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.
Bob Thiele
1909
Edward Roscoe Murrow ( April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)
The radio series Gunsmoke aired from April 26, 1952 until June 18, 1961, on
the CBS radio network..
William Conrad (right) chats with producer Norman MacDonnell,
who with John Meston, created Gunsmoke. He produced the
radio version and eight years of the TV version.
Parley Baer ("Chester"), Georgia Ellis ("Miss Kitty") and Howard
MacNear ("Doc Adams")
Air date: September 21, 1958
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.
