Howard Hessman WKRP’s Dr. Fever gone at 81

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/30/entertainment/howard-hesseman-wkrp-cincinnati-dies/index.html

Sad to hear. WKRP has always been one of my favorite shows. Every Thanksgiving, I wear a shirt that commemorates the 'turkey' episode.

Very funny show. I think most of the cast has passed away now?

He was in a great episode of Dragnet too.

The WKRP episode after The Who concert in Cincinnati was excellent. My parents were at that show.

I had not heard this. Sorry to hear that he's gone.

"As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly"

Do you remember that Herb Tarlik drove a Cordoba?

Booger !

Did you know that the ending theme song was actually a bunch of gibberish lyrics? As a kid I always tried to figure out what the lyrics were. It wasn't until much later I read why I couldn't understand the lyrics!!!! I loved the Mrs. Carlson's butler Hirsch.

"The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a hard rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician who recorded some of the incidental music for the show. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs. Also, because CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway". My guess was the first line was something like "went to a bartender, said bartender can I have..." I always thought there was also a line about "a microphone in her heart" LOL.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhAfXTzR2rQ

Hirsch lived to be 95 years old, died in 1992