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The show's cast in 1955 as it premiered on CBS: Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney and Joyce Randolph The Honeymooners is an American television sitcom that originally aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of Gleason's variety show.
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.
Jackie Gleason - "You're My Greatest Love" (Theme from The Honeymooners), "Melancholy Serenade" (Theme from The Jackie Gleason Show) Andrew Gold - "Thank You for Being a Friend" (Theme from The Golden Girls), "Final Frontier" (Theme from Mad About You)
Lover's Rhapsody, also known as Songs from Lover's Rhapsody, is a studio album by television personality, Jackie Gleason. It was released in 1953 on Capitol Records (catalog no. H-366). The musicians included Bobby Hackett on trumpet. [1] [2] Lover's Rhapsody reached No. 2 on Billboard magazine's pop album chart in August and September 1953. [3 ...
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.
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.
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]