Werner Klemperer, John Banner, and Robert Clery

[Subdeacon Joe]

 

[Alpo]

Wasn't it amazing how they could just stand there and sing, without dancing around on the stage and swinging on ropes and having laser lights and smoke bombs?

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

15 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Wasn't it amazing how they could just stand there and sing, without dancing around on the stage and swinging on ropes and having laser lights and smoke bombs?

And without music so loud you can't hear the singers and it makes your teeth ache.

[Sedalia Dave]

3 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

And without music so loud you can't hear the singers and it makes your teeth ache.

 

Been my experience that the worse a band or singer is the louder their music.

[Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967]

A very respectful presentation; moreso as the three gentlemen are Jewish.

 

Well done!

[watab kid]

geeze - i thoyght you had hired a law fir for something here 

[Subdeacon Joe]

2 hours ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:

A very respectful presentation; moreso as the three gentlemen are Jewish.

 

Well done!

 

And all three had rather unfortunate relations with the German National Socialists in the 1940s.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Broadcast Christmas, 1965.

[Alpo]

5 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

And all three had rather unfortunate relations with the German National Socialists in the 1940s.

That's an interesting way to put it. Schultz and Klink left the country. LeBeau was put into a Konzentrationslager.

[T.K.]

Robert Clary's Parents were Polish Jewish immagrants to France. Half of his 14 siblings were sent to and perished in Nazi Concentration Camps. Robert himself was put into Ottmuth camp in what is now Poland. He had # A5714 tattoed on his forearm.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

That particular Crosby special featured the Hogan’s cast some in show uniforms. Bing’s company produced Hogan’s Heroes which was on ABC while the special was on CBS.

[Alpo]

You may have that backwards. Hogan's Heroes was CBS. I don't know where Bing's Christmas special was, so it could have been on ABC. But Hogan was CBS. The entire run.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

13 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

Been my experience that the worse a band or singer is the louder their music.

One exception:  Gene Autry couldn't sing for sour apples, but he wasn't loud and he did write some great stuff.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

You may have that backwards. Hogan's Heroes was CBS. I don't know where Bing's Christmas special was, so it could have been on ABC. But Hogan was CBS. The entire run.

Yep.

 

from imdb

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This edition of "The Hollywood Palace" was hosted by Bing Crosby. It aired on Christmas Day, 1965. After Bing sings, there's a midget act. He then intros and then sings with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. Then the cast of "Hogan's Heroes" arrives in costume and character which is a bit unusual since while Bing owns the show, the cast are guesting on an ABC show-not one on their actual network: CBS! Then Bing intros Dorothy Collins-a singer who was formerly on "Your Hit Parade". After her solo, she and Bing duet on "Glow Worm". Second half hour begins with a dog act in which the dog mostly does nothing while having a deadpan face as his "master" keeps trying to get him to jump on the table while being enthusiastic the whole time! After that, Waring and the Pennsylvanians perform "The 12 Days of Christmas" before we segue to first John Banner and Werner Klemperer doing the original German version of "Silent Night" and then Robert Clary does his French carol. Finally, Bing brings his pre-teen son, Harry Lillis III, on stage and has him sing something before Bing does his trademark Christmas song, "White Christmas". All I'll say now is this was such a fine holiday ep of "The Hollywood Palace" to watch and I highly recommend it for fans of both Der Bingle and "Hogan's Heroes".

 

[Will Kane]

 

[Chicken Rustler, SASS #26680]

This was a great thread with a lot of information I didn't know. Thanks to everybody.