Originally posted by robtcorl Anyone remember Steve Allen when he would read song lyrics?
Thought of him yesterday when Urban League's Don't You Want Me Baby came on the car radio with its repetitive ending of:
Don't you want me baby?
Don't you want me? oh
Don't you want me baby?
Don't you want me? oh
https://youtu.be/BAyxatBvKfg I do remember Steve Allen, just a bit, I can't recall if I ever saw him on TV when he was current.
I have stronger memories of Jack Paar, who I think followed Allen. At the time of Allen, I'm not sure if we got any American TV stations, but by about '61 where I lived, we did. It was a TV station, just 70 miles south, across the international border in Pembina, North Dakota that primarily broadcast to my burg, which was the largest city by far, until you got to Minneapolis about 500 miles south.
In the very early '60's , in order to get this one and only American station (KCND) viewers in my city, had to screw TV antennas on their roofs. I still recall my dad on the roof....adjusting the antenna ....bit by bit...to catch the strongest reception. I was in the living room watching KCND on the TV for the clearest picture, my mom was on the front steps....relaying my messages to my dad, 2 stories up, about when the TV had the clearest picture. It was a question of my dad saying, while adjusting the antenna...."can you see it now, can you see it (picture) now...".
It's a lot easier with cable TV.