Jimmy Durante, Sonny King and Eddie Jackson 12 26 69
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- Опубліковано 25 гру 2014
- Jimmy Durante welcomes junior partner Sonny King and senior partner Eddie Jackson to his Lennon Sisters Hour program which aired on ABC the day after Christmas in 1969. They do an abbreviated version of their nightclub act.
Very cool. Eddie Jackson was my great great uncle!
Dave M Dave, your great uncle was a great entertainer!
Dave M Can you tell us a little about him. Other than that he worked with Durante, I can find nothing about him. And was Jackson his birth name? Thanks.
I never knew him. He was my grandma's uncle. I do ancestry.com. His birth name was Herman Menkowsky. Then he changed to Eddie Jacobs. His dad's first name was Jacobs and all the kids took the Jacobs name like my great grandmother who was his sister. Then his stage name was Eddie Jackson.
Dave M Thanks so much Dave. I was a big fan of Durante and Jackson and as an historian of sorts found out about the trio of Clayton, Jackson and Durante. Since most of their performing was before my time when I tried to find out things about the group there was little there except for Durante. Clayton sadly passed away just as TV came about, but there was some info about him, but very little about Eddie Jackson.
Again thanks for this personal remembrance. The one thing I have been able to find out is that in addition to being partners for so long, the three men were very close and enjoyed lifelong friendships.
Dave M Found a few things online that might be of interest to you concerning Eddie Jackson.
www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHP-ST-A47-9-62.aspx
news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19800717&id=PAtWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7eEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5577,4314101&hl=en
www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/entertainer-jimmy-durante-and-vaudeville-pal-eddie-jackson-news-photo/50469248
We are so fortunate that Durante and Jackson lived long enough to be seen on gorgeous color videotape.
I Dont think there is or was anyone with as much style and swagger as the one and only Eddie Jackson
i kind of remember him before he was dead. i loved him so much when i was little, i remember going to redbox to get a movie, and i saw a movie with his name sonny in it, and i got so excited, that i chose that as the movie to watch, just because it had his name lol
Great video- was lucky to see Jimmy Durante & Sonny King in person.
While I’m not one to live in the past, imagine a time when this was on network TV (ABC)- and we’ve “progressed” to The Bachelor on the same network. Sheesh -
I know, so sad.
Great showman! That's the way to do it, Jimmy boy!
Hot club act 1915, 1920s!
Thanks, looks like it!
where ever they got him they need to send him back
sonny king is my grandpa. well step grandpa
he was my dads step dad
Sonny was great!
see he was my dads step dad, and he was married to my grandma peggy king, who is still alive. but her husband before sonny was named bill clark (also dead) and that was my dads real dead. my grandma married sonny after bill died
well goodnight miss calabath wherever you are
Hi Alexis he was my uncle, my mother's brother.
what is the name of the song at 3:52?
I think it is "Here" a hit for Tony Martin based on an opera aria.
Not that song, thanks anyway :)
miruna268:. At 3:52 Sonny switched from "Here" to a few lines from Julius LaRosa's "Eh Cumpari.". Check the web for the lyrics.
wow...they got real psychedelic at 3:27, wavy, and groovy...guess jimmy durante smoked some grass in 1969!
who is sonny king???i grew up with Jimmy??