When I was a kid, my dad never missed an episode of The Jackie Gleason Show. This was the variety show that came along after The Honeymooners (though that eventually became a recurring skit on the latter show too). One of teh regular bits was a conversation between Joe the Bartender (Gleason as straight man) and Crazy Guggenheim. Usually these ended with Frank Fontane (who played Crazy) launching into some beautiful old song (the guy had quite a voice), playing up the juxtoposition between his goofy character and his golden pipes (kind of like Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle). Anyway, he doesn't sing here, but it's a funny bit, if you can put yourself in an early sixties mindset:
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