I love Johnny Olsen. He was announcing The Price Is Right when I was a child. My mom and I used to watch it together everyday. His death was the first time I had to process the concept of gone forever. I cried for hours and couldn't watch the show without him for weeks. It's cool to see him as a young-ish man.
I was 9 years old when he died and I remember the exact same feelings. He looked nowhere near 55 years old in this clip! (And indeed if you watch 1985 TPIR clips of him in he looked nowhere near 75 then.)
madamerotten Johnny must have been a great guy to hang around with. Every emcee who worked with him as their announcer has said he was a lovely gentleman. RIP John!
@@georgemaster1838 Isn't it great when someone who is so engaging as an on-air personality is just as decent (by all accounts) off screen? I remember when he died, and knew he was irreplaceable. There hasn't been someone like him since.
Johnny Olson was so greatly respected as an announcer, that once a week he travelled (for years) from NYC to Miami to perform his duties for "The Jackie Gleason Show." I can still hear (in my mind) his great introduction: "From the sun and fun capital of the world, Miami Beach, it's the Jackie Gleason Show!" I was only about 10 or 11 at the time, but absolutely loved that opening (and wished I could be in Miami Beach too!)
Johnny was so good at warming up audiences that Goodson-Todman and Jackie Gleason wouldn’t use anyone else, even though they had to pay extra to fly him around the country every week. Johnny only got the summers off and lived at his home in Connecticut. Glamorous but tough work.
Is it safe to say that the voice of Johnny Olson has been heard by more people than any other person in the world? His career spanned decades with shows that had viewerships in the millions every day.
Johnny Olson! He was the best! So nice to see him in his younger years! He was always so bubbly on the PIR and such a sincere smile! Such a talent! Love this show....TYVM!
I was also born in 1950 and appreciate very much these shows on TH-cam. I am so happy to see these old episodes of this great tv show again after all these years thanks to the person or persons responsible for these episodes
@@joeykardos7602 Amen Brother!!!! I remember when he died, and how irreplaceable he was. Loved when he appeared in the silly showcase sketches at the end along with the models.
How ironic and prophetic that Mr. Daly told Maurice Chevalier and the WML panel that he hopes that when he's 77 (years old), he wishes to have Mr. Chevalier's and in his own words, "ebullience of spirit, your perennial and wonderful youth, and that glorious confidence". That's the exact age that the beloved John Charles Daly left us to go to the big panel up in the sky and to be with the ultimate moderator. 19:28 God bless him (February 20, 1914 - February 24, 1991).
I'm really glad I've clicked on this episode once again, I've watched it once before on a different channel. Johnny O had me laughing out loud with those voices of his, absolutely hilarious, one of my top five episodes of all time.
I loved hearing Johnny on all those shows he listed. He is one of the reasons I had the career that I did in radio and TV. I hope I see him in heaven. And Mel Blanc, too.
In tribute to Johnny Olsen; On October 6, 1985, Olson suffered a stroke and was taken to St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died October 12, 1985, at age 75. Shortly afterwards, Bob Barker paid tribute to him at the end of the remaining episodes of The Price Is Right that were taped with Olson as announcer before he died: Since taping this program, we've lost our good friend, Johnny Olson. You'll continue to see and hear Johnny on the many programs he's already taped. He was dearly loved by all of us, and he'll be sorely missed. - Bob Barker RIP dear friend. 🎙🎧
I felt badly for him that Shelia McRae didn't stand for him or give him a kiss like she did Maurice Chevallier. I'm thinking that she would appear on The Jackie Gleason Show soon after as the second "Alice", a show on which Johnny was announcer.
YOU GOT TO LOVE JOHNNY OLSON. YOU NEVER HEARD ANY BAD THINGS ABOUT HIM. WHAT A GREAT CAREER HE HAD. I CAN STILL HERE HIM YELLING COME ON DOWN ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT AND CALLING OUT FROM MIAMI BEACH ON THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW.
I love watching this show. Simple, to the point, and so much fun. Sad, however, to see how far our current entertainment has fallen into the gutter compared to these erudite people.
When Bennett says the word "PLAY" notice he says it as 2 or 3 syllables. Also I love how he pronounces "moderator" in most introductions of John. He talks like a cartoon character. I love to hear him talk.
Went to a Merv Griffin game show with my elementary school class and Johnny did the warm up. Treated us kids as nice and as warmly as the rest of the audience. Thanks for the great memories of a truly nice man.
If it was a Merv Griffin game show and Johnny O. was the announcer, would it have been "Play Your Hunch", which Merv hosted in the late '50s and early '60s?
I was in the audience of The Price is Right in '81, and Mr. Olson did the warm up and announcing, also, they do an after the show segment with a prize, to keep the audience jacked up.
He went on to announce for MANY Mark Goodson/Bill Todman game shows, AFTER "What's My Line?"-including "Match Game"; "Tattletales"; "The Price Is Right"; and MANY others! :)
A few commenters here before me have alluded to one of Johnny's later (and very famous) lines... He was the guy who made the line "Come On Down! ... You're the next contestant on The Price Is Right" famous in his role as announcer on that show until his passing. His replacement, Rod Roddy had to take up where Johnny left off, and while Rod was good as an announcer, nobody seemed to have the same persona and personality that Mr. Olson blessed us with, in his work.
Spring 1965: Dorothy Kilgallen broke her collar bone when she slipped on a throw rug. The week before, she showed up with her arm in sling. The break and the complications [ drug use side effects?/ hard to tell ] kept her off about six broadcasts and taping sessions. The shape of things to come: Shiela McRae would within a year work with Johnny Olsen when she joined the Jackie Gleason Show cast
we have the same birthday and i actually saw him in the previews on Broadway in that very show and he did sing Louise - i was over the moon LOL - he was so wonderful!!
Husband and wife entertainers were the parents of the lovely, gracious, multi-talented, multi-faceted comedic actress Meredith MacRae-she played Sally Ann Morrison/Douglas-the longtime girlfriend and eventual wife of Tim Considine's character of "Mike Douglas" on "My Three Sons" (1963-1965). Additionally-she played one of the daughters on "Petticoat Junction" (1966-1970). Sadly enough-she died in 2000, at the age of 56, after a long battle with brain cancer and then a botched brain operation conducted by an egregiously incompetent "brain surgeon"! :(
John said to Chevalier that he wished when he was himself 77 that he would have the same perennial youth and glorious confidence. Sadly John Daly in fact died four days after his 77th birthday.
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Johnny Olson was an amazing guest and is familiar voice we’ve all have heard for decades.
I love Johnny Olsen. He was announcing The Price Is Right when I was a child. My mom and I used to watch it together everyday. His death was the first time I had to process the concept of gone forever. I cried for hours and couldn't watch the show without him for weeks. It's cool to see him as a young-ish man.
I was 9 years old when he died and I remember the exact same feelings.
He looked nowhere near 55 years old in this clip! (And indeed if you watch 1985 TPIR clips of him in he looked nowhere near 75 then.)
Same here, before 1969, He announced what’s my line also
The Olsen segment is one of the best in the entire history of this show.
He was also a mystery guests in the 1970s version of what's my line. I wonder if someone can post that very episode.
madamerotten Johnny must have been a great guy to hang around with. Every emcee who worked with him as their announcer has said he was a lovely gentleman. RIP John!
smiles from beginning to end!
It was a classic.
@@georgemaster1838 Isn't it great when someone who is so engaging as an on-air personality is just as decent (by all accounts) off screen? I remember when he died, and knew he was irreplaceable. There hasn't been someone like him since.
Johnny Olson was so greatly respected as an announcer, that once a week he travelled (for years) from NYC to Miami to perform his duties for "The Jackie Gleason Show." I can still hear (in my mind) his great introduction: "From the sun and fun capital of the world, Miami Beach, it's the Jackie Gleason Show!" I was only about 10 or 11 at the time, but absolutely loved that opening (and wished I could be in Miami Beach too!)
Johnny was so good at warming up audiences that Goodson-Todman and Jackie Gleason wouldn’t use anyone else, even though they had to pay extra to fly him around the country every week. Johnny only got the summers off and lived at his home in Connecticut. Glamorous but tough work.
One of the greatest game show announcers of all time and a real gentleman as well, sadly missed!!!!!
Wow who knew Johnny Olsen could do all those voices. He’s the gold standard in announcers
Johnny Gilbert and Johnny Olson. They did so many game shows between them.
Is it safe to say that the voice of Johnny Olson has been heard by more people than any other person in the world? His career spanned decades with shows that had viewerships in the millions every day.
Maybe Jeremy Clarkson since then. Or maybe Daniel Craig.
Probably a long time tv announcer in China has been heard by more people.
Rod Roddy
I had no idea that Johnny Olsen could do so many different voices. And I still miss his voice for all those program way back when!!!!!
Paul Harvey
One of the best "stumper-guests" EVER on the program.
A very talented man with a golden voice.
Indeed!
I just LOVE it when Arlene throws her head back and laughs out loud. Such pure emotion!
She was a class act and a lovely lady.
She was indeed a treasure. She made an appearance on Match Game '73 the first year it was on, too. Delightful personality!
Watch when Ed Sullivan was the mystery guest
i find Arlene so delightful
@@austinl169 she was wonderful, wherever she went
Arlene Francis sheer class and Style
Johnny Olson was funny as hell, I'd bet he was great at parties.
Johnny and Arlene were great friends and I loved that he fooled her.
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Arlene's reaction to Johnny is priceless.
I love how Johnny did such an excellent job of working the 'Price Is Right' in his concluding days
Johnny Olson! He was the best! So nice to see him in his younger years! He was always so bubbly on the PIR and such a sincere smile! Such a talent! Love this show....TYVM!
I absolutely enjoy watching these shows and give a lot of thanks to all those responsible for uploading and I was born in 1950
I was also born in 1950 and appreciate very much these shows on TH-cam. I am so happy to see these old episodes of this great tv show again after all these years thanks to the person or persons responsible for these episodes
Yes, this is one of the greatest segments of all time, the great Johnny Olsen who reveals some of his other talents
Johnny Olson was the GREATEST game show announcer, bar none!!!
@@joeykardos7602 Amen Brother!!!! I remember when he died, and how irreplaceable he was. Loved when he appeared in the silly showcase sketches at the end along with the models.
Johnny Olson would have been fabulous at parties. He could probably keep people in stitches with his impersonations.
There will never be any one else as great as Johnny Olsen !!! ALSO > Technically speaking, a telephone book does grow !
How ironic and prophetic that Mr. Daly told Maurice Chevalier and the WML panel that he hopes that when he's 77 (years old), he wishes to have Mr. Chevalier's and in his own words, "ebullience of spirit, your perennial and wonderful youth, and that glorious confidence". That's the exact age that the beloved John Charles Daly left us to go to the big panel up in the sky and to be with the ultimate moderator. 19:28 God bless him (February 20, 1914 - February 24, 1991).
They were ALL such classy people. Back in the day when television was wholesome.
Not no more!!
American Class refinement, including fashion, has gone downhill since then !!
😨🤢
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People had better grammer too! 🤭
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Grammar & punctuation have gone out the door for most Americans !! Esp, in comments on social media !!
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Love the name ❤ btw!
I'm a hopeless logophile, but I can't do algebra! 💋
Of course a huge thumbs up to this episode , I loved Johnny Olson .
Great to see Johnny Olsen after so many shows he's been part of.
Johnny Olson was just amazing! So many voices 🤣 in one man! What a marvelously talented guy, and beloved by so many!!! 🥰👏🥰👏👏
I'm really glad I've clicked on this episode once again, I've watched it once before on a different channel. Johnny O had me laughing out loud with those voices of his, absolutely hilarious, one of my top five episodes of all time.
Johnny Olson’s mother was my dad’s babysitter in the late ‘30s early ‘40s. Windom Minnesota
Johnny O: a true legend in the television world.
Johnny Olsen was just great, made my day.
The applause for Maurice Chevalier says so much about love and energy. We could all use more of both.
Such a gentleman he was! And so handsome, too!
7 months later, on November 8, 1965, my beloved Dorothy Kilgallen would depart this earth.
Wish she was born in my time.
Johnny, tell us what we’ve won! The gift of your inimitable voice. What a lovely parting gift. Beats the heck outa Turtle Wax…
I loved hearing Johnny on all those shows he listed. He is one of the reasons I had the career that I did in radio and TV. I hope I see him in heaven. And Mel Blanc, too.
“Yes, I should hope to tell you would!” Is a callback to Liz Taylor’s appearance in 1954. Johnny O was brilliant!
I noticed that too! Johnny was brilliant! What a star ! 👍👏
I never knew that Johnny O. could even _DO_ impersonations and other voices!
Another treasure.
So many great shows, my favorite game show ever.
In tribute to Johnny Olsen;
On October 6, 1985, Olson suffered a stroke and was taken to St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, California, where he died October 12, 1985, at age 75. Shortly afterwards, Bob Barker paid tribute to him at the end of the remaining episodes of The Price Is Right that were taped with Olson as announcer before he died:
Since taping this program, we've lost our good friend, Johnny Olson. You'll continue to see and hear Johnny on the many programs he's already taped. He was dearly loved by all of us, and he'll be sorely missed.
- Bob Barker
RIP dear friend. 🎙🎧
Thank you so much for posting these shows. They bring me hours and hours of pleasure. What a breath of fresh air !
John Daly 100-percent pure gentleman and I can't keep from looking at Arlene Francis I love her
Johnny Olson was so fun and funny. Thank you so much for bringing this wonderful show back.
Johnny was hilarious! Thanks so much for sharing!
Maurice was such a handsome and genteel man! 👏👏👏🥰
At 4:04 and 10:17 Johnny Olsen acknowledges the audience. That's class. Less than one in twenty guests do that.
I felt badly for him that Shelia McRae didn't stand for him or give him a kiss like she did Maurice Chevallier. I'm thinking that she would appear on The Jackie Gleason Show soon after as the second "Alice", a show on which Johnny was announcer.
One of the best ever! Thank you so much for all your work bringing this delightful show for us
YOU GOT TO LOVE JOHNNY OLSON. YOU NEVER HEARD ANY BAD THINGS ABOUT HIM. WHAT A GREAT CAREER HE HAD. I CAN STILL HERE HIM YELLING COME ON DOWN ON THE PRICE IS RIGHT AND CALLING OUT FROM MIAMI BEACH ON THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW.
Old “big mouth”, they called Johnny
Johnny O had a lot of hidden talent! He's hilarious here.
I love watching this show. Simple, to the point, and so much fun. Sad, however, to see how far our current entertainment has fallen into the gutter compared to these erudite people.
So true. They run away from people of quality.
That's because we're in an anti-intellectual age. The host and panelists on this show would now be ridiculed as "coastal elites".
Lucy and Betty made a formidable team! A great pleasure watching them. Thanks and blessings for sharing! 🙏👏❤
Johnny Olsen was so talented and funny!
I have never appreciated how Mr Daly gives hints including laughing and interpretation of answers
He's trying to help the contestants win, not the panel 😒
love what´s my line!!!!
When Bennett says the word "PLAY" notice he says it as 2 or 3 syllables. Also I love how he pronounces "moderator" in most introductions of John. He talks like a cartoon character. I love to hear him talk.
What a talented voice actor!
Went to a Merv Griffin game show with my elementary school class and Johnny did the warm up. Treated us kids as nice and as warmly as the rest of the audience. Thanks for the great memories of a truly nice man.
If it was a Merv Griffin game show and Johnny O. was the announcer, would it have been "Play Your Hunch", which Merv hosted in the late '50s and early '60s?
It's so eerie at 19:30 minutes in that John mentioned about living to age 77 as he actually died aged 77 in 1991
U don't say. Now what ?
Just 4 days after his birthday, too.
This was hilarious and very special !!!!!
What a talent he was----enjoyed this show lots--thx Match Box!
I was in the audience of The Price is Right in '81, and Mr. Olson did the warm up and announcing, also, they do an after the show segment with a prize, to keep the audience jacked up.
Tell me more. Tell me more !
I call BS, Merle. Sorry
True movie stars. Lots of respect shown.
This is one of the funniest of all What’s my Lines!!!!!!!!!!
I love John Daly's conferences, wish I could have had one!
I love this show!
He went on to announce for MANY Mark Goodson/Bill Todman game shows, AFTER "What's My Line?"-including "Match Game"; "Tattletales"; "The Price Is Right"; and MANY others! :)
Johnny Olson ranked along with the Met Opera's Milton Cross and NBC's Don Pardo as one of the finest broadcast announcers of all time.
Most definitely 🎉
My goodness was Johnny Olson hilarious.
Wow, the panel was hurting in the game-playing department without Dorothy there.
Great show, hope to see more of it from you!
Here weenies had a way of weeding out clues
Love watching these
Arlene is great with Maurice.
She knows it's entertainment.
And the very best at that.
A few commenters here before me have alluded to one of Johnny's later (and very famous) lines... He was the guy who made the line "Come On Down! ... You're the next contestant on The Price Is Right" famous in his role as announcer on that show until his passing. His replacement, Rod Roddy had to take up where Johnny left off, and while Rod was good as an announcer, nobody seemed to have the same persona and personality that Mr. Olson blessed us with, in his work.
Johnny Olson was my fav on The price is right!!!!! Come on down!!!!!
Spring 1965: Dorothy Kilgallen broke her collar bone when she slipped on a throw rug. The week before, she showed up with her arm in sling. The break and the complications [ drug use side effects?/ hard to tell ] kept her off about six broadcasts and taping sessions.
The shape of things to come: Shiela McRae would within a year work with Johnny Olsen when she joined the Jackie Gleason Show cast
They managed to kill her 7 months later. Were all of them accidents? Her murder has yet to be solved.
One of the few occasions when all of the panel stand to greet the mystery guest (Maurice Chavalier). So respectful.
Tell them what they've won, Johnny Olson!
Msr. Chevalier was a good-looking ol' guy, wasn't he ? He was really beloved in his day.
johnny was the greatest come on downnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Johnny Olson "invented" that line.
Arlene Francis was the best
" Tell them what they won Johnny". Seems like I heard that a few times over the years. LOL
Originally telecast live on April 4, 1965.
Love Maurice Chevalier, but Johnny Olson absolutely stole the show
Arlene Francis, before the show: "Oh Martin, you'll never guess who I saw in the lift earlier! Maurice Chevalier! You know what THAT means!"
always wanted someone to do multiple voices...johnny o does it well!
They're all deceased. R.I.P.
That was a great impersonation of Frank Nelson at 7:45 Hilarious
I miss the days of Johnny Olson.
I love Sheila MacCrae! ❤
She was a great Password player and some of them are on TH-cam...
With their knack of figuring out mystery guests (especially Bennett), I'm amazed that he didn't give himself away at the 5:15 mark.
we have the same birthday and i actually saw him in the previews on Broadway in that very show and he did sing Louise - i was over the moon LOL - he was so wonderful!!
The last words you want to hear on your deathbed is Johnny Olson saying "Come on dooooown!“
I just love how the panel ladies rose from their seats for Maurice Chevalier at the end to shake his hand. Pure Class.
This show is a classic
good wholesome and now historic entertainment
Husband and wife entertainers were the parents of the lovely, gracious, multi-talented, multi-faceted comedic actress Meredith MacRae-she played Sally Ann Morrison/Douglas-the longtime girlfriend and eventual wife of Tim Considine's character of "Mike Douglas" on "My Three Sons" (1963-1965). Additionally-she played one of the daughters on "Petticoat Junction" (1966-1970). Sadly enough-she died in 2000, at the age of 56, after a long battle with brain cancer and then a botched brain operation conducted by an egregiously incompetent "brain surgeon"! :(
Gordon and Sheila MacRae were Meredith's famous show business parents.
I sincerely regret not having the opportunity to have met Arlene Francis so I could just give her a tremendous hug n a kiss on her beautiful cheek
I think there should be a compilation collected together of all the mystery guests
John said to Chevalier that he wished when he was himself 77 that he would have the same perennial youth and glorious confidence. Sadly John Daly in fact died four days after his 77th birthday.
Johnny Olson born 5-22-1910 exactly 104 years ago today
Oh, how funny. I stumbled upon this today and it just so happens to be 5-22-2019.
I’m late but 110 now
@@poochillipickles8525 better late than never lol 😊
Then a few years later, Johnny would strike gold with The New Price is Right.
I think he also was announcer for the first few years of the syndicated version of "What's My Line?".
Bennet now an Admiral in the Nebraska Navy. Ok, that would narrow it down to Lake McConahay and the Platte River! Congrats Admiral!
Johnny’s segment is one of the funniest ever.
Johnny olson "Come on down!"
About Johnny Ols(e/o)n, He is in fact Olson, though on some shows, as announcer, he does refer to himself as Olsen, so congrats, you're both right
This episode contains some of the sharpest repartee between John Daly and Bennett Cerf.
I think that it was more than kidding around.