If you insist, but Connie Stevens was cuter.
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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I always think of him when I drive by Dino’s ...or the spot where he used to park cars.
I never understood how the Sioux did not take his beautiful hair in the movie YELLOWSTONE KELLY(1959).
Route 66 theme music, one of Nelson Riddle’s best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nbRoyJXSfQ
It’s news.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtCZ0xssXQ
Opening credits of 77 Sunset Strip and very short scene with Edd Byrnes.
Wow! I thought that picture was David Bowie.
In our youth the media had to appeal to all.
Lots of attractive women in the old kid’s shows.
Good looking guys too.
77 Sunset Strip fits right in.
Ahhh, Sugarfoot! When I was 7 I had a serious crush on Will Hutchins.
Kookie to detective:
“Can I lend-lease your cannon?”
“Huh?”
“Uh, borrow your gun?”
Oh boy. What a show that was.
“Connie Stevens was cuter.”
She was adorable, for sure.
I think she was on Hawaiian Eye.
Lots of “hotties” back in the day: Clint Walker, Fess Parker, Steve McQueen, James Garner....
‘77 Sunset Strip’ plus ‘Route 66’...’Hawaiian Eye’...’Surfside 6’. 4 of my don’t miss TV shows back in that era.
Back in the day...
Of course, “hipster” then was far different from the soy boyz of today.
No - it’s not.
Harry the Hipster beat Kookie by at least a decade and a half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3HdISZLKc
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