Crazy Guggenheim, is there a clip of him singing a song on the Jackie Gleason Show?

Here ya go

And another one

 

That was so good it brought a tear to my eye. I hadn't seen those since I was a kid.

 

This was slightly before my time I guess. I dimly remember seeing some of this when I was a child, probably in some kind of re-run. But I always thought Jackie Gleason himself played Crazy Guggenheim. I learned something new today.

 

Channel 9 in New York used to show Jackie Gleason show reruns at night when I was a kid, and I loved the Crazy Guggenheim character. Actually, a few other kids at school must've been staying up late too, because a few Crazy G impressions started going around the school, lol. They probably didnt realize the show was 30 years old at the time.

I always figured Crazy was the inspiration for the Pete Puma character in the later Bugs Bunny cartoons.

 

I actually got to see the Jackie Gleason show live in NYC when I was a kid (the Crazy Guggenheim version)....about the only thing I do remember about it was the bar setting where Guggenheim (Fontaine) and Gleason as the bartender (Dunahee-hee-hee) would converse before being asked to sing.

 

Correction to my post above.... I believe Gleason played Joe, the Bartender....Mr. Dunahee was never shown...

 

This is from a Jackie Gleason Christmas special, with Frank Fontaine singing as himself. But thanks to a persistent fly, a little bit of Crazy comes out. Stick to the end of the clip, you'll love it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcpxOxhyfXw&feature=related

P.S. to Steve: Did you have a hand in this record?

 

Dunahee was the camera. Us. God I loved that show.

"And a-WAY we GO!"

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The vocal inflections Mr. Fontaine affected as "Crazy" long preceded (by about a decade or two) his being first hired by Mr. Gleason to play the role in Joe the Bartender sketches. And I only recall Pete Puma in one Bugs 'toon - Rabbit's Kin, released in 1952 (and yes, Stan Freberg did a highly credible impression).

 

This reminds me, I was once gifted a budget priced LP of Frank Fontaine in the mid-'60s - probably a Starline label...? I guess the parents noticed I only used to laugh at Crazy, then lose interest in the show afterwords. But even then they noticed I loved me some rekkid playing!

 

Brings back a lot of memories. They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

 

Nonsense - memories are being made all the time.

 

They just don't make comedy shows like that anymore, great stuff.

 

Great, great stuff. I can still remember seeing Crazy Guggenheim for the first time and the shock of hearing him sing. I watched those clips with a big smile on my face. Now where are the June Taylor Dancers?

 

Gee, I didn't know we had a Crazy Guggenheim smiley...
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Crazy Guggenheim was my first experience with a happy-go-lucky drunk. All I'd had up to that point was my old man who would only get mad or bitter at the world after downing a few. Since that early childhood realization, I've met two other men that were the friendliest and most funniest when they were pixelated (as I believe Daffy Duck used to say.)