Transcript:
Nancy: It's like every-body and every-thing is HERE! Everything any-one forgot...or remembered...
Elvis: I forgot to remember to forget you.
Nancy: Is THAT ELVIS?
Oona: It WAS.
Boy in red: Moof alonk now!
Boy in black: Elvis Haff left Der Vic-troller!
JayBluE almost 11 years ago
Just one of the many ET commercials out there, from back then…
Rod Gonzalez almost 11 years ago
Der Katezenhammer Kids?!?
gimmickgenius almost 11 years ago
Sun Records for Elvis and a (Rudy) Dirks-o-graff for Hans und Fritz!
blunebottle almost 11 years ago
I have often wondered that about Elvis- he didn’t write any of his songs….so ‘King’? No, Crown Prince, maybe, but then that’s taken already…..
carlosrivers almost 11 years ago
why not carl perkins?
hughnsyl almost 11 years ago
@yardlet6Chuck Berry
shel4 almost 11 years ago
Guy, Thanks so much for today’s walk down Memory Lane!
Takagi-san almost 11 years ago
Is that Brenda Lee?
loner34 almost 11 years ago
You can also get Katznjammer kids on “King Features Syndicate” web site.
RedSamRackham almost 11 years ago
Peter Noone was the Justin Bieber of the British Invasion!
Guilty Bystander almost 11 years ago
I’ve thought for years that Carl Perkins was underrated. The guy wrote some great songs (the Beatles loved him) and did he ever rock. I like putting on headphones and cranking up his music every so often because you just don’t listen to Carl Perkins at a low volume.
Similarly, I’ve felt that Elvis might be a little overrated. The pre-Army Elvis was as good as it got, but the post-Army version was essentially a self-caricature in a white jumpsuit.
Willow Mt Lyon almost 11 years ago
Best strip of the year.
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Elvis exploded onto the scene in a way that no one else had since Frank Sinatra, and that no one else would until the Beatles. And he was more talented than he seemed, both as a singer and as an actor; unfortunately, he signed with a manager that didn’t want to take artistic chances, and, being a good old-fashioned boy, he never seriously rebelled against that. Well, it’s happened to novelists and to actors and to athletes and to opera singers….
ColonelClaus almost 11 years ago
Ifen Y’all is gonna mention the King, Be so kind as to spell his name the way we pronounce hit down hea… AElvis.Thank you, thank you very much!
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 11 years ago
From 1914 to 1979, thanks to the outcome of a lawsuit, Hans and Fritz and their entire supporting casts actually ran in two separate strips, “The Katzenjammer Kids” (the word, by the way, is German for "cats’ yowling”) and “The Captain and the Kids”. TKK started in 1897 and is still running today.
The same thing had happened with the very first comic strip, “The Yellow Kid”, which received a clone under the name of “McFadden’s Row of Flats”. In both lawsuits, the court ruled that only the individual daily strips and the title were copyright, and belonged to the syndicate, while the characters and the situation were not copyrightable material in the first place, and so could be used equally by the syndicate and the creator.
By the way, this would not work under present-day law.
brklnbern almost 11 years ago
Got to say it doesn’t look much like Brenda Lee. Also you skipped the real 50’s singers, Eddie Fisher, Perry Como, the McGuire Sisters, etc.
John W Kennedy Premium Member almost 11 years ago
It’s Brenda Lee all right, probably done using the cover of “The Best of Brenda Lee” for reference.
sevenfeet0 almost 11 years ago
A really good joke would be running into a 1930’s era Fritzi Ritz and have Ooma say “Who is that?!?” and Nancy reply “I have no idea!”
katina.cooper almost 11 years ago
Nancy is really having some dream.
richardzimdars almost 11 years ago
Ah, if only Aunt Fritzi could see this place…
GarfieldMN about 4 years ago
E.T! My favorite movie!