Posted on 07/25/2015 7:19:29 PM PDT by shineon
My Dad and I used to watch the Jackie Gleason Show. Dad turned 90 last June, but his memory is not so good and I don't have anybody to share these memories with anymore. So I thought someone on free republic might have some.
Some years ago I compiled a bunch of Jackie Gleason Orchestra music onto a CD for my F-I-L. I found Jackie's music to be nice, but s o o o o o o mellow.
Raccoon Lodge
The McCoys are on youtube. They are very ancient tv; sort of ur-Clampetts, transplanted from WV to CA, but lacking the rags-to-riches angle.
I’ll watch anything with Walter Brennan in it.
But watching reruns of the show decades later revealed to me Gleason as a comic genius himself.
Yes, I would have enjoyed linking the various songs by Crazy Guggenheim (Frank Fountaine) but the Gleason Enterprise Corp has deleted most due to copyright issues. Surprising since most of the Gleason shows (and Honermooners) are available through 'Youtube'.
One of my favorites was the handcuff scene from Unconventional Behavior...”You’re not boomphing right Norton.”
Unconventional Behavior-The Honeymooners (Season 1, Episode 33…12 May 1956
It’s always a little tricky finding stuff on YouTube. Sometimes you can watch original movies or tv shows and then come back some time later to see them removed because of copyright infringement.
I’m retro to the core///I remember the great TV from the 60’s...Jackie Gleason, Dean Martin, Glen Campbell, et al,....and it can not be replaced with the crud we have today that passes for “entertainment”.....My whole familt watched Gleason....he was a towering genius....nothing today compares, but what the hey,...lol,...I don’t even have a tv!!!!
TV’s are overrated.
Well, today they certainly are...I don’t own one.
computer == tv
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