Rock ‘n’ roll musician Jerry Lee Lewis is known for the hit “Great
Balls of Fire” and who married his thirteen year old cousin, Myra
Gale Brown.
He was expelled from Southwest Bible Institute for playing what
they termed “devil’s music.” He played music in Natchez,
Mississippi to make a living.
He became the last living member of the Sun Records Million
Dollar Quartet (below).
Little Orphan Annie was adapted to a 15-minute radio show that debuted on WGN Chicago in 1930 and went national on NBC‘s Blue Network. It was one of the first
comic strips adapted to radio and the first late-afternoon children’s serial. It had
about 6 million fans, and left the air in 1942.
when the show debuted, radio had yet to establish coast-to-coast networks so
two separate casts performed—one in San Francisco starring Floy Margaret
Hughes and the other in Chicago with Shirley Bell as Annie, Stanley Andrews
as "Daddy", and Allan Baruck (and later Mel Tormé) as Joe Corntassel.
When coast to coast networking was established in 1933, the Chicago cast
became the permanent one. Announcer Pierre Andre provided Sandy’s "Arf!"
and sang the theme (as Uncle Andy).
Pierre Andre Stanley Andrews
Death Valley Days originated as an anthology series on the NBC Blue Radio
network. It featured true stories of the old West, particularly the Death Valley
area in California. Created in 1930 by Ruth Woodman, the program was aired
on radio until 1945. It continued from 1952 to 1975 as a syndicated TV series.
Tonight’s Broadcast "The Burro Who Had No Name"
Original Air Date: June 17, 1938
Episode Number: 398
Jack Macbryde was the Old Ranger, the host
of the radio program
J. Carrol Naish
Life with Luigi is a radio situation comedy series which debuted on CBS
Radio, with the final episode broadcast on March 3, 1953. The show
was sometimes regarded as the Italian counterpart to the radio show
The Goldbergs, which chronicled the experience of Jewish immigrants
in New York City.
Original air date: Tuesday, 10-30-1951
Rock and roll legend Roy Orbison being honored with a star posthumously
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, with family members, from left, sons Wesley,
Alex, wife Barbara Orbison, and Roy Jr. (Jan. 29, 2010)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Roy Orbison’s three sons are all musicians but never
really got to play music with their dad — until now.
Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex Orbison have helped create a new song by their father
that will appear on the 25th anniversary reissue and expansion of Orbison’s final
album, "Mystery Girl." They found an old vocal track for a song called "The Way
is Love" originally recorded on a boom box and added new instrumentation with
the help of another son of a music legend, co-producer John Carter Cash. The
album will be re-released May 20 with “Mystery Girl” along with eight previously
unheard songs.
Roy Orbison
