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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.
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.
In Living Color – Heavy D and Eddie F (seasons 1–2, 5); ("Cause That's the Way You Livin' When You're in Living Color") – Heavy D. and The Boyz (seasons 3–4) In the Heat of the Night – music by Quincy Jones, lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman, performed by Bill Champlin; The Inbetweeners ("Gone Up in Flames") – Morning Runner
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.
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 ...
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.
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".