Barris ' jokey, bumbling personality ; his accentuated hand-clapping between sentences ( which eventually had the studio audience joining in with him ); and his catchphrases ( he would usually go into commercial break with, " We'll be right back with more er ... STUFF ...", occasionally paired with shifting his head to reveal the ubiquitous sign behind the stage reading simply " STUFF ," and " This is me saying ' bye '" was one of his favorite closing lines ) were the antithesis of the smooth TV host ( such as Gary Owens, who hosted the syndicated version in its first season ).

By September 1980, for the first time in his company's history, Barris had no shows in production.

Barris ' first wife was Lyn Levy, the niece of one of the founders of CBS.

Barris also composed the following songs ( with performer, who performed the music first, listed on each ).

Scott Beach, who was Barris ' first choice for host, was the announcer in the very early episodes of The Newlywed Game.

After that Barris staff announcer Johnny Jacobs took over and remained announcer for the series until the first syndicated version was canceled in 1980.

Not wanting the song to go to waste, Barris commissioned Milton DeLugg a few years later to arrange an instrumental version of " Summertime Guy " for use as the first theme to The Newlywed Game.

Then, Milton DeLugg, who was by this time Barris ' house musical director, created a new, updated theme based on the existing melody for The New Newlywed Game beginning with Jim Lange's 1984 series of specials, and then for the first several years of the Bob Eubanks-hosted revival.

The Dating Game is an ABC television show that first aired on December 20, 1965 and was the first of many shows created and packaged by Chuck Barris from the 1960s through the 1980s.

In his first autobiography, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind ( 1988 ), Barris claimed that The Dating Game was a cover for his CIA activities, and was promoted by the CIA.

One of his first national appearances was a win on Chuck Barris ' The Gong Show.

This became the first Barris Brothers custom car.

This was the first use of the spelling " kustom ," which would become associated with Barris.

Barris is the subject of the title story in author Tom Wolfe's first collection of essays The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby.

According to Barris, some of his first film work consisted of making soft aluminum fenders for a Ford police car that crashes into the rear of a Mercedes Benz convertible driven by Cary Grant's character in North by Northwest.

Other television cars built by Barris Kustom Industries include the The Munster Koach and casket turned dragster ( the Drag-U-La ) for The Munsters, an Oldsmobile Toronado turned into a roadster used in the first season of Mannix, a 1921 Oldsmobile touring car turned into a truck for The Beverly Hillbillies, the fictional " 1928 Porter " for the NBC comedy My Mother the Car, Updated KITTs for later seasons of Knight Rider and replicas of 1914 Stutz Bearcats for Bearcats !.

In April 2010, the special George Barris design edition of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Spirit was introduced to the public for the first time at a VIP media event at Community Chevrolet, one of the largest Chevrolet dealerships in the nation.

The first roof chopper is considered to be Sam Barris ( brother of auto customizer George Barris ), who chopped and customized his brand new 1949 Mercury.

In his book, Barris says that at the height of the show's popularity in the late 1950s, the individual panelists became major celebrities in Canada.

Barris soon became a music industry figure.

Barris became a public figure in 1976, when he produced and served as the host of the talent contest spoof The Gong Show, which he packaged in partnership with TV producer Chris Bearde.

Barris joined in with the eccentricity of the format, using unusual props, dressing in colorful and somewhat unusual clothing ( such as the occasional hat pulled over his head, if not his eyes ), he became yet another performer of the show, and for many, quite a cult hero.

Sam decided to leave the business in the 1950s, but George had married and he credited his wife Shirley with major assistance in promoting the company, which eventually became Barris Kustom Industries.

In the 1960s, the Barris firm became heavily involved in vehicle design for television production.

In 1988, GPC became a public company when they merged with game show production company Barris Industries and on September 7, 1989, Barris Industries was renamed Guber-Peters Entertainment Company.

In order to fulfill that goal, he became a student of legendary hot-rodders ( custom car builders ) George Barris, John Buttera and Darryl Starbird.

Gong Show and Dating Game also ended otherwise successful syndicated runs in 1980 because of the Three's a Crowd and Newlywed controversies, likely because stations were fearful of community and advertiser retribution on account of Barris ' reputation.

Outside of " She Loves You ", Swan's most remembered hit was Palisades Park in 1962, written by Chuck Barris, and performed by the most successful artist on the label, Freddy Cannon, who also scored hits with " Tallahassee Lassie " and " Way Down Yonder In New Orleans " before moving to Warner Brothers in 1964.

Since joining NEA, Barris has led investments in over 25 information technology companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers.

In his second book about the program, Alex Barris tells an anecdote about what guest panelist Bennett Cerf said to challenger Jesse Owens about Adolf Hitler during a 1958 episode ; this is one of the episodes that does not survive.

Even though a ’ 69 Dart was built by Barris to replicate this car in the show's 1969 season, the ’ 68 Dart was regularly seen during the ’ 69 season.

The movie featured several songs sung on camera by the Rhythm Boys ( Bing Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris ), as well as off-camera solo vocals by Crosby during the opening credits and, very briefly, during a cartoon sequence.

* Peter, Paul & Mary's version of the song is used in the film Confessions of a Dangerous Mind during a sequence in which " Gong Show " host Chuck Barris ( Sam Rockwell ) has an on-air nervous breakdown due to his years as a CIA assassin, and visualizes the entire audience as dead bodies.

The crime fighting car ' Black Beauty ' ( 268 )-a George Barris customised 1965 Chrysler Imperial Crown sedan, included an operational satellite launcher inside the boot and a rocket fired from behind the grill, and was featured in the American television series The Green Hornet.

Harry Barris, one of Paul Whiteman's " The Rhythm Boys ," along with Bing Crosby, scatted on several songs, including " Mississippi Mud ," which Barris wrote in 1927.

Barris also made several attempts through the years at non-game formats, such as ABC's Operation Entertainment, a variety show staged at military bases akin to USO shows ; a CBS revival of Your Hit Parade ; and The Bobby Vinton Show, a Canadian-based syndicated variety show for singer Bobby Vinton ( produced in conjunction with Chris Bearde and Allan Blye ).

As with some of Barris ' other projects ( including The Newlywed Game ), it was at one point possible to see The Gong Show twice daily, a relatively uncommon feat in the years prior to cable TV's expansion into the commercial market.

Dubbed " Chuckie Baby " by his fans, Barris was a perfect fit with the show's goofy, sometimes wild amateur performers and its panel of three judges ( including regulars Jamie Farr, Jaye P. Morgan and Arte Johnson ).

The Gong Show eventually had three later revivals, one under Barris ' title ( with Don Bleu ) in 1988-89, one on The Game Show Network in 2000 called Extreme Gong and another with current format owner Sony Pictures Television ( with Dave Attell ) in 2008.

This left Barris with only one show, his weekly syndicated effort The New Treasure Hunt.

After a year's inactivity, Barris revived Treasure Hunt again in 1981 in partnership with the original 1950s version's producer, Budd Granoff, who had become his business partner ( the show itself was created by its original host, Jan Murray ).

Unlike the 1970s version of Treasure Hunt, Barris did not have direct involvement with the production of the show itself.

After a week-long trial of The Newlywed Game on ABC in 1984 ( with Dating Game emcee Jim Lange ), Barris produced the daily Newlywed Game ( titled The New Newlywed Game ) in syndication from 1985 to 1989, with original host Eubanks ( and in 1988, comedian Paul Rodriguez ).

Barris published Della: A Memoir of my Daughter in 2010 about the death of his only child, who died in 1998 after a long struggle with drug addiction.

In a 2010 interview on NBC's The Today Show, Barris said he disagreed with the " tough love " philosophy of dealing with addicted children, and that he regretted having allowed Della to leave home at age 16.

Songs with an asterisk (*) are songs not composed by Barris, yet featured on the recordings: