605     May 3, 1965 (Taped April 26)
Betsy, Bill, Bess, Henry

Betsy leaves after tonight’s show for a two-week run in South Pacific at the Coconut Grove theater in Miami.  Through the magic of videotape, she will not miss any shows.   

11-year-old Keith Green from Canoga Park, California: “I just signed a 5-year contract as a rock ‘n roll singer”                 
Young Keith has written 40 of his own songs and performs his “We'll Do a Lot of Things Together” (1965) here.  A rock ‘n roll career would never materialize, but after a spiritual awakening in the 70s, Green would become a popular contemporary Christian singer and songwriter.  Many of his songs have become standards in that field.  Green would die in a 1982 plane crash at the age of 28.  His wife Melody continued their non-profit Last Days Ministries and worked to preserve his legacy.   

[Alfred Kaplan] from Rahway, New Jersey was originally supposed to be on the show twelve years ago, when he was 13 years old: “I gave my teacher an apple with a worm in it”                  
Kaplan would have been the last guest in a 1953 episode, but they ran out of time.  He was promised a return visit “sometime in the very near future.”  It took a little longer.  Steve awards him his $80 prize plus about $30 dollars in compound interest over twelve years.  He mentions Joan Bennett was one of the panelists, placing his original visit sometime between October 21, 1953 and the end of the year.   

Special guest William Frawley: “I introduced the song ‘Melancholy Baby’ to the public (in 1912)”                 
Officially known as “My Melancholy Baby,” Frawley claims to have been the first person ever to sing the song in public, at a café in Denver.  He also performed the song on a 1958 episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960).  He performs the standard here, backed by Norman Paris and the band.  Frawley was a veteran of more than a hundred films before gaining fame as Fred Mertz in I Love Lucy (1951-57).  He had charmed a new generation of TV viewers as the cantankerous “Bub” O’Casey in My Three Sons (1960-72).  However, he appears here only a few months after having been dropped from that series over health concerns.  He would make only one other TV appearance, a cameo on The Lucy Show, before his death in 1966.