Bob Hope Comedy Special 1963

Streisand / Television

A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1963)

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Bob Hope starred in radio and movies and entertained American troops overseas with the United Service Organizations — the nation's leading charitable organization in serving active-duty service members and military families. His long television career included many comedy specials.

This particular special — with guests Barbra Streisand, Dean Martin, James Garner, and Tuesday Weld, featured skits and songs and aired in color in some markets (although only a black and white copy seems to be the one available on DVD).

According to Hope's wife, Dolores, Streisand was asked to be on the show after Bob encountered her star power earlier in the year at a cancer benefit in Palm Beach, Florida. “Usually those things are attended by older people who only stay for half the show. By the second half, everybody has gone home,” she told Randall Riese. “When Bob introduced Barbra that night, nobody had ever heard of her. Yet when she got up on the stool and sang, everybody came back for the second half. We were told that that had never happened at that theater before ... Bob raved about her right away. He knew she was going to be a big star.”

On the show, Barbra first appeared when she introduced Dean Martin, speaking a little bit of Italian.

Later, Barbra sang “Any Place I Hang My Hat is Home” and “Gotta Move.”

Near the end of the show she joined Dean Martin and Bob Hope in a Hillbilly "Hootenanny" comedy skit where they sang “Blue Tail Fly” together.

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A rare color photograph of the hillbilly skit!

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Dean Martin, Streisand, and Bob Hope.

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This was a bit of comic business between Barbra Streisand and Bob Hope that was cut from the show ....

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.... In the interchange that was cut from the final show, it appears that Bob Hope has some sort of business with a notebook that Streisand has some interest in.

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In 2016, Time/Life released the 1963 “Bob Hope Comedy Special” with Barbra Streisand as part of a 6-DVD box set. Unfortunately, "Gotta Move" was edited from the DVD.

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Streisand / Television

A Bob Hope Comedy Special (1963)

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