This is a very cool clip....great treat thanx for finding and posting this video..was a Ray Rayner fan from about 1972 on....even had the pleasure of interviewing him in mid 1990s.
This is one of the most fantastically weird things I've seen on the channel. You've got a 72-year-old Buster Crabbe visiting Ray's local morning show to push an arthritis exercise book to an audience of children while Bat Man and Yogi Bear peek over his shoulder. Amazing.
Well, families weren't so splintered and with only 5 channels to watch, plenty of those kids' parents and grandparents were watching. Remember, the show featured traffic reports, Ray singing old-time songs, and other things not done with 9 year-olds in mind.
Not that amazing. A lot of older people loved watching Ray too -- If you listened to a lot of his show (especially some of the off camera comments from the crew), they played to the adult audience as much (or more) than the kids.
When Ray brings up the Olympics at 2:00... was thinking the guy participated in the 40's or 50's .... 1928?? Amazing how that seems so ancient now. But back then, it'd be like someone saying now they were in the 1968 Olympics.
This was how the Ray Rayner show was: rather impromptu, a bit disorganized, only superficially geared towards kids, and always, no matter how seemingly mundane the topic at hand, VERY ENTERTAINING! Sure miss the Ray Rayner and His Friends.
Mary Tolian, with all due respect, I listened to it three times over and it's definitely not, "You're a peach." Maybe their is someone that could listen and settle this. I might be wrong. I just don't hear that. Sorry.
I also backed it up several times, and it sounded very clearly like he said "you're a peach" to me. The rapport between the two shows no animosity between them, so I'm sure it was not anything derogatory.
Mary Tolian, you might be right. I'd like to think he had more respect for Raynor than to curse on his childrens program. I might have selective hearing. Lol!
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Buster was a tremendous actor and athlete.
This is a very cool clip....great treat thanx for finding and posting this video..was a Ray Rayner fan from about 1972 on....even had the pleasure of interviewing him in mid 1990s.
Thats a pretty cool upload... Buster still looks very similar to his 30's self
A special appearance on a Chicago TV show, The Ray Rayner Show.
This is one of the most fantastically weird things I've seen on the channel. You've got a 72-year-old Buster Crabbe visiting Ray's local morning show to push an arthritis exercise book to an audience of children while Bat Man and Yogi Bear peek over his shoulder. Amazing.
Well, families weren't so splintered and with only 5 channels to watch, plenty of those kids' parents and grandparents were watching. Remember, the show featured traffic reports, Ray singing old-time songs, and other things not done with 9 year-olds in mind.
Not that amazing. A lot of older people loved watching Ray too -- If you listened to a lot of his show (especially some of the off camera comments from the crew), they played to the adult audience as much (or more) than the kids.
And you always knew what time it was!
When Ray brings up the Olympics at 2:00... was thinking the guy participated in the 40's or 50's .... 1928?? Amazing how that seems so ancient now. But back then, it'd be like someone saying now they were in the 1968 Olympics.
This was how the Ray Rayner show was: rather impromptu, a bit disorganized, only superficially geared towards kids, and always, no matter how seemingly mundane the topic at hand, VERY ENTERTAINING! Sure miss the Ray Rayner and His Friends.
I loved Ray !!
Imagine kids hearing "I don't give a damn" early in the morning!
That's a curse word Stateside? In the UK it's okay to say 'damn' on the telly.
Does anyone remember Popeye's Firehouse? Never missed it. Ray will forever be a legacy. Local television in Chicago cannot be matched!
Don't forget the Crime-stopper Cruiser and the Dick Tracy cartoons Ray use to do in the afternoons.
At 5:18 listen what Buster says below his breath as Ray is talking. He says " Your a piece of shhhh (shit)". Lol!
He says you're a peach.
Mary Tolian, with all due respect, I listened to it three times over and it's definitely not, "You're a peach." Maybe their is someone that could listen and settle this. I might be wrong. I just don't hear that. Sorry.
I also backed it up several times, and it sounded very clearly like he said "you're a peach" to me. The rapport between the two shows no animosity between them, so I'm sure it was not anything derogatory.
Mary Tolian, you might be right. I'd like to think he had more respect for Raynor than to curse on his childrens program. I might have selective hearing. Lol!
Lighten up, Buster. We got kids watching. I don't recall many visitors to the Ray Rayner show, outside of the Jelly Bean contest winners.