Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon 1974

Thank you for posting this. It's great!

I miss the days of staying up and watching the stars come out on Labor Day weekend.

Wonderful Lena Zarvoni RIP

May have been a racket, but we were better for it.💛

Vicki Carr sure had golden pipes. 👏🎶

That guy in The Happy Jesters makes Jerry look like Noel Coward.

Poor Lena Zavaroni died in 1999 at 35 from Anorexia.

Wow,the very beginning....that was definitely a shot at the UCP telethon(that was hosted by Dennis James). As a former "marcher" myself,I recognize it for what it is....A SHOT,LOL!! Jerry may,very well, have a point....there came a time when I found that i disliked being marched across the stage like cattle going to herd....but considering the era,I suppose it served it's purpose.

Nice guitar Dion is playing....anybody know what it is?

I do too

wow Dion , timeless . wonderful

Jerry was the dystrophy cure he healed all whom didn't have the strength to pull out a hundred dollar bill from wallet or purse ..

Wow the McDonald's sponsor of the Telethon, including in the map, Canada, USA, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.

I remember the 1985 and 1986 Telethon in Puerto Rico that McDonald's is the sponsor of the toteboard with the Golden Arches logo in the middle of the toteboard. The toteboard used on that year is like used on city buses as destination sign. A Vultron Trans Dot sign used with double line configuration like the Grumman Flxible 870 demo sign

Thumbs up if you're watching this today, Labor Day 2018, Monday, September 3rd, 2018. (Thumbs up). Really miss this tradition. So sad how it just fizzled away. Sad for those patients and their families who might have benefited from this.

Many thanks for the wonderful memories from a time when America was **A Class Act**.

This telethon was an institution of t.v. my whole life (I was 3 years old when this was filmed). Somebody really needs to do a documentary about this phenomenon so that young people can see what it was - cuz there'll never be anything like it again. I never dreamed it would end so unceremoniously, with Jerry quietly being kicked off, and then just - no more. As far as I know, there was no tribute, no commemoration, no nothing for all those years. Thru the years, as Jerry got older, we all wondered how/when it would end. Not this way, I can assure you.

My mom mom and pop pop got upset bc the cerebral palsy telethon DID March the kids around like a side show. They would sing a song called look at us we're walking. My Pop Pop could not STAND it. I'm too young to remember that. But there was a gal in the 80s they'd roll or crutch out every year to sing the sun will come out tomorrow

look at the cigarette burning behind the kid standing with jerry at the beginning.

i think part of the reason i love jazz so much today, is all those years watching the great entertainment on the jerry lewis labor day telethon. it was definitely my introduction to jazz (well, that and tommy banks).

Jerry lewis the father of the telethon

British child-star Lena Zavaroni from 36 minutes to 42 minutes, looking happy and singing great. Sadly her story did not end well.

NOW it feels like Labor Day weekend!!

every Labor Day I would spend the night at my Gran's house and we would stay up late into the night and watch Jerry. great memories thanks for posting this clip

Its sooo sad......Lewis was assed out and screwed over.......Wow........I miss the ole days....

When am I going to take over MDA... ??????????????????? and make this happen......

Any more who does this have in it

He asks people to help the sick while poisining his own body.

I miss these times. Labor Day weekend is not the same anymore.

The Happy Jesters remind me of an act from the Gong Show.

Jerry the father of the theleton

Younger people today can't understand what big events these MDA telethons were in their heyday. If you were a kid, it was an excuse to stay up into the wee hours, maybe go to the TV station and be seen on the air, and the performers that participated were among the biggest names in American show business. Like the Carson "Tonight show", they represented something of a gold standard for American show business, a standard that is lost and seemingly irretrievable.

Miss Jerry Lewis & his annual telethon.

Would have been nice to get about an hour of Dion.

Happy Labor Day, 2022!

"Charro"..........

He can't sing.

The real pros on display who for aside from paid live performances (which seldom happened in Canada back in the day) gave it their all for this telethon in the 70s. Jerry Lewis' understood and now known sociopathy much later on to us all in hindsight. This telethon was a genuine 'must-watch' showcase of the current state of popular music throughout the 1970s.

If I remember correctly, The Spinners are going into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year!

Always watched this telethon
When I got older I manned the phones in NY loved to watch the final hour with Jerry and Sammy Davis and watch that tote rise by 6-10 million in just 1houe

No matter what people say about Jerry Lewis. The compassion of Jerry for MD speaks volumes.

Talking about the terrible killer as he smokes a cig in front of kids lol

Jerry Lewis cannot stand being upstaged or the focus not on him. he was always a bit annoying and his ego got in the way of talent…!

Labor Day is still not the same without Jerry Lewis and his MDA Telethon