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TITLE: “THE KIDS FROM C.A.P.E.R.” FROM THE NBC TV SERIES

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YEAR OF RELEASE- 1976

LABEL: KIRSHNER/CBS RECORDS

CAT.#: PZ 34347/AL 34337

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ALBUM INFO:

When The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. was created, there was no doubt that music was going to be a big part of the show.  Following in the footsteps of The Monkees and The Archies (and even more closely in the footsteps of shows like Scooby Doo and The Amazing Chan Clan,) the stage was set for the C.A.P.E.R. Kids to not only take television by storm but the record stores as well.

Obviously the songs were recorded before the television series was produced, since the music was an integral part of each episode.  Exactly when the songs were recorded is not clear, but it had to be sometime over the summer of 1976.  Oddly enough, the first buzz about an album didn’t seem to come about until mid-October 1976, when the show had been on the air for about a month.  An article in the Lexington, North Carolina Dispatch on October 14, 1976, explained about the series, "Each episode features a hit song of the week and some of the top contemporary songwriters will be among those contributing material."  (Obviously the contemporary songwriters had already contributed material!)  The article went on to say, "The four actors who play ‘the kids’ will be contributing song material as well."

An intriguing idea!  If C.A.P.E.R. had continued, would Steve Bonino, John Lansing, and possibly even Biff Warren (who became interested in songwriting while working on the show) have eventually contributed original songs to the project?  Because there was no pretense of the Kids from C.A.P.E.R. being an actual band (they were never shown playing instruments or performing as a music group; they were simply a group of police interns who happened to break into song on a fairly regular basis) there was no potential issue with them not playing on the album, as had happened with The Monkees.  Steve Bonino and John Lansing were both accomplished musicians, but they were obviously hired as singers and actors, as were Cosie Costa and Biff Warren.  All had previous singing and acting experience, but Cosie and Biff did not play any instruments.

In the October 16, 1976 edition of Billboard magazine, under an article titled "TV Signings" by Jim Fishel, it was reported, "Another new entry is the reported LP of Don Kirshner’s ‘Kids from C.A.P.E.R.,’ which will be featured on Kirshner Records."

There was indeed an album produced under the Kirshner Record label (although at this time we do not have any information on an actual release date!)  Titled simply, the kids from: C.A.P.E.R. (following the same punctuation and lower case letters as in the show) it featured eleven of the thirteen songs produced for the show (the songs Baby Blue and You’re Under My Spell didn’t make the album, as well as the show’s theme song.  Some fans feel these tracks should have been considered over some of the ones which did make the final selection.)

The contemporary songwriters anonymously referred to in the Dispatch article were impressive indeed!  Kirshner called upon his stable of songwriters to come up with a fun and entertaining variety of pop songs which, in all fairness, could be put under the label of ‘bubblegum’ music, although for some reason that term has unfairly come to be considered unflattering by some purported music aficionados.  One must remember the target audience of this record was older kids and younger teens, although the show ended up appealing to an older audience as well.

The songwriting team of Rob Hegel & Amanda George (a.k.a. Carol George) penned the songs When It Hit Me (The Hurricane Song), Fun in the Jungle, Say It and Everybody Loves Her.  Rob Hegel had been a member of the garage band The Chandells (which later changed its name to Bittervetch) in the 1960's, but had already been composing songs since he could remember.  He teamed with Amanda George to write songs which, at one point, attracted the attention of Don Kirshner.  According to an article on, Hegel recalled, "We went into his office.  And he said, ‘OK, forget Sedaka, and Diamond; you guys are the best writers I’ve ever heard!  And I’m gonna make you the most famous people you could imagine.’"  The team wrote for C.A.P.E.R., as well as Kirshner’s other project with Norman Lear, A Year at the Top, starring Greg Evigan, Paul Shaffer and Mickey Rooney.  Around this time, Hegel and George also wrote Sarah Dash’s disco hit, Sinner Man.  It should be noted that Rob Hegel also arranged and sang most of the background vocals on The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. album with Jay Siegel.

The team of Neil Sedaka & Howard Greenfield co-wrote the song Tit for Tat.  Neil Sedaka really needs no introduction, as he is still very much in the public eye as a singer, songwriter and performer.  He worked for Don Kirshner at the Brill Building for many years.  Sedaka actually started out studying classical piano at Julliard from the age of eight, but later decided popular music would be his future.

Neil Sedaka was also a founding member of the doo-wop group, The Tokens.  (This is very important to note in regards to C.A.P.E.R., because The Tokens will come up numerous times in connection with others who worked on the album!)  He later teamed with high school friend Howard Greenfield and together they wrote an incredible number of hit songs, selling forty million records between 1959 and 1963, including the songs Stupid Cupid (their first hit, for Connie Francis), Fallin’, Where the Boys Are, Oh! Carol, Stairway to Heaven, Calendar Girl, Little Devil, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Next Door to an Angel and Love Will Keep Us Together for The Captain and Tennille.

Neil Sedaka also co-wrote the Monkees songs When Love Comes Knockin’ at Your Door with Carole Bayer Sager.  He launched a very successful solo career on Elton John’s label, Rocket Records in the mid-70's.  Neil Sedaka has been inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame and is still busy recording and touring.

In addition to his writing partnership with Sedaka, Howard Greenfield wrote songs with Jack Keller and their work together included the theme songs to Bewitched and The Flying Nun.  Greenfield also recorded a novelty record with Bill Buchanan called The Invasion which was released in 1964.  Sadly Howard Greenfield passed away in 1986.

SHOW/FILM INFO:

The Kids From C.A.P.E.R. was a Saturday morning live-action television comedy series which aired on NBC from September 11, 1976, to November 20, 1976, and reran from April 9, 1977, to September 3, 1977. The show's title is clearly derived from the 60s spy-fi show The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and parodied different pop culture shows of the day, including The Monkees, Six Million Dollar Man, Shazam!, Scooby-Doo Where Are You! and their numerous imitators up to that point. All 13 episodes of the series were produced and directed by Stanley Z. Cherry; among the executive producers was Don Kirshner. Both Cherry and Kirshner had previously worked on The Monkees, Cherry having written the episode "Some Like It Lukewarm" in 1968, while Kirshner was the original musical supervisor for The Monkees until early 1967.

Although the show has not been released on video, there is an LP of most of the songs from the series, omitting "Baby Blue", "You're Under My Spell" and, ironically, the show's theme. The LP was released by Kirshner Records and Tapes in 1977. One of the songs from the series, "When It Hit Me (The Hurricane Song)" was released as a single; the song was also recorded by Rob Hegel (who co-wrote the song) for his 1980 RCA album. Two other album tracks, "Tit For Tat" and "Baby Blue", had both been co-written and previously released by Neil Sedaka on his 1975 album Hungry Years.

The "Kids from C.A.P.E.R." were a team of four teenage boys headquartered in the 927th Police Precinct in the fictitious city of "Northeast Southweston"; together they helped the police to solve unusual cases while they learned the ropes of law enforcement and forensics. The CAPERs communicated using "Caperband" Radios (walkie-talkies with a prominent "C" on them), and prospective clients contacted them via the Turquoise Telephone. Their headquarters was located in the Krelvin Building ("the tallest building in the world with no elevators").

The boys all wore brown belts with buckles emblazoned with a big letter "C" (Doc's buckle was presumably hidden underneath his vest). The group often traveled around Northeast Southweston in the "Big Bologna", a one-time hot dog vendor wagon converted into a mobile crime lab, though the giant hot dog display remains on the roof.

Every episode began with a silent comedy vignette, with a cast member in voiceover giving the "Secret Word", which was usually key to that episode's plot. At the end of each episode, another silent vignette would appear in which a "Caper Code" would be given in voice over; a series of letters and numbers such as "P3 E8 R19 C2" (TIME). This was presumably code for the next week's secret word.

Each episode would open with P.T. narrating what was about to happen. The team would then be visited by a girl who needed their help with a problem; in most episodes the girl would become attracted to a different member of the CAPERs. Each episode also featured a song which was performed by one of the CAPERs in a short and a long form at different points in the episode, though emphasis was never placed on the music itself. To wit, unlike the Monkees, the CAPERs did not consider themselves musicians and were never seen playing musical instruments.

A recurring gag during the series was the group's explanation of what the acronym C.A.P.E.R. stood for; when asked, the boys would all quickly stand at attention and reply in unison, "The Civilian Authority for the Protection of Everybody, Regardless!" followed by a four-part harmonization of "Ta-da", reminiscent of The Three Stooges' harmonized "Hello".

Characters

P.T. (played by Steve Bonino): "Cool and clever" (according to the theme's lyrics), P.T. was the founder and leader of the team and its youngest member. He often broke the fourth wall to provide narration, and showed a variety of skills and talents which varied by episode, most notably a superhuman sense of smell (he called his nose "Seymour"). He wore a safari-inspired outfit and rode a moped when not in the Big Bologna.

Bugs (Cosie Costa): Bugs was the "tough and feisty" one of the group (and also the shortest); he possessed superhuman strength and speed which he could summon only by looking at his hands, which made it easy to render him helpless if his hands were tied behind his back. A recurring gag is that whenever someone said the word "bananas", Bugs briefly devolved into an insane rage; the reason for this was never explained. When he snapped out of it (usually accompanied by a dinging bell), he would ask "What's Happening?", to which the others would invariably reply "Not Much!". Outside of the Big Bologna, Bugs jogged wherever he went; he wore an oriental-inspired outfit and a white sailor cap with a black "C" on the front.

Doomsday (Biff Warren): Despite being "all full of sunshine" to everyone around him, Doomsday believed he was bad luck to others, hence his dismal wardrobe (black hoodie and pants). His childlike demeanor made him more susceptible to trickery, but what he lacked in brains he more than made up for in heart and determination. His personal mode of transportation was his skateboard, he had the gift of communicating with animals, and was always eating or at least thinking about food; his favorite dishes included hot fudge omelets, tuna fish burritos and pizzas with unusual toppings (the other CAPERs shared his quirky culinary preferences).

Doc (John Lansing): Doc had "the looks and the brains to catch the crooks". He was the oldest, tallest and most serious of the CAPERs, but occasionally showed a sense of humor that caught the others off guard. Though reserved and seemingly unaware of his charm and good looks, many girls found Doc irresistible. His outfit, a three-piece leisure suit and white shirt (with blue sneakers), suggested he came from a well-to-do family; to this end, rather than drive his own car, he rode in a chauffeur-driven limousine when not riding in the Big Bologna.

Supporting Characters

Sergeant Vinton (Robert Emhardt), a veteran policeman at the 927th, Vinton helped P.T. to create the CAPERs and is the team's mentor and adviser. Though he supported the CAPERs' efforts, he never balked at telling them when he thought they were in over their heads.

Kurt Klinsinger (Robert Lussier), a TV reporter who persistently pursued the boys in hopes of getting an exclusive. Klinsinger fancied himself an intrepid journalist, but was often more of a hindrance than a help to the CAPERs, and was usually the first one to scream for his "mommy" at the slightest sign of danger. Klinsinger was usually seen wearing goggles pushed up onto his forehead.

Mr. Featherstone, a shark puppet who lived a fishtank in their headquarters and also had a tank inside the Big Bologna. Mr. Featherstone only spoke in unintelligible gibberish which only the CAPERs could understand, but also possessed a navigational sense when riding in the Big Bologna.

Production Information

At the start of the 1976-77 television season, The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. was part of a three-hour block of six live action shows that aired Saturday Morning on NBC, alongside Land of the Lost, which was entering its third season, and four other new shows: Monster Squad; McDuff, the Talking Dog; Big John, Little John; and Muggsy. NBC shook up this lineup in late November, cancelling McDuff and putting The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. on hiatus. The Kids from C.A.P.E.R. returned on April 9, 1977, and replaced the cancelled Muggsy in the lineup. Neither C.A.P.E.R. nor any of the other three remaining shows returned to the NBC lineup for the beginning of the 1977-78 television season.

The pilot episode was refactored into a flashback episode in the full series: "Mummy's the Word", presumably to account for the changes in costume and set decoration. These changes are alluded to by lines of dialogue in the newer wrapper material episode, such as "Don't you remember the good old days, when the Big Bologna was blue?" and "Boy, you guys sure dressed funny in those days." The latter is said by Doomsday, the only character to retain his costume from the pilot.

The title sequence was reworked for the 1977 run to incorporate visuals from actual episodes; these were not present for the first run in 1976. The result is that the later titles are paced more in keeping with the theme music and contain more visual interest.

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