Very interesting take on things. It seems like you did a lot of research and I certainly appreciate your disclaimer at the beginning that it’s not all factual and includes your opinion, that’s very admirable. There is definitely a lot of correct information, some partially correct and certainly some where you missed the boat. But you did give it a good shot. If you ever want to do an update and correct some misinformation. I’d be happy to help you straighten out some dates and occurrences.

@PeterLemongelloJr

Жыл бұрын

Your research on the Tonight Show is all out of whack. First of all, I know you only want to show one side but you completely neglected the fact that many of the tonight show records online from the 70’s are incomplete and in many cases completely empty aside from the guest host. Even though my dad was on 25 times, no he was never on with Carson (that’s another story why believe me), so it’s very hard to track down most of his appearance dates. I don’t know where you got the idea that my dad ever said he was on with Carson. And I really don’t understand why you would try to belittle an appearance because it was with Joey Bishop (only one of the biggest stars) and other guest hosts (equally as big). It’s sounds like jealousy to me. But, who were you on with? How about anybody you’ve ever met, who were they on with? Thanks that’s what I thought. Yeah KZread doesn’t compare to the tonight show, sorry about that. But even so, I was able to easily and quickly find 5 of the 25 appearances so far. I don’t know why you couldn’t find more than 3 or maybe the better question, why you didn’t try. But go ahead and look them up now, maybe it will be easier to pull up with the exact dates. I’m trying to locate more but as I said many episode lists are blank. He was on another time with Bob Newhart as host, also with David Brenner as host & a couple others. Many times with Rickles obviously. Also Rickles manager had nothing to do with my dad getting on either. Here are the 5 dates I found immediately: October 21, 1971 (his first) April 25, 1973 April 27, 1973 March 15, 1974 July 26, 1976

@PeterLemongelloJr

Жыл бұрын

The Beach Boys sang background on my dad’s record which nobody ever knew because they were uncredited on the album. By the way your thing about Elton John’s musicians, that was news to me and might be true but The Beach Boys for sure. One listen to this will tell you that it’s obviously them! Nobody has a sound like The Beach Boys. They have one of the most distinct and recognizable sounds on record. I’ll let anyone who wants to judge for themselves, once you hear this, you’ll know instantly it’s them and that the false statements and whoever puts them out should never be taken seriously! m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2yiraZun72bo84.html

@PeterLemongelloJr

Жыл бұрын

Next, my dad was never in The Godfather and never claimed to be. So you have that wrong as well! He was originally cast to play Johnny Fontaine which was due to Colombo’s pull. Just before he was to do it, Columbo was shot and so went that pull. So my dad never appeared in it, but because he was supposed to be in it and production had already started, records of cast and crew include my dad’s name, not sure how or why but they do. Also for the record, my dad is not my manager despite your reason to believe whatever that means? You can easily find out who my manager is with a little research, so I’ll let you do that. I have a manager that handled some of the biggest stars that ever were! I do hope you are a stand up guy, who will realize some of these mistakes and make much needed corrections. If you just want fake stories then go ahead, but that won’t say much for your integrity.

@nazznomad

10 ай бұрын

You can belly ache all you want Peter Jr. but someone is talking about your Dad on KZread in a very entertaining video. Guess what? I popped on ebay and bought the TV advertised album. Fact, almost fact, or myth, be happy Dad has some publicity and has sparked some interest. Lighten up and don't get your back against the wall every time something isn't 100% factual to you.

@hecanseeme8210

5 ай бұрын

Lighten up, I never heard of your dad before this. It was a long time ago, be happy folks still mention him at all. He had a great voice. In a different time he probably would have been a hit.

He looks and sounds like a singer character you'd see on a 70s crime show like Vega$, where'd he be stalked by an insane fan and has to be protected by the lead character.

@visaman

Жыл бұрын

More likely on The Love Boat.

I had no idea the villian from 'No Country for Old Men’ had a lounge career 😮

@jacobscarberry4799

Жыл бұрын

Why do u think he was soulless in No Country? No hits.

@humanwaveform

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobscarberry4799 what no hits will do to a mfer 😲

@rafaelramirez1507

Жыл бұрын

Bruh ? Lol 😂 good one 👍

I watched this during lunch and my coworkers were interested so I explained to them who Peter Lemongello is and then they wanted to know who the guy behind the box is. Needless to say, it was a long lunch hour. Great video and love the history lessons as always!

My Dad sat next to him on an airplane in the 80s.

@AMVpurgatory

Жыл бұрын

Please tell me Peter regaled him with fabricated stories of his majesty throughout the entire flight. If it didn't culminate in a tale of how he single-handedly whipped Superman, I'll be very disappointed.

I remember those tv adverts in NY as a little kid. Old Italians loved this kind of stuff. And Pinellas County Florida in the 1990s was FULL of New Yorkers who had retired and moved there to live the good life. Everyone knew the name when it happened. I live one county to the north and there are tons of transplants here. A slice of pure 70s cheese.

I was hoping to see a mention of Mark in here. Mark was an oddity all in himself. When he was traded from the Astros to the Blue Jays, he asked if they spoke American in Canada and was thinking about giving up baseball to drive transport.

@NJGuy1973

5 ай бұрын

Why hasn't ESPN done a 30 For 30 on him?

This sounds like a story from the Fernwood Tonight expanded universe.

@Art7220

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't find any vinyls of Love '76 on Ebay. Though they are on MP3s. Did those all get broken? His second album is on there though.

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

@Art7220 Try Discogs. There were a few LP's there when I was working on the episode.

I’ve been following Oddity Archive for 6+ years now and this episode reminds me of what I’d always think after watching episodes back then… just, what on earth? Something I never would have known about presented in a way that got me invested. What a great episode.

27:30 that's a rip of the old Allen Freed show posters; Jr knows his history

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

Albeit in the worst photoshopped way.

@plawson8577

Жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive Oh Trust me. I Know All about the Payola Scandal of the 50s.

@BGNOLA

Жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive it was a good lineup, if he actually told them they were on the bill.

@Ronniedovemusic

Жыл бұрын

Jr also knows how to rip off oldies acts, just like what happened in the "good old days".

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

...and Ronnie Dove was on the bill as well!

Our local TV station in Cleveland, OH (WUAB) sold these as well. This is great, I haven't heard this name in forever!

@niklass1641

Жыл бұрын

My parents in NE Ohio ordered this atrocity one night in the '70s. I recall them putting it on the record player whenever there were people over. That smirking face staring at me from the album cover like, "Hey, your parents are playing me again! Heh Heh! Enjoy bucko!".

@ChrisKewl

Жыл бұрын

@@niklass1641 If I remember correctly this was one of the commercials that played during the Benny Hill show on WUAB 43.

@Art7220

Жыл бұрын

Right, I thought he'd end up with a residency in Vegas or Branson, MO.

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

@Commodorefan64 Um, he did wind up in Branson. It's touched on briefly in the episode.

@CommodoreFan64

Жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive My bad I missed that part, guess I was distracted by my kid wanting something 🤦‍♂

11:00ish--I guarantee the 'erratic speed' was a 45rpm playing WAY OFF CENTER. I know because when I worked production at an oldies station, I rerecorded a lot of their 'seasick' carts by properly centering the 45s before playing them. (Nowadays my Audio-Technica AT120 is rigged so I can center small hole records too.)

@JL-sm6cg

Жыл бұрын

I was going to say that, though I think it was "slightly" off center. Believe you me, I've played 45s way off center...intentionally...by not putting the 45 adapter in.

@djhrecordhound4391

Жыл бұрын

@@JL-sm6cg Whether it's 'slightly' off or not, we seem to agree on its cause. It was and still is a personal pet peeve to hear, especially on a professional level like radio. After so many years of 'nudging' to center records (and getting pretty good at it), I rarely use 45 adaptors anymore.

Every single member of this family is a cartoonish con man who can't do anything right! The man's life needs to be turned into a sitcom! It would be comedy gold!

Absolutely love these little mini-biographies on these total oddball characters.

I realise there's a very slim chance of Peter Lemongello's infamy crossing over the Atlantic, but I'd like to think that British trip hop duo Lemon Jelly named themselves as a play on words referencing Peter Lemongello.

Being from the UK, Peter Lemongello is not exactly a household name over here (to put it mildly) and found the concept of an episode based on him and is rather storied history interesting. Many plaudits to you Ben for your meticulous research into him which made it into an informative and fascinating watch. 👏👏

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

He's not exactly a household name in the U.S. either.

@FrankChickens

Жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive Granted, but at least more people know who he is over there than they do here.

@Zulf85

Жыл бұрын

Fellow UK viewer!!!!! Same here, I've never really heard of this guy. Then again, most people here haven't heard of Mr. Rogers either. My aunt was very confused by his biopic being based on a real guy

@Darzzr

Жыл бұрын

That final snatch of "Please Release Me" did remind me of the Fast Show opening titles, I have to say.

@GeoNeilUK

Жыл бұрын

As UK viewers, do you think he would have got more a roasting from Morecambe and Wise than Des O'Connor did if he was known over here?

This guy sounds like a great subject for a Quentin Tarantino movie!

@21:10 - i thought that male news guy was Lemongello himself for a moment. same hair

I think it's great that Jr. is singing with the old groups.

I noticed that he had covered "If You Love Me, Let Me Know," so I played a few seconds of that. Let's just say I needed to coagulate my ears with the Olivia Newton-John version.

@visaman

Жыл бұрын

He probably did the Elvis version.

@goodiesguy

Жыл бұрын

I only know the Slim Whitman version.....

I can tell you this guy was the kind of thing you saw on talk shows in the 70s all the time.

@BGNOLA

Жыл бұрын

He's still better than Sandler and Young.

Thank you for the mood rock experience.

Lemongello became a punchline in my childhood home. He was talented but saying Peter Lemon Jell-O was too much fun🤣

Such an interesting charecter Peter was. I agreed a movie needs to be made of his life. Definitely rated R for Lemongello. Definitely keep the doors locked and the lights on Bennie boy.

@GeoNeilUK

Жыл бұрын

I've been watching this video and got distracted from all of the details of his life from this one question... he changed one letter of his name and it was the I to an E, why not the G to a C?

One of the strangest yarns ever spun on Oddity Archive. It's almost as fantastic a yarn as the one about 70's hijacker D.B. Cooper. 🤔

Lemonjello, doesn't he have a brother called Oronjello named by Tayquisha on welfare in 1998?

"Thank Gahd, that I was born of Italian birt!"

And for thirty-odd years, I thought that was a throwaway identity in Fletch Lives.

I remember seeing the Peter Lemongello ads locally here in L.A./Southern California on channel 11, KTTV, either in late 1976 or 1977. I would have just turned seven. Private Stock also had Frankie Valli on the label. He gave them several hits, including My Eyes Adored You which reached #1. Private Stock also had The Four Seasons catalog for a time when the group gained control of their master recordings. A wonderful and informative look at Peter...great job Ben.

@Musicradio77Network

Жыл бұрын

Private Stock was a label back in the 1970’s which were best known for Frankie Valli with “My Eyes Adore You” which was his big hit and “Swearin’ To God”. The other were “A Fifth Of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy, “Emotion” by Samantha Sang, “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck and and dance hit “Let’s All Chant” by the Michael Zagar Band, and it was the last single for the Private Stock label until it completely shut down forever by 1978. By the end of its label’s run, the label was switched from a shiny brown label to a different label design represented the lower Manhattan skyline with the pre-9/11 twin towers on it.

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

Private Stock could damn near get its own episode (song clips notwithstanding). Shady business practices, still-missing master tapes, etc.

@sw2442

Жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive What a great idea...or Roulette Records...or any of those labels which have had Mob ties...

@TheKnobCalledTone.

Жыл бұрын

@@OddityArchive You could do it in the style of Professor Of Rock - very short clips (say 1-2 second each) but lots of them.

@plawson8577

Жыл бұрын

You mean Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons were on Private Stock Records of “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, Oh What a Night” and that Fabulous 1985 Cover of the Monotone’s “Book of Love” fame?

Lemongello? No thanks I prefer lime. Come on guys you know that joke was coming a mile away......... I'll get my coat.

@otaking3582

Жыл бұрын

Guru Larry reference? I see that you're a person of culture, as well

@TheKnobCalledTone.

Жыл бұрын

I can think of a worse joke: Peter Lemonparty.

@noneofyourbusiness4616

Жыл бұрын

It was actually in the video at 21:05

@plawson8577

Жыл бұрын

@@TheKnobCalledTone. Thanks but no thanks. SA’s Founder is dead anyway.

@visaman

Жыл бұрын

Lemon Jello was a sponsor of The Jack Benny Programme.

This could be your BEST video yet! Great job here

This is one of my top 5 favorite archive episodes. So good

Never heard of Peter Lemongello. Thank you for the video.

@Musicradio77Network

Жыл бұрын

I first heard it on WABC during Vinnie Medugno’s show where he played a cut from his album “Love ‘76” called “I Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind” as a “Vinyl Vault: Deeper Cut” segment. That was back around June or July. And guess what, Vinnie Medugno’s mother still has a copy of his album.

I've never heard of this guy, but this video is the kinda esoteric shit that I love. For me growing up in the 90s and early 00s, the one artist whose name I only know purely from a commercial/commercial-length infomercial for an album was Ronnie Milsap, but I just chalk that up to never being into country music beyond Willie Nelson or Waylon Jennings.

@75aces97

Жыл бұрын

Ronnie Milsap actually was a pretty consistently big star in country music for most of the 70s and 80s, and for that short time in the early 80s when several country musicians crossed over (Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, Eddie Rabbit, Juice Newton, Barbra Mandrell), he got pretty healthy airplay. He just sort of disappeared from the mainstream by the early 90s. I guess his particular brand just wasn't fashionable with the new direction of Nashville at the time. Branson would have been the most natural place for him, but as far as I can tell he never ended up on that circuit. Then the next I heard about him was those same album commercials you're probably talking about in the late 2000s.

If I was trying to corner the Utah Folk Music scene my stage name would be Peter Lemon Jell-O

@Art7220

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking Blind LemonGello for the blues.

@otaking3582

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking of Peter Limoncello for a Yo-Yo Ma impersonator

@nobodyyouknow1065

Жыл бұрын

@@Art7220 you win.

@TheKnobCalledTone.

Жыл бұрын

Lemongello Biafra would be a great name for a band that performs Dead Kennedys songs in a lounge style.

@JL-sm6cg

Жыл бұрын

Peter Greengellowithcarrots

You should do a video on Santo Gold.

@HappySnoutHour

Жыл бұрын

Ben did on the Informercial episode 41.

@Art7220

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. The Infomercial is great. But I heard the main movie Blood Circus is considered partially lost, according to the Lost Media Wiki.

@HappySnoutHour

Жыл бұрын

@@Art7220 There is at least one known copy which was on VHS but it is held by the court (I don't remember when it happened) and unless someone knows what city and district it's at, getting will be impossible. It is speculative that Santo has a copy and has tried to sell it for some ridiculous figure on ebay (I want to say $5,000,000). But know one knows if the copy Santo has is legit or not since it was theorized that he dumped it all trying to get rid of evidence for one of his many court cases.

@Art7220

Жыл бұрын

@@HappySnoutHour When I wrote about this, I didn't see your post. I'll check out his episode though.

@BGNOLA

Жыл бұрын

@@HappySnoutHour i'll check it out

For a guy named Lemongello, he seems more like a Lemonstorebrand. A "we have Sinatra at home" type. I want to harp on the guy, but I kinda feel bad doing so, yet the fact he got quite far with unremarkable talent should be a decent underdog story. Of course that advert that calls him "The King" was just the laugh I needed this week.

@mightyfilm

Жыл бұрын

@@notouchy Yeah, but from those off brand dollar stores where nothing actually costs a dollar and the bootleg toys contain a crapload of lead paint.

Happy oddity Thursday!

i appreciate this episode, it brought me awareness of this performer, I think he's actually a pretty good singer. I've watched this episode several times since you first posted it, I agreed with you about this man at first, until I read what Junior had to say about his father's history, and after watching an interview with Mr. Lemongello himself, I was more drawn to my current view, about him. Ben, you and I are both four track geeks(or at least were at one time), and after making mixes of our songs(at least this goes for me) we just listen to them, and constantly critique them in our minds, and when we realize that we aren't going to make the big time, the mixes seem to be our releases, as if they were actual albums for a label, and we make up a label name, and reminisce that time of our lives, and go back refer to it, years later its actually therapeutic for me, as I grow old, and some of my peers also. Well after explaining all that, I say this, At least Mr. Lemongello got beyond where we got(releasing a Album on Major Label, and selling over 100 copies, and played the Tonight show 5 times, I liked Rickles more than Johnny anyway , but then again you can say you've gotten more views on your channel, than records he sold. Me, not so much. As far as man's service to our Country, USO, desk clerk or combat, all gave some, some gave all(I'm not being Billy Ray either), this goes for your father, and mine(whom I'm proud of USMC, and US Air Force) But just as Junior said in his comments, and I agree with him, if you're going to do a commentary on a person, you should not just pull your sources only from negative information on him, but from positive as well. But its obvious the negative stuff was the only thing that made this video interesting, kinda like news reporting. huh?(ala 'Dirty Laundry' lyrics for reference). But I personally would make another revisited video making corrections, for Junior's sake. To me Peter Lemongello is someone who had a mild success tried to make the most of it. Ben I love your channel, always looking forward for your latest videos.

What a story. Should be adapted in to a biopic, directed by Martin Scorsese. To premiere on Netflix since it would have to be four hours long to fit in all the messed up events in his life. Excellent research, by the way!

@plawson8577

Жыл бұрын

Ben is one of the BEST Ted Talk Channels and YT Gurus! I would place him even Above Blair of the Illuminaughi Channel.

@BGNOLA

Жыл бұрын

I thought Scorese too; he reminds me of the Italian festivals I went to as a kid in 70s New Orleans

I was surprised to find a copy of Love '76 all the way out here in Phoenix, AZ just today.

Lemongello....never heard before, awesome episode with a true oddity.

I find it interesting that Peter Lemongello was from New Jersey and that my best friend's chiropractor's last name is also Lemongello, but I doubt they're related.

That surname is perfect for him.

Yeah, when it comes to names and the charming cheese, Peter Lemogello (why didn't he change his name by deed poll to Peter Limoncello?) got nowt on Englebert Humperdinck. He's more at a Des O'Connor level and would have gotten more grief from Morecambe & Wise than Des did had he been known in the UK at the time. Again, why didn't he keep the I and change the G to a C? Having said that, he'd have been the perfect face for an ad campaign for limoncello, he'd probably have gotten an ironic career revival in the 1990s because everything was ironic in the 1990s, though there was always something a bit cerebral to Britpop irony that wasn't always there with American grunge irony, we are the country that gave you Mike Flowers Pops and Neil Hannon. And Matt Berry... we also gave you Matt Berry. Seriously, give a listen to Take My Hand (theme tune to Toast of London) ITV, 1979... Neville Wanless: and next on Tyne Tees, we have the sharp, smooth, charming Peter Lemongello Eric Morecambe: Yer jokin' aren't ya? Ernie Wise: I'd sooner watch Des O'Connor! ITV, 1995... Peter Lemongello: Sharp, smooth, Italian... goes with anything... just like me! So try Lemongello's Limoncello in your next gin and tonic, the perfect mix of British class and Italian passion!

@BGNOLA

Жыл бұрын

Don't lump us all in with grunge; I hated it! I can definitely relate to Peter's man out of time stance, because I certainly was during that period...

Mark Lemongello had a short big league career with Houston and Toronto. He was likely out of the baseball game by 1981. He had an acceptable ERA with the Astros as a rookie, but that was about it.

I just wanna say, I hate how Johnny Carson's production company just seems to want to bury the guest hosted shows in the backyard, considering all that footage of the Tonight Show is horribly blown out.

You just jogged my memory about some guy that was advertising late night for his greatest hits and was world renowned but no one ever heard of him. He ended up making millions but I can't remember his name? Slim Whitman, I can't believe I remembered that name. He was like one of the first infomercials.

Great topic! I've always been interested in these personalities who kind of hung out on the fringes of fame. I did a little more diving and I think you're right. He was definitely more about chasing stardom and not much the art.

His mother is very proud

I grew up in Syracuse, but our cable company carried the three New York City then-indies(channels 5, 9, and 11), so I saw that commercial a LOT. ETA: I just listened to his version of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” and he omitted the last verse (with “Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle with a couple’a pieces gone”).

Something you should look into that is right up your alley is Tax Scam records from around 1977. There were several labels such as Guiness, Tiger Lily, Album World etc that existed soley as a illegitimate money grab. I first noticed this when stumbling upon a John Fred and His Playboy band record from 1976 on, I think the Guinness label. Not being able to find many reviews on it, I noticed the record label had a large number of releases and all of them were from 1976-1977 which was bizarre.

Being a west coast kid of the 80s and 90s, I've never heard of Peter Lemongello until I saw this video. Honestly, his music wasn't too bad at all, but trying to be a lounge singer in the 70s was just asking for failure (especially since there was no shortage of lounge singers - admittedly largely past their prime - performing out there already). Personality-wise, he strikes me as the Billy Mitchell of music - reasonable talent, but with insecurities wrapped in lots of tall tales and attempts to make himself more legitimate/important than he really was. You can definitely have some success if you're willing to stay in your lane, grind out your career and accept that you're not going to be a multi-platinum superstar, but some people want that attention and fame even if it was never destined to be.

I kept waiting to hear about his Cocaine addiction. But nothing, no drugs. Might be a first for a 1970s singer.

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

From what I understand, he did regularly use Valium during the late '80's/early '90's, but I could be wrong about that.

Finally enough in the final tag of this episode, Lemongello is singing to an Elvis karaoke track of the Engelbert Humperdinck song. Please release me. The jokes write themselves.

This guy life was a HBO drama series

There's a real post bubblegum pop feel, courtesy of Randazzo probably.

This puts the "odd" into "Archive" for sure. Wow....what a collapse into the memory hole this was. (Does this sound like a compliment. I meant it to be one....sort of).

The disclaimer @ (7:00) tells me that your viewers are a fastidious and critical bunch, but have no fear, you are one outstanding documentarian! Enthralling reportage abounds at the OddityArchive! 🎯

6:35 That's a still from "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World".

@OddityArchive

Жыл бұрын

Indeed.

Words fail me. Unless "AAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!" Qualifies as a word.

Peter is a real nice guy. Good singer Love 76 GREAT LP produced by Teddy Randazzo. My wife and I are big fans and followed him joining his fan club and got to know him and became friends. Later on we were visiting my wife's Uncle & Aunt and my wife saw a framed picture of Peter. She said you like Peter too. She said Peters my Nephew. We never knew her Maiden Name was Lemongello

This was a good oddity. Is the OA opening a nod to Memories by Clinic?

@13:00 - if you look at the credits another songwriter who usually accompanies Teddy is V. PIke or Victoria Pike. Appears she was his GF for a decade at least, had one child who is in the music industry but Teddy never married her. I have been looking for a photo of Victoria for 20 years still cannot find one. They wrote great songs especially in the 60s including 'i'm 5 years ahead of my time' by Third Bardo (if you wanna get freaky garage vibes) and speaking of psychedelic..they helped write the lyrics to the 'first' psychedelic themed album by the "DEEP" - next to 13th Floor Elevators 1st LP which both came out around the same time. The elevators represented more of a grass roots perspective on ACID lol .

@BGNOLA

Жыл бұрын

I saw the 3rd Bardo at Cavestomp in New York in '99; too bad Lemongello didn't sit in with them.

So that’s what Uttal looked like!

@georgeprice4212

Жыл бұрын

And I vaguely recall a Lemongello being on the Astros, but don’t think he did more than a season…if even that.

Crazy story. The voice has sort of a Sammy Davis, Jr. quality.

@visaman

Жыл бұрын

Sammy started out as a Sinatra impersonator, until Frank told him to stop.

27:39 😂😂😂😂 ... It just gets worse!

After watching this video, I'm gonna eat some lemon Jello.

Just a note on Lemongello's cousin, the baseball player Mark Lemongello: Mark pronounces the surname as "le-MON-gel-lo", with the accent on the second syllable, while Peter pronounces it as "lemon Jell-o".

@Rando1975

Жыл бұрын

I knew I recognized the name from somewhere! I never saw him play, but I thought, "Is that a real name?"

Still a better Singer than most Music Stars today

I want some lemon jello...

did you know both buildings in the video (500E 85th ST & 518 E 89TH ST) are about 4 blocks apart from each other ,thought i would look them up on google maps.

@JL-sm6cg

Жыл бұрын

I found out in 1996 that all of those TV offer addresses are usually the TV station who then sends it off to somewhere else. Figured this out in Alpena, MI when I was watching the local CBS affiliate. (SIDE NOTE: If you ever want to watch the most awkward, amateurish news broadcasts of your life, THAT'S the city to do it in!) Every other commercial on that channel was a TV offer or infomercial, and every address you sent your payment to was to an address just down the street from the hotel my girlfriend and I were staying at, so I got in the car to just go over and BUY one...only to realize it was the TV station itself!

6:34 LOL

Yeah, I hate when that horse head thing happens

"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of a task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include in their definition the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills." -Wikipedia

I can see a young Ray Liotta playing the part of Lemongello, and Joe Pesci swinging a baseball bat.

Maybe his career would have fared better if he covered "Everlasting Love".

Famous for wanting to be famous. Promotion is a good thing, but all the BS in the world is not going to turn a struz into a star. Sorry, pal the public will let you know if you "got it".

OK, you knew that someone from Long Island was going to tell you that almost nobody there pronounces it "long guy land". Consider it done.

@themoviedealers

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Oh sure. And nobody from New Jersey says "joisey."

I feel like that name sounds familiar from when I was an infant or toddler in that time period. He had to have shown commercials in Detroit as well. What I wanna know is how can an Italian name like that be pronounced "lemon-jello"? Sounds like it should be pronounced "le-MON-je-LOW", don't you think?

OK, the newscasters in the 20:00-21:20 range - The guy on the left is Lloyd Dobbins. Can anyone tell me the name of the woman? I watched WNBC back then, but I can't recall her name...

@jessecoffey4737

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The woman co-presenting the _Today Show_ segment on Peter Lemongello was actress and consumer advocate Betty Furness, who was the female anchor of the show in the interim between the departure of Barbara Walters and the arrival of Jane Pauley.

@ThisIsAdamB

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@@jessecoffey4737Thanks. I knew I knew who she was, I just couldn’t remember her name.

OH NO DON HO

A few more things: Hey Benny-boy, how did YOU get your hands on a copy of Love '76? I couldn't even find one on FleaBay! Also, the doo-wop/early rock-n-roll concert PLGJR tried to put on reminds me a lot of the 80s Freestyle concert I went to at a casino east of Phoenix in 2019 that featured Nu Shooz, Biz Markie, Expose, and another singer whom I couldn't remember. The tix were only $40 a piece, there was no souvenir stand, and only about a hundred people came. I haven't the slightest how anyone made any money that night, and especially if all shows on that tour were anything like it!

@OddityArchive

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There's a small handful of copies on Discogs right now.

@visaman

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I tried to hire Leigh Nash in 2019 to sing Kiss Me, for my birthday party, when she was doing house concerts, her agent wanted $3500 up front. I passed with regrets. Always get the appearance money up front!

Don't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for the guy.

I'm singer and arsonist Peter Lemongello, and I'm also Barack Obama and gay

In a two-record set, each disc should be counted as one half of the album, both discs should carry the same catalogue number(example: American Graffiti soundtrack - one catalogue number over two discs). The discs themselves should *NEVER* be counted as separate items.

That was... fun? lol

Who the F is this guy? Nice video never heard of this guy.

Cumtown brought me here

A bit of trivia; the building seen on the far right of the screen (7:32) was -at that time - the then newly built G&W building at the corner of Central Park and 60th St. After the ensuing of that corporation, the building was sold - and made far more hideous, and it's now the Polyester cockwomble whatever it's called (BTW; neither he nor his company owns any of the buildings with his moniker. They're owned by investors - also all foreign - who 'buy his name' thinking it equates as 'class'. It does, but as 'Klass', NOT 'class'.

I've heard worse singers. He looked a bit like Richard Carpenter with that hair helmet. I sometimes think that these walking-anachronism acts should just embrace being a meme, a la William Shatner, and release covers of truly bizarre stuff like "Blind Man's Penis".

Peter *WHO.....?* If this joker is so great, we in Australia would've heard of him and he'd have done the rounds of Aussie TV show guest spots.... Mike Walsh, Don Lane, Peter Couchman, Steve Raymond, Hey Hey It's Saturday, Young Talent Time during an Australian tour, but no-one here has even so much as seen an import 45rpm single of him. He's not even signed to a major record label. Certainly *Motown* wouldn't waste time on him, nor any of the lesser labels(all of them). Let him stat in obscurity where he belongs.