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Obit: Edward Nalbandian @ 78; L.A. Clothier / Local Celebrity via Live TV Ads for His Zachary All Store

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Obit: Edward Nalbandian @ 78; L.A. Clothier / Local Celebrity via Live TV Ads for His Zachary All Store

(From the L.A. Times )

Edward G. Nalbandian, the longtime owner of Zachary All Clothing on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles who became a familiar face on local television as the commercial spokesman for his men's store, has died. He was 78.

Beginning in the early 1960s, Nalbandian became something of a Southern California celebrity for commercials in which he famously emphasized that clothes at his store came in sizes "Cadet, Extra Short, Regular, Long, Extra Long and Portlies."

That's not to mention Zachary All's famous "$99 tuxedo".

(Read more at:)

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...feb28,1,5117843.story?coll=la-news-obituaries

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Re: Obit: Edward Nalbandian @ 78; L.A. Clothier / Local Celebrity via Live TV Ads for His Zachary All Store

> RIP - Eddy. Probably one of the only business owner/TV commercial people to be the subject of a Frank Zappa song (can't remember the title). Bring back leisure suits!


(From the L.A. Times )
>
> Edward G. Nalbandian, the longtime owner of Zachary All
> Clothing on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles who became a
> familiar face on local television as the commercial
> spokesman for his men's store, has died. He was 78.
>
> Beginning in the early 1960s, Nalbandian became something of
> a Southern California celebrity for commercials in which he
> famously emphasized that clothes at his store came in sizes
> "Cadet, Extra Short, Regular, Long, Extra Long and
> Portlies."
>
> That's not to mention Zachary All's famous "$99 tuxedo".
>
> (Read more at:)
>
>
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-> me-nalbandian28feb28,1,5117843.story?coll=la-news-obituaries
>
>
> (Free registration may be required.)
>
 
Re: Zappa song about "Eddie"...

> > RIP - Eddy. Probably one of the only business owner/TV
> commercial people to be the subject of a Frank Zappa song
> (can't remember the title). Bring back leisure suits!
================================================================

From www.newsfromme.com

Eddie turned up constantly on L.A. TV doing his own commercial spots and in one, which only ran eight times an hour for about five years, he said, of his store's prices on the new double-knit suits, "My friends all ask me, 'Eddie, are you kidding?' And I tell them no, my friend, I am not kidding." This line prompted rocker Frank Zappa to write and record a very funny, successful (at least in L.A.) record, "Eddie, Are You Kidding?"
<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ThatManDan on 03/02/06 08:55 PM.</FONT></P>
 
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