In the episode with the elephant, the one where Fred puts on a circus, Esther does the "Bronze goddess" act. When she comes out, they play background music. Its an organ playing. Does anyone know the name of this song? It has always sounded familiar to me.

Ive heard that song on many, many shows. It usually accompanies something on stage. I actually believe that Lamont tap-danced to the very same melody when he and Fred helped Rodney do his act. (Episode: Brother Can You Spare a Act).

Just recently I read that LaWanda Page's stage act was "The Bronze Goddess of Fire" prior to her acting career.
I had been aware that Redd Foxx regularly brought his stage entertainment friends and partners to the show (Leroy and Skillet, Bowlegs, Slappy White, to name just a few), but not that the list included LaWanda Page.
I also only recently learned where the name "Fred Sanford" came from, too. A tribute to his birth name and to his brother.

Cool site, I'm new here, but watched many, many of the S&S shows on network TV in high school and college (especially college-I missed the entire 1st season by playing high school football on Friday nights). Once syndicated, I watched them all, over and over, like I watch Seinfeld presently. A real big night in college was Fridays, when syndication brought reruns on once or twice in the late afternoon/early evening, then the current episode around 7:30-8:00pm, and still plenty of time to go out after starting the evening with some belly laughs from Fred.

I was most pleased to have recently expanded my cable TV subscription to include TV Land, but nearly equally disappointed at the #*%!!# editing, which I regard as a heinous crime. I mean, the Legal Eagle episode with the line "it's enough n*****s in here to make a Tarzan movie" is one of the funniest lines ever on a sitcom. Maybe you had to be growing up in the 60s and early 70s, when there were few, if any, blacks on TV, to appreciate the unique opportunity to get a peek into some (fabricated, but somewhat realistic) lives of others. It was a "gloves off" look inside, much in the same fashion of All In The Family and The Jeffersons, and in a society which was still largely segregated, a real treat.

I'll be looking in here from time to time. Thanks to all for the efforts to post and discuss one of the great sitcoms of all time.

FredFan55