Ed Wynn & Frankie Avalon with Milton Berle 1959 in color

First half of the January 21, 1959 colorcast of The Kraft Music Hall starring Milton Berle with guests Ed Wynn and Frankie Avalon

[@batterymakermarkii2654]

Frankie Avalon at a mere 19 years of age, Milton Berle and Ed Wynn, long since passed...and we still have a copy, almost like viewing thru a time machine

[@andrezl-sp168]

The beginnings of stand up!!! 🤪🤘🇧🇷

[@voiceover-impressionist]

If I had a time machine, I'd go back to a simpler time..

[@Lampshade51]

1959 color videotape! A miracle that it survived, since most were erased and re-used.

[@blodgettshouseofinsanity]

Two pioneers of Television. Milton Berle and Ed Wynn. It's interesting to see them together. Milton of course was the first major television star and Ed hosted one of the first comedy-variety television shows

[@kbobdonahue1966]

I was sad to know that Ed Wynn died on the day I was born (June 19, 1966). Milton and Ed were hilarious and goofy. They were both great. Frankie is a music legend. Awesome show.

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

He died when Moe turned 69

[@ShaniTrahan-k7e]

Yes it was an awesome show I love it 🥰💗🖤🧡❤💙🤍💜💚🤎💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

[@elizabethlizziemayuku]

I love you, Frankie Avalon!

[@ShaniTrahan-k7e]

😘❤💕

[@KendrickHarrisKenfinity]

Wow from "Eisenhower" to the growing population in the Los Angeles, it's so awesome to sway to the Frankie Avalon for longer than "40 minutes". Stay safe everyone!

[@blodgettshouseofinsanity]

Milton Berle and Ed Wynn!! I love them!

[@elvispresley2021]

Good times

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

Louie the lilac and the mad hatter

[@johncarpenter624]

It is great to see a show from my childhood in color.

[@jadezee6316]

whats so good about color? best movies ever made were all B&W

[@kdubya-6910]

Less than 2 weeks before "The day the music died".

[@buzzlightyear6796]

It's goo to this. It aired 6 years before I was born...-- The monologue of Milton Berle's sounds like it was written by Hal Block.

[@a1wireless1964]

Thanks for posting this it looks really great on my vintage color sets, that leaves me wanting so much more, do you by chance have any full-length programs?

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Kraft Processed Cheese. They were proud of it!

[@bkenglandUTube]

Those looked incredibly gross! At least they didn't slather Crisco on them!

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

@@bkenglandUTube It wasn't gross.

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

Processed cheese is real cheese and it was a new product. Boy those slices were huge.

[@WinkDaMan07]

Quality is so good, it almost looks like 1989!!

[@gymnastix]

Interesting to see how a younger Frankie Avalon appeared and sounded several years before those infamous "Beach Party" and "Beach Party"-derivative films. And as with Elvis Presley, the calculated film career of Avalon also served to water down even his music, but not that much. As with Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Fabian Forte, Bobby Rydell, and others of their male crooner ilk of the late 1950s, the emphasis was more on being a junior league successor to Frank Sinatra than a real rock and roll singer. In the case of Pat Boone, perhaps the emphasis was on being a junior Perry Como or Bing Crosby. In any case, lightweight when compared with Presley and Ricky Nelson, who were also teen idols but the real rock & roll deals. I'll concede Darin's "Splish Splash" was somewhat more rock than pop. Also, nothing wrong with being a competently swinging pop singer of its own accord. But there certainly was a pretense, enabled by such promoters as Dick Clark, these teen idols (many of them, like Sinatra, of Italian-American ethnicity) such as Avalon were also rock & roll, which they really were not. By the way, I assume your KZbin handle is a deliberate misspelling of the name of the Russian engineer Vladimir Zworykin, who is sometimes misattributed with the invention of television over the actual inventor, the American Philo T. Farnsworth. Zworykin was an employee of Radio Corporation of America (RCA) and its longtime president, David Sarnoff, who hired Zworykin to be in charge of TV development. It was Sarnoff's intent from the get-go to use NBC to sell RCA-manufactured TV sets, just as he had NBC Radio to sell RCA-made radios. Nothing wrong with that wonderful market venture plan, but also disingenuous to make his boy (Zworykin) out to be the Tom Edison of TV (which Sarnoff did, self-servingly) when he was not. I guess also those Eastern European emigres stuck together.

[@davanmani556]

gymnastix he stabbed Bill Paley of CBS in the back concerning color broadcast in 1953 to the U.S government.

[@Tmanaz480]

Look at that Brylcreem shine.

[@StevenTorrey]

In 1959, The Eisenhower budget was at $77 Billion; 2021 the American Budget FY 2021 totals $4.829 trillion,

[@Tmanaz480]

No lip synching. No handheld mic.

[@BuckyBrown-lt4ry]

They were true performers. Entertainers today do not know what to do with their hands. The exception are Broadway people.

[@CapAnson12345]

Weird to see this and realize Buddy Holly was still alive. The plane crash was two weeks later.

[@fromthesidelines]

13:08- "Ah, I've had enough of him! I want to see 'THE MILLIONAIRE'!!!!"

[@am74343]

I wanna make a Hawaiian cheese sandwich right now!

[@victorparedes6887]

What are these cheese pineapple bacon sandwiches?

[@Muswell]

Why would anyone buy PROCESSED cheese?? Why??

[@michaelmitchell5098]

Because.

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

It's still real cheese.

[@Muswell]

@@theannoyedmrfloyd3998 There's not much real cheese in it. Have you ever tried to melt it? It burns like plastic.

[@RGM501]

when theses pop stars are on shows in the 50s and 60s they always seem to sing there worse songs :(

[@Frankcoins]

+rgm501 The reason they were booked on these shows was to promote their latest song, which half a century later is likely not considered their best.

[@davanmani556]

Maybe he should have gone back to high school?

[@lendrury2771]

Milton 3 legs berle The homie was packing the beef

[@MrRobison94]

Those Kraft sandwiches made me want to puke!!!

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

Just remove the bacon.

[@andrezl-sp168]

Puke 🤢🤮 Saudações do Brasil 😂🇧🇷

[@markfriedman5706]

Robert Klein did a take off on the commercial and called it KRAFT VELVEETA BLECH!!!!!