AMAZING ENTERTAINMENT and EDUCATION specializing in INCREDIBLE MAGIC, HUMOR, INSPIRATION, MOTIVATION AND WISDOM. Paul Ketterer, producer of the award-winning Entertainers in the Tri State television show, now shares special clips from this HUMOROUS and ENLIGHTENING cable TV show as well as SPECIAL VIDEOS recorded at the MAGIC PARLOR OF WINDSOR. #magic #magician #trick #ballroom #ballroomdance #dancevideo #paul #paul ketterer
I have never seen that particular type production box before, It' looks vintage, who built it. Ive been around for about 80 yrs so it's always fun to see something like this you've never seen before!
I really liked the first bit with the cards (about 1/3 deck). It reminded me of Rajah Keppler's utilization of the Oscar Hugo's Magi Card System. Rajah taught that to me when I was 11 or 12 and I still remember it 64 years later.
Hi Marquita Workman, I just saw your comment. Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful thought of remembrance of Harry. Yes, He was a true Cincinnati gem.
Very nice to come across this interview! I suddenly thought of Harry and his appearance on the Johnny Carson Show, and wanted to see that video again, even though the ventilation system in the studio unfortunately interfered with his smoke ring act. I never knew this interview existed. I was living in Minneapolis at the time and my mother called and said to see him on national television. I never watched TV since I was 14 as I'd quit watching, but found a TV to see it live. After the Johnny Carson let-down he still kept going with good cheer. He did his smoke ring act in our home many years ago. He was a lot of fun. He was amazing and very intelligent. He gave us once his summer readings of esoteric intellectual publications he bought from bookstores maybe in Minneapolis and was very well read. His mother came to visit too and had known my mother for many years. When my mother told her she gave their piano she learned on as a child, a beautiful grand piano, to her local church, Dahlia said, "God should bring you another piano." One summer's day Harry's unique piano moving truck all painted in old fashioned Victorian lettering and Victorian era looking artwork of a piano, traveling too 1,500 miles from Cincinnati... backed across the front lawn. Harry pulled out a metal ramp. He and an assistant with great strength easily at the count of 3 lifted it onto a small cart. They unloaded a completely restored Baldwin made just before Baldwin pianos became made in Japan, 1970, and were still made in Cincinnati. It had all new strings and felt on the hammers, and sounding unreal. A small spinnet, but it sounded like a grand piano in our old farm house! Now decades later I still keep it with a relative who is so kind to have it in his dining room for me. I thought I might have a home of my own and enough $ to move it 200 miles to Minneapolis, but it still is there and I might have to sadly give it up, but to my well deserving relative. Harry's parents had a beautiful log cabin made in about 1910 and kept very well. He would play his player grand piano for my mother and I, a very rare one as grand pianos were not often made as players. He also had a metal disk wind-up very old music box that was surprisingly loud and very beautiful. It looked like new, but it was from the late 1800's and restored to perfection by his piano craftsmen. When Baldwin was sold to a Japan company the old master builders originally from Germany, Harry hired for his very successful restoration business. Harry made spaghetti dinners for my mother and I, and another time even took us out to dinner. I met his son, also a very nice person. The Garrison family came to their cabin since the early 1900's on our local lake. He showed me the giant white pine on their property that he said was the tree used during the logging era (on our lake the major logging happened in the 1800's.) as a "boom" tree, a tree they tied onto for something I never exactly understood. The logging devastated all the upper Mid West, but I of course never said anything and appreciated his talking about the history of the land. He also performed his smoke ring act at a wedding reception dinner too that captivated everyone. Not only was he a magician, he was also a natural spontaneous comedian. He could get everyone laughing! Harry was a very talented and unique person, a great conversationalist, one who would delight everyone he met.
Hi mwj5368 in Minneapolis, Wow! What a great tribute you provided about Harry. Thank you so very much and I am so glad you took time to share all this wonderful info with us...just wish some of Harry's living friends and relatives could see your comments...Thanks again....Paul Ketterer
@@paulketterermagic Hi Paul! Thanks very much for creating such a nice video. You are a natural for interviewing others and have a nice down to earth way that brings out a lot about Harry. There was another time, must I even have to say... yes, Harry had everyone laughing. Believe it or not, I was on an actual believe-it-or-not canoe trip with Harry into the wilds of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota. Of course that was not enough as we also sallied forth, following Harry's cigar plumes and rings, beyond and into the vast Quetico canoe country of Ontario in the year of our Lord... 1981AD. Antics galore! If he'd had an old logger's cap and a pipe instead of a cigar (he wore the flannel shirt and suspenders too) he could have stood beside any figurine of Babe the Blue Ox and fit right in! I have to say for that one week the weather was utterly fantastic. I still remember this many years later that even the wind, really, it gently blew us in and blew us out, and in a way Harry too -- be it north or south, hither or yon, yes "east is east and west is west", and yes again, Krakatoa of 1883 was the greatest natural explosion in recorded history, and Harry too blew us away! Oddities among oddities, there was also an odd number of us, seven, so Harry, king of kings, of course rode in the middle of one of the canoes. He was a real comic at the portages and calling out commands to the paddlers, cracking jokes, and smoking his big cigars! It was amazing at the campfire one night Bunyanesque Harry stood tall and all aglow by the fire and with the grand white pines and twilight sky over the tranquil waters as backdrop. Of course all was a contrast to whirlwind Harry as he recited every line of a poem by the famous wilderness writer, Robert Service (sp?) and it was I think titled, "To the Outhouse". It is a very long epic poem, and Harry was flawless. He had a natural way of making the poem even more humorous than it ever could be had you read it silently in a book. I've read Service over the years, but not that poem, and I still remember Harry reciting a line that had something about loins in it! At the end of the journey he bought all a big dinner at the little town near by. We all waited a long time afterwards as Harry had disappeared. No one could figure it out until one of us searched and saw him in his smokey haze in the town's only phone booth (no cell phones then) busy I'm sure catching up with his business in Cincinnati! I thought it was really great to indirectly hear how he hired the master piano builders from Germany that were laid off when Baldwin sold out to a Japanese company. It was very funny when one of his cousins (I think it was a cousin) had some kind of connection to professional printing. Harry wrote a comic article about himself collapsing in some old renowned hotel and how it created a kind of riotous mayhem. When you read it, it was like you could see it all in an old scratchy silent movie. Harry in a tall top hat and tuxedo thrusting his arms out and swallowing his cigar butt while a pale-faced crowd of admirers scramble to catch him. Stiff as a board, supernatural hat defying gravity and still not falling off, they stand him up only for him to topple the other way complete with the ladies fainting in shock while a ragtime piano or organ grinds on! All was printed in the Victorian era kind of printing as if it were in a vintage 1800's newspaper, but I can't recall what newspaper it was, printed to look very realistic. I'm getting carried away and my bad habit of being too verbose and sorry about that! It's hard to not get carried away with Harry, while for Harry too it was hard not to carry everyone away...
@@mwj5368 Hi mwj5368, Thank you for your kind and encouraging words and your amazing "Believe-it-or-not" episode with the Great Smoke King, Harry Garrison. I'm confident his family and loved ones would be truly grateful for your time, skills and talents that you have shared with us to help reminisce about Harry. You have helped his legacy live on. A sincere thank you!!
@@paulketterermagic Hi Paul! I get carried away with verbose writing and others have complained about it, although it was easy about Harry! I was worried though I was writing too much and getting my ego involved. I see you are a magician and have a show that I look forward to watching! I watched one last night! A magnanimous deed your preserving Harry's legacy! His mother Dahlia was a great lady too! My mother and I visited her when she was in a Senior I think assisted living facility in Robinsdale, MN a suburb of Minneapolis. She was such a classy lady and had a real charm and charisma! It was even her piano she gave to my mother that I inherited and have stored with a generous relative. I could tell that when she played she must have often wore a bracelet on her left wrist that at first left pits and scratches near bass ranks. In fact it is her piano that is on the cover of my solo piano album and I forgot to tell Harry that. He was very kind to compliment how much he liked my albums -- nowadays all another life... I'm not sure if I'm going to have a place where I can have it and will maybe have to pass it on to my relative. It was fun too riding in Harry's mint condition 1967 (still remember the year ha!) Jaguar. The dash was made from a highly polished exotic wood that was very beautiful. It was nice too when he hired me to put preservative on their very old log cabin, paint their nice guest cabin, and do other odds and ends. He invited me for breakfast to go over "the plan". Harry made the best blueberry pancakes! While he was cooking them he told me to go in the dugout basement below the kitchen to get something (I forgot) for his cooking he kept in the cool earth in the old fashioned way. I opened the trap door in the floor of the kitchen and went down the narrow stairs. As I came up I noticed spots of blood all over the kitchen floor. Harry was in his stocking feet and busy at the stove. "Harry! Your foot is bleeding!" It was then I could tell he actually knew it and kept on cooking! He made a joke of it I wish I could remember, but I then knew it was his diabetes, my guess because Harry didn't talk about his health, at least in my experience. Here I go again! More about an amazing and phenomenal man! That was about 1997.
@@mwj5368 Hi mwj5368, Verbose writing? ...well, Harry was never lost for words either…and it sounds like you knew him well… what a treasure to have Dahlia’s piano and an honor to have it on your solo album cover. Yes, Harry was an amazing and phenomenal man…Thank you for sharing your fascinating memories of him.
