Two Years later and virtually the anniversity of the earlier mid-late 60s shorts

 Well! It's been a few years..anyhoo, welcome to 2023 and 2024. New dog for me, new weird fantasy like Univ.  M3Gan, Disney/Pixar's INSIDE OUT 2, And a new CLOKEY post!

Everyone knows the timeline of the earlier, dot eyes, 60s Gumby era, i.e.,post-1950s, around 9-12 years old. But exactly WHEN did the flat, Mickey Mouse eyed version,appear?

I.E.,after 1957's "THE ZOOPS" & "EV EN STEVENS." BTW with this REGULAR posts on ALL of my blogs will appear.. But what about later? It seems 1964 was when SCROOGE LOOSE and RAIN FOR ROO (with King Ott and Cadwaddidur(sp?)) appeared.with the nasty Blockheads taking a siesta, then l;ater, possibly with A HAIR-RAISING ADVENTURE given the animation behind open titles,a into device held over from HIDDEN VALLEY,LAWN PARTY and some others, some time in 1964, the newer "boomer generationss's "(yours truly included!) got all these later 1960s Gumby's,with Gumby,me, then Prickle,Goo, and Prof.Kapp from AHRH with the return of the nasty Blockheads around then, then the one with the "bubblegum" song mis-quoted in my blog title with the checkerboard open (song written by Pete Kleinow, co-writer/co-director and theme musicv and the novelty(?) latin classic rock band Flying Burrito Brothers).

From around 1965-66 (MISSILE BIRDS','1966' copyright date is exclusive to it;,there are "non-dated", and the numerous 1967 copyright ones, led the way to the remainder of them (till those bland 1980s ones.We don't talk about these..:-))

Many of the restorations actually do a helluva really good job with actual post-1950s copyright..the 1956 (c) was often put on too many, like Peanuts merch getting the character debuts (1950 for Charlie Brown,etc.though Snoopy, though dating to 1950 as well, gets 1958). Likewise the way that many Hanna-Barbera episodes of their earlier 60s prime times getting eventually identical credits no matter what.

Apparently, Prickle, Goo and those others with them began in the mid-60s.

Gold Rush Gumby (1967)

GOLD RUSH GUMBY
Producer:
ART CLOKEY

Writers-Directors:
RAYMOND PECK
PETE KLEINOW

Voices:
NORMA MacMILLAN, DAL McKENNON

Music:
"Gumby theme"/PETE KLEINOW [opening]
"GM-592 Western Saloon"/IB GLINDEMANN
No music at all-(Most of Gumby, Pokey and Nopey driving)
"Light Movement"/PHIL GREEN (From Capitol S-??)(Gumby digging for and getting gold nugget)
"(?Indian Theme?)/SPENCER MOORE (from Capitol X series)(?)(We see our old pal the Chief of the Peskies with nasty toothache.)
No music for most of the episode till end
Light Movement/PHIL GREEN (repeat of above)
"repeat GM-592"/GLINDEMANN (Gumby,Pokey, and Nopey leaving cured Chief)
"Gumby eneding theme"/KLEINOW(?)

Originally broadcast:1967

Synopsis: The Peskies's chief's got an even "Peskier" toothache, and he's got the bandgades tying up
his head to prove it, and it's up to Dr.Gumby, Dentist and Golddigger (the mining type) to the rescue.

The Pesky Indians had been used for many years by the Clokey staff for many years and they feature them here..
as usual, they're friends. Meanwhile, the stfaff takes Pokey,Gumby, and the newly created dog who just says "No",
"Nopey", on a desert/mountaiun mining trip. the three, in Gumby's dune buggy or jeep,m stop to get a mother lode.

Gumby stars digging as Pokey jokes "If you don't stop by now, Gumby, you'll dig yourself all the way to China"!

But then Gumby:

"Eureeka".

They all then back away from the hole when, YIPES-Peskie indians, and they take Gumby to the Chief. He's not angry,
as he's a very close friend of Gumby, just his bad tooth. Gumby ties a rope between Pokey and the chief's loose tooth and it works,
but the chief's Alfred E.Neuman like gap makes him the laughingstock of the Indian Chief, who's not upset at all..as Gumby does
the gold sacfrifice of the tooth in the gap. Now.."Chief SHINY Tooth" as one other Indian says...Now Gumby and the gang leave and wave
all of them especially the chief ("And remember Chief, keep smiling",possibly a reference to Mel Blanc's old radio "Happy Postman" on
the 1940s George Burns and Gracie Allen network radio show).

The famous Indian music heard in the middle is used for a pretty later episode the famous Indian cue whose actual composer, at least credited,
or title/description is STILL not known. The Clokey animators did a heap pretty-um task replicating for the Chief as potential and actual dentaL
patient of Dr.Gumby, the standard neckerchief 'round someone's head, when their tooth's acting up in those old shows,
is pretty easy to DRAW, but this is clay, and the animation of Pokey putting that
tooth out is ptetty good too. No background music generally used for of the short,though.. The open and end has been identified from a confidential mp3 source as Ib Glindemann's
GM 592 Western Saloon, also in Disneyland (Orange County, anyway) Frontierland as greeting music until aroud late 90s due to the rights (but aren't all of the
IG cues,m being later, still issued, or payment or other issues caused Disney Califronia to stop usiing that Western music for Frontierland, the banjo piece.)