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Released in January, this album sold over 300,000 copies in its first month [1] and went gold by May 1968. [2] This was the tenth debut album to top the Billboard 200, [3] and stayed on the top spot from March 16 to April 13.
The Jackie Gleason Show also earned Emmy nominations for best variety series in 1953, 1954 and 1955, for Gleason as best star in 1954 and 1955, for Audrey Meadows as best supporting actress in 1954 and 1957, Art Carney for best supporting actor in 1957, June Taylor for best choreography in 1956, and best writing and best engineering effects in ...
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]
The Jackie Gleason Show aired for four seasons on CBS between September 1952 and June 1957. The program did not air during the 1955-1956 season, being replaced by two half-hour programs: a filmed version of its most popular feature, The Honeymooners, and its former summer replacement series, Stage Show.
In 1962 comedian Jackie Gleason invited Fontaine to appear on Gleason's weekly American Scene Magazine series on CBS-TV. Fontaine recalled, "Just last year [1962] the phone call came from the executive producer of Jackie's new show. He said, 'Art Carney's going into a play and Jackie needs someone else to work with.' I said, 'I don't think I'd ...
104 sketches were known to have aired between 1952 and 1957 on CBS' The Jackie Gleason Show. Known as the "Lost Episodes", most of them have been released on DVD as of 2002. Lost episode boxed sets come with 4 volumes in each boxed set. Those were released in 2002.
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.
J. J. Starbuck ("Gone Again") - music by Mike Post, lyrics by Stephen Geyer performed by Ronnie Milsap; The Jack Benny Program (end credit theme, "The J & M Stomp") – Mahlon Merrick; The Jackie Gleason Show ("Melancholy Serenade") – Jackie Gleason; Jackpot, 1974–75 version ("Jet Set") – Mike Vickers (later used for This Week in Baseball)