Len Weinrib made his 3rd appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show during season 4, playing a different character than he had in previous go-rounds, including one we've previously seen.
In "The Impractical Joke", Len plays a pal of Buddy (Morey Amsterdam), and the two play a phone prank on Rob (Dick Van Dyke). Buddy gets paranoid thinking Rob will reciprocate.
Van Dyke, of course, would later venture into animation, narrating The Town That Santa Forgot in 1993, and, before that, guest starring on The New Scooby-Doo Movies. This episode also features a pre-Green Acres Alvy Moore, who'd later be the voice of Grandpa on The Littles. As previously documented, Rose Marie (Sally) would later guest on Yogi's Gang while spending several seasons on the original Hollywood Squares.
Phone pranks have become big business since then, but never as funny as this.
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I bought some of the author/music historian Joel Whitburn's billboard chart books earlier this year(a couple from EBay and a couple from Amazon; they were all in between 20-30 dollars in price), and in the most recent one I bought, it lists the songs that hit Billboard's territorial and breakout charts in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s...
Anyway, in leafing through it I happened upon a listing for none other than Lennie(or Len) Weinrib; according to the book, he had a record that was a regional hit I think New England in the late 1950s...
Found the listing I mentioned in question; according to the book I referenced in my last post, Lennie Weinrib recorded a record called Prez Conference, and it was on the Billboard breakout chart on August 4, 1962... looks like it was only a hit around the Boston/New England area though...
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