IJBFC Chat - August 11, 2019
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Jack Benny Troupe In Egypt 11-Aug-43.
Larry, don't tell the boys at ATCo, but we flew 7,600 miles for a Camel.
michael_amowitz 4:52 PM
test ... J-E-L-L-O
It works
garth_johnson 4:57 PM
That was the first number of the last program of
the summer series
michael_amowitz 4:57 PM
Where's Don and everybody?
garth_johnson 4:57 PM
Over at the lunch counter
michael_amowitz 4:58 PM
They're all hiding behing Don :open_mouth:
R. Hookie 4:59 PM
Hi folks... still a little early...
michael_amowitz 5:00 PM
Hi Hookie
garth_johnson 5:00 PM
We need new Bulova's
R. Hookie 5:01 PM
I thought we were a Timex group...???
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:01 PM
jello folks!
michael_amowitz 5:01 PM
Mine keeps on ticking.
garth_johnson 5:01 PM
Somebody needs to ring the Chimes
michael_amowitz 5:01 PM
Hi Kathy!
R. Hookie 5:02 PM
Jello again Kathy
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:02 PM
I actually have a nice pan of strawberry jello
with blueberries waiting for dessert tonight, yay
How is everybody doing? I hope it is not 106
degrees where YOU are this evening!
michael_amowitz 5:02 PM
wow, I think I'll go with orange tonight
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:03 PM
I tried some Peach flavor last month, gotta say it
was awfully "meh" so I will stick with the reds...
But I bet Orange is good too!
michael_amowitz 5:03 PM
yum
garth_johnson 5:03 PM
kathy - Stick to the original 6 and you can't go
wrong
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:03 PM
yep, will do!
R. Hookie 5:04 PM
Is the Boss runninig late?
*running
michael_amowitz 5:04 PM
I dunno!
Laura Leibowitz 5:05 PM
Hi folks!
BRB
michael_amowitz 5:05 PM
I'm never here on time ... this is different :)\
Hi LL
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:05 PM
hey Laura! Any turkeys in your back yard this
afternoon?
Tom V. 5:05 PM
Good evening, folks!
michael_amowitz 5:06 PM
H Tom!
R. Hookie 5:06 PM
Hi Tom
Judith Greenberg 5:06 PM
Am I in?
R. Hookie 5:06 PM
You're in!
Tom V. 5:06 PM
Hi Hookie and Michael!
Judith Greenberg 5:07 PM
Yay
michael_amowitz 5:07 PM
Hi Judith
garth_johnson 5:07 PM
Getting to be a crowd here tonight
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:08 PM
great photo! I bet it was 106 in North Africa on
Jack's tour
R. Hookie 5:08 PM
on a personal note, depending on if my roux works,
I'll either be having soup or stew for supper...
Laura Leibowitz 5:08 PM
Sorry...was cleaning my garage and thought my
phone would give me an alarm 15 minutes before the chat!
R. Hookie 5:09 PM
So, is the garage clean?
Laura Leibowitz 5:09 PM
Good crowd tonight!
Hookie - Partly.
I looked at my phone, saw it was 5:04 and let out a sound that was my
equivalent of "YIPE!"
Judith Greenberg 5:10 PM
Hi LL!
R. Hookie 5:10 PM
Don't you have a piano in there?
Laura Leibowitz 5:10 PM
Still need to check the oil in the Maxwell
Hookie - It's a pump organ
R. Hookie 5:10 PM
Oh... that's interesting!
Laura Leibowitz 5:10 PM
And a gorgeous bakelite Admiral radio and
turntable that I got for $1
So how's everyone doing tonight?
kathy - Sent off your proposal this afternoon.
R. Hookie 5:10 PM
Great bargain!
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:11 PM
yay about the proposal!
Laura Leibowitz 5:11 PM
Hookie - I know!
Found it in a prop shop in Brisbane (south of San Francisco) that was
closing
michael_amowitz 5:11 PM
LL, I saw a post from last month about the JB
Time-Life collection. Is it out of print, or can I still order it? I'd prefer to
wait if I can...attacking bigger messes here
Laura Leibowitz 5:11 PM
michael - I'm not sure...I have a feeling you can
still get it.
They're just probably not actively promoting it.
michael_amowitz 5:12 PM
I have a Crosley radio/CD player/Turntable
ty LL ... I'll call them later and ask
Laura Leibowitz 5:12 PM
Hi Judy!
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:13 PM
do you have turkeys in the backyard, Laura?
Judith Greenberg 5:13 PM
Hi Laura or she I say Boss?
Laura Leibowitz 5:13 PM
Probably not at the moment, but once in a while
R. Hookie 5:13 PM
I got my Great Grandpa's old Philco
radio/turntable (78 only)
Laura Leibowitz 5:13 PM
Judy - Just don't call me late for supper
Judith Greenberg 5:13 PM
Why is are my texts double?
Laura Leibowitz 5:13 PM
Hookie - Nice!
Judy - They're not double on my side
Judith Greenberg 5:14 PM
Ok good
michael_amowitz 5:14 PM
It's only happening on your end, Judith, happens
to me sometimes too
Laura Leibowitz 5:14 PM
Odd
R. Hookie 5:14 PM
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:15 PM
ooooh pretty, Hookie!
R. Hookie 5:15 PM
Sorry... had to find the picture
Laura Leibowitz 5:15 PM
Oh funny...I just saw one of those last weekend at
an antique shop that was closing
Tom V. 5:15 PM
That's beautiful, Hookie!
michael_amowitz 5:15 PM
Cool, Hookie! I missed having space for a similar
radio when my grandparents passed.
Laura Leibowitz 5:15 PM
OK, who's ready for the show?
michael_amowitz 5:15 PM
i hope the family didn't junk it
Judith Greenberg 5:15 PM
Me I hope
Laura Leibowitz 5:15 PM
I still feel like we have watched this one at some
point recently, but...
R. Hookie 5:16 PM
Double feature tonight???
Laura Leibowitz 5:16 PM
No, single feature, but extended version.
https://www.watch2gether.com/users/9wg9spaildu4h4nf-basic
watch2gether.comwatch2gether.com
Watch2Gether
Watch2Gether lets you watch videos with your
friends, synchronized at the same time.(5 kB)
https://www.watch2gether.com/static/watch2gether-share.jpg
michael_amowitz 5:16 PM
Ready for anything
Laura Leibowitz 5:16 PM
Anyone joining the chat while the show is in
progress, please go to the link above!
Is everyone over there?
It only looks like Garth and I are there...
michael_amowitz 5:17 PM
wasn't ready for no login information ... be there
soon
Laura Leibowitz 5:18 PM
OK, I'll hold the downbeat
michael_amowitz 5:18 PM
ty
Judith Greenberg 5:18 PM
I'm tech challenged tonite
R. Hookie 5:18 PM
Its not working
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:18 PM
hey, not used to having to have a Watch2Gether
account to get in... is this the right link, Laura?
Laura Leibowitz 5:19 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM7KazkCAtQ#action=share
YouTubeYouTube | What's My Line?
Jack Benny's 40th Birthday Celebration (Shower of
Stars, Feb 13, 1958)
Try that
michael_amowitz 5:19 PM
Me either ... it says my email cannot be found
kathy_fuller_seeley 5:20 PM
well, its one of my favorite episodes, yay!!!!
michael_amowitz 5:20 PM
trying that :slightly_smiling_face: It works
Laura Leibowitz 5:20 PM
Or that... https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/ijbfc
OK, everyone in?
I still only see Garth and myself.
Starting
R. Hookie 5:21 PM
I can't get in
Judith Greenberg 5:22 PM
What do I do?
Neil Ottenstein 5:22 PM
having problems as well
R. Hookie 5:23 PM
It's not working for me
Laura Leibowitz 5:23 PM
OK, holding
Just a sec
Does this link let you in?
https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/ijbfc
Judith Greenberg 5:24 PM
It asks me to log in
Laura Leibowitz 5:24 PM
HM
Neil Ottenstein 5:24 PM
it pops up momentarily and then asks to sign up or
in
Laura Leibowitz 5:24 PM
I wonder if Watch2Gether changed a setting...I
didn't...
Let me see if I can find a setting to let people
in
garth_johnson 5:25 PM
I just used what was in my browser history from
last month
R. Hookie 5:25 PM
We'll entertain ourselves in the meantime...
Laura Leibowitz 5:26 PM
Try this
https://w2g.tv/mbrm7osc3l5p85x3t9
garth_johnson 5:26 PM
Please Stand By
Neil Ottenstein 5:26 PM
https://www.watch2gether.com/rooms/ijbfc-mbrm7osc3l5p85x3t9?lang=en
watch2gether.comwatch2gether.com
Let's meet on Watch2Gether
Watch2Gether lets you watch videos with your
friends, synchronized at the same time.(5 kB)
https://www.watch2gether.com/static/watch2gether-share.jpg
michael_amowitz 5:26 PM
I've been trying since, but just running You Tube
Neil Ottenstein 5:26 PM
that was my link from last month and seems to work
Laura Leibowitz 5:27 PM
OK, that last one seems to let more folks in
Holding
Restarting
Tom V. 5:32 PM
I'm in thru Neil'a link. Thanks!
* Neil's
m._mitchell_marmel 6:20 PM
Jell-O again!
garth_johnson 6:27 PM
Missing from tonight's broadcast - Eddie Anderson
Laura Leibowitz 6:28 PM
I saw Neil Sedaka at the Riviera in Las Vegas...
Tom V. 6:28 PM
That was fun!
R. Hookie 6:28 PM
Well, fun stuff there!
michael_amowitz 6:28 PM
I'm here, yay!
Judith Greenberg 6:28 PM
Where was Eddie?
Laura Leibowitz 6:28 PM
Judy - Having a heart attack
Judith Greenberg 6:28 PM
Oh my
garth_johnson 6:28 PM
I don't want to show that picture
Laura Leibowitz 6:28 PM
There was a Life photographer there who captured
the drama
m._mitchell_marmel 6:29 PM
I've never been to Vegas.
Atlantic City, yes. A casino
or two in Oklahoma, yes.
Laura Leibowitz 6:29 PM
garth - Of him being taken away in the ambulance?
michael_amowitz 6:29 PM
:open_mouth: I didn't know that
m._mitchell_marmel 6:29 PM
Oh, dear.
garth_johnson 6:29 PM
The Concern everyone shows
Laura Leibowitz 6:29 PM
Yeah, look at Jack distraught
Judith Greenberg 6:29 PM
I remember reading about it
Tom V. 6:30 PM
Oh my. I
had no idea it was a public thing for Rochester.
m._mitchell_marmel 6:30 PM
Shades of Redd Foxx.
Laura Leibowitz 6:30 PM
Yeah, it happened during rehearsal.
Judith Greenberg 6:31 PM
Wow
Laura Leibowitz 6:31 PM
Mitch - Indeed.
Except Foxx really did have the big one on set.
And everyone thought he was fooling.
R. Hookie 6:31 PM
I remember that
He was doing a show with Della Reese
Laura Leibowitz 6:32 PM
I'm still amazed at Mary doing the show.
It was years earlier that she insisted on only doing pre-filmed shows.
Which is a connection to Jack, since Della Reese
was on the bill in Dallas when Jack ended up in the hospital
R. Hookie 6:32 PM
Interesting
garth_johnson 6:32 PM
They did a real number on the violin -- looks like
one of Jack's stage props after a show.
Laura Leibowitz 6:33 PM
His hands went numb before the performance and she
covered the show for him.
Judith Greenberg 6:33 PM
Poor Eddie, how did he fare?
Neil Ottenstein 6:33 PM
very nice photo
Laura Leibowitz 6:33 PM
Well, he recovered reasonably from the heart
attack. But his stroke later took a
lot away from him.
m._mitchell_marmel 6:33 PM
He wound up outliving Jack, so...
R. Hookie 6:33 PM
Sorry.. had to step away to tend to other
things... with 4 legs...
Laura Leibowitz 6:34 PM
Yeah, but he had a lot of trouble remembering and
delivering his lines towards the end of the TV series
michael_amowitz 6:34 PM
I remember you'd said that often. That's why I was
surprised ... never knew a reporter was there at that time for Rochester
Laura Leibowitz 6:34 PM
And they brought in a maid character to do scenes
with him and kind of "prop him up."
R. Hookie 6:35 PM
Benny's Bag was after the stroke, right?
Laura Leibowitz 6:35 PM
Yes. I'd
have to look it up, but his stroke was somewhere around 1963.
garth_johnson 6:35 PM
A publicity composite promoting Shower Of Stars
Laura Leibowitz 6:36 PM
I remember watching some of the shows not in
circulation at UCLA, and it's just hard to watch him try to be what he used to
be.
R. Hookie 6:36 PM
Interesting...
Laura Leibowitz 6:36 PM
The name Miss Dooley is sticking in my mind...I
think that was the maid's character name.
Have to pull Volume 3 to be sure.
Jane Dulo I think
(This is why I write books...so I don't have to
hold all this in my head...)
So what other thoughts on the show?
michael_amowitz 6:37 PM
Jo Stafford was that last singer in the program?
Laura Leibowitz 6:38 PM
Mike - How do you mean?
garth_johnson 6:38 PM
IMDB has 4 Credits for Jane as Miss Dooley 1964-5
Laura Leibowitz 6:38 PM
OK, memory serves!
Whew
There was one show that had them watching TV with
TV tables and being kind of a Statler and Waldorf commenting on it.
Judith Greenberg 6:39 PM
The entire show was not live I assume
Laura Leibowitz 6:39 PM
Well, they did say some parts were pre-recorded
michael_amowitz 6:39 PM
Just trying to place Jo Stafford ... I'd known of
her from the 50s, but didn't know which one was her. I know I saw most of it
before, but I didn't remember her or Phil's part in the show. I thought Jack and
Phil weren't getting along.
Laura Leibowitz 6:39 PM
Clearly the shots of the cars driving on the road
were not live
R. Hookie 6:40 PM
I thought there was a gag where instead of turning
40, he was really turning 39? Or was that a different show?
Laura Leibowitz 6:40 PM
Hookie - That was on radio.
They did it twice.
1948 and 1954
R. Hookie 6:40 PM
Oh.. ok
Laura Leibowitz 6:40 PM
IIRC
michael_amowitz 6:40 PM
i knew that was somewhere too
Laura Leibowitz 6:40 PM
Yes, Jack's 40th was never mentioned after this.
Mike - You were asking about Jo Stafford being the
"last singer?" Not sure
what you're asking.
garth_johnson 6:41 PM
Variety - Feb. 17 58
Laura Leibowitz 6:42 PM
Is there any other part of the show that people
felt might have been pre-recorded?
m._mitchell_marmel 6:42 PM
There was an incident with Edsel cars not working
on cue on a live broadcast. After
that, such things were usually taped.
michael_amowitz 6:42 PM
the solo singer toward the end (life starts at 40)
... who was that?
Judith Greenberg 6:43 PM
The dance numbers
Laura Leibowitz 6:43 PM
Hey Kathy - How much you want to bet that Waukegan
plaque is in either UCLA or AHC now?
Neil Ottenstein 6:43 PM
good review
Laura Leibowitz 6:43 PM
Mike - Yes, Jo Stafford.
Yeah, those silly dance numbers
Jack Jack Jack Jack Jack
Like the dance numbers in "Buck Benny Rides
Again."
michael_amowitz 6:44 PM
Thanks, Garth ... that review sounded about right
too. Thanks LL
m._mitchell_marmel 6:44 PM
Per the above clipping, that was Jo Stafford
singing at the end.
Laura Leibowitz 6:45 PM
Glad you all enjoyed that!
I figured even if we'd seen it, it's worth rewatching.
Neil Ottenstein 6:45 PM
quite a treat
m._mitchell_marmel 6:45 PM
Definitely!
Laura Leibowitz 6:45 PM
Requests for next month?
R. Hookie 6:45 PM
I had fun!
michael_amowitz 6:45 PM
She was good ... she seemed to have dropped off
the planet by 1962
m._mitchell_marmel 6:46 PM
September...did any eps have Dennis singing
"September Song"?
Laura Leibowitz 6:46 PM
Hmmm...I'd have to look that up
The words don't make sense for a "silly
kid!"
michael_amowitz 6:47 PM
Maybe the Peter, Paul and Mary show; I haven't
seen that in a long time.
Laura Leibowitz 6:47 PM
That could be fun
m._mitchell_marmel 6:47 PM
LL: Well, that never stopped Dennis!
R. Hookie 6:47 PM
Any shows have any notable season premieres?
Laura Leibowitz 6:47 PM
I wish like crazy I could get the unedited version
that has the "Waukegan" song reprised under the closing credits
m._mitchell_marmel 6:48 PM
UCLA Archives?
Laura Leibowitz 6:48 PM
Hookie - I wish I could show you the debut of the
1964-65 season.
garth_johnson 6:48 PM
"Jack has a sick alligator" --- but
unfortunatly that's not going to happen - so I'll have to find some Hollywood
squares
Laura Leibowitz 6:48 PM
garth - And Paul Lynde is typically fabulous in
it...
m._mitchell_marmel 6:48 PM
Well, Paul Lynde.
'Nuff said.
garth_johnson 6:48 PM
All I have is the pub pic and snipe
R. Hookie 6:48 PM
Paul was in it?
Laura Leibowitz 6:49 PM
Yes, he played a veterinarian who comes to attend
to Jack's sick alligator
Judith Greenberg 6:49 PM
Lol!
garth_johnson 6:49 PM
Laura Leibowitz 6:49 PM
This crowd will "get it"...they're
called Irving and Jeanette.
R. Hookie 6:49 PM
Ooooo ... I'd like to see that!!!
Neil Ottenstein 6:49 PM
great photo
Laura Leibowitz 6:49 PM
It's one of the good shows of the final season
because Jack is just letting Lynde run with it.
m._mitchell_marmel 6:50 PM
Ha! Good
'un.
Laura Leibowitz 6:50 PM
OK...sounds like Peter, Paul and Mary?
Judith Greenberg 6:50 PM
Sounds great
michael_amowitz 6:50 PM
Yay!
m._mitchell_marmel 6:50 PM
Coulda called 'em "Dorothy and Dick"...
Why not?
Neil Ottenstein 6:51 PM
sounds fun
Laura Leibowitz 6:51 PM
Well, thanks for stopping folks!
Have a wonderful month and see you in September!
Neil Ottenstein 6:51 PM
thanks
R. Hookie 6:51 PM
Good night folks!
Judith Greenberg 6:51 PM
Thanks!
m._mitchell_marmel 6:51 PM
Ha! Include
this, Laura:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA44q9NdNpM
Dennis Day ~ September Song
michael_amowitz 6:51 PM
Take care, everybody!
Tom V. 6:51 PM
Good evening, folks!
Laura Leibowitz 6:51 PM
Well don!
done!
Neil Ottenstein 6:52 PM
'night
m._mitchell_marmel 6:52 PM
Thankee!
garth_johnson 6:52 PM
m._mitchell_marmel 6:53 PM
Nite!