WHET John Davidson?

What about Jaye Davidson?

What is that picture from, OP?

I had such a crush on him as a young gayling.

Is that from the Merv Griffin show?

Merv must have wanted to jump all over that.

Looks like Bruce Jenner.

He’s apparently no longer handsome because he lived in California.

The shot above must have been from around the time he appeared as a Cosmopolitan centerfold.

I had a crush on him, too.

R2 from an image search I did, looks like it's linked to a DVD on Amazon or something.

Was trying to link to the Cosmo photo but DL wouldn't show the image

LOL I figured no one would have a thread about him anywhere

Am mortified to learn per R5 that there was one last week!

He looks like a lesbian

Nice ass here (around 24:00) - lithe little body for sure

He was on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast and was smart and entertaining.

Big left-wing politics — he said he's turned down singing the National Anthem at ball parks.

R11 I remember that TV series, where Sally Field played a wife with ESP. I think it lasted just two seasons.

He was so cute in it.

In 2003 he was the entertainment on my Royal Caribbean cruise in Alaska.

R14 Oh, my. How was it?

He's one of my go-to WHETs as well. He was all over variety TV in the 70s. Also had a TV series with Sally Field, "The Girl with Something Extra." I recently looked him up and learned his dad was a pastor, but John himself is now a passionate atheist. Weird.

He was literally everywhere for awhile. Likable, not a bad voice, but never a true headliner. His kind of celebrity faded in the 80s and he probably faded with it, although he did a ton of dinner theater, as well as the game shows later.

He went to college at Denison which has northern Baptist heritage but became non-sectarian after he graduated. Even when he went there it was considered a good liberal arts college that drew Cleveland social register types as well as people from around the Midwest and Northeast. Preachers kids often become very secular.

But is he hung?

Anybody remember the time he portrayed a female impersonator on The Streets of San Francisco? He pinged to 16 yo me.

R19 Yes! Great episode - the killer drag queen!

Davidson was the headliner at the Beverly Hills Supper club in suburban Cincinnati when fire broke out on May 28, 1977. He was not yet on stage and was reported to have helped others escape the fire before escaping himself. His music director, Douglas Herro, was among the 165 victims who died in the fire. Davidson was not injured and later participated in a charity concert to raise funds for the families of fire victims.

I remember the next day the newspapers ran a photo of him looking at the wreckage of the fire. He looked absolutely devastated.

R15 he was great and I couldn’t believe he still had the energy he had at his age. I should have asked him about working with Karen Carpenter.

R21 Oh, my gosh, I had almost forgotten about that! Yes, he was in the news as one of the heroes of that fire.

I get him mixed up with Chuck Woolery.

Was he on that show with Byron Allen?

R24 Oh, fuck, no! Woolery is an ugly assholish right wing MAGAT.

John Davidson is handsome and liberal.

I wonder if the Cosmo photographer took full nudes of John Davidson, like they did with Burt Reynolds. There are pubes in Davidson's centerfold photo, how much more does it take to go full-frontal?

He’s also openly atheist.

I used to watch his show every week.

He always seemed so wooden. And a goody goody. Boring.

R30 If he showed his pubes in Cosmo, he probably wasn't all that goody goody. It's the ones who seem like goody goodies that are the best in bed.

I have this memory of him singing 9 to 5 (Easton, not Parton) on a variety show. I remember thinking “why would a GUY cover this song?!?”.

His Wikipedia page is interesting...

WEHT his That's Incredible co-star, Cathy Lee Crosby?

This was 1976 - I don't remember ever hearing this on the radio but it was apparently a hit

He tours the country in his very popular one man show

Sorry, Dusty did it better

He always had an impressive head of hair. But yes, he along with the likes of Rich Little, has just disappeared from television.

R35 I don't care for the hair; it make him look transgender.

If he had a good short haircut, he'd still be pretty stunning for a 78-year old man.

One of you whores MUST have the 1959 Sears catalog laying around!

According to Wikipedia, John is in it, in his underwear.

R41 I remember him talking about that on the Mike Douglas Show and saying how they would stuff cardboard in the models' underwear to "flatten" the front so there would be no bulges. That would've been scandalous in 1959!

He looks like a lady. A distinguished lady.

I think he looks like Andrew Jackson in r35 photo; therefor he shoulda run for Dem presidential candidacy! He’d walk away with it this year and could melt Trump with just his gaze

In the 80s he had a long run as the host of Hollywood Squares.

He looks like a Santa Fe lesbian

John was always fun, upbeat, chatty, had a good singing voice, was entertaining and a little bit mischievous as a talk show guest.

He's what you call a handsome woman.

Any 1959 Sears catalogue photos of him would probably show the underwear way up past his bellybutton as well as the no-bulge look that R42 refers to.

One of my first crushes. I frequently beat off to that Cosmo centerfold. He always pinged to me, but it was probably just wishful thinking.

The Streets episode is a classic! Scenery chewing at it's finest. Terrible drag queen.

At home with John Davidson . . .

Wow, who would have thought someone so square-looking would be liberal and atheist.

He doesn't look like a woman to me.

R49 He definitely pinged. Look at him in this Hollywood Squares blooper (at about 2:55):

I have heard more about JD in the last 30 hours than in the 30 prior years!

He looks naked at OP.

And he was on that bad Carol Burnett show in the early sixties. I remember him introducing the Dave Clark Five. Yikes.

In some early photos he reminds me of John Barrowman.

At the Chiller autograph show last year and he looked great for his age.

[quote]I remember him talking about that on the Mike Douglas Show and saying how they would stuff cardboard in the models' underwear to "flatten" the front so there would be no bulges. That would've been scandalous in 1959!

Actually the dresser used a slice of white Wonder Bread to smooth the bulge. He told the story many times.

R59 I recalled it as cardboard, but Wonder Bread sounds a lot more kinky.

R53. Damn Hollywood Squares was a funny show. Nothing like that on TV these days. It's all reality crap. We need "TV celebrities" with personalities and the gift of gab to come back.

R55 Wait 'til you see him at R6.

R59 But wouldn't Wonder Bread actually just kind of mold to the bulge? I can't see how it would actually "flatten" anything.

He was indeed very funny and self-effacing on the Gilbert Gottfried podcast last year.

He was paired with Lesley Ann Warren in a couple of Disney musicals. I always thought this song was charming.

He looks like Peter Bergman with those dimples and that wavy hair.

I tried that Wonder Bread thing and ended up with a yeast infection.

Did a show w him in the 90s. Nice guy but kinda needy.

R67 Tell us more!

I just realized Bobby Sherman looked just like him. I'm old enough to remember them both...

I have a feeling a naked John Davidson has been walking along a nude beach in the past. I wouldn't put it past him to attend Burning Man naked.

Very baskety in the first scene....love those flat front pants

Jim Palmer misunderstood the wonder bread thing and proudly declared he didn't have to stuff his Jockeys.

R67 here. It was at Disney. He did personal appearances there. We shared a dressing room. Very handsome. Fit. Considerate. Obsessed w how he looked. He’d just changed his hair and kept asking me if the perm had been a mistake. It had.

My only celebrity encounter story...

In the early 90s I waited tables at a raw bar in Pittsburgh, PA.

(I know! The story can end right there and it would be worth it!)

John Davidson and Jamie Farr came in one afternoon for lunch a few times. They were touring in a production of Oklahoma! Very nice. Good tip. Definitely had the air of a man who was good looking and knew it.

Yes, I know, I made a mistake above. They came in a few times in the afternoons while they were there.

It's early, and I am easily confused.

That wasn't Jamie Farr, you idiot!

He traveled with Jamie Farr as the contrast made him look even better.

Hambushed!

R72 So did you get to see his cock?