{"id":24811,"date":"2014-09-06T08:03:04","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T12:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24811"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:19:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:19:09","slug":"barbra-streisands-network-television-debut-april-5-1961filling-in-for-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=24811","title":{"rendered":"Barbra Streisand&#8217;s Network Television Debut&#8230;April 5, 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Barbra-Streisands-Network-Television-Debut...April-5-1961-Filling-in-for-the.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>Barbra Streisand&#8217;s Network Television Debut&#8230;April 5, 1961<\/p>\n<p>Filling in for the vacationing Jack Paar, Orson Bean hosts &#8216;Tonight&#8217; and introduces the world to Barbara. The actual video will start about a minute into this, but the visuals leading up to it are interesting photos and newspaper clips about the rise of this budding singer.<\/p>\n<p>After her performance, she&#8217;ll join (on the couch) Phyllis Diller, Gore Vidal and Hugh Down&#8217;s (Paar&#8217;s announcer and sidekick) and with Orson behind the desk Albert Dekker. Naturally here singing is flawless but she&#8217;s quite funny and at ease in the interview too. Enjoy and share! &#8211; Bobby Ellerbee   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3DXvLD-pxms&#038;list=PL0DA39002B63082AB\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3DXvLD-pxms&#038;list=PL0DA39002B63082AB<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Barbra Streisand on the Jack Paar Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DXvLD-pxms?list=PL0DA39002B63082AB\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>Barbra Streisand performing &#8220;A Sleepin&#8217; Bee&#8221; on the Jack Paar Show in 1961.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/724984634205755\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbra Streisand&#8217;s Network Television Debut&#8230;April 5, 1961 Filling in for the vacationing Jack Paar, Orson Bean hosts &#8216;Tonight&#8217; and introduces the world to Barbara. The actual video will start about a minute into this, but the visuals leading up to it are interesting photos and newspaper clips about the rise of this budding singer. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[721,720,787,725,806],"class_list":["post-24811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-announcer","tag-host","tag-net","tag-star","tag-wor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}