David had great ideas, and that was certainly one of them." I had no idea how we would fit into the show but thought it was something fun and different to do. Not only would our fans tune in, but it would also expose us to a new audience of people who watched the show regularly, and would begin to listen to our music. Because it was a black situation comedy, I thought it would be an adventurous thing for us to do because our music had always been laced with R&B and soul.
I had actually met Fred one summer at a show we’d done where he was dancing with The Lockers. I thought it was hilarious and really liked the character of Rerun (Fred Berry). "I was already familiar with What’s Happening!!, because I’d watched the show a few times. "A few months into working with us, David came in and told us there was an opportunity to do this situation comedy. "We had done the albums Takin’ It to the Streets and Livin’ on the Fault Line, and had just hired a new publicist named David Gest, who would later leave PR and go on to marry Liza Minelli," guitarist Patrick Simmons recalled in 2018. That's the night when none less than the Doobie Brothers appeared on the first of a two-episode arc on the wildly popular show What's Happening!! From the classic "Which Doobie you be?" phone call to the moment Rerun was caught bootlegging the Doobies' show (he was dancing too hard, natch), the appearance helped make the band a household name all across America.
DOOBIE BROTHERS ECHOES OF LOVE TV
There was no more impactful or memorable musical moment on prime-time TV all year than the night of January 28, 1978.
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