In the middle of season three, the guests on Sha Na Na took a weird turn.

Dusty Springfield was a proper musical guest for the show. She made a lot of sense. However, one episode had Barbie Benton, who they did a Barbie Benton-look alike contest for (won by Lennie. I swear they find any excuse to dress him up in a dress) and then she sang. Her song was just not very appealing to me. I disliked it a lot. Then we got Robert Guillaume singing a song too, which was odd. He was announced as an actor from Benson, the TV show, and I know he has sung before, but this was certainly a strange turn of events. Sha Na Na luring Guillaume in by pretending that they were the TV show MASH (yes, with Lennie dressed up as Hot Lips).

There was a street set song from Denny called Sh-Boom, where the whole group (except Lennie) was on roller skates. Except for Chico and Denny, everyone else seemed a bit nervous with the wheels on their feet. Dirty Dan in particular looked like he had never been on roller skates before.

I have actually seen a couple of versions of Sh-Boom on this show, both sung by Denny. I think the second version is still to come later on in the show’s run.

They did a Carmen opera parody with their comedy skit that was actually pretty funny (Lennie was not in a dress. He was dressed up as a bull).

The best performance on these three episodes was Bowzer exercising his deep voice in a rendition of Elvis Presley’s hit song, “Can’t Help Falling in Love.”