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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY!
PIONEER CHILDREN’S SHOW ON THIS DAY IN 1947
Howdy Doody is an children’s television program, created and
produced by E. Roger Muir and telecast on NBC from 1947 until
1960. It was one of the first television series produced at NBC in
Rockefeller Center, in Studio 3A, it was also a pioneer in early
color production as NBC (at the time owned by TV maker RCA)
used the show in part to sell color television sets in the 1950s.
The character Howdy Doody first came to life from the creative
mind of Bob Smith during his days as a radio announcer on
WNBC (AM).
April Fools Day, April 1, 1952
DRAMA SERIES LEFT THE AIR ON THIS DAY IN 1954
"The Shadow" premiered on the CBS radio network on July 31, 1930 as
the narrator for a radio program called “Detective Story Hour” based on a
magazine of the same name.The radio drama series temporarily moved to
NBC radio in October 1932. After returning to CBS it disappeared from the
airwaves on March 27, 1935 and later began airing over the new Mutual
Broadcasting System as a half-hour series called “The Shadow” on
Sunday evenings and continued there until the final episode on
December 26, 1954.
A 22-year-old Orson Welles was the voice of The Shadow
(Lamont Cranston) from September 1937 to October 1938.
NUMBER-ONE ON THIS DAY IN 1970
Harrison’s first single as a solo artist − "My Sweet Lord" topped
charts worldwide and heralded the use of Harrison’s slide guitar
technique, described by one biographer as being "musically as
distinctive a signature as the mark of Zorro”.
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