The Uncle Floyd Show guest star David Clayton-Thomas

The Uncle Floyd Show - with special guest star - David Clayton -Thomas - Lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears - This particular Uncle Floyd Show aired in 1985. - Half-improvised, low-to-no budget show with sketch comedy and live music - ranging from local talent to star performers. - With Uncle Floyd himself as host, puppeteer and piano player. - - - The Uncle Floyd Show - Starring - Uncle Floyd - Floyd Vivino - Ambassador of Happiness - - Scott Gordon - Human Mountain of Magic - - "Mugsy" - Master of Musical Mirth - - "Looney" Skip Rooney - Sultan of Slapstick - - Netto - Baron of Burnout - - Artie Delmar - Man of 1,000 Disguises - - Weenie - Wackiest Woman on Earth - - and - - Oogie - The Biggest Star of the Show - - Producer: Gary Dell'Abate - - Also there was - - Peter Tork - - David Burd - - Charlie Stoddard - - Michael Townsend Wright - - Jim Monaco - - Patrick Cupo - - and - - Robert A Sadlon - Camera Operator - Studio Operations Manager for the Production Department - - - Segments of the this show included - Oogie and Uncle Floyd - Polka T.V. Show - Voice of The Viewers - Ridicules but Real - The Story Man. - - - Margaret Scura was a Contestant on "Ridicules but Real" Which was part of the show that day. Margaret Scura at the time was a Commercial Art Student at New Jersey City State University. The question was, "How may fingers does Mickey Mouse Have" The answer is 4, which Margaret got right. Margaret brought her mother, Mary Scura, with her as part of the live studio audience that day. - - - At the time The Uncle Floyd Show had been on 3 years on this particular station, It was on Monday to Friday at 7PM, and on Saturday nights they would show The Best Of The Uncle Floyd Show. This particular show was aired in Spring of 1985 - Copyright 1985 - Prerecorded, A Production of New Jersey Network. - - - The Uncle Floyd Show was on WBTB then it became WTVG. The TV Studio was located in West Orange NJ for many years, until it relocated to Newark NJ, but it was big and new facility. It was a low budget and ridiculous comedy TV Show and a big hit. Sometimes there was "no budget" with no money for the props, even Oogie the big star of the show, was found in someone's trash. Floyd found him, and Oogie came alive with the magic of Uncle Floyd's Ventriloquism. The piano that Uncle Floyd played on, he couldn't keep the payments up, and it was repossessed while producing one of the shows. Floyd kept playing it while they were rolling it out of the studio to take it back. What ever happened while taping the show, they kept taping. You never really knew what would happen at times, they "just keep taping!" no matter what happened. It's called live on tape. The TV Sets were better Sets when the Uncle Floyd Show became a National Syndication, with the key TV Station NBC in NYC. That's when the best Uncle Floyd Shows were produced, Some characters like Tiny Tim, Peter Tork (from The Monkeys) would come by just to hang around because they loved just being there and also being part of the show. Other people on the show where Chubby Checker and Linda Blair, also The Smother Brothers would occasionally come on the show, and Bananarama, Blue Oyster Cult, Paul Somon and The Ramones were there many times. - - - David Clayton-Thomas - born David Henry Thomsett, 13 September 1941- is a Grammy Award-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the American band Blood, Sweat & Tears. Clayton-Thomas has been inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and in 2007 his jazz/rock composition "Spinning Wheel" was enshrined in the Canadian Songwriter's Hall of Fame. In 2010 Clayton-Thomas received his star on Canada's Walk of Fame. - - - At the time time you could write to The Uncle Floyd Show to get Free Audience Tickets. - The Uncle Floyd Show - 980 Broad Street - Newark, N.J. 07102 - the show was also filmed there. The old phone # was 1 800 528 6600 you could call them to get a T-Shirt or coffee cup by contributing to and becoming a member and sportier of the show. For $30 dollars you would get The Network guide Magazine. For $40 you got The Uncle Floyd Show T-Shirt ETC, and much more. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Floyd Vivino began his career in show business as a child performer, giving piano recitals and appearing as a dancer with Sandra Lee and Jill Davison. He danced at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York and at the Steel Pier in Atlantic City. As a high school student he was being groomed by dance and piano instructors to pursue careers in those fields. Finding it difficult to practice the piano eight hours a day, or working out in ballet class, he dropped both in his junior year, performing instead in the drama club. In high school, on stage, he found the sound of laughter more fulfilling than applause. After high school he went right to work in show business, finding employment in circus, nightclubs, amusement parks, and as a comedian in the few remaining burlesque shows. His varied experiences in the performing arts finally led him to television where he began his own show titled The Uncle Floyd Show in New Jersey on January 29,1974. The show developed a following in the New York-New Jersey area in the 1970s. Now in its 24th year it is the longest running television show in New Jersey TV history. In February 1987 he started his own Italian radio program, The Italian-American Serenade, which is broadcast on WRTN-FM out of New Rochelle, NY. Vivino claims to have the largest private collection of Italian records outside of Italy, some 250,000. He has appeared as an actor on NBC-TV Law And Order (twice), ABC-TV soap opera Loving, Bill Boggs Comedy Tonight (syndicated), Nickelodeons Turkey TV and has filled in for Gilbert Gottfried on USA TVs Up All Night. Comedy Channel audiences have seen him in the Dr. Demento Show. Between all this he managed to get small acting roles in several films including Good Morning Vietnam, Crazy People, Mr. Wonderful, A Pyromaniacs Love Story and The Clowns of Babylon. Performing live however, has always remained his first love. He has played the Catskill and Pocono mountains resorts for many years, working the stages at Caesars, The Fernwood, Friar Tuck, Roseland Ranch, Green Lake, The Nevelle, Pine Grove, Kellys, Villa Baglieri and Villa Roma. He has also toured with or opened for many including Jimmy Roselli, Lou Monte, Melba Moore, Jerry Vale, Pat Cooper, Al Martino, Pete Seegar, Toni Arden, Julius LaRosa, Tom Chapin, Eddie Rabbit, Jimmy Sturr. Currently living in New Jersey, Floyd appears live about 300 nights a year in clubs and on stage.