5 NEAT Guys singing Stairway to Heaven with their typical tempo and tune. Classic.

@calvinsaxon5822

Жыл бұрын

And wit.

@danielc1978

Жыл бұрын

The Four Lads

@elisaastorino2881

Жыл бұрын

@@danielc1978 oh yes, and The Four Freshmen, etc. - all those ultra square vocal ensembles made for a great parody.

@crlaw75

Жыл бұрын

Gotta love them.

I can't get enough of SCTV commercials! This one is near the top, along with Gordon Lightfoot sings every song ever written.

@Blyndtyger76

5 жыл бұрын

The best hands down. Gordon's was 379 records right?

@nettiewolverinethunderbird8341

9 ай бұрын

They are soooo funny..

@nettiewolverinethunderbird8341

9 ай бұрын

Remember minite soup? Think fast mommy

@gordons-alive4940

5 ай бұрын

On 5000 cassettes, or whatever the number was. LOL.

I went to a record store back in the 80's asking for this record and they laughed at me.

@mikepatrick5909

9 жыл бұрын

It was probably because of your face.

@Laurance987

8 жыл бұрын

That is extremely rude. This is one of the problems with KZread today. People should think more before they post comments that may hurt someone. He already knows he has an awful face. That's really terrible to remind him.

@matadorman78

7 жыл бұрын

true, there is no call for attacks at all

@stevep8445

7 жыл бұрын

+1....... Everyone can hide behind their keyboards and make comments like that..

@mariac.9055

6 жыл бұрын

The reason why they laughed because it was only on cd

I always lose it at Rich Little. Genius.

"30 versions at 33 1/3. For a third of the price you'd pay in a store. But once again, you can't buy it in a store." Retail copywriting masterpiece.

I grew up on SCTV....thanks Canada from the US

I'd totally buy this just for the Slim Witman version alone

@elainebmack

6 жыл бұрын

I never understood Slim Whitman. He sounded ok, then all of a sudden he starts yodeling. Why????

@DogeFilms

3 жыл бұрын

@@elainebmack dunno, guess that was his thing.

@BaileyBuns9

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😅😆😂😁😆😅

@giovanna722

2 жыл бұрын

@@DogeFilms Otherwise, he was forgettable : )

@giovanna722

2 жыл бұрын

Was that Joe Flaherty, anyone know?

I tried to explain this bit to my son, who has just downloaded the original on his Ipod... ...but aside from not having heard of any of the performers being burlesqued here, the concept of a "NOT AVAILABLE IN STORES" LP, sold only on UHF stations, is completely incomprehensible to him. I feel so old.

Al Stewart jokes are definitely my jam. Oddly not easy to find those, hahaha. Oh, SCTV.

30 years on, and I still remember the punch line "Rich Little singing it the only way he can" Thanks for uploading

Whoever sang the Rickie Lee Jones part is amazing!

@radioactive_moose

Жыл бұрын

Catherine O’Hara i think?

Rich Little version got me

@mercurywoodrose

3 жыл бұрын

he even mimicked the arrangement!! thats better than the sound effects guy from police academy!! what talent!! who did rich here, was it martin short?

@MrPontificator

3 жыл бұрын

@@mercurywoodrose The little-known fact is that it was actually Led Zeppelin doing Rich Little doing Led Zeppelin. Kinda like Joe Piscopo doing Frank Sinatra doing Bruce Springsteen, but a little different. But I agree: it's just uncanny.

@frankbarnwell____

3 жыл бұрын

Rich Plant? Spooky

I lost it when the Five Neat Guys showed up

@williambowers2820

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite Neat Guys song is “She Does It.”

@nicholasegg0284

2 ай бұрын

Mine's gotta be "I'm the Goof in the Classroom"

the musical skits in SCTV were always of incredible quality

@blader45bc

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Hall and Oates and The Tubes were amazing on the Fishing Musician

I love how we recognize the voices and can imagine the grimaces they make. Point: ANDREA MARTIN crossed eyed on high notes, doing Buffy St. Marie, still has me rolling on the floor!

On the scroll--The Village People with Rod McKuen. And then there's Jan and Dean. Priceless stuff.

More laughs in a half-hour of SCTV than in a year of SNL. Monty Python for Americans.

@dougbrowne9890

Жыл бұрын

For North Americans, for SCTV was Canadian.

@brianmitchell8203

Жыл бұрын

@@dougbrowne9890 One of your better exports. I watched it here.

@davidpiscopo3774

Жыл бұрын

Watched SCTV & Bizarre regularly. SNL simply bored me other than the musical acts.

Classic! Loved SCTV's K-tel parodies with Dave Thomas imitating Bob Washington (the most prominent and loudest K-tel announcer). This one was the funniest of all. Shame on humorless Led Zeppelin for banning this from SCTV's DVD releases.

@PikesvilleAl

5 жыл бұрын

That was Harvey K-Tel

@timepoet77

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of songs couldn’t be used for the SCTV DVD set, as the rights are extremely expensive.

I NEED THAT FULL PAVAROTTI VERSION YESTERDAY!!

COULD BE the greatest cover album EVER! Wish SCTV had done this all the way!!! This is hysterical no matter HOW many thousands of times you have played it over the years...

1:46 "If you went to a record store to look for this record, they'd laugh at you, not because of your looks, but because they're not allowed to sell it." I laughed so hard...

All jokes aside, they had pretty decent voices.

LOL...Rickie Lee Jones-"And she's buyyying a stairway,buying a stairway 2 heaven,the girl uses up all her cash".

@elainebmack

6 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you wrote the words out. I never could understand what she was saying!

@ethelwulfmountbattenderoth2286

3 жыл бұрын

That was pretty good.

Tex and Edna boil should have their version on there too!

SCTV was pure genius! Too bad I was born in '77 and didn't experience it the first time around!

@mckessa17

Жыл бұрын

At least your not old like the rest of us who remember.

The scroll included Dolly Parton as one of the covering artists. The thing is, she does a cover and it's ABSOLUTELY KILLER. Here on KZread. I've read that it's the only version that LZ OK'd a change in the lyrics when Dolly performs.

@nettiewolverinethunderbird8341

9 ай бұрын

Don't forget DEVO is on it

The first time I saw this in the 1980s,I literally laughed for days over the "Rich Little" version.

Gotta love the cover-art "stairway": a chromed-up escalator beneath '70s neon. Another poke at ever-tacky K-tel.

Two decades after this ad spoof, Dolly Parton actually did a cover version of this song. Talk about being prophetic . . .

@ChrisLawton66

2 ай бұрын

A decade before Dolly there was an actual CD called Stairways to Heaven with a bunch of cover bands doing versions.

@indiglo1971

14 күн бұрын

I want to know where Melonville is.

No doubt in my mind now SCTV was way funnier than SNL. Quirkier and willing to be more bizarre for sure.

@Neville60001

7 жыл бұрын

Not all episodes of SNL were crap, sir.

@MoeGreensRightEye

7 жыл бұрын

Only 90%

@jaworskij

7 жыл бұрын

Canadians are the best at mass appeal humour. Must be our cold Winters.

@markusantonio4866

7 жыл бұрын

Jim M Even, the band Rush is funny and musically talented.

@JohnSmith-kz8yo

7 жыл бұрын

SNL went too much for political jokes. SCTV just went for the best jokes.

SCTV was comedy genius!

@HardRockMaster7577

4 жыл бұрын

SCTV was funny funny. SNL is mostly stupid funny.

The Rickie Lee Jones gets me every time

I haven't seen this in at least 30 years. 😂 I'd totally listen to the Pavarotti version.

The Rich Little version cracked me up. Damn they were geniuses.

comedy gold...comedy genius !!

How did I miss this?! I don't know which is funnier--the singing impersonations, or Dave Thomas's hypercharged, overheated voiceover. Genius!

@agnidas5816

3 жыл бұрын

Led Zeppelin made releases of this skit difficult..,

@QuadMochaMatti

Жыл бұрын

@@agnidas5816 Robert Plant is a douche.

One of my favourites. Love it. Rickie lee Jones. Totally dead on. And Barry White. OMG

I would actually buy this to hear The Chipmunks version!

Rich Little did an amazing impersonation of Robert Plant!

Wow! 5 Neat Guys singing Stairway to Heaven? I've got to have it!!!

I don't know if anyone's mentioned it yet, but there actually *is* an album like this that came out in the 1990s. It's called "The Money or the Gun: Stairways to Heaven," and it's exactly like this commercial except real. A bunch of acts cover "Stairway" in different styles..

@ChristopherSobieniak

9 жыл бұрын

Joe Blevins Well at least it became a reality.

@klmullins65

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but I'll bet it didn't feature the star power of Slim Whitman, or The 5 Neat Guys on it!

@Neville60001

5 жыл бұрын

@@klmullins65, who cares about those losers?

@bobcanada7382

5 жыл бұрын

There's also a "Tom's Album," er, album, in which various acts do cover versions of Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" song.

I prefer the 5 Neat Guys version!

@mercurywoodrose

3 жыл бұрын

NEAT!!

@quinnrollen

3 жыл бұрын

5 Neat Guys should have done the whole album

@impalaman9707

3 жыл бұрын

I love their matching sweaters with the words spelling "5-N-E-A-T". And John Candy with a moustache looks like a fat Ned Flanders!

One the all-time greats from SCTV. Didn't know Page wouldn't let them put it on the dvd sets Glad I still have all my old vhs tapes of SCTV!

@bertmustin

Жыл бұрын

Page is a pedo asshole.

@QuadMochaMatti

Жыл бұрын

Jimmy Page likes his girlies underage.

I almost lost my shit when I heard Luciano Pavarotti

Burl Ives...BURL IVES! XD That would be gold

@TheDman216

2 жыл бұрын

Silver and gold! hahah sorry i had too

Barry White!!! LMFAO - thanks so much for uploading this!

Was a real treat to see Jan & Dean on the list.

Ooh baby baby makes you wonder......Barry White

Genius!! Thank God for SCTV!!

Jan & Dean's version probably sounds like 'Little Old Lady from Pasadena' - There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is go-old (Glitters is, glitters is, glitters is gold!)

Oh God that was comedy GOLD! I started cracking up at the Pavarotti part, then the Barry White part kept the laughter going until I totally lost it at Slim Whitman, Rickie Lee Jones, 5 Neat Guys and Rich Little! Stairway To Heaven was a song that was the rock of my teen years so much so that I have a hard time playing it now it's so played out. Man that was awesomely funny! Great post thanks.

I love the rich little one that was fantastic I'm cracking up. The whole thing is good and the Rickie Lee Jones is fantastic that was so funny 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thanks Canada better than Saturday night live. ❤️👍👍👍

the genius of SCTV..

L.P., 8 track, or cassette. Yes!

Loved this! LONG LIVE SCTV!

For people today who might not know what this is satirizing, there are numerous real K-Tel Records TV commercials from the 1970s posted here on KZread. Back then, they were inescapable and they really did look and sound just like this comedy version.

Genius!

Slim, wow, that's a memory from deep in the archives.

Ricky Lee Jones!!! haha! "and she's buyyyyyyying a Stairway to Heaven... girl uses up all her cash." hahaha!

Growing up in Cleveland, OH, watching this comedy troop (pre SNL) they were hilarious (and outrageous for the time). Enjoy SCTV (Second City Television Network). More to come......

That Rich Little - uncanny!

TOO BAD THE FIVE NEAT GUYS BROKE UP..

@kingslaphappy1533

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they were pretty neat.

@tgore276

3 жыл бұрын

one is dead, another is in rehab, and another is retired

@pabdiary

3 жыл бұрын

They actually have a popular burger chain now but they aren't "Neat" anymore

@jackb348

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr? Who Made The Egg Salad Sandwiches changed my life forever. I will never look at my refrigerator the same way ever again.

@thegorn68

3 жыл бұрын

They never got over the death of "No.5" member. Rather than try and replace him, they just couldn't fathom him not being a member. Ironically, much like Zeppelin felt with Bonham's tragic death.

Ah the FIVE .... Neat guys in there i'm sold!

LOL at the five neat guys reference...

I would buy it for the 5 neat guys version.

The ironic thing is that Dolly Parton did record a version of "Stariway". Hilarious.

@futs30 Wow, I had no idea that something like this would bother JP so much...money changes everything, eh? Oh, btw, YES!! I've seen Rick Moranis as "Linsk Minyak (sp)" doing the Leutonian version of Stairway to Heaven on the Shmenge Brothers special. SO DANG FUNNY!!! I miss SCTV, The Shmenge Bros, and John Candy. ::(

This whole show was peak comedy.

My cheeks haven't felt like this since my last acid trip in 89.

Kind of a shame they just used headshots rather than live impersonations; we never got to see Cathering O'Hara as Rickie Lee Jones.

Holy cow...Rich Little was spot on!!! lol

The five neat guys and Pavarotti hands down best versions

I miss SCTV

Rich Little LOL

@soakingbook

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, sounds uncannily close to the original!

8-track, cassette, or LP...geez! I had all three for the Led Zeppelin I thru Presence albums. Remember when they were actual tapes and albums-that we could physically hold in our hands? Lord, am I getting old!🙄

i would absolutely buy this album. full price.

wow. sweet post. so much good SCTV i wish i had, has been held back..

I tried to explain this bit to my son, who has just downloaded the original on his IPod... ...but aside from not having heard of any of the performers being burlesqued here, the concept of a "NOT AVAILABLE IN STORES" LP (or the concept of an "LP..." he's never known anything but CD's), sold only on UHF stations, is completely incomprehensible to him. I feel so old. (Addendum, four years later:) It's on his IPhone now... And the kids a few years younger than he is are now asking, "What's an IPod?" I feel really, really old.

Barry made it a love mood song !!!🤣

I want to hear the version by Boxcar Willie lol

OMG, this is just as funny as "Stairway to Gilligan"!!

"Hold on to your headsets!" LoL

Thank you SO much for uploading this! I was so bummed when I couldn't find it on DVD.

I love how Rich Little is just the original recording. Damn, Rich was good!

Catherine o'hara = ricky lee Jones? Harold Ramis = Pavarotti? Priceless stuff. Andrea does Buffy, I'm still on the floor!

I would buy this!

OMG... I think my ass is on the floor because I just laughed it off... Loved SCTV :)

Thanks. Don't remember this skit, and I thought I had watched every episode back then.

Lol. Glad you did upload this.

Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Alvin the Chipmunks, Pavarotti 🤣🤣 Brilliant!

Rich nailed it man.

Haven't seen this in years and totally forgot it existed until now. Nice to see it again.

Stunning.

Rich Little! Holy crap that's genius

Thanks for this post, I saw this as a kid and laughed so hard

yOU'VE MADE MY DAY! THANK U! LOL LOL

SCTV was the best. Slim Whitman, lol. RIP, Joe.

Hahahhaa the 5 neat guys are there too!

I still have my 8 Track of this, classic stuff, the best version is Foster Brooks

I'm dying laughing!!!!!