every Labor Day I would spend the night at my Gran's house and we would stay up late into the night and watch Jerry. great memories thanks for posting this clip
i think part of the reason i love jazz so much today, is all those years watching the great entertainment on the jerry lewis labor day telethon. it was definitely my introduction to jazz (well, that and tommy banks).
Younger people today can't understand what big events these MDA telethons were in their heyday. If you were a kid, it was an excuse to stay up into the wee hours, maybe go to the TV station and be seen on the air, and the performers that participated were among the biggest names in American show business. Like the Carson "Tonight show", they represented something of a gold standard for American show business, a standard that is lost and seemingly irretrievable.
The real pros on display who for aside from paid live performances (which seldom happened in Canada back in the day) gave it their all for this telethon in the 70s. Jerry Lewis' understood and now known sociopathy much later on to us all in hindsight. This telethon was a genuine 'must-watch' showcase of the current state of popular music throughout the 1970s.
Always watched this telethon When I got older I manned the phones in NY loved to watch the final hour with Jerry and Sammy Davis and watch that tote rise by 6-10 million in just 1houe
I know what you mean Zibby. I looked forward every year as a kid, as a teenager and into my adulthood just waiting for Labor Day weekend to roll around for the telethon. These were my first experiences in staying up late as a kid to , my parents allowed me to do this every year, for this occasion., just to see how long i can make it until i conk out. I think I made it until like maybe 3 in the morning every year. LOL. But I guess all good things must come to an end, as did the telethon, and Jerry's many, many years as host. Labor Day weekend just isn't the same anymore. Just a side note: Jerry talking about dreaded awful disease that effects so many kids, and there he is, smoking away and you can see the smoke coming up from the cigarette. LOL.
Love your comment about the smoking! That never donned on me. Too funny. Unfortunately, my fun with the telethon was cut short many years ago when my local station, Q13 in Seattle, decided to air a very condensed 7 hour version of the telethon on Monday only. Station greed. They just could not bring themselves to give up the overnight revenue from commercials and those incessant "Paid Programming" spots, a.k.a. infomercials for one weekend a year. Shame on them. Numerous stations across the country were doing that.
That is a shame about alot of the stations doing that, condensing the telethon in favor of "Paid Programming". But where I lived, growing up, in Dallas, KXAS, channel 5, the NBC affiliate showed the entire 20 some odd hours of the telethon.
I do not remember which telethon it was, but there was one where Jerry mentioned to the audience to see he had no ashtray or smokes on the podium. I think it was the first telethon after his heart issue. And, yes, he got a round of applaud. But I do see in your comment the irony. Here is Lewis asking to fight MD and he's puffing away on a smoke.
zibbyzubb -- you and me both I loved to stay up watching it and the next day at every corner almost the fire department out with their boots And the entertainment was awesome, don’t see that entertainment anymore
This telethon was an institution of t.v. my whole life (I was 3 years old when this was filmed). Somebody really needs to do a documentary about this phenomenon so that young people can see what it was - cuz there'll never be anything like it again. I never dreamed it would end so unceremoniously, with Jerry quietly being kicked off, and then just - no more. As far as I know, there was no tribute, no commemoration, no nothing for all those years. Thru the years, as Jerry got older, we all wondered how/when it would end. Not this way, I can assure you.
I remember the 1985 and 1986 Telethon in Puerto Rico that McDonald's is the sponsor of the toteboard with the Golden Arches logo in the middle of the toteboard. The toteboard used on that year is like used on city buses as destination sign. A Vultron Trans Dot sign used with double line configuration like the Grumman Flxible 870 demo sign
My mom mom and pop pop got upset bc the cerebral palsy telethon DID March the kids around like a side show. They would sing a song called look at us we're walking. My Pop Pop could not STAND it. I'm too young to remember that. But there was a gal in the 80s they'd roll or crutch out every year to sing the sun will come out tomorrow
The skinny old man? He was always in lots of commercials and in the Ernest movies from the 80s 90s. He partnered with gailard sartain as a couple of scientists with harebrained inventions. In the movies they played his neighbors
Wow,the very beginning....that was definitely a shot at the UCP telethon(that was hosted by Dennis James). As a former "marcher" myself,I recognize it for what it is....A SHOT,LOL!! Jerry may,very well, have a point....there came a time when I found that i disliked being marched across the stage like cattle going to herd....but considering the era,I suppose it served it's purpose.
Thumbs up if you're watching this today, Labor Day 2018, Monday, September 3rd, 2018. (Thumbs up). Really miss this tradition. So sad how it just fizzled away. Sad for those patients and their families who might have benefited from this.
0:00 "Find the cause and cure of this vicious killer". Good news Jerry, we found the cause: Smoking and the cure: Quitting 4:54 Call Me composed by Tony Hatch and a 1965 hit for Petulia Clark and Chris Montez.
No matter what people say about Jerry Lewis. The compassion of Jerry for MD speaks volumes.
every Labor Day I would spend the night at my Gran's house and we would stay up late into the night and watch Jerry. great memories thanks for posting this clip
The saying went..."Stay up with Jerry and watch the stars come out" !
I miss these times. Labor Day weekend is not the same anymore.
i think part of the reason i love jazz so much today, is all those years watching the great entertainment on the jerry lewis labor day telethon. it was definitely my introduction to jazz (well, that and tommy banks).
Younger people today can't understand what big events these MDA telethons were in their heyday. If you were a kid, it was an excuse to stay up into the wee hours, maybe go to the TV station and be seen on the air, and the performers that participated were among the biggest names in American show business. Like the Carson "Tonight show", they represented something of a gold standard for American show business, a standard that is lost and seemingly irretrievable.
Many thanks for the wonderful memories from a time when America was **A Class Act**.
NOW it feels like Labor Day weekend!!
The real pros on display who for aside from paid live performances (which seldom happened in Canada back in the day) gave it their all for this telethon in the 70s. Jerry Lewis' understood and now known sociopathy much later on to us all in hindsight. This telethon was a genuine 'must-watch' showcase of the current state of popular music throughout the 1970s.
Always watched this telethon
When I got older I manned the phones in NY loved to watch the final hour with Jerry and Sammy Davis and watch that tote rise by 6-10 million in just 1houe
Miss Jerry Lewis & his annual telethon.
I miss the days of staying up and watching the stars come out on Labor Day weekend.
I know what you mean Zibby. I looked forward every year as a kid, as a teenager and into my adulthood just waiting for Labor Day weekend to roll around for the telethon. These were my first experiences in staying up late as a kid to , my parents allowed me to do this every year, for this occasion., just to see how long i can make it until i conk out. I think I made it until like maybe 3 in the morning every year. LOL. But I guess all good things must come to an end, as did the telethon, and Jerry's many, many years as host. Labor Day weekend just isn't the same anymore. Just a side note: Jerry talking about dreaded awful disease that effects so many kids, and there he is, smoking away and you can see the smoke coming up from the cigarette. LOL.
Love your comment about the smoking! That never donned on me. Too funny. Unfortunately, my fun with the telethon was cut short many years ago when my local station, Q13 in Seattle, decided to air a very condensed 7 hour version of the telethon on Monday only. Station greed. They just could not bring themselves to give up the overnight revenue from commercials and those incessant "Paid Programming" spots, a.k.a. infomercials for one weekend a year. Shame on them. Numerous stations across the country were doing that.
That is a shame about alot of the stations doing that, condensing the telethon in favor of "Paid Programming". But where I lived, growing up, in Dallas, KXAS, channel 5, the NBC affiliate showed the entire 20 some odd hours of the telethon.
I do not remember which telethon it was, but there was one where Jerry mentioned to the audience to see he had no ashtray or smokes on the podium. I think it was the first telethon after his heart issue. And, yes, he got a round of applaud. But I do see in your comment the irony. Here is Lewis asking to fight MD and he's puffing away on a smoke.
zibbyzubb -- you and me both I loved to stay up watching it and the next day at every corner almost the fire department out with their boots
And the entertainment was awesome, don’t see that entertainment anymore
wow Dion , timeless . wonderful
This telethon was an institution of t.v. my whole life (I was 3 years old when this was filmed). Somebody really needs to do a documentary about this phenomenon so that young people can see what it was - cuz there'll never be anything like it again. I never dreamed it would end so unceremoniously, with Jerry quietly being kicked off, and then just - no more. As far as I know, there was no tribute, no commemoration, no nothing for all those years. Thru the years, as Jerry got older, we all wondered how/when it would end. Not this way, I can assure you.
En Chile, la Teletón lleva 45 años de manera continua
Jerry was the dystrophy cure he healed all whom didn't have the strength to pull out a hundred dollar bill from wallet or purse ..
Happy Labor Day, 2022!
Thank you for posting this. It's great!
Vicki Carr sure had golden pipes. 👏🎶
She still does. A timeless talent!!
If I remember correctly, The Spinners are going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year!
British child-star Lena Zavaroni from 36 minutes to 42 minutes, looking happy and singing great. Sadly her story did not end well.
What happened?
@@HC-cb4yp she developed anorexia and depression as she got into her teens and died while only in her mid-thirties
Jerry lewis the father of the telethon
I remember the 1985 and 1986 Telethon in Puerto Rico that McDonald's is the sponsor of the toteboard with the Golden Arches logo in the middle of the toteboard. The toteboard used on that year is like used on city buses as destination sign. A Vultron Trans Dot sign used with double line configuration like the Grumman Flxible 870 demo sign
My mom mom and pop pop got upset bc the cerebral palsy telethon DID March the kids around like a side show. They would sing a song called look at us we're walking. My Pop Pop could not STAND it. I'm too young to remember that. But there was a gal in the 80s they'd roll or crutch out every year to sing the sun will come out tomorrow
look at the cigarette burning behind the kid standing with jerry at the beginning.
That guy in The Happy Jesters makes Jerry look like Noel Coward.
The skinny old man? He was always in lots of commercials and in the Ernest movies from the 80s 90s. He partnered with gailard sartain as a couple of scientists with harebrained inventions. In the movies they played his neighbors
Wow,the very beginning....that was definitely a shot at the UCP telethon(that was hosted by Dennis James). As a former "marcher" myself,I recognize it for what it is....A SHOT,LOL!! Jerry may,very well, have a point....there came a time when I found that i disliked being marched across the stage like cattle going to herd....but considering the era,I suppose it served it's purpose.
Look at us we're walking .... My pop pop hated that to see that song and the march
Jerry the father of the theleton
Poor Lena Zavaroni died in 1999 at 35 from Anorexia.
Steve Burstein oh no that child was a miracle
Wow the McDonald's sponsor of the Telethon, including in the map, Canada, USA, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
I do too
The Happy Jesters remind me of an act from the Gong Show.
Thumbs up if you're watching this today, Labor Day 2018, Monday, September 3rd, 2018. (Thumbs up). Really miss this tradition. So sad how it just fizzled away. Sad for those patients and their families who might have benefited from this.
Jerry Lewis, smoking a Gauloises and celebrating the value of female firefighters -- 19:57 -- "I wanna see 'em slide down that pole!"
Nice guitar Dion is playing....anybody know what it is?
Would have been nice to get about an hour of Dion.
Any more who does this have in it
Its sooo sad......Lewis was assed out and screwed over.......Wow........I miss the ole days....
May have been a racket, but we were better for it.💛
Wonderful Lena Zarvoni RIP
they are both gone jerry and lena RIP they are in heven
Omg yeah! I saw clips of her places
When am I going to take over MDA... ??????????????????? and make this happen......
"Charro"..........
He asks people to help the sick while poisining his own body.
So did doctors and nurses back then.
@@givethechanceakid the same ones that told him to stop smoking.
He can't sing.
0:00 "Find the cause and cure of this vicious killer". Good news Jerry, we found the cause: Smoking and the cure: Quitting 4:54 Call Me composed by Tony Hatch and a 1965 hit for Petulia Clark and Chris Montez.