Look for the Big Valley episode with Julie London as the guest star. Bobby Troup is playing piano for her as she sings in the music hall. Then there's the Bobby Troup Dragnets...probably some of the best ones. The one with the bartender running numbers for money to get his sick kid an operation was surprisingly touching. He was a very good sentimental actor.
Webb wanted both of them working in the late 60s, as it helped their kids to have them home in LA instead of constantly touring for income. Say what you will about Webb, as an ex husband he was a class act.
He also plays a musician with his same first name in a couple episodes of Mannix but I don’t know if he is playing himself or just someone with the same first name.
A friend and I actually got to drive on ROUTE 66, stopped at a restaurant, and even got a souvenir COKE BOTTLE WITH ROUTE 66 WRITTEN ON IT, and still have the bottle today.
Fabulous iconic song. Yet the message is less real than the painted diner background: A concise assessment: "Nostalgia usually contains a considerable dose of amnesia. People who lived through the so-called heyday of Route 66 tend to forget its horrific crashes, roadside con men, dodgy food, erratic motels ,and systemic racism."
Rosemary Clooney - what a voice!
Dorothy Malone is in a little over her head here, but the way it's arranged, it works out OK. Thanks for digging this up and sharing it!
thanks for this solid video.
Route 66 begins (or ends) at Rampart General Hospital. ;-)
He played one of the doctors on the 70’s show Emergency. Had no idea he wrote this song…
Also married to Julie London, singer and played Dixie on Emergency. She was Jack Webb's ex - he produced Emergency
Dr Joe Early, workin' his magic...
and he wrote a pretty groovy song, too!
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Look for the Big Valley episode with Julie London as the guest star. Bobby Troup is playing piano for her as she sings in the music hall.
Then there's the Bobby Troup Dragnets...probably some of the best ones. The one with the bartender running numbers for money to get his sick kid an operation was surprisingly touching.
He was a very good sentimental actor.
Webb wanted both of them working in the late 60s, as it helped their kids to have them home in LA instead of constantly touring for income.
Say what you will about Webb, as an ex husband he was a class act.
He also plays a musician with his same first name in a couple episodes of Mannix but I don’t know if he is playing himself or just someone with the same first name.
A friend and I actually got to drive on ROUTE 66, stopped at a restaurant, and even got a souvenir COKE BOTTLE WITH ROUTE 66 WRITTEN ON IT, and still have the bottle today.
😢And Where is Nurse Julie London???❤🎉💜🤷👀💋🎇🐣🌹🌼
they used the diner set for I'm Such a Hungry Man, too!
The rare preppy/Ivy Leaguer in show biz: Bobby Troup (Hill School '37, Penn '41).
I get kicks from this even 68 years later.
Had no idea Dorothy Malone had pipes!
He played a beatnik on Perry Mason.
Fabulous iconic song.
Yet the message is less real than the painted diner background:
A concise assessment: "Nostalgia usually contains a considerable dose of amnesia. People who lived through the so-called heyday of Route 66 tend to forget its horrific crashes, roadside con men, dodgy food, erratic motels ,and systemic racism."
This was GPS in 1956.
Californian routes¡¡