Steve's Appearance on The Joe Franklln Show

Here's my first national television appearance -- the Joe Franklin Show. If you're not from the East Coast, you may not be familiar with it, but it was a broadcast mainstay for over 40 years (continuously!). Here's just a little information from Joe's own site:

"The Joe Franklin Show ran on Television for 40 consecutive years! He's even in The Guinness Book of World Records! There isn't now and never will be another show quite like it. Its host Joe Franklin was, in many ways, the pioneer of the modern TV Talk Show Format.

Joe Franklin is one of Television and Radio's most durable and beloved personalities ever. In addition, he is considered one of the world's leading authorities on "Nostalgia." Through the course of The Joe Franklin Show Joe interviewed an astonishing 300,000+ guests!

For a time, Joe employed Bette Midler and her accompanist Barry Manilow as his in-house singer. Woody Allen, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Bill Cosby, and Liza Minnelli are among the world's great talents who got their first exposure on The Joe Franklin Show.

There was also a great uniqueness about the program. On any given night you might find a world renown artist sitting next to a balloon folder from New Jersey! Joe's Franklin's lovable and funny persona even prompted comedian Billy Crystal to imitate him on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" for four years."

From Wikipedia: "Franklin would delight his audience with trivia about the most obscure entertainers from past generations and equally unknown up-and-comers from the present. He interviewed over 10,000 guests during his 43-year TV run. His guests ranged from well-known novelty performers like Tiny Tim and Morris Katz to popular entertainers like Bill Cosby to legends like Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, John Wayne, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, John Lennon, but also frequently included (sometimes on the same panel) utterly unknown local New York punk bands, self-published authors, "tribute" impersonator lounge singers, and the like, giving the show a surreal atmosphere that was part of its appeal to the followers of its cult.

Franklin often boasted of his "discoveries," pointing out that a great many of today's well known talents such as Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand and Julia Roberts in fact got their first television exposure on The Joe Franklin Show. Others, notoriously shy of live interviews, made frequent appearances on Franklin's programs: Frank Sinatra, for instance, appeared four times. "

So I guess you could say I was in good company!

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[stormygal121]

I love this! This means more to me than words can say....You are a brilliant talent....miss Joe Franklin. The was no one like him!