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Thread started 08/21/10 8:13pm

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Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

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Reply #1 posted 08/21/10 8:29pm

Harlepolis

I'm pretty sure I read that name a million times,,,,,I just remember where.

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Reply #2 posted 08/21/10 8:58pm

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Harlepolis said:

I'm pretty sure I read that name a million times,,,,,I just remember where.

Welcome Back Cotter ... Joe Jackson

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Reply #3 posted 08/21/10 9:05pm

Harlepolis

Oh yes....

Diahann Carroll's pissed off son from "Claudine" can sing, I'll be damned lol

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Reply #4 posted 08/21/10 10:26pm

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He was in Cooley High too. I've never heard this before....

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Reply #5 posted 08/21/10 10:26pm

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jaybendy said:

He was in Cooley High too. I've never heard this before....

He put out like 3 albums.

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Reply #6 posted 08/21/10 10:32pm

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

jaybendy said:

He was in Cooley High too. I've never heard this before....

He put out like 3 albums.

Had no idea. I LIKE this, it's very...... 70s! lol Which I love, so I'm digging it. I miss 5 plus minute songs.

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Reply #7 posted 08/22/10 1:05am

Reel

Man you beat me to the punch. I've been meaning to start a Lawrence Hilton Jacobs appreciation thread for the last few weeks. Lawerence was a pioneer back in the day.

From Coolie High, to playing the son in that movie with Diane Carrol and James Earl Jones, to Welcome Back Carter. He did a lot of "Chitlin Circuit" plays before Tyler Perry came along and monopolized them all. Obviosly he played Joe Jackson. Brother was very very active back in the day. His very early career rivaled that of Laurence Fishburne (prior to him playing Morpheus). I really was digging his acting. Wonder what happened to him, and how is he making ends meet now?

Good thread. I didn't even realize that he sang.

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Reply #8 posted 08/22/10 6:50am

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Kind of sounds like a mix between David Ruffin and Jermaine Jackson.

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Reply #9 posted 08/22/10 1:28pm

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Here is one of the other singles from that album

"Love is like peeing in your pants, everyone sees it but only you feel its warmth"
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Reply #10 posted 08/22/10 2:51pm

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Come on, y'all!

This is from imdb. He's actually listed for about 68 roles (the Joe Jackson role is in that listing) and 20 appearances as himself. Really quite a career so far.....

Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs was born in New York City. He is one of nine children born to Hilton and Clothilda Jacobs. Larry, as his family and friends call him, attended public schools in New York City, so he has first-hand knowledge of what it is like to be a student in a big-city high school like the one pictured on "Welcome Back, Kotter." After high school, Larry worked at an odd assortment of jobs before turning to acting. First, he was a delivery boy, then a florist, then a messenger boy, and then a stock boy in a department store. His first "real important job," as he puts it, was as a freelance artist and package designer. This introduction to the world of the arts made up for all of the menial jobs he had performed while waiting to find himself. While working as an artist, Larry became interested in acting and began studying at Al Fann's Theatrical School and then with the Negro Emsemble Company. These are two all-black acting companies which produce experimental plays in New York City. They also train promising young black actors in the performing arts. With these companies, Larry acted in such plays as "Cora's Second Cousin," "The Dean," "What the Wine Sellers Buy," "Mask in Black," and "The Exterminator." None of these productions made him famous, but they did bring hm to the attention of film casting directors. He was given parts in the movies "Claudine" and "Cooley High." "Cooley High" was Larry's big breakthrough in show business. It was because of this film that he was given his 'Boom Boom Washington' role on "Welcome Back, Kotter." He also had two important roles in major made-for-television features, "The Sojourner" and the tremendously popular "Roots." Besides acting, Larry also sings, plays the piano and writes music.

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Reply #11 posted 08/22/10 4:51pm

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Larry was also close friends with the late Rick James & sung background on some of his albums....

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Reply #12 posted 08/23/10 4:25am

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Ahh man never knew the man could sing and recorded albums....

I will forever love and miss you...my sweet Prince.
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Reply #13 posted 08/23/10 1:41pm

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Here's a piece from Rick's book:

"I ran into my good buddy Herbie Hancock. We began to get fucked up on tequila. By the time I went onstage I was blitzed. I told Herbie he should come up and play. All was well for a minute. I was excited about playing with him onstage. All the sudden I was out cold. I had fallen through a hole on the stage. The next thing I remember was this incredible pain through my ribs. I was pulled out and carried across stage through the back. Looking up all I saw were anxious faces of the people, including Lawrence Hilton Jacobs from 'Welcome Back Kotter'. A few years back I had lent Lawrence thirty thousand dollars and he had never repaid me-the stinking motherfucker. I was groaning with agony but when I saw his face I wanted to jump up and smack the motherfucker. He still hasn't repaid me".

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Reply #14 posted 08/23/10 11:49pm

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@shortrini I didn't know 'Fly Away' was the single. It's a great song.

@LittlleBlueCorvette, I also like Love and Understanding is the answer.

Even though the self-titled album is well-crafted, I can understand how his album didn't rise to the top. It seems that so many people were creating records in the 70s that not everyone was able to get a 'breakthrough' effect.

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Reply #15 posted 08/24/10 12:03am

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Wonder what happened to him, and how is he making ends meet now?

4 years ago, he was living in the West Adams district in L.A., in an apartment with his mom, still trying to get his Hollywood hustle on.

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RebirthOfCool said:

Wonder what happened to him, and how is he making ends meet now?

4 years ago, he was living in the West Adams district in L.A., in an apartment with his mom, still trying to get his Hollywood hustle on.

No way, remids me of when he played a bum on that episode of the Wayans Brothes.

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Reply #17 posted 08/24/10 12:10am

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

RebirthOfCool said:

4 years ago, he was living in the West Adams district in L.A., in an apartment with his mom, still trying to get his Hollywood hustle on.

No way, remids me of when he played a bum on that episode of the Wayans Brothes.

Yep, this chick I was dating said he stayed there beneath her apartment. Then I saw him one day. She said he would try and holler at her but then stopped once he saw I was coming around. She moved from there, so I don't know if he's still there.

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

RebirthOfCool said:

4 years ago, he was living in the West Adams district in L.A., in an apartment with his mom, still trying to get his Hollywood hustle on.

No way, remids me of when he played a bum on that episode of the Wayans Brothes.

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Reply #19 posted 08/24/10 9:28am

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Man, you rule, I remember seeing Freddy Boom Boom Washington singing on American Bandstand in the 70s. biggrin

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Reply #20 posted 08/24/10 2:44pm

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RebirthOfCool said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

No way, remids me of when he played a bum on that episode of the Wayans Brothes.

Yep, this chick I was dating said he stayed there beneath her apartment. Then I saw him one day. She said he would try and holler at her but then stopped once he saw I was coming around. She moved from there, so I don't know if he's still there.

Wow! that is so sad. It reminds of Marvin Gaye who stayed near there with his parents. Before his Daddy murdered him. I hate when entertainers have been successful but lose it all. Very sad.

eye will ALWAYS think of prince like a "ACT OF GOD"! N another realm. eye mean of all people who might of been aliens or angels.if found out that prince wasn't of this earth, eye would not have been that surprised. R.I.P. prince
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Reply #21 posted 08/24/10 3:06pm

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KCOOLMUZIQ said:

RebirthOfCool said:

Yep, this chick I was dating said he stayed there beneath her apartment. Then I saw him one day. She said he would try and holler at her but then stopped once he saw I was coming around. She moved from there, so I don't know if he's still there.

Wow! that is so sad. It reminds of Marvin Gaye who stayed near there with his parents. Before his Daddy murdered him. I hate when entertainers have been successful but lose it all. Very sad.

Yep, right off Washington Blvd, near Western.

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Reply #22 posted 08/24/10 11:49pm

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RebirthOfCool said:

KCOOLMUZIQ said:

Wow! that is so sad. It reminds of Marvin Gaye who stayed near there with his parents. Before his Daddy murdered him. I hate when entertainers have been successful but lose it all. Very sad.

Yep, right off Washington Blvd, near Western.

Damn! That IS sad...and it happens way too often. It shouldn't--to someone who has had a career as successful as his appeared to be.

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