On this day in 1942, Count Basie and His Orchestra re-recorded his composition “One O’Clock Jump” for Columbia Records. He died following a heart attack Jat age 57.
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On TV he was announcer for The Midnight Special. His unique radio style made him an icon of ’60s radio, broadcasting from XERF, then XERB in Mexico and heard throughout a major part of the U.S. On this day in 1938, the legendary deejay known as Wolfman Jack was born Robert Weston Smith in Brooklyn. Better known as just Mantovani, his music still entertains us with hits like, “Red Sails in the Sunset”, “Serenade in the Night”, “Song from Moulin Rouge” and “Charmaine”. This was the beginning of the musician’s successful recording career that provided beautiful music to radio stations for nearly five decades. On this day in 1932, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani gave a memorable concert at Queen’s Hall in England to “glowing notices”. On this day in 1927, the first opera to be broadcast over a national radio network was presented in Chicago. He died of heart problems related to obesity Apat age 68. His zany & (for its time) ribald TV show was sold in 140 countries around the world, with viewership in the tens of millions.
He succumbed to bladder cancer one day after his 70th birthday.Īlso in 1924, comedian Benny Hill was born Alfred Hawthorne Hill in Southampton England. Although he made many movies he is best remembered as the proudly bald TV detective Kojak. On this day in 1924, Emmy-winning actor Telly (Aristotle) Savalas was born in Long Island NY. She died a month after her husband at age 84. They also hosted NBC TV’s At Home show, while she was a regular on TV’s charades show Masquerade Party.
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She was a movie actress & popular model before & during World War II, after which she and her husband Tex McCrary were hosts of “Meet Tex and Jinx” a local radio talk show they conducted from Peacock Alley in New York’s Waldorf Astoria. On this day in 1919, actress/radio-TV host Jinx (Eugenia) Falkenburg was born in Barcelona Spain. He wrote for big band great Benny Goodman & played with Glenn Miller’s Orchestra. On this day in 1917, pianist/songwriter/arranger Billy Maxted was born in Racine Wisconsin. He died of emphysema two days short of his 76th birthday. He also had the lead in TV’s New Adventures of Charlie Chan. He is best remembered for playing the title role in the long-running “Life With Luigi” on radio & (for a shorter period) TV. (Joseph) Carrol Naish was born in New York City.
On this day in 1891, the composer of “O Canada”, Calixa Lavallee, died at Boston at age 48. A communications milestone for the community of Victoria BC, as the first business telephones were installed at W.
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