest host in the period between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson.

Sales' WNEW-TV in New York City found a new weekday home on September 7, 1964. This version wasn't available in the United States until September 2, 1966. During the 1965–66 season, Screen Gems syndicated 260 episodes to local televisions outside of the New York market. This was the height of Sales' renown. It featured guest appearances by Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Jerry Lewis, Judy Garland, and Sammy Davis Jr., as well as musical groups like the Shangri-Las, The Supremes, and The Temptations.

In 1978, the New Soupy Sales Show took place in the same style, and it lasted for one season. In early 1979, 65 episodes were briefly syndicated by Air Time International to local stations. Clyde Adler returned to work as a puppeteer with Sales in Los Angeles.

Clyde Adler, the show's floor manager and a film editor, appeared in sketches and voiced and operated all puppets on the Los Angeles show from 1959 to 1962, as well as 1978. When Sales took the show to New York from 1964 to 1966, actor Frank Nastasi, who appeared on WXYZ-TV's other kids' show Wixie Wonderland, assumed the role of straight man and puppeteer. Nastasi was born in Detroit and had worked with WXYZ in Sales. Both puppets and live performers were seen on the program.

The puppets were:

Sales stopped his live broadcast on January 1, 1965, merriment from having to work on the holiday. "Put them in an envelope and mail them to me, and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico," the children said. Several days later, large sums of money had arrived in the mail; sales said that the total amount received was in the thousands of dollars, but that not all of it was Monopoly or play money; He had been joking, and that whatever real money had been sent would be donated to charity, but as parent complaints increased, WNEW's leadership suspended Sales for two weeks.

Frank Sinatra, one of the Soupy Sales show's most ardent supporters, was one of the guests. After his daughter Nancy begged Sinatra to attend the show, it seems that he became a fan. Reprise Records, Sinatra's debut record label, began in 1961, and Up in the Air in 1962.

'The Mouse,' his sales record, dates from the mid-1960s, when his show was based in New York. The single, which was released on the ABC-Paramount label, peaked at #76 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in May 1965. "The Mouse" on The Ed Sullivan Show in September 1965, right before the Beatles' segment on the show. In 1969, Motown Records released the single "Muck Arty Park" (a play on the 1968 hit "MacArthur Park") as well as the album A Bag of Soup. For ABC-Paramount, Soupy and Frank Nastasi also cut and recorded "Spy With a Pie." "Simon Says" child's records were re-released.

Sales was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of What's My Line? from 1968 to 1975. (He had been a guest panelist on one episode of the original version in 1965.) He was usually the first panelist to be introduced and occupied the chair on the far left side (facing the camera), next to Arlene Francis. Henry VIII appeared on Storybook Squares, a children's version of Hollywood Squares, in 1969. He was the host of ABC's Junior Almost Anything Goes, ABC's Saturday morning version of their team-based physical stunt program. He served as a panelist on To Tell the Truth's 1980 revival in 1980; he had appeared on the program from mid- to late 1970s as a guest. Over a dozen episodes of the original Match Game from 1966 to 1969, as well as one week of the revived version in 1976; a few more appearances on Hollywood Squares in 1983 to 1989; and a few more on the related version (Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour) in which a lost contestant is attempting to convince a confused contestant to say "greasy stuff" in one of his many appearances); a week of shows (December 12, 1977 and 1981); an He was considered a host in Nickelodeon's game show Double Dare, but he was dismissed as old (the job went to Marc Summers). In 1997, he appeared on Pictionary for the first time.

On WNBC in New York, Sales hosted a midday radio show from March 1985 to March 1987. Don Imus (morning) and Howard Stern (afternoon), with whom Sales had an acrimonious relationship, formed his scheme. On May 1, 1985, Stern told listeners he was cutting the strings in his Sales' in-studio piano at 4:05 p.m., giving an example of this. Stern performed this stunt on December 21, 2007 for "theater of the imagination" and to torture Sales; in truth, the piano was never hurt. Ray D'Ariano, newscaster Judy DeAngelis, and pianist Paul Dver were among his on-air crews, as well as pianist Paul D'Aver.

Sales had a sporadic film career spanning more than 40 years, including:: "I'm not a celebrity" in the film industry.

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