GREASY KID STUFF

It's 4:46 am , dark out and Patrick is with Junior downstairs playing Grand Theft Auto.

Yesterday Junior was putting some goop in his hair, and it reminded me of the Brylcreme TV jingle of the late 50's-early 60's:

Brylcreme, a little dab'll do ya,
Use more, only if you dare!
Brylcreme, the girls'll all pursue ya,
They'll love to get their fingers in your hair!

Ad of course that reminded me of cool teanage hearthrob Edd "Kookie" Burns of "kookie, Lend me your Comb" fame, the beatnik-percurser-to-Fonzie parking lot jockie from the TV show "77 Sunset Strip". I missed the first few original seasons of that classic show, because our local ABC station was one of these new-fangled UHF stations, that our TV set didn't pick up. We could've bought a converter box to sit on top of the TV, but they were expensive. (our old TV was a piece of FURNITURE, it had wooden doors that closed over the screen). And of course that reminded me of the TV theme song--how can I remember the lyrics after all these years?

77Sunset Strip! (snap! snap!)
77Sunset Strip!
77Sunset Strip!
You meet the highbrow and the hipster,
the starlet and the phoney tipster,
You meet just every type of guy and gal,
Including a Private Eye!

Don't worry ,I know the lyrics to many TV shows, mostly western, I'll eventually bring all of them to you. Remember Effrem Zimbalist Junior and Roger Smith? I think Roger Smith was Ann-Margaret's husband, who became an invalid in later days. So it goes. -30-