Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Songwriters Alan Livingston and Billy May, who got their idea from Warner Brothers' nondescript cartoon canary, Tweetie Pie, the song was originally recorded for children. Last fall, Capitol's British distributors asked for permission to release the American record in their own standard popular series. BBC Disc Jockey Sam Costa heard it, liked it so well he played it for five programs in a row. When he dropped it from his sixth program, it had become such a hit with his audience that he "was snowed under with hundreds of letters" of complaint...
Married. Faye Emerson, 33, bosomy actress of cinema (Guilty Bystander) and TV (The Faye Emerson Show) ; and Lyle Cedric ("Skitch") Henderson, 32, British-born pianist, bandmaster, disc jockey; she for the third time (No. 2: Elliott Roosevelt), he for the first; in Cuernavaca, Mexico...
...Twenty-two Chicago ministers organized an "eleventh hour, prayer-for-peace vigil," managed to draw only a few dozen people into the chapel where it was held. But after Disc Jockey Martin Block put a rabbi, a priest and a Protestant minister on his program for 15 minutes of prayer for peace, he was able to announce that the switchboard at Manhattan's station WNEW "lit up like a Christmas tree...
...kind of turnabout of his 1938 invasion of Carnegie Hall, he does a classical disc-jockey program for Manhattan's WNEW. Having tucked away some of his heyday earnings, Benny has also become a patron of long-haired composers. Early this month, playing with the NBC Symphony, he gave the first performance of the new Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra that he commissioned from Aaron Copland...
...climax of her Manhattan TV show, Faye Emerson, 33, former wife of Elliott Roosevelt, had a treat for her audience. Clutching the hand of beaming Pianist-Disc-Jockey Lyle ("Skitch") Henderson, 31 (see cut), she faced the cameras and confided: "I would like you to meet the man I am going to marry. I thought this was a good way to announce...