During the 1920s, Lowell Thomas was a magazine writer and editor. It was
on September 29, 1930 that he debuted as a broadcaster with the NBC radio
Blue network, delivering a nightly news and commentary program. Thomas
later worked for CBS News during his long globetrotting career. He was
inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. Lowell Thomas died in
1981 at age 89.  

Jerry Lee Lewis is a early pioneer of the rock and roll era. He is the last surviving
member of both Sun Records’ “Class of 55” and the Million Dollar Quartet which,
both together, included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley.

Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and his music contributions has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 2004,
Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 24 on their list of the 100
Greatest Artists of All Time. The Hit Parade Hall of Fame inducted
Jerry Lee in 2008.

Clip from The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show, 1958

 

The Danny Thomas Show (known as Make Room for Daddy during the first three seasons) is a sitcom which ran from Tuesday September 29,1953-1957 on ABC-
TV and from 1957 to September 14,1964 on the CBS television network. The
show ended when Thomas decided to retire.  

Funny bloopers with the cast and crew. Watch for Annette Funicello
and listen for the great Sheldon Leonard off camera (directing).

     
   Marjorie Lord (93)                         Sherry Jackson (69)                   
 

Angela Cartwright (59)

      
       
     Gene Autry  (September 29, 1907 – October 2, 1998)

Gene Autry gained fame as The Singing Cowboy on radio, in the movies
and on television for more than three decades beginning in the 1930s. His
signature song was "Back in the Saddle Again”, but he is best known today
for his Christmas songs, “Here Comes Santa Clause”, “Frosty the Snowman”,
and his biggest hit, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”.

Autry was also the owner of the Los Angeles/California Angels Major League
Baseball team from 1961 to 1997, a television station and several radio stations
in Southern California. On September 1, 1962, he bought Portland’s KEX radio 
from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. as part of his company, Golden West 
Broadcasters, Inc. He is a member of both the Country Music and Nashville Song 
writers halls of Fame and was recently made a member of the Baseball Hall of 
Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Jim Abbott and Gene Autry in the Angels dugout in 1990 

The Beatles recorded “Hey Jude” in four takes at Trident Studios in London. The
first take was selected as the single release which was the first single released
on The Beatles’ Apple Records label. The record spent nine weeks as number
one, the longest run for a Beatles’ single.