Posted on 12/31/2019 5:52:05 PM PST by lowbridge
Bebop and West Coast jazz great Jack Sheldon has died at age 88. The news was first reported via a Facebook post by his biographer and documentarian, Doug McIntyre, in which he shared an announcement from Cynthia Jimenez (the sister of Sheldon’s longtime manager, Dianne Jimenez) stating that the trumpeter, singer, and actor had passed away of undisclosed causes on Dec. 27. Dianne confirmed the news to The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday morning.
While the charismatic and hilarious Sheldon boasted an impressive résumé that included serving as the music director and sidekick on The Merv Griffin Show for 18 years; releasing 23 albums as a bandleader between 1955 and 2007; heading his own 17-piece orchestra; working with everyone from Art Pepper, Gerry Mulligan, Benny Goodman, and Frank Sinatra to the Monkees and Tom Waits; and acting in various movies and TV shows, he is also lovingly remembered as the affable, lackadaisical crooner from the Schoolhouse Rock! cartoons of the 1970s, including "Conjunction Junction" and "I'm Just a Bill.”
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He also starred in a CBS comedy in the 1966-67 season called ‘’Run Buddy Run,’’ about a young man on the run after overhearing a mobster’s secret.
We should be so lucky.
I was having a conversation at work where the subject of the Schoolhouse rock videos came up, and we were trying to describe them to an Indian colleague. It was remarkable that pretty much all of the Americans knew them, even though some of the people are quite young. And we could still sing some of the songs. That impressed her to look them up on YouTube for her own kids.
Blue Boy tried out for the Monkees
They don’t make them like Jack Sheldon anymore. A great talent and wonderful entertainer. He’s making beautiful music in heaven now. Rest in peace.
They really were great. They made an impression without your even realizing it at the time. I listen back now and I realize how clever they were.
#17 I like the 50’s version as Joe Friday would rough up the suspect a bit.
Wow watched those every Saturday morning as a kid
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