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...ultimate goal was to land a guest spot on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. But for many of the up-and-comers who weren't yet on Carson's radar, the first TV stop was a friendlier, more accessible, less-high-pressure showcase run by a former big-band singer and game show host named Merv Griffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Loved Merv Griffin | 8/12/2007 | See Source »

...Griffin had been a big-band singer (he had a hit with "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts") and host of the game show Play Your Hunch before getting his first TV talk show on NBC in 1962. That lasted only a year, but in 1965 he returned with a syndicated show for Westinghouse. Though hardly cutting-edge, it had its appealing quirks. Griffin hired Arthur Treacher, the veteran British character actor, as his announcer. In his plummy British accent, Treacher would introduce Merv with a flourish at the start of each show: "And now, here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Loved Merv Griffin | 8/12/2007 | See Source »

...FIERY, 14-minute live performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961, banjo-playing singer-songwriter Tommy Makem, with his bandmates the Clancy Brothers, had catapulted Irish folk music into the mainstream. By infusing tunes like Four Green Fields and Gentle Annie with a raw, modern energy, the charismatic baritone became one of the biggest stars of the '60s folk revival. Among his fans: Bob Dylan, John Hammond and John F. Kennedy, who in 1963 asked the group to play at the White House. Makem was 74 and had cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 20, 2007 | 8/9/2007 | See Source »

...please stop the war?" Eugene Gabriel implored Congressman Jason Altmire, shouting over a singer belting out Beyoncé's Listen at the annual New Castle fireworks festival in western Pennsylvania. "That's what I wrote on my donation envelopes to you, both times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Plight of the Antiwar Democrat | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

...visualizing, or he was never a 20-year-old proctor in the 25 and older house. Malcom A. Glenn ’09, a Crimson associate sports chair and summer managing editor, is a history concentrator in Leverett House. He agrees with the late great singer Aaliyah—age ain’t nothing but a number...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn | Title: Respect My Authority! | 7/20/2007 | See Source »

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