A scene sometimes cut out of the airing of this cartoon: Bugs becomes part of the Egyptian cigarette billboard to escape the bulldog chasing him was cut to remove one Egyptian giving another a hot-foot, another Egyptian pointing to a cigarette butt at his feet, and to crop the shot so that way the word CIGARETTES is not shown.
October 12, 1996 - Back in late 1968, The Rolling Stone thought that they had come up with a great way to promote their just released album Beggars Banquet. They teamed up with director Michael Lindsay-Hogg to create a tv special with a circus theme, featuring the likes of The Who, Jethro Tull, Marianne Faithfull, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Yoko Ono, and Taj Mahal. Filmed over a very long 15 hour shooting day, the special didn't seem to be to the Stones liking (too much back story to get into here,) the special was shelved for nearly 28 years.
Finally on this date in 1996, The Rolling Stones finally release their landmark 1968 all-star BBC television special, The Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus, on this date. (A lifetime ago, I worked on the cable tv premiere of this special for Viacom.) Directed by Let It Be‘s Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the performance was recorded in front of a live audience in London in 1968 and was originally conceived as a BBC-TV special. Today we would like to celebrate this time capsule of the end of the swinging 60s by asking you to sit back (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this classic long born tv special, The Rolling Stones' Rock And Roll Circus.
This is Brian Jones's last live performance with The Rolling Stones. He was kicked out of the band a few months after the show was filmed, in June of 1969 and died a short time later.
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