Teen Heartthrobs of the '70s

Ever wonder why you still remember that poster of Leif Garrett or Scott Baio that graced your bedroom wall in the '70s? That's because teen heartthrobs like them left a lasting impact on pop culture and our hearts. As we journey back to, we recall some of the charming faces that made our hearts flutter, exploring their career paths and significant transitions. Because of the Gibb brothers' dominance in the music industry, we've got some unforgettable stories to tell. There are even some surprising internet rankings of heartthrobs that we'll reveal!

In the midst of all the reminiscing, we don't overlook the hilarious anecdotes and personal memories.  Plus, we offer a closer look at the life of teen idols like Leif Garrett, and his sister, Dawn Lynn, and their experiences navigating childhood fame. As we move along, we delve into John Travolta's transformation from a budding actor to an international star with his white suit and his dancing scene in Saturday Night Fever.

As we wrap up the episode, we invite you - our listeners - to share your favorite teen heartthrobs and join in the conversation. Reflecting on the impact these teen idols had on our lives, we embrace the nostalgia and appreciate their lasting influence. So, buckle up for this entertaining blast from the past, and don't forget to stay connected with us on social media and email. Keep believing in the magic of those teen dream hearts and join us next week for more exciting conversations!

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The Evolution of Teen Heartthrobs

Speaker 1 0:00

And he kind of took a similar path too. He was in a band and then he got meshed into this T Nidale stuff.

Speaker 2 0:08

Yeah, I don't think Rick wanted to be, but they kind of put you in that, I don't think. So the room everybody is down, get with it the room everybody is down, get with it.

Speaker 3 0:24

The room everybody is down that's looking for. Welcome to the Shawn's Quad Society Podcast With your host myself, penny, cindy, dana and Doris, and I invite you to share our love and enthusiasm for all things Shawn Cassidy, from his T Nidale days to his recent adventure back on the road again. Please join us for our stories and memories that connected us to those happy days that helped create the Shawn's Quad Society Podcast. Well, welcome back listeners. And today we're going to have a lot of fun because we're going to be talking about some of the most gorgeous art therapy men in the 70s. How about that? Out there, wait, who's your favorite? That was like hard-throbs, decade, decade, yeah, crazy. And I even look to see if some of them crossed over into the 80s and, to what I could see, they couldn't but question for you, did you know? One of the very first hard-throbs was from Japan and he actually ended up in the Chicago area a little later in life. He was an actor and that was back in the 1920s. Wow, so hard-throbs go way back.

Speaker 1 1:38

So he was the first one named as a hard-throb. Yeah, he was the first.

Speaker 3 1:42

Hollywood hard-throb. Wow, yes, he was, but we all have a course, shawn, who's that? Who's that? Get in here, cindy. Yeah, yeah, yeah and of course, david. Everybody's favorite, those are without saying yeah, yes, without saying he's number one. And then, of course, donny Asman yeah, but we have some surprises in here for you Some things about hard-throbs and where they rank and who's the number one hard-throb according to the internet. And we know that Mr Google couldn't be wrong about anything yeah, never at all.

Speaker 2 2:18

Yeah, I think we got Cindy. Cindy has some very interesting hard-throbs that she's going to talk about Very interesting. Well, of course I was all over Shawn, so I really didn't have anybody else up hanging in my room.

Speaker 1 2:32

I was just loyal. She's dedicated. I was loyal to Shawn.

Speaker 4 2:35

I'm like well you can only have one teen idol.

Speaker 1 2:38

So this is going to be it. Nobody else was on my wall, but I did buy it. I was like I'm going to buy it so, but I did buy Rex Smith's album. Rex Smith.

Speaker 2 2:48

I loved his song Remember Rex.

Speaker 1 2:50

Smith, you take my breath away Back in 79,. He's saying that I love that song so much I went and bought the album so oh my God, I love that song.

Speaker 4 3:03

But여빷 وال아. I Love that Song ِ.

Speaker 3 3:10

You're the music that I play.

Speaker 4 3:16

And you take my breath away.

Speaker 2 3:24

My girlfriend dragged me to Indoor Amusement Park. We used to have called Old Chicago and we had to go see Rex Smith at Old Chicago. This is Teresa. She loved Rex Smith. Anytime I talk about high school, you guys, is usually with Teresa.

Speaker 1 3:45

Yeah, well, you always have a best friend in high school that you do things with. So my friends went with me to the concerts, to Sean concerts too, but I never went to go see. Oh, and I think I saw an Andy Gibb concert, but I didn't see Rex Smith, but I just had his album.

Speaker 2 3:58

He was kind of cute Rex Smith that people don't know. He had this kind of a chiseled kind of look. His hair was thick and kind of big and curly. He wasn't my cup of tea but he definitely made heartthrob or team NIDO status he did. Everybody I mean the people who were turning out team NIDO's back then knew what they were looking for.

Speaker 1 4:27

And Rex Smith fit the bill. I think they talked about that too. Yeah, he started off in a band in the early 70s, a band from Atlanta called Tricks, oh, okay, yeah, and then he started doing his songs, which became popular. Platinum's selling album Sooner or Later's the name of the album yes yeah. He was in the top 40 with his songs. Yeah, I think that somebody just tried to turn him into a team NIDO.

Speaker 2 4:54

I think Rex even dabbled a little bit on Broadway. He might have did a couple of music codes back in the 80s.

Speaker 1 5:00

Yeah, I was going to say he did television. I think these team NIDO's followed a certain path all the time.

Speaker 3 5:06

Yes, they did.

Speaker 1 5:08

They went from this to this. So he did television shows. No, he did Baywatch, which I didn't know.

Speaker 2 5:14

Oh, he was on Baywatch with Parker those years or other it doesn't say.

Speaker 1 5:19

It doesn't say the year. Maybe I can find it. Hold on a second how many?

Speaker 3 5:23

episodes. I thought I saw he only did like three episodes or something, but I could be wrong. But just real quick though, some of the names in the top 20 heart tribes where you're looking that up Cindy, that I would never even have thought of, you know, but Reynolds, you know, isn't in the top 20.

Speaker 1 5:41

He had a centerfold out.

Speaker 3 5:42

Oh I know, I remember that, but I just forget because he's so much older.

Speaker 1 5:46

He's curly. He's curly on his chest. Yeah, so older lady Heart, I remember that.

Speaker 2 5:52

And that and that mustache.

Speaker 4 5:54

That mustache? Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 3 5:56

Christopher Knight. Well, that's Brady Bunch, but Ryan O'Neill yeah, ryan O'Neill was considered a heart robber.

Speaker 2 6:04

Yeah, that's back there like with what's his face. Who did butch Cassidy guy?

Speaker 3 6:09

Oh yeah, oh, um that blonde Robert Redford, yes, yes.

Speaker 2 6:14

That's who I mean. Yes, those guys were all in that.

Speaker 3 6:17

Hey, he's right here, robert Redford, that's the one I was trying to find him. That's when I said Christopher Knight, not but.

Speaker 2 6:25

Kurt Russell, kurt Russell. Yeah, all of those were kind of Hollywood heart rocks we're talking about, like Teen Idol heart Right.

Speaker 3 6:33

Right, but when I put that in, these guys still pop up and they all sing. Here's another thing I was when I was looking through all this. They all did kind of have the same path, like you were seeing, cindy. They moved on with TV, whether it was writing, directing, you know, so on so forth, even Broadway, yep. And then they did some cut albums, yeah, bands, you know I think so.

Speaker 1 6:59

there was this Teen Idol machine out there going on.

Speaker 4 7:01

Yeah, I actually made a list of how much they're all like Exactly.

Speaker 1 7:04

Yeah, I'm looking at Baywatch. He did Baywatch in 98, rex Smith, but how many episodes does it say?

Speaker 3 7:09

It doesn't say Just as he was in an episode called Forever Friends.

Speaker 1 7:12

I didn't even know.

Speaker 2 7:13

Baywatch was on in 98.

Speaker 1 7:15

I don't think I did either. I hadn't. Yeah, how come Sean didn't do Baywatch? I know Parker did.

Speaker 3 7:21

He was ready. Wait, did he? I don't think he made a.

Speaker 2 7:23

I don't think he made a.

Speaker 3 7:23

I don't think he made a Writing and producing.

Speaker 2 7:25

He didn't want to do Baywatch, he'd be nice to see him on.

Speaker 4 7:27

Baywatch, he was hiding, not now.

Speaker 2 7:30

I was all out hiding, I don't know. Well, okay, so who else do you have over there that you didn't really?

Speaker 1 7:37

love. But I want to tell you this fun fact though in 82 Rex Smith replaced Andy Gibb as a host on the music Friday solid gold. You remember?

Speaker 2 7:45

that about to bring it up, if I said I'll let Cindy talk about what's on here solid gold yeah

Speaker 1 7:52

because I didn't remember that.

Speaker 2 7:54

I remember it I used to love solid gold. I do too, I remember hosted it, then red Smith hosted it.

Speaker 1 8:01

Yeah did Sean host it? No, no, he was on it, though.

Speaker 2 8:04

Yes.

Speaker 1 8:05

Yeah, and then from 1992 Rex Smith goes into soap operas as the world turns oh, not general hospital Connection.

Speaker 2 8:16

Seen the door to general husband, see the path.

Speaker 1 8:18

See the path they're taking. Yeah, sean, yeah, general hospital Rick. Yeah, he's doing as the world turns. Then he makes his Broadway debut in 78 with grease.

Speaker 4 8:29

Oh, he did grease, yeah, so which one would see a play.

Speaker 1 8:37

Danny Zuko, he was Danny. Oh, I could see that. Yeah, yeah, he did that. And then he did other Broadway shows like Pirates of Pizanz yes, he did. Who else was in that one that you know?

Speaker 2 8:47

Well, that was Patrick.

Speaker 1 8:49

Patrick Pirates.

Speaker 2 8:51

Yes, see, they all take that similar acting today, if you didn't know it, and the girl dead pirates. He did, yes, he did.

Speaker 1 8:59

Okay, okay. Well, that's showing the path here. Oh, and another fun fact with Rex Smith back in 78 his first wife was a playboy bunny.

Speaker 2 9:11

His first wife was a playboy bunny, and guess who?

Speaker 1 9:14

other first wife was a playboy bunny.

Speaker 3 9:17

Oh, let's think about this yeah.

Speaker 1 9:20

Sean's first wife Was a playboy bunny, so that's a similarity to yes, it's amazing what you could find and guess what?

Speaker 2 9:28

Rex Smith's latest wife's name is Tracy Tracy, oh there we go, look at this look at this combination this, yeah, yep, okay so Well, those are all fun facts I would never have known me neither.

Speaker 1 9:43

That was interesting to find that out, but I just noticed the path that they take with that and my last oh, no wait, hang on. My second one was Rick Springfield, and he kind of took a similar path too. He was in a band and then he got Meshed into this T Nighto stuff.

Speaker 2 9:59

Yeah, I don't think Rick wanted to be, but they kind of put you in that you kind of don't go out and say, hey, I wouldn't be a T Nighto, right? So he was with a band.

Speaker 1 10:09

they put you in and they see you go oh, you're a good, You're a good. Look, let's put you in a T Nighto group. So they did Well. You know he has a huge following.

Speaker 3 10:19

Oh, still to this day.

Speaker 2 10:20

He's out there doing those. Oh my god, no, a Drake on general hospital was all of that I'm saying no, a Drake on general hospital, 8183, then back on 2005. Yes, 2012 Women loved him, loved dr Noah Drake, noah Drake. So that's how he got to me, that's where he got that following so same path again.

Speaker 1 10:46

It says it was T Nighto. It was drama on TV, and here's an interesting fact.

Speaker 2 10:53

I don't know if you knew it, but I saw Rick Springfield in Las Vegas. He had just David an indy effects, because I wanted to see effects with David and I got there and it was Rick Springfield.

Speaker 1 11:07

Yes, it does all that it does say. From February 2000 to December 2002, springfield performed effects alive at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Speaker 2 11:17

And I was there not all of that time, but one of those did you like the show?

Speaker 1 11:22

Was it interesting? It really was.

Speaker 2 11:24

I Enjoyed the show. I really did. It wasn't what I expected. I thought, oh yeah, this was actually kind of cool. What's the general story of it. Remember it's about it's a, it's like a show about a Showman. As far as I remember, there's the showman and that was the David or Rick Springfield Kirtan. They and they sing and dance and everything these T Nighto's follow each other around.

Speaker 1 11:53

There's a club.

Speaker 2 11:55

That was David show. That show put David back on the map. It was the biggest thing in Vegas at the time.

Speaker 1 12:03

So, and now he has a plaque on the walk.

Speaker 3 12:06

Yes, the sidewalk in Vegas there's a plaque star. He's got a star in Vegas, yeah.

Speaker 1 12:12

Yeah, that was good, but they follow each other around. So Later on, that says Springfield was promoted to teeny bopper, similar to David Cassidy and Donnie Osmond. Springfield spoke of the teeny bopper image in Circus magazine back in 73 and he said he was not sure how it happened. Somehow Someone saw my photo and that was it.

Speaker 3 12:32

That's what happens. That's the way it is Rick.

Speaker 1 12:36

you don't know how it happens.

Speaker 3 12:37

That's how it happens, yeah well, they all say they don't know how it happens.

Speaker 1 12:41

Yeah, they all they don't. But then you went on to do Jesse's girl yeah, one which everybody Everybody knows the Jesse's girl intro.

Speaker 2 12:50

Jesse is a friend. Yeah, I know he's been a good friend of mine, but lately something's changing.

Speaker 3 12:58

He hard to define. Jesse's got himself a girl and I want to make him.

Speaker 1 13:04

Yep, so he went into that. He made nine studio albums. He has a radio talk show Acting he okay. Another fun fact in December he appeared on the Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries portraying Ned Nickerman. On a January 20th 1978. Stop, yeah, you. There you go again.

Speaker 2 13:22

There's another connection.

Speaker 3 13:27

We're gonna have to pull that episode out.

Rick Springfield and Leif Garrett Memories

Speaker 1 13:29

Yeah, it was a Nancy Drew episode, not Technically in the Hardy Boys, but back then it was called the Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries. That's our six degrees right there yeah yeah, so goes back to Sean again and Same path, same path with these guys.

Speaker 3 13:45

Yeah, actually, rick has played at the Egyptian theater and decalb a couple of times and I have never gone. People are like why aren't you going? I'm like it's not Sean.

Speaker 1 14:03

I saw him one time and I have to tell you is my favorite concert. He was in the summer by us yeah, the summer festival, and I always go to the front of the stage on the side. I'm always get a seat there and I tell you it was the best show I ever saw. He was out in the audience, minkling with them and that's nice. Personal energy was great and it was like he was one with the audience. I've never seen that before with somebody who sings. They're just on stage, they stay there. They don't they. They're on their spot. We're in our spot. He came into our spot and just started, yeah, hanging out with the audience while he was doing the show and I thought I've heard that about him and decalb you know, so after before and after the show he would love to the audience and stuff.

Speaker 2 14:45

Yeah, and I have a funny story real quick about Rick Springfield. Yeah, didn't happen to me, but one of my friends husband went to Michigan to play golf with his buddies and they were all sitting around the. They call it the 18th hole, the where you sit, or the 19th hole, the rest rider is the bar thing that connected the golf course where he bad goes.

Speaker 2 15:08

Well, I guess Rick was going to do a show that night in Michigan at this four wins casino and he was in that bar and Ali's women were coming up to. My friend was sitting right next to him and he goes are you somebody famous or something? And it goes on Rick Springfield. And he said who? And he's like Jesse's girl and my friend goes oh, I hate that song oh, that's narrow. He told Rick Springfield he did not like Jesse's girl.

Speaker 1 15:39

Everybody likes Jesse's girl.

Speaker 3 15:41

Who did Jack and Diane, even as a song? John Cougar, no, john Cougar.

Speaker 2 15:45

I can't. I should stop calling them that. Nobody calls them that anymore. John Cougar yeah, I'm dating myself.

Speaker 3 15:51

Oh well, I call him John Cougar.

Speaker 2 15:55

So anyway, that's great stories, did you have one more.

Speaker 1 15:58

Yeah, I have one more. Tina will talk about Lake Garrett.

Speaker 3 16:01

What's your?

Speaker 1 16:02

first impression of Lake.

Speaker 3 16:03

Garrett. Well, I mean, my first impression back in the day was like what a hottie, you know he just had a long hair.

Speaker 2 16:11

He looked so California.

Speaker 3 16:12

Yeah, so California, like so surfboard skateboard, you know all that, but just he wasn't one of my like, he was not my chancacity.

Speaker 1 16:21

Right Me either. It was my friend's genital.

Speaker 2 16:24

He made my wall when I said my wall I had a corner.

Speaker 3 16:30

I did that. I put life Well. Like I said, my sister and I shared a room, and so even Farrah Fawcett was on her wall.

Speaker 1 16:37

Oh, with that hair and Right yeah.

Speaker 3 16:40

But yeah, but late was on our wall Really.

Speaker 1 16:43

Yeah, I did put life on my wall but my friend like life so we would. Um, I didn't see him in concert, but I do have a story about life. We went to a record store he was appearing at you get the autographs and stuff right. So my friend Jamie like late Garrett, so she would go to my Sean stuff. So I had to go to her life stuff. So he went to the record store. You know a radio station was there. We get his autograph and she's freaking out and he's like oh, don't cry, you know. And he's like look at her, like what are you flipping out for?

Speaker 3 17:09

And I'm like, yeah, what are you flipping out for? I?

Speaker 1 17:11

that's crazy. Why are you doing that? So then, as soon as we leave, she loses her autograph? He gave us both an autograph. No, as soon as we leave, she lost her autograph and I'm like she was in tears. I'm like here, you can take my autograph, because I don't need a what that was Neither was in personal lives Right.

Speaker 1 17:31

I don't think so. I don't think he put my name, he just put he. It was a long line, like when I met Sean, and you get in and you get your autograph and you go. It's not like to chat, so you go. So I gave her my autograph. I don't know what happened to hers. I mean it must have just fallen down somewhere. But hey, if I get an autograph, that thing staying close to me, I have a leaf there, a fun fact that you may tell, but I'm selling it.

Speaker 2 17:54

Back in the day there was a show called my three sons. Yeah, they care it, sister.

Speaker 1 17:59

I remember that dawn dawn.

Speaker 3 18:01

Her name is Dawn, yeah, she um but on my three sons was her name Don or Doty or Doty. I forget.

Speaker 2 18:07

I think daddy wasn't I remember that show, but she came later. You know how we talked in another episode. That is, a show was ending. They bring in a little kid, the child.

Speaker 3 18:16

Who's the cute kid she?

Speaker 2 18:18

was the cute kid cause Fred McMurray's character got remarried. Finally, all his three sons grew up and got married. So he got married and that was her. That's the life caret sister.

Speaker 1 18:30

And I was going to say he's a child actor, so I guess him and his sister went in there together and did stuff together. Parents. I told you that all California like I think it says he was born in Hollywood, california, and he looks at it and started at age five.

Speaker 1 18:46

He graduated from high school at age 15. So his sister's name is Dawn Lynn. They worked on a variety jobs together. He did all the TV show stuff 75, he was doing a CBS drama series three. For the road through the programs he was in a trigger to response from the teenage girls of course and led to his first appearance in teen magazines like Tiger beat.

Speaker 2 19:09

So there they tagged another person.

Speaker 1 19:10

There you go for PTSD.

Speaker 2 19:13

It was a machine. I remember one day I was watching American night of American Idol, see American bandstand.

Speaker 4 19:21

Yes.

Speaker 2 19:22

And they've got. It was the start. I probably saw that too, you probably did, and he was singing. He was singing around.

Speaker 1 19:28

Sue.

Speaker 2 19:55

He covered run around Sue and he covered the beach boys and all of those 60 songs. Yes, Well, he was lip syncing and the song kept going and he was off dancing and stuff. I'm like, oh my God they missed this queue and they never cut it or anything. Really, oh my God, that was blatant. So it was when I knew it was lip syncing. It wasn't like a little bit. I'm like late carrot, the song is singing, you're over here doing something. He was having fun.

Speaker 1 20:24

Yeah, oh, brother, but that's how they started to American bandstand. Sean was on there too, but I don't remember the year that's my first saw Sean. That was my moment. Yes, my pass out moment. Saturday mornings I'm going to pass out. I just see this gorgeous guy on TV and it's David's brother we're talking about Closer to your age.

Speaker 3 20:45

Yeah, I know Right.

Speaker 1 20:48

I'm going to Sean. I refer to Sean Sean. How many albums did leave have he had? Well, let's see 1976. He signed a five album record contract with Atlantic Records. I think he got five. I don't either, no, but the first one's called life Garrett, of course, like Sean's was called Sean Cassidy, so they name it, and then it was released in July of 77. What else happened in July of 77?

Speaker 3 21:11

Well, let's see Um the do run with you were run.

Speaker 2 21:17

That's why I think I fell for late for a little bit. The songs were out at the same time.

Speaker 1 21:21

They're on the magazines at the same time, so you know him and Sean came out with the records at the same time. Yeah, july 77.

Speaker 3 21:28

So he had run around Sue the wanderer he did his, you know, but there was no competition, I think, between the two of them. I think they were different.

The Gibb Brothers

Speaker 1 21:35

Yeah. Two different you know, like a bad boy almost. Yeah, Sean was more clean cut. Yeah Well says. In the late 1990s Garrett hosted the series. A track flashback. Remember that one? Yes, On the cable music channel VH one. It was on VH one. He was yes, and he replaced fellow T Naito David Cassidy. Hmm.

Speaker 2 21:55

I didn't know David was doing a track flashback.

Speaker 1 21:57

I remember late I think he did, but late replaced him Okay.

Speaker 2 22:02

There we go again.

Speaker 1 22:03

They're following each other.

Speaker 2 22:04

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think we're going to move on from late. Yeah, that's about all I can handle today. Yeah, then whatever happened after that. You're going to tell us about who you want to introduce the world to as a heartthrob from the seventies.

Speaker 4 22:22

Yes, I have the gift brothers, the oldest and the youngest, and it was really neat to learn a lot more than what I already knew because, like we always say, sean, sean, sean, you know. But I noticed the same similar situation where the oldest brother helped the youngest brother and kind of paved the way. You know Well Barry Gibb, the oldest one. He did pave the way for the Bee Gees and it was the voice of the falsetto that was there, you know, like their trademark, yeah, and that really made them stand out. And then with Barry Gibb, I also read that there's very few singers that can say they had a number one record in five consecutive decades. And then later he chose to write songs, like for Kenny Rogers, diana Ross, even Olivia Newton-John, and then he did a song, I guess, with Barbara Streisand, a big song, yeah, a big song.

Speaker 4 23:21

And instead of doing the eighties electro keyboard funk, he started writing songs for some of these other famous singers. But Barry really wanted to work with Andy, his youngest brother, just like David was with Sean. He was a good mentor to his youngest brother. Barry even took, you know, andy to London to put together a new record deal and he wrote 90 percent of the songs for Andy. So he really wanted his little brother Andy to be successful and one time even did the vocals for I don't know if it was more than once, but did vocal Backup singer.

Speaker 1 23:56

Usually they do Backup singing yeah.

Speaker 2 24:00

All of Andy Gibb's records. You could tell People would get confused and think it was the Bee Gees, Because Barry Gibb stamped those records with that sound. He did right and he just heard it all over those records.

Speaker 1 24:12

He knew right away.

Speaker 4 24:14

And then his brother from the background singing back up yeah, I like that disco sound and I didn't even realize I liked it so much. And one day Jerry said to me he said, dang, you would love the Bee Gees, you just need to listen to the Bee Gees. Well, he was correct, I guess, because I do really like their music. Andy, though, he launched his career playing in Australia as a teen. Andy watched his big brother, barry, you know, write a song for him and it only took him 20 minutes. So Andy really looked up to his big brother. You couldn't believe the talent that he had. You know and you notice, with a lot of these families they have siblings that are talented just like their parents, just like they are.

Speaker 1 24:52

Yeah, so the younger ones are just watching all this happen with the older ones?

Speaker 4 24:56

Yes, yes, and so they learned just by watching Right, andy wasn't even 20.

Speaker 1 25:01

And he had three billboard number one hits Just like Sean, he was 18 when he signed his contract.

Speaker 3 25:06

Yeah, why he was still in high school.

Speaker 1 25:08

Very similar.

Speaker 3 25:09

Yeah.

Speaker 4 25:11

For so long, you and me been finding each other for so long, and the feeling that I feel for you is more than stronger. Take it from me. He was the first male reporting artist in American history to achieve this, he sold 20 million records in just three years and then, like some of these others, he co-hosted Solid Gold.

Speaker 2 25:38

Yeah.

Speaker 4 25:39

And he started in Broadway like Sean, yes, he did yeah.

Speaker 3 25:43

Yeah, Didn't Barry and even Maurice? Didn't they do Broadway?

Speaker 2 25:49

No, the Gibbs never did Broadway.

Speaker 1 25:51

Well, not the BG. Andy was on the T Nytle track.

Speaker 3 25:55

Yeah, just a little fun fact if it is a fun fact. But Barry Gibb moved to Nashville, tennessee, big brother, and because he used to do a lot of recording and writing in Nashville and he actually bought Johnny and June's house oh really, and Johnny had made a comment at one time like no one would ever live in the house after he passed. Well, the house burnt down before Barry actually got to move in it.

Speaker 1 26:20

Oh no.

Speaker 2 26:21

Yeah.

Speaker 3 26:22

And to my memory, they never found a reason for the fire.

Speaker 2 26:26

Wow. Because Johnny said nobody's ever been living in this house. They didn't.

Speaker 3 26:32

But yeah, but you know it was a beautiful house and everything. I've been by it. But yeah, but Barry bought it and you know they were getting set to move in and it had burned down.

Speaker 2 26:42

What else kind of fun fact. Don't you have some really interesting facts about Andy Gibb?

Speaker 4 26:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:48

Yeah.

Speaker 4 26:49

Well, his most popular songs you guys probably already know them and I love them. That grew them water shadow dancing, and he really didn't like the fame either. He got to the point where he didn't but my cousin. This is what I think is really cool. My cousin actually has a photo of her with him and I got to take a video of it and I thought she had dated him, but she had just taken a picture with him but she had dated Donnie Osmond. So I got the two mixed up and then she said that she also introduced Marie Osmond to her first husband. But I can still picture that picture of Andy Gibb with my cousin and the next to it there's a picture of Donnie Osmond, of course, because she dated him, and then on the other side was her with Marie Osmond Because they were probably best friends. I don't know that they were best friends, but she did introduce Marie Osmond to her first husband that is such a cool story thing.

Speaker 1 27:46

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:46

I think you brag about dating a teen idol, right yeah, and that's because your family, your cousin's family, is from Utah, right, and we all know Donnie and Marie, but from Utah.

Teen Idols

Speaker 4 27:58

Yeah, they traveled around, but right now she lives in Oregon, I believe okay, that's still in the way Good story to tell, yeah yeah grandchildren.

Speaker 2 28:07

Hey, dan, when Andy Gibb first came out, and you know they, they push you to this teen idol thing we all know that we talked about it. Wasn't he married and they tried to keep that from. The girls was already married with the child when he first came out.

Speaker 1 28:25

You're right, they did want to keep that secret? Yeah, I did not know that would ruin his his credibility as a teen idol.

Speaker 2 28:31

Well, they just didn't want girls. They wanted the girls to feel like they could have the guy.

Speaker 4 28:38

But yeah, these guys were so romantic and when they love somebody, they loved them. You know so much and could get their hearts hurt very easily, just like you know us. They they have those feelings too and, like with Andy Gibb, victoria principal, I mean just broke his heart when she broke up with him. Yeah, she was older than him, but he really felt it crushed, yeah, it crushed him and then his, his death, really crushed everybody, everybody man, you know how they say.

Speaker 2 29:06

You know where you were when so-and-so died. I was at work at my desk. My best friend Teresa cause we. She goes. You're not gonna believe this. I said what she goes and to give that I wouldn't stop it.

Speaker 3 29:18

I can't remember how he died, though Well we won't talk about it.

Speaker 2 29:24

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 29:26

Convocation of his heart.

Speaker 1 29:29

That's what I thought it was, but I just, and he was just gonna join his brothers to in the band with the beat.

Speaker 3 29:34

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 29:35

Just within months Barry was going to add him to. You know the rest of brothers in that group, yeah, so it's really hard on Barry.

Speaker 1 29:43

I don't remember that, but I remember where I was when Elvis died everybody.

Speaker 2 29:51

He made my wall Mean my wall. I had him up, I didn't have Barry. I just thought of Barry and Morrison and Robin is just oh yes they didn't make a wall around. That's cool, yeah, yeah, well, they miss anything else you want to share about the Gibbs.

Speaker 4 30:11

No. I know Barry give is around the same age as my mother and I think that's pretty cool, Wow yeah he's still around, but he's kind of sad because nobody else is with them.

Speaker 1 30:20

Brothers are all gone.

Speaker 2 30:21

He's still out there though you know the twins.

Speaker 1 30:23

Morris and.

Speaker 2 30:23

Robin are gone, and then he's gone.

Speaker 1 30:26

Yeah, he made a duet album or something. He did something with Dali Parton and they collaborated with other famous people to redo his songs. It was really nice.

Speaker 2 30:34

Well, I'm gonna move a song.

Speaker 1 30:38

What's the next batch of?

Speaker 4 30:46

John Travolta is known for, of course, the Saturday Night Fever in 1977, and then he played on TV to like some of these other guys. He was the youngest, and His mom, though, was an actress and a drama teacher.

Speaker 4 31:00

So, that really helped him out. It seems like when these guys, these teen idols, become popular, we find out that they come from very talented families and they become part of what these other guys are in. So they have a following because they understand each other. And he got permission to leave school and work on his own acting career at age 16. His parents gave him permission to leave high school, but they knew his talent, and that's not just something anybody can do. Well, travolta did not become a film star until the release of Saturday Night Fever in 1977. Yeah, and then it was this. This movie is what heightened the country's interest in disco at first. So especially that image of you guys can picture this John Travolta dancing to the BG soundtrack.

Speaker 3 32:17

Oh, we saw it, white suit going down the sidewalk her up the sidewalk yeah.

Speaker 4 32:22

So here, here he was dancing in a white polyester suit and a buttoned on shirt.

Speaker 3 32:26

John Travolta had spent months mastering the Intricate disco movements you know, I wonder if he's ever gonna be asked to be on dancing with the stars.

Speaker 1 32:36

I'm sure he has already.

Speaker 4 32:37

Oh, that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 32:39

I don't think they go to high in the list. They have like B groups.

Speaker 3 32:43

Bc groups.

Speaker 1 32:44

Yeah yeah, that'll be great though that would be great.

Speaker 4 32:47

Yeah, yeah. And then he performed on grease, but I guess he didn't write the soundtrack songs. But I researched who actually wrote some of those. It was John I don't know how you say the last name, f a r, r, a r, far, far, were something like that, but he wrote the song, so you're the one that I want.

Speaker 3 33:04

He wrote that song and then center of all today. I no, no that, John Farah yes.

Speaker 4 33:10

Yeah, saturday Night Fever earned him an Academy nomination for Best Actor, making him, at the age of 24, one of the youngest performers ever nominated for the Best Actor Oscar.

Speaker 2 33:26

Wow. Well, I gotta say John Travolta did not make my wall, but I love him I used to always watch. Welcome Back, carter. And he was just Vinnie Barberini. Yes, vinnie Barberino was my favorite, and when he left and went on to Saturday Night Fever that was really kind of heartbreaking. But who knew that it was catapulting him into what he is today?

Speaker 1 33:54

But you know who wrote those song Grease.

Speaker 2 33:57

Frankie.

Speaker 1 33:58

No, not Barry Gibbs. Well, Barry Gibbs, but get me collaborate with. That's another collaboration.

Speaker 2 34:04

Yeah yeah, barry Gibbs wrote Grease, but Frankie.

Speaker 1 34:07

Valley yes, sang it, but I thought they collaborated Well.

Speaker 2 34:12

Maybe not Maybe they're all a collaboration.

Speaker 3 34:15

Yeah, I mean I don't know the name of the albums or anything but John Travolta, even though he did, you know, perform and sing in Grease and Saturday Night Fever, I think, and did he also had some albums out.

Speaker 1 34:28

Yeah, he has a song called Going to Letter In. I mean it was OK, but it wasn't a good singer.

Speaker 3 34:33

But then it ranked at the top 40. It did.

Speaker 4 34:36

I was going to say it did rank way up there.

Speaker 3 34:38

Yeah.

Speaker 1 34:39

Yes, I remember reading about that. Yeah, I'm surprised Cindy.

Speaker 3 34:42

I know it was way up there.

Speaker 4 34:44

Well, that's cause.

Speaker 2 34:45

And I mean you say he wasn't a great singer but he started on musicals, plays, Broadway he got a dancer dancing, so maybe he wasn't big on his singing, but you know, we all know that.

Speaker 4 34:59

It's that white outfit.

Speaker 1 35:01

How's the big album like? Talk about the big albums of the decades that was yeah, well, say that was the number one album for debt.

Speaker 2 35:10

for years it was the number one.

Speaker 1 35:13

They can't say disco was really that bad. I mean, look how much money that thing made. Oh yeah, I agree, they were going to try it.

Speaker 2 35:18

That's great that you share those stories about the Gibbs and John Travolta and they're all connected because the Gibbs wrote and produced Saturday Night Fever and we all know that John's supposed to start in it.

Speaker 4 35:33

Like you said, Darius, all this collaboration.

Speaker 2 35:35

Yes, well, I'm going to move us along. Yeah, what's next? I'm going into some of my favorite teeny bopper, teen idols who did make the wall at my house.

Speaker 1 35:46

You got a lot of people on your wall.

Speaker 2 35:48

She had a big so I had the main wall he had all mine, and then there were three other walls that they all shared. They shared a wall and they didn't get the wall, so I'm going to start with the Bay City Rollers.

Speaker 3 36:04

SAT, or are they Scottish?

Speaker 2 36:07

or the Bay City Rollers were from Scotland. They all had their little tartan, yes. So when I got older I learned this little rhyme that I guess the people over the over the pond, as they say, used to sing. I don't know if we over here did it, but it was BAY BAY, bay CITY, sing an ROWL ERS.

Speaker 3 36:31

Bay City Rollers are the best I never heard of that. I've heard it, but there's no way I could sing that, no way. Go, denise, after you did the double ROL. See, I can't even say it.

Speaker 1 36:43

I don't know that one. Well, I was cool. I know SAT or DAY Night.

Speaker 2 37:18

I was in love, love, love, love with Eric and Les from the Bay City Roller I just saw him on Facebook the other day.

Speaker 1 37:25

You can't recognize him but Eric touring. Yeah, Well, yeah, they were just in a world.

Speaker 2 37:31

Let's pass the way. Woody does his own little tour and I have a confession about Eric when we get there. But I used to always, always, listen to the Bay City Rollers, anything they did when they were on midnight special.

Speaker 3 37:49

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 37:49

They were on the Dinosaur show. Anything they did, I was there watching them and they started a Saturday afternoon cartoon show. What you remember the guy said to Marty Crawford, and then they would make these shows. Oh yeah, and they had Captain Kool and the Kongs. Well, the Bay City Rollers have one, and this was towards the end of their career, because we all know there were all these iterations of the rollers. To start it off, les Derek, eric, woody and Allen and Woody and Allen were the brothers and then you got Ian for a minute and then you got what's his face? Duncan. That came in at the very end because Allen quit, because he was the older one, he didn't want to play the drums anymore. So you had all these iterations of the rollers. Well, to try to keep them as a team I don't want that machine thing they put them on a Saturday after a Saturday morning sitting. Marty Crawford kind of TV show run around goofy, do a skit, kind of things. Oh God, did that kill him?

Speaker 2 38:57

Kind of like the monkeys did stuff right they never should have done that, but the rollers always were important to me. So somewhere in the late eighties 1990, Eric put the band together and he called it the Bay City Rollers and they came to Chicago and when they got here I said, well, if they're coming, I'm going to go see him. So I went to see him and it was just Eric and a bunch of studio people. He found over in Scotland and he had a manager, a role manager. So my sister and I waited after the show, waited, waited, waited, and this is one of those. Don't try to meet your team. I don't. Story is because Eric never came out. He never came out to meet the fans.

Speaker 2 39:43

He never came out and it was a small little bar in the city on the south side. He could have come out and he didn't. But the guys who were the other rollers came out and we started talking to them and got to talking to his road manager and then my sister and I took the road manager on a tour of the city of Chicago and we kept them out all night, driving them all around Chicago, showing them downtown, the skyscrapers and everything. And we got them back in time and they had to leave and go the next weekend. They were going to Champaign. So he called and said, come on down to Champaign.

Speaker 2 40:25

So we came to Champaign and we were trying to get the hotel room to stay and then people thought we just were groupies from Chicago and I'm like, oh, awesome is that? So they got us our hotel and we stayed and everything. It was a fun, fun tour. But do you know, eric never came out to meet the fans and we saw them in Chicago then in Champaign, illinois. But the road manager I said, if you, I said, if I give you a tiger beat with Eric, would you have him please sign it? And he brought me my tiger beats that's awesome back and gave it to me with Eric signature.

Speaker 1 41:08

That's awesome. Oh my God, he was around somewhere.

Speaker 3 41:12

You had another treasure.

Speaker 2 41:14

Yes, Eric wouldn't come out. He would not come meet the fans and I'm sorry if I'm bursting anyone's bubble out there, but he is not the nicest of all of them. So he was cute though. I love the wall and that's how they made the wall, and I feel bad that less passed away, because I think less always felt like he didn't get all of his money that was due to him from royalties and stuff. But I love the rollers and you know who else I love to make my wall Robbie Benson he didn't make my wall.

Speaker 3 41:51

Oh God, I loved Robbie Benson. He might have made my wall. He had cute eyes, good eyes.

Speaker 2 41:57

So imagine being 10, 10, 11 years old, going to the drive-in theater with your family and seeing old to Billy Joe, that was me Now. You all heard song old Billy.

Speaker 3 42:10

Joe.

Speaker 2 42:11

Yeah, the country song. Well, the movie was out and we went and saw the movie. My mother took us because obviously she didn't care what she made us watching.

Speaker 2 42:21

Maybe that wasn't meant for too long it was an older, I was gonna say it's an older show but we saw it and it was really a good movie and Robbie Benson starred as Billy Joe McAllister who jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge. Oh, so it was my first encounter Robbie Benson and that's why he made the wall. And later on he did a movie called Ice Castles which I did not see. I saw that one and he did a lot of stuff. But my biggest memory after old to Billy Joe was fast forward all the way to the 90s.

Teen Idols Transition to New Careers

Speaker 2 42:56

I'm watching Friends and then the credits it says directed by Robbie Benson. Really he did that, for Robbie Benson directed seven episodes of Friends. Good fun fact, yep, and I'm like Robbie, I mean Robbie Benson, that Robbie, and it was that Robbie Benson. He was out there directing so he followed his team, I don't you know, he was part of the machine and he went out and got out of acting and went behind the scenes and did directing. I'm not sure if he did a Broadway or anything, but he had some music that didn't quite, you know, make it, but that was. I really loved him after I saw him. And old to Billy Joe, and then also I'm going to talk about Bobby Sherman.

Speaker 1 44:00

I like Bobby Sherman.

Speaker 2 44:01

Yeah, he was before my time he was a little bit older, I think the older crowd he was, the older, like if I, if my older sister would have been into this, he would have been her age group, but I always thought that that hair, that Bobby Sherman hair good hair.

Speaker 1 44:22

I was like that dude is something to look at when he was on a part just family. I noticed both of their hair because they both have good hair. Yeah.

Speaker 2 44:29

And he did do an episode at a party. They looked like almost.

Speaker 1 44:32

I'm like why do you look like brothers almost they could have been.

Speaker 2 44:35

Yeah, but I didn't. I he was also. He was in a bunch of TV shows Bobby Sherman was, and I watched them. Maybe that's why I had this crush on him, because I remember watching those shows in the early seventies. But the thing that really stands out about me for Bobby Sherman with it's there was a TV show on back in the seventies called Emergency.

Speaker 1 45:01

I love a show.

Speaker 2 45:01

Randy Mantuth and Kevin Ty and Randall Mantuth and they were. They were emergency EMTs.

Speaker 1 45:08

Yeah yeah, merchants, the first paramedics paramedic they brought.

Speaker 2 45:12

they actually did for the paramedic program with no TV show ever did. They really really did promote that program and make it what it is today. Well, they have Bobby Sherman as a guest as like a trainee paramedic no, a doctor. He was a doctor who didn't understand what the paramedics were doing. Oh, he thought they were overstepping their role and taking over doctors. And another head doctor said hey, you go out there with these paramedics and you watch what they do and then come back and tell me how you feel after that. Well, bobby Sherman did that episode. He has such an appreciation for the paramedic program that he quit acting and became a paramedic.

Speaker 1 45:58

I know Well, I can't believe that.

Speaker 3 46:00

Yep.

Speaker 1 46:01

How many years did he do that? Do you know?

Speaker 2 46:03

Well, I think he retired doing that's where he last job. Yeah, so I'm not sure how long he did that, but I thought that was so interesting that he had a guest starring role on emergency. He has such an appreciation for that field that he said that. Well, who needs to be a teen idol?

Speaker 1 46:26

Something's just grab you. You know you get an experience. You're like, oh, I really can connect with this, let's go with it. And that's what he did.

Speaker 2 46:31

Yeah.

Speaker 1 46:32

Yeah, and he.

Speaker 2 46:33

Shangri-La to himself all the way over there to be in the paramedic. And that's a reference cause. He was on his show called Shangri-La, singing as a teen idol.

Speaker 3 46:44

Well, doree, since you brought that up, I can talk a little bit about Eric Estrada, who was, you know, the heartthrob of Chip's yes, chip's and I'm not going to go into great detail like you ladies did on. You know some of the guys on my wall, but do you know Eric Estrada actually became a highway patrolman for the state of Indiana.

Speaker 1 47:05

Really Well, he was a little too old. He was in the older group too. Yeah, he was in the older group, I liked his hair.

Speaker 4 47:12

Then you have feathered hair too. Oh, he had that big, thick jet-pack hair. I remember thinking it was pretty the white feathered or something.

Speaker 3 47:19

But yeah, after he left chips and everything. I mean he has a long line. You know, I mean pages and pages. When I was printing out his Wikipedia, 30 pages. I mean, you know, and going through the same as most heartthrobs and actors in those days of starring in, you know, all kinds of plays and TV shows.

Speaker 1 47:41

Same route, yeah, same route.

Speaker 3 47:42

But you know he was more famous, you know, for his role in chips and what was his name and chip John and Ponch.

Speaker 4 47:50

Yeah, Ponch.

Speaker 3 47:51

He was Ponch and um, but yeah, so after that he actually became a police officer in the state of Indiana. Wow.

Speaker 2 47:59

Well, Eric Estrada.

Speaker 3 48:00

Yeah, Eric Estrada yeah.

Speaker 4 48:02

He was the real deal. Yeah, he was the real deal.

Speaker 2 48:04

Yeah, I could see how sometimes you kind of say I'm out, I don't want to do this Right.

Speaker 1 48:10

Well, yeah, like Sean you know, he says I did it for a while, but doesn't that really want him on to do for the rest of my life?

Speaker 3 48:15

I mean he still makes a lot of guest appearances. I just recently saw him on a show and then his daughter played on um, where you go in and they have to guess your claim to fame. Oh yeah, claim to fame and all that yeah, so your daughter was on it yeah.

Speaker 3 48:32

He's still out there and still does some things and stuff. But yeah, it says Estrada became a reserve police officer for the Muncie. Now isn't Muncie pretty close to us? Yeah, muncie is a good three hours away. Yeah, muncie in the police department. Then from there he moved to Virginia where he was an IC. It says ICAC. So oh, internet Crimes Against Children. Oh, I'm an investigator. He did that for years for Bradford County. Then he was a reserve police officer, um, and seen Anthony Idle as well you know. And then he actually was filmed several times patrolling on his motorcycle, motorcycle and stuff. Yeah, oh, that's so cool.

Speaker 4 49:14

Yeah.

Speaker 3 49:14

Yeah. So I mean he had a really good you know, and yes, just like all the rest, he did some singing. I didn't know that. Yep, yep, youtube, yep, and then, of course, lots of stuff. Emily Aims I mean yeah, he was with that too. He was a crowd, yep, and you know he was a child actor.

Speaker 2 49:33

He made my wall Yep.

Speaker 3 49:34

Did he yeah?

Speaker 2 49:36

I had a much to life, garrett.

Speaker 3 49:38

Those eyes and that curly hair. Yeah, I love his hair yeah. Even his older brother, and it is enough. I mean, I'm sure you know he was on the magazines and everything was yeah, he's in Tiger Beat. Yeah, but I mean Willie, he even appeared on Gunsmoke Okay like some of them.

Speaker 1 49:55

yeah, yeah, there we go.

Speaker 3 49:56

Yep. The wonderful world at Disney, Adam 12. I don't know if I remember.

Speaker 1 50:02

He might have been younger on there.

Speaker 3 50:03

Yeah, well, yeah, as a child, yeah, but you know he's more famously known for Bradford Jr on it is Enough Little. Tommy oh yeah, yeah, oh God, he did some quirky things on there you know I love that show though.

Speaker 2 50:16

Yeah, yeah, it was a fun show. It was a fun show. It was a fun. I met Willie Ames at the World of Wheels in Chicago. Really, I was going to have my picture with him. Yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 50:25

I'd like to see that. Yeah, that would be cool. Yeah, what is it?

Speaker 2 50:30

My friend Teresa. She was sent to the World of Wheels, going to meet stars all the time, Anywhere a star. Back then you didn't have to pay for autographs and pictures, so if a star was there, she's like we're going yeah. So I got to meet Willie Ames.

Speaker 3 50:44

Well, yeah, because he was actually still in junior high school, you know, for it is enough.

Speaker 1 50:50

Oh yeah, I think you're still a teenager, yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 50:53

But here's a fun fact that his wife, Millie, they actually met being pen pals.

Speaker 1 51:00

Oh cool.

Speaker 3 51:01

Oh cool. So she was a fan? Yeah, she was a fan, and they were pen pals and he answered her letter. Yeah, back and forth. Wow, back and forth. Yeah, who knew that they actually would answer yeah.

Speaker 4 51:13

So it does it can't happen.

Speaker 3 51:15

So no wonder a girl sends so many letters right, yeah, but they actually met one day, I don't know, maybe at a coffee shop or something. I've heard the story, I just can't remember. He was married to Vicki what another man from 79 to 84, and then he married Winnie in 86. No, no, wait, I'm wrong. Someone else in 86, then Winnie in 2014.

Speaker 2 51:41

Wow, oh Willie. Yeah, you know, that is I like Willie Ains story. Like I said, I don't follow him.

Speaker 1 51:50

follow him that much yeah, me neither.

Speaker 2 51:51

But he has a nice story. Yeah, you know, when you have a teen idol, that didn't wind up on my nose, where are they now? But you don't really want to know. Willie Ains is one of those good guys.

Speaker 3 52:05

Yeah, you know, he actually became a cruise director for a while.

Speaker 2 52:10

Oh see there you go, Like I said they love boat. Yeah, they said I'm out and they're going to do something now?

Speaker 3 52:17

Yeah, then he went back into acting, you know, later in like 2016. Did he get into?

Speaker 2 52:23

acting again with with. Wasn't that show with Scott Bale and they were like some kind of roommates or something? Maybe it wasn't. Willie Ains, I know there was a show with Scott Bale, charles and Chargers.

Speaker 3 52:38

Oh, I'm not sure what the answer was on it. I'm looking to see, but man, his again. He's been in everything, everything, Danny. I mean it's amazing. Was he a childhood actor too? Who?

Speaker 1 52:53

Willie Ains.

Speaker 3 52:54

Yeah, he started when he was really young. His first appearance was Gunsmoke.

Speaker 1 52:59

Oh, okay, when he was like five.

Speaker 3 53:01

Oh, like five. I don't see anything here with Charles and Chargers. I know it doesn't mean that it's not true.

Speaker 2 53:07

I thought he and Scott kind of buddied up there.

Speaker 3 53:10

Yeah, they were, they were. I remember that now they were, so yeah.

Speaker 2 53:15

Speaking of.

Speaker 3 53:16

Scott. Yeah, speaking of Scott, he was definitely on my wall, probably next to Sean and Parker, and you know, like my wall, I can't see anybody. Cindy, I'm telling you with that life-size thing you had. Oh, I know that.

Speaker 2 53:34

I couldn't put Scott on my wall because I had to give everything Scott billed to my friend.

Speaker 1 53:39

Oh see, yeah, if you had a friend who had, yes, you had to share that. If that was your friend, Teen Idol, you had to give.

Speaker 3 53:46

Yeah, but who did not love him in happy days? And Charles.

Speaker 2 53:50

Oh so much fun or.

Speaker 3 53:52

Chachi Chachi. Yeah, joni loves Chachi the spin-off. And oh, you know what I forgot to mention about Willie. He was in a band. He had a band, of course he had a band, like they all did. Yes, he had a band and actually he did cut albums and his band name was. It was called Willie in the Paradise. Oh, okay, yeah, and so you guys can look it up. But he, you know, appearances on American Bandstand and yes of course, yes, of course you know.

Speaker 3 54:22

Some of them Like Broadway, the Mike Douglas show, yeah, I know yeah. So you know very talented groups.

Speaker 1 54:29

Yeah, they all did the talk show scene too right. I mean, shawn was on some talk shows, maybe Mike Douglas they had to, they had to promote them.

Speaker 3 54:37

David was on for sure, let's do the Scott Vincent James fail.

Speaker 2 54:43

That's his full name, full name.

Speaker 3 54:45

I mean, come on, we all know our heartthrobs.

Speaker 2 54:47

Speaking of full names, I meant to mention that Robbie Benson's real name is Robin.

Speaker 1 54:53

Oh it's not Benson.

Speaker 2 54:55

I forgot the last name, but that stood out to me, oh yeah because it didn't His last name.

Speaker 3 55:01

I forget it. Yes, and they changed it because it was too long to say, or something, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 55:09

I'm going to confess I do all of my show prep in my head so I did not prep on why he changed his name. I just know facts. I know so much about so much stuff that I knew his full name was. His real name is Robin.

Speaker 1 55:29

Yeah, rick Springfield's real name is Richard Lewis Spring Thorpe Thorpe. He's from Australia. Yeah, he lived in England too, spring Thorpe, before he came to America. Yeah, I don't know he didn't come to America until 72.

Speaker 2 55:42

Yeah, it was like 72. I thought he was Australia. Oh, didn't you just?

Speaker 1 55:46

say that yeah, australia, yeah, he's from Australia. I'm listening in my headphones here. I can hear you. You heard it.

Speaker 3 55:57

Robin David Siegel.

Speaker 2 56:00

So no, that's not too hard to say. He just didn't want to be Robin David Siegel.

Speaker 3 56:05

But I like his name, but yeah, oh, back to back to our favorite, yeah. Scott Back to Scott Bale oh dear, oh dear Boy, he has all kinds of good stuff. A Bugsy Malone, yeah he remember that?

Speaker 2 56:17

Yeah, he was a little. A bunch of kids running around being gangsters.

Speaker 3 56:22

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 56:23

It was such a funny little, cute movie.

Speaker 3 56:25

Yeah, and then oh, got this one in 2021. I forgot about that, porting Mom and Dad.

Speaker 1 56:30

I don't remember that.

Speaker 3 56:31

I remember seeing that one and then, yeah, I mean again, he follows the same lines as everybody else I mean from TV to movies, to singing, and you know, and I mean he and Joni singing on, you know, happy days. I remember that episode.

Speaker 1 56:49

That was a fun one, and suddenly this magic.

Speaker 3 56:56

When you look at me, I feel like I'm in heaven.

Speaker 1 57:04

Yeah, yeah, and I hope they needed their own spin off or an app, but did you think they needed their own spin off?

Speaker 2 57:11

Well, again there are. These happy days is wrapping up and those Marshalls. Gary K Marshall was not about to let that machine die.

Speaker 1 57:20

He knew there was more to pump out, just like the Vernon Shirley yeah.

Speaker 2 57:26

Those Marshalls were really big on getting those spin offs and making more money. Too bad, Joni Lush Chachi didn't catch on as well. But I think the whole thing was a little bit. It was getting into the 80s and people are like, OK, we had enough Right.

Speaker 3 57:42

Right, yeah. And then there's the Steeze.

Speaker 4 57:46

you know what's that pop or soda pop you know that TV shows.

Speaker 3 57:52

Those were like fading out, right. Other things were coming in Exactly.

Speaker 1 57:56

But like Sean and David, they disappeared for a while after they were done being Teen Idol.

Speaker 3 58:01

Yeah, I mean, everybody has to take a break after that.

Nostalgic Heartthrobs and TV Shows

Speaker 2 58:04

That's a hard thing to do, I would think so fun fact about Scott Beal that lives in my head rent free, Rent free. I read an article a long time ago and it said Scott Beal has enough money. You know he's not money, he's not. One knows where are they now? Living in a trailer trying to make ends meet, and this cost when he's got on happy days. His parents taught him how to save, how to invest, how to spend money wisely, and all that money he made on happy days that's. You know he didn't go to anybody to do she and lose all of it.

Speaker 1 58:46

That's great because a lot of parents back then they were controlling their kids money.

Speaker 2 58:50

They all squandered it away or something Well you got to remember happy days wasn't really back when parents were taken. Happy days came along in the mid 70s the early and went all the way through the 80s side, like 81 or so. So it was a little different then. They weren't really not like in the 50s when leave it to be for what's on and Jerry Maddler's parents probably took all his money. Yeah.

Speaker 3 59:18

Yeah, but you know, like I said there, you know we mentioned some of our favorites and you know there's a lot of others in here Christopher and I, you know, from the Brady Bunch. Oh, the Brady Bunch people. Yeah, barry Williams, you know which?

Speaker 4 59:32

is. You know? I think that's, it's his birthday. Remember I mentioned it was one of their birthdays.

Speaker 3 59:35

Oh yes, yeah, you know. But another fact that I saw when I was doing some research on all of this is John Travolta was noted as the most successful and favorite, which I don't buy. That Heartthrob of the 70s, you know, I could see maybe the most successful if they go by Sales and sales and stuff.

Speaker 1 59:59

You know, because of grease and could be from sales, but if you do fan votes, it's David Cassidy.

Speaker 3 1:00:05

Yeah, but then we also got, you know, donnie Osman. You know, I mean, he's how God's green earth, he's still going, he's still going. I don't think he's even taking a break. He looks good and, oh my God, he looks good. Speaking of that show, claim the fame.

Speaker 2 1:00:21

His son was on it. How did those people not record? I mean, I didn't see that episode telling you he looked like Donnie from 40 years ago.

Speaker 3 1:00:32

I'm like.

Speaker 2 1:00:33

I was out with my friends and my friends said you watch, claim the fame. I said no. She said if I? And she took her phone. I said if I showed you this guy, who would you say he was related to? I took one look and said Donnie Osman. She said yeah, that kid is unclaimed the fame and nobody good. Donnie Osman, nobody.

Speaker 3 1:00:53

Wow.

Speaker 2 1:00:54

I gotta be kidding me. He is a spit in them.

Speaker 3 1:00:58

He was a runner up, but none of these kids actually knew who Donnie Osman was.

Speaker 2 1:01:02

Because they're younger crowd, younger crowd and everything.

Speaker 3 1:01:05

Yeah, that threw, me.

Speaker 1 1:01:07

Yeah.

Speaker 3 1:01:08

But I mean so easy and I'd be screaming at the TV going Donnie Osman, I know he is in husband. Look at that face. I mean yeah.

Speaker 2 1:01:17

It's like Donnie just rolled them up and spat on right now.

Speaker 1 1:01:21

Yeah, they have a certain look to them.

Speaker 3 1:01:23

They do I mean they're all good looking, Every single one of them.

Speaker 4 1:01:27

You know that is for sure, his sister's doing a tour right now.

Speaker 3 1:01:31

Yeah, marie, where's she touring? I know she's going to Oklahoma.

Speaker 4 1:01:34

Wow, you know.

Speaker 3 1:01:35

Donnie did a little tour this summer and I wish I would have known it, because he meet it. I think he meet it to Minneapolis.

Speaker 1 1:01:41

He's still doing a show in Vegas. Well, I'm not going to Vegas.

Speaker 3 1:01:44

He's at a residency there. Yes, another one.

Speaker 2 1:01:47

I met him here in Chicago when he was here for like four years doing Joseph. Oh, really Did Joseph for a long time.

Speaker 3 1:01:52

Yes, he was at the theater. Well, that kind of got him back on the map.

Speaker 1 1:01:57

All those T-90s played Joseph, the amazing Technicolor Dream Code.

Speaker 2 1:02:00

Yeah, David did that too. It's an easy play to do, it's short and it's not a lot.

Speaker 1 1:02:05

I bet David when he was doing little Johnny Jones, I didn't see Joseph.

Speaker 2 1:02:09

I saw Donnie and Patrick do Joseph. Yeah, that's where I met Patrick too, where at Joseph.

Speaker 3 1:02:15

Yeah no, there's another heartthrob. Yeah, patrick didn't want to be heartthrob.

Speaker 1 1:02:20

Patrick said no to heartthrob.

Speaker 3 1:02:22

Yeah I know, but he's a good looking one.

Speaker 1 1:02:24

To the happiness of his mother.

Speaker 3 1:02:25

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 1:02:27

Yes, he's a nice person. Yeah, I had a picture with him.

Speaker 3 1:02:30

Yes, I think we all did at one time. I know, we were all together with him. We met him in Nashville. Yeah, that was fun, it was Nashville. Well, speak of heartthrobs. My heart's throbbing.

Speaker 2 1:02:42

Too much heartthrob for the day.

Speaker 3 1:02:43

Too much heartthrob for the day, but I'm telling you, I mean, we don't have to talk about Sean.

Speaker 1 1:02:48

We all know he's heartthrobbing.

Speaker 3 1:02:50

He's a given. He's a given, he's a given. There's really nothing we can say about Sean that really nobody knows Right, or that we haven't already discussed or won't discuss in the future. And same thing with David.

Speaker 2 1:03:01

Yeah, and I'm glad Donnie made our chart and our wall, donnie didn't make my wall, but I never missed an episode of Donnie and Marie.

Speaker 1 1:03:11

I love Donnie and Marie on episode. Yeah, I did watch that.

Share Your Favorite Teen Heartthrobs

Speaker 3 1:03:15

But when I look at some of these and know what TV shows they played in or movies or anything like that, like Brady Bunch, you know I still watched it, Brady Bunch, and you know let's see Christopher Knight and Barry. Williams, they have the real Brady Bros. Yes, high cast, high cast. I love it when they break it down, but, yes, we're going to let our heartthrobs take a rest for the day, but that was fun. Yeah, it was fun Taking a trip down memory lane.

Speaker 2 1:03:45

You guys, let us know who you loved and who made the wall.

Speaker 1 1:03:49

Yes, please. Who made your wall? Yes, email us at.

Speaker 2 1:03:52

SeanSquadSociety at gmailcom, or comment on our Instagram or Facebook threads posts and give us your favorite other than Sean Cassidy, heartthrobs or tin idols.

Speaker 3 1:04:06

And if you have a picture of your wall we'd love to see that.

Speaker 1 1:04:09

Yes.

Speaker 3 1:04:09

Yes, we'd love to see that. Send it to us and we'll see you back here next week. Thank you from the bottom of our teen dream hearts.

Speaker 3 1:04:16

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