#allewis — Public Fediverse posts

#TIL Al Lewis (Grandpa Munster in The Munsters, Leo Schnauser in Car 54, Where Are You?) presented a series of VHS releases of horror & scifi movies, mostly public domain & several shown in the #Monsterdon watch party, from Amvest Video. Him doing a brief intro & outro, not movie-specific (he pauses while an off-screen "Igor" says the name of the film), while appearing very "Grandpa Munster"-esque.

Although he actually did it as "Grampa" (not Grandpa Munster), I guess so Amvest & Lewis could avoid having to license the Grandpa character from the rights owners of The Munsters.

He also used the legally-distinct "Grampa" brand in other ventures like his Italian restaurant Grampa's Bella Gente and licensed the Grampa's name to a mafia-owned comedy club in Staten Island!

I also learned Al stood as the Green candidate in the 1998 New York Governor election, & on Howard Stern's radio show repeatedly chanted "Fuck the FCC!" until Stern snatched the mic away from him!

Back to the topic, I discovered this because on Sunday 13 September, the #ReMonsterdon #WatchParty will be showing ゲゾラ・ガニメ・カメーバ 決戦!南海の大怪獣 (1970), a.k.a. Space Amoeba, a.k.a. Yog, Monster From Space (previously shown in #Monsterdon), & I came across "Grampa Presents Yog, Monster from Space"!

It's on the Internet Archive, so I suppose folks can watch that version if they're "hardcore" :D

• Munsters Fandom Wiki - Grampa Presents - some info
• Vimeo - Grampa Presents (clips) - ~7 minute video, typical Grampa Presents intro & outro, plus list of all the Grampa Presents films
• Audiovisual Identity Database - some info on Amvest Video
• Internet Archive - Grampa Presents Yog, Monster From Space - full movie, 1:27:47, VHS rip, no subs
• Wikipedia - Al Lewis
• NeoDB/Eggplant - ReMonsterdon Watch Party - watch party info, non-Grampa movie links

#FCC #Horror #SciFi #Censorship #Kaiju #Toho #AlLewis #TheMunsters #GreenParty #Monsterdon #VHS #AmvestVideo #HowardStern

125 years ago today, #AlLewis, American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher ("Blueberry Hill"; "You Gotta Be a Football Hero"), born in New York City (d. 1967).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🎗

"Tears on My Pillow" is a #doowop song written by Sylvester Bradford and #AlLewis in 1958. The composition was first recorded by #LittleAnthonyAndTheImperials on #EndRecords and was that group's debut recording under that name. Their original recording of the song became a #Billboard top-10 hit, peaking at No. 4 and No. 3 in #Canada, and was the Imperials' first million-seller. It was also a two-sided hit, with its flip side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjQ3M_v7xc

"Tears on My Pillow" is a #doowop song written by Sylvester Bradford and #AlLewis in 1958. The composition was first recorded by #LittleAnthonyAndTheImperials on #EndRecords and was that group's debut recording under that name. Their original recording of the song became a #Billboard top-10 hit, peaking at No. 4 and No. 3 in #Canada, and was the Imperials' first million-seller. It was also a two-sided hit, with its flip side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxjQ3M_v7xc

"Tears on My Pillow" is a #doowop song written by Sylvester Bradford and #AlLewis in 1958. The composition was first recorded by #LittleAnthonyAndTheImperials on #EndRecords and was that group's debut recording under that name. Their original recording of the song became a #Billboard top-10 hit, peaking at No. 4 and No. 3 in #Canada, and was the Imperials' first million-seller. It was also a two-sided hit, with its flip side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33hBl5HIi0

"Tears on My Pillow" is a #doowop song written by Sylvester Bradford and #AlLewis in 1958. The composition was first recorded by #LittleAnthonyAndTheImperials on #EndRecords and was that group's debut recording under that name. Their original recording of the song became a #Billboard top-10 hit, peaking at No. 4, No. 3 in #Canada, and was the Imperials' first million-seller. It was also a two-sided hit, with its flip side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33hBl5HIi0

"When I do my final curtain call, I hope it’s when I’m making somebody laugh.”

#AlLewis (1923-2006) would have been 100 today.

#BornOnThisDay #TheMunsters #ClassicTV