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Post by gato on Jan 10, 2020 7:35:46 GMT -5
If you remember Edd Byrnes, who just died at 87, then you are one of the elder statesmen aboard the good ship Moe's. I was eleven when "77 Sunset Strip" was the big thing on television. Byrnes was "Kookie", the hair combing, wise cracking parking attendant, who coddled the classic cars motoring into the nightclub at the fictional address. Effrem Zimbalist, Jr and Roger Smith were private detectives on the show along with Byrnes, whose minor role's contract locked him in for years and forever associated him with the hair combing role. Was he "the ginchiest"? If nothing else, he was the launchpad for The Fonz decades later. www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2020/01/09/edd-byrnes-77-sunset-strip-and-grease-fame-dies-87/4426657002/ |
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matryx81
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Post by matryx81 on Jan 10, 2020 8:42:34 GMT -5
I might have to dig up the Married...With Children episode where he is referenced (by Anthrax).
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Post by Laker on Jan 10, 2020 9:05:23 GMT -5
I remember the recording that put him On Bandstand...”Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb”
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Bopper
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Post by Bopper on Jan 10, 2020 10:44:54 GMT -5
You'll meet the high brow and the hipster
The starlet and the phony tipster
You'll find most every kind of gal and guy
Including a private eye.
Kookie was hip.
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Ragpicker
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Post by Ragpicker on Jan 10, 2020 10:47:16 GMT -5
Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.
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professor
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Post by professor on Jan 10, 2020 10:49:22 GMT -5
Interesting career, peaked young, then cobbled bits and pieces here and there from then on.
From wikipedia- "Owing to restrictions in his Warner Brothers television contract, Byrnes was forced to turn down film roles in Ocean's Eleven (1960), Rio Bravo (1959), North to Alaska (1960), and The Longest Day (1962). He tested for the role of John F. Kennedy in PT 109, but President Kennedy preferred Cliff Robertson........... ........Although Byrnes was a popular celebrity, the years of unfortunate "Kookie" typecasting led him to ultimately buy out his television contract with Warner Brothers to clear his way for films—though it was accomplished too late to allow Byrnes to capitalize on feature-length-cinema projects based upon his established television-series fame." |
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Post by tahitijack on Jan 10, 2020 11:05:37 GMT -5
I wondered how his character on the show could afford a swank apartment with a fancy stereo system on tips from parking cars at Dino's. He was among the first cool dudes. I saw him at Wallachs Music City when he did a personal appearance to sign autographs and promote his record. They passed out small combs.
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Post by 6l6 on Jan 10, 2020 11:21:18 GMT -5
Cool dude and great show!
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Post by Joe Potts on Jan 10, 2020 15:19:44 GMT -5
I was a bit young to watch the show, but I remember the hoopla about it, and the “Kookie” song.
RIP Edd.
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Post by Taildragger on Jan 15, 2020 19:56:35 GMT -5
Norm Grabowski was the guy who actually built "Kookie's" car:
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