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Obit: Eydie Gorme, 84, worked on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" in the '50s

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Eydie Gorme, popular singer who worked solo and with husband
Steve Lawrence, has died after a brief illness. She was 84.

Best remembered, perhaps, for her 1963 hit "Blame It On The Bossa
Nova," Eydie was already a successful band singer and nightclub entertainer
when Steve Allen hired her for the "Tonight Show" (then a local New York
program) in 1953; Lawrence had joined the show a year earlier. She sang solos
and did duets and skits with Lawrence, and they stayed with Allen when the show went
national in 1954. Although not regulars on Allen's Sunday-night show, they were
Allen's summer replacement in 1958. They married in Las Vegas in 1957 and performed
there often. Strangely enough, she was not a regular on the short-lived "Steve Lawrence
Show" on CBS in 1965.

In the first "Back To The Future," when Marty McFly first enters the downtown of
Hill Valley in 1955, the cover of one of Eydie's albums is one of several in the window
of the record store.
 
Re: Obit: Eydie Gorme, 84, worked on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" in the '50s

Is is true that Steve Allen was best man and wife Jayne Meadows was maid of honor when Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme got married in 1957??
 
Re: Obit: Eydie Gorme, 84, worked on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" in the '50s

I should also mention that Eydie sang the theme song for
Lucille Ball's disaster "Life With Lucy" in 1986, but don't
blame her for the quick cancellation of that show. :)
 
Re: Obit: Eydie Gorme, 84, worked on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" in the '50s

"Life With Lucy" (for which the recently-deceased Eydie Gorme sang the theme song for) was definitely inferior to Lucille Ball's three prior sitcom series.

Even still, it was far better than most other sitcoms of the period.

In sitcoms, a sub-par "Lucy" was far better and far more entertaining than almost anyone else at their best.
 
Re: Obit: Eydie Gorme, 84, worked on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" in the '50s

Joseph_Gallant said:
"Life With Lucy" (for which the recently-deceased Eydie Gorme sang the theme song for) was definitely inferior to Lucille Ball's three prior sitcom series.

Even still, it was far better than most other sitcoms of the period.

In sitcoms, a sub-par "Lucy" was far better and far more entertaining than almost anyone else at their best.
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Respectfully, the "trouble" with Life With Lucy was that with the star, co-star (the great) Gale Gordon, and a supporting cast of a best friend (in lieu of Vivian Vance), and some children, audiences probably felt like they had seen this before (The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy/), so the ratings didn't happen as was hoped for.

When Lucy did an untypical character as a homeless bag lady in the TV movie, Stone Pillow, ratings went through the roof.

As for the great Eydie Gorme, I'll remember her & Steve for doing something untypical for them, an actual Rock and Roll song, called I Just Want to Stay Here and Love You. It was kind of strange at the time (1963) hearing them in medium-to-heavy rotation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeH-Su-_EPE
 
Re: Obit: Eydie Gorme, 84, worked on Steve Allen's "Tonight Show" in the '50s

Got a Christmas song stuck in my head now..."Those bells go jing-jing-jinglin' ring-ting-tinglin--SLEIIIIIGH RIIIDE!!! SLEEEIIIGH RIIIIDE!!!"
 
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