Below is the original version with all three brothers. Here is one of their songs “So You Are a Star.” Two of the brothers performed the song more recently in 2008. Their friend John Lennon once referred to them as “ The Kings of Saturday morning.” And I was not alone in enjoying the show. I still remember some of the characters from the show who made me laugh, including Chucky Margolis, about a kid who never saw his parents and lived in a basement. When they were sent to Saturday mornings, the humor understandably became a little more juvenile, as you can see in the opening to the Saturday show, which is available on DVD. That show, The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, ran for a year from September 1974 to August 1975. Later that fall, the network moved the brothers to a half-hour show on Saturday mornings. The Hudson Brothers, however, were only in prime time for the summer. Variety shows were big back then, with The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour ending around that time, and Tony Orlando & Dawn then getting a variety show that year to take over the divorcing couple’s time slot.
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During the summer of 1974, CBS gave a TV variety hour to the Hudsons on Wednesday nights. But most young Americans at the time knew the group from their two U.S.
They started out playing music in the 1960s, had a few minor hits in the early 1970s (“So You Are a Star,” “Lonely School Year,” and “Rendezvous”).
If you were not around in the 1970s, you may not have heard of the brothers Bill, Mark, and Brett. Since I started writing this post, a comment on a another page clarified that “ Pandemonium” was a film with Tommy Smothers, so McKean may have accidentally referenced the wrong movie.
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On the episode (“ The Vow of Silence“), Tessler ( Michael McKean) invited Larry David to stay at Renny Harlin’s apartment in New York, referring to his own involvement in filming “ Pandemonium,” based on a “Hudson Brothers movie.” There is no Hudson Brothers movie “ Pandemonium,” but McKean’s comment about the “Hudson Brothers” refers to the singing brothers who had their own television show in the 1970s and did a movie named Hysterical. And others laughed at the episode’s references to Pinkberry frozen dessert, “chat-n-cuts,” and “pig parking.” But few caught that the Harlin conversation on the show also referenced the 1970s television and music stars, The Hudson Brothers. Some people noticed that a current episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm contained a reference to filmmaker Renny Harlin ( Die Hard 2, etc.).
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