Some thoughts on the late Richard Dawson, and on first impressions.

[rose_cat]

Richard Dawson passed away on Saturday (as I’m sure many of you know). I read his obituary in the Los Angeles Times this morning. (Damn, esophageal cancer is a lousy way to go.)

Comments

[iblis_kukl]

You can already see how my own thoughts run with the dude, though I remember during his Match Game days when Fannie Flagg went seriously mackin' on a male contestant; ditto for Roz "Pinky Tuscadero" Kelly, who did the lip-lock with some dude and said afterward he was "better than Henry (Winkler)". To which my mom immediately responded "oh yeah, I don't think so...."

The one thing Gene Rayburn seemed to be uptight about, for some reason I was never clear on, was people eating on camera during the show.

Anyway, here's a little something I didn't know about the Dawson till an hour or so ago...he, like many television actors out there, had a mercifully brief singing career:

eliazar

[rose_cat]

Holy...I'm not sure what's creepiest: his singing voice (ew), the song itself, or the new context.

And, now having learned that it's an anti-war song, I'm hearing it in the voice of Pete Seeger. (Not so far-fetched, actually.)

Hmm, what if Pink Floyd had done this one as well?

Oh, well, I guess it could have been worse.

[i_want_2]

I was never bothered by him kissing the women, I just wanted to know why he did it on the lips and never the guys.

[rose_cat]

Yeah, the lips thing seriously bothered me, actually.

As far as why "never the guys"...if that had even been possible on network television back then, we would have been living in a very different world. It wasn't something I ever thought to ask :(