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POPULAR SINGER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1903

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       Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)

Bing Crosby was one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, 
with over half a billion records in circulation. He won an
Academy Award for
Best Actor
for his role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture
Going My Way
, and was nominated for his reprise of the role in The Bells of
St. Mary’s
the next year, becoming the first of four actors to be nominated
twice for playing the same character. In 1963, Crosby received the first
Grammy Global Achievement Award. 

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Bing Crosby and co-star Barry Fitzgerald with their Oscars from
Going My Way.

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Bing Crosby & Rosemary Clooney (1960 – 62)

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NOVELTY SINGLE BY STEVE ALLEN

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Steve Allen was still doing the Tonight Show on NBC-TV three nights a
week, alternating with Ernie Kovacs, when this record was made in late
1957.The voice of the musician is actually record producer Bob Thiele
who was running Coral Records for parent Decca at the time.
  
 

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Bob Thiele

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COMEDIENNE IS 79 TODAY

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Carol Burnett in high school

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LEGEND OF LAUGHTER BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1893

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           Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr.
(April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971)

Harold Lloyd was one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the
silent film era along with Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. Lloyd made nearly
200 comedy films, both silent and "talkies", between 1914 and 1947. He is best
known for his "Glasses Character”.
Lloyd provided encouragement and support
for a number of younger actors, such as Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, and
Jack Lemmon.

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COMEDIAN BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1917

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         Hans Georg Conried, Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982)

Hans Conried was an comedian, character actor and popular voice actor who 
appeared regularly on many radio shows during the 1940s and 1950s, notably 
the George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, on which he played a psychiatrist. His 
many television guest appearances included such shows as The Monkees
and I Love Lucy. Conried also was a cast member of The Rocky and Bullwinkle
Show
, voicing the character of Snidely Whiplash in the Dudley Do-Right
shorts. He also hosted Fractured Flickers, a live-action syndicated half-hour
television comedy show .Critics regarded Conried as one of the great comic
character actors. 

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