Posted on 01/09/2020 6:06:10 PM PST by bitt
The comb-loving actor was 87.
The most prominent early use of the term "hipster" was on 77 Sunset Strip, the cool detective series set in Los Angeles. Each week, viewers heard singers belt the following lyrics in the brassy theme tune: "You'll meet the highbrow and the hipster."
The "hipster" of the theme song was Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III, the parking attendant with an obsession with combing his hair. Edd Byrnes portrayed Kookie, and built his fame upon the character, releasing hit pop songs — like "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" — and making appearances all over television. In 1959, "Kookie" turned up in a Coke Time variety show special with Pat Boone and another important hipster of the era, Maynard G. Krebs.
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'77 Sunset Strip' has its roots in an underrated 1948 noir movie Thanks to Kookie, hep slang riddled the scripts. The rock 'n' roller tossed off terms like "ginchy," "smog in the noggin" and "long green." Yet 77 Sunset Strip offered more than fashion and hipster speech. The series was the creation of Roy Huggins, the novelist behind the character-driven TV classics Maverick, The Fugitive and The Rockford Files.
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Awwww, I had such a crush on him.
Pouring out a beer for Edd. A Jacqueline Beer.
87 is a good, long run.
RIP
R.I.P. Kookster!
He was great as Vince Fontaine on “Grease” RIP
Ping
Got all the Sunset Strip episodes.
Kookie was a significant character in the series.
Aw... he was a cutie.
Loved that show, especially the Kookie character.
Please refrain from abusing the news forum with chat material.
The first host of Wheel of Fortune was Chuck Woolery.
RIP Mr. Byrnes. We watched this show, Route 66, and other great programs when we were kids.
“In 1980, when Merv Griffin was creating a new game show to be called Wheel of Fortune, he cast Byrnes as the host in the test pilot. The network asked for another host, and thus Pat Sajak’s career began.”
Chuck WOOLERY ans Susie somebody or other were first.... geez.
Doyle Brunson was known to call 7-7 down cards”Kookie Burns”. Also from the same period, a 6-6 was a “Martin Milner”.
Did he ever return Al Bundy’s copy of Big ‘Uns?
As a young child I watched this on BW TV.
My dad never missed this, the Untouchables or Sugarfoot.
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