Eddie and the Monsters' WHATEVER HAPPENED TO EDDIE?

Butch Patrick had a respectable run as a child star, making guest appearances on such TV shows as Gunsmoke, The Monkees and My Favorite Martian before he got his big break as Eddie Munster on The Munsters, then going on to star in the classic Krofft Saturday Morning series Lidsville. What's more, he's made it to age 56 without OD'ing on drugs, killing anybody or getting busted with a tranny hooker, so he's led a pretty charmed life as far as former child stars go.

But Butch does have at least one skeleton rattling away at the back of his closet. Back in 1983, when he was 30 and the acting gigs were starting to dry up, he tried to forge a new career as the singer for a new wave novelty act, Eddie and the Monsters. Their single Whatever Happened to Eddie? featured the old Munsters tune, played on a synthesizer that sounds like the finest piece of Radio Shack technology that $14.95 could buy, with Butch singing over it in character as a grown-up Eddie. It hurts. It hurts like fire.

I remember seeing an actual music video for this thing when I was a kid, but that doesn't seem to be online anywhere so you'll just have to settle for the music accompanied by a slideshow of Butch through the years. (Interestingly, Patrick's stint with Eddie and the Monsters isn't mentioned on his Wikipedia page. Hey, even if he goes online every few days and edits it out himself, I can't say I'd blame him.)




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