VIDEO: TV Icon Norman Lear Celebrates 93rd Birthday with Lip Sync Debut!

By: Jul. 28, 2015
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Artist Paul Hipp shared the music video for his first single, "Happy Birthday To Me", featuring TV legend Norman Lear in his lip-syncing debut. The song is from Hipp's new record "The Remote Distance". Check it out below!

Lear, whose TV credits include the hit series All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Maude, used the occasion to celebrate his 93rd birthday. He says of the video, "The top of my Bucket list always included a desire to sing. More than that -- a desire to enchant an audience with my voice. I ached to be Sinatra or Torme for just a night. You say a night's too much? How about just one song? My friend, actor, singer-guitarist and composer, Paul Hipp, wrote the happy birthday song when he turned fifty. I loved it and asked if I could perform it as I turn ninety-three. That was the result, and I don't care what you say, I love it."

Norman Lears incredible autobiography "Even This I Get To Experience" is available at Amazon and all book sellers online and in the real world.
http://www.amazon.com/Even-This-I-Get...

"The Remote Distance" CD will be in stores and at online retailer Sept 25. Until then it is available early for digital download.



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