Word: bleyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season, frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey, with familiar humility, let three oldtime helpers out of the pond. No longer little Godfreys: easygoing Singer Janette Davis, since 1956 producer of Arthur's low-rated Talent Scouts show; her husband, Frank Musiello, associate producer of the same program; Robert Bleyer, director of both Talent Scouts and Godfrey's morning two-hour TV sales pitch...
...There (Rosemary Clooney), 4) Sh-Boom (Crew Cuts), 5) Make Love to Me (Jo Stafford), 6) Oh! My Papa (Eddie Fisher), 7) I Get So Lonely (Four Knights), 8) Three Coins in the Fountain (Four Aces), 9) Secret Love (Doris Day), 10) Hernando's Hideaway (Archie Bleyer...
Topping last week's bestseller list was Mr. Sandman (Cadence), featuring the piping voices of the Chordettes, beginning with chime effects ("bum, bum, bum, bum") and paced by the clip-clop sounds of Archie Bleyer slapping his knees. Sample Mr. Sandman lyric: "Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci, and lots of wavy hair like Liberace." No. 4 bestseller: Teach Me Tonight (Abbott), with the DeCastro Sisters in a twangy, eagerly enunciated request for seduction. The melody is in the contralto, while the other girls warble country-alto above. No. 11 but climbing fast: The Naughty Lady of Shady...
...Archie Bleyer, said Godfrey, all choked up: "I love that man. He's a gentleman." But Archie, too, had lost his humility. Bandleader Bleyer had spent part of a recent vacation by going out to Chicago for his own record company and cutting some songs with the star of a rival network-ABC's Don (Breakfast Club) McNeill. "It's like being married to a woman for 20 years," said Godfrey mournfully, "and then coming home and finding a cigar butt in the ashtray...
...Cute? Although Godfrey tossed in a slurring remark on his Wednesday night show ("I'm sure you have noticed through the years that those who are the great ones stay with me"), his two ex-great ones were careful to show no rancor. Bleyer kept his peace. La Rosa appealed to reporters as a mixed-up kid: "It was Mr. Godfrey who kept telling me I was humble and to stay that way . . . He kept harping on that humility thing . . . This guy-pardon me-Mr. Godfrey -Mr. Godfrey has one of the best shows...