What an era to grow up in!!!! I was 15 when I first saw Dean Martin on TV. So enthralled by his looks, beautiful voice, and great sense of humour. Bless you Dean Martin for bringing so much enjoyment and excitement into our homes. Of course I bought his recordings after that. 😍😍😍😍😍
George Burns singing about when he started in Show Busbess. Dean and George. Playing I Ain't Got Nobody. Johnathan Winters and Dean and with George. Dean and Diana Shore. It was A Very Good Year.
In Vienna, there is a shop in Ziegelgasse that plays the whole time Dean Martin's songs. When you pass by, you feel a huge love for him, today in 2019. Love you, unforgettable Dean.
Are you sure? When Burns was singing about when he was 21, he said it was 45 years ago. He was born in 1896 which would have made it 1962 when this aired.
Bringing together such talent onto one show was always my favorite thing to see. George Burns had a rich full life, and was funny even without his wife Gracie…But as he would have said. “It took years to find my comedy act, and when I did, I married her.” I would like to believe they were the best couple in show business. Lovely clip from days gone by.
George Burns was a good singer. I remember that shtick routine where Blanch, the neighbor's wife, kept saying he was a terrible singer. Also learned he did not start as a human being. During an episode, they were staging a Carnation milk commercial. I think the straight man was Harry von Zell. He would ask what it means when the baby says "goo goo googlede goo." Gracie was the one who answered, "I want Carnation milk because..." when asked how she could speak baby, she answered, "Because I used to be one..." George commented to the audience, "I started as a Caterpillar." I reemembered one episode where he and several tap dancers did a vaudeville tap dance routine on stage during the intermission.
I knew I was going to forget something. How George and Gracie met. George explained this in a monologue. He was doing a vaudeville routine. He looked at the audience, everyone was gone except this one woman (Gracie). He thanked her for having stayed during the entire performance, and asked her if there was anything he could do for her. She said she needed help because her dress was caught in the seat. I remember another shtick routine where George and Gracie were talking with another couple about travel. The guy asked if they went behind the Iron Curtain. Gracie answered they were married and could dress in the same room. I am an old fart. When the Lord calls me home, I will finally get to see from the audience the Heaven version of Burns and Allen. God knew what He was doing when he created them (He always does, but I am using this as a figure of speech.)
Was this from the Dean Martin Show--I remember watching that when I was in college in the late 1960s. So George Burns would have been in his late 60s and probably before his Oh God movie... In any even--excellent entertainment singing those old standards...
Okay, in the finale we have Dean, Dinah Shore, George Burns and Jonathon Winters. But who's on Jonathon's left? She looks familiar, but I can't place her.
It wasn't so much that it was cool as it was just a "thing" and socially acceptable just like cocktails are today. Statistics show that in the 1960's when cigarette smoking reached its peak in America, 45% of Americans smoked. If you factor in men who smoked cigars only like Burns, Milton Berle or Ernie Kovacs or a pipe like Bing Crosby, the figure would be well over 50%, probably closer to 70%. I'm old enough to remember when you could smoke anywhere and I even had a doctor who would smoke in the exam room!
@@retroguy9494 Thank you so much for your very helpful explanation. I just love how these people loved and enjoyed life. Things were not as complicated as they are today.
@@onelife7850 Yes, they really did. Sure, many of them did not live to be 100 like George Burns or Bob Hope but you have to look at things and say do I want to live to be only 75 and have fun and enjoy life and my profession or do I want a life filled with no enjoyment and nothing but work and stress and live to be 90? I feel so fortunate to have been alive when this generation was still working and running the country and have their influence on my upbringing. Its not that things weren't complicated back then. There were some horrible times. But they handled them a lot different than today. There was much more an attitude of "togetherness" than there is today.
Right, because the cheap ones, packed loosely, burned slowly, timed to his monologues. I just recently learned he was buried with 3 cigars in his pocket. Love him...and Gracie!
@@sunnyangiebeenestork1899 Actually it was more because the cigar stayed lit on stage so he did not have to constantly puff it like he would an expensive cigar. He smoked El Producto Queens. He made them so popular at one point sending their sales skyrocketing that the company that made them in appreciation gave him a supply of cigars free for the rest of his life! He used to get shipments once a month of around 500 cigars!
@@sunnyangiebeenestork1899 No, not really. When I have the occasional cigar, I smoke Macanudos. Or if I want a really cheap one, I smoke White Owl. I know because I read it in several sources. Once of them was in the magazine "Cigar Aficionado." They ran a few articles back in the 90's about Burns and his cigars. They actually interviewed him. They also ran an article where Groucho Marx son interviewed him as well.
