When I was a kid, I used to deliver Jack Benny's afternoon newspaper to his Beverly Hills office, sometimes I would hand it directly to him. His secretary told me I was the best paperboy they ever had, cause I delivered it the earliest. He gave me a nice Christmas tip, and I still have the signed card.
The performers today treat their audience like rats. They don’t care about the audience they just care about themselves.. and of course the money they will collect at the end of the show…. Pride in oneself can be ugly and Hollywood is promoting bad actors, and really in the world today true showmanship and generosity is gone in America.. sad to sad. Hollywood has lowered their standard so much that anyone can just show up and pretend to act and then be promoted..it’s degrading.. no more television for me. I threw mine out..
What wonderful presence and charisma Jack Benny had. A great comedian. You can hear that underneath his messing about on the violin, he was a lovely player. I'll always regret that when Jack Benny was on at the London Palladium in the early 1970s I couldn't get there. A true artist. Unfortunately comedy has gone in a completely different direction today, in my opinion for the worse.
On his last show he played a beautiful number perfectly on the violin. It was a sketch with Mel Blanc and a physiatrist, at the end he tells the physiatrist not to tell anyone how well he played. He explains he had made a lot of money over the years playing the violin badly.
Indeed ! Growing up in the 60s & 70s, I loved watching Red's CBS show with my family. And on Saturdays we watched Mr Welk's program. And on Sunday nights we watched Ed Sullivan's variety show. Wonderful memories !!
How many people know he was an excellent violinist? I didn't, because I never saw him play anything seriously until I saw a show where he plays with his teacher on Jack Benny Hosts The Hollywood Palace. They did a duet with a small orchestra behind them, from memory, and it was a difficult piece of music. I was stunned because I had heard he really could play, but I had only seen him play bad for laughs.
He really hated “Love in Bloom”. He said that many times through the years on various talk shows. But he was known so well for that music as it was played on his radio and tv shows for years!!
It’s interesting to note that while Garbo did get the Oscar for Camille, Chaplin had NOT. After Jack was on this program, the academy gave Chaplin an honorary Oscar a year later. Completely underrated comedian
THANK YOU for uploading this bodacious "blast from the past" ! Growing up in the 60s, my family watched Lawrence Welk's show almost every Saturday night. But I don't recall watching this Jack Benny episode back then. What a lot of fun to watch! I LOVE Jack Benny! I went online and found out that this was the year (1971) that ABC cancelled Mr Welk's show after 16 years on the network. But it was still so popular that it ran in first year syndication from '71 to 1982!
@@tranurse -- It was the Civic Auditorium. The Coliseum was a larger venue. I was a student at Jacksonville Junior College and my Humanities professor gave us extra credit if we attended concerts. The first part of that evening Jack had us rolling in the isles. Then he got serious and dazzled us with his violin ability.
@@Dr.Pepper001 my high school graduation was in the Civic Auditorium. I saw a couple of concerts in the Coliseum, even though it was a horrible place acoustically.
I used to watch with my parents and grandparents. My parents played musical instruments, so watching shows with musicians was something we did as a family.
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