Introduction

This episode is the last part of this 4 episode sequence. It's a bridge between that sequence and next episode where we travel to London because we're saying goodbye for a while to the LA scene. Like many musicians associated with LA, Howard Kalem was born elsewhere and migrated there as a child. He seems to have regarded his move from upstate New York to LA as essentially a move to Disneyland itself. That impression can only have been made stronger by the fact that soon after his family moved there he got his first childhood girlfriend who happened to be a mouse catier on the TV. And TV was how young Howard filtered most of his perceptions, particularly TV comedy. By the age of 14