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Gleason was born Herbert Walton Gleason Jr. on February 26, 1916, at 364 Chauncey Street in the Stuyvesant Heights (now Bedford–Stuyvesant) section of Brooklyn. [5] He was later baptized as John Herbert Gleason [6] and grew up at 328 Chauncey Street, Apartment 1A (an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners). [7]
Music for Lovers Only (or Jackie Gleason Presents Music for Lovers Only) is a studio album of easy-listening music by Jackie Gleason, wherein he conducted an orchestra performing standards. It was released by Capitol Records on October 27, 1952, [ 1 ] as a 10-inch LP with eight songs.
Gleason is a 2002 television film directed by Howard Deutch and starring Brad Garrett as Jackie Gleason. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The film premiered on CBS on October 13, 2002. Plot
His profile increased after he was hired by Jackie Gleason as a cornet soloist for seven of Gleason's mood music albums. [3] Beginning in 1952, he appeared on Gleason's first Capitol Records album, Music for Lovers Only. The record — as well as all of Gleason's next 10 albums — went gold. He appeared on six more of Gleason's albums.
The Jackie Gleason Show ("Melancholy Serenade") – Jackie Gleason; Jackpot, 1974–75 version ("Jet Set") – Mike Vickers (later used for This Week in Baseball) JAG – Bruce Broughton; Jake and the Fatman – Dick DeBenedictis; Jake and the Never Land Pirates – Captain Bogg and Salty; James at 15 ("James") – Lee Montgomery
Navy Blues is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon and written by Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Arthur T. Horman and Sam Perrin.The film stars Ann Sheridan, Jack Oakie, Martha Raye, Jack Haley, Herbert Anderson, Jack Carson, Jackie Gleason (in his screen debut) and William T. Orr.
Papa's Delicate Condition is a 1963 American comedy film starring Jackie Gleason and Glynis Johns. It was an adaptation of the Corinne Griffith memoir of the same name, about her father and growing up in Texarkana, Texas. [1] Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics) won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Call Me Irresponsible".
Gleason conducted the orchestra. [1] [2] Music to Remember Her debuted on the Billboard magazine pop album chart on March 5, 1955, peaked at No. 5, and remained on the chart for 16 weeks. [3] AllMusic gave the album a rating of four-and-a-half stars. Reviewer Lindsay Planer found some of the tracks to be "actually quite sensitive." [2]