"Sunny" - Eileen Barton on "The Woody Woodbury Show" (1967-68)

[zapkvr]

What's up with that big mole on her face. Yikes.

[jazzbo13]

Fernwood 2 Nite lives. This makes the Lawrence Welk show look like Soul train!

[jojabe]

I think Eileen did a little smokin' between 1950 and 1967...

[DA90027]

She started off great then went into Schmaltz...and didn't she almost forget one of the lyrics?

[gfks11]

My song NRRRRRRRR!!!!

[Capnsmirky]

David Spade has signed on to play him in the biopic.

[DrewArriola]

wow Eileen looks great! cool and sexy and at 43 years old! good for her.

thanks for posting! A+++++

[haweye79]

The first time I ever saw Gladys knight perform it was on the Woody Woodbury show back in 1967 it was an afternoon NBC show and it was in competition with CBS Mike Douglas show out of philly...I wish you could post that Gladys knight appearance...Nice post

[altfactor]

@haweye79 Woodbury's show was syndicated, although it may have been on the NBC station in your area.

BTW, Eileen Barton also co-hosted the cult-classic 1960-62 game show "Video Village", along with a young Monty Hall.

[baysvoice]

Great video! I have just put up a Woody Woodbury fan page on Facebook, but it looks like YouTube won't let me post the link here. If interested, go to Facebook and look for "The Woody Woodbury Fan Page." Thanks!

[lowlights]

@baysvoice - I am on FB and looked for your Woody Woodbury fan page, but it is not showing up. Please post a link, if you can, unless it is very new and simply not showing up yet. I will gladly reup the video there or place it as a link in a comment field.

[grenadian11]

Beautiful version!

[jpendur]

I have been looking for some footage of Donna Jean Young for a long time but could not recall her name until just now!!!

[zapkvr]

I remember her from Laugh in. I was madly in love with her when I was 11 years old. I used to watch her on The game game in the late sixties too. What the hell ever happened to "Woody Woodbury" (if that is his real name)????

[lowlights]

ZAP - I believe you are thinking of Joanne Worley, who used to appear on Laugh-In; Eileen Barton does resemble her here. This is not Eileen at her best - it is late in her career at this point. But it is historical footage, so we're sharing it.

[zapkvr]

Uh no I am not. Jo Ann Worley was on Laugh in, I'm well aware of that. Donna Jean Young was on it as well. She was also on The game game. Also, Donna Jean Young is not singing (she never did) she is one of the guests on Woody's show.

[lowlights]

I apologize, you were referencing Donna, not Eileen. Since Eileen looks a bit like Ms. Worley here, I assumed. My mistake.

[zapkvr]

Now I feel like a complete idiot. Of course it was too easy for you to interpeet my remarks in the way you did. I was never a big fan of Jo Ann. Her mouth was too big for her face.

[TimL2005]

This show was aired on WKBF-TV 61 in Cleveland from its sign on January 19, 1968Stations like 61, early WUAB Channel 43 Cleveland and WJAN-17 in Canton, Ohio would take shows that the major Cleveland stations didnt have room for or didnt want..Shows like Ed Nelson on Channel 17 and Gypsy Rose Lee on 61 were also aired in Cleveland but on UHF Channels..

[DCMemories]

The gentleman on the far right of the couch is the late Robert Ridgely who served as the regular announcer and sidekick on "The Woody Woodbury Show".

In other words, Bob Ridgely was Woody's "Ed McMahon".

[fromthesidelines]

Woody indeed had a daily syndicated talk/variety show (which aired on New York's WNEW-TV in mid-afternoon) during the 1967-'68 season; he was best known for a series of "naughty" comedy albums he recorded earlier in the decade, and as Johnny Carson's replacement on "WHO DO YOU TRUST?" (after he took over "THE TONIGHT SHOW") in 1962-'63. Eileen Barton's biggest hit, as Woody mentioned, was "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake", way back in 1950- she was "still around" during the '60s.

[ClassicShowbiz]

WOW! The Woody Woodbury Show has long been considered to not exist at all in any form. Woody himself has been trying to find any existing footage for years and has always come up short. He will be very, very pleased to see this. Thanks!

[jett87rink]

According to imdb, the other young lady on the couch is Donna Jean Young, who did comedy bits on variety shows of the late '60s and early '70s. The other gentleman on the couch remains unidentified, though.