I just heard it on Piano for the first time on Sirius XM Ch. 76 yesterday. I said: " I recognize THAT...WHAT is THAT ? WHERE is it from ? Then I realized it was as a "whistled tune" For Jack Horkheimer's "Star Hustler" Program that I would watch on Buffalo's PBS station WNED Ch. 17 late at night - I believe it was just after the news. My Mom would watch it with me. I would just be getting home from the afternoon shift at the Hospital. I looked at the menu on my car's satellite radio and saw that it was Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1. Thanks to Jack Horkheimer for a wonderful program.
I just read online that Jack wrote his own tomnstone's epitaph. It reads: " 'Keep looking up' was my life's admonition. I can do little else in my present position." Fuqn AWESOME!
I truly wish there was a guy doing something like this today. If you were born in the early to mid 1970s and were an 80s kid in America, life was AMAZING! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🤩❤️
Born 87 here, I remember this guy all through my childhood. I can attest to the sense of wonder. I used to be afraid he would fall off Saturn’s rings :)
Parents would allow me to stay up past my bedtime just to watch this and my PBS channel would sign off shortly after! Still to this day I still “Keep looking up!” Miss you Jack but I know your playing among the stars!
Thank you for this! Our local PBS station showed Jack's show each weeknight after Doctor Who, and again right before sign off. Great childhood memories!
@@TheWOCArchive Me too! Unbelievable warmth of nostalgia washes over me watching this. A great way to end my night after watching Dr. Who with Tom Baker.
I absolutely loved this show growing up in the '80's, btw, Neil Degrassi-Tyson stole his bit, "Keep looking up", R.I.P. Jack Horkheimer, you inspired many of us to do exactly that!
Tomita's adaptation of Debussy's happy melody is forever connected to this man's teaching. I have such nostalgia of these short video segments, from watching PBS in the 1990's; I vividly recall the interstitials between some programs. Might have been weekday afternoons.
I used to watch Jack in the early 80's just before the TV station would sign off for the night. I always had a pen and paper ready to copy down all the information for that week and then I would go out and find the star patterns he spoke of....Great memories from a wonderful time in life. I still love looking up at the stars to this day and I'll imitate Jack's voice to my friends to "Keep Looking Up"..
WHA in Madison, WI and it was definitely on after Doctor Who. I think my old VHS tapes had many episodes of this after my recording of that week's episode.
Excellent job! Jack was really a good host, R.I.P., but let's hope we could see the old Star Hustler/Star Gazer master episodes on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting soon.
I miss Jack, I used to watch these when they first came out. Every week a new one. Sometimes I would stop off at the Space Transit and Planetarium on my way home from school and spend time there. It was a nice place, so quiet and shady. Now the moved it, to Downtown Miami.
Hearing that music got to me, have not heard it for so long. Scifi Friday night Star Hustler/Gazer, then Red Dwarf, and then Dr. Who, what a time. Everyone keep Jack in mind as you Keep Looking Up.
I watched this show every Saturday night before PBS Houston signed off for the evening. Exactly one month after this episode aired I departed for U.S. Marine Corps basic training and started my adult life. I'm an old man now, but I still remember this episode, because I went outside and looked for Mars and Jupiter. Thank you for posting it.
This was always the last feature that came on at night before my local PBS station went off the air. I always looked forward to it as a kid. “Keep looking up” is a mantra on many levels.
I remember watching this in the mid to late ‘90’s after The Red Green Show on PBS. I was in high school. Funny how something so quaint sticks out in your memory.
He was great. Because of him I have had a life long interest in astronomy on an amateur level. But all kids should be interested in intelligent people doing intelligent things
So many wonderful memories from Jack explaining the night sky to me when I was a kid. I absolutely am truly grateful for this man and his efforts to educate so many on the amazing night sky! Peace!
I never knew how much I loved this music and this man, until I heard that music recently. I felt a pang in my heart and memories of being at my mom's house came flooding back. Right now, I'd jump on that winding white celestial path with Jack and head back home.
Wanting to impress a girl, but also refresh Astronomy 101, got me re-living my childhood here with Jack (Rest in the Stars). Him walking into the stars and the music is still impressive. :)
I watched this 1989-91 during an emotionally fallow period. I can't even remember which station in NH it was on. I barely remember it was an end-of-broadcast-day segment, replacing the National Anthem or just before same. Jack Horkheimer's good cheer meant the world to me.
I watched it every Saturday in the early 2000s in Holden, Maine. At 11-12pm Red Green then 12-1am Austin City Limits then at 1am or so Jack Horkheimer Star Gazer came on then my local PBS station went off the air. Great PBS programming then compared to today.
The best show ever but for some reason I always kept forgetting when the show would air so I would randomly catch it, after a couple years I figured it out that it aired when the stations would sign off for the night and also they would show it around noon I believe. Good memories of a better time.
I'm not sure if this was a premonition to me moving to Florida from Michigan but now being here for the last year and a half, I have more of an appreciation to my childhood development watching this Miami show!!!
This program used to come on after Teletunes and RhythmVisions on the local station Channel 12 in Denver. I remember fondly the Debussy piece in the intro and Jack's infectious enthusiasm as he divulged the current celestial phenomena. Good memories indeed; thanks for posting.
@Tattooedpain Actually, it's all electronic music, the show used "Arabesque No. 1" by Claude Debussy, performed by Isao Tomita. After hearing Tomita's rendition from the show, I did some research, and discovered that Debussy composed the original, which quickly became my favorite by Debussy. Just thought you'd like to know...
