[78-L] Nick Lucas (was House Party)

[Taylor Bowie]

Lucas was a real trouper.  I recall seeing him on the Lawrence Welk show in 
the 70s (Eddie Peabody some time before that).

I actually saw him in person one time as well.  Around 1975  Joe Venuti was 
playing a gig here in Seattle at the old Marine Room in the Olympic Hotel 
and Nick was in the audience.  Joe had him come up on stage to do a 
number...oddly (I thought) it was the even-then overexposed "I left My Heart 
In San Francisco."

But it was a tribute to Nick that he just tore the place up with it...a fine 
performance.

BTW any of you who only know is singing should check out the guitar solos he 
recorded,  or spot some of his work with the Oriole Orchestra on Brunswick 
ca. 1924.   The guy was a guitar master.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Dnjchi at aol.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] "House Party"


>
> Back in 1982 I rented a camper and took the family to the Colorado Rockies
> for a summer vacation trip.  On one trip we went to th "Garden of the
> Gods", a beautiful valley of red rocks standing upright in the fields. 
> For
> supper we went into Colorado Springs and a restaurant there.  A few days 
> later
> we wended our way home to Erie.  Upon reading the accumulated  newspapers,
> I was surprised to read of the death of Nick Lucas, in Colorado  Springs,
> the day we were there for dinner....
> Don Chichester
>
> In a message dated 6/27/2009 4:28:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> mbiel at mbiel.com writes:
>
> From:  "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> Heck, I loved that show  when I was a little kid (late 50s).
>> To show you how naive I was, I  recall asking my parents why
>> there weren't more shows like that on the  radio. The little
>> bands on House Party and on Arthur Godfrey played  some damn good music.
>
> Last week when Dave Weiner showed a film of Nick  Lucas at the Jazz Bash
> I was reminded that the first time I ever saw Nick  Lucas was on House
> Party, about the same time that Taylor was also a  fan.  I was sick and
> usually watched and/or listened to it when I was  home.  I was almost
> cured and due to return to school when I heard  that Lucas was going to
> be a guest on TOMORROW'S show.  I had a  "relapse" and thus was able to
> stay home another day to see him.  I  had known of him from just one
> record of his in my father's collection,  "Rosy Cheeks" b/w "Underneath
> the Stars", but it was one of my favorite  records.  A few months later I
> was interviewed for a teen page in one  of the local newspapers and in
> talking about records I mentioned that  record and that Nick Lucas was
> making a come-back.  I might have also  known of his Decca LP, although
> it was many years before I got a copy of  it.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>
> From:  Dnjchi at aol.com
>>>> Out of the blue I began humming the song  "You"--and instantly
>>>> thought of Art Linkletter's "House  Party". That song was the
>>>> theme, wasn't it? Don  Chichester
>
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>>> Oh  great, now I'm not going to be able to get it out of my head,
> because
>>> that thing never ended. They just kept playing it on and  on and on and
>>> on and on and on until the announcer finally said  "This is the CBS 
>>> Radio
>>> Network" or "This is the CBS Television  Network" depending on which
>>> version you were tuned to. Played by  something like the Muzzi Marcelino
>>> Trio I believe.
>
>>  Mike (at least Michael Jackson never recorded it) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>
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