Archive for January, 2011

DEAN JONES IS 80 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Actor Dean Carroll Jones is best known for his light-hearted leading roles in several Walt Disney movies between 1965 and 1977. At the  beginning of his career, Jones appeared in minor film and television roles. He made his Broadway debut, along with Jane Fonda, in the 1960 play There was a little Girl. Later that same year Jones played Dave Manning in the Broadway comedy Under the Yum-Yum Tree, a role he repeated in the 1963 film version starring Jack Lemmon.

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STEVE ALLEN’S LAST TONIGHT SHOW APPEARANCE ON THIS DATE IN 1957

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The Tonight Show is a  late-night talk show that has aired on NBC-TV since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today. The first host of  the show was Steve Allen(above). Allen departed Tonight after NBC ordered him to concentrate all his efforts on his Sunday night variety program,The Steve Allen Show, hoping to combat CBS-TV and The Ed Sullivan Show’s dominance of the Sunday night ratings. Below is a clip from the first Tonight Show that aired on Monday night, September 27, 1954.

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PORTLAND’S NEWEST AND FINEST MOTEL!

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REMEMBERING WHEN…

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAY STEVENS ~ 72 TODAY

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Ray Stevens is a country music, pop singer-songwriter known for his novelty songs as well as his recent involvement in the Tea Party movement. Stevens’ recording career began in the mid 1950s with Prep Records. In 1958 Ray joined the National Recording Corporation (NRC), playing numerous instruments, arranging music, and performing background vocals for the labels bands. Stevens later signed with Mercury Records
recording  a series of hit records in the 1960s that included songs such as Ahab the Arab and Harry the Hairy Ape.

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