A young Harold Lipshitz,
better known as Hal Linden!
Hal started off as a sax and clarinet player/singer with big bands,
like Sammy Kaye's.
After WWII, he turned his attention to acting,
later winning a Tony for his role in
Bock and Harnick's The Rothschilds.
In 1962, he appeared as Billy Crocker
in an Off-Broadway revival of Anything Goes,
above at the cast recording with
Eileen Rodgers and Mickey Deems.
We'll hear Hal's rendition of "It's De-lovely"...with Barbara Lang,
who played Hope Harcourt.
Funny Face started off as a musical back in 1927,
with the music of George and Ira Gershwin.
By the time it became a movie, 30 years later,
the plot was changed, the music was changed...
everything but Fred Astaire was changed!
Above, Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson
perform "On How To Be Lovely"
and below, fashion editor Kay envisions a season of "Pink!"
Ouch!
Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor, 1963:
Julius F. Kelp and Buddy Love.
Jerry said he thought he should have made
the Buddy character meaner...
Love received a lot more fan mail than Julius!
Co-starring was Kathleen Freeman and Stella Stevens.
"That Old Black Magic"
The Jackie Gleason show was the ONE program
(Saturday nights at 7:30pm if memory serves)
that my family watched while eating dinner
on TV trays in the living room!
Cheeseburgers and Jackie...
Fond, if greasy, memories.
Well, in 1959 he starred in Take Me Along
with Walter Pigeon, Eileen Hurlie and Robert Morse.
Jackie won the Tony that year,
and we'll hear his rendition of "Little Green Snake."
Music: Bob Merrill
The title song of the show was later used in
a United Airlines ad campaign.
Sister Act, the movie, came out in 1992,
and by 2011 it had become a Broadway musical
with tunes by Alan Menken and Glenn Slater.
The original production starred Patina Miller
( star "Leading Player" in the revival of Pippin)
and Victoria Clark (who won a Tony for her role in The Light In The Piazza).
The musical has had productions literally around the world,
from Pasadena to Prague.
We'll hear "Lady In The Long Black Dress"
and below are various trios of
TJ, Bones, and Dinero
who get the chance to sing this hilarious "Shafty" song.
Oh, and 1 quartet! :)
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