Jacky Gleason and me had a fair amount in common: he was rightist, Catholic (but I'm non-practicing), a paranormal buff, a big fan of Bert Kaempfert, and didn't like challenges.
He had Kaempfert on his show as a guest in '68, and it was the first time I saw him. Gleason was himself a bandleader (although there is doubt as to his exact role in the recordings), making about 50 albums of romantic music in the '50s and '60s, and using some of the best jazz musicians, including trumpeter Bobby Hacket in the '50s, who had played with Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.
Gleason had many books on the supernatural (which is often erroneously and confusingly synonymized with ''paranormal''), psychic phenomena, and 1000s on UFOs (I have about 60). He even had his house designed in the shape of a flying saucer! His interest in UFOs and his friendship with President Nixon, who was his golf partner in Florida, got him to see dead bodies of aliens at the Homestead Air Base in Florida. This story is told by his wife Beverly and Airman 1st Class Larry Warren, who was involved in the Rendleshsam Forest UFO incident in 1980 in Suffolk, England. In the same town in '56 occured one of the most famous UFO radar-visual contact cases, the Bentwaters-Lakenheath incident. The objects were tracked by 3 ground-based radars and confirmed by the Venom night fighter aerial radar and visually from the plane and on the ground.
He had Kaempfert on his show as a guest in '68, and it was the first time I saw him. Gleason was himself a bandleader (although there is doubt as to his exact role in the recordings), making about 50 albums of romantic music in the '50s and '60s, and using some of the best jazz musicians, including trumpeter Bobby Hacket in the '50s, who had played with Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.
Gleason had many books on the supernatural (which is often erroneously and confusingly synonymized with ''paranormal''), psychic phenomena, and 1000s on UFOs (I have about 60). He even had his house designed in the shape of a flying saucer! His interest in UFOs and his friendship with President Nixon, who was his golf partner in Florida, got him to see dead bodies of aliens at the Homestead Air Base in Florida. This story is told by his wife Beverly and Airman 1st Class Larry Warren, who was involved in the Rendleshsam Forest UFO incident in 1980 in Suffolk, England. In the same town in '56 occured one of the most famous UFO radar-visual contact cases, the Bentwaters-Lakenheath incident. The objects were tracked by 3 ground-based radars and confirmed by the Venom night fighter aerial radar and visually from the plane and on the ground.
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