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Kaempfert also recorded a song called "A Happy Feeling." WABC (New York) DJ Herb Oscar Anderson added lyrics to it that he sang on his show to Kaempfert's recording.

Complete Pop Instrumental Hits. 1959, 1961 and 1962 are available from Amazon. 1960 is currently unavailable there but may be available elsewhere.

I've met Duane Eddy a couple of times. He's 82 now but still working from time to time. He played at the Musicares tribute to Paul McCartney a few years ago. I've also met Duane's two favorite sax players, Steve Douglas and Jim Horn. I never had a chance to see the Ventures, unfortunately. I did...

So you're from Arizona? I have a collection of CDs that includes every instrumental that charted between 1959 and 1962. I would have been up all night if I had included all of them!

Getting back on topic, at least two instrumental versions of the theme to 77 Sunset Strip charted. Roger Smith even recorded a cha-cha version. The period 1958-1962 was the heyday of hit instrumentals, whether rock 'n' roll, pop, country, jazz, or easy listening. The variety of artists who...

Many people may not know that as late as 1961 Welk had a #1 hit with the tune "Calcutta." Adults still bought singles in those days. My grandmother lived with us and we had only one TV so I saw a lot of bubbles.

"The Man in the Mirror" was written by Henry Slesar, a prolific mystery writer who wrote many episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. He also lived in my home town for several years and was a patient of my father, who was a family doctor. I never met Mr. Slesar but I exchanged emails with him a...

My prior note about Montgomery Pittman - he wrote 16 scripts for 77 Sunset Strip. I corrected my note.

You're forgiven! Another interesting tidbit is that Sherry Jackson's father died when she was six and her mother married Montgomery Pittman in 1952. IMDB credits Pittman with 16 scripts for 77 Sunset Strip. He also wrote scripts for many other Warner Brothers TV shows, as well as three episodes...

Evelyn Rudie is still involved with the Santa Monica Playhouse. http://www.santamonicaplayhouse.com/the-people.html

Reportedly MTM was a three-pack-a-day smoker in those days.

Their office was closer to what is now Bob Hope Airport in Burbank than LAX. In fact, the still photo you posted looks more like Burbank than LAX to me.

A New Year's present from DirecTV to viewers in the New York metro area was the addition of a MeTV affiliate, WJLP in Middletown, New Jersey. We hadn't had a MeTV affiliate on DirecTV since WZME in Connecticut became a religious station. The 77 Sunset Strip prints on WJLP's HD channel look very...

Here's a photo of Edd's son, Logan.

Edd's son, Logan Byrnes, is a news anchor for KTTV, the Fox station in L.A. Twenty years ago Edd wrote an autobiography, "Kookie No More," which is out of print but used copies can be found. This may have been mentioned before, but Jacqueline Beer was married to Thor Heyerdahl of Kon-Tiki fame...

I have a version on DVD-R which appears to missing at least one scene. Stu Bailey shows up without any introduction at all, no meeting with his client, etc. I saw "Girl on the Run" on TV so long ago that I barely remember it.

The strike began in January, 1960 and lasted for about five months. With no new material available. Warner Brothers took old scripts from shows and reworked them for others. They're easy to spot - any script credited to "W. Hermanos" was lifted from another show. The "W. Hermanos" credit appears...