Phil Spector/Phil Foster- Walk-On Interview/Argument 1966 [Reelin' In The Years Archive]
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I grew up in the 60s and this conversation is a great example of the so called "generation gap" that alienated and tore families apart back then.
Perfectly stated thanks.
@longstrongdong thus spake 'longstrongdong'
Everything now is staged. This is probably too to an extent.
@grimble so true
being described as unmanly was also something -
Spector was on his game, Demolished old fossil Phil Foster
The only game he was on is when he cowardly murdered a woman. I’m sure you made your fossil parents real proud. Fu** him and fu** you. Have a great day.
Always thought Phil Spector was a cool looking dude till he started wearing silly wigs,afros, and moustaches. The looks on the faces of the panel and the audiences were priceless. They couldn't come close to understanding the changes that were taking place! Still to be fair Phil may have been a genius but he was obviously nuts and his insecurities were on full display here.
He was always a bit nuts, but I think his near fatal accident really pushed him over the edge. Started wearing the wigs to cover his massive scars.
He had over 300 stiches on his face after he went through the windshield of his old rolls royce.
Phil 'I don't do eye contact' Spector.
Longer hair on boys was extremely controversial back then. Early on, barbers were worried about their income, from people not wanting to get haircuts. Initially it was teenage boys who suddenly didn't want to get haircuts. Boys fought all over the country with their parents about it. Barbers put up signs in their windows: "We do Beatle cuts", hoping to draw resistant young men back in.
But the early fears of barbers were really unwarranted, although not all of them could see it at the time. The "shocking" longer hair styles eventually transformed into a multi-million dollar a year hairstyling industry for men. Barbers who followed the trend made far more money as hairstylists than they did as barbers.
Thank you professor Barberstein
Is that all can you think about anything else than a haircut shallow
The "rebels"back then, (more like JDs) usually got as far as a Moe Howard doo.
He was cute in a beatnik kinda way.
Phil Spector ... to know his music is to love his music ...
A genius
Absolutely
Well that was awkward.
Everything about it was awkward. Kinda like when Robin WIlliams would first start an interview......but Robin WIlliams turned it into a winner every time. This was bad.
We haven't had this kind of unscripted tension on TV in a long time.
People seem to think Phil's reaction to this is strange? If I was embarrassed like that on national TV, I don't think my reaction would be any different.
This was best (and most cringy) talk show segment, ever. Bravo to all involved.
Spector's hair was considered long at that time and the reaction of Foster and Graham was common for people of, not only that generation but anyone outside the counterculture. Prominent politicians referred to those with long hair as animals, pestilent and sub human. The burgeoning counterculture was considered a hazard to civilization because the haters looked only at the surface, at what was different, rather than the art and the music. At that time, you were denied employment unless you cut your hair and verbal and physical assaults from complete strangers were not uncommon. Having long hair fractured families, it also meant you were profiled and harassed by the authorities. The hatred was so strong that some who were interviewed about the Kent and Jackson State shootings said, "they should have shot them all". For a short period in time, white, middle class kids knew what it was like to be treated the same way people of color had always been treated. All of that hatred, simply for being different and fifty years on, nothing much has changed!
I was run out of town once for having long hair.
Was Phil's hair ever actually real though?
Spot on!
@@dennisworden4430 I meant to say it was on my forehead, and that pissed them off!!!
When asked - Dylan Bob said the 60's were about blue jeans
This is so bizarre. Thanks for posting this........
"Nowhere man." hahaha
Insulting snot.
Wow, so that was the beginning of the hippys vs. the squares.. I always wondered when that all began.
It began the night Phil Foster told Spector to "go wash". lol
It began long before this show.
Jesus Christ, people were square back then.
They were better back then.
Episode: 119
Season: 3
Aired: February 18 1966
Merv Griffin:
July 6 1925 - August 12 2007
Arthur Treacher:
July 23 1894 - December 14 1975
Virginia Graham:
July 4 1912 - December 22 1998
Phil Foster:
March 29 1913 - July 8 1985
Phil Spector:
December 26 1939
Phil Foster was probably the least accomplished on the panel.
Spector died shortly after you had commented. Maybe you'll want to edit that date in
It's crazy how spector was the last one standing...damn
old lady between them sitting there like👁👄👁
Mike: the symbols at end of your comment speaks volumes & hilarious! LOL
Phil Spector destroyed Merv Griffin’s musical dreams in 5 seconds 🤣
Merv Griffin wrote the theme song to Jeopardy in a little under 2 mins , according to his son. He got $$ every time the show played. We are talking over $100.000.000 by now.
@@michaellandreth1392 That basic piano jingle written against a metronome had nothing on Spector’s productions and songs.
@@j.c7719 Of course not. But EVERYONE knows that tune and it made Merv MILLIONS ! As far as the metro a lot of songs have been written them...
@@michaellandreth1392 I agree, I just always thought that theme sounded like someone trying to learn to play and it was somewhat amateur to include the metro in the finished product, not that there’s anything wrong with them but he was laughing all the way to the bank so fair play to him.
20 years later, Merv tried to teach Trump, The Art of the Deal, after bragging that he grossed $80 million per year, from Wheel of Fortune, which cost him only $10 million to produce.
Great clip. Look how shocked Arthur and Virginia looks as Phil comes out of the audience.
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Takes them forever to release stuff..
Dana Carvey could nail Spector without trying.
Exactly
Totally! Well-observed, obvi.US
They were literally bullying him and she is irrelevant whilst Spector is eternally relevant
@@j.c7719 women still try to dismiss men just like she does here with that , ohh as I was saying😏😏
@@marcofalzone6469 Scarey isn't it?
#1) Phil was high
#2) he was arrogant
#3) he was attacked by that older dude.
#4) this was when T.V. truly was UNSCRIPTED....
#5) Merv Griffin did his best to keep the flow of the entertainment for his audience.
I agree with all but #5, but I bet he remembered this for his future. It's probably why his 70s-80s talk show lasted as long as it did.
He played Laverne's father on Laverne and Shirley. An unfiltered New Yorker.
I think specter was just defending himself. Not like he killed anyone. Lol
Arthur Watt lol
Arthur Watt Not yet he hadn't
I like phil
I like spector
Yet!
Phil Foster was being a jerk even before Specter walked in .
I think the entire cast were native New Yorkers. Gruff, opinionated and direct.
Right on! I took an instant dislike to that loudmouthed blowhard. Spector nailed it when he compared him to Nowhere Man.
Spector sure picked the wrong day to stop into the show unannounced. The only way it could have been worse is if it was Don Rickles instead of Phil Foster.
No, that would have been better.
Don Rickles was funny. Phil Foster was not
@@yellyman5483 True.
Oh, I didn't realize Phil's visit was unannounced..
Don Rickles Would have fried Specters brain.
Spector died today in a prison hospital at age 81.
@Any One Sad for the for his family and friends left behind. But for him, he's up in Heaven and young again.
And Im sure Jesus knows how to handle folks like Phil who alleged murdered his girlfriend.
@@garychambers5850
Allegedly... but also really.
Damn, Phil was high as a kite. Apparently he suffered such stage fright that he had to get loaded and completely out there to appear before an audience. The results are terrible.
Nice
It's crazy to me that Spector's talent wasn't appreciated in his hey day. His music has become both timeless and classic.
It wasn’t appreciated by many a lay, subjective listener, by artists, musicians and songwriters though it was galvanising and thank god!
Huh? He was a multimillionaire by 25, retired at 28 and everyone in music wanted to work with him.
@@brianhilliard2260 he semi-retired when he was 41 after producing Yoko Ono’s underrated album ‘Season of Glass’ in 1981 although he did continue to make music and came out of his semiretirement in 2003 to produce 2 tracks for Starsailor’s album ‘Silence Is Easy’ including the title track which was a great demonstration of how his production style would have worked brilliantly with more contemporary alternative rock
@@j.c7719 He came OUT of retirement at 41. That's why his name isn't associated with any bands from the late 60's to 81.
He was a multimillionaire and probably burned out from producing unforgettable music in 8 years what would take another person a lifetime.
@@brianhilliard2260 That’s not true, he came out of retirement at 30 in 1970 to produce the genius composition ‘Instant Karma’ followed closely by ‘Plastic Ono Band’, ‘All Things Must Pass’ and ‘Imagine’. His music is about as far from forgettable as is possible.
I'd love to see the clip of Broadway producer David Merrick walking off the show...it was also in 1966 I believe...
Phil Spector completely wiped the floor with Phil Foster.
Any man that needs 8 INCH HEELS in public ,well that says it all about him.
@@jayboucher2310 Those heels weren't eight inches. You need eyeglasses. Spector was short at five feet, five inches tall, about the same height as Sammy Davis, Jr.
And with Ronnie .
@@ValleyoftheRogue WTH would you try and compare Spector with a man?He was anything but a man which is why you like him.
@@jayboucher2310 a man is nothing more than a male which he was.
Really strange to see Phil Foster act like that for someone like me who grew up with him as Penny Marshall's curmudgeon but lovable Italian widower father in "Laverne & Shirley"
This makes the Eric Andre show look like Jimmy Fallon.....
I appreciate the archival work you do, but this is painful to watch!
That man have big troubles.
Phil Spector and the Squares
Comb your eyebrows back
I'm surprised Foster didn't get in Spector's face about combing his brows. lol
Wow, that was really hostile. Phil Foster seemed to initiate the snide remarks, which understandably rubbed Spector the wrong way. Spector's ramble about English people was unwarranted though. What a shitshow.
There was no reason for that. Spector didnt do anything. It would of been nice if he talked about his career.
Show was horrible. Why on earth did he go on there?
Spector got some publicity and a nice check for appearing.
He was basically talking about the English suave, even if they're about to cut your nuts orf. It went over their heads entirely.
I don’t think they were intelligent enough to get his jokes, I got every single one, I’m English and that was not offensive in the slightest, we do have a way of making the most unsettling sentiments sound charming, especially people with a very posh London accent. They were schoolyard bullying him because he was a small man who didn’t try to act hyper masculine and conventional, funny how there’s only one person there who will be remembered and acclaimed for eternity, Phil Spector, for all his sins. And that ‘Nowhere Man’ jab was timeless.
@@j.c7719 I'm English too, I just didn't think it landed very well. Was a very awkward execution lol
Growing up in the 60's, we had "The Virginia Graham Show" and couldn't stand her. Seeing her face when Phil walked in was classic!!!! Loved the way he told Phil Foster about the Beatles new "Nowhere Man" record may be dedicated to him.
Phil Foster had no idea who he was dealing with
Phil passed on today. Not sure what to make of him in this or in any interview. Always very "touchy" or on the edge it seems.
He was paranoid, insecure, Napoleonic and was drunk when he killed her.
Phil had a few back and forths on this Merv Griffin show. There's a clip with Phil going at it with Ertha Kitt. It was good theatre.
Notice that the song they play as Spector walks in is " A pretty girl is like a melody'..
Phil Foster played the father on Laverne and Shirley.
carmar597 That’s where I’ve seen him!
That's the only place I've seen him; I don't think I've watched L&S for 30 years. He sure had a big fat mouth on him. Merv should have clocked him with that desk mic.
Wow what lead pipe he was... Good God.
@@QuadMochaMatti Merv was useless. Btw who came up with the lineup on this show? And the seating arrangement is awkward as hell. Yikes.
Random fact: He (Spector) took out a court injunction against the BBC in the UK after comedian Frank Skinner and performing flatulist Mr Methane covered 'Da Doo Ron Ron' on the Frank Skinner show. Mr Methane farted out the 'Da doo ron-ron-ron, Da doo ron-ron' parts after every line. This was banned from ever being publicly broadcast and Mr Spector even mentioned it while receiving a lifetime achievement award in Australia, saying it desecrated his work.
mrkristoff 'Performing flatulist?' Is there such a thing? Lol.
@@giovanna8187 Yes, he seems to be the only known one in the world
@@mrkristoff A good thing, no doubt :)
@@mrkristoff I hope film/video survives! The BBC has always been great at archiving their old programming.
(Edit: Maybe someone could organize an orchestra of manualists --"hand-farters"--to do a posthumous Spector tribute.)
@@giovanna8187 There was. "Le Petomane" was his stage name. Strictly speaking, he wasn't passing gas. He learned how to draw in air and expel it to produce music.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane
How did he end up being so crazy afterwards!?! Unbelievable actually...
Drugs and he lost his dad to suicide at a early age
Very many factors, going from being the most acclaimed and respected person in the music industry to then struggling to find work but also being constantly reminded of your past glories and trying to recreate the same level of art. alcoholism, bipolar, drugs, OCD.
Afterwards? He was always crazy!
From the beginning people thought he was a musical genius and a terrible person.
In case you're wondering that interviewer is a younger Merv Griffin. He later had his own nerwork evening talk show and created some game shows like..... JEOPARDY!
Also had some real estate bidding war with Trump back in the 80s.
@@JamJells How so?
He Handled that bloody Good if u Ask me?!?!😳🤠.
Phil has that young Adam Sandler awkwardness.
Bad comparison.
Even years after this, people could be straight up arse-hats to anyone with longhair (yes, that was longhair at the time)
This is gold
Nice Beatles reference.
Yeh, Love "The Nowhere Man" reference to that guy!
Those old heads are so disrespectful. Phil mightve been crazy but they really disrespected a hard working music legend
Sadly, everyone on the stage has passed on to the Here After!
Imagine if Phil Foster had still been alive when Spector murdered that girl.
Yeah he'd be really fucking old.
He was Penny Marshall's father in Laverne&Shirley...
I Thought he looked Familiar ....
After watching this, I will have to listen to a Steely Dan song and a Corey Hart song.
Ricky don't lose that number.........lol
@@pastelskies8466 I wear my sunglasses at night...lol
WOW.
Merv cut Specter down about his sideburns right off the bat . And put out your smoke ,while Arthur is smoking .
So sad Phil Spector never got over his, "short man complex." Smh
Napoleonic Complex aka short man syndrome. Gay Merv was short but civil.
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He's like the church lady off SNL.. RIP..
Whoa! Little man complex.
Always uncomfortable, always filled with low self-esteem, always making people uneasy… A brilliant walking disaster..
Uptight, bad mannered attitude towards PS from the start...I recently heard one of the Rolling Stones talking about appearing live on us tv and dean martin complaining of the smell of the young, long haired popsters... I think this kinda attitude was very common among a lot of the oldsters of the time!!!
@Mr SuperNobody. I watched that show with the Stones. I think it aired on a Sunday night. Palladium was in the show's title. Dean's said some insult suck as that they needed a bath. Typical jackass comment and attitude similar to Graham. And how about her hair?
@@bh8365
A British person told me people didn't wash often in the 60's and 70'd because the water wasn't reliably hot and some drank themselves into a stupor, crashed in bed until the next morning, then going to work without a shower.
@@fazole Yeah, but that's the British. Their country was referred to as the land of the dry towel.
People didn't like hippies back then. ...though I don't see Phil as a true hippie. He worked..but the long hair set a lot of folks off then
As oldsters Martin, Sammy Davis, Sinatra etc smelled like booze & cigarettes.
Phil Foster is the originator of the Tonight Show
Went on Whats My Line!Didn't have see two Dick McCracken as hosts!Took Manhattans at lunchtime but saw more than double the migraines.
Phil Spector was a genius, and I felt he was attacked by that big mouth. It could have been an amazing interview. I love Merv and that woman- I will find out who she is.
The lady is Virginia Graham. She was also a talk show host.
Hey its the "Fish & Chips" chap!
Reality TV - '60s style! Two people having a childish argument and I can't relate to either one.
All a tip of the hat or tip of the ice berg named Public Education which in itself is a play on words irony
So nuts, it should have happened on The Mike Douglas Show.
damn...what a genius he was....
Phil Foster sounds a lot like Tony Clifton. But not funny.
spot on observation
Viviandarkbloom. Absolutely.
I was just gonna say that!
Yeah but hes knows a creep when he sees one
Phil Foster was far along into his comedian career well before Tony Clifton was even born. Phil Foster was 46 when tony clifton 10 years old. If anything, Tony clifton sounds like a bad Phil Foster. Lol.
Spector came on to make trouble and succeeded...I feel Spector was confronting his father ghost right here...poor Foster had to deal with his antics...Spector is a madman knew how to produce huge music
Poor Foster? He was mouthy before Spector made the scene.
Mitch: Foster looked like he would have preferred to punch Spector.
I think Merv should have had on Phil Spector by himself. So he can seriously talk about his music.
This format is stupid!
No I think Dick Cavett could have did much better to pull off Spectors defenses.
Then they comment about his clothes and his manhood .
Shows like this make you wonder why the film industry was so worried about television.
Midget with heels on!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mr. Foster check out, "Nowhere Man". LOL!!!
What?? Laverne's father starting beef with Spector during his peak?? This is historic!
Phil Spector looks a little like Djokovic here.
Spector had a chip on his shoulder from being beaten up as a kid..no surprise he died in prison.
Thats fucked up he was a genius which is more than i can say for you and he died from covid
@@susankeech2453 genius or not..he was an arrogant little man.. which is way more than you are...
It is loud and clear why Spector was easily spooked. Bullied as a child in NY.
The Beatles decided to hire this guy...
Oh well, he did a great job imo
and then they broke up
Cool
I once saw him here on Merv, & he got into a little tiff with Ertha Kitt....I was looking for it again, & see that you have to "buy" it now, if you want to see it..
Hey, it's available on DailyMotion.
Merv Griffin, Phil Spector and Laverne De Fazio's pop!!!
Wow Virginia Graham at the end, what a horrible statement. Shows you how uptight that people were.
jeez, he really did like to argue with everyone and throw his statues around. in every interview !
Lord have mercy what a tragic impression of the 60s. Truly deplorable if ya think about it.
That's the way it really was for a time. Sad but true.
the old lassie at 2.33 knew what was up and how dangerous phil was with guns
Phil Spector was a brilliant comedian.
bro was too goated
So many cultural tidbits throughout this footage. Description lacked listing the other guests.
I guess that's the look Michael Nesmith of the Monkees was going for.
HIlarious bomb-throwing here. Spector really has that stereotypical Ratso Rizzo voice going.
Mr DeFazio from Laverne and Shirley
You can detect signs of Spector's paranoia even then!
jim M He is shy. Not paranoid. Big difference.
@@susancarter2365 Phil Spector appears to believe everyone is attacking him?
@nasser wiz He was insecure. That's why he was always threatening people with guns and he purposely sabotaged Ronnie Spector's career after he married her. He kept her prisoner in his mansion and tormented her and his kids.
I think he's a good comic with his one liners RIP genius
Schizophrenic tendencies not trustful of others, paranoid and suspicious.
I truly believe that this was set up, why else would the band be cued up that quickly or why would Phil be allowed to get that close to the stage also Merv seems to know right away who Phil is etc,etc
Was the guy on the far right in "Laverne & Shirley"?
Yes he played Laverne’s Dad. His name is Phil Foster
@@ReelinInTheYears66 What is the name of this show?
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At the end, you can even hear the insecure fellow-dazed/confused "woman" try to defend the "keep Man a dumb manly man and stay ugly let me be the pretty one and stay primitive and fight over me." Bless Phil; bringing such light to these primitive thinkers.
- Matthew Edward Hall
>implying now is better
I know lots of manly men who are very clever, and handsome. Length of hair is not a concern.
if anyone thinks Mr. Spector will ever see the Free World again, they are delusional as him, and I'm a huge fan
Phil Spector roasted these clowns.
Dwarf sized peanut could not touch Foster or anyone on that panel.History lesson dwarf boy was already on the way down in 66.
@@jayboucher2310 Sure. He was an expert at firearms. If anybody deserved to have PS whip out a gun at him, it was Phil Foster. What a jerk.
@@ValleyoftheRogue you call a history of being drunk and spinning a gun cylinder Russian roulette style, a firearms expert? He murdered that woman.