1951

Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy and Woodstock of Charles Schulz’ "Peanuts" comic strip.

“Someday We’ll Be Together" is the last of twelve number-one singles for Diana
Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. It is the final Supremes song featuring
Diana Ross, who left the group in January 1970 to pursue a solo career and was
also the last American number-one hit for the 1960s.

Note: “Someday We’ll Be Together” was also the last record played by Dave
“Record” Stone (shown below) when radio 910 KISN in Portland, Oregon was
silenced on Thursday, September 2, 1976.

Howdy Doody was a children’s television program on NBC featuring a freckle-faced
boy puppet (Howdy) and his marionette friends. The show was hosted by Buffalo
Bob Smith and Clarabell the Clown (Bob Keeshan). It first aired on Saturday,
December 27, 1947 and ran till September 24, 1960.The pioneering children’s
show was a template for many similar show to follow.

"Rodeo Ray" is filling in for a vacationing Buffalo Bob Smith on this
episode of Howdy Doody. Smith pre-recorded Howdy’s voice.

The Howdy Doody tenth anniversary show

Don McNeill (left) conducts an interview with Dean Mullaney of the Library
of American Comics in 1947.

The Breakfast Club was a long-run morning radio variety show heard on the NBC
Blue Network and ABC radio and also briefly aired on television (1950-51 prime-time
edition on ABC). It ran from June 23, 1933 through Friday, December 27, 1968 with 
host Don McNeill. The show originated in Chicago, Illinois.