Is said to have been an influence in the Pee-Wee Herman character created by Paul Reubens.
Joined WNBC-AM as a disc jockey in 1985, a stint best remembered because Sales filled the hours between shock jocks Don Imus and Howard Stern.
Met his wife, dancer Trudy Carson, while performing on "The Ed Sullivan Show".
Mr. Sales attended the "Hollywood Collectors & Celebrities Show", at Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, in North Hollywood, California, on October 6th & 7th, 2001.
Numerous celebrities have been on the receiving end of Soupy's pies over the years, including, on one memorable occasion (c. 1965), Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Trini López, all on the same program, in the same sketch.
Once claimed to have been hit in the face with 25,000 pies in the course of his career.
Once, during the run of his slapstick show, the crew played a joke on him by posing a naked woman at a stage door. When Sales opened the door, he gasped and feared his career was over, but the scene was never telecast.
Participated in school plays and was voted most popular boy in high school.
Recorded a novelty song entitled "Do the Mouse", which, oddly enough, became a modest hit single.
Soupy was born Milton Supman, the youngest of three sons born to dry-goods store owners Irving and Sadie Supman in Franklinton, North Carolina. His father was born in Hungary and his mother was born in Baltimore, MD which is where his parents met and lived for some years.
The first actor to do the voice of the video game ape, Donkey Kong.
Was a huge jazz fan and regularly introduced greats like Count Basie, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker to the stage of his Detroit-based, jazz-oriented "Soupy's On" program. Sales utilized his extensive jazz record collection throughout his television career as introductory or character theme music.