ICEKNIFE
2004-01-13 02:42:29 UTC
Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum starred as Mr. Green Jeans, the chief aide to
Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) at the Treasure House on the successful
children's program CAPTAIN KANGAROO/CBS/1955-84. Mr. Green Jeans got
his name from the clothes he wore (a green pair of farmer overalls),
and because of his interest with the outdoors. He visited the Captain
with a variety of interesting items including cute little animals.
Before his long running role on CAPTAIN KANGAROO, Hugh Brannun had
been the host of his own local New York show entitled UNCLE LUMPY'S
CABIN in the early 1950s. The series was described in a letter to the
New York Times as "a composite or synthesis of the old-time values we
all like our children to know." Bob Keeshan joined the show as an
advisor after he had a dispute with his employers at the HOWDY DOODY
SHOW (he had played Clarabell the Clown). Keeshan's and Brannum's
professional relationship endured over three decades. Earlier in his
career Hugh had also created and narrated a weekly series of folksy
"Little Orley" stories which orchestra leader Fred Waring used on his
radio program in the 1940s. Born January 5, 1910 in Sandwich,
Illinois, Hugh Brannum died of cancer on April 22, 1987 at his home
in Sailorsburg, Pennsylvania. He was 77 years old. George Cahill
played the role of Mr. Green Jeans on the syndicated 1997 revival
series THE ALL NEW CAPTAIN KANGAROO.
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Got that, you mean old lying bastards?
CANCER.
NOT suicide.
I hope we've all learned something here, I know *I* certainly have!
Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) at the Treasure House on the successful
children's program CAPTAIN KANGAROO/CBS/1955-84. Mr. Green Jeans got
his name from the clothes he wore (a green pair of farmer overalls),
and because of his interest with the outdoors. He visited the Captain
with a variety of interesting items including cute little animals.
Before his long running role on CAPTAIN KANGAROO, Hugh Brannun had
been the host of his own local New York show entitled UNCLE LUMPY'S
CABIN in the early 1950s. The series was described in a letter to the
New York Times as "a composite or synthesis of the old-time values we
all like our children to know." Bob Keeshan joined the show as an
advisor after he had a dispute with his employers at the HOWDY DOODY
SHOW (he had played Clarabell the Clown). Keeshan's and Brannum's
professional relationship endured over three decades. Earlier in his
career Hugh had also created and narrated a weekly series of folksy
"Little Orley" stories which orchestra leader Fred Waring used on his
radio program in the 1940s. Born January 5, 1910 in Sandwich,
Illinois, Hugh Brannum died of cancer on April 22, 1987 at his home
in Sailorsburg, Pennsylvania. He was 77 years old. George Cahill
played the role of Mr. Green Jeans on the syndicated 1997 revival
series THE ALL NEW CAPTAIN KANGAROO.
****
Got that, you mean old lying bastards?
CANCER.
NOT suicide.
I hope we've all learned something here, I know *I* certainly have!