You Bet Your Life #57-10 Debating the merits of Rock & Roll (Secret word 'Grass', Dec 12, 1957)

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  • John Charles Thomas & Roberta Rene return from last week to debate Rock and Roll music. Once again, Thomas steps down from the quiz segment in favor of a serviceman from the audience, Corporal Bob Pepin.
    NOTE: Most of the quiz segment for the 1st couple was lost due to recording glitch. The rest of the interview is intact. Also, please note that the audio and video go progressively out of synch starting around 8 minutes in. I couldn't fix it, but it's not too distracting until the very end. Sorry for these problems!
    COUPLE #1: Kathy Gabriel, Miss Ohio / Val Christensen, mayor of Cheyenne, WY
    COUPLE #2: Roberta Rene, president of the Elvis Presley Fan Club / John Charles Thomas, famous baritone
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 877

  • @kamikazeyamamoto4545
    @kamikazeyamamoto4545 6 років тому +235

    I wish I was around back then.
    Women were so much more attractive then - more feminine, no fake body parts, no body piercings, no tattoos.

  • @bandstem
    @bandstem 4 роки тому +160

    Miss Ohio is not only a knockout, but she has a beautiful voice as well.

    • @percboy555
      @percboy555 3 роки тому +14

      Hard to believe she finished behind 4 other girls in `57 Miss America Pageant.

    • @oldhippie81
      @oldhippie81 3 роки тому +17

      Sadly she past away May 25 2016 aged 79 years.

    • @pl5624
      @pl5624 3 роки тому +8

      obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=katherine-m-dittrick-gabriel&pid=180124152&fhid=14800

    • @jcripp7974
      @jcripp7974 3 роки тому +1

      Have you seen her lately?

    • @AA-ke5cu
      @AA-ke5cu 3 роки тому +6

      That strap falling down was an amazing eye grabber; a classic.

  • @tutorlog7490
    @tutorlog7490 4 роки тому +69

    I love the honest and flattering reactions Groucho always gives pretty young women. This was before a compliment of a woman’s femininity was interpreted as harassment.

    • @tutorlog7490
      @tutorlog7490 4 роки тому +14

      Every woman appreciates the adoration of men. That’s what these feminists miss. Kathy passed away three years ago, and seemed to have aged gracefully with time, not fighting old age by competing with young women for men’s attention.
      I’m so glad she married well and seem to have had a satisfying life🤗

    • @lewisc215
      @lewisc215 2 роки тому +3

      idiocy

    • @victorblock3421
      @victorblock3421 Рік тому

      liberalism- a disease with no cure.

    • @lewisc215
      @lewisc215 Рік тому

      gibberish

  • @RoleReverse
    @RoleReverse 4 роки тому +54

    Damn, she’s got that real full lips & smile. The way she presents herself reminds me of Marilyn Monroe

  • @anonymoussources8803
    @anonymoussources8803 5 років тому +147

    Miss Gabriel is one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen

    • @marksmith2714
      @marksmith2714 4 роки тому +12

      She is fabulous, what a woman, heaven sent.

    • @cierakitty
      @cierakitty 4 роки тому +12

      And little make-up...today if they took off all their goo, some would never pass for a beauty

    • @ulysses2162
      @ulysses2162 4 роки тому +14

      Agreed... she is beautiful.

    • @berniezuch1724
      @berniezuch1724 3 роки тому +13

      Wow she is gorgeous

    • @anonymoussources8803
      @anonymoussources8803 3 роки тому +2

      @@berniezuch1724 😏

  • @hcrun
    @hcrun 5 років тому +98

    She was absolutely gorgeous....and what a wonderful smile.

  • @bangfarang
    @bangfarang 7 років тому +69

    BEST LINE IN TELEVISION HISTORY
    "Well, can't they see me on the TV screens?"
    -Kathy Gabriel

    • @sonicsabbath
      @sonicsabbath 2 роки тому

      Absolutely. Shows you can have a great mind AND a great body!
      For those "progressives" who say it is sexist - stop being jealous.
      She knew what she had, and used it to her best ability. Brains included!
      The fact WAP by that whore singer can be allowed, but this show would be definitely cancelled straight away is a travesty

    • @brucewelnack6382
      @brucewelnack6382 Рік тому +8

      Her voice was as hot as all the rest.

  • @Tre404
    @Tre404 5 років тому +139

    No kidding, Miss Ohio is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen!

    • @janetaeschliman3168
      @janetaeschliman3168 4 роки тому +14

      And did you hear all the men whistling? It was a perfectly acceptable thing to do back then. In fact considered a compliment.

    • @haberlippschitz319
      @haberlippschitz319 4 роки тому

      is she grandma ?

    • @MrWadsox
      @MrWadsox 4 роки тому +9

      @cyoungrun1 You are a blind idiot. That woman is pretty much as attractive as women get.

    • @sneddley
      @sneddley 4 роки тому +2

      In a bit of a twist (no pun intended) she and Elvis were in a relationship in the following year.

    • @stephencrider8076
      @stephencrider8076 4 роки тому +2

      She died in 2016 at age 79. www.yourememberthat.com/media/18367/Kathryn_Gabriel_-_Miss_Ohio_1957/

  • @gleasonparker1684
    @gleasonparker1684 5 років тому +78

    Kathy Gabriel was an angel!

  • @DylanFahey
    @DylanFahey 10 років тому +197

    "Why didn't this happen 11 years ago, when I was 30 years younger." Classic.

    • @michaelny7
      @michaelny7 6 років тому +9

      hahah groucho was one of a kind, I still watch the Marx bros films around New years on TCM when they have their classics on.
      He was the best with quick one liners, "husbands steaming u the tv sets" haha Youngg milennials are just too stupid wth their phones up their butts and chatting.

  • @heru-deshet359
    @heru-deshet359 4 роки тому +84

    Miss Ohio. When women were of un augmented beauty.

    • @madgepins1967
      @madgepins1967 2 роки тому

      So, you exercise every day, eat a healthy diet, and have a strong, manly physique, devoid of fat?

    • @kennycoffman1475
      @kennycoffman1475 Рік тому +1

      …and not a tattoo in sight

  • @GUITARTIME2024
    @GUITARTIME2024 7 років тому +99

    Oh man, her looks and voice are just amazing.

  • @10percentwierd
    @10percentwierd 4 роки тому +65

    She has the best smile I’ve ever seen.

  • @jamesrobinson949
    @jamesrobinson949 9 років тому +77

    I find her immensely attractive.

    • @bobbywimsy6741
      @bobbywimsy6741 5 років тому +1

      Mr. Bob Gray Beats the Founding Fathers babes draped in drapelike dresses, wigs, maybe hoopskoits, to Groucho speak.

    • @TS-qq7vr
      @TS-qq7vr 4 роки тому +1

      She's interested in matrimony.

    • @davenorth8922
      @davenorth8922 4 роки тому +1

      @@bobbywimsy6741 - doesn't beat it by much.

    • @ruokzig8086
      @ruokzig8086 4 роки тому

      @@TS-qq7vr
      Contemplating matrimony, I thought
      Constipated on macaroni

  • @contraryMV
    @contraryMV 5 років тому +53

    Groucho was really on a roll tonight. Top of his game. I think I smiled or laughed through the entire show.

  • @lenilenape
    @lenilenape 4 роки тому +57

    Miss Gabriel had a million dollar smile.

    • @lenilenape
      @lenilenape 3 роки тому +3

      @@mrliberty8468
      Pretty lady for sure.

  • @1995dreams
    @1995dreams 4 роки тому +21

    I hope she had a chance to read these comments before she passed. She was my next-door neighbor for a year and I was close to her family for many years. She became a bleached blonde and after flirting with fame returned to her hometown of Cleveland.

  • @mrfk9d
    @mrfk9d 3 роки тому +22

    People appear to be more respectful & choose what they say more thoughtfully. Very refreshing. Groucho is a master quick thinker, makes it all come together for unique entertainment.

    • @TyranyFighterPatriot
      @TyranyFighterPatriot 3 роки тому +2

      Good observation. And most folk today receive so many statements with deliberately instant negativity also.

    • @mrfk9d
      @mrfk9d 3 роки тому +2

      Thanks Sentinel of fortune. And your comment about how negative people can be is unfortunately true.

    • @michaelsalisbury1477
      @michaelsalisbury1477 2 роки тому +3

      That's his business!!!!

    • @michaelsalisbury1477
      @michaelsalisbury1477 2 роки тому +3

      That's what he did and he was the best!!!!

  • @jazzmanchgo
    @jazzmanchgo 6 років тому +42

    Amazing to realize that today, Miss Ohio would be considered too "fat" to even think about entering a beauty contest. I'm not disparaging here; she's a very beautiful woman. Just observing how ridiculous the body standards for women have become over the years.

    • @jenniferglenn14
      @jenniferglenn14 5 років тому +6

      David Whiteis Really? According to feminists obesity is beautiful. Instead of promoting a healthy lifestyle, apparently now u don’t have to worry about your health just as long as you love your body. Hell, today we even have men entering women’s beauty pageants lol

    • @lindaackerman3507
      @lindaackerman3507 4 роки тому +5

      Kathy had an hour glass figure sort of like marilyn monroe, today they would tell her to lose weight, but she was very beautiful just like that.

    • @christopherstarr8050
      @christopherstarr8050 4 роки тому +5

      thats because the fashion industry is run by homosexuals that want woman to look like young boys . i dont understand modern women's obsession to be skeletons .

    • @danielmanahan692
      @danielmanahan692 3 роки тому

      You are the only one to mention it

    • @floydvaughn836
      @floydvaughn836 3 роки тому +1

      @@christopherstarr8050 In the 80s Madonna was supposedly The Expression of female sexuality. Well, she learned all of those hot scandalous moves from...a homosexual man. And guess who runs Beauty Pageants? Especially the ones for really young girls?

  • @LIBICU812
    @LIBICU812 4 роки тому +30

    5:35: "Did you ever hear of a cow that just gives buttermilk? What else could a cow give 'but her milk'. 🤣😂😅

  • @lennyharrington7226
    @lennyharrington7226 4 роки тому +52

    Kathy Gabriel was unbelievably gorgeous!! Just breathtaking

  • @joesmith-jb4ls
    @joesmith-jb4ls 6 років тому +51

    Kathy Gabriel was gorgeous. Beautiful smile

  • @picklesthewise
    @picklesthewise 4 роки тому +20

    Groucho would make jokes and flirt with many of the female guests, but this girl was seriously a knockout! "Show's over!" 🤣🤣

  • @spaghettismith8343
    @spaghettismith8343 6 років тому +53

    Nothing on this planet like that miss Ohio anymore

    • @auletjohnast03638
      @auletjohnast03638 3 роки тому +1

      spaghetty smith, She was nice, but have you ever seen Louise Brooks considered the most beautiful woman on earth, past, present and future.

    • @auletjohnast03638
      @auletjohnast03638 3 роки тому +2

      Soahetti Smith, On a later Groucho show Miss Norway was super gorgeous.

    • @spaghettismith8343
      @spaghettismith8343 3 роки тому

      @@auletjohnast03638 thanks ill look it up

    • @stevena3333
      @stevena3333 3 роки тому

      @@auletjohnast03638 I guess that’s why they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  • @coronapapi
    @coronapapi 7 років тому +51

    I don't laugh out loud much in one sitting. But Groucho pulls it right out of me.

    • @mkpleco
      @mkpleco 6 років тому +7

      Same here, I think it's his honesty when speaking cynically which is so not PC.

  • @scoldedcat
    @scoldedcat 4 роки тому +71

    Cathy came 4th in Miss USA 1957. My question is "how didn't she win ?"

  • @BillboardPenguin
    @BillboardPenguin 10 років тому +82

    Thanks for uploading this. Kathy Gabriel surely was a hottie. Good Lord, what a smile!

  • @graysmith264
    @graysmith264 4 роки тому +34

    I was dating in the 60s and the girls were very attractive ,glad i was born then im 72 now.

    • @josephstorm6093
      @josephstorm6093 3 роки тому +11

      When women were real women, just look at her feminine stance which was common then. I miss those days in many ways.

    • @TyranyFighterPatriot
      @TyranyFighterPatriot 3 роки тому +9

      @@josephstorm6093 No such thing anymore. Females have gone wild and no young man such as my 25 yr old self will ever find a real women today. Hedonism is the trademark of the modern female. Modern females may know how to win a man's attention, but in respect to men's heart Modern females get a BIG FAT F. Oh, what it'd be like, living in a time when just the physical and verbal manner a female would display would blow these Modern "women" into oblivion. It is both amusing and sad. Even history will have a hard time sorting this one out.

    • @miguelclarkeottovonclarke
      @miguelclarkeottovonclarke 3 роки тому +6

      @@TyranyFighterPatriot It's a cesspool out there, decline of civilization, no class with broads these days, no intelligence, slaves to convention, digital drug addicts, civilized to death.

    • @TyranyFighterPatriot
      @TyranyFighterPatriot 3 роки тому

      @@miguelclarkeottovonclarke Yep. I'm Mlgt0w monk mode. It's only way to survive and thrive as a true Man these days.

    • @carmengaylemenzies8713
      @carmengaylemenzies8713 3 роки тому +1

      I agree -as a 66 yr old woman - one thing that bugs me is the lack of dresses worn & really dislike a ‘man’ wearing sneakers (running shoes) after 6 ... Miss all those boots especially!
      And what’s up with guys wearing hats indoors?

  • @MIchaelMiii
    @MIchaelMiii 3 роки тому +44

    Who would have ever thought Groucho would outlive Elvis. By three days.

  • @JD-zd8tm
    @JD-zd8tm 4 роки тому +32

    Kathy Gabriel is so beautiful and even has photos taken with Elvis but in her real life she suffered more than most losing two of her children .

  • @bruzrkgro-malog2953
    @bruzrkgro-malog2953 3 роки тому +5

    Woah... two people can disagree on TV and still be nice to each other, without any yelling?? This is amazing.

  • @1Skeptik1
    @1Skeptik1 5 років тому +57

    Groucho was quick-witted and knew where to draw the line with adult humor.

    • @LIBICU812
      @LIBICU812 4 роки тому +4

      Oh he skirted the censorship line many times.

    • @theunrealtimemm
      @theunrealtimemm 4 роки тому +3

      And for all of the beauty contestant air, Miss Ohio was clearly not going to put up with him beyond a certain point.

    • @papagreenemusic
      @papagreenemusic 3 роки тому +1

      @1Skeptik1 Yes, he made a conscious point of working with insinuation & double-entendre, jokes where the "dirty part" was understood in the imagination of the listener, without spelling it out explicitly.
      Groucho was outspokenly against profanity & raw vulgarity in humor; he was actually disgusted by that, & would never have touched the kind of humor of a Lenny Bruce, or even Mel Brooks.
      In one of his Dick Cavett interviews he spoke out this issue.
      He did draw a line, occasionally drawing it a bit further or a bit closer, but essentially, his approach was perched right on the narrow borderline between bawdy, provocative humor & tasteful restraint.

    • @papagreenemusic
      @papagreenemusic 3 роки тому

      @@LIBICU812 True, but in the 1950's the censorship line was pretty tight.

    • @gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043
      @gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 3 роки тому +1

      @@papagreenemusic .• Well said.

  • @janbrady293
    @janbrady293 6 років тому +39

    kathy gabriel.."nature has been good to you..i mean reeeal good to you..i dont think ive seen nature spend so much time on any one person"..andy griffith

  • @lastrada52
    @lastrada52 6 років тому +38

    What a beautiful girl Miss Ohio (Miss Kathy Gabriel)....she passed away at 79 in 2016. Ms. Gabriel was 4th runner-up in Miss Universe 1957 and she posed in pictures with Elvis Presley. She was quite a beautiful girl,

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 4 роки тому +2

      If she was a runner-up then the other contestants (ahead of her) must have been amazing!

    • @pauledmondson7071
      @pauledmondson7071 4 роки тому

      Quite a beutifull girl? Quite?!!

    • @lastrada52
      @lastrada52 4 роки тому

      @@pauledmondson7071 - Yeah, quite.
      What's the problem? You must have comprehension issues, Paul. Need to look that word up?
      By the way, you misspelled beautiful. Don't type so fast.
      Two exclamations are not needed. That's called redundancy. Need a dictionary, Shakespeare?

    • @pauledmondson7071
      @pauledmondson7071 4 роки тому +3

      @@lastrada52 No johnny boy, I dont have any comprehension issues, see if you can comprehend this little riddle... you are a TNUC

  • @GUITARTIME2024
    @GUITARTIME2024 7 років тому +52

    Val the mayor died in 75. Kathy the hottie died just last year (2016).

    • @martinraxyz
      @martinraxyz 4 роки тому +2

      :(

    • @ferrallc1
      @ferrallc1 3 роки тому +10

      The Christensens were our next door neighbors in Cheyenne. Wild to see this.

    • @5thdimension625
      @5thdimension625 3 роки тому

      Thanks for the update

    • @sammyvh11
      @sammyvh11 2 роки тому

      Rip

  • @Lava1964
    @Lava1964 6 років тому +18

    I watch a lot of old game show reruns online. I can honestly say that Kathryn Gabriel might be the most stunningly beautiful contestant I've ever seen on any game show. (The airplane saleswoman on What's My Line from 1966 is a close second.)

  • @ajsmith5295
    @ajsmith5295 5 років тому +17

    By the way miss Ohio didn't only pose with Elvis Presley in 1957 she dated Elvis Presley in 1957

  • @37Dionysos
    @37Dionysos 8 років тому +52

    How funny, "the merits of rock'n'roll" and the Secret Woid is "grass"!

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 3 роки тому

      Lol! The second I read your comment my mind immediately went to Woodstock.

    • @thisisme3238
      @thisisme3238 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah, and this was in the 50's!

    • @MrMenefrego1
      @MrMenefrego1 3 роки тому +1

      @@thisisme3238 I don't get the connection or your point.

    • @deborahhernandez7785
      @deborahhernandez7785 3 дні тому

      ​@@MrMenefrego1
      That's o.k. I think Groucho got it. 😅

  • @ShawnC.T.
    @ShawnC.T. 3 роки тому +18

    Groucho was born to be quick witted, that Cincinnati one liner is/was priceless...

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 роки тому

      Miss Ohio was from the opposite side of the state from Cincinnati.

    • @PlayerToBeNamedLater1973
      @PlayerToBeNamedLater1973 Рік тому

      @@dcasper8514 Cincinnati is in the south of the state. The bottom. If you listen to the joke , it makes sense

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 Рік тому

      Playertobenamed
      I'm very familiar with the state of Ohio. Lived
      There for 22 years.

    • @SelfReflective
      @SelfReflective Рік тому

      I believe he had the joke before the show, he was well briefed who the guests would be.

  • @_petrich0r
    @_petrich0r 5 років тому +18

    Kathy Gabriel, WOW!

  • @Reggiela-zc3cc
    @Reggiela-zc3cc 10 років тому +170

    Miss Ohio is a babe!

  • @gleasonparker1684
    @gleasonparker1684 5 років тому +22

    Mercy. Girls were special back then . t.v. was great also.

  • @jjcruz4307
    @jjcruz4307 6 років тому +5

    Thanks for posting these! Wow! Groucho's comedy still holds up! He is so quick! I can see why he is a comedy legend.

  • @macharper8214
    @macharper8214 4 роки тому +36

    Hard to believe but when they were filming this they were in the middle of a pandemic the way we are now. The Asian Flu of 1957-58 killed between 70,000 and 116,000 Americans. It came from China too. They had to race to come up with a vaccine. All the same stuff we are going through now. There were Navy sailors that got infected aboard ships. Very similar type deal.

    • @Cereal_Killer007
      @Cereal_Killer007 Рік тому +2

      Thats amazing to hear....Different breed of people back then. These people lived through the depression so everything else is probably just rainbows and lolipops

    • @jamesmnoblesjr9062
      @jamesmnoblesjr9062 Рік тому +2

      Thx. For once I was not aware of that:)))

    • @stevesosebee5860
      @stevesosebee5860 Рік тому +5

      There were no lockdowns and closing small businesses 😡😡😡

    • @Cereal_Killer007
      @Cereal_Killer007 Рік тому

      @@stevesosebee5860 Because back then we were smart, now its a bunch of woke retards focused on colors

    • @Zarina1634
      @Zarina1634 Рік тому +1

      Wow!

  • @jacksmith5692
    @jacksmith5692 5 років тому +82

    Groucho was so quick and a great interview and made guys like Letterman look like bozo's.

    • @MrMenefrego1
      @MrMenefrego1 3 роки тому +2

      👀

    • @gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043
      @gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043 3 роки тому +2

      Exactly!

    • @rickrick5041
      @rickrick5041 3 роки тому +2

      Nothing can beat his top 10

    • @papagen00
      @papagen00 3 роки тому +1

      Only Jay Leno came close.

    • @jacksmith5692
      @jacksmith5692 3 роки тому +5

      @@papagen00 Agree Jay was funny and sharp. His late night show was the only one I liked after Johnny retired. The ones now suck and are unwatchable.

  • @glennatkinson698
    @glennatkinson698 4 роки тому +19

    Miss Ohio is ultra gorgeous from ANY angle!! She took my breath away👀!!!

  • @CapAnson12345
    @CapAnson12345 3 роки тому +4

    Kathryn Gabriel, from what I could find, passed away in 2016 at age 79, making her 20 at the time this aired. She dated Elvis.

  • @anonymoussources8803
    @anonymoussources8803 5 років тому +20

    What a beautiful girl. Groucho at his best. Wierd to think this girl would be about 90 if she's still with us.

    • @lindaackerman3507
      @lindaackerman3507 4 роки тому +3

      No she would be only 82

    • @diyimprover6887
      @diyimprover6887 4 роки тому +2

      @@lindaackerman3507 So it *would* be weird if she was 90 since she was only 82.

    • @lindaackerman3507
      @lindaackerman3507 4 роки тому +2

      @@diyimprover6887 not weird if she was 90 but she would be 82 so that would be her current age..

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 4 роки тому +2

      Katherine (Diitrick) passed away: aged 79 May 25, 2016.

    • @anonymoussources8803
      @anonymoussources8803 3 роки тому +4

      @@diyimprover6887 I did say "about 90", since I did not look up her DOB. About is a term that indicates an estimate. Since 90 is within 10% of 82, not sure why you bothered to correct an estimate. Guess it was important to you.

  • @lowcountrycat
    @lowcountrycat 8 років тому +26

    "You haven't mentioned Elvis Presley.""I seldom do unless I stub my toes." Best line in the show.

    • @martinjones5965
      @martinjones5965 3 роки тому

      completely agree.

    • @dcasper8514
      @dcasper8514 3 роки тому +3

      I don't get it.

    • @riverratrvr9225
      @riverratrvr9225 3 роки тому

      @@dcasper8514 I didn't either, going to Google it. Perhaps they didn't get on in the best way together!

    • @riverratrvr9225
      @riverratrvr9225 3 роки тому

      @@dcasper8514 I didn't either, going to Google it. Perhaps they didn't get on in the best way together!

    • @theblacksideofyoutube4448
      @theblacksideofyoutube4448 2 роки тому +1

      @@dcasper8514 he's equating "Elvis" to a curse word. Anything you shout when you stub your toe is profane

  • @bjblues7823
    @bjblues7823 6 років тому +12

    This was when the older generation considered rock n roll "The devil's music".

  • @CuriosusSum
    @CuriosusSum 3 роки тому +7

    “If you’re miss Ohio then it must be chilly around Cincinnatti.” That comment went by too quick to think about it, but I think I get the point.

  • @willdrucker4291
    @willdrucker4291 6 років тому +17

    Groucho:....”wowwww...welcome to.....welcome to....BEAT IT GEORGE”....ROFL.....CLASSIC GROUCHO

  • @jeprice08
    @jeprice08 4 роки тому +3

    To the late Kathy Gabriel, "Baby, don't do TOO good a job! You'll cause me to forget MY lines and concentrate on YOURS!"

  • @benjmp
    @benjmp 8 днів тому +1

    "Why didn't this happen eleven years ago when I was thirty years younger"?

  • @MrAdrenaline1982
    @MrAdrenaline1982 9 років тому +13

    Roberta Rene was around 48 here, it seems unusual for someone that age to be such an Elvis fanatic at that time.. She died in 1970.

  • @alevine1951
    @alevine1951 5 років тому +12

    The beauty passed away on May 25 2016 at 79 yo.

    • @glennatkinson698
      @glennatkinson698 4 роки тому

      SightSeer I am sooo sorry to hear that😢 True beauty is rare nowadays🌹

  • @martinjones5965
    @martinjones5965 3 роки тому +7

    12m58s deeply impressed that 2 people with passionately different views can share and listen to them in such a civilized and respectful way and even find something in the other to admire. I wonder if humanity will ever advance back to that level.

  • @MisterMasterShafter1
    @MisterMasterShafter1 8 років тому +47

    "Rock and Roll is here to stay." Groucho knew it in 1957.

    • @rolfh
      @rolfh 5 років тому +3

      The song came out in 1958!

    • @zachjohnson637
      @zachjohnson637 5 років тому +2

      And almost two decades later, Queen released A Night at the Opera and Groucho invited them to his home, where they performed the song '39.

    • @panteraxenos4789
      @panteraxenos4789 3 роки тому +3

      And he and Elvis both died in 1977

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 3 роки тому +1

      @@panteraxenos4789 I remember the day Elvis passed. I was a kid and was helping my mom iron and when it came over the news I literally burned my belly with that darned iron. LoL

  • @jongreen4893
    @jongreen4893 7 років тому +33

    Miss Ohio.. Gorgeous!!!

  • @davido8056
    @davido8056 6 років тому +33

    Miss Gabriel Reminds me of Phoebe Cates smile. both beautiful

  • @EdWeibe
    @EdWeibe 4 роки тому +8

    Val-I just walked in with her. groucho- its who walks out with her that counts. quick wit.

  • @billhause
    @billhause 10 років тому +15

    'Grass',is the secret word for a debate on Rock n Roll?

  • @RandysFiftySevenChevy
    @RandysFiftySevenChevy 3 роки тому +4

    The second guy telling Groucho about his discuss with rock-n-roll is the same way i feel about rap music today.

    • @madgepins1967
      @madgepins1967 2 роки тому

      Which only shows how you're a sad anachronism.

  • @riobabic8960
    @riobabic8960 3 роки тому +3

    I remember back in 1977 Groucho and Elvis died a couple days apart !

  • @MrXminus1
    @MrXminus1 3 роки тому +3

    Good people. People seemed a lot nicer and kinder back then.

  • @banishedfromthedwarfplanet530
    @banishedfromthedwarfplanet530 6 років тому +22

    "Rock and Roll is here to stay." Groucho was quite right.

    • @scottlahti1252
      @scottlahti1252 3 роки тому +3

      Title of a song by Danny and the Juniors released in January 1958, a month after this show as a follow-up to their 1957 hit "At the Hop" and much-covered later by, e.g., Sha Na Na in 1969 - and later, as "Johnny Casino and the Gamblers", in the movie _Grease_ (1978).

    • @SuperPatrick777
      @SuperPatrick777 11 місяців тому

      It did die and progressed into rock .

  • @loissimmons6558
    @loissimmons6558 8 років тому +18

    A footnote to add about Kathy Gabriel and Elvis Presley. Reportedly, Kathy was his girlfriend for a time in 1958. In fact, at one time Elvis also dated one of the other entrants in the same Miss Universe contest which Kathy competed for, Hannerl Melcher (Miss Vienna/Miss Austria). On at least one occasion, both beauties were his guest at Graceland at the same time. Apparently, the two women were roommates at one time (perhaps just during pageant activity in Long Beach, CA: the Miss USA pageant was held only two days before the Miss Universe pageant).
    Here's a picture of all three, 15 days after Kathy's episode of YBYL aired. Kathy seems less perturbed by the situation in this picture. As far as I can tell, Kathy supplanted Hannerl as Elvis's girlfriend, so perhaps something was already brewing that day. Then again, girlfriends came and went pretty quickly for Elvis in those days, and he knew his army induction was just a matter of time.
    archive.commercialappeal.com/news/mid-south-memories-dec-27-ep-307123358-326092521.html
    There are a few other pictures from that day and other pictures of Kathy and Elvis that can be accessed if you do a Google Images search for "Kathy Gabriel Miss Ohio".
    Kathy did not represent the U.S. in the Miss Universe pageant. She was originally 5th runner up in the Miss USA pageant, and then raised one place when the original winner was dethroned. (Leona Gage representing Maryland was found to already have two children and had already been married twice when she won.) Hannerl failed to reach the semi-final stage (top 15) in the worldwide Miss Universe contest which was won by Gladys Zender of Peru.
    Here's a very chummy picture of Elvis alone with Kathy on that same day, 12/27/57.
    takingcare-of-business.tumblr.com/post/137764317678/lady-presley-elvis-presley-hugging-kathy-gabriel
    I wonder if the trip to Graceland was already in the works when the YBYL episode was filmed. If so, I can imagine Kathy listening with amusement to the Elvis debate. Roberta Rene would have lost her mind if she knew she was sharing a stage with someone who would visit Elvis at Graceland so soon after the show. Don't be fooled by her age: groupies can be any age.
    And to give some equal time to Hannerl, here's some chummy photos of her alone with Elvis in 1957.
    www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/pictures/1957-december-hannerl-melcher.html

  • @billyshepard5514
    @billyshepard5514 6 місяців тому +1

    Kathy Gabriel dated Elvis in 1957 just before he was drafted. Their are photos of her at Graceland at Christmas

  • @reneecarter6702
    @reneecarter6702 Рік тому +2

    I absolutely adore Mr. John Charles Thomas ❤
    What an amazing voice, and such a sweet guy

  • @moonlanding-69
    @moonlanding-69 4 роки тому +2

    John C Thomas was a famous operetta singer. Passed away 3 short year after this show. Dec. 13, 1960. Due to his high spending lifestyle he died broke.

  • @genebigs
    @genebigs 5 років тому +14

    My God, what a beauty! She certainly was a gorgeous woman.

  • @terencedove5047
    @terencedove5047 4 роки тому +5

    John Charles Thomas really had a pleasant voice...

  • @giavannabellucci309
    @giavannabellucci309 6 років тому +26

    Rock and roll was at least music. Traditional pop music and rock and roll are dead. Rap is not even music, but it is called music. To me (and many others) it is just vulgar and mean talking with (mostly) purchased rights to background music created from a real musician. Thankfully, there is still music being created in other genres like country, jazz and blues among a few others.

    • @m42037
      @m42037 5 років тому +1

      Giavanna Bellucci Country is boring. Give Led Zeppelin a spin on the turntable..

    • @m42037
      @m42037 5 років тому +1

      RUFUS T. FIREFLY You know i'm a drummer? Buddy Rich was a Jazz drummer very good, big band, etc not country, too slow n boring. Only great country music was Johnny Cash

    • @glennhall4980
      @glennhall4980 5 років тому

      Ken Sturm m

    • @m42037
      @m42037 5 років тому

      Glenn Hall Typo ooops

    • @chriskostecki8777
      @chriskostecki8777 5 років тому +1

      @@m42037 Ever wonder where the origins of Zeppelin's music came from, do a history search just for fun

  • @billyblack5160
    @billyblack5160 7 років тому +3

    I wonder what became of the lovely Kathy? Sixty years on and we are still drooling over her. What a looker!

  • @mashtones
    @mashtones 10 років тому +11

    There's a picture of Kathy Gabriel with Elvis at Gaceland.

  • @MrMenefrego1
    @MrMenefrego1 7 років тому +23

    I watched a documentary on Groucho Marx once and the commentator said, "Groucho was humiliated into doing game shows because of his declining movie career." How is this a humiliation? He was well paid and made a huge contribution to American culture. Besides that, when De Soto was his sponsor he got free cars! lol.

    • @staticcharm3808
      @staticcharm3808 6 років тому +4

      j.d. di giusto
      That commentator was an idiot cause Groucho made a lot of money with this show and it revived his career and kept his name out there.

    • @mwilliams1330
      @mwilliams1330 6 років тому +3

      @@staticcharm3808 It also was Groucho at his best.

    • @marymarysmarket3508
      @marymarysmarket3508 5 років тому +2

      @RUFUS T. FIREFLY I believe he wrote that he was making @16,000 per show.

    • @marymarysmarket3508
      @marymarysmarket3508 5 років тому +1

      @RUFUS T. FIREFLY Groucho wrote a lot about his money situation and he wrote that this was his salary on YBYL....regardless of what other people made at the time. He was the star of the #1 television show.

    • @davidlogansr8007
      @davidlogansr8007 4 роки тому

      Mary Mary's Market yes, I had read that he said that exact amount!

  • @dr.reidsheftalltruthinscie2007
    @dr.reidsheftalltruthinscie2007 6 років тому +56

    Women had so much fun back then and considered the whistling a compliment... and it was!...today, the feminists would tear that audience limb from limb... and ruin all her fun..

    • @rax816
      @rax816 6 років тому +1

      You're fucking dumb. #youtubehistorian

    • @Thorum13
      @Thorum13 5 років тому +3

      Men had so much fun back then, men today have no fun..today, this would not happen because men are treated so badly.

    • @retiredmusiceducator3612
      @retiredmusiceducator3612 5 років тому +1

      they were attractive - not undressed. If women then wore what women wear today, they would be called sluts back in those days. A girl doesn't have to be naked or showing all their parts to be considered attractive. Although the older ladies dressing like suffragettes are certainly not attractive.

    • @zacredman9137
      @zacredman9137 3 роки тому +1

      @@rax816 No you're fucking dumb!!!💩🤮👎🏻

  • @FF11Freshstep
    @FF11Freshstep 10 років тому +2

    This new order also reflects exactly how the public would have seen these episodes 57 years ago upon airing.

  • @PanaGringoBarefootBass
    @PanaGringoBarefootBass 3 роки тому +6

    Thomas had a good singing voice. He could do "Love Me Tender" beautifully, I'd bet.

    • @deborahhernandez7785
      @deborahhernandez7785 3 дні тому +1

      He might have made that young woman swoon, had he crooned her an Elvis tune like 'Love Me Tender'. 😅

  • @mikecronis
    @mikecronis 10 років тому +20

    Holy crap, Miss Ohio lost her strap at the end of the first round! Is this the first reference to "cheesecake" on TV?!

  • @ksteiger
    @ksteiger 7 років тому +42

    what a hottie!

  • @CRAIG5835
    @CRAIG5835 7 років тому +4

    I was born 13 days after this episode,Xmas Day 1957.

  • @johnsweeney5946
    @johnsweeney5946 6 років тому +5

    The beautiful Kathy was not really Miss Ohio. A win in the Miss Ohio contest led to an appearance in the Miss America pageant ,not the Miss Universe. She was, in fact "Miss Ohio Universe" A whole different ball game. She surely deserved to win.

  • @markschlesinger
    @markschlesinger 8 років тому +5

    LazlosPlane, gangster rap REALLY IS the threat that folks in the 50s thought rock & roll would be.

    • @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476
      @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476  8 років тому +2

      Try using the "Reply" feature, please. Comments in reply to someone else make no sense to anyone if you leave your replies as totally separate, disconnected posts. Thank you.

    • @joebob5888
      @joebob5888 8 років тому

      +Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life gotta ck with Lazlo

    • @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476
      @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476  8 років тому +1

      Joe Bob I knew what he was referring to, thanks-- he was referring to a really stupid comment by LazlosPlane. But most viewers aren't going to read 50+ comments just to understand what Mark was referring to here. That's why there's a reply button.

    • @annodomini7887
      @annodomini7887 7 років тому

      Damn true!

  • @rentslave
    @rentslave 4 роки тому +3

    12:33-Groucho calls it from beyond the grave!

  • @pedromeza2398
    @pedromeza2398 5 років тому +5

    Grrrrr Ms Ohio. And Groucho is just pure comedy.

  • @TheCliff58
    @TheCliff58 10 років тому +4

    Just the tiniest amount of vitriol,admittedly lighthearted, aimed at RnR in the early days...but interesting because the lady is obviously aware of the ingredients that preceded, and which eventually evolved into, Rock n Roll.

  • @voicetube
    @voicetube 8 років тому +11

    Funny; if that John Charles Thomas dude were to have heard rap (So-called) "music," he would absolutely have then EMBRACED Mr. Presley's music!!

    • @brantu707
      @brantu707 7 років тому

      xvideos

    • @glennatkinson698
      @glennatkinson698 4 роки тому +2

      voicetube Rap, along with tattooing, piercing, and such, is typical of the moral and social decline in today’s America😢 Foul language, same sex marriage, abortion, and a general loss of dignity and virtue, speak volumes about America today. I was raised in a very different world!! The downward spiral began in the 60’s.. So many Americans have decided to accept and condone behavior FAR below what we are capable of😢 Social media has a ‘big role’ in this decline. Whatever happened to ‘absolute truth??’

    • @zacredman9137
      @zacredman9137 3 роки тому +1

      @@glennatkinson698 I agree with you especially on moral issues!!!👍

  • @charlesbrooks9577
    @charlesbrooks9577 5 років тому +5

    WELL YOU REALLY CANNOT BLAME JOHN CHARLES THOMAS,BECAUSE HE WAS RAISED IN A DIFFERENT ERA THAN MOST OF US BOOMERS,BUT ELVIS CAME ALONG AND BLEW HIS KIND OF MUSIC OUT OF THE WATER.

    • @davidlogansr8007
      @davidlogansr8007 4 роки тому +1

      charles brooks John Charles Thomas was born a year after Groucho, Thomas in 1891. He had his first major “hit” in 1914 with Tally Ho! Check it out! He was a Stupendously Talented Singer, and the whole premise here is a farce. Groucho was a Genius!

  • @paflorek1165
    @paflorek1165 7 років тому +24

    One STRAP DOWN and one to go!

    • @bookguitarguy
      @bookguitarguy 6 років тому +2

      LOL. The first time it fell down was at 9:09, but the mayor got in the way. :O))

  • @miltonlevant2290
    @miltonlevant2290 4 роки тому +9

    Groucho was a one off genius.

  • @sns8420
    @sns8420 9 років тому +9

    I wonder what happened - oddly there are pictures of Kathy Gabriel with Elvis - to think she may be 78 now

    • @tcabrera2241
      @tcabrera2241 6 років тому

      m.legacy.com/guestbooks/cleveland/guestbook.aspx?pid=180124152&n=katherine-m-dittrick-gabriel

  • @dennishardy3869
    @dennishardy3869 2 роки тому +1

    It's so something how the old man chose to put down not only Elvis but Rock n Roll music because people at that time and far into the 70's and way beyond. that loved Elvis Presley and his singing of Rock n Roll so much that and Elvis was crowned King of Rock n Roll. Elvis and his music has been loved by millions and millions way back then and even today in 2022. That old man would be shocked out of his pants. I love some country music too. Cuz the beautiful thing about Elvis is Elvis never criticized or put down anybody or their music. That's one the great things about Elvis Presley amongst other things.

  • @miltonmoore8369
    @miltonmoore8369 Рік тому +1

    "Miss Ohio?"😮
    🌠"Miss UNIVERSE!"🌠
    😛
    (She made me forget that I am 77 years old!....the same age that the late/ great George Fennemen unfortunately passed away, the possessor of the greatest speaking voice of any celebrity announcer.)

  • @dadoctah
    @dadoctah 10 років тому +5

    If "Home on the Range" is a folk song (and I seriously question whether Mr Thomas's rendition would count as folk), how about the song "Aura Lea" which was written twelve years earlier (1861 as opposed to 1873)?

  • @UFOBobTV
    @UFOBobTV Рік тому

    Why is the audio not in sync with the video?

  • @starbuono3333
    @starbuono3333 7 років тому +15

    This is a bathing suit ? this is something similar to what you see the women wearing today as casual wear !

    • @RockBrentwood
      @RockBrentwood 5 років тому

      It's a unidirectional trend. Bathing suits have, as a matter of course, transformed into regular wear with about a 1-2 generation time lag. The halter top was originally for sun bathing. The minidress was likewise originally beachwear in the 1920's and 1930's. At this rate, it's just a matter of time before bikinis become street and regular wear. Getting closer & closer ( *growl!* - Groucho )... 2-piece "sports" outfits: www.meetyoursfashion.com/products/patchwork-scoop-cami-crop-top-with-low-waist-shorts-sports-set-outfits

    • @kiwitrainguy
      @kiwitrainguy 4 роки тому

      Is this trend because of Global Warming?

  • @jamescollinson2456
    @jamescollinson2456 Рік тому +1

    Miss Gabriel's swimsuit may have been revealing back in 1957.
    Today it would be considered formal wear.

  • @vince1103
    @vince1103 3 роки тому +11

    Kathy was stunning. Groucho was on great form despite being distracted.

  • @hawkmaster381
    @hawkmaster381 4 роки тому +3

    "Welcome to...(beat it, George, will you?)..." lol