https://www.janandjilltales.com/home daily 1.0 2023-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/70f8e097-2070-41d8-a3c3-a8234c44a752/New+cover.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/094f26f3-7abe-4c5d-a290-c8d6a0a59f4a/IMG_8195-2.jpg https://www.janandjilltales.com/gallery-5-1 daily 0.75 2023-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/7166183a-0903-4af6-9b64-731899f2fc9a/thumbnail_IMG_7642_Facetune_16-03-2023-15-08-54.jpg Gallery We were now Jan and Jill, and we got to sing solos, talk onstage, and write our own songs. This was very different from the Burgundies, and we loved it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/b05e0a96-72ef-4d63-a97b-05cc4f9afa03/IMG-7111.jpg Gallery The Kansas St. Collegian get us noticed! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/8d3fdaf3-e253-467a-8ef2-d26520801c07/thumbnail_FullSizeRender+%281%29.jpg Gallery Mike Curb, head of Curb Records, Russ Regan, 20th Century Records President, Jill, and Jim Fitsgerald, our manager. Exciting times! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/9a90a99f-27cf-43d0-8cf1-3e3d2d148e20/IMG-7936.jpg Gallery Our bags are packed... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/eec8edb9-a3ac-46f8-a383-14ecff38c03e/IMG-7991.jpg Gallery Not this time ---went to Hollywood instead! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/aceeb4d4-3c48-4fdb-9537-8a53b35dca63/IMG-7953.jpg Gallery National TV after one month... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/52b6cfed-badb-4558-8814-6f44e8e11d08/IMG-7106.jpg Gallery Ed McMahon was our partner in crime--what a sweetheart! We made many commercials with him and several TV specials. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/b5ba79c4-0392-412d-8c7e-40dcf4f9ad5e/thumbnail_IMG_7617.jpg Gallery Those Budweiser outfits are right in style now! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/6c31d741-95e2-496e-922c-d0051445e288/IMG-7934.jpg Gallery Well, we did do an "all-out show"! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/68d416dc-da41-4588-9141-612b217520f7/IMG-8098.jpg Gallery The original BSS, including Pat McCabe, who was also an identical twin! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/5b38b352-def7-447e-a999-15839b5a668e/thumbnail_FullSizeRender+%282%29.jpg Gallery Playing Harrah's Lake Tahoe from 12:00AM to 5:00AM every night! Do we look tired? No! We're 19! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/e1a76e00-7e4b-4113-8033-d6e7a320ff8c/IMG-7521.jpg Gallery You can order them too! (Ha!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1ea305ff-50de-4d4c-803b-d767a2a66daa/IMG-7975.jpg Gallery Getting press in Lake Tahoe, Nevada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/7f7cedfe-351b-4a4a-9a48-6cc924355bfe/IMG-7664.jpg Gallery Want a life-size poster of Jan and Jil for your living room? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/7cf5b01e-f675-458a-a74e-bf0d2e620a7a/IMG-7651.jpg Gallery Ten kids from Kansas play the Nevada Casinos! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/f311a381-80a8-4143-acac-f9b01586dbae/IMG-7579.jpg Gallery This was at the Orange Bowl parade in Miami--very festive! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/ede29680-fbb4-410d-a349-d3113a7a5d92/thumbnail_FullSizeRender.jpg Gallery Those were beautiful outfits designed by the great Boyd Clopton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/b4cd797e-caca-4322-bd71-cc05085a4b56/IMG-8039.jpg Gallery One of the first Bud commercials with Ed McMahon--he was a doll! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682095707794-ON0T9IFZYEB7K5EGWQG7/IMG-8067.jpg Gallery We had great a manager, a great agency, great press--but (I have to say) we worked hard and were really good! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682095396390-KC0AL92CIR0FPK4P13LY/IMG-7647-Facetune-16-03-2023-15-31-32.jpg Gallery Back to Harrah's.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/54d66f2f-fcfa-4a5c-926a-f9bdf9633090/IMG-8027.jpg Gallery Canadian TV show we guested on three times--excellent live band and wonderful audience! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/9639b3dc-c48f-417c-aefc-eac2221279ef/IMG-7853.JPG Gallery The Carol Burnett Show on CBS was amazing and exciting!... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/0e792e06-78bb-4f3e-ae6e-e58abf7baaca/IMG-7095.JPG Gallery Our Vegas act with the Sisters Medley... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/100c3df7-08d3-464e-9e2f-479d27dca2d0/thumbnail_FullSizeRender+%283%29.jpg Gallery The Jimmy Rodgers Show on CBS! Every outfit we wore, by Bob Mackie, famous designer, was red, white, and blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682276623696-DBZF9S1KMIVAIEWR0JQA/thumbnail_IMG_3970.jpg Gallery Frankie Avalon, the ultimate teen star, a suave and consummate pro, taught us his song live on the air! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682095645483-NKELI6MQUMROZNXOSSBR/IMG-7993.jpg Gallery Bellbottoms the first time around... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682274966406-SWP4AGWCQIKFAPBGPY7X/thumbnail_IMG_3986.jpg Gallery Jan was playing a Bosendorfer, a $100,000 piano belonging to Henry Mancini they trucked in for him to play the week before. Jan loved playing it! We did "Emotion", our big exciting ballad. A very memorable moment! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682095795238-9HKGH11D88BE9UUMNAEX/IMG-7958.jpg Gallery The headline in the Topeka, Kansas newspaper... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/87fe36a2-5dd6-493f-8880-b546ee9c00ed/IMG-8002.jpg Gallery We played all over Ohio...they loved us and we loved them! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682276873749-UDDP3NYPQJ0VLK9YPTER/IMG-8029.jpg Gallery Glad we have a video of this moment... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682279219319-BF3J8B1K59EJBE1EK878/thumbnail_IMG_3981.jpg Gallery Our name in lights and a standing ovation--it doesn't get any better!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682095934354-GW384XFZ4H0LU3HFCJLA/IMG-8045.jpg Gallery Life-sized posters of Jan and me were everywhere! There were full-page ads in Time, Life, Playboy, and Newsweek and our commercials played constantly... We were so busy we never saw anything.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682096012767-GNKFTPUFFS23L2QVC31W/IMG-8043.jpg Gallery Fun commercials! Loved the outfits... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682274587685-3UUDS4IYE11C3NRM9QJX/IMG-7962.jpg Gallery Hometown newspaper was excited we were appearing on Happy Days! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682097124607-NP9HCORZHB7FPPBR401Q/IMG-8010.jpg Gallery The Playboy Hotel in Miami was wild in more ways than one---we almost killed the audience when the piano fell off the stage (see the book, "Which One Are You?") https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/f23d0081-9586-4676-b1d5-6e957a2dc4f4/IMG-8025.jpg Gallery Talk about a dream come true that you never thought would happen! Dick Clark was a great guy too--glad we have this on video... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682097326487-9KGGY1JWIWNH5L1N7HCW/IMG-7998.jpg Gallery Rave reviews from top nightclubs in Ohio and THE top nightclub in the US, the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel, NYC! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682275007367-NA2Z1BGQJF53TCT88VEE/IMG-8026.jpg Gallery Suzie Quatro was adorable, gutsy, and cool, which is why she was on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1bd8ac7c-60a1-4588-ac03-1e2825ef939a/IMG-8069.jpg Gallery Seven of us at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/58d9c521-fa6a-4e36-9acc-b5ae9c812bf9/IMG-8100.jpg Gallery This is from the Happy Days episode "Marion's Dream", where Howard is chased by the blonde lovelies in her dream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/9307386e-e8de-4e67-9ecc-cd3e21088a7a/IMG-7974.jpg Gallery Great time in Washington, DC where we performed on the lawn at the Washington Momument for thousands...unforgettable! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682275039224-LTCH6SHNBXKXDHV4QG92/IMG-7084.jpg Gallery Richie, (Ron Howard, future director), fakes playing a saxophone with The Suedes (us) at Arnold's in Happy Days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682097808391-YXE8H8Y0HRA3UT2N9LR2/IMG-7995.jpg Gallery Another great review in Ohio... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682275078470-2VBRDY1KSGQGOTA6DD8J/IMG-3961.jpg Gallery Suzie and Jan and Jill ("Leather and the Suedes") on the Number One TV show in America at the time! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682097928429-77UC10IUAYD0FUVCGOGD/IMG-7972.jpg Gallery Trying not to sweat in the heat as we film "Discover Wet" for NBC w/Ed McMahon at Cypress Gardens in Tampa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682275120842-HBH315Q6K6A5H57CG1FJ/IMG-3962.jpg Gallery You saw this, right? The beginning of every Red Skelton show had us swinging a swing and Red would swing back as Heathcliff or Clem Kadiddlehopper or someone else. So much fun! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682098032924-33H6WJAEBELVXT4CYNLY/IMG-7989.jpg Gallery Shamu the Killer Whale especially enjoyed our "Seafood Medley" at Cypress Gardens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/2d23c9af-47f3-499e-af6a-76f8e9ced2df/IMG-7854.JPG Gallery Jan, Scott, and Jill boogie down at Busch Gardens for the television special. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/ac1432ef-6aef-4e6a-8758-ceef792c7740/thumbnail_IMG_7650.jpg Gallery This is us!!! Don't fall in... there are alligators in there! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682098340109-PBC9GI0P01HU6X940M3G/IMG-7098.jpg Gallery Short shorts--Okay! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/89887a77-69c5-4e1b-9fc5-ec1c810194df/IMG-8068.jpg Gallery Boyd Clopton, the famous designer, did these Burgundy costumes. His drawings are in LACMA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/182f6e4d-335c-4755-97b7-d529326a5f5f/IMG-7988.jpg Gallery Our parents, Dr. Herb and Eudora Bunker, backstage at the Schubert Theater in LA where we performed with Johnny Mathis. So happy and grateful they got to see us all over the country, What a thrill for us too! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/7657b17f-7c1f-4bf2-8270-c6239747b3aa/jpeg-imag.jpg Gallery Jill, Jimmy, and Jan, the dancers of the group, perform at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/3a762ff8-3f70-4b63-afd0-a9ec160b5dd6/IMG-7961.jpg Gallery This was a performance on a TWA 747. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/b8378fab-0dee-4b87-88c0-a0e948b2994f/IMG-8012.jpg Gallery Another great review that we never saw at the time...glad to see them now! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/6b489689-0085-4abc-80b9-49efc4dc16cc/IMG-7619.jpg Gallery The 1974 Burgundy Street Singers with new additions Rich Wenzel, Gary Ferguson, Billy Watts, and Mike McCarty. You have to listen to the Live rendition of the Beatles Medley (on this website under Music) w/the 5-minute standing ovation at the end. The new guys were great! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/64173595e77cf06d37d95567/1682275298052-ZVOG2YYCH3BAEQSA6IT5/IMG-7977.jpg Gallery These records were the reason we left the Burgundies---Russ Regan, who signed big stars like Elton John, signed us and expected us to be big stars too. 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