Betty White is so precious. We don't see stuff like that on television anymore.

I met Jimmy Boyd in Las Vegas about 1977. He seemed very nice. He had a wonderful singing voice even as an adult.

@carolynurania4922

5 жыл бұрын

I've been researching Jimmy Boyd's life and from what people tell me he was fun-loving, kind, enjoyed sailing and tennis and did his own thing no matter what other people thought of him. You were lucky to have met him. Hard to believe he has been gone ten years.

@vitothepizzaguy7475

2 жыл бұрын

Oh hey! I just came from watching your spaghetti video

Jimmy, like all of the Boyd's, had great RED hair...started singing at the age of 4, great Mississippi voice....RIP Jimmy

Who else loves this song

I WAS 21 & INOT TECALL THIS,,, BUT I AT 84 RETAIN A FONDNESS BOTH PERFORMERS...HOW SWEET IT WAS!!!

This is great! I had no idea she had her own show. I didn't even know she sang so well. She was so beautiful and cute, though. Love Betty!! But, seeing her here she looks so much like Catherine Frot who is a wonderful French actress.

Jimmy occasionally appeared as "Wheeler" on Betty's previous series "DATE WITH THE ANGELS" (1957-'58). He was a regular on this live short-lived successor to her filmed sitcom; "THE BETTY WHITE SHOW" lasted just 13 weeks [fulfilling her year-long contract with Plymouth].

Happy 97th Birthday to the First Lady of Television! Who is here watching to celebrate her special day?

I heart Betty White's laugh. It's so infectious! I always laugh when she laughs. Adorable!

If anyone has any clips of Betty singing, PLEASE POST!!! I never knew she had such a nice voice.

I don't think I'd known Betty White ever did a variety show like this. Jimmy Boyd had been famous for introducing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" when he was about 10 years old. He followed it up a year or so later with a similar song to cash in on the Mambo craze at the time: "I Saw Mommy Do The Mambo". The 1958 Plymouth in the background behind the final credits is looking mighty attractive too, I must say.

i love Betty's dimples

She is a pro in all she does.

Boyd also played "Wheeler," the nephew of Betty White's character ("Vickie Angel") on White's "Date With The Angels" sitcom, as well a regular on the John Forsythe sitcom "Bachelor Father," as "Howard Meechim," the nerdy teen male friend of series co-star Noreen Corcoran's "Kelly Gregg." How ironic the younger Boyd died some years ago, yet we now celebrate the longevity of the actress who played his elder relative on their mutual TV series. More people remember White than Boyd, for sure.

I love Betty White. I almost forgot she had once studied opera.

I have a playlist of my favorites of all genres. It has the greatest of the greatest singing hit after legendary hit. Its got The Carpenters,, Ray Charles, Maria Callas, Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, Elton John, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and this. Why this? Its so much fun!, They have great chemistry having worked so much with each other, and you just sense they are having a blast.

absolutley adorable! Betty always makes me smile.She was,and still is,and always will be the best! In my opinion she IS the queen of comedy.

I Adore this women!! She's just a amazing person, a true example!

Great clip! I love the fins on that Plymouth at the end. I mean, LOOK AT THOSE FINS!!! Thank you for posting this.

Jimmy originally appeared as Vicki Angel's teenage nephew "Wheeler" on "DATE WITH THE ANGELS" in 1957. When this series replaced it in January 1958, he became part of her regular cast until it was cancelled that April.

i love her laugh :)

OH , I MISSED SO MUCH THE OLD TIMES!

You're right, it's the same Jimmy Boyd that was on Bachelor Father. He had really good comic timing as Kelly's boyfriend Howard. However my favorite Bachelor Father cast member was Bernadette Withers, who was PERFECTLY cat as Kelly's best friend Ginger. Ms Withers was great if not superb at physical comedy with her facial bug eyed expressions and the way she gazed at boys and her swooning spells. Sometimes you get the feeling that Howard and Ginger are siblings even though they're not.

Those dimples & that smile are infectious.

She was a doll then, back when ladies were ladies

#RIP Jimmy 🙏❤️

Betty is so stinkin cute!

So I FINALLY got to see a clip from the long anticipate "the Betty white show" I feel very honored!!

Jimmy Boyd's best known acting role was as Kelly Gregg's simple minded but good natured boyfriend, Howard Meechum on 'Bachelor Father'. You're right,. he had red hair. Another Bachelor Father cast member with red hair was Bernadette Withers who played Kelly's wacky boy crazy best friend, Ginger, whose last name and parents changed from year to year. IMDB used to mix up the acting credits of this Jimmy Boyd with Jim Boyd of The Electric Company...

love Jimmy.......love Betty.......

I think that Al Jarvis, Betty's co-host at KLAC-TV channel 13 in Hollywood in the late-1940s to early-'50s, discovered Jimmy Boyd

*I LOVE BETTY WHITE!!!!*

She's 90 and still a treasure.

so cute ! i love betty white ! ! ! !

Priceless!

I LOVE this!!!!

I didn't know she could sing so well. She didn't hardly sing much on Golden Girls. I wish she had sung more during my lifetime so far. It would have been nice to know she could before she left this earth.

I love Betty White

Precious!!

Gayla looks pretty and she sing beautiful

Cute duet.

the sweet and funny Betty:)

Jimmy Boyd, I think, had the hit record of "I Saw Mommy Kising Santa Claus." Although more people probably know the rock & roll version by Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes), from the Phil Spector Christmas album, than now remember Boyd's original of the song.

Sing it Betty!!!

sweet!!!!!!!!

It's a shame she didn't record music. Her voice was beautiful. I wonder if she can still sing

Omg soooooooooooooo cute

She was in her late 30s that's amazing

Awesome! I'm looking for the video of Jimmy Boyd singing "Bupkis is a Lot of Nuthin" with Noreen Corcoran from Bachelor Father.

I love Betty White. Every gay guy that I know LOVES her. That must mean that she has contributed very well in her career! (RIP William! Gone to soon. AIDS claimed your life, but I will never forget you, as well as your icon, Betty White.)

idk what this is but I like it

I saw her sing on Leno, so I came searching for more.

Jimmy aint no boy, no more... !

This was back during a time when people performed on television and actually enjoyed it. It wasn't for the money. They loved their jobs back then.

Decent!

@bunny651 She still is. :)

i forget how old betty white is

@Frenite

7 жыл бұрын

TheSweaterKid 94

goes to prove. no means yes ;)

@sweiland75 You can bet!

@cmulwee001 .. but they are NOT the same person. I have see recent footage of the Jim Boyd of the The Electric Company, on volume 2 of "The Best Of.." collection, and he does NOT resemble or talk like the late "Bachelor Father" performer AT ALL. Also THIS Jimmy Boyd was a country boy from Mississippi while the other was a northerner from Philadelphia. IMDb in more recent years corrected their mistake. Now this guy is(was) Jimmy Boyd(I) while TEC's cast member is Jim Boyd(VII).

Here's a scene from that's the Way of the World (1975) with Jimmy Boyd as Gary Page. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pWhtz62BgpO9qbA.html. He was funny in that role; however, it was a shame he was typecasted and could not land roles more often in better movies or TV shows after the mid-1960s.

did not know that danny kaye had a twin embryo........

@hypnomancer That's what is so hot.

She is a female version of Jerry Lewis.

As a gay man myself, Jimmy sets off my gaydar big time. He's the type of gay guy, like Paul Lynde or even a less extreme Liberace, where it's so obvious yet straight people can't see it, or choose not to see it. I just saw Jimmy on an old Merv Griffin show rerun on GET-TV and it was the most obvious there than anywhere I've yet seen. His hands were all over the other cute young male singer on the show, a British singer Steve Perry (not the Journey lead singer) and flirty. Of course Merv was also gay himself.

@gymnastix

8 жыл бұрын

+DentalTech1000 Not that it necessarily means it was so, but I read Jimmy Boyd was heterosexual and twice married to women, one of who was Yvonne Craig, who was television's "Batgirl." And with his second wife, Anne Forrey, Boyd fathered a child, his son. As that was the era before artificial insemination was practiced, Boyd had to have had conventional intercourse with a female, at least once, to have fathered his son.Boyd was also drafted into the United States Army in 1961, in the era before even "Don't ask don't tell" was Pentagon policy. So if Boyd was a homosexual, with all this evidence to the contrary, he was certainly a very closeted homosexual. Just curious, other than his having touched another male singer on a television show, what makes you think Boyd was homosexual? Plenty of males have physical contact with other males, in sports for example. But this doesn't make all these men homosexual, not solely based on having had physical contact with another male. If that be the case, then all male doctors would be considered homosexual for the fact of touching their male patients while performing examinations.Also, although it has been speculated, Merv Griffin never admitted if he was homosexual, and also had a biological son with his wife. Of course neither did Liberace either, publicly. But there was ample evidence of that, including the males who testified in court (in support of Liberace's ex-partner Scott Thorson), to confirm Liberace's sexual orientation. And even his fellow entertainer friends, such as Betty White, have admitted Liberace was homosexual. "Not that there's anything wrong with that (as was said a few times in an infamous "Seinfeld" episode)!"

@gymnastix

8 жыл бұрын

Sorry about the above run-on paragraph post. Evidently, KZread doesn't allow for proper paragraph formatting anymore, because I submitted the above in multiple paragraphs.

@DentalTech1000

8 жыл бұрын

+gymnastix It's true that Jimmy had two brief marriages, one for 2 years (1960-62) and the other for 4 years (1980-84). I see in Jimmy the mannerisms of many gay men that I have known, some of whom were married too and had children. (During sex with a female they say they had to fantasize about a man in order to perform). Quite a lot of gay men have been in the armed forces. When I came out to my grandfather thinking he wouldn't accept it well, he accepted it just completely fine and said that there were many homosexuals on his ship in the Navy during World War II. Re Marv Griffin, a friend of mine in Los Angeles worked for his production company for years and said that attractive young men would go into Merv's office, the door would close, and everyone on staff knew what was going on. But of course it's common knowledge today about Merv, even without my friend's confirmation of it. Merv was sued by males twice for sexual harassment, which made the National Enquirer. One of them was Denny Terrio, the host of Dance Fever, produced by Merv. But back to Jimmy, I could be wrong, certainly. If you had seen the Merv Griffin show clip you would understand more. Unfortunately, it isn't on KZread.

@silverascal

8 жыл бұрын

+DentalTech1000 Wow! I was just watching the old Merv Griffin Show (on GetTV and I happened to be recording it) and was struck, too, by how gay (for lack of a better term) Jimmy Boyd came across. I'm gay, too, and my gaydar isn't always the most accurate; but, two things struck me: 1) When Boyd was introduced and came on to the stage, he struck, for lack of a better term, a very "gay" pose, when approaching Griffin, by "effeminately" or exaggeratedly placing his hand (back of hand/wrist) on his hip; and, then, putting his arm around or, otherwise "touching in a friendly way" a very uncomfortable appearing Steve Perry (arms folded, leaning away from Boyd," definitely not smiling or getting into the fun of the show.) Which brings me to asking just who was Perry? Whatever became of him? All I can find about him is that he was British, sang/recorded a song, "Another Rainy Day," and folded his arms a lot. Anyhow, seeing this all on the Griffin show, I immediately started Googling Boyd and Perry, which lead me here :)

@STORMREALITYASYLUM

8 жыл бұрын

+Keith DeWeese I just watched the same show and was wondering who Perry was as well! Haven't been able to find anything, either. Let me know if you find anything. I'll do the same. ;)

@Degenerossi lol well i dont know if i d say that makes her hot but ok

Betty White YOUNG? I've never seen such a thing. And I frankly don't believe it. Who is this woman?

Betty did not sing like a Golden Girl. A very odd pairing.

you sure as hell, did not want, a 1950's wing tip car, backing up into you.....yikes....

The song is kind of molesty, but it sounds nice

wow she talks like an old lady even when she was young

Date rape music????

@Frenite

7 жыл бұрын

Gregory Bradley WTF

Wow this song certainly wouldn’t fly in today’s SJW #metoo environment

I am in love with this tune~ of many years ~ thank you for posting ~

when Jimmy died part of me and my child age died with him!

so cute ! i love betty white ! ! ! !