Soupy Sales - "The Mouse" on Hullabaloo 1965

[@shelleyneidich8385]

I was a huuuuuuge fan of Soup, pook, white fang and the whole mishagoss. "Pachalafaka" hysterical. Elbow in the champagne, classic! RIP Soup.

[@bigbass421]

Life was better when Soupy was on. I saw EVERY show on WNEW-TV, 1964-1965, including the infamous Christmas solicitation show which prompted a two-week suspension of his show, and WNEW's stupid decision not to renew his contract. Rest In Peace, Soupy, and thanks for making my lonely adolescence joyful, from the bottom of my heart.

[@stickpd7885]

I've seen it on a show recounting that episode. (Too bad I couldn't have seen it originally) lol , soupy was something else!!!!

[@angelsaltamontes7336]

Soupy was doing what others were just thinking. Fans will notice that Adlai Stevenson and Lady Winifred Toolhouse-Smoot never once took a stage Soupy would next take or had just left; Allen Ginsberg howled at Soupy's suspension, but he didn't have the guts to do so in public. Many of our world's biggest challenges originate from our stasis in Hokey-Pokey etiology, dialectics, raisin deters and Toot Lee Monde, the saxophonist. The paradigms and three penises not everyone can put up, will get you no quarter. The Hokey-Pokey was enough for Martin Van Johnson, N.E.Saylor and Joy DeVeev when they were the Melange O'Troy, but this is then. Then was now. Picture our leaders saying "Cheese" and doing The Mouse. The Soupy Shuffle could pick you right up, but dark forces dipsy-doodle. Soupy warned us.

[@gerry-p9x]

I sent in money as a gag to him

[@sheilahennessy7440]

Our generation’s Pee Wee Herman…God Bless you Soupy…

[@1blastman]

Better than Pee Wee. His humor was very edgy. Double meanings in his jokes were why we watched.

[@bobdudek3720]

I can't believe I watched this as a kid❗

[@danielshane1364]

I remember this well.Soupy Sales was Awsome!!!.How many other friends remember this.R I P Soupy Sales.

[@keithhyttinen8275]

An early memory from childhood, watching Soupy with White Fang while eating lunch.

[@nedludd7622]

Soupy Sales, one of my childhood heroes.

[@euckb]

are you 50000 years old?

[@nedludd7622]

@@euckb Were you born yesterday?

[@roccoco58]

The ONE TIME he really deserves a pie in his face and did not get one! LOL

[@bobfriedman409]

I did The Mouse at my Junior High School dance! Nobody danced it with me!

[@fredyucht9003]

I used to live about a mile from Soupy in Detroit. I used to see him occasionally shopping in The House Of Foods.

[@mj99a]

i saw soupy live at the paramount theater in '65. sooo cool. i love my mom for surprising me with the tix. yes he did "the mouse"!!

[@davedee4382]

Wow! Cool!

[@sweetoneloves6811]

I was a kid watching my brothers do this dance, omg we all had fun back then.

[@lelelovesfood9620]

I was 9 yesterday old. I still remember!

[@CherylClark7]

Love watching Donna and Michael- and went to Professionals Childrens School w/ Soopy's son - also w/ Rick Atwell, Gelsey Kirkland, Colleen Neary- we were all ballet fanatic students- a little younger than our "Hullabaloo" mentors and soon to be inspirations! xo

[@jacqueline1598]

Donna and Michael--I know, right? Wow, were they great! 😊

[@jody808]

my family had a copy of this 45 record so i grew up with this song

[@Soxogram]

Oh. My. God. I love this version!!!!

[@hmpod6541]

That mouse-house rhyme just knocked me down. Your average rapper couldn’t come up with that!

[@byzcath]

Soupy Shuffle around 1:40!

[@dalealongsr7085]

Profound Lyrics Indeed.

[@David-yw2lv]

The Mouse was my introduction to Soupy Sales.

[@jayraskin]

I love how he comes out of the mouses' hole in the wall at the beginning. Hullabaloo was very creative. For people who don't get it. This song was a satire on bad pop-rock songs of the era. Soupy Sales had a chidren's show that was a satire on children's television shows. People enjoyed it as satire.

[@evelynbell5288]

If you don't like the mouse you're a louse🐊🐭🐭🐭🐭

[@Rutoenfit]

Sorry, but this isn't a "satire". This is how bad most post-'Beatles' music was in the US. Nobody knew 'ironic' then!

[@Augmuse]

There were to many songs in the 1960's that were supposed to illustrate some new crazy dance. This is one of those. I do not miss this song. It is silly but not horrible. Soupy is a pretty good comedian though. I enjoyed him and saw him a lot on television. I do not think I have heard "The Mouse", since its release in 1965.

[@Augmuse]

I do not think I have heard "The Mouse", since its release in 1965.

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1965 {April 11th} Soupy Sales performed the novelty song "The Mouse" on the CBS-TV variety program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... One week later on April 18th, 1965 the "The Mouse" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #100; four weeks later it peaked at #76 {for 1 week} and it spent six weeks on the Top 100... Soupy Sales, born Milton Supman, passed away on October 22nd, 2009 at the age of 83... May he R.I.P.

[@fredscheetz1451]

he was very funny

[@soulbocos]

i miss those days

[@robertcombs55]

sssssssssssoupy won the nobel peace prize for the Mouse.

[@chrisinfiesto835]

Actually had a soulful voice.... 🤙🏽😂

[@tunanorth]

At 1:40, a different dance that Soupy often did on his TV show: "The Soupy Shuffle".

[@robertcombs55]

1965 the year I finished High School; simpler times.....then in 1968 I went to Vietnam; and found out the Federal Government was corrupt.

[@lemurianchick]

@@waynejones205 Did you go to Central America?

[@lemurianchick]

@@waynejones205 Did the CIA run cocaine from there or just Nicaragua? :/

[@nedludd7622]

@@waynejones205 Did you not read what he said? You seem to be willing cannon fodder.

[@nedludd7622]

@@waynejones205 So, in an illegal war. You should be proud.

[@waynejones205]

@@nedludd7622 I'm a vet who served his country, however briefly, did you? Seems like you're the only one shooting, and as far as I can tell, they're Blanks. If you weren't there, particularly in Vietnam, close your 👄👄!

[@askcounsel]

That's Donna McKechnie and MIchael Bennett of Chorus Line fame behind Soupy's left shoulder at 00:34 - 00:50 (the two in the back of the line).

[@dantequinn5346]

This was actually a very professional , well choreographed dance number. The background arrangement is like as good as you could get back in 1965.... I could easily see Dean Martin or Frank Sinatra singing with this. You can see Soupy wasn't really in it for the publicity. He wasn't a good singer as we can see. Great stuff . five stars.

[@EddieHaskelll]

The Soupy Shuffle! 1:38 - 1:46

[@hebneh]

I think this is the first time I've ever heard this song - I've only read the title in various lists of '60s songs. I liked watching Soupy Sales in the early '60s, but if I'd seen this on "Hullabaloo" a few years later I would've thought it was unbelievably stupid. Actually, maybe I DID see it, but don't remember it.

[@juanmonge8]

I wonder if anyone did “The Cat” , and ate the mouse. This was about 15 years before Rick Dees: Disco Duck.

[@Koryuhoka]

Mel Gibson is the spittin image of his dear ol' dad, Soupy Sales!

[@leonardlos3209]

After watching this i'm going to the "Jew Or Not Jew" website and see if Soupy's listed.

[@kathiec1333]

This show is on JTV....

[@juanmonge8]

Soupy said that his Father, who ran a general store, sold white sheets to the klu klux klan.

[@TheRappingCPA]

My Grandpa wrote this song...And this bastard stole it...

[@TheRappingCPA]

Seriously, I’d be rich or at least have a family legacy if this guy didn’t steal it… Audit the record books… two weeks before this song came out, a meeting with James Carrick (Jimmy C-note from The Tremelos) is in the calendar. Dude recorded the meeting and then turned it into a song for his show. All my grandpa wanted was for him and his band to be the ones to perform it for the show…

[@sdgakatbk]

And I thought today's generation was messed up.

[@VMA225]

Come On; Soupy !!!

[@ChewingToons]

Nearly as bad as the Peanut Duck I used to do to Marsha Gee!

[@smscamp3016]

Looks like one of those failed many dances that tried to capitalize on the Twist. When shown on another youtube post on his actual show that features more closeups of his face, it is kind of scary/creepy/rodent-like so no wonder it failed thanks for posting this though

[@rr7firefly]

Some of those dancers are in wheelchairs now. They can look at this and reminisce about the "good old days." The days of limitless energy and physical balance.

[@evelynbell5288]

If you don't like the mouse then you're a louse🐭🐭🐭

[@lemurianchick]

This was on the same show as the Beatles. Somehow "The Mouse" never caught on as a dance, LOL! Do you have any full episodes, by any chance?

[@rogerrodriguez9678]

Howard stern sent me here

[@aimeeglatt2713]

Roger Rodriguez Yup! Me too!!

[@danhosmer1401]

Handsome Jewish man

[@ProNorden]

Hey .. Isn't that Milton Supman ? ....Irving and Sadie's kid? So, how'd he become prominent in television, comedy, ..and media ? Distracting America with ingratiating nonsense ? Well, it's a start ...

[@SkyBlue-qn8me]

This is a weird version of his song. His original version is much better

[@Rutoenfit]

Why didn't the world implode? I love '60's crap, but this is too far.

[@gilbertsanchez3277]

I don't blame them. This was so dumb and corny.

[@identifiantidentifie397]

Oh God save me from this...

[@KS-ro6in]

Loved Soupy but that song sucks

[@biggtrux]

Omg that was terrible.