Enjoyed this very much ! THANKS for uploading ! For a person with only a grammar school education, Mr Gleason was a very articulate gentleman. He was obviously a very intelligent & perceptive individual.
I was just a wee kiddo but we watched Arthur Godfrey as a family and it was so much fun and good entertainment. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us ❤️
I was 5 years old and my mother And I watched every weekday morning. Probably watched this episode as well. I loved Jackie Gleason as a kid. I couldn't pronounce his name properly so I called him Jackie Policeman. The Honeymooners was my favorite show. Jackie and Art Carney cracked me up! We were watching Godfrey the morning he fired Julius LaRosa live on air. The country turned against Godfrey in a heartbeat and he was finished. His own ego was always his own worst enemy. Still there we're good moments before the LaRosa incident and it's those moments you fondly remember. Thanks for posting this. This old 71 year old man thanks you!
Norton was a funny bastard too. The way the wife would rag on gleason was alot like the show Married w Children. Im 40 but grew up on reruns of Honeymooners, Odd Couple, Bewitched, I dream of Jeanie, Taxi. I watched TV on the same 23 inch Zenith floor model my mother watched as a kid.
As a child I watched The Candid Camera Show with host Allen Funt and Authur Godfry.I never will forget the segment when Godfry said the car needed some all which we took to mean oil.
Videotape first used by CBS in November 1956, to pre record The CBS Evening News with Douglas Edwards for the Pacific time zone. On January 22, 1957, the NBC game show Truth or Consequences from Hollywood, became the first television show to be broadcast in all time zones, from a pre-recorded videotape. So, by November 1958, CBS and NBC used videotape regularly.. But many times back in the '50s and '60s, shows were not saved, and new shoes were recorded over earlier taped shoes. We are lucky to have this videotape of Arthur Godfrey Time on CBS preserved all these years later. Much better picture than grainy kinescopes films. I believe Arthur's show was simulcast on CBS radio at the same time. At least in the east coast. Tape delayed in the west.
Arthur and Jackie---two CBS legends! The chemistry between Messrs. Godfrey and Gleason was phenomenal, and Arthur and his band did a great job playing a jazz number.
Television entertainment from 1958. Arthur Godfrey is pretty much forgotten today but at one time he was extremely popular and had both a radio and TV show, He was an accomplished musician and an expert pilot, even flying Eastern Airlines big Super Constellations on long trips. His on-air firing of popular singer Julius LaRosa did not sit well with fans and he began to decline in popularity. Today, most folks never heard of Arthur Godfrey.
That's when there was REAL MUSIC which WAS MELODY, HARMONY AND SENSIBLE RHYTHM. Unfortunately, it was changing with the already rock and roll crap of screamers, pig callers and instrument bashers. WHAT A SHAME!!
@@victorseastrom3455 I worked in videotape, that is videotape. What you described is the whole reason videotape was invented, time shifting. If stored in a proper environment VT has a long shelf life. Kinescopes look like hell with crushed blacks for starters and a flat look. Here is the oldest videotape in existence (available to view on TH-cam) - The Edsel Show - CBS-TV (October 13, 1957)
@@geraldbaker4019 The first quad recording and practical videotape system (Ampex) aired November 30 1956. NBC using an RCA recorder aired a scene earlier but it was not a practical format and used 1/4 inch tape vs Ampex's quad 2" tape. Even though this Godfrey show came two years after the introduction of the first practical system, it is quite rare. So we have, the first broadcast using quad, skip a year to the oldest tape in existence The Edsel Show - CBS-TV (October 13, 1957) and then skip another year to this. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to how many tapes are older than this and still existing, not too many I would think.
Old time look into broadcasting. This was broadcast live from CBS New York, and looks like it was done in a radio studio. Godfrey had up to three shows on CBS Radio and TV at the same time. He made CBS millions. Notice the clock on the wall, Godfrey timed up to a perfect end, “on the nose”, on his nose at 11:15 am.
Despite his avuncular presence on air, Godfrey was a pain in the ass to CBS execs. They put up with him because when his morning shows were finished (well before noon) the commercial revenues flowing from them had already paid CBS' full daily expenses. The rest of the day was gravy.
Authur Godfrey was quite a talented aviator. I gather the two model planes beside him on his left, an Aero Commander and a DC-3, represent the real ones he owned and flew.
WOW! Talk about memory lane! I remember this from grade school days and watching those ladies (don't know if they had a definite name for the them?) on a small 12" B/W TV with my grandma Bessie! Just WOW!!
Song was called "Chinatown, My Chinatown," written in 1906 by Jean Schwartz & William Jerome. It's not very often to see a tv performer reading from a music stand.
My mother never listened to Godfrey in the mornings, she preferred Don McNeil 'Breakfast Club. So I was never introduced to him as a young boy getting ready to go to grade school in the early morning hours.
Arthur is my great uncle on my moms side. My mother always said I resembled Arthur. And I was stubborn just like him. My mother said he was a mean spirited man who didn’t care about anything but himself. But that’s just family drama. He seems like a great man. Wish I could have met him before he past.
Is there more to this program or was it only 15 minutes? Or is the remainder of the show missing? Wish we could watch the rest of it, Gleason is great.
So to the people at University of Maryland Libraries - is this more to this tape, and do you have more videotape this early? Very rare and important material! Congrats on getting this out there!
@@jethro1963 Same here! Wrote a journal article on it ages ago (The Moving Image 5, no. 1 ( Spring 2005 ): pp 54-70. It was fascinating to learn the details of early tape use, and why nobody kept anything prior to "The Edsel Show" (key detail: 3M had a terrible time producing good-quality 2" tape at first - they'd only managed to make 50 tapes total by mid-1957 - so the networks had no choice! 50 tapes for the whole industry!)
Jackie mentions 11am, but that would have been radio only time, I think. I thought they cleaned up a little more for television, but it looks like a radio show. Which I like!
Godfrey thought he was fantastic on a ukelele but he could not hold a candle to the greatest Uke player of all time George Formby. The American public figured him out as a big phoney after the LeRosa firing.
No one knew anything about health hazards due to smoking in those days. Including doctors who usually smoked too. You have to remember everything in light of the times they were in not the ones that you are.
Was this the first 15 minute segment? or was it another? Was AG's show still 90 minutes in 1958? It was for many years 1 hour TV and radio with the last half hour radio only, divvied into 15 minute segments.
In the fall of 1958, Godfrey was on for an hour [10-11am(et)] every weekday over CBS Radio. The TV edition began at 11am(et), lasting a half-hour. So, yes, this is the first quarter-hour....................
Wasn't it at one time, Barry an hour (or more on tv and radio and the last 30 or 15 minutes radio only)? Julius LaRosa was fired in the last 15 minute segment, which although people have always have claimed to see, was radio only.
That's right. Arthur gave him the ax on RADIO {after 11:25am(et)} on Tuesday, October 19, 1953. Godfrey wasn't on TV at 11:15am on Tuesdays and Thursdays at that time.
No, you can tell by the sound quality, the lack of film dirt, and especially the lack of motion artifacts caused by the conversion of 30fps video to 24fps film and back again.
CBS was doing almost no color in these days, since RCA (parent company of NBC) had developed the technology--and CBS hated buying cameras and equipment from their rival.
@@jmdocs CBS was actually a pioneer in colour in the 40's and early 50s and had won the race for colour but the market forces and the Korean War delay helped lead to a reversal of the FCC's decision for the to be accepted colour system. Yes, CBS were loathe to using RCA equipment opting for Norelco (Philips) cameras. Even though the CBS field sequential color system won (and then lost) the TV race, it did win the race to the moon as colour Apollo systems used the rotating color wheel cameras.
@@lynnglidewell7367 everybody hated Arthur he was a complete fucking dick before he fired. Julius Larosa people were lining up outside of his studio, and they would yell obscenities at him when he came out and they would call him shit for brains, fuck nuts, and one of their favorites a rat bastard
No that isn't correct. It was only after he fired Julius LaRosa live on air in a humiliating and ego driven fashion that the country turned against him. Before that incident he was beloved by the public.
Remo Palmier. Early in career he worked with Charlie Parker, Hawkins, Gillespie and many other jazz greats, in the 40s he went to work for Arthur Godfrey, he stayed on the show till it ended in the early 70s (he taught Godfrey how to play the ukulele and arranged most of the band's numbers. Speaking as music fan and somebody who likes to mess around a little on a jazzbox, I think it was waste of his talent and creativity, he obviously liked having a steady gig with a guaranteed check every week and no travel.
@@dorajack4203 No, I believe Gleason was, in fact, an avid reader, conversant in the subjects he mentioned. Can't vouch for the actual no. of books per week but he was something of a semi-intellectual in his quiet, off-camera moments.
You have to remember in those days no one ( including doctors) knew smoking was bad for you. When you see it context it isn't disgusting it's just the times they were in. You see it through todays eyes.
People now a days have no clue who Arthur Godfrey was - but this guy ruled TV & radio!
I can't believe TH-cam can take you back to these moments. It's beyond amazing.
Indubitably ! Wonderful to see these bodacious "blasts from the past" !
Enjoyed this very much ! THANKS for uploading ! For a person with only a grammar school education, Mr Gleason was a very articulate gentleman. He was obviously a very intelligent & perceptive individual.
I was just a wee kiddo but we watched Arthur Godfrey as a family and it was so much fun and good entertainment. Thank you for sharing this wonderful video with us ❤️
Jackie was one funny dude! Those were the good ole days of radio and television.
I was 5 years old and my mother And I watched every weekday morning. Probably watched this episode as well. I loved Jackie Gleason as a kid. I couldn't pronounce his name properly so I called him Jackie Policeman. The Honeymooners was my favorite show. Jackie and Art Carney cracked me up! We were watching Godfrey the morning he fired Julius LaRosa live on air. The country turned against Godfrey in a heartbeat and he was finished. His own ego was always his own worst enemy. Still there we're good moments before the LaRosa incident and it's those moments you fondly remember. Thanks for posting this. This old 71 year old man thanks you!
Norton was a funny bastard too. The way the wife would rag on gleason was alot like the show Married w Children. Im 40 but grew up on reruns of Honeymooners, Odd Couple, Bewitched, I dream of Jeanie, Taxi. I watched TV on the same 23 inch Zenith floor model my mother watched as a kid.
As a child I watched The Candid Camera Show with host Allen Funt and Authur Godfry.I never will forget the segment when Godfry said the car needed some all which we took to mean oil.
Videotape first used by CBS in November 1956, to pre record The CBS Evening News with Douglas Edwards for the Pacific time zone. On January 22, 1957, the NBC game show Truth or Consequences from Hollywood, became the first television show to be broadcast in all time zones, from a pre-recorded videotape. So, by November 1958, CBS and NBC used videotape regularly.. But many times back in the '50s and '60s, shows were not saved, and new shoes were recorded over earlier taped shoes. We are lucky to have this videotape of Arthur Godfrey Time on CBS preserved all these years later. Much better picture than grainy kinescopes films. I believe Arthur's show was simulcast on CBS radio at the same time. At least in the east coast. Tape delayed in the west.
Ernie Koacs ABC shows were all videotaped. Some have survived, but many of his tapes were wiped clean to record other shows. No foresight.
This is fabulous, I had no ideal this was on you tube, don't need the major network anymore. Love You Tube..
Jackie tells straight up facts regarding making it in show business in this program. Humorous, but very true.
Alcoholic and chain smoker
Lovely program
Thank you for preserving this excellence!
Terrific band and Arthur is also very good.
Indbuitably !
what a terrific band!...
Arthur and Jackie---two CBS legends! The chemistry between Messrs. Godfrey and Gleason was phenomenal, and Arthur and his band did a great job playing a jazz number.
Television entertainment from 1958. Arthur Godfrey is pretty much forgotten today but at one time he was extremely popular and had both a radio and TV show, He was an accomplished musician and an expert pilot, even flying Eastern Airlines big Super Constellations on long trips. His on-air firing of popular singer Julius LaRosa did not sit well with fans and he began to decline in popularity. Today, most folks never heard of Arthur Godfrey.
The band is phenomenal
That's when there was REAL MUSIC which WAS MELODY, HARMONY AND SENSIBLE RHYTHM. Unfortunately, it was changing with the already rock and roll crap of screamers, pig callers and instrument bashers. WHAT A SHAME!!
Better than anything on late night now.
Guitar player Killin it
Simpler times. Love watching these old clips that my parents grew up on.
I'm impressed this is in the original videotape quality. VERY rare for 1958.
@@victorseastrom3455 for
@@victorseastrom3455 No, it's videotape.
@@victorseastrom3455 It’s videotape. Somehow, the videotape is around (likely one of the oldest tapes, too!)
@@victorseastrom3455 I worked in videotape, that is videotape. What you described is the whole reason videotape was invented, time shifting. If stored in a proper environment VT has a long shelf life. Kinescopes look like hell with crushed blacks for starters and a flat look. Here is the oldest videotape in existence (available to view on TH-cam) - The Edsel Show - CBS-TV (October 13, 1957)
@@geraldbaker4019 The first quad recording and practical videotape system (Ampex) aired November 30 1956. NBC using an RCA recorder aired a scene earlier but it was not a practical format and used 1/4 inch tape vs Ampex's quad 2" tape. Even though this Godfrey show came two years after the introduction of the first practical system, it is quite rare. So we have, the first broadcast using quad, skip a year to the oldest tape in existence The Edsel Show - CBS-TV (October 13, 1957) and then skip another year to this. I wouldn't hazard a guess as to how many tapes are older than this and still existing, not too many I would think.
Old time look into broadcasting. This was broadcast live from CBS New York, and looks like it was done in a radio studio. Godfrey had up to three shows on CBS Radio and TV at the same time. He made CBS millions. Notice the clock on the wall, Godfrey timed up to a perfect end, “on the nose”, on his nose at 11:15 am.
Despite his avuncular presence on air, Godfrey was a pain in the ass to CBS execs. They put up with him because when his morning shows were finished (well before noon) the commercial revenues flowing from them had already paid CBS' full daily expenses. The rest of the day was gravy.
I remember this show so fondly as a boy in the 50's.
*"Jackie Gleason!!- was the funniest man on this planet!!"*
A truly talented and creative clown..Jackie really was "The Great One".
Very very nice divieland.That clarinetist was a genius.It’s all gone now.
Authur Godfrey was quite a talented aviator. I gather the two model planes beside him on his left, an Aero Commander and a DC-3, represent the real ones he owned and flew.
WOW! Talk about memory lane!
I remember this from grade school days and watching those ladies (don't know if they had a definite name for the them?) on a small 12" B/W TV with my grandma Bessie!
Just WOW!!
One thing I miss from early television is the sound of good conversation. No one yelling and talking over each other to make their dreadful points.
Song was called "Chinatown, My Chinatown," written in 1906 by Jean Schwartz & William Jerome. It's not very often to see a tv performer reading from a music stand.
Awesome clarinet solo at the beginning.
My mother never listened to Godfrey in the mornings, she preferred Don McNeil 'Breakfast Club. So I was never introduced to him as a young boy getting ready to go to grade school in the early morning hours.
Arthur is my great uncle on my moms side. My mother always said I resembled Arthur. And I was stubborn just like him. My mother said he was a mean spirited man who didn’t care about anything but himself. But that’s just family drama. He seems like a great man. Wish I could have met him before he past.
Listen to mom
Wonderful memories!
You can barely see anything for all the cigarette smoke! Everyone smoked on TV back then.
Wow. Mr. "Face in the crowd" could actually play!
The Big Four quartet. They are so chill.
Is there more to this program or was it only 15 minutes? Or is the remainder of the show missing? Wish we could watch the rest of it, Gleason is great.
So to the people at University of Maryland Libraries - is this more to this tape, and do you have more videotape this early? Very rare and important material! Congrats on getting this out there!
I collect every pre 1960 videotape program I can find (obviously not the original) but copies.
@@jethro1963 Same here! Wrote a journal article on it ages ago (The Moving Image 5, no. 1 ( Spring 2005 ): pp 54-70. It was fascinating to learn the details of early tape use, and why nobody kept anything prior to "The Edsel Show" (key detail: 3M had a terrible time producing good-quality 2" tape at first - they'd only managed to make 50 tapes total by mid-1957 - so the networks had no choice! 50 tapes for the whole industry!)
Great Grandma Winnifred Jackson
Jackie mentions 11am, but that would have been radio only time, I think. I thought they cleaned up a little more for television, but it looks like a radio show. Which I like!
Note the studio clock at 0:56.
I think the song at the beginning is actually "Chinatown My Chinatown" not "China Doll"
The girls could sing
Jackie just bull$hitting is super quick and funny, and genuine
The art of smoking.
Godfrey thought he was fantastic on a ukelele but he could not hold a candle to the greatest Uke player of all time George Formby. The American public figured him out as a big phoney after the LeRosa firing.
KIRO TV (CBS) in Seattle was just starting at that time it first went on the air, February 8, 1958.
please post more godfrey material? Studebaker kary,
Jackie is hilarious
His Cigarette smoke is going into Godfrey’s face. Unbelievable
No one knew anything about health hazards due to smoking in those days. Including doctors who usually smoked too. You have to remember everything in light of the times they were in not the ones that you are.
Geez it's strange to watch something that happened so long ago.
Was this the first 15 minute segment? or was it another? Was AG's show still 90 minutes in 1958? It was for many years 1 hour TV and radio with the last half hour radio only, divvied into 15 minute segments.
In the fall of 1958, Godfrey was on for an hour [10-11am(et)] every weekday over CBS Radio. The TV edition began at 11am(et), lasting a half-hour. So, yes, this is the first quarter-hour....................
Wasn't it at one time, Barry an hour (or more on tv and radio and the last 30 or 15 minutes radio only)? Julius LaRosa was fired in the last 15 minute segment, which although people have always have claimed to see, was radio only.
Joe Postove When Julius La Rosa was fired, the TV portion wasn't on air any more. His Swan Song was only on radio.
That's right. Arthur gave him the ax on RADIO {after 11:25am(et)} on Tuesday, October 19, 1953. Godfrey wasn't on TV at 11:15am on Tuesdays and Thursdays at that time.
Joe Postove It lingered on WCBS radio until 1970.
The song is "Chinatown, My Chinatown," not "China Doll."
Not China Doll, but China Town.
11 million dollars in 1958 would b worth 99 million dollars today.(approximately).
I think this is a Kinescope... film camera set up in front of a monitor to record show.
No, you can tell by the sound quality, the lack of film dirt, and especially the lack of motion artifacts caused by the conversion of 30fps video to 24fps film and back again.
Nope, this is a videotape recording. Even the best kinescopes look like shit.
@@bluecollarguy67 The Edsel Show video on TH-cam shows the difference between VT and Kines. This is videotape
Special videotaped program.
Sy Shafer on Trombone.
Is there a name for the pre show beep
Did CBS ever "test" the morning show in color?
CBS was doing almost no color in these days, since RCA (parent company of NBC) had developed the technology--and CBS hated buying cameras and equipment from their rival.
@@jmdocs CBS was actually a pioneer in colour in the 40's and early 50s and had won the race for colour but the market forces and the Korean War delay helped lead to a reversal of the FCC's decision for the to be accepted colour system. Yes, CBS were loathe to using RCA equipment opting for Norelco (Philips) cameras. Even though the CBS field sequential color system won (and then lost) the TV race, it did win the race to the moon as colour Apollo systems used the rotating color wheel cameras.
Everybody here old af lol
This is the time and era I grew up in. How I miss it! I despise and am disgusted with the WHOLE rock and roll rap crap generation that came along!!
No studio audience?
Godfrey..creepy guy...
Wish I knew who all those band members were
I believe: Remo Palmiere, Guitar; Lee Erwin, Piano; Sy Shafer, Trombone, Johnny Mince, Clarinet. Others and leader do know.
@@cats0182 As I'm sure you know, Johnny Mince was with Tommy Dorsey from 1937-1941 and did dozens of great solos on Dorsey records.
This is fucking brilliant.
Vanity and hubris eventually took him down.
Despised in the industry and now properly and rightfully almost completely forgotten, after dominating radio and tv in the early-mid fifties........
True
To misquote Godfrey -- "Arthur lacked humility."
2 weeks later he buzzed Teeterboro tower, he lost that one big time.
arthur was hated by everyone
Balony! He was LOVED by everyone! Only lost popularity after firing Julius LaRossa.
me too
Yes even the Mrs hated him, Watch the movie A face in the Crowd. Andy Griffiths character was Godfrey.
@@lynnglidewell7367 everybody hated Arthur he was a complete fucking dick before he fired. Julius Larosa people were lining up outside of his studio, and they would yell obscenities at him when he came out and they would call him shit for brains, fuck nuts, and one of their favorites a rat bastard
No that isn't correct. It was only after he fired Julius LaRosa live on air in a humiliating and ego driven fashion that the country turned against him. Before that incident he was beloved by the public.
Who is on guitar?
Remo Palmier. Early in career he worked with Charlie Parker, Hawkins, Gillespie and many other jazz greats, in the 40s he went to work for Arthur Godfrey, he stayed on the show till it ended in the early 70s (he taught Godfrey how to play the ukulele and arranged most of the band's numbers. Speaking as music fan and somebody who likes to mess around a little on a jazzbox, I think it was waste of his talent and creativity, he obviously liked having a steady gig with a guaranteed check every week and no travel.
Beep beep beep.
Sorry,Dixieland.I’ve always been a bad typist.
Lee Erwin on piano, celeste and organ.
The smoke a flyin....nah..
Would you like a lei
China Doll by David Bowie!?
Gleason boasting of his reading six to ten books a week. Typical of someone who doesn't actually read.
Maybe it was COMIC books (lol)!!
@@dorajack4203 No, I believe Gleason was, in fact, an avid reader, conversant in the subjects he mentioned. Can't vouch for the actual no. of books per week but he was something of a semi-intellectual in his quiet, off-camera moments.
Godrey, that right wing turkey
Greg .. liberalism is a mental disorder. Have you been taking your medication? It appears that you are not staying medicated.
Jackie Gleason’s cigarette smoking was disgusting
You have to remember in those days no one ( including doctors) knew smoking was bad for you. When you see it context it isn't disgusting it's just the times they were in. You see it through todays eyes.
I bet the drummer worked for less pay.
Looks like Trump to me.