There are LOTS....but I thought it would be a COOL idea to start a thread so that we can add to it whenever something happens to remind us of Freddie.... :) Like I dont know if you all know it but I am also a Mike Piazza fan...He is the catcher for the METS....hes ADORABLE.... and anyway...there was this article I was reading when the pope passed about how Mike had visited him back in 2002 and how religious Mike is. I am a catholic....not that I can really say I practice catholocism but I was raised catholic...and I do remember One thing that CHICO always said... "THANK YOU GUADALUPE" and while I always knew it to be a saint of some kind, I had NEVER before or since heard it mentioned ................

Well, this is FROM the article I read.............. WHICH IMMEDIATELY MADE FREDDIE COME TO MIND.....................


" QUOTE:"

While on a team trip to Mexico in 2003, Piazza — who thought of becoming a priest before his home-run-hitting prowess led him to the baseball diamond —was the only Met who ventured to visit the sacred Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Oh to find another Met fan.... we are so few these days.... I spent most of my highschool years glued to a seat at Shea with my friends, when we weren't going around stalking our favorite players at all their personal appearances. BTW Buddy Harrelson was my fave back then.... which tells you how old I am! LOL I even went to the third game of the 73 world series at Shea!

I haven't lost my love for the Mets, but I have a new love.... The Nationals. There are several Hispanics, I think a few from PR on the team. I bet Freddie loved baseball. I only wish I knew which team he followed. I always hoped it wouldn't be the Yankees but living so close to their stadium, I bet he went to several Yankee games!

:clap: kewl! another METS fan..... the season seems to be starting off pretty good for them........ lets hope Mikey does well this year and has no injuries.... poor boy has been hurt a few times.... by the way...for those of you who DONT know who the adorable Mike Piazza is I wanted to attach a pix but you need a college degree to figure out how to do it on this dang board.........sorry.......I dont know if it worked but ..here goes

I'm not a huge baseball fan but I do know who Mike Piazza is. The last game I went to at Miller Park the Mets were playing the Brewers. I like all the women were glued to the Jumbo Tron watching the picture of Mikes and his stats. Mike always reminded me of Freddie and boy could he swing a bat! ;)

I don't know much about sports but Miike does being a baseball, football & basketball nut.

I did see a coupla things that reminded me of Freddie this week. The other nite in Walmart I saw a magazine called Looking Good & I could just hear in my mind Freddie saying it. The other day my hubby & I were watching one of our Dukes Of Hazzard dvd's & the narrator (Played by Waylon Jennings) says get out your can here comes the garbage man. Louies old line. :)

Cheryl I saw that dukes of hazzard episode! and one of the girls in my day care has a BRATZ doll backpack for school and across the top of it it says Loooking Goood!
I think of him whenever she is at my house after school.

Yesterday when Mike & I went shopping in Richmond, I saw a billboard along the side of the road that was written in spanish. I dunno what it said but it reminded me of Freddie... :)

this isn't exactly a direct reminder of Freddie, in church there is a man who usually sits in the row ahead of us who reminds me of Isaac Ruiz in the pictures Suz shared with us of her trip to meet with him. and since he reminds me of Isaac i always naturally think of Freddie too

Everytime I see the bobbing head doggie in my car it reminds me of Freddie. Or whenever I see anything that has a bobbing head it reminds me of him.

This is too weird. While on here I had the news on. Suddenly they had a feature on there on an image of the Virgin Mary that has sown up on an underpass in somewhere like Chicago. They said folks thought it looked like the Virgin of Guadalupe. A Virgin of Guadalupe mention while on here? Gave me the chills...

OMG coincidence, Cheryl! My seven year old daughter brought home a poetry book from school yesterday that had a picture in it of candles in glass jars with images of the Virgin Mary on them. The one on the right was Guadalupe!

Here's something that may remind y'all of Freddie or at least Three's Company.:)
Click To See (http://www.allposters.com/GetPoster.asp?APNum=201456&CID=3101D2D9FED6424A8055CFD929B081AB&PPID=1&search=26867&f=c&FindID=26867&P=1&PP=25&sortby=PD&cname=Mucha%2C+Alphonse&SearchID=)

I think the GUADALUPE thing is a DEFINATE nudge from Freddie......

This is something I have NEVER heard except from Chico and I HAD to mention it here....I was compelled.....now SUDDENLY we are ALL hearing or seeing something to do with GUADALUPE.....it just CANT be a coincidence...

We hear you Freddie... We love you and we will never forget you.

:loveya:

Last nite I saw something that reminded me of Freddie even tho it wasn't really Freddie related. Ya'll might remember that pic of Johnny Depp as a pirate that Luckymama had as her avatar on here for awhile. Well I was looking at some magazine last nite in a bookstore & that pic of Johnny Depp was in it. It reminded me of Freddie & Luckymama too. :) :)

& Then later last nite I heard the Spinners 70's song "Could It be I'm Falling In Love' on the local oldies station. That reminded me of Freddie cuz he liked the Spinners & I bet he liked that song... :)

I dont know why..but the song Betcha By Golly Wow reminds me of Freddie...
I guess because its the MOTOWN sound and we all know he liked that....

LYRICS:
Theres a spark of magic in your eyes
Candy land appears each time you smile
Never knew that fairy tales came true
But they come true...when I'm near you

Your a genie in disguiese....full of wonder and surprise
Betcha by golly wow....your the one that Ive been waiting for forever...
and ever will my love for you...keep growing strong..........

Thats'a great song. You're right, that song is Freddie... :)

Last nite I saw something that reminded me of Freddie even tho it wasn't really Freddie related. Ya'll might remember that pic of Johnny Depp as a pirate that Luckymama had as her avatar on here for awhile. Well I was looking at some magazine last nite in a bookstore & that pic of Johnny Depp was in it. It reminded me of Freddie & Luckymama too. :) :)

& Then later last nite I heard the Spinners 70's song "Could It be I'm Falling In Love' on the local oldies station. That reminded me of Freddie cuz he liked the Spinners & I bet he liked that song... :)

I'm glad some of you all are thinking about me! LOL I have been really scarce around here lately. School has me way too busy. I can't wait till June 11th. Then I can hang out again and write stories again. Pray I hold on to my sanity till then. I miss you guys! :wave:

Welcome back! Yeah we missed you & the others who haven't been here in awhile. Hope they're all doing well. It'd be fun to get together with you again this summer. In May we go to see Arlo Guthrie in Bethesda, MD & also go to Nags Head, NC for a week. July is our trip to visit Mikes sister in Ohio. Aug 17 we're going to go see Arlo in Alexandria , VA. That might be something ya'll would be interested in. & In Oct is the reunion in KY. Anway it'd be fun to get together with ya sometime this summer. It's fun being around someone who loves Freddie. :)

We will have to see. I dunno if we will have much money to do much this summer, with one in college! Plus this is our 25th wedding anniversary summer and my hubby's 50th birthday! Oh Boy!

BTW I was watching something on the Discovery Channel yesterday about the supposed origins of Christopher Columbus "Columbus: Secrets from the Grave"... some people speculate he wasn't from Genoa, Italy. Anyway, these people have pretty good evidence that he was not an Italian, but a Catalan. At the time of Columbus, there was no formal country of Spain but Spain, like Italy, was just a series of city states. Barcelona, the capital of the region known as Catalonia, is supposed to be the real birthplace of Columbus, if you believe these historians. They were at war with the regions that the king of Aragon (Ferdinand) and the queen of Castile (Isabelle) were from before Columbus came to their court seeking funding for his adventures. The historians give this as a reason for his hiding his place of origin, that he was a part of the mercenary forces fighting against Castile and Aragon, and give his writings, all done in Spanish, and a Catalan dialect, as the proof of their claim. Anyway, whether you believe this or not, the point that I was going to make was the fact that they were talking about Catalan a lot and everytime the narrator of the program or one of the experts mentioned it, I thought of the second Aunt Connie episode. Her friend was from this region, and a count of the region to boot. So everytime I heard the word "Catalan" I thought of this episode and of Freddie! :D

If you want to know more about the show follow this link Columbus: Secrets from the Grave (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/columbus/columbus.html)

Sounds like you'll be busy. Happy aniiversary & hubbys bd in advance. :) We're low on money too. But we're bounc & determined to go see Arlo those 2 times & go to Nags Head, Mikes sisters & the reunion in KY...

Wow, didn't know all that about Columbus. I could see that being a history lesson for your students. & Watching the Count Catalon ep of CATM earns you extra credit. :D

This is too funny. My hubby Mike was in the other room watching tv & a Chicos ad comes on. He came & told me the ad was on & said they must've named the store after Freddie Prinzes character in CATM. :) LOL! He's been around me too much! ;)

I love it! Im glad its not JUST ME that sees and feels these little "reminders".... Im not nuts after all... hehe :crazy:

So as I am writing this post, a commercial comes on for MYLANTA and the background music is the theme from Welcome Back Kotter.... and I know its just because the shows where aired in the same time period when I was growing up..but it IMMEDIATELY brought a tear to my eye because I thought of our beloved Freddie.

You are always in our :heart: Freddie....

i think of Freddie everytime i hear that commercial too!

I keep seeing in stores that magazine called Looking Good & it always reminds me of Freddie. I kept seeing it in stores the other nite & it made me smile... :)

realized how significant those lyrics were and how they connect with Freddie so much Ty. Thanks for sharing. I will listen to that song again.

Yesterday I heard on one of the oldies station this song by Carlos Santana that reminds me of Freddie. I think it's called "I Ain't Got Nobody" or something like that. It has words in it about I ain't got nobody I can depend on. I told Mike, that sounds just like Freddie. I bet he felt that way...

Please keep in mind as you read this that i do day care, :lol:
This morning the kids are listening to Raffi singable songs for the very young and there is a song on there called bummping up and down in my little red wagon. Well one of the verses is Freddie's gonna fix it with his hammer.
it makes me think of him everytime :happyface

Boy did I get another reminder from Freddie yesterday. I was watching the 10 pm news on ch 35 & when the weather ended I went & flipped channels. I tuned into ch 8 ABC & a news program was on. They said on there they were gonna have George Lopez on there after the commercials. So I watched it. It was the one Laz mentioned. They featured his kidney operation. he teard like Freddie would've done. They showed an old high school pic of him & he kinda reminded me of Freddie. Well they talked about how he was influenced by Freddie & they showed a clip from CATM. It was from th4e ep where Chico wears yellow coveralls. :) I was so excited to see him on there. :) Funny how I changed channels just before G-Lo came on there. ;)

And the day before when they had the weather on one of the local channels after the weatherman finished, the male news reporter said to him, Looking Good! :) & Tues when we went to the mall I saw 2 reminders in a record store. First I saw a Selena dvd. Then a coupla minutes later I saw a dvd with Shelley Winters in it. Earlier when in a cellphone store I saw a cellphone poster in Spanish. When I saw it it reminded me of Freddie. Since he loved to talk on the phone I thought about how if he were here he'd probably have a cellphone. :)

On mash the other night they had a two part episode where a USO troup came to entertain and the commedian was fast Freddie....he was nowhere near good looking much less handsome and he was far from funny but just the fact that he was a comedian and his name was Freddie reminded me of our main man

Here are some more. Sat nite we went out to eat with hubbys cousin & her hubby. She's half spanmish/mexican. Well she saw soem car go by that she liked & commenting on how nice it was. Anzd she said Looking Good like Freddie did. I went Oh my God Freddie Prinze lol. He's so cute! Then tonite was I watching a Sanford & Son ep on TVLAND & one of the guest stars on there, I think he was in a CATM episode. I forget which one tho...

so I'm listening to my soaps on my TV sound radio..... and there is an actress in one of them PLAYING AN ACTRESS (Talk about redundant...hehe...I'm not a Doctor but I play one on TV... lol....anyway....) ...she begins to recite Shakespear....the a scene and it closes..... Good night sweet prince......

and I just teared up.... as I am sure you all know, there is a closing scene in one of the episodes where Ed says this to Chico...... (not to mention the website by the same name)......

Maybe its just me, but I seem to find Freddie all around me.....

We love ya Freddie... :love:

Well hearing from Laz always reminds me of Freddie! LOL

And, BTW, I found out last month that we have a Chico's store in Winchester, the town just south of where I live! :D

Wow, I haven't been to Winchester in yrs. Had no idea they had a Chicos there. The other nite in Walmart I keep seeing that Looking Good magazine all over the place. Freddie reminding me of him I guess...

THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME ..once it starts..it doesnt stop for like A WEEK... last night it was the guy on SOAPNET (he's a host and he compliments Lisa Rena and then says "looking good..."

I know your there FREDDIE... and MAYBE this is just how you remind us.... out of sight is NOT out of mind. I think of you everyday......

We love you Freddie....


:kiss: :heart: :luvu:

I have a few. I was in a store last nite & i heard a version (not Kiki Dee's origional but someone elses) of I Got The Music In Me which Freddie did on the Tony Orlando & Dawn Show. Reminded me of Freddie.

Also last nite I saw in a record store a book on Latinos on tv & in movies. It mentioned Freddie in it which a profile of him but no pic with it. There was a bw pic of him & Tony Orlando, one we've al seen alot, in it. I was upset tho that Mando wasn't listed in it. He should've been.


Then I saw a thing on TVLAND an hr or so ago on top 10 movie actors who started out on the small screen. They had on there Johnny Depp & showed a pic of him that was like one Luckymama was using for her avatar. & That reminded me of Freddie... Thanks to Luckymama Johnny Depp reminds me of Freddie... :) :D

Well Johnny has become another fav of mine these days. And I guess the reason is that Johnny draws you in with those large dark eyes of his, sorta like Freddie did with his. They have two different personalities, but they do seem to share those hypnotic eyes. I guess I am just a sucker for them! :D I also believe as versatile as Johnny Depp has become, Freddie had the same potential.

I was just watching an episode of M*A*S*H, called "Your Hit Parade" from 1978 and Ronny Graham did a guest spot in it. He played a drunk bomb disposal specialist who had the blood type needed to save a guy's life. He had been on R-n-R and came into camp loaded. He was so funny. He hated needles and kept fainting. It always makes me think of Freddie and the show when I see stuff the other cast members had been in.

I agree Luckymama, everytime I see a cast member of Chico and the Man appear on another sitcom, special or commercial I automatically think of CATM :)

Freddie is really reminding me. This is too weird. Sanford & Son is on & they mention Juilios goat Chico. Right after that comes on the ads & the ad that comes on is one with George Lopez in it. Too coincidental. Freddie is really reminding me... :)

Well.... apparently there is a DJ who is a CATM fan on the local Country Music radio station because Friday was the second time that I heard the clip on the ride home from work..... see.. on Friday at 5 pm they play a song call "Finally Friday" and they splice in all theres quote and clips...jokes....ONE of them is our Freddie saying "Loooooooking Good"! There is NO mistaking his voice! This very clip is the one that prompted me to start one of these posts because it was the beginning of a week-long list of reminders from Freddie.... and there it was AGAIN on Friday. Well, this morning, on the way TOO work, on that same radio station, I heard an announcement that the NFL kick-off would be hosted by Jr.

He is definately all around us! :)

you gotta love it!

When I see a good looking man with long hair, and you can see a hint of long, bushy sideburns when he shakes his head, that drives me wild and always reminds me of Freddie!
Also, on an episode of "Futurama", (a cartoon made by the creator of the Simpsons) Fry says "goodnight, sweet prinze"! :tehcool:

I saw that episode of "That 70's Show" last night where Eric steals the christmas tree, when they are having a christmas party in the basement, three HS girls are mooning over Fez and one of the tells him he sounds like Freddie Prinze and another chimes in, "or Ricardo Montalban" Tee hee. I was making dinner while I watched, and I did a double take when I heard Freddie's name mentioned! LOL :D

I saw that episode of "That 70's Show" last night where Eric steals the christmas tree, when they are having a christmas party in the basement, three HS girls are mooning over Fez and one of the tells him he sounds like Freddie Prinze and another chimes in, "or Ricardo Montalban" Tee hee. I was making dinner while I watched, and I did a double take when I heard Freddie's name mentioned! LOL :D



How cool is that!!!! i love it when stuff like that happens

Thats soooo kewl! I lovei t!

...so I was channel surfing...and I came across some good dance music so I tuned in to see what it was i had found.......turns out to be the movie 54 which was about Studio 54.

...In the end they showed some actual photos of ppl who had been patrons at the club.... I did see one of Steven Tyler.... I was looking but I didnt see Freddie...still I have a feeling HE MUST have gone there....it was like THE place to be back then.... and we all know he could dance!

Studio 54 came out much later. I don't think Freddie went there around that time.

The reason why I know that is that I was a big dancer back in the day.

the movie was based on the club and took place in the late 70s..... the club closed in 1980 and the former owner Steve died of aides....just ta let ya know

heres a link with a little info on Studio 54

http://www.drakkar91.com/54/

I have been hearing these ads on the radio for a "Chico's" it is mechanics shop of all places! I first heard it and thought. OMG! Freddie!

On the way to my sisters there is a small shop Fred's bait and tackle and in their town is a family restaurant called FREDDIE"S!!!!!
i wanted to but we didn't get time to eat there, maybe next time LOL

I was in Walmart with Mike & I saw a notebook with the pic on it of Johnny Depp as a pirate that Luckymama had posted on here. Whenever I see that pic it reminds me of Freddie lol. I started laughing & Mike was curious as to why so I told him. He didn't undertand how Johnny Depp could remind me of Freddie... :D :D

:happyface This may sound silly, but if any of you watch All In The Family on a regular basis, watch the show where Archie has his surgery. The one I'm talking about is when he goes to the hospital and he sits in a waiting room with Edith before he goes to talk to Teresa (Liz Torres). While he's sitting in the waiting room, Edith tries to talk to him and he hands her a magazine. She notices it's a PlayGirl magazine and says maybe she should get another but naturally Archie just says "Read it!" She starts reading it or more importantly looking at the centerfold(Go Edith!;) :lol: ) Anyway, if you notice, the issue she's reading is the one that Freddie is in. :lol: That just always cracks me up! :rofl:

Thanks for the info! Ya know I saw that ep recently & never even noticed that lol...

wow i'll have to watch for that next time how cool !!!

Didi anyone catch Tony Orlando on the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon? He did a song he wrote about Puerto Rico. Reminded me of Freddie...

I just came back from seeing Peter Framptom in concert and he sang "I'm in you" Not only did it reminde me of Freddie but I was thinking also of Pitooey who picked this song in one of the tribute CD's. I was smiling and crying at the same time

Wow I didn't know he still did concerts. I wonder if Freddie liked him...

I meant to post something on this thread a while ago....

About a month ago we had a guest priest at Mass and he had mentioned that the day previous (July 1st) had been the feast day of Blessed Junipero Serra (http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=401)and he was going on and on about him in his homily. I had a hard time concentrating on the homily, cause I was thinking all about the episode where they were going to tear down the garage, and Chico saved it by saying one of the walls was associated with Fr. Serra. :blush: Am I bad or what! LOL :D

BTW you can click on the link on his name to find out more about him!

I just came back from seeing Peter Framptom in concert and he sang "I'm in you" Not only did it reminde me of Freddie but I was thinking also of Pitooey who picked this song in one of the tribute CD's. I was smiling and crying at the same time

"I'm in you" is a beautiful song but I didn't pick it for the CD. One thing about this song though it gives me the chills everytime I hear it. This is definitely a Freddie song. :eek:

As for Lucky's church exploits.......... :rofl: Lucky....... I would've thought the same thing. :rofl:

Oops sorry about that Pitooey I was thinking that you did.. It was so moving I just lost it hearing Peter sing I'm in you





"I'm in you" is a beautiful song but I didn't pick it for the CD. One thing about this song though it gives me the chills everytime I hear it. This is definitely a Freddie song. :eek:

As for Lucky's church exploits.......... :rofl: Lucky....... I would've thought the same thing. :rofl:

You're not bad. It normal to have your mind wander to Freddie... :) :)

Thanks for understanding that was Karen who choose the song I'm in you.. It was so moving

Thats a great picture of Peter Frampton.... I had a MAD crush on him as a kid. DO YOU YOU...FEEEEEEEEEEEL LIKE I DO!
hehe
:)

Me too Tylersmistress. He was one of the many hotties back in the day I had a bad crush on. He still looks good! My husband was like where is his hair? he he he

Yesterday when I was at a grocery store in WV, I saw a sign advertising s revivial at some Methodist church. It listed how would be singing there & 2 of the singers were Cheryl & Freddie. I guess you all know who that reminded me of... :)

Hey Cheryl, where in WV??? tee hee

Glen Ferris/Gauley Bridge. We're at hawks Nest, WV on the way to Mikes sisters in KY. We head on to Huntington, VA tomorrow & then the next day off to Mikes sisters in Columbus, Ohio. I thoug of you noticing it was in WV. :):D Today at Hawks Nest I heard while eating dinner I'm In You by Peter Framton on the radio they had on. Since ya'll were writing about that song reminding ya'll of Freddie, it was reminding me of Freddie & this thread... :)

I have been there, we just got back from dropping my daughter off to college in Huntington. She is in her third year at Marshall University. I hope you have a great trip to Columbus. I love that city (and my bestest friend who lives nearby! LOL)

I saw on the news tonight where Mike Douglas died at the ripe ole age of 81.
It showed some of the talent he had on his shows and I was hoping there would have been a glimpse of when Freddie co-hosted his show with him. It had a lot of then young stars like Jay Leno, John Travolta, and lots of 70's stars. No Freddie tho :confused: That certainly got me to remembering Freddie after seeing all of that.

I know what you mean I had always loved his show when I was younger. I got to see it off and on occasionally. My mother always watched that show

i saw that one a lot i remember mason reese co hosting in his pajamas with the feet in them...
i didn't see the news cast tho, they should have shown Freddie

Good luck with your daughter in college. Looks we were near the same place close to each other as I stayed in Huntington, WV overnite the nite before last. I bet she goes to Marshall. So sorry to hear about Mike Douglas...

Mike Douglas was an icon in the talk show industry, I remember so many of his shows. He always seemed to be comfortable with just about anyone who was on his show. I still remember the interview he did with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.... it could have been tense, but he made it look so easy....

We will miss you Mike. Thanks for having Freddie on your show.

My husband and I with some of our friends went to see "Hollywoodland" last night at the movie theater. As some of you know, this is a speculation film noir about the death of George Reeves... the TV Superman of the 1950's.

In the movie Adrien Brody plays a two bit PI named Louis Simo who is asked to look into the verdict of suicide. There are those who believe it might not have been. The movie doesn't do a bad job with all the speculation... I have read books on the subject.

Anyway, right after Simo is asked to look into it, he goes to visit his son, who is about 10. His ex-wife tells him that Evan is in the back yard and has been very dispondant of late. They find Evan in the back yard throwing stones at things. Simo asks his ex why the boy is like this, and she said he had been like this ever since the news that Superman killed himself. Simo wants to dismiss this reason, it was only a character in a show, but she tells him that all the kids in the neighborhood are like this.

I couldn't help thinking back to Jan of 1977 and how I felt when I heard the news of Freddie's death... and also got a sense of how all Freddie's fans were feeling at the time. It was like the way these kids reacted to the news of George's death. Call me weird, but I see so many parallels in stories of stars who also died too young or with a cloud of mystery or dispondancy around them.

One of the other parallels I saw in the movie was the way they contrasted the clean cut public persona of George with his real private life. It made me speculate about the same with Freddie. And like Freddie, George struggled with being type cast in a TV role as he tried desperately to break into movies.....

BTW for those who are considering seeing this movie, it was pretty good. I would recommend seeing it on DVD, I am not sure it was worth the $7.50 to see it in the theater... I would recommend renting it, especially if you are into Hollywood mysteries like I am. I will warn you, it isn't a happy movie, even tho they do a good job presenting the story....