Celebrity Rock: South Rampart Street Parade (1967)

In doing some recent reading on Hogan's Heroes, I had discovered that some of the cast had recorded an album of covers of WWII songs. I just hope that turns up on CD somewhere. Anyway, series star Bob Crane was also quite the drummer. Perhaps not quite on the level of, say, Buddy Rich, but Crane did take advantage of his success with Hogan to bring his other interest to the fore.

Here, Bob appears on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, pounding a beat on "South Rampart Street Parade", in this episode from 1967. Tom Smothers provides the intro, as it was presented some 30 years or so later on E!:



When we get around to Christmas again, I have to pull up a clip from The Hollywood Palace of Werner Klemperer & John Banner dueting on a Austrian language rendition of "Silent Night". I promise, you'll love it.