C&L's Late Nite Music Club remembers Robert Goulet
By Nicole Belle Monday Oct 29, 2007 10:02pm
Robert Goulet has died today at the age of 73 while awaiting a lung transplant for a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis.
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Robert Goulet has died today at the age of 73 while awaiting a lung transplant for a rare form of pulmonary fibrosis.
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Maybe it sounds off topic but just felt an earthquake here in the NorCal. Yikes!
Joe - near Pacheco - magnitude 2.9
I'm sorry to hear about the passing of Mr. Goulet. I think this is a more apt eulogy.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=p2zRGQX2QLo
Loved him with Jack Parr.
He was a great for decades.
ktpinnacle @ 2:
Didn't feel like a 2.9! Double that?
Rest in Peace , Mr Goulet
Loved you as the villain in "The Adventures Of Ford Fairlane"
In his prime, he had one of the great natural baritone voices. I can't think of a show where a role was more perfectly cast than his Lancelot. Made a lot of good records, too. A phenom. We'll miss him.
Joe for Unity08 @ 5:
Try 5.6 http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc40204628.php
Noticeable even by California standards...
After his umpteenth heart operation Cheney lives to kill again yet Goulet dies awaiting a lung transplant, where's the justice?
There is no God.
What? Deborah Iyall didn't write a letter to the editor to someone today?
5.6 and long.
I saw him in 1965 at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles. I took my high school sweetheart there for dinner before our high school prom. My math tells me he was only 31 at the time, but he seemed like such an old guy at the moment. Fantastic voice, he completely bowled over the audience. He left a great impression on me even though it wasn't my type of music, and I enjoyed following his career through the years. A true class act.
Joe for Unity08 @ 1:
Wow, with the fires and the earthquake, it's like "shake and bake" in California.
RIP to Mr. Goulet. It's a shame to die waiting for an organ transplant.
My condolences to Mr Goulet's family, he was a hell of a singer.
But...
Waiting for a lung transplant? At the age of 73?? My dad had congestive heart failure but wasn't a candidate for a transplant because he was over 68. I don't begrudge anyone medical help, even transplants, regardless of age, but there sure seems to be rather a discrepancy here... two-tiered medicine in America.
And who's got a pool going on how long it'll take Fox news to claim the earthquake was a plot by al Qaeda terrorists...?
One thing I still remember is Goulet not getting all the words right in the U.S. national anathema. I'll remember it not so much for it happening but his reason - "I'm a Canadian!"
After that I couldn't understand the error. Heck after the words "Oh Canada", all I can do his hum...
Mr. Goulet sang well and didn't put on any airs.
Sad. The guy had a nice voice and a sense of humor about himself. He was a riot on Howard Stern. Rest in peace, Mr. Goulet. You were a good entertainer. Say hello to Shammy if you see him.
here is goulet and barbara cook saluting one of the greatest years in musical theater...1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyd_kB9-vlc
what was also great about goulet, is that he had no prob laffing at himself
and right now he is jamming with bobby darin
Thing Fish @ 8:
5.6 a few miles n/e of San Jose....we felt it here in Monterey.....no biggie.......as for RG.....sad..he had a helluva sense of humor..RIP Robert Goulet...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=w8px_KyIFyo on a lighter note.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pa3J-L29iT8 a little more humor....
He had a unique, powerful, and versatile voice -- both as a singer and as a voice artist (animated programs, voice-overs, and the like). He will be missed.
Rest in God's Peace, Mr. Goulet.
Jingle bells, Batman smells
Robin laid an egg...
The Batmobile lost it's wheel
And the Joker got away! Hey!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1QP-SIW6iKY I don't think Mr Goulet would mind......Metallica....Enter Sandman
Rest in Peace, Robert.
I loved his delightfully absurd commercial for Emerald Almonds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZhLDwU5Row
Thanks for posting this. My grade school best friend's Dad went to school with Robert Goulet in the 40s. Goulet came from a poor family. His dad died when he was young and his mother moved the family back to Canada where her relatives were. He worked his way to stardom from nothing. By all accounts, he was a great guy, and he never forgot where he came from.
I was born in 1977 and have spent years of my life overseas so I'm not really sure who Robert Goulet is. R.I.P.
Thing Fish @ 21:
I had to laugh. I led the class in second grade with this rendition and spent a week in after school detentions.
He and Jim Neighbors both singing "To Dream the Impossible Dream" are part of my strongest memories of the 1960s-early 70s.
I guess Robert will not longer be "messin" with my stuff
http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/02/04/emerald-nuts-robert-goulet/
RIP Robert, thanks for the music and memories.
Maksim Mrvica - Handel's Sarabande
Barry Lyndon - First Taste of Battle
"In short there's simply not
A more congenial spot
For one brief shining moment
That was known as Camelot."
Requiescat in pace, Robert. You'll be missed.
Why in the hell is the old school sixtes folks version of "Camelot" such a sorry, dewy eyed memory?
I am a child born in the seventies and I would really like to thank my parent's generation for fucking it all up.
The baby boomers are the total ruinization on so many levels.
But thanks for raising us! I can definitely say that consumerism killed America. Nice job.
Well, I'm being moderated for whatever stupid reason. So if this shows up, great.
Let me tell you something, baby boomers.
Your version of Camelot sure is interesting. People were shot..FLAT OUT for having the fucking gravitas to speak the truth.
All of you baby boomers sit around and lament the good old days.
NEWS FLASH: You are the ones who sold out and you are the ones who raised children so spoiled that they except Britney as an artist.
I love my parents but there is a movement out there that in the long run will make you "can't get over the sixties" folks look like the enablers that you never intended to be.
Oh! I was involved in the sixties! And OH! I consume and consume and consume and I taught my children well.
Sadly, the majority of the baby boomers look ridiculous for sitting around chattin' about the good old days while driving around in Hummers.
Les Poubelles Boys
sphinx @ 34:
C'est tres bon!
Time fer work. I'll be back at C&L around 4:00 pm EDST (that's 1:00pm PDST). Fair warnin'.
Erin Says:
My choice of lyrics were for the Broadway musical, NOT for the Kennedy Administration. Learn to de-link some of the cultural detritus we have, and appreciate the performance for what it was.
Erin @ 33:
Hey Erin, SOME boomers have and are sell outs. And there are SOME of us who didn’t get a clothes dryer until 5 years ago and even then had a hard time because we felt like that was the biggest symbol of selling out there is (even though it was long over due in this humid climate and my kids were tired of not always having dry clothes).
Some of us drove only one car and took commuter rail, for many years, until the company moved making the bus and train impossible. Some of us take our clothes to second hand stores, and have actually raised kids who when younger are quite appalled that their clean but too small underwear doesn't go into the bag intended for the second hand store.
AND SOME of us do pine for the 60's NOT because of Camelot - and I would suggest that for many women who have learned what John did, Camelot has lost some of it's polish - but we pine for a sense of optimism and confidence about the future that was present even during Vietnam - which is not present now.
There are alot of baby boomers who are standing up or have returned to the spot light to stand up - and yes, we wonder where your generation is (my 20 something kids go to rallies and work for what they believe in) . . . and we also recognize that while John Mayer's song is good, sitting on your backsides waiting for the world to change ISN'T going to change the world. . . the fight has never been fair.
Goulet was on "Laugh-In," portraying a clueless coach who mixed his sports metaphors in an interview (with Dan, I think). At the end of the bit, Goulet stands up, takes the (American) football he's holding, and dribbles it off the set, like a basketball. I don't care how many takes it took, anybody who could do that was okay in my book. RIP, man.
Oh, I almost forgot. Good old days, chat chat chat. Where's my Hummer?
Jingle bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
Batmobile lost a wheel
The Joker got away
Hay!
Ow!
Sorry kid.
Christmas just wasn't Christmas in our house without Robert Goulet singing 'do you hear what I hear'.
RIP to a great Canadian.
I heard he got his voice from Canadian Whiskey.
Oh...how I always wished I had a voice like Robert Goulet.
He was one of my favorite singers ever....
Sad that he passed on....
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