The Blanks

The Blanks (AKA "The Worthless Peons", AKA "Ted's Band") are a band that sings 'a cappella' versions of cartoon theme songs, advertisement jingles, pop classics and more.

The actor Sam Lloyd, who plays the supporting character 'Ted' in ABC's(No Longer NBC) "Scrubs", is one of the four members, and is the reason that 'The Blanks' are frequently featured on the show.

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Band members:

SAM LLOYD was born and breaded in the faint New England town of Weston, Vermont. His parents were creatures of the theatre and he turned into one himself. He grew some chops at the Weston Playhouse and used his father’s Super 8 camera to make home groovies. He then offended Syracuse University with future Blanks Paul and George.

PHILIP MCNIVEN was braised in Philadelphia, the son of an Englishman and a French Impressionist, which for some reason makes him Canadian. Eventually he moved to Toronto, which is like New York, only cleaner and less expensive, eh? There he eked out a living as a tennis pro, hard to do when the courts are ice-crusted nine months of the year.

GEORGE MISERLIS originally hails and snows from Lowell, Massachusetts, the home of Bette Davis, Olympia Dukakis, and the Chocolate Chip Cookie. He had the pleasure of performing with the original cast of Forever Plaid at the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills. And now they can say they’ve had the pleasure of performing with an original cast member of The Blanks.

PAUL F. PERRY calls Stoneham, Massachusetts his home about every other week. He does all the vocal as well as dinner arrangements for The Blanks. Paul is one of only two people on earth who are members of both The Blanks and the bicoastal Beatles cover band, The Butties. This requires lots of airline travel, during which Paul has seen every Tim Allen film ever made. The Butties’ Beatlesque cover of the carol “Joy to the World” can be heard in the soundtrack of the film Christmas with the Kranks starring, fittingly enough, Tim Allen. Paul did the music score for the independent film shorts Madeline (dir. Tom Keener), and his own Fan Mail, but he doesn’t score nearly as often as he’d like, despite being in two bands. Paul directed the short Waiting for Go! which won the Prix Canal + Award at the 1997 Claremont-Ferrand Film Festival and is not yet, and probably never will be available on Netflix.

Paul's other music writing credits include a song featured on the Disney Channel's The Book of Pooh, sung by the titular Pooh. As a performer Paul has had a chance to sing in his normal vocal range (Butties too high, Blanks too low) as a featured soloist on the Brian Woodbury Songbook CD (along with David Yazbek, Terre Roche and Jill Sobule, among others). With fellow songwriter Mark Humble, he was one half of the eponymous New York City anti-folk duo Perry Humble, recognized by the 1992 "Best of Manhattan" reviews of the New York Press. Paul has perfect pitch, and thus was briefly scouted by the San Diego Padres during the strike-shortened season of ’98.