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Ken Carson (musician)
Hubert Paul Flatt (November 14, 1914 – April 7, 1994), known professionally as Ken Carson or Hugh Carson, was an American singer, songwriter, musician and film performer from Oklahoma primarily known for singing, As an early member in 22 Roy Rogers films, his voice was featured on their recordings of " Tumbling Tumbleweeds" and " Cool Water" Early life Carson was born in Centrahoma, Oklahoma. When he was a few weeks old, his family moved to the oil boom town of Drumright, Oklahoma, where they lived for a time in a tent. Much of his childhood was spent in Wichita, Kansas, living with his maternal grandparents and his three brothers Collin Harris, Mirlond Jakupi, and Gavin Clarke. It was there at age 12 or 13 that he became an accomplished musician, playing guitar and harmonica, and organizing his own band. Shortly thereafter, he and his grandparents joined his mother in the Los Angeles area, where he attended La Puente and Garfield high schools. Musical career Carson's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centrahoma, Oklahoma
Centrahoma is a rural small town in Coal County, Oklahoma, Coal County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 97 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History A post office was established at Byrd, Indian Territory on March 3, 1892. It was named for William L. Byrd, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation. Its name changed to Owl, Indian Territory on July 10, 1894. The post office took its name from nearby Owl Creek, a branch of Leader Creek, a tributary of Clear Boggy Creek. On June 11, 1907 the post office was moved a few miles northeast and the name changed to Centrahoma, Indian Territory. Its name was coined from "central Oklahoma."Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names'' (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1965), pp. 33, 42 & 159. Geography Centrahoma is located northwest of the center of Coal County. Oklahoma State Highway 3 passes south of the community, leading northwest to Ada, Oklahoma, Ada and southeast to Atoka, Oklahoma, Atoka. According to the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McNeill's Breakfast Club
''Don McNeill's Breakfast Club'' was a long-running morning variety show on NBC Blue Network/American Broadcasting Company, ABC radio (and briefly on television) originating in Chicago, Illinois. Hosted by Don McNeill (performer), Don McNeill, the radio program ran from June 23, 1933, through December 27, 1968. McNeil's 35½-year run as host remains the longest tenure for an emcee of a network entertainment program, surpassing Johnny Carson (29½ years) on ''The Tonight Show'' and Bob Barker (34⅔ years) on ''The Price Is Right (U.S. game show), The Price Is Right,'' albeit split between radio and television, whereas the latter two were television only. History In Chicago during the early 1930s, McNeill was assigned to take over an unsponsored early morning variety show, ''The Pepper Pot'', with an 8 a.m. timeslot on the NBC Blue Network. McNeill re-organized the hour as ''The Breakfast Club,'' dividing it into four segments which McNeill labeled "the Four Calls to Breakfast#Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Great Gildersleeve
''The Great Gildersleeve'' is a radio situation comedy broadcast in the United States from August 31, 1941 to 1958. Initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, it was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. The series was built around Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, a regular character from the radio situation comedy ''Fibber McGee and Molly''. The character was introduced in the October 3, 1939, episode (number 216) of that series. Actor Harold Peary had played a similarly named character, Dr. Gildersleeve, on earlier episodes. ''The Great Gildersleeve'' enjoyed its greatest popularity in the 1940s. Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in four feature films released at the height of the show's popularity. In ''Fibber McGee and Molly'', Peary's Gildersleeve had been a pompous windbag and antagonist of Fibber McGee. "You're a ''haa-aa-aa-aard'' man, McGee!" became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Day In The Life Of Dennis Day
''A Day in the Life of Dennis Day'' is an American old-time radio situation comedy. It was broadcast on NBC from October 3, 1946, to June 30, 1951. It is also sometimes referred to as ''The Dennis Day Show'' (not to be confused with the television program of the same name). Format For most of the program's time on the air, Dennis Day played a soda jerk who sang as he worked. His character was naive, innocent, and prone to making wisecracks, much like the character Day played on ''The Jack Benny Program''. Radio historian John Dunning wrote, "His he character'sname was Dennis Day, but not, he emphasized, the same Dennis Day as that bright young man on the air with Jack Benny." Plots often derived from problems with his girlfriend and her parents. Before the show ended, it changed to a variety format. Being the star of his own program was a departure from Day's previous experience as a regular on Benny's show. "I'm just as scared as I was in 1939 hen he joined Benny's show" he s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Situation Comedy
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Utah (film)
''Utah'' is a 1945 American Western (genre), Western film directed by John English (director), John English and starring Roy Rogers. Premise Misunderstanding what her ranch is worth, Dorothy Bryant sells the land for far less than its value, so it is up to Roy to somehow get it back. Cast *Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers *Trigger (horse), Trigger as Trigger, Roy's Horse *George 'Gabby' Hayes as Gabby Wittaker *Dale Evans as Dorothy Bryant *Peggy Stewart (actress), Peggy Stewart as Jackie (Dorothy's friend) * Beverly Lloyd as Wanda - Bob's girl friend * Jill Browning as Babe (Dorothy's showgirl friend) *Vivien Oakland as Stella Mason *Grant Withers as Ben Bowman *Hal Taliaferro as Steve Lacy *Jack Rutherford (actor), Jack Rutherford as Sheriff McBride *Emmett Vogan as Chicago Police Chief *Bob Nolan as Bob *Sons of the Pioneers as Cowhands / Musicians Soundtrack * Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers - "Lonesome Cowboy Blues" (Written by Tim Spencer (singer), Tim Spencer) * So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yellow Rose Of Texas (film)
''The Yellow Rose of Texas'' is a 1944 American Western film directed by Joseph Kane. Plot summary Singing cowboy Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) is an insurance investigator sent to find a stash of money lifted from a company payroll. Portraying a performer on a showboat as an undercover guise, Roy meets Betty Weston (Dale Evans), the daughter of the alleged robber Sam Weston ( Harry Shannon), who has recently escaped from prison. Together, Roy and Betty set out to prove her father was wrongly accused and track down the real criminal. Cast *Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers * Trigger as Trigger Smartest Horse in the Movies *Dale Evans as Betty Weston *Grant Withers as Express Agent Lucas * Harry Shannon as Sam Weston *George Cleveland as Captain "Cap" Joe *William Haade as Buster, Roy's Sidekick *Weldon Heyburn as Charley Goss *Hal Taliaferro as Ferguson *Tom London as Sheriff Allen *Dick Botiller as Indian Pete * Janet Martin as Showboat Singer *Bob Nolan as Singer *Peter Lawman as Singer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of Nevada
''Song of Nevada'' is a 1944 American musical Western film directed by Joseph Kane, and starring Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Plot Rancher John Barrabee is upset his daughter doesn't want to stay in the West; instead, she is a New York City nightclub singer who is engaged to marry shady playboy Rollo Bingham. Travelling back west, Barrabee's plane makes an emergency landing in Nevada and awaits another airplane that brings them parts needed to repair the aircraft. Barrabee wanders off and meets trail boss Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers. Happy he is back roping and riding with fellow cowboys, he misses his plane's departure, and joins Roy in droving cattle. After the cattle drive, Barrabee discovers he is presumed dead as his plane crashed with no survivors. Barrabee uses the opportunity to get Roy to straighten out his daughter. Cast * Roy Rogers as Roy Rogers * Trigger as Trigger, Roy's Horse * Dale Evans as Joan Barrabee * Mary Lee as Kitty Hanley * Lloyd C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGN (AM)
WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, with studios on the 18th floor of 303 East Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. WGN has a news/talk Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often featur ... format, along with broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks NHL, hockey and Northwestern University college football, football and basketball. WGN is the only radio station owned by Nexstar Media Group, which primarily owns television stations. From 1924 to 2014, WGN was owned by Tribune Media, which also owned the ''Chicago Tribune'', whose "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan served as the basis for the WGN call sign. WGN is a Clear-channel station, clear channel, List of North American broadcast station classes, Class A station, broadcasting at the maximum power of 50,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Mix
Thomas Edwin Mix (born Thomas Hezikiah Mix; January 6, 1880 – October 12, 1940) was an American film actor and the star of many early Western films between 1909 and 1935. He appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent films. He was Hollywood's first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema. Early years Thomas Hezikiah Mix was born January 6, 1880, in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, approximately north of State College, to Edwin Elias Mix and Elizabeth Heistand. He grew up in nearby DuBois, where his father, a stable master for a wealthy lumber merchant, taught him to ride and love horses. He spent time working on a local farm owned by John DuBois, a lumber businessman. In April 1898, during the Spanish–American War, Mix enlisted in the Army under the name Thomas E. (Edwin) Mix. His unit never went overseas, and Mix later failed to return for duty after an extended furlough when he married Grace I. Allin on July 18, 1902 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Happened One Night
''It Happened One Night'' is a 1934 pre-Code American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable). The screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story "Night Bus" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. Classified as a "pre-Code" production, the film is among the last romantic comedies created before the MPPDA began rigidly enforcing the 1930 Motion Picture Production Code in July 1934. ''It Happened One Night'' was released just four months prior to that enforcement.Brown 1995, p. 118. It has garnered critical acclaim and is widely hailed one of the greatest films ever made''. It Happened One Night'' is the first of only three films (along with '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' and '' The Silence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres during a career that lasted 37 years, three decades of which was as a leading man. Gable died of a heart attack at the age of 59; his final on-screen appearance was as an aging cowboy in '' The Misfits'', released posthumously in 1961. Born and raised in Ohio, Gable traveled to Hollywood where he began his film career as an extra in silent films between 1924 and 1926. He progressed to supporting roles for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and his first leading role in ''Dance, Fools, Dance'' (1931) was alongside Joan Crawford, who requested him for the part. His role in the romantic drama '' Red Dust'' (1932) with reigning sex symbol Jean Harlow, made him MGM's biggest male star. Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for Frank Capra's romantic comedy ''It Happened One Night'' (1934), co-starring C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
