When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name. For a guy who had created the longest-running TV sitcom in history, invented the rock video, and fronted one of the most successful big bands of the 1930s, it's baffling that Nelson has faded so far from American media memory. Larger than life offscreen--an attorney, college football star, cartoonist, songwriter, major band leader--Ozzie created a smaller-than-life TV persona, the bumbling average Dad who became known to the rock generation (which included his teen idol son Rick Nelson) as the essence of blandness. But America also saw Ozzie as their iconic Dad: not a "father knows best," since his pontifications usually proved flawed by the end of each episode, but the father who tried his best.
This book is the only full-length biography of Ozzie Nelson since he published his memoirs in 1973. It treats the big band and early TV icon with affection and hints that American pop culture may owe more to Ozzie than is generally acknowledged.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
48 photos, appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 254 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-8358-4 (9781476683584)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
John R. Holmes has been teaching Medieval literature at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio since 1985 and has written two dozen articles on J.R.R. Tolkien.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1.?Young America's Favorite (1906-1931)
2.?Hello, Peggy Lou (1909-1933)
3.?Mr. and Mrs. Nelson (1934-1935)
4.?Seeing Stars (1936-1938)
5.?Vaudeville and Movies (1938-1941)
6.?Ozzie, Red, and Junior's Mom (1941-1944)
7.?Adventures Take One: Musical Comedy (1944-1945)
8.?Adventures Take Two: The Show About Nothing (1946-1951)
9.?Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
10.?Ozzie's Calendar (1953)
11.?Producer Ozzie (1953-1954)
12.?European Vacation (1954-1955)
13.?Fraternity and a Tenor Guitar (1955-1957)
14.?"Old Posse" / Rock & Roll (1957-1958)
15.?-Six-Shooters and Trapezes (1958-1959)
16.?I'm Not a Lawyer, but I Play One on TV (1959-1960)
17.?... and on Tonight's Episode, Here's June (1961-1962)
18.?... and on Tonight's Episode, Here's Kris (1963-1964)
19.?Adventures' End (1964-1966)
20.?Ozzie's Girls (1967-1974)
Epilogue: The Nelson Legacy
Appendix 1: Discography
Appendix 2: Ozzie Nelson Orchestra Personnel
Appendix 3: Ozzie Nelson Radio Log, 1930-1954
Appendix 4: Radio Episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Appendix 5: Television Episodes of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Appendix 6: Ozzie Nelson's College Football Record
Appendix 7: Ozzie Nelson Chart Stats
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
