Archive for the 'Quiz show' Category

TALENTED COMEDIAN DIED IN 2000

Steve Allen - Celebrity School Pic | Young actor, Celebrities then and now, Famous men

Top 25 ideas about TV Classics on Pinterest | Steve allen, Tonight show and Comedians

Steve Allen Bio, Wiki 2017 - Musician Biographies

Steve Allen (1921-2000) | Steve allen, Steve, Allen show

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen
(December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000

Television and radio personality, comedian,
musician, composer, writer and actor.
Steve Allen, in 1954 achieved national fame
as the co-creator and first host of
The Tonight
Show
, which was the first late-night television
talk show.

Allen died in his sleep from chest trauma caused
by injuries sustained in an earlier traffic accident.

Steve Allen Bio, Wiki 2017 - Musician Biographies

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,Comedian,Composer,DEATH,HISTORY,MOVIES,MUSIC,Quiz show,RADIO,Talk Show,TV series and have No Comments

FORMER PRESIDENT DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1885

See the source image
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)

On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero
and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer. He
served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.

See the source image
General Grant reading in a colorized photo. Grant was
appointed General of the Army (4 Stars) after the Civil
War on July 25, 1866.

See the source image
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
(October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,Civil war,DEATH,HISTORY,MILITARY,Phonograph,President,Quiz show,RADIO,Tumb and have No Comments

HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST WORLD NEWS

todayinhistory

carlata bradley
CARLATA BRADLEY

Image result for president george w. bush signed the patriot act

President George W. Bush signs the Patriot Act, Anti-Terrorism Legislation, in the East Room on this day in 2001.

Image result for president george w. bush signed the patriot act

AP-Logo1

Image result for henry kissinger says peace is at hand in vietnam

U.S. National security adviser Henry Kissinger declared, "Peace is at
hand" in Vietnam on this day in 1972.  

Image result for henry kissinger says peace is at hand in vietnam

AP-Logo1

Image result for gunfight at the ok corral

The "Gunfight at the OK Corral" took place in Tombstone, AZ. on this day in
1881.
The fight was between Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and Doc Holiday
and the Ike Clanton Gang.

Image result for gunfight at the ok corral

Image result for gunfight at the ok corral

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,BIRTHDAY,CURRENT EVENTS,Gunfight,HISTORY,MOVIES,NEWSPAPER,Patriot Act,Peace accord,Quiz show,TV series and have No Comments

RADIO SERIES AIRED ON THIS DAY IN 1940

Related image

Quiz Kids was a radio and TV series of the 1940s and 1950’s created by
Chicago public relations and advertising man Louis G. Cowan, and
originally sponsored by
Alka-Seltzer. The series was first broadcast
on
NBC from Chicago, June 28, 1940, airing as a summer replacement
show for Alec Templeton Time. It continued on radio for the next 13
years. On television, the show was seen on NBC and
CBS from July
6, 1949 to July 5, 1953, with Joe Kelly as quizmaster, and again from
January 12 to September 27, 1956, with
Clifton Fadiman as host.

Image result for quiz kids radio show host joe kelly
Quizmaster Joe Kelly.

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,Quiz show,RADIO and have No Comments

QUIZ SHOW DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1940

Ted weems orchestra beat band.jpg
Ted Weems and his orchestra, with Perry Como, Marilyn (Marvel)
Maxwell and Elmo Tanner, 1940.

Beat the Band was a musical quiz show heard on NBC radio from 1940 to
1944 in two distinctly different series. The program popularized the catch
phrase
, "Give me a little traveling music”.

In the first series, broadcast on Sundays at 6:30pm from Chicago, host
Garry Moore read music-related questions submitted by listeners to band
members in the 14-piece Ted Weems Orchestra. Originally sponsored by
the General Mills cereal Kix, listeners whose questions were used on the
air received $10; those who stumped the band received $20 and a case
of Kix.


Garry Moore (born Thomas Garrison Morfit, III)
(January 31, 1915 – November 28, 1993)


Kix cereal was introduced in 1937 by the General Mills company
of Golden Valley, Minnesota.

posted by Bob Karm in ANNIVERSARY,CLASSIC ADS,DEBUT,HISTORY,MUSIC,Quiz show,RADIO and have No Comments