Eddies Mom and my Mom were best friends growing up in Hattiesburg, Ms. back in the 1930's. His grand father Poppa Red McCaffrey owned a supermarket here and had a Friday night variety show on a local TV station. Eddie was often a guest. He was a very talented kid, still lives in Mississippi and is still doing well.

What a cute kid that Eddie Hodges was. I remember Eddie as a teenager in an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," in which he played a babysitter for the "Petrie" son "Richie (Larry Matthews) and fell in love with "Richie's" mother, "Laura Petrie," as portrayed by the late great Mary Tyler Moore. I read Eddie had a rock and roll career with a couple of hit singles before he retired from show business, then served in the Army stateside during the Vietnam era, before going to college and receiving bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology, after which he had a career as psychologist. But thank goodness we got to hear and see him as a child and young man, when Eddie was a talented actor and singer. One other interesting bit of trivia regarding Eddie Hodges--he originated the role on Broadway of "Winthrop Paroo" in the Meredith Wilson musical "The Music Man," sang the song "Gary, Indiana" which became better-known from the film version when sung by Ronny Howard in that same role as "Winthrop," the little brother of "Marian the Librarian." A pity there isn't a videotape or film of Eddie Hodges in his Broadway role in "The Music Man." Incidentally, the young actor who replaced Eddie as "Winthrop" in "The Music Man" and later portrayed "Oliver Twist" (with then-future Monkee Davy Jones as "The Artful Dodger") in the original Broadway production of Lionel Bart's musical "Oliver!," was Paul O'Keefe, best-known for his role of "Ross Lane," the brother of Patty Duke's "Patty Lane" in "The Patty Duke Show" for three seasons (1963-66) on ABC.

I love this song ❤️

@davidreed6264

Жыл бұрын

Takes me back to younger happy days

@princesssunrays

Жыл бұрын

@@davidreed6264 I wish I could say the same lol. I'm still a kid myself

Frank's face when the kid's voice cracked in the last note😂

@annakakurtz7593

2 жыл бұрын

Great and had to be intentional

@mynameisworld

4 ай бұрын

That's called acting. Frank Sinatra was an Oscar-winning actor. He was good.

Que maravilla esta Dupla inolvidable e Inmortal. Eddie con Frank Sinatra.

I remember seeing A Hole in the Head on TV as a kid. It was a sad/funny film about an exasperating loser. Years later, I used to sing this song to my kids. They loved it, but they wanted to know why an ant would want to move a rubber tree plant or a ram would want to punch a hole in a dam. Who knows or cares? It's a fun song.

@annakakurtz7593

2 жыл бұрын

That was a good opportunity to teach them about ecology. The point is to inspire interest in something as small and stupid as ants

QUE LINDO CANTABA ESTE NIÑO HERMOSO❤❤❤❤

Love it!

Although I have not ever met Eddie Hodges. I have to say he is a cousin to my grandmother. She grew in Hattiesburg MS like Eddie. Although she was much older. She always tried to watch anything Eddie was in.

@IslandGirl-nt6ry

Ай бұрын

Wow my Grandmother was born and raised in Hattiesburg MS also!

SINATRA UN GRANDE DE LA MUSICA....CON EDDY HOGDES...RIP..MASTER...⚘⚘⚘✌🙋

Gold

Where is Ethel Merman belting out this song ?? I know I heard her doing it.

Next time your found With your chin on the ground There a lot to be learned So look around Just what makes that little old ant Think he'll move that rubber tree plant Anyone knows an ant, can't Move a rubber tree plant But he's got high hopes He's got high hopes He's got high apple pie In the sky hopes So any time your gettin' low 'Stead of lettin' go Just remember that ant Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant When troubles call And your back's to the wall There a lot to be learned That wall could fall Once there was a silly old ram Thought he'd punch a hole in a dam No one could make that ram, scram He kept buttin' that dam 'Cause he had high hopes He had high hopes He had high apple pie In the sky hopes So any time your feelin' bad 'Stead of feelin' sad Just remember that ram Oops, there goes a billion kilowatt dam Oops, there goes a billion kilowatt dam Oops, there goes a billion kilowatt dam All problems just a toy balloon They'll be bursted soon They're just bound to go pop Oops, there goes another problem kerplop Oops, there goes another problem kerplop Oops, there goes another problem kerplop, kerplop

@juniorsegatto124

4 жыл бұрын

thanks for the lyrics

@mynameisworld

4 ай бұрын

Please fix the spelling and grammar. 😬 It's painful to read those errors.

@dindaadhitama2290

4 ай бұрын

@@mynameisworld Okay, here comes the grammar police. Fyi, I copied that lyrics from google. I just want to make it easier when someone want to sing along, bcz there’s no lyric in the video. If it’s painful for you to read it, just don’t read it. And sorry if my grammar isn’t perfect, bcz English is not my mother language. Hope you always be healthy and not salty.

Just watched this young actor on the Dick Van dyke.

I've always known this song of course but I never knew what movie it was from until now.

He was also in an episode of Family Affair

Found gold!

💗

The kid has 10x the acting chops as blue eyes

Now I get the connection with the Goofy Movie

Sinatra insisted on one take

Frank Sinatra didn't treat this young man very nicely, he went out of his way to exclude Eddie from recording with him for the record version of this.

@stephencerny4856

7 ай бұрын

Decca records not Sinatra prevented Eddie from recording this charming song!

@mynameisworld

4 ай бұрын

Yeah, and the Earth is flat. 🙄 He's been dead for 26 years. Stop the rumors already!