Alan Jones was treated badly by the entertainment industry.

@gcjerryusc Have you noticed that the panel appears to have forgotten Fred's comments about the proper language to use during the introductions? They consistently say "on my left". Fred insisted that the correct formulation was "to my left".

A very funny guy.

I was impressed that he used the word metier in his questioning of Jack Jones. One rarely ears that word anymore.

Now now keep it in your pants

Me too..

I hate it when Dorothy squeals and makes a scene.

​@@judylutz1702oh relax

@@edmundpower1250 Thanks for the suggestion! Dorothy was a camera hog.

Jack is one of the best. Very talented.

Yes, he is still out there, singing up a storm. You can find out a lot about him at Jack Jones ~ "The Singers Singer" ~ The Jack Jones Fan Page, my tribute page to him. I'm proud to say that Jack's a member there too.

@@fasbc Great! I'm checking it out.

A couple years ago I attended crooner Jack's 80th birthday performance party at Catalina's Bar and Grill in Hollywood. He still sings brilliantly!

@poetcomic1 It's February 6, 2023, and he's _still_ with us. He celebrated his 85th birthday on January 14, 2023.

not sure I'd want that mafia wannabe singing my praises 🤢🤢🤮

@@Marcel_Audubon What are you, prejudiced or something?

@@user-rh2io7gm1l prejudiced against people who align themselves with criminal organizations? why yes, I am, dearie

Why are you BRAINLESS?

@Johan Bengtsson - Martin Gabel also said on this show at 3:17 after John thanked him for coming, "John, other people work harder for their money in dustier places. I am delighted to be here." This after 8 shows a week as Prof. Moriarty in "Baker Street" on Broadway. He was my kind of man and human. Realistic, humble.

@@philippapay4352 Agreed! And he and Arlene had a wonderful, true marriage of friends and souls.:)

I like Martin Gabel. I always like the shows in which he fills in for Bennett Cerf.

Agree - -I thought he had blonde hair - -I guess it was just gray!

Sounded like Morse code. :)

i didn't agree with his classifying "Downtown" as a Rock & Roll song

(a) I have a hard time reconciling DOWNTOWN with the genre ofRock & Roll. (b) Cerf demonstrates once again what a close-minded buffoon resistant to change he is!

You mean "closed-minded". You phrased it as if someone is next to him in thinking!

soulierinvestments Have we really reached that point where we have to consider that people watching this don't know the major hits of the sixties? Surely not!! What's next? Background info for people who don't know Bacharach and Motown?!? If so, maybe they're at a loss with the mystery guests too!

Now now don't show your true colours... be nice for once!

You should never pour water on an electrical fire!

I would've done what Dorothy did. Who knows it may have exploded? And they have stage technicians, after all. Daly's response could've been a disaster if what Arlene says was true at that point.

What a silly overanalysis. It’s not like she ran screaming out of the theatre. They all took it very calmly.

We could actually do without it.

Not to mention that the Marx Brothers almost tore the whole opera building down... and that it is the funniest movie about opera I've seen! :)

It does to "Il Trovatore" what should be done to Il Trovatore.

Wonder who Dorothy had in mind when she asked if he was over 6'2"...That's an awfully specific number!

I think he said "stays together"... no offence intended.

@@washoe4827 TOGETHER seems to be the yucky operative word here.

@@poetcomic1 extraordinary comment

You save water usage in a water crises by bathing together.

oldfart4751 I know. I'm saying he looked out of it in this episode.

oldfart4751 You misunderstood what I said. When I said I was guessing I had to do with the play,I meant It as he was tired because I assumed he he was possible sick or maybe a show that night and was just tired.

Purple Capricorn I am watching this and came here to see if he had cancer or had had a stroke. Does anyone know why he looked so frail?

Martin deliberately lost weight and grew his thinning hair into a comb-back style in order to play Professor Moriarty in Baker Street. Do a search for the original Sidney Paget illustrations to the Holmes stories; his picture of a gaunt Moriarty is clearly the image that Gabel is emulating.

Jack Jones sang the theme to the TV-series"The Love Boat".

Johan Bengtsson That's right! I knew I knew his name from somewhere. He had a hilarious cameo singing the Love Boat theme in "Airplane II".

What's My Line? Jack Jones has always been one of my singer of standards who kept the art alive (along with Tony Bennett) with new material, not relying on just the hits.

Joe Postove I have always admired Jack Jones precisely for not relying on the hits, good!

So basically Allan Jones replaced Zeppo in the Marx Brothers movie franchise. Many movies employ something known as comic relief. The classic Marx Brothers movies needed to give audiences a break from the madcap comedy. Here are Jones and Carlisle showing off operatic voices as they sing a love song to each other and Carlisle tries to get her opera impresario interested in hiring Jones. And there are brief moments of Chico, Harpo and Groucho, lest the music has gone on too long and one forgets the stars of the movie, "A Night at the Opera". kzfaq.info/get/bejne/g8yprc2ZztO3eWw.html

I remember watching that.

​​@@sandrageorge3488I do, too. It was a big deal. I was a kid but I still got a big crush on Lesley Ann Warren. And I remember it being presented by Greer Garson.

I wonder if he dieted to play Professor Moriarty. He certainly looked very different in preceding episodes.

He was playing a role.

No, the apple on her head would be. :-)

***** And throws them back to her "friend"?

As Bennett suggested, he and John should do an act like that. But both of them wanted to threw the knives. :)

Perhaps she pulled them out of the backdrop after the act is over and retrieved them to her father.

😊

LOL It's all a matter of perspective. I think of Teaneck as where Interstate 80 begins. I live one county north of Teaneck. The directions from my house to San Francisco are basically to get on Interstate 287 south to Interstate 80 west and then drive for 2900 miles! Teaneck is the home of some current friends and the former home of my freshman roommate in college (who graduated from Teaneck HS. When I worked in NYC for a few years, my commuter bus route took me through Teaneck. I'd be very wealthy by now if I had a dollar for every time I went through Teaneck in the 1970's and invested it prudently.

@@loissimmons6558 Teaneck, NJ is where The Nelson Family hailed from. (Ozzie, Harriet, David & Ricky)

except one - he wasn't an actor

​@@Marcel_Audubon😂😂😂

Nothing to worry about.

Two of the exchanges during Soupy's appearance went something along the lines of: "Is your program a variety show?" "You MIGHT call it that. I wouldn't, but YOU might." "Is your show an hour in length?" "No, it just seems that way."

romeman01 Lol!

The Mouse song was a genuine hit, selling a million copies.

He died in 1971 from cancer.

No worries and no problem.

One reason why he perhaps didn't live up to Sinatra's praise is that Sinatra definitely kept an ear out for what Jones was doing. Jack Jones recorded "Strangers in the Night" a month before Sinatra did. Sinatra heard it and rushed out his own version to beat Jones' ability to release the song as a single. Supposedly Sinatra hated the song but knew a hit. It became Sinatra's first #1 hit in many years and his album "Strangers in the Night" was the most commercially successful he had ever recorded. If Jones had had the hit with "Strangers in the Night," he might have had a much more successful career.

@@preppysocks209 Perhaps another reason that Jack Jones didn't gain so much fame compared to Sinatra was his easy, good boy-next-door image. Personally, I loved Jack's singing, although it was always Sinatra's that grabbed my gut!

Well, at least he got a standing ovation from the panel during his exit 😂

Both Dorothy and Arlene are lovely, but when I remember that Dorothy was born the same year as my Grandmother and Arlene 6 years earlier, cougars and yeoww are the last thing on my mind.

Not me. I've learned, among other vitally important facts, that Anthony Perkins lost his address book out of a helio-copter in Europe.

What's My Line? Somewhere over the Greek Islands! Invaluable information. :)

Harrison Ford is still searching for that address book as we speak.

Kept trying to get it right.

Unhappy fellow

Not a tremendous amount of wives considering he is over 85 years old.

Actually Tony Hatch had originally intended the song as a soul ballad for The Drifters. The song was inspired by Hatch's first trip to NYC and his immersion in the bright lights and nightlife of young adults. (He thought he was in the downtown section of Manhattan when he was actually in Midtown near Times Square, but downtown was probably better for the lyrics, anyway.) On his return to Europe, Hatch and Clark, who had been working together on and off for a few years, met to preview music that NYC music publishers were offering to Miss Clark to use during an upcoming recording session. She was lukewarm towards the material and asked Hatch if he was working on something. "Downtown" was still in its early stages as far as the lyrics were concerned but he played it for her and she was enthusiastic about recording it. Hatch has stated that the final product was a concerted effort on his part to give the song enough of a beat to appeal to young listeners while not turning off her loyal fans from over the years (her first chart hit was 15 years earlier). He was still tinkering with the lyrics in the washroom 30 minutes before Petula recorded it in October 1964. He also said that he had to arrange the song so a full orchestra sounded like a rock band. So the song is not "crosstown" but it is a crossover fusion of rock, pop and R&B. And it certainly appealed to a variety of audiences. Because it didn't fit one particular genre, UK record execs sat on the record for a few weeks. It was the Warner Brothers head of A&R (artists and repertoire) in the U.S. who was looking for British music (the British invasion was still in full swing) that jumped on the song. Joe Smith was spot on. The song reached #2 on the British charts (beaten out by The Beatles "I Feel Fine") and it was the first #1 hit of 1965 in the States. It was also the first #1 song in the U.S. by a British female in the rock and roll era. (And only the second ever.) The Drifters didn't record it, but R&B vocalist Stacy Ladislaw did (a disco version in 1979). What genre is the song? Listeners ultimately didn't care. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kN5gabt_y6ram2Q.html

For the time, I could see where he might think that.

But I suppose you can say exactly what is or isn’t trap, grime, reggaeton or anything else?

See my reply to Purple Capricorn above....

He lost a lot of weight a while ago for his seemingly demanding role as Moriarty. Rather too quickly.

He was a method actor getting ready for a role

@@davidsanderson5918 probably. A lot of loose skin in the neck area.

I think he looks better thinner.

Have you tried ancestry dot com? When I retired a few years ago, I got a good deal for a six month trial and found a wealth of information about my ancestors. It's too expensive for me without that deal, so I canceled after the six months. Might be worth a try, though.

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+Joe Postove At first I thought she had resurrected Dorothy's old mask that tied in the back. But it turned out she simply had a new bow, while sitting next to her old beau.

Just my general opinion, but with every passing national tragedy of the 1960's, the old school of ring-a-ding-ding rat pack Sinatra-type behavior seemed to take a sock in the gut.

@@shuroom57 nice point

When you were born, obviously.

@@RonGerstein is that genuinely all you can do? Insult people?

@peternagy-im4be You CRITISIZED the program so-called decline in behavior and standards. My reaction is that it must have started when you were "born." If you do not like my answer, then you should not have made your stupid comment in the first place, Mr. Brainless.

K E N T U C K Y D E R B Y

Jack Jones was absolutely gorgeous when young..Guess what.? He still is in 2019.

+Joe Postove At first I thought she was backing off because her shoulder was still too vulnerable to receive a hug. Then they said there was a fire. Not something usually seen on WML.

Because he already thought it was him and that was his way of checking.

+Joe Postove You can expect a knock on your door any day now from a process server sent from my lawyers in Tel Aviv: Rabinowitz, Rabinowitz and Rabinowitz. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hJqVgper2qu5nJ8.html (A lot of interesting actors in this clip from "All in the Family", including what appears to be a cameo by Richard Dawson.)

He sang the LOVE BOAT THEME, brainless

No loss...for sure...I would have liked to tell him what he could DO with his kisses

You ask a woman if she is married SOLELY to determine if you should call her MISS or MRS.

Shut up

+Janet Williams He lost a lot of weight, by design as far as I know, yet he looks horrible. Instead of it making him look slim and trim, he looks gaunt and sickly.

+Jeff Vaughn If you do a Google Image search on "Moriarty Paget" you'll see how Professor Moriarty was depicted by Sidney Paget, the original illustrator of the Holmes stories. Martin's gaunt look and long-in-back hairdo are clearly modeled on Paget's drawings. I agree it's not a very flattering look for him in private life, but I'm sure it was effective on stage.

Is a ‘biggot’ a bigger bigot? But being conservative about a music genre is NOT bigotry and it’s offensive of you to misuse the word. Bigotry is discrimination or prejudice against people because of their fundamental characteristics.

@@icturner23 I think you are right about that ,I missed used the word , they were great people and the world needs more people of their quality , I stand corrected .

Bennett Cerf was not just a drag...but a drag queen

He knew a lot of celebrities!!!

Biggest publisher in town....

He lasted until 1976.

How do idiots like you live in the USA without being put in prison.

I know. Dorothy does that too

Looks horrible didn't hair and makeup help her with it.

So what? Everyone has bad hair days or tries new styles that don’t work.

Small things amuse small minds...