EDDIE FISHER – 'Outside Of Heaven'

Eddie Fisher was the most popular singer in America, if not the world, from 1950 through 1956, had a twice-a-week very popular television show called Coke Time, and a Saturday night hour-long show called the Chesterfield Show. He was the selling recording star for RCA, and had 22 hits in a row. He performed for presidents, the Queen of England and the Kremlin to name a few. He had 65,000 fan clubs in the U.S. and more throughout the world. He was a very talented and loved performer in his day. He was also loved by many of the most beautiful woman in the world. They certainly did not think he was a dweeb. Hollywood marriages come and go, as his did, but you have to be pretty handsome and charming for 3 of the most beautiful actresses in Hollywood to fall for you. End of story.

THREE beautiful women, Dr Mod. THREE. Not one. Not two. THREE.

Hah? HAH?

How… how DARE you. That’s all I’m saying. End of story. Finito. We’re done here. It’s a wrap, people. Over and out.

Also HE SANG FOR THE KREMLIN!

Light Entertainment Watch;

At least two appearances for Eddie, both now missing;

SPOTLIGHT: with Eddie Fisher, Connie Stevens, Roy Castle, Silvan, The Lionel Blair Dancers, Jack Parnell and his Orchestra (1968)

SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (VAL PARNELL’S …..): with Bruce Forsyth, Eddie Fisher (1957)

Eddie Fisher has just died aged 82. The third beautiful woman (and wife) referred to above (in addition to Liz Taylor and Debbie Reynolds) was Connie Stevens. Debbie Reynold’s hit “Tammie” was nr 1 for 5 weeks in USA and just missed Popular with nr 2 in UK in 1957. Are there any sometime married couples who have topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with separate individual recordings?

Connie also made recordings although I don’t think she had any chart success in the UK. As far as I know, all three ex-wives are still around, although Liz has had a lot of illness over the years.

I should add for completeness that Eddie had a further two wives (one pre-deceased him) about whom not much seems to be written in the obituaries that I’ve looked at. The daughter of Eddie and Debbie was Carrie Fisher who was Princess Leia of Star Wars fame.

Well, these pre-rock crooners either melt you, or leave you completely cold. For me, Eddie’s smooth voice does the former. Singers like him and his ilk aren’t so very far removed from the X Factor stars of today, marketed for their looks and vocal talents combined.

We Are Augustines, a current bunch of professional mopers, have taken a leaf out of Eddie’s book:

“Permeated by an abject sadness, the debut album from Brooklyn trio We Are Augustines is a musical diary from the dark, difficult days of frontman Billy McCarthy. Opener Chapel Song details the ache of seeing the girl you still love walking down the aisle with somebody else.”

Hmmm, let’s think now, how could he have avoided this dark difficult day?

I got invited to an ex’s wedding last year. In Palm Springs! In Frank Sinatra’s old house!! Did I go? What am I, nuts?

Oh no no no… Songs like this are why rock n roll couldn’t come soon enough. For such an inveterate shagger, Eddie Fisher wasn’t half dull when it came to the day job. Still waters and all that. 2/10.