{"id":6414,"date":"2015-03-15T09:44:45","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2015-03-31T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T16:46:44","slug":"gene-gene-the-dancing-machine-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/15\/gene-gene-the-dancing-machine-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Gene The Dancing Machine Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/gene-patton-dead-gong-show-781394\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Gene Patton, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine From &#8216;The Gong Show,&#8217; Dies at 82<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cj4jN-T5g8M\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC\u2019s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family announced. He was 82.<\/p>\n<p>Patton died in Pasadena, according to a spokeswoman at the local Woods-Valentine Mortuary. He had suffered from diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The Gong Show, dreamed up and hosted by producer Chuck Barris (The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game), aired on NBC in daytime from 1976-78 and then in syndication. Acts \u2014 most of them amateurish and just plain awful \u2014 auditioned for three celebrity judges, who banged a gong on stage to mercifully send the bad ones packing.<\/p>\n<p>At a random moment during the game show, Barris would introduce Patton, and the curtain would part, bringing the shuffling stagehand with the painter\u2019s cap onstage to the sounds of \u201cJumpin\u2019 at the Woodside,\u201d a jazz tune made popular by Count Basie. His dance sent everyone on the set \u2014 Barris, the judges, the cameramen, the audience \u2014 into an uncontrollable boogie.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/gene-patton-dead-gong-show-781394\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at THR<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Hollywood Reporter Gene Patton, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine From &#8216;The Gong Show,&#8217; Dies at 82 Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC\u2019s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family announced. He was 82. Patton died in Pasadena, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}