Hollywood Palace 3-27 Martha Raye (host), George Carlin, Allen & Rossi, Chad & Jeremy

Originally aired Apr 2, 1966. This program features:
- Martha Raye (host) sings "Lover" & "Little Girl Blue"
- Chad and Jeremy: "Distant Shores"
- Martha Raye, Chad and Jeremy: "The Stately Homes of England"
- Sgt. Barry Sadler: "The Ballad of the Green Berets" & "The 'A' Team"
- Ann Miller (singer-dancer): "Slap That Bass"
- George Carlin (comedian)
- Steve Rossi sings "The Impossible Dream"
- Marty Allen & Steve Rossi (comedy team): lion tamer routine
- Jerry Bergen pantomime artist from Holland.
- Comedy sketch: "The Hair Dresser" with Martha Raye and Marty Allen.

[@charliechilders6630]

Martha raye is and was so very sadly unappreciated not only for being one of the very greatest comedic/singing talents of the 20th century; but also for her absolute commitment, dedication, and selfless love for all our hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were entertained and many others who were wounded as she helped nurse back into health. (She was also a certified and very competent nurse!) She was always there working in the line of fire nursing and trying to save anyone she could. However, hardly anyone knows except for Bob Hope telling the world that. At the same time while doing this, he also said she was wounded several times in the line of fire!! The industry called her "a war monger" and then discarded her. There is so much more to the Martha Raye story that people don't know who are making snap judgement calls. May God bless poor sweet lady!👍😇

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

An era of golden entertainment that will never pass this way again! Back in the days when you actually had to have talent to be famous.

[@drewpall2598]

I felt television verity shows like Hollywood Palace, The Ed Sullivan Show and many others during the turbulent 60's and early 70's gave us a little relief from all it all.

[@josephpastor9321]

Thank you for sharing this wonderful look back. I remember watching these with my grandparents when I was small. Wonderful indeed. Nothing like it today, too bad.

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

My intro to Martha Raye was The Bugaloos. Loved her on that show. Later I was pleased to discover there was more to her than Benita!

[@Nick-ty9us]

In that show they say she’s a bad singer and that she is not she’s actually a wonderful singer

[@Forevertrue]

When I was a kid I thought she was so funny. Her and Cid Creaser, I didn't know she could sing! She was really talented!

[@noreenjackson6536]

What a good singer Steve Rossi was! Never realized how well he sang.

[@WytZox1]

* Sadly his singing talent was overshadowed by Marty Allen's goofy persona! ♣

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

@@WytZox1 Well, I guess he was the Dean to Marty's Jerry!

[@WytZox1]

* Although HELLO DERE was funny only once. Their only movie (Last Of The Secret Agents) was a dud. ♣

[@jrnfw4060]

@@WytZox1 Steve was fully aware that, as a comedy team, the funny man would probably get more attentiion. Marty was ten years older than Steve and had been in the business much longer and was much more established when they met for the first time. He gave the both of them a chance as a team. Marty was doing just fine with a solo act when Steve approached him with the idea of teaming up. He didn't want to at first, but when they both discovered how the audiences responded, they realized they had something really good going. As for being "overshadowed", did you notice that Steve Rossi got to come on first and sing solo? The full attention of the audience was on him, at that time. Afterward, Marty came on and they did their planned routine (with some unplanned stuff included). Steve once said in an interview that he would sometimes deliberately make a mistake or feed Marty an unfamiliar line just to see what Marty would do with it and give him more of an opportunity to ad-lib, at which he was usually very good at doing. That, too, was probably anticipated to some extent.

[@jrnfw4060]

@@WytZox1 Actually, "HELLO DERE" was funny all over the world and every time Marty opened with that line. He realized it was to be his catch phrase when, after the first time he used it, members of the audience would come up to him after the show and repeat, "HELLO DERE!" It was infectious, and it caught on. After nearly every show, one or more fans would approach Marty with "HELLO DERE!" He enjoyed it. Every comedian has a catch phrase or is looking for one that will work. "HELLO DERE!" worked for Marty. That secret agents movie they made, yes, the critics panned it, but it was meant to be silly. I think they almost expected it to be panned, because it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. One either enjoyed the comedy in it, or not. Marty went on to co-star in The Big Valley with Barbara Stanwyck, and he also had roles in other films, as well as in Broadway plays and musicals. He was a talented dancer in addition to being a comic. He also appeared on PASSWORD with Steve Rossi, HOLLYWOOD SQUARES by himself, and with his wife at that time, Frenchy, on TATTLETALES, and he was hilarious on all of them. Are you aware that Marty, at his own expense, toured military hospitals during the Vietnam war and entertained wounded service men and women with jokes and funny stories that really cheered them up and made their hospital stays more pleasant? Marty did this from 1969 to 1972. He had served in WWII as a member of the ground crew in the Army Air Corp (today's U.S. Air Force), and he saved an airplane and the people manning it by putting out a couple of fires that had erupted and would have blown up the plane and everyone in it had it reached the bomb bay. For that, Marty earned the Soldiers Medal of Valor. It was very dangerous, what he did, and he said that his mother gave him hell for it later. I'm just giving you some history, here. There's a lot more to Marty Allen's story than just "HELLO DERE!" and one movie that wasn't successful at the box office. Meanwhile, Steve went on to do his own thing and he and Marty rejoined as a team a few more times in the years that followed their initial split. They remained popular throughout that time, and finally Marty and his second wife teamed up to do musical comedy shows together that sold out all over America and abroad, including family oriented shows aboard cruise ships. Marty and Karon continued performing right up to just a few months before Marty died in 2018. He was 95 years old, and just short of his 96th birthday when he was taken by pneumonia after breaking his hip in a fall. I would say that's quite a successful track record. Wouldn't you?

[@garyrasberryjr.552]

The "Goodnight, Sisters" at the end of the show is a tribute to the nuns at the Sisters of St. Francis Hospital in Miami, Florida, who helped her recover from a overdose of sleeping pills in the 1950s. She wore a St. Christopher's medal, a St. Genesius medal and a Star of David that fans gave her (she was actually a Methodist)

[@chrisn7259]

That's a young Paul Dooley in the Windex commercial.

[@brianwolle2509]

allan and raye are really hilarious together...

[@jrnfw4060]

Allen and Rossi are even more hilarious!

[@gregman1715]

MARTHA.RAYA.JUST.LOVE.HER

[@justinmartyr4420]

Soooo, 1966, & THAT was the Good "OL Days!!! I'm just Glad, that this in nearly 2016!!!!

[@clairehenderson9710]

Martha ❤

[@juanmonge8]

Ted Knight in the laxative commercial.

[@CoCotheTurtle]

So glad that Ted Baxter was finally able to take a dump... George Carlin's desk looks like an old school console TV... Barry Sadler giving me Clutch Cargo vibes...

[@storiesfromdifferenteras]

6:27 to dream the impossible dream 29:50( FM segment) world w ide, Hong Kong, Berlin, ACME, Chad, Hollywood, Sans Francisco, kangaroo, 33:40yokantan

[@00zarzu00]

hi @hollywoodpalace ...has 3-26 ever been released? do you have it?

[@susanhuber1932]

We need to dig up those space helmets to use as covid masks. Atleast the kids could see each others faces. I am sure they wouldn't be any less effective than the useless paper masks. Advertising was before its time. P.S. I am joking.

[@joancarlestomas]

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[@lloydgordon3429]

Joan, you clearly don't know very much. Martha Raye was a trained nurse and worked in Mash units at the front during WWII. When she was done working 8-10 hours in a MASH tent, then she would entertain the troops on her own. NOT with a cushy USO Tour. The door of her private home was open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to ANY serviceman, regardless of rank; who always received a warm meal and a place to sleep. I don't believe in war, but what she did was pretty amazing. THAT'S why she won the Hersholt. What have you done?

[@joancarlestomas]

Lloyd Gordon I know she did a great job as a nurse, and that's really remarcable.

[@hollywoodpalace3308]

Joan Carles Tomàs Forteza Martha Raye wasn't financing the Vietnam war any more than any other taxpayer was, whether they wanted to or not. And I'm officially asking you to drop this subject now. Totally unnecessary negative political commentary on a video of a 50 year variety show. Let people enjoy it as it was intended, as *entertainment*. Thank you.

[@joancarlestomas]

Hollywood Palace Ok, I apologize. I missed the part, at 57:03, when Martha Ray says that the contributions are for food, clothing and medical suplies for the population in Vietnam. I thought she was asking to finance the war, and in fact that didn't make sense for me considering the good things I knew about her. Anyway, I'm not American, so I'm not involved in your politics. My comment was only from the humanitarian point of view. I enjoy your videos very much. I was born ten years after this, but somehow it brings me pleasant memories of a time and a way of doing things that no longer exists. As you say, it's pure entertainment, and politics, whether we like it or not, stay aside.

[@hollywoodpalace3308]

Joan Carles Tomàs Forteza Thanks for understanding, Joan. I greatly appreciate it.