The Beach Boys performed their 1965 single, "California Girls", on The Jack Benny Program that same year. Watch for the awkward skit with Benny and Bob Hope at the end. Boy, thank goodness for canned laughter, huh Jack and Bob? What would your careers have been without it!? Brilliant idea, Jack Benny Program producers and writers--schedule the Beach Boys, then write a skit in which they and their culture are mocked...The attitude of scorn and contempt in that reminded me of this "meeting" between Dean Martin and the Rolling Stones on a 1964 episode of The Hollywood Palace. At least Dino is kind of funny.
Not that it has anything to do with this post but Happy Birthday Pete Townshend.
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