77 Sunset Strip

[slamfire51]

How many of you old guys remember this TV series from 1958?

"Cookie, Cookie, lend me your comb."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqvFmAm9C5w

[Warthogg]

Certainly I have no recollection.



Wart

[slamfire51]

I remember watching it when I was a kid.
They were private eyes at 77 Sunset Strip. Cookie was the side kick who was continually combing his hair.
It was a pretty good series.

[old Grump]

Everybody remembers Ed Byrne and his stupid comb. I remember Jacqueline Beer the gal who played the secretary. The only sane one in the show, and better looking.

[kuntryboy]

hey dad, i dug it. also i remember a song, sang by some sexy sounding chic saying: "cookie, lend me your comb." you could always tell how ford motors new line up looked.

[TheMrMitch]

I remember it. I thought it was "Kookie". Sigh. My memory done went gone.

[Gunner1558]

Guilty of remembering, but not much. Wasn't too impressed with the series.

Do remember the song "Kookie, lend me your comb."

[old Grump]

CONNIE: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
EDWARD: Well now, let's take it from the top & grab some wheels
& on the way we'll talk about some cuckoo deals.
C: But Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?

E: Now you're on the way, miss, & I'm readin' you just fine.
Don't cut out of here till we get on Cloud 9.
C: But Kookie?

E: I've got smog in my noggin ever since you made the scene
C: You're the utmost!
E: If you ever tool me out...dead, I'm the saddest, like a brain
C: The very utmost. Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?

E: Man, I got my bruise lighters in my flapsy-colored pen
You're gonna send me to that planet called...you know it, baby, the end!

(sax solo)

C: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?
E: If you ever cut out, you might be a stray cat
'Cause when I'm flyin' solo, nowhere's we're on that!
C: Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb. Kookie, Kookie?Connie Stevens and Ed Byrnes sang the song as a duet. Until that song the combing thing was just a gimmick that nobody paid a nickles worth of attention to. The song was a hit and suddenly the comb was famous even if you didn't watch the show. Heard that damn tune every morning and evening on the radio during milking. Ride the bus and it was on the radio, go to a diner or the pool hall and it was on the radio. I hated that damn comb.

[Schuetzenman]

I remember it as a kid probably in reruns. I would of been 2 in 58.