Can You Guess Who This Violinist Is?
Here are a few clues…
He is a descendant of Edward Rutledge, a signer of The Declaration of Independence. For many years, he was the conductor of Arthur Godfrey’s orchastra on his radio and television shows and conducted orchestras at several Presidential Inaugurations. He’s known Goldie Hawn all her life and even gave her her name. Who is this man?
October 15, 1973…”Tomorrow” Debuted On NBC The only way to remember this great show is to remember what made it great…Tom Snyder. On the event of his death in 2007, here are remembrances from Brian Williams, Jay Leno and David Letterman. Incidentally, Letterman’s NBC show replaced “Tomorrow”. “Tomorrow” followed “Tonight” With Johnny Carson and started […]
‘Rocky And Bullwinkle’…The Surprising Backstory! Production began in February 1958 with the hiring of voice actors June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Scott, and William Conrad. Ward hired most of the rest of the production staff, including writers and designers, BUT…no animators were hired!?! Why? Because Ward was able to convince some friends at Dancer, Fitzgerald, […]
July 17, 1955…Disneyland Opens: Behind The Scenes Video 61 years ago today, what was then television’s largest remote took place at the Disneyland Grand Opening. Here is the ultra rare, 14 minute, behind the scenes film produced by ABC to commemorate the massive 29 camera, live broadcast. This video ends with the narrator saying “And […]
Macy’s Parade History Followup…First Network TV Coverage, CBS Thanks to historian David Schwartz and friends, we’ve been able to verify that the first network television coverage of the Macy’s Parade was on CBS. From The New York Times, we have a small news item, and the television listings. Notice that WNBC and WPIX are offering […]
Archie Blyer
Jack Benny
Arthur Godfrey
That’s not Jack benny
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/10/obituaries/edward-rutledge-hawn-73-leader-of-godfrey-orchestra.html
Moe Thomas
Good one
Edward R. Hawn.
Charlie Daniels
Was it his brother or brother in law that molested Goldie at a young age (but mature in knowing from the start it wasn’t her fault and refused to internalize blame)?