"Lucy Calls The President" Presale On Amazon - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Benno123 · 01-16-2010, 10:26 AM

http://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Calls-Pre...3651855&sr=1-3

Amazon has a presale link up for "Lucy Calls The President" with a release date of April 6, 2010. Just a head's up for the fans who wanted to know!

Madame X · 01-16-2010, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Benno123

http://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Calls-Pre...3651855&sr=1-3

Amazon has a presale link up for "Lucy Calls The President" with a release date of April 6, 2010. Just a head's up for the fans who wanted to know!

Could you please tell us what this about? Amazon didn't supply any description.

Benno123 · 01-16-2010, 11:02 AM

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Could you please tell us what this about? Amazon didn't supply any description.

It's Lucy's 1977 TV special with Gale Gordon, Vivian Vance, Mary Wickes, Mary Jane Croft, Ed McMahon, Lillian Carter. It's the last time Lucy and Viv worked together. MPI is in the process of releasing some of Lucille's 1970s specials, along with "Here's Lucy," and this is the second release of her specials.

Madame X · 01-16-2010, 07:54 PM

Thanks for the info, Benno. It sounds like something I would like to own.

Larry Surrell · 01-16-2010, 08:28 PM

I'm showing my age, but the only time I saw this special is when it originally aired. I'm looking forward to watching it again.

McGillicuddy · 01-16-2010, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Benno123

It's Lucy's 1977 TV special with Gale Gordon, Vivian Vance, Mary Wickes, Mary Jane Croft, Ed McMahon, Lillian Carter. It's the last time Lucy and Viv worked together. MPI is in the process of releasing some of Lucille's 1970s specials, along with "Here's Lucy," and this is the second release of her specials.

As far as I know it was the last time Lucy worked with Mary Jane, also. Of course Gale would co-star with Lucy in Life with Lucy almost a decade later. Vivian Vance passed away a year and a half after this show aired.

By the way, Steve Allen also appears in this show.

Benno123 · 02-01-2010, 06:38 PM

Amazon now has cover art for "Lucy Calls The President" and features Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon on the cover:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...3651855&sr=1-3

Marvo301 · 02-01-2010, 07:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Benno123

Amazon now has cover art for "Lucy Calls The President" and features Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon on the cover:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...3651855&sr=1-3

I noticed in the cover art that Lucy is playing the saxophone. I wonder if she's playing "Glow Worm"? Any way it's great to see Viv, Gale, and Ed McMahon on the box cover with Lucy.

Benno123 · 02-01-2010, 08:54 PM

I don't remember if it's "Glow Worm" that she plays. I remember that they try to play ....

I don't want to give anything away for those who have never seen this special. But I can say that I don't recall her playing "Glow Worm" though it may have happened.

Marvo301 · 02-01-2010, 10:55 PM

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I don't remember if it's "Glow Worm" that she plays. I remember that they try to play ....

I don't want to give anything away for those who have never seen this special. But I can say that I don't recall her playing "Glow Worm" though it may have happened.

Actually that was a reference to an I Love Lucy episode. Ricky is taking the band on the road and won't take Lucy along. Then Lucy overhears that the band is short a saxophone player so she decides to audition as she played saxophone in high school and this way she can go on the trip. She and Ethel go up to the attic to find her saxophone. She plays Glow Worm for Ethel then asks her if she has any requests. Ethel mentions another song and Lucy starts to play but it still sounds like Glow Worm. It turns out Glow Worm is the song Lucy ever learned to play. She only joined the marching band in high school to get close to someone on the football team. Glow Worm was her audition piece and after that she just faked playing the saxophone.

Madame X · 02-01-2010, 11:35 PM

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Actually that was a reference to an I Love Lucy episode. Ricky is taking the band on the road and won't take Lucy along. Then Lucy overhears that the band is short a saxophone player so she decides to audition as she played saxophone in high school and this way she can go on the trip. She and Ethel go up to the attic to find her saxophone. She plays Glow Worm for Ethel then asks her if she has any requests. Ethel mentions another song and Lucy starts to play but it still sounds like Glow Worm. It turns out Glow Worm is the song Lucy ever learned to play. She only joined the marching band in high school to get close to someone on the football team. Glow Worm was her audition piece and after that she just faked playing the saxophone.

It is hilarious when Lucy goes to the Tropicana for a tryout, all dressed up as a hep cat in a zoot suit. The band is swinging along and breaks for Lucy's solo and she honks out "Glow Worm." Even the band members cracked up!

Marvo301 · 02-01-2010, 11:51 PM

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It is hilarious when Lucy goes to the Tropicana for a tryout, all dressed up as a hep cat in a zoot suit. The band is swinging along and breaks for Lucy's solo and she honks out "Glow Worm." Even the band members cracked up!

And Lucy didn't just dress like a hep cat, she walked and talked like one too. It was a hilarious scene visually as well as verbally.

Benno123 · 02-02-2010, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Marvo301

Actually that was a reference to an I Love Lucy episode. Ricky is taking the band on the road and won't take Lucy along. Then Lucy overhears that the band is short a saxophone player so she decides to audition as she played saxophone in high school and this way she can go on the trip. She and Ethel go up to the attic to find her saxophone. She plays Glow Worm for Ethel then asks her if she has any requests. Ethel mentions another song and Lucy starts to play but it still sounds like Glow Worm. It turns out Glow Worm is the song Lucy ever learned to play. She only joined the marching band in high school to get close to someone on the football team. Glow Worm was her audition piece and after that she just faked playing the saxophone.

I know "Glow Worm" from the Saxophone" episode. I just don't think that it was part of the comedy routine in the "President" special. I remember one of the songs they play, I just don't want to give a spoiler out to those who have not seen it. I just don't think "Glow Worm" was something that Lucy did in this special.

Larry Surrell · 02-02-2010, 09:56 PM

I played alto sax in grammar school through high school. I had a friend who was an I Love Lucy fan and he would often jokingly ask me if I could play Glow Worm.

LittleRickyII · 02-03-2010, 08:58 PM

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http://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Calls-Pre...3651855&sr=1-3

Amazon has a presale link up for "Lucy Calls The President" with a release date of April 6, 2010. Just a head's up for the fans who wanted to know!

I'm so looking forward to finally having a "clean" version of this special, rather than the blurry 100th generation tape I've got now. I'm showing my age here, but I remember vividly the night this originally aired. I also remember one morning a few months earlier, while watching "Here's Lucy" -- that was the summer CBS reran "Here's Lucy" -- my mother told me Lucille Ball was coming in the fall in a new series. I was so excited by this news, only to be hugely disappointed to find out my mother didn't know what she was talking about. I think she had read some item about Lucy reuniting in the fall with her old co-stars, in "Lucy Calls the President," and got a little mixed up and thought she was coming back with them in a series. Anyway, I was hugely disappointed that there was no new series, but this special was kind of a consolation prize.

And just a little warning: this was the first time Lucy did one of her shows on videotape instead of film. Videotape was a big trend in television in the 1970s, because it was cheaper than film. Many sitcoms were going the videotape route, like "Alice" and the Norman Lear sitcoms ("All in the Family," "Sanford and Son," "Maude," "Good Times," etc.). Shows like "Here's Lucy" and the MTM sitcoms ("Mary Tyler Moore," "Rhoda," "Phyllis"), that were still on film, were more the exception than the rule. But Lucy finally got on the videotape bandwagon with this special. And videotape, with it's duller, more muted image quality, is visually inferior to film, which is richer with more vibrant colors. So don't expect this to have that visual "pop" you've come to expect with the "Here's Lucy" DVDs. That being said, it's still a fun show.

01-16-2010, 10:26 AM	#1
Benno123 Jenna Fischer Rocks My World!! Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,036	"Lucy Calls The President" Presale On Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Lucy-Calls-Pre...3651855&sr=1-3 Amazon has a presale link up for "Lucy Calls The President" with a release date of April 6, 2010. Just a head's up for the fans who wanted to know!

01-16-2010, 07:54 PM	#4
Madame X Member Senior Member Join Date: Sep 15, 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,831	Thanks for the info, Benno. It sounds like something I would like to own.

01-16-2010, 08:28 PM	#5
Larry Surrell Ed M. 1918-2006 RIP Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 27, 2003 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA Posts: 702	I'm showing my age, but the only time I saw this special is when it originally aired. I'm looking forward to watching it again.

02-01-2010, 06:38 PM	#7
Benno123 Jenna Fischer Rocks My World!! Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,036	Amazon now has cover art for "Lucy Calls The President" and features Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon on the cover: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...3651855&sr=1-3

02-01-2010, 08:54 PM	#9
Benno123 Jenna Fischer Rocks My World!! Senior Member Join Date: Nov 01, 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,036	I don't remember if it's "Glow Worm" that she plays. I remember that they try to play .... I don't want to give anything away for those who have never seen this special. But I can say that I don't recall her playing "Glow Worm" though it may have happened.

02-02-2010, 09:56 PM	#14
Larry Surrell Ed M. 1918-2006 RIP Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 27, 2003 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA Posts: 702	I played alto sax in grammar school through high school. I had a friend who was an I Love Lucy fan and he would often jokingly ask me if I could play Glow Worm.