![]() There was never any thought of following in his dad’s footsteps. “Just when we went into the City, dad would be recognized, and he had a crowd follow him.”Ĭarl Albano, along with his brother and two sisters, saw the wrestling business simply as their dad’s line of work. He was one of the neighbors who everyone knew, and got a kick out of,” explains Carl Albano. ![]() In listening to Carl speak from life as a child growing up in Carmel, the Albano household was as normal as their neighbors. The myths and real-life escapades of the Federation’s brawling cornerman are legendary. “And he was a tough dad but a very loving father, as well.” “Yeah, he was a crazy man on TV, just out there in left field when watching him wrestling,” Albano confesses. One of four kids of Lou and Geraldine Albano, who were married for 50-plus years, Carl paints a total opposite picture of his father, from the reckless behavior demonstrated in arenas that made him some one fans loved to hate. With all the TV exposure and arena rants, it was only natural, particularly back in the ’70s when the wrestling game presented itself with a more realistic legit product, that what you saw publicly was what the person privately is. To him, Captain Lou, as he was known during the second half of his career, was simply Dad. “He (Albano) was an amazing guy who marched to a different beat,” said Carl Albano, 65, during a recent telephone conversation.Ĭarl Albano knew who the real Hall of Famer was. Photo by John Arezzi.īut this was only one side of a manager living out of his suitcase, from his Carmel, New York home - an hour’s drive to Manhattan. She told me that she remembered making it, but that she had never seen it.Handsome Johnny Valiant alongside Captain Lou Albano. Super Show!" episode "Captain Lou is Missing". I asked her if she remembered being on "The Super Mario Bros. I had the equal privilege of meeting Cyndi Lauper at a book signing a few years ago. After Captain Lou died, it was the now grown kids from the 80's who made the most YouTube videos in his remembrance, not his wrestling fans. He said he did it for the kids, and that he wanted to make them happy. I had the privilege to meet Captain Lou Albano in a hardware store in New York years ago. Super Show" was played in reruns for years, and I still remember seeing the show very clearly in my extreme youth. I was barely a year old when this episode aired in the United States 11/30/89, but "The Super Mario Bros. Mario attempts to cheer the despondent Cyndi up by reminding her that at least he got to know Captain Lou. It comes to an end when the President of the United States calls off Operation Lou Search. ![]() Mario and his brother Luigi vow to help her find him.Ī world-wide search ensues. Mario (played by Captain Lou Albano) is saddened by the news, for Captain Lou is his hero. In the episode ("Captain Lou is Missing"), Cyndi bursts into Mario Brothers Plumbing with flyers crying that her best friend, Captain Lou, is missing. Super Show!" marked her first appearance on a television series. Roger the alien sang the song in a 2010 episode of "American Dad".Ĭyndi Lauper's appearance on "The Super Mario Bros. ![]() Cyndi gave the reason frankly: She hates the song. The song "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" did not appear on any Cyndi Lauper album (in spite of much requests by fans) until "The Essential Cyndi Lauper" in 2003. Albano laments that if only he were alive to tell him where the treasure was, because the Mom and Pop's gas station is being harassed by creditors. Captain Lou's great-grandfather was One-Eyed Willy in the music video. ![]() This transpired years before my time and I still know about it imagine that. The first part aired before the movie "The Goonies" was released, and the second part was released after the movie was released. "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" video aired in two parts on MTV. Cyndi did not respond, so presumably she had never heard of him. He told her that it was way before her time. Johnny Carson, unfamiliar with the WWF at the then present time, brought up how when he was young, he loved watching Gorgeous George. While a guest on "The Tonight Show" in 1984, Cyndi began talking about wrestling. ![]()
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