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And Awaaay We Go! is an album by television personality, Jackie Gleason.It was released in May 1954 on Capitol Records (catalog no. H-511). [1] [2] Unlike his prior albums of mood music, the album presented a mix of mood music and comedy routines featuring characters made popular in Gleason's television appearances, including The Poor Soul, Reggie Van Gleason III, Joe the Bartender, Loudmouth ...
4 The Jackie Gleason Show: 1954–55. 5 The Honeymooners: 1955–56. 6 The Jackie Gleason Show: 1956–57. ... "Away We Go" 49:12: February 2, 1957 () The Kramdens ...
Sketches: Art Carney with Gleason regulars and staff in a rest house sketch. Musical Numbers: Gleason does song-and-dance number with Carney and Meadows; June and Marilyn Taylor do a dance duet; June Taylor Dancers and Gleason's male staff do a "Flora-dora" number; a barbershop quartet performs; Betty Ellen (the "And away we go!"
And away we go!"), and the show concluded with a brief Gleason sales pitch for the company, all common practices at the time. All references to Buick were removed when the show entered syndication in 1957, [27] although Gleason frequently said "And away we go!" frequently in various shows, and the quote is inscribed on his gravestone.
Gleason was born Herbert Walton Gleason Jr. on February 26, 1916, at 364 Chauncey Street in the Stuyvesant Heights (now Bedford–Stuyvesant) section of Brooklyn. [5] He was later baptized as John Herbert Gleason [6] and grew up at 328 Chauncey Street, Apartment 1A (an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners). [7]
Elizabeth Allen (born Elizabeth Ellen Gillease, January 25, 1929 — September 19, 2006) was an American theatre, television, and film actress and singer whose 40-year career lasted from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, and included scores of TV episodes and six theatrical features, two of which (1963's Donovan's Reef, for which she received a second-place Golden Laurel Award as Top New ...
The club also featured former vaudevillian Frankie Hyers behind the bar. Hyers is credited by some as creating the expression "And away we go!", which would become popularized later by Jackie Gleason. [28] Born Charles Richard Fitzgerald, he legally changed his name to his stage name, Charley Foy, in 1956. [36]
"The Jackie Gleason" is based on a tap dance movement known as "Shuffle Off to Buffalo". [7] Additional called sequences are: Two Up and Two Back, Big Boss Cross in Front, Make a "T", the Box, Cuddle Me, and Flying High. "Away We Go" may be the same as "The Jackie Gleason". [8] Time magazine noted the Madison in April 1960. [9]