Boyhood crushes

#3: Kookie

Gawd, this is embarrassing.

I wrote, posted part, and then dropped this series. Only to revive it again now.

77 Sunset Strip was a late fifties (1959-1964) television detective show about a brat-packy group of PIs starring Ephram Zimbalist, Jr. Next door to their office was a club where the young and very hip carpark Kookie (Edd Byrnes) worked. Dean Martin's nightclub was in the neighborhood.

We're talking major fifties hip here.

(It says: "to John,"
but sadly, not mine.)

Kookie was the TV version of the beatnick - slangy and wisecracking - and listening to his new transistor radio. And he was always combing his brilliantly Brycreemed hair.

You could buy a Kookie brand-named comb and show it off proudly.

Like everyone else, I thought he was totally, like, the cat's pyjamas and cute as hell.

You sorta had to be there, I guess.

About a half-minute

Related: Boyhood crushes #1, boyhood crushes #2

And since Disney has killed the videos that I used in the the Tramp #1 post above, here's another of the spaghetti scene:

Two spaghetti especiale.
About three.

Oh this is the night,
it's a beautiful night
And we call it bella notte.

Look at the skies,
they have stars in their eyes
On this lovely bella notte.

It won't last long, I'm afraid.