Happy Birthday, Bob Hope!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 29th 2017
We’re
commemorating Memorial Day today…and it seems only fitting that the entertainer
who established his legacy performing
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Happy Birthday, Ben Alexander!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 26th 2017
With the death of Barton Yarborough
in December of 1951, Jack Webb was anxious to find a replacement for the actor
who had
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Happy Birthday, Bing Crosby!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 3rd 2017
At
one time in the 1940s, the man born Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby, Jr. in Tacoma,
Washington on this date in 1903 was the t
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“…and that’s with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of…Gunsmoke!”
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 26th 2017
“If I
had known it would last this long, I would never have created the darn
thing.” So observed John Meston, the writer w
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Happy Birthday, Frances Langford!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 4th 2017
“Just
play it like a nagging wife” was comedy writer Philip Rapp’s suggestion to
actress-singer Frances Langford, who was a
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Happy Birthday, Les Damon!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 31st 2017
Lester Joseph Damon—born in
Providence, RI on this date in 1908—was memorably described by my Radio Spirits
colleague Eliza
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