Lawrence Welk Trades Places With The Cameraman…1978
The show was an ABC heavyweight from ’55 till ’71 when it was canceled, but started on a syndicated basis the next year. The 77-79 seasons were shot at CBS Television City. Here’s Lawrence behind a Norelco PC60 with it’s “dual exhausts”. There was a video of this but now it’s gone.
October 5, 1947…First Live Television Speech From The White House On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman became the first president to broadcast a speech live from the White House. The subject was food conservation, and Truman asked Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans. At […]
May 16, 1946…70 Years Ago Today, America Met Audio Tape As a compliment to today’s earlier story on the history of AMPEX, here is a companion article on Jack Mullin, who, on this day in 1946, stunned attendees at the annual Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) conference in San Francisco. There, with a captured German […]
December 15, 1939…’Gone With The Wind’ Debuts In Atlanta Even now, ‘Gone With The Wind’ remains one of the biggest books ever published and one of the top movies every made. In the late 70’s, I spent a lot of time in Margret Mitchel’s Atlanta home, which back then was owned by my friend Bob […]
It’s Howdy Doody Time??? The X Rated, Ultimate Inside Story! This is the only place you will ever read about of some of the backstage shenanigans on the world’s most famous kids show. Let me start by saying that these things only happened in rehearsals. When children were on the set, everything was squeaky clean […]