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Description: Here's a (mostly complete) opening for the Sunday Matinee presentation of the Charlie Chan film "The Shanghai Chest"on WGN Channel 9. Also includes a partial WGN "Superman" Station ID at the beginning.
The Sunday Matinee opening with filmstrip and movie camera graphics, features an instrumental version of The Young Rascals' "Groovin' " by Raymond Lefevre and His Orchestra (released in the U.S. in 1967 on Four Corners of the World single #FC 4-145, and on the 1968 album Soul Coaxing (Ame Caline), FCS-4244 - the full recording can be heard here), with voiceover announcement of film (by Floyd Brown).
"Groovin' . . . on a Sunday afternoon . . . "
This aired on local Chicago TV on Sunday, October 11th 1981 at 12 Noon.
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WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" (Partial Bumper, 1981?)
WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "Abbott & Costello Meet the Mummy" (Opening, 1982)
WGN Channel 9 - Saturday Matinee - "The Bells of St. Mary's" (Opening & Bumper Excerpts, 1971)
WGN Channel 9 - WGN Presents - "The Questor Tapes" (Opening, 1981)
WGN Channel 9 - Movie Greats - "International House" (Opening, 1981)
WGN Channel 9 - Movie Greats - "Guns Of Diablo" (Opening, 1981)
WGN Channel 9 - Movie Greats - "Christmas In Connecticut" (Opening, 1981)
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