Bonnie Lynn Raitt is 64 today. She is on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest
Singers of All Time at #50 and her 2013 album “Slipstream” won Best
Americana Album at the Grammy Awards.
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is 64 today. She is on Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest
Singers of All Time at #50 and her 2013 album “Slipstream” won Best
Americana Album at the Grammy Awards.
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887)
Holliday was a gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the Old West who is
remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in
the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Virginia Christine (March 5, 1920 – July 24, 1996)
Christine was an stage, radio, film, television, and voice actress
who is particularly remembered as "Mrs. Olson", or the “Folgers
Coffee Woman”, in a number of television commercials for the
coffee.
The Buck Rogers radio show was the first science fiction program on radio. It
was broadcast four times weekly, Monday to Thursday evenings on the CBS
network. It soon gained a listening audience of 58,000 on over 23 stations all
over the country. The program aired for 15 years until 1947. Storylines were
similar to the comic strip with Buck finding himself in the 25th Century. Actors
Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin all voiced the lead
role at various times.
The radio series was produced and directed by Carlo De Angelo and later
by Jack Johnstone who later stated that the sound of the rockets was done
by using an air-conditioning vent.
Initial Buck Rogers, Matt Crowley
Buck Rogers cast: Adele Ronson as Wilma Deering, Edgar Stehli
as scientist-inventor Dr. Huer and Curtis Arnali portraying Buck
Rogers.
Beloved Christian evangelist William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is 95 today
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER GRAHAM!