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Beats On T.V. - Sheldon Epps - The Beverly Hillbillies

Season 3 of the Beverly Hillbillies brings us a cat named Sheldon Epps. Sheldon

was a recurring character who showed up in three episodes during the third season.

The first, Episode 18 "Clampett A Go-Go" finds Sheldon crashing his car while admiring

Ellie Mae's legs. The Clampetts take him in and nurse him back to health. After Jethro

messes up Sheldon's portrait of Granny, he's actually able to sell it.

Episode 27 "Big Daddy Jed" finds Sheldon back with a bunch of his friends. This time

hoping that Jed will help finance their little basement coffee house The Parthenon West,

because Drysdale is looking to close it and kick them out. Jed and the family wind up

as a family band in the coffee shop.

In the next episode, #28 "Cool School Is Out" Granny has finally had enough of Jethro and

Ellie Mae acting like crazy beatniks and she heads down to The Parthenon West to knock

some sense into them. Instead she just winds up teaching them a new dance called the

'Tater Digger and comes home dressed and talking like a beatnik herself. This is all too

much for Jed and he offers Sheldon a roll of cash to change the coffee house into a high

falutin restaurant. Granny and Jed are completely put off with the image change and make

for splitsville.

Episode 18 "Clampett A Go-Go"

"You want me to give you fifty dollars for this piece of junk?!"

"You're the money bunny Clyde. You ain't gonna miss fifty! C'mon,

start your own war against poverty."

"I was wheelin' through richville and out by your front gate I saw this

wild chick with the crazy drumsticks and...wow."

"Alright cats, here it is, my portrait of Granny. The queen of the elderly

chicks."

Episode 27 "Big Daddy Jed"

"Here it is. Clampettville!"

"Are you sure this is the right place, it looks like Redondo High."

"That's Horace, the great poet, thinker and philosopher."

"Cool it, group, cool it! It's our kind and generous landlord."

"Now look, cats, I'm layin' it on you straight. Big clyde is part of the package deal."

The Clampett Family Band

Episode 28 "Cool School Is Out"

"Ellie Mae, you square! You ain't 'spose to say Howdy Miss Jane!

Us cool cats say lay some skin on me, chick!"

"Say, that's quite a handsome beard Jethro."

"Pretty far out, eh?"

"How 'bout that Ellie Mae? That there's a statue of me."

"Well I think it looks like a great big mud chitlin'!"

Everybody do the 'Tater Digger!

"Eyeball ya later!"

"I'd like to talk to you about Granny"

"Oh, that chick is the cool, cool end. She comes on like Buster's Gang."

"Well, do you 'spose we could UN-cool her, so to speak?"

History For Hipsters - Bachelor Magazine

It seems that re-writing history and fables and such in beatnik lingo was the height of humour back in it's day. I've come across quite a few examples of this. Here's one called HIstory for Hipsters from Bachelor magazine. Click on the pictures to make them big enough to read.

Irving Layton - Live at Le Hibou

I could type a bunch of stuff about Canadian poet Irving Layton, but instead I'll just direct you over to It Came From Canada, where you can download a couple of tracks from his 1963 album Live at Le Hibou. Cool Canuck beat poetry.