THE GENE CARROLL SHOW

Long ago ( 1970 ) in a far away place (Cleveland, Ohio ) there was a TV Show ( The Gene Carroll Show )... It was a local amateur performance show...Almost anybody that had a heartbeat could get on it....Hmm...thats where I come in. Check it out. The opening credits explain the whole thing....Fasten Your Seatbelt!

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• pranks
• music

[mindyraee]

My name Is mindy cooperrider, my dad, tom cooperrider used to sing on this show as a guest,he was pretty young as far as i know, i was wondering if there was anyway you know i could get hold of a video of him singing, i think it would be an amazing gift for him for christmas,and i really want to find one.:)

[justseeinwhatsup]

@mindyraee From what i have been told, there are no films of The show left. I put this together by using a combination of still photos taken and audio recorded from my living room at the time of broadcast.

[kpopoola]

Wow this is soooo cool. i was a regular on the Gene Carroll Show in 67-68. He and his wife were really sweet people. i remember that occasionally they would give me a ride home in that big black Cadillac, at 13 i was impressed. How did you get the audio tape? i would like to see if they have something from the years i was there. Thanks for posting it really took me back and made me smile.

[justseeinwhatsup]

@kpopoola

A friend of mine literally sat a reel to reel tape recorder in front of the screen as it broadcast. I put it on cassette and kept it in a corner someplace...lol......My sis took pics directly from the TV also....Years later i was in a demented enough state of mind to put it together via iMovie...lol...I've heard that all tapes from the show were lost.......

[butch4622]

Jack's mom was my 7th grade English tacher she was a great lady

[justseeinwhatsup]

@butch4622

Thanks!..My mom was special.

[crazyromanian1]

A Cleveland institution back in the50-60's, also reminds me of Polka Variety with Paul Wilcox. Cleveland was fun back then!!!!

[yelmrow4]

I remember this show so well. My cousin Kathy Dee (Dearth) was on the show with Dottie West, singing as a duo called the Kay-Dots in the late 50's, early '60's. Kathy was diagnosed with sugar diabetes at age 11, managed it pretty well, but sadly died at age 35 in 1968. Dottie left Cleveland in 1961 and headed to Nashville, and became a top country singer.

[caddygrl92]

The original Cleveland version of American Idol...

[blackbedouin]

"There's no telling when, we will meet again. Sunday, Monday or always..." (Gene Carroll Show theme song.)

[rfgmxgxg]

Not all talent was bad. What ever happened to Candy Lee, and The 3 Heartbreakers

which went on to greater things?

[xindeed1]

My mother appeared on the show in the 50's (?) as 1/2 of a duo called "Gerri and Syl" - I've looked for recordings from the show for years...

[grafonolafavorite]

I want to audition. What is the address again?

Cool.

[mutualpea]

I saw these guys at Monterey (High School, in Amish country) in '68, just before they went into their Iggy Pop Lounge period. They did that "sock thing" many years before the Chili Peppers. Except these guys were singing "I'll Take Romance" and irving Berlin tunes. Pretty weird. Ggood jackets, though.