Barbra Streisand, with Johnny Desmond, in 1964’s Funny Girl

The Broadway production of Funny Girl is a musical with a semi-biographical
plot based on the life and career of film star and comedienne Fanny Brice. It
starred Barbra Strieisand and opened at the Winter Garden Theater and
closed at the Broadway Theater, for a total run of 1,348 performances. The
musical was nominated for eight Tony Awards, but failed to win any. It faced
tough competition from Hello Dolly!.  

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Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks, The Baby Snooks Show 
on CBS radio (1944)

Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer

          
               Al Jolson (May 26, 1886 – October 23, 1950)

Al Jolson was a singer, comedian and actor who,during the height of his
career, was dubbed "The World’s Greatest Entertainer” and  was also
the highest paid. Jolson is best remembered as the star in the first
full length talking movie, The Jazz Singer in 1927.

The Firestone Air Chief radio, model 4-A-30

The Voice of Firestone, originally titled The Firestone Hour, is a long-running
radio and television program of classical music that first aired December 3,
1928 on the NBC Radio network. On Monday, March 22, 1948 it became
the first commercial radio program to be carried simultaneously on both
AM and FM stations.

After operatic vocal training, Margaret Truman, the only child of President Harry S. 
Truman, began a singing career with a debut radio recital on ABC. Reviewers were 
not always kind, such as Washington Post music critic Paul Hume who wrote that 
Truman was “extremely attractive on stage…(but) cannot sing very well.” She
continued to performed on stage, radio, and television until the mid-1950s.

Bess, Harry, and Margaret Truman standing in front of the
Independence, the official presidential plane.

 
Richard Boone

Have Gun — Will Travel is a Western television series that aired on CBS
from September 14, 1957 to April 20, 1963. It was one of the few television
shows to spawn a successful radio version that debuted November 23, 1958
and starred John Dehner (below). 

There were 225 episodes of the TV series, many of which were written by
Gene Roddenberry. The star of the program was Richard Boone, who
portrayed the gentleman gunfighter named “Paladin”. Boone directed
19 of the shows episodes.

John Dehner

Have Gun Will Travel. Sung by Johnny Western!