“Wasn’t there a scandal or bruhaha over JG and the June Taylor Dancers?”
Didn’t matter to me. Watching the Jackie Gleason Show on Saturday nights, me and my sister would be rolling on the floor in hysterics. As young kids, we wouldn’t have known about “scandals”. Such things were reserved for the “older” generation. We just LOVED the show.
I read a biography of Gleason that was in my Jr. HS library (Columbia Heights Jr. High, Columbia Heights, Minnesota). It seems that Gleason was quite the musician as well. He released quite a few albums of piano compositions. This was back in the day when you had to have TALENT.
Gleason DID...
Growing up, I had several records of “elevator music” by the Jackie Gleason orchestra. By golly, Amazon has a bunch of ‘em. One’s Titled “The Romantic Moods of Jackie Gleason”, a thought I’d rather not pursue.