The stars of the program were real-life husband James " Jim " Jordan ( 16 November 1896 – 1 April 1988 ) and his wife Marian Driscoll ( 15 April 1898 – 7 April 1961 ), who were natives of Peoria, Illinois.

The son of a farmer, Jim wanted to be a singer ; Marian, the daughter of a coal miner, wanted to be a music teacher.

When Jim came home from France, he and Marian decided to try their luck with a vaudeville act.

Marian returned home for the birth of Kathryn but went back to performing with Jim, leaving her daughter with Jim's parents.

After Jim Jr. was born in 1923, Marian stayed with the children for a time, while Jim performed as a solo act.

While staying with Jim's brother in Chicago in 1924, the family was listening to the radio ; Jim said that he and Marian could do better than the musical act currently on the air.

To win the bet, Jim and Marian went to WIBO, where they were immediately put on the air.

Amplifying Luke Grey's tall talesmanship to Midwestern braggadocio, Quinn developed Fibber McGee and Molly with Jim as the foible-prone Fibber and Marian playing his patient, common sense, honey-natured wife.

Jim and Marian Jordan, as Fibber McGee and Molly, at a Victory Bond rally at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in 1945.

Jim and Marian Jordan themselves occasionally appeared on other programs, away from their Fibber and Molly characters.

Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, " Backseat Driver ," which originally aired February 3, 1949.

Notable musicians and bands include Johnny Dean, Jeanne Dixon & Bill Giebitz, Doug Figgs, Mariam Funke, Toby Jaramillo, Ronna Kalish, Rob Long, Carlos Marerro, Marian Royal, Jim Ruff, Mary Templeton, Frances Deters and many others.

Jim was raised in a Chicago suburb, along with his three siblings: older brother John, his sister, Marian, and a younger brother, Billy.

Among his collaborations were sets with the Montgomery Brothers, Marian McPartland, Brian Q. Torff, Jim Hall, Hank Jones and Kenny Davern.

Jim and Marian Jordan got their major break in radio while performing in Chicago in 1924 ; Jim said he could give a better performance than the singers they were listening to on the radio, and his brother Byron bet $ 10 that Jim couldn't do it.

By the end of the evening, Jim and Marian had their first radio contract, at $ 10 per show for 26 weeks as The O ' Henry Twins, sponsored by Oh Henry!

Alumni of WBAI include Margot Adler, Abraham Aig, Jan Albert, Chris Albertson, Nancy Allen, Matt Alperin, Archie Altman, Lindsay Audin, Robbie Barish, Deborah Begel, Olenka Bohachevski, Delphine Blue, Peter Bochan, Bunny Bruce, Janice K. Bryant, Doreen Canto, Pepsi Charles, Frank Coffee, Candy Cohen, Janet Coleman, Neal Conan, Pat Conte, John Corigliano, Deloris Costello, Liza Cowan, Larry Cox, Joe Cumo, Ken Davis, Barbara Day, Ife Dancy, Dick Demenus, Kathy Dobkin, Mike Edl, Barika Taheer Edwards, Matt Edwards, Dick Elman, Bob Fass, Mike Feder, Charlie Finch, Richard Fioravanti, Paul Fischer, John Fisk, Sara Fishko, Joe Frank, Gary Fried, Jim Freund, Paul Gorman, Joanne Grant, Jeff Greenfield, Edward Haber, Doug Henwood, Lex Hixon, Charles Hobson, Milton Hoffman, Mary Houston, Susan Howe, Jimmy Howes, Rob Hunter, Timothy Jerome, Reggie Johnson, Larry Josephson, Sam Julty, Citizen Kafka, Jesse Keyes, Glo Kirby, Robert Knight, Alen Pol Kobryn, Chris Koch, Robert Kuttner, Richard Lamparski, Andy Lanset, Julius Lester, Al Lewis, John Lithgow, Sari Locker, Leonard Lopate, The Mighty G-Man, Ann MacMillan, Marian McPartland, Samori Marksmen, Margaret Mercer, Frank Millspaugh, Dale Minor, Kathy O ' Connell, Andrew Phillips, Betty Pilkington, Charles Pitts, Steve Post, Charles Potter, Robert Potts, David Rapkin, Desiree K. Robinson, David Rothenberg, Jay Rothman ( Zeke ), Charles Ruas, Eric Salzman, Lynn Samuels, Bill Schechner, Baird Searles, Judy Sherman, John J. Simon, Miles Smith, Peter Cedric Rock Smith ( aka: Rocky ), Jay Smooth, Bruce Soloway, A.

Founders included activist, Jim Beatson, journalist Marian Wilkinson, Arts Administrator, John Stanwell and academic Alan Knight.

The station also carries selected NPR and other syndicated programs such as: Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz ; Riverwalk Jazz, hosted by Jim Cullum ; Jazz from Lincoln Center, hosted by Wynton Marsalis ; and Dee Dee Bridgewater's Jazz Set.

Jim and Marian Jordan, better known as Fibber McGee and Molly, appeared on the show twice and also built an episode of their own radio comedy series around one of those appearances.

Teachout contributed notes on recordings by Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa and Oscar Peterson to Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology ( 2011 ) and has written liner notes for CDs by jazz musicians Karrin Allyson, Gene Bertoncini, Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins, Julia Dollison, Jim Ferguson, Roger Kellaway, Diana Krall, Joe Mooney, Marian McPartland, Mike Metheny, Maria Schneider, Kendra Shank and Luciana Souza, the pop-jazz Lascivious Biddies, the bluegrass band Nickel Creek, and the classical ensembles Chanticleer and the Trio Solisti.

* 1988 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

Although this featured Moon's singing, much drumming was left to other artists, including Ringo Starr, session musicians Curly Smith and Jim Keltner and actor / musician Miguel Ferrer ( Twin Peaks and Crossing Jordan ).

* 1928 – Jim Jordan, Canadian politician ( d. 2012 )

* 2012 – Jim Jordan, Canadian politician ( b. 1928 )

* April 1 – Jim Jordan, American actor ( b. 1896 )

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

When she started seeing young Jim Jordan, the Driscolls were far from approving of Jim and his ideas.

While working on the WENR farm report, Jim Jordan heard a true story about a shopkeeper from Missouri whose store was brimming with stock, yet he claimed to be " smack out " of whatever a customer would ask him for.

For station WMAQ in Chicago, beginning in April 1931, the trio created Smackout, a 15-minute daily program which centered on a general store and its proprietor, Luke Grey ( Jim Jordan ), a storekeeper with a penchant for tall tales and a perpetual dearth of whatever his customers wanted: He always seemed " smack out of it.

In 1935, Jim Jordan won the Burlington Liars ' Club championship with a story about catching an elusive rat.

" In the episode of December 19, 1944, " Fibber Snoops For Presents In Closet " ( at 3: 59 is a perfect example of the " Hall Closet ," a running gag described in detail later in this entry ), Jim Jordan can be caught at the end of his audience warm-up evoking the opening laughter by quipping, " 10 seconds?

Just after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Jim Jordan, out of character, soberly ended the Fibber McGee show by inviting the studio audience to sing " America ".

Peary returned the favor in a memorable 1944 Fibber McGee & Molly episode in which neither of the title characters appeared: Jim Jordan was recovering from a bout of pneumonia ( this would be written into the show the following week, when the Jordans returned ), and the story line involved Gildersleeve and nephew Leroy hoping to visit the McGees at home during a train layover in Wistful Vista, but finding Fibber and Molly not at home.

" They were trying to push us into TV, and we were reluctant ," Jim Jordan told an interviewer many years later.

In the 1970s, Jim Jordan briefly returned to acting.

Jim Jordan married Gretchen Stewart after Marian's death.

Another well-known resident was the hoodoo root doctor Jim Jordan, who died in the early 1960s.

Jordan, who was of mixed Haitian American and Native American heritage, was the subject of the biographical book The Fabled Dr. Jim Jordan written by F. Roy Johnson of nearby Murfreesboro, NC.

In poultry judging, blues were won by John Nyberg of Tualatin, Anne Batchelder of Hillsboro, Jim Shaw of Hillsboro, Stephanie Shaw of Hillsboro and Lynn Robinson of Tigard.

MSP Alex Johnstone wrote " Clearly, the Declaration of Arbroath is a literary work of outstanding universal significance by any stretch of the imagination " In 2008, the Campaign Group Chairman, Councillor Jim Millar launched a public petition to reinforce the bid explaining " We're simply asking people to, local people especially, to sign up to the campaign to have the Declaration of Arbroath and Arbroath Abbey recognised by the United Nations.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

The idea of this name was proposed by Jim Kardach who developed a system that would allow cell phones to communicate with computers ( at the time he was reading Frans Gunnar Bengtsson's historical novel The Long Ships about Vikings and king Harald Bluetooth ).

* XR — Extrapolated Runs: A linear run estimator developed by Jim Furtado

Jim is given the task of exploding the bombs, which he does by firing pistol shots into them.

The film ends with Bart killing Lamarr by shooting him in the groin at the " premiere " of Blazing Saddles outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre, saving the town, and then joining Jim inside the theatre to view the end of the movie, persuading people of all colors and creeds to live in harmony, before they hand in their horses and ride off ( in a limousine ) into the sunset.

* Franklin's impact on medicine — talk by medical historian, Dr. Jim Leavesley celebrating the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth on Okham's Razor ABC Radio National — December 2006

On September 21, closer Jim Johnson earned his 46th save of the season, setting a new Orioles franchise record for saves by one pitcher in a single season.

* A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

" Jim Rob ", as he became known, drifted for several years, traveling from town to town to try to earn a living, at one point almost losing his life when he nearly fell from a moving train, and later being chased by railroad police.

It was written by Steffan O ' Sullivan with interior art by Jim Groat.

Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis ' Garfield, however there is some debate if these strips fall in this category.

The organisation was founded in 1971 by a group of four drinkers — Graham Lees, Bill Mellor, Michael Hardman, and Jim Makin — who were opposed to the growing mass production of beer and the homogenisation of the British brewing industry.

The team finished 11-1 in 1953, and narrowly lost the championship game to the Lions by a score of 17-16 on a 33-yard Bobby Layne touchdown pass to Jim Doran with just over two minutes left.

The assistant coach, Jim Neff, an English teacher and rock ' n ' roll fan, thought to inspire the team by playing Kiss music in the locker room.

They then had a mediocre record for six seasons and were ruined by a trade war with the Union Association ( UA ) in 1884, when its three best players ( Fred Dunlap, Jack Glasscock, and Jim McCormick ) jumped to the UA after being offered higher salaries.

Cleveland finished 2 games ahead of Chicago and 3 games ahead of the Yankees to win its first pennant, led by Speaker's. 388 hitting, Jim Bagby's 30 victories and solid performances from Steve O ' Neill and Stan Coveleski.

In the fourth inning, Jim Bagby hit the first Series home run by a pitcher.

They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

Unfortunately, the bats went cold in October, as manager Jim Riggleman's club batted. 183 and scored only four runs en route to being swept by Atlanta.