Good Night Jimmy Durante 1955

Jimmy Durante closing his show in 1955

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[maryfran814]

My grandmother told us she was Mrs. Calabash. We believed it for so many years! What a beautiful memory!

[bloggerccc]

I was a teen when Jimmy had his heyday in TV. He was a "triple-threat" showman, acting, singing and playing the piano. He had a rough voice, but he carried a tune very well. When he sang, you quickly shifted your attention from the sound of his voice (not so great) to the delivery of the lyrics (very good, indeed). At my age (nearing 70), I have a wealth of experience with talent for which kids today will have to patiently wait. Sorry, kids.

[RockManLP]

We love you Jimmy! Hope to meet you down the road

[1276epr]

I look at this clip again and again and like other older viewers who lived through this era, I wonder how we lost such entertainment in favor of the sex-filled raunch that dominates today. Sure, I know there were people hurting due to racism and sexism years ago. But we did not hear about putting a cop in every school. One bad set of values has simply been replaced by a different bad set of values.

[TheJManVice]

Just how mr rodgers ends his show

[Don Diego Vega]

There an album from back then that has just a piano and a drummer. Jimmy sings his best stuff with that. He was so unique that you were entertained with that simple instrumentation for the whole LP.

[sammipink1]

i just wish our world was like those long long days ago

[Highlinerlocal66]

I was 10 yIears old when we watched, and I mean the whole family, on a Blond metal Cabinet MUNTZ TV with rabbit ears and only 3 channels in Houston Texas. Don't tell me they wasn't the good old days. When I came back to the world in 1967 I was crazy and, and they should have locked me up and they almost did. I had been outside the US for 3 years and didn't have a clue to what had happened to me.

[TheCrystalanimation]

i came here because of les claypool:p