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Obit: Fred Travalena

I don't really mean to sound negative, but with the condition of our country, especially the sad state of the entertainment business, maybe these folks that are checking out couldn't have picked a better time.

It sucks, but it's true.

Better luck to all of us...
 
I have a David Frye LP that still cracks me up especially his LBJ and Bill Buckley.
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I used to have that too! So much incredible stuff...The bit with Nixon trying pot was classic, as was the one with Nixon and Agnew ("Dick...Tell me about the rabbits.") The most amazing thing I ever saw Travalena do was when he was doing Nixon on one of the Watergate tapes and ,to simulate the famous 18 minute gap, was able to make a long beep while he was still moving his mouth in normal speech patterns.
 
David Frye seemed to mostly disappear after his most outstanding album, the Watergate one, which I think came out in '73. He did actually attempt a CD comeback during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in the late 90s. IIRC, the CD was called "Bill Clinton, An Oral History." I did hear a few of the cuts on the internet. The best one featured Clinton meeting the ghost of Nixon in the White House and the 2 of them having this conversation with each other where they're both lying and they know each other is lying, yet keep doing so, calling each out on their lies. Very funny and a clever way of inserting Frye's best impression, Nixon, into a contemporary situtation(for that time period).
 
cee said:
David Frye seemed to mostly disappear after his most outstanding album, the Watergate one, which I think came out in '73. He did actually attempt a CD comeback during the height of the Lewinsky scandal in the late 90s. IIRC, the CD was called "Bill Clinton, An Oral History." I did hear a few of the cuts on the internet. The best one featured Clinton meeting the ghost of Nixon in the White House and the 2 of them having this conversation with each other where they're both lying and they know each other is lying, yet keep doing so, calling each out on their lies. Very funny and a clever way of inserting Frye's best impression, Nixon, into a contemporary situtation(for that time period).
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Frye was a talented man, but his career ended so quickly. I guess too many people associated him with Nixon and once "Tricky Dick" was out, that was the end.
 
Fred also did the short lived young children's game show "Baby Races", from September 1993 to August 1994 on the Family Channel.

-crainbebo
 
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