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5. Thanks for posting that video
Tue Feb 18, 2025, 09:11 PM
Feb 2025

Ricky Nelson was one of my all-time favorites growing up.
When I was a kid, I watched Ozzie & Harriet reruns & loved to see Ricky play guitar & sing at the end of the shows.

One thing puzzles me is that in the movie "Up in Smoke" (1978) one of the Roxy doormen at the "Battle of the Bands" looks a lot like David Nelson, only the guy was a blonde.
I'd always thought that the guy was David Nelson's son, but despite Wikipedia & other sources saying the Roxy doorman was David Nelson; it turns out that he didn't have a son named David (4 other sons, but no David)
That couldn't have been Ricky Nelson's brother David, because David would have been 42 in 1978, and that guy playing the Roxy doorman looked much younger than that. (It's possible, I guess, that it was 42-year-old David Nelson, with his hair dyed blonde, playing that part)

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