GGACP Classic: Charles Fox

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Arts, Comedy, Tv & Film, Visual Arts

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

GGACP celebrates the recent release of the musical documentary "Killing Me Softly with His Songs" (now streaming) by revisiting this memorable interview with Grammy and Emmy winner Charles Fox. In this episode, Charles looks back on a six-decade career of writing top 40 hits as well as themes for TV shows (“Happy Days,” “Wonder Woman,” "The Love Boat"), feature films (“Barbarella,” “9 to 5”) and game shows (“Match Game,” “What’s My Line?”). Also, Charles teams with Barry Manilow, pens a tune for Burt Reynolds, witnesses the Ed Ames tomahawk incident and remembers friends Neal Hefti, Jerry Goldsmith and Henry Mancini. PLUS: “Love, American Style”! The Charles Fox Singers! The inventiveness of Ernie Kovacs! Gilbert sings the soundtrack from “Zapped!” And the boys pay loving tribute to Paul Williams! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	TV, comics, movie stars hit singles and some toys.
0:35.6	Trivia and dirty jokes
0:38.8	An evening with the boys
0:41.3	Once is never good enough for something so fantastic
0:46.3	So here's another Gilbert and Franks
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0:56.0	Colossal classic.
0:58.0	Hi, I'm Beverly DeAngelo and you're listening to Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. I'm going to go. Hi, this is Gilbert Gottfried, and this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast with my co-host,
1:47.8	Frank Santo Padre, and our engineer Frank Verde Rosa.
1:52.5	Our guest this week is an Oscar-nominated Emmy-winning and Grammy-winning musician, songwriter,
1:59.2	arranger, and conductor, and the composer of some of the most
2:04.0	recognizable and admired film and TV scores and TV theme songs of the last six decades.
2:13.0	He's created scores and individual songs for over 100 films including
2:19.1	Bobarella, Goodbye Columbus, Victory and Antebbe, foul play, 9 to 5,
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