Joey bishop died

**a12** · Oct-19-2007, 8:05am

I can vaguely remember him playing mandolin on
Johnny Carson years ago.

**jmcgann** · Oct-19-2007, 8:06am

I did not know that!*

* for you young'uns, that's an oft-heard Johnny Carson quote. I'd have typed it in his voice if I could have...

**a12** · Oct-19-2007, 9:10am

I found this at tvguide.com

Episode Detail: Breakup - Joey Bishop
Joey's mandolin playing strikes a sour note with Freddy. Joey Bishop. Ellie: Abby Dalton. Freddy: Guy Marks. Jillson: Joe Besser.

**John Flynn** · Oct-19-2007, 9:22am

He is listed on that other thread about famous people who play mandolin, but are not famous for playing mandolin.

**sumibuilt** · Oct-19-2007, 9:23am

I saw him play it on Carson

**mando83** · Oct-19-2007, 9:26am

When you typed, "I DID NOT KNOW THAT" you should have wrote it like this to get the Johnny Feel

"I DID not KNOW that"

Or you could just looked around and been like, "did you know that ed?"

My grandmother use to always watch Johnny. And always would say that like he did.

**testore** · Oct-19-2007, 9:33am

I thought this was photoshop when I first saw it in the "famous people" thread.So I stoled it from that thread, here you go.
Looks like Hoss , only brand new.

**mboucher** · Oct-19-2007, 9:37am

I got to met him when I was 14. I was standing on a dock in Balboa, CA and this skiff is motoring over and its Joey Bishop. He yells "hey kid, tie me off" and throw me the rope and I tied it off and he jumps out of the skiff and strolls down the dock. I was too dumbfounded to say anything.

Of course, I also got in trouble that year for paddling a canoe over to John Wayne's boat and try to peek in the lower port holes.

Mark

**AlanN** · Oct-19-2007, 9:59am

Wonder if he's singing Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake?

**Mark Sullivan** · Oct-19-2007, 10:02am

"A little like Hoss"? - pretty girls don't have that adoring look when I play the mando - maybe I need sideburns?

**Aehle** · Oct-19-2007, 10:09am

Looks like Joey and the lovely Lennon Sisters from the Lawrence Welk Show.

**AlanN** · Oct-19-2007, 10:49am

or maybe There's More Pretty Girls Than One

**blacksmith** · Oct-19-2007, 10:56am

He has a brother name Rummy Bishop, lives/lived in Toronto. Used to be an MC at several strip clubs here.

**JeffD** · Oct-19-2007, 12:54pm

My uncle said something about Joey playing mandolin, years ago, and I remembered it recently and I posted Joey Bishop over on the Famous People thread, and then same day he died. Yikes!

http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/...T;f=12;t=43784

**johnparrott** · Oct-19-2007, 1:25pm

Joey Bishop was seen from time to time visiting Jethro's basement in Evanston.

**twaaang** · Oct-19-2007, 4:52pm

Somebody has to say it: "Son of a gun!" -- Paul

**Jim Garber** · Oct-19-2007, 5:18pm

I read his obituary in the New York Times today. This paragraph made me do a double take:

Originally Posted by

In 1981, he returned to the spotlight to replace Mickey Rooney for four weeks in “Sugar Babies,” a Broadway production. He could not sing, as Mr. Rooney had, and instead played the mandolin.

I guess you all knew this.

**foldedpath** · Oct-19-2007, 6:08pm

The Washington Post web site has a photo gallery here, and frame #5 shows him holding an electric A model (can't link directly 'cause it's Flash):

WashPo Joey Bishop gallery