WGN Channel 9 - Ray Rayner and His Friends - "A Mesh Rose" (4/26/1978)
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- Here's the bulk of an edition of Ray Rayner and His Friends (or The Ray Rayner Show, both titles are shown in the course of this clip) in which Ray is assembling a mesh rose, with pertinent explanations. (Commercials and cartoons are all edited out, except for a brief People, Places and Things excerpt at the very end)
He starts out showing an already made one, then searches out a mesh bag to commence his how-to demonstration (the one he finds is a bag that once housed fancy California oranges, made by the Melrose Park Produce Distributors in Melrose Park, IL; he also suggests mesh bags for onions). Also required are chenille wire, florist tape, rose leaves (that one could buy in a dime store - probably in today's time at a 99 cent store), pipe cleaner, and needle and thread. Before he starts, he previews the upcoming edition "en français," albeit in the manner of many a Pepe Le Pew cartoon.
Recording switches to the next segment, in which Ray performs "More" from the film "Mondo Cane," and a shot of behind-the-scenes.
Next segment, Ray begins the process of assembling said mesh rose for the viewers to learn and do at home - starting by cutting the label off, then cutting the mesh in half, splitting and folding it, wrapping it in the shape of a rose, sewing the rough part with a needle and red-colored thread and tying a knot in the thread afterwards (with the organist playing "Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose").
Recording then cuts to the segment afterwards, with Ray starting off wishing happy birthdays before going on to the next step in his mesh rose assembly: wrapping it with florist tape, then adding leaves to the top of the stem for which Ray uses a segment of a pipe cleaner and then tapes it (or tries to) to the mesh, finally adding the leaves and rolling the tape to the bottom of the "stem." He then puts his mesh rose into the vase on the table, as recorded laughter is heard afterwards.
Recording next cuts to just after Ray commences the next segment, showing pictures and/or reading letters from the likes of Tod Bonnett (sp?) of Saint Anne, Tracy Burrows (sp?) of Peru, the Kelly kids of McHenry (one of whom is Leah, the other Shaun (?) Joel), Todd Kavanaugh (sp?) of Streamwood, Shelly Shuk (sp?) of Benton Harbor, Paul Fernandez (sp?, location unknown), Jason Gondo of Chicago, Beverley Marie Drabik of South Talman, Beth Seder (sp?) of Clarendon Hills, Amy Bach (sp?) of Hickory Hills, Joey LaMantia (sp?, no address), Jeannette Connelly (sp?) of North Newland, Zbig Adamchick (sp?) of Schiller Park, Sandy Sprain of Alsip, Linda Riggs of Des Plaines, Doug and Jeff White of Muncie, IN, and Renee Haines (sp?) of Chicago.
Recording cuts to ending segment where he shows both mesh roses (his and Chauncey's), and closes program.
Ending credits:
Ray Rayner and His Friends
Chelveston Lives at the Animal Kingdom
Musical Director - Don Orlando
Assistant Director - George Waschbusch
Executive Producer - Ray Rayner
Directed by Bill Hartmann
Ray Rayner and His Friends
(C) 1978, WGN Continental Broadcasting Co.
"I am an old cut-up."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, April 24th 1978 during the 7:00am to 8:00am timeframe.
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Always enjoyed having breakfast with Ray Rayner on school days when he was on WGN-TV back in the day. 🥯
Ray Rayner and a host of other children's shows bring back a lot of wonderful childhood memories. I never missed Ray Rayner before going to school. I'd get to watch just a couple of minutes of Garfield Goose as well. WGN-TV was like home for me. I'd even watch Orion Samuelson on Sunday mornings reading the farm reports. Ray represented the golden age of not just Chicago television, but of the city itself. I'll never forget Ray becoming the official mascot of Slippery Rock College/University and the strange occurrence of Ray's dream about a man with a very strange name; Phinney Agnozzi. A man with that actual name contacted the show while Ray was on air if memory serves me.
We took our stepmother to Fisherman's Inn in Sugar Grove years back. We sat down and ordered our drinks and I heard that famous distinguished voice at the table behind us. Orion Samuelson was there with his family. And yes, that's his real voice.
WGN provided the Greatest Childhood….
Cuddly Dudley, turtle races, cartoons, craft projects (we always watched to see how bad he would mangle everything up), reminders pinned to his jumpsuits, and Chalveston The Duck chasing him up the ladder. I remember Chalveston before he was so aggressive (different duck then?). I once heard or read that unbeknownst to Ray, the studio crew, as a joke, would get Chalveston agitated before letting him loose so he would attack Ray. Ah, fun and happy times, take me back.
The rose.... omg GOLD.
Though I watched Ray Rayner and Bozo, I think it's unique the way the Merrie Melodies opening tune was used to start and end Ray's show with.
This is hysterical.
Back when there were 5 channels and TV went off at 1am?
My brother and I joked about when Ray died, his casket would be made of popsicle sticks and a gallon of glue...
Always loved the random camera pans while Ray sang...These clips are priceless, many thanks to Fuzzy for bringing me happy memories of my childhood! One of the small pleasures in life.
Fred Rogers, Ray Rahner, Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Spencer Milligan, so many great roles models we had as kids. Thanks for this video. Ray's singing of "More" made me cry. What a great song for a great life. :)
Img I watched this every morning before school. Then came home for lunch and watched Bozo Circus!
Loved Ray Rayner. Cartoons. Games.
There's something weirdly ASMR about this. 🤔
Yeah, wonder if this demonstration of Mr. Rayner's was a forerunner of all that.
I miss you Ray. you were the best!
I would love to see the one where he had the big barrel and he was given bicycles and watches away
Oh please, just keep the Elmers glue out of his hands! He always used too much glue. Was soooo funny.
Is his intro and ending copyright? I believe it belongs to bugs and daffy
I'm sure the producers of Ray Rayner & Friends were aware of that, they did pay for the rights to use the snippet.
That was the show's intro...I remember it well...
He must've had a deal with Warner Bros., he played their cartoon shorts too.