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Kraft Music Hall. Joe Sinnott 's caricature of the Kraft Music Hall (l to r): Orchestra leader John Scott Trotter, Marilyn Maxwell, Bing Crosby and announcer Ken Carpenter. Veteran Marvel Comics artist Sinnott also illustrated the covers of several Crosby albums. The Kraft Music Hall was a popular old-time radio variety program, featuring top ...
September 1, 1971. (1971-09-01) Kraft Music Hall is an umbrella title for several television series aired by NBC in the United States from the 1950s to the 1970s in the musical variety genre, sponsored by Kraft Foods, the producers of a well-known line of cheeses and related dairy products. Their commercials were usually announced by "The Voice ...
Kraft Foods had been the sponsor of a long-running radio program called Kraft Music Hall. The company decided to develop the show for television in 1958, hosted by Milton Berle. [63] Kraft approached Perry Como regarding becoming the program's new host in early 1959. Como signed what was then a record-breaking deal with Kraft, receiving $25 ...
In 1936, Carpenter became Crosby's announcer after Crosby began hosting the Kraft Music Hall radio variety program. Carpenter continued to announce for Crosby on various programs for the next 27 years. [4] Crosby famously once called Carpenter "the man with the golden voice." [5] Carpenter also was known for ringing the chimes on many of Crosby ...
Kraft Suspense Theatre. 48 mins. The Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American television anthology series that was produced and broadcast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como 's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films ...
Nelson Eddy. Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American actor and baritone singer who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. A classically trained baritone, he is best remembered for the eight films in which he ...
Children. 1. Gerardo Luigi Colonna (September 17, 1904 – November 21, 1986), better known as Jerry Colonna, was an American musician, actor, comedian, singer, songwriter and trombonist who played the zaniest of Bob Hope 's sidekicks in Hope's popular radio shows and films of the 1940s and 1950s. He also voiced the March Hare in Walt Disney 's ...
The program derived from a character Burns performed for five years on Bing Crosby's Kraft Music Hall entitled "The Arkansas Traveler". [1] The program originally premiered as The Arkansas Traveler on September 16, 1941 [2] on CBS. In 1943, Bob Burns moved his program over to the Red Network of the National Broadcasting Company.