MUSIC
Merv Griffin singing
with the Freddy
Martin Band…“Liltin” Martha
Tilton…The marriage of Ozzie
Nelson to the singer in his band, Harriet
Hilliard…Jack Leonard, the singer
with the Tommy Dorsey band,
before Frank Sinatra…“ Heartaches” by Elmo
Tanner with the Ted Weems Orchestra,
that sold an amazing 2 million records!…Songs
with strange titles like, Frenesi, & Amapola…Herb
Jefferies, with the Duke Ellington
Orchestra & their big hit, “Flamingo”… Angelina (the
waitress at the pizzeria)…Horace
Heidt & his Musical Knights, with
the King Sisters & Alvino Rey…The
Merry Macs…Wee Bonnie Baker…The
Boswell Sisters, Connie, Martha & Helvetia(Vet)…Gene
Austin’s “ My Blue
Heaven,” that eventually sold
an amazing five million copies!…Bunny
Berigan’s, “I Can’t
Get Started…Joe Williams & the Count
Basie Band…Bob Crosby & the
Bobcats…Ben Bernie, Yow-sah,Yow-Sah…Bon
Bon & the Jan Savitt orchestra…Rosemary & Betty
Clooney with Tony Pastor’s Band… Russ
Columbo…
And until
next time, whose band’s theme
song was, “Ripplin’ Rhythm”???
MOVIES
Madeline Carrol in the thriller, “The
39 Steps”…Jack Norton, who
always played “the drunk”…Gale
Sondergard, “The Spider Woman”…Lassie…Child
stars, Peggy Ann Garner, Bobby Driscoll & Margaret
O’Brien...Margaret Dumont, who
the Marx Brothers loved to torment…Buster
Crabbe, a gold medal swimmer in the
1934 Olympics, played Tarzan, Flash Gordon AND Buck
Rogers!!…Lionel Barrymore & Spring
Byington, the original Mr. & Mrs.
Hardy…Marion Davies…Greta Garbo & John
Barrymore in “Grand Hotel”…The
Queens of Gossip, Louella Parsons & Hedda
Hopper...Sabu the “Jungle
Boy”…George “Gabby” Hayes…Al “Fuzzy” St.
John…
Claude Rains as “The
Invisible Man”…George White’s
Scandals”…Adele Astaire…Mischa
Auer…William Powell & Myrna Loy as Nick &Nora
Charles, in the “Thin
Man” movies…Cliff
Edwards, the voice of Jiminy
Cricket in Pinocchio…
And until
next time, what teenager was the top box office
attraction for the years 1940 & 1941???
SPORTS
The “long count fight” between Jack
Dempsey & Gene Tunney, before 150,000
fans, in Chicago’s Soldier Field…Mildred “Babe” Didrikson
Zaharias…Sonja Henie, winning
3 gold medals in the ‘28, ‘32 & ‘34
Olympics…Triple Crown
Winner, War Admiral…“Bantam” Ben
Hogan…Don Budge…Willie Pep & Sandy
Sadler…Doc Blanchard (Mr. Inside) & Glenn
Davis (Mr. Outside) Helen
Wills Moody…Floyd “Bill” Bevins near
no-hitter in the ‘47 World Series…“Tough” Tony
Zale…“Slingshot” Davey O’Brien…CCNY & LIU “shavingpoints” scandals…St.
Louis’s Gashouse Gang…“Champagne” Tony
Lema…Angelo Bertilli…Jesse Owens…Van
Lingle Mungo…‘Slingin’ Sammy
Baugh…Pancho Gonzalez…George Mikan…Columbia’s Gene
Rossides to Bill Swiacki to end Army’s
34 game winning streak...In
1938, Johnny Vander Meer’s back-to-back
no-hitters…Fritzi Zivic…Sea
Biscuit…Chicago Bears rout the Washington
Redskins, 73-0 in the Championship game,
in 1940…
And until
next time, who was known as “The
Galloping Ghost??”
Bob Russo "Waxing Nostalgic"
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