{"id":32943,"date":"2024-07-29T14:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32943"},"modified":"2024-07-30T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T18:28:24","slug":"in-1979-we-all-wanted-to-be-bowzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/29\/in-1979-we-all-wanted-to-be-bowzer\/","title":{"rendered":"In 1979, We All Wanted To Be Bowzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the other evening as I was making my toilet before bed, I sang to myself, &#8220;Doh doh it doh doh.  Good night, sweetheart, well, it&#8217;s time to go&#8230;.&#8221;  And I will leave it to you to wonder if I flexed my bicep as I did so.<\/p>\n<p>Because that&#8217;s the closing number from the television program <em>Sha Na Na<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UbF1tBzOukk?si=Qjx2w-MVF4SYfGu3\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I saw that a time or two on a Saturday afternoon back in the day.  I was not the target audience&#8211;it was probably geared towards my grandparents&#8217; generation or maybe the early boomers who remembered doo-wop from their younger years&#8211;but as a kid, I am sure I watched anything.<\/p>\n<p>So I went looking on YouTube for a complete episode, and I watched it.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I found had the added benefit of having Barbi Benton as the guest star:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6ee0ejLzbcA?si=z59wWa3H5nGCic5r\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She was a <em>Playboy<\/em> model who also released some records, and so she did a number on the show.  She had the country rock sound so common of the era (says the man who also owns Lynda Carter records).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, someone probably used a new VCR to tape this off of television, so you get all the period commercials as well.  Man, I was young once, but that was long ago.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like YouTube has other episodes, but I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll watch many of them, and I&#8217;m certainly not going to seek out a box set (which does not seem to be available, although they have a bunch of records out).  Because one or two episodes would be a nostalgia trip, and more than that might indicate a problem (says a guy who watched a bunch of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/19\/on-the-best-of-the-dean-martin-show-1965-1974\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show<\/em><\/a> on videocassette). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other evening as I was making my toilet before bed, I sang to myself, &#8220;Doh doh it doh doh. Good night, sweetheart, well, it&#8217;s time to go&#8230;.&#8221; And I will leave it to you to wonder if I flexed my bicep as I did so. Because that&#8217;s the closing number from the television [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32947,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32943\/revisions\/32947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}