Subdeacon Joe 25,830 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/jimmie-rodgers-singer-who-scaled-charts-in-50s-dies-at-87/ar-BB1d2sQp?ocid=sf 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tex Jones, SASS 2263 793 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Terrific singer. All those kids in the video are now grandparents. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rye Miles #13621 6,498 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 RIP Jimmie Rodgers. Honeycomb was one of my first favorite songs as a kid!! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Alpo 6,623 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I found two things amazing in that video. First, how many people were chewing gum. Wow. Second, nobody was singing along. Heck I was singing along while I was watching it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 7,028 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I’m not sure he was singing along, didn’t have a Mike. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
South-Eye Ned 769 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I’m 62. I remember him for having gotten “into an auto accident” to the point where he needed a plate in his head. He was actually beaten up by a policeman. After a few surgeries, he showed up to perform on the Glen Campbell Show (which was a summer replacement for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour) around 1968 or so. Anyway, he didn’t perform much after that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
irish ike, SASS #43615 1,168 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 97.839% of the singers on TV back then were lip syncing. Notice no band or they were faking the playing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Subdeacon Joe 25,830 Posted January 24 Author Share Posted January 24 (edited) 3 hours ago, Alpo said: I found two things amazing in that video. First, how many people were chewing gum. Wow. I wondered about that, too. Then I read the description on YouTube and that was from the Beechnut Hour *(something like that) television show. Since it was sponsored by a chewing gum company it makes sense that the audience would be chewing gum. *Saturday Night Beechnut Show, May 1958. Edited January 24 by Subdeacon Joe 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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