Word: kyser
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly for political favors, and "suggested" to 23 bandleaders, including Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring. Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, that they bring their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. They all came, and with them the orchestras of three national radio networks...
...mother, a pop singer on Boston radio back in the mid-'20s thrust Gloria into big-band singing straight out of high school in 1941. Gloria did solid hitches with Horace Heidt and Kay Kyser, in 1953 made a Capitol record called Hey Bellboy (its only words), which sold nearly 1,000,000 copies. The movies have called on her to provide the voice of many a nonsinging star. She sang for Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return, for Vera-Ellen in White Christmas...
...association launched a long-range program to get North Carolina back on its feet. They brought Carolina-born Bandleader Kay Kyser home from Hollywood to help them "sell good health as you sell a candy bar." They peddled the unpalatable truth in the press, on the radio and in public meetings...
Born. To James Kern ("Kay") Kyser, 47, North Carolina University cheerleader who became a bandleader and radio star (the College of Musical Knowledge), then retired to his old college town, and Georgia Carroll Kyser, 32, former model for Chesterfield ads: their third child, third daughter; in Durham, N.C. Name: Amanda Kay. Weight...
...Kyser (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). Guest: Hoagy Carmichael...