Ed Ames RIP

Ed Ames Dead: Daniel Boone Star Was 95 - Variety

I remember him on the Daniel Boone show, but he was also a singer and a very good one at that.

 

I didn’t know he was Jewish

 

RIP Ed Ames

 

I just saw him on The Ed Sullivan rerun the other night. RIP.

 

First, what a phenomenal ad lib.

But what's really amazing is how Carson bides his time, waits for the laughter to subside and finds the exact right beat to drop the joke.

A masterclass in comedic timing.

 

Rest in Peace

 

Too bad they cut out Johnny's line "Welcome to Frontier Bris..." RIP Ed...

 

He certainly was. RIP Ed Ames.

 

I know this is a music forum, and "My Cup Runneth Over" was indeed his biggest hit as a solo artist (and I've had copies in one way or another of this single for decades), but this clip was from after what would soon enough become The Ed Sullivan Theatre replaced specially produced Norelco PC-71's (fitted with mumetal shields owing to a subway substation transformer adjacent to the theatre) with Marconi Mark VII color cameras, despite CBS's satisfaction with the performance of the former; apparently the Marconis were put there because their then-Philadelphia O&O, WCAU-TV (Channel 10), had RCA TK-42 cameras (boo! hiss! - no doubt William Paley's reaction) in their studios (whereas three of their other O&O's had Marconis for which they were intended).

 

As far as the brothers' "Rag Mop" was concerned, though the '49 version was the hit, I more lean in preference towards the big-band arrangement of the 1958 re-recording for RCA Victor:

Only time and place it appeared in true stereo on vinyl was the 1958 45 EP The Best Of The Ames In Stereo. Which, B.T.W., I have.

The rest of the Ames' continued on for a short while on Epic after Ed went solo in '63. Ironically, they were produced there by Jim Foglesong - who would later produce or co-produce the bulk of Ed's RCA hits (including, with Joe Reisman, "My Cup Runneth Over").

 

RIP Ed Ames
The Ames Brothers singing “The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane”

 

Rest easy Ed.

 

Ed Ames to please, and so does Louise. (a few of you may get the reference?)

RIP

 

My mom had his 1967 Christmas album, and the side with “Deck The Halls” has gotten lots of play.

RIP

 

The show is now ubiquitous on streaming after not seeing it for almost 40 years.

 

INSP also reruns it on cable TV.

 

I really enjoy both of Ed Ames' Christmas albums. His version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" is one of the best due to Ed's powerful vocal:

 

"Who Will Answer?" (subtitled "Aleluya No. 1" on the album, as it was based on Luis Eduardo Aute's Spanish-language song of that title) was an interesting one.

 

RIP Mingo

 

Ed is definitely an American icon who will be missed and will always be remembered as time goes by.

 

Among MANY others! A number of the other religious based channels have it on.

Watching it now with a little more basis in history, never knew how much Kentucky looked like Arizona