Shrimp campy
Shrimpenstein was on KHJ channel 9 in LA from 1966 to 1968. This is the opening theme sung by Dr. Von Schtick (Gene Moss in a bad Boris Karloff imitation and the Tijuana Bats.
The hosts were Gene Moss (Dr. Von Schtick) and Jim Thurman (voices). Shrimpenstein was a miniature Frankenstein monster (a ventriloquist dummy who was “created” when jellybeans were thrown into the Monster Machine) Moss and Thurman wrote the Roger Ramjet cartoons and did advertising campaigns, mostly for radio. Moss later did voice-overs for LA’s channel 2 news and Disney/Touchstone pictures previews. Thurman also wrote and did voices for Sesame Street.
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July 31st, 2009 at 10:04 pm
“Shrimp Campy”… HAW!
That’s a good one.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
This is actually a cute little song! You can hear a bit of it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK4AyO1Pq50
October 20th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Yeesh! “Shrimpenstein!!” I remember seeing that show on KHJ-TV ( now KCAL 9 ) in L.A. when I was 9 or 10-years-old. It was one of the few kid-vid shows at the time that aired in color ( not all L.A. stations converted to color yet…that didn’t happen until the late 60s ). I vividly remember one bit they used to do regularly on “Shrimpenstein”…you would see the puppet and/or human Go-Go dancers shaking and shimmying to the latest pop records in between the cartoons, commercials and “Shrimpenstein” bits. Totally campy, but fun ( of course, “Monster Mash” would be heard frequently ). Thanks for uploading this!
April 11th, 2014 at 6:42 pm
Moss also recorded the awesome ‘Dracula’s Greatest Hits’ LP.