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my next guest started his career as a page right here in this building and he
has since been
the announcer on the joy bishop show he has also been the host of a number of
other programs
including am los angeles the neighbors and the regis philbin show he is
currently the
co-host of the morning show right here on wabc tv in new york please welcome mr
regis philbin regis
uh what a night this is chinese inventors horses and regis philbin yeah we we
got it all yeah first
of all let me uh welcome you to new york let me congratulate you on the success
of the show it
looks terrific uh you do a fine job over there it's a very nice show thanks i'm
glad and uh now
let me ask you about some of these other programs regis uh what was uh the
neighbors what was that
well sorry he brought that up the neighbors was a game show that we did years
ago on abc
as i recall we invited neighbors to come together and tell funny and unusual
things about themselves
you know gossip uh oddball things about each other yeah did that worked no it
didn't work at all no
how long very quickly how was that i don't know yeah now but you have done a
whole host of different
shows it if you had to pick a kind of show what would you want to do i mean not
that you're not
doing it now but i'm still waiting for that one to come along you think so yeah
no i kind of like what
i'm doing now early in the morning i think is suited best for me it's live it's
um we don't have any
horses on incidentally but you'd have when you ask that trainer why does the
horse breathe in his nose
yeah dynamite question i've got to remember that one that was terrific and he
didn't know for a minute
no he didn't know he wasn't you had him yeah
you had this guy it was great it was it was a regular mike wallace type
question you know what
i mean you zeroed in on him you let him out i was proud of you thank you very
much i uh i appreciate
that uh now on the uh um this is kind of awkward interviewing another host isn't
it no no i didn't
want to come on because i've got nothing to say honest to god i said today on
my own show i'm on
the david letterman show tonight and i don't have a thing to talk about i've
got no movie i've got no
book i've got no crusade i've got no chinese inventor i've got no horse nothing
really it's
gonna be a tough for you to interview oh no no we have uh we have plenty of
interesting well i hope
they're better than the first two i'll tell you that now okay here's i'm not
used to seeing an
audience no you have an audience on your program yeah a little audience about
20 people wander in
it's different in the morning david it really is well i know you can't get
guests in the morning
no no don't say that because you have a fine lineup of guests you do a very
nice program so
knock that off and let's get on with this now you're tough tonight tough on the
trainer and tough on me
don't ask me why i breathe through my nose come on but on the program one of
the one of the nice
things about it is you're very relaxed very loose on the show yeah well you are
too well it's different
for me because i have the whole day to kind of worry about things but you just
want to know something
you're absolutely right when i had afternoon shows or late night shows the same
thing you'd worry about
it all day this way you wake up in the morning you get there at a quarter to
nine on at nine o'clock
and then you worry about what you said at ten you know now you get there a
quarter of nine how late
would you stay well i used to get there at a quarter to nine now since this is
a new show i get there
around 8 30. oh yeah that extra 15. absolutely in the long run like to boat up
on those tough questions
that's right uh now do you uh do you ever uh feel uptight or or nervous about a
guest i can't
imagine that happening with you no no i really don't um i can't think what i
don't like is being here
now because i have nothing to say but i i never get uptight about the show i
really don't well you don't
either do you does anything ever shake you oh yeah well on a day-to-day it
could be a whole host of
things yeah but being a guest i think you'll agree with me is tougher than
being a host yeah i found
that because the burden is on the guests to say funny things yeah that's right
why do i feel this
burden getting heavier every minute now of course uh no no i know no no no you've
seen it before yes well
uh this of course uh is uh the album that uh it's it's time for regis and when
was this made regis
uh about 1968. you know how i made that up it's so funny that people spend all
of their lives training
and rehearsing and wanting to be a singer yeah and one night on the joey bishop
show bing crosby was a
guest on the show and he sat right over here do you want to hear the story and
i'm listening okay
and anyway um he wanted bing to sing in fact here's bing's picture that's the
night it happened
so anyway he wanted bing to sing a song but everybody was afraid to ask him
because they
were paying him scale so on the show he said bing and he knew i was a bing big
crosby fan he said bing
it'd be the biggest thrill in this kid's life if he could sing pennies from
heaven to you what he
meant to say was if you could sing pennies from heaven to him right but it came
out the other way
yeah so bing crosby turns and he looks at me you know with those blue eyes and
uh the band started
saying regis reading up the band started applauding and johnny man who didn't
who never knew what was
going on anyway said did he say pennies from heaven hit it and they and they
played it and what are you
gonna do so i sang and the next day i got a record contract from mercury
records let me show you how
crazy this business is now did you move any of these no yeah okay you got the
only copy now we now we saw
another picture on the back of the album earlier and i want you to tell me what's
going on there
regis you and joey and sammy davis jr what is what is happening you remember
the nairoo suit craze
back in 1968 yeah sammy davis was coming on the show so joey and i walked up
vine street and went
into cy devora someplace and we picked up a couple of those snazzy nairoo suits
i still have mine do you
have yours no i never i never had one well you remember the 60s of the hippie
era and oh yeah yeah that was my
contribution to the euro now you were actually a page in this building weren't
you right here yeah
as a matter of fact um on the eighth floor i guess where those great dramatic
shows were happening
philco and robert montgomery presents and that was the beginning of it for me
yeah do you remember
anything about the paging yes i remember one time june lockhard i remember one
time i was sitting the
first night on the on the show and i'm sitting up there on sunday night and the
door opened and out came
this little gorilla on uh on a bicycle so i was new on the job i didn't know
what to expect and this
gorilla starts coming faster and faster down the hallway top speed and i became
alarmed and just
before the gorilla got to my desk he jumped off the bike and the bike crashed
into my desk and the gorilla
laughed like crazy it was j fred muggs you remember that they had on the today
show right yeah so anyway that
was his big uh i'll never forget that because he's scared the hell yeah but uh
what were your
responsibilities as a page i'll tell you to come up with the key and tonight
the page gave me my key
to the dressing room yeah incidentally your dressing rooms are a little small
they're tiny yeah yeah
cardinal monsenti had a bigger cell from the russians years ago
but the night i was there june lockard came and she wanted her key to the
dressing room and i couldn't
find it and i just felt terrible and that's uh that's the only thing i remember
from being a page
that's all you need to remember regis continue to talk about is that it is this
is the big brush
we're done no no wait a minute let me just let me let me say thank you very
much continued success
on your own is this goodbye no it's not goodbye you're just you're just done
you really want me to
leave you have to leave now regis regis philman ladies and gentlemen very much
thank you
Thank you.