The Hudson Brothers a-Razzlin’ and a-Dazzlin’ in 1974
Happy Funshine Friday, Bionic friends! Today, I’ve got a real blast from the past for you – The intro and and opening minute from an episode of The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show from 1974. Bill, Mark and Brett Hudson first series, The Hudson Brothers Show, appeared Wednesday evenings on CBS over the Summer of 1974 (July -August). The Razzle Dazzle Show followed on Saturday mornings and ran from September ’74 to August 1975.
The band’s biggest hit record was “So You Are a Star” which made it to #21 on the Billboard chart. Enjoy!
‘THE HUDSON BROTHERS RAZZLE DAZZLE SHOW’ TV INTRO (1974)
Interesting Factoids: Bill Hudson was married to Goldie Hawn from 1976 to 1980 and is the father of actors Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson.
In posts past, we took a look at choice Time Magazine covers from 1970 and 1971. Today, we’ll turn our eyes toward the year 1972. (As you might have guessed. Isn’t chronology wonderful?)
Florence Henderson, best known for portraying Carol Brady on The Brady Bunch (1969-1974,) published her autobiography last week entitled Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond.
TV Guide has posted an article, “5 Things You Didn’t Know About Mrs. Brady” trumpeting the racier tibits they could gather after a reading and the mildest would be: “Studio research on The Brady Bunch showed some viewers resented that Carol Brady had Alice, the maid, and complained that her house was too clean.”
The official Press blub for the memoir reads:
“For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.
Florence’s father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence’s twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence’s childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence’s mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned.
Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she’s faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.”
Henderson has been making the rounds of the talk shows promoting her book and you can catch her appearance of the Today show below.
The week before last we featured a trailer for John Wayne in The Shootist. Today, we feature Wayne once again in Mark Rydell’s The Cowboys from January, 1972.
I saw this one as a kid and really related to the story of a bunch of young’uns coming of age while on a dangerous cattle run. Bruce Dern was pretty damn frightening as the villain, “Long Hair,” too. Watch the trailer below.
Led Zeppelin - Live, Knebwoth, England, August, 1979
Kick over your chairs, cats & kittens and crank up the sound for three minutes of glorious Led Zeppelin! This clip finds the band performing ‘Kashmir’ at the Knebworth Festival in England in August of 1979. It isn’t the entire song but enough to get your day off to a good start. Happy musical Monday!
'You can pretend you have powers when you switch on Kenner's Star Wars Light Saber'
Let’s travel back in time to 1978 and take in this vintage Star Wars TV spot for Kenner’s inflatable “Light Saber” (note “lightsaber” as two words.) Look at those sabers wobble! Deadly stuff, kids. Be careful!
“The Star Wars Light Saber. New from Kenner. Balloons not included.”
If you’d like to check out the entire 1978 Kenner Star Wars toy line Plaid Stallions has got you covered.
Remember that neato scene in Star Wars when Luke destroyed the evil balloon?
