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Kay Kyser's 1948 recording of the song, with Harry Babbitt's laugh interrupting vocalist Gloria Wood, became one of the biggest hit singles of 1948.
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MBS also provided the national launching pad for Kay Kyser and His Kollege of Musical Knowledge ; Kyser's enormous success at Mutual soon allowed his show to move to NBC and its much larger audience.
He appeared as a regular on Kyser's radio program, Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, and in seven movies with Kyser, including That's Right-You're Wrong ( 1939 ), Thousands Cheer ( 1943 ) and Carolina Blues ( 1944 ).
Block was also the announcer for The Chesterfield Supper Club ; some of his other announcing assignments were on Pepper Young's Family, Kay Kyser's radio show and the CBS Hit Parade.
Kay and 1948
His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen, and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.
In 1948, Mary Kay became pregnant.
Before 1948, Mary Kay and Johnny was broadcast live and not recorded.
The first six enlisted women to be sworn into the regular Navy on July 7, 1948 were Kay Langdon, Wilma Marchal, Edna Young, Frances Devaney, Doris Robertson.
Peter Kay was born in Farnworth, near Bolton, Lancashire, to an English father, Michael John Kay ( 1948 – 1999 ), and an Irish mother, Margaret Deirdre O ' Neill, who comes from County Tyrone.
* John Kay ( economist ) ( born 1948 ), Scottish economist, Financial Times columnist and author
* Summersby, Kay, Eisenhower Was My Boss ( 1948 ) New York: Prentice Hall ; ( 1949 ) Dell mapback
John Clements and Kay Hammond starred in Noël Coward's Private Lives, and Margaret Rutherford starred in The Happiest Days of Your Life in 1948, followed by Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in Treasure Hunt, directed by John Gielgud in 1949.
On July 7, 1948, Kay Langdon, Wilma Marchal, Edna Young, Frances Devaney, Doris Robertson, and Ruth Flora became the first six enlisted women to be sworn into the regular U. S. Navy.
After working on The Pirate ( 1948 ) with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly, she left MGM to create the night club act: " Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers " ( Bob, Don, Dick, and Andy Williams ).
Kay and recording
Kay Bank helped popularize Soma Records and a distinctive style based on using three-track recording and echo effects.
Herb Pilhofer and Tom Jung worked at Kay Bank before founding the world's first digital recording studio, Sound 80 in 1969.
Noted Signature recording artists included Anita O ' Day, Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Lawrence, Ray Anthony, Barbara McNair, Monica Lewis, Dickie Thompson, Jane Harvey, Kay Thompson, Alan Dale and the label's Musical Director, Ray Bloch.
Kay also got Andy his breakthrough recording contract with Cadence Records ( the label's owner Archie Bleyer had gotten early career breaks because of Kay and he owed her a favor ).
In addition to her operatic recordings, she has also sung the title role in the first complete recording of the score of Gershwin's Oh, Kay !.
“ Kay left a strong recording legacy in American popular music, including his ' Kollege of Musical Knowledge ,' " said Babbitt.
The girl singers who made the most recordings for the label were Jean Campbell, Joan Baxter, Maureen Evans and Barbara Kay, with all but the latter recording for Embassy under their own names.
A recording of proceedings was made for the director Kay Pollak and via a pre-recorded message to the audience, he thanked Sydneysiders for embracing the film so warmly.
He has also done extensive recording and sample work with sound designer ( Josh Kay ).
Yule assembled a backing band consisting of Rob Norris ( guitar ), George Kay ( bass guitar ) and Mark Nauseef ( drums ) to tour the United Kingdom in November and December 1972 to promote the upcoming album ; a live recording from this tour is included on the 2001 live box set Final V. U. 1971-1973.
Their first project was the restoration and all-star recording of Fine and Dandy, a 1930s musical by Kay Swift, one of the first female composers on Broadway.
Next group member Kay Gee had formed Divine Mill Records, whose roster includes Warner Bros. Records recording artists Jaheim, Eddie Berkeley, Barry Salters, and Allstar ( who produced " After Party " and co-produced with Teddy Riley, Joe's R & B / pop chart topper " Stutter.
The Kay Starr recording of the song, made in 1955, reached number one on the Billboard singles chart in 1956, staying there for six weeks.
It was Kay Starr's first recording of great significance for RCA Victor after leaving Capitol Records.
The Kay Kyser recording was released by Columbia Records as catalog number 35375.
It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by Kay Starr.
Kay and song
* " Shining " ( EP ), a 2007 song and extended play by Crystal Kay
According to Marriott's mother Kay, he is said to have written the song about his breakup with his ex-fiancée Susan Oliver.
He produced the background music for the hit Pakistani film Khuda Kay Liye and produced the song " Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Jaye " for the film Kalyug.
Also in 2005 Corbett appeared with comedian Peter Kay, in the spoof music video for the number 1 single Is This the Way to Amarillo ?, mimed to the song by Tony Christie.
The song featured vocals from Paul Buchannan from the Scottish band The Blue Nile and the video featured comedian Peter Kay.
In a clip from a Sky News programme, presenter Kay Burley comments on the video for the band's song " No Surprises ", saying " Music to cut your wrists to.
The song had earlier featured in Phoenix Nights, and Kay performed in the accompanying music video.
The song would lie dormant for more than three decades, when UK comic Peter Kay lip-synched the song for a 2002 video in his TV series Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights.
J-pop idol Crystal Kay performed its theme song, " Hold On ".
* A novelty song based on Smokey Stover —" What This Country Needs Is Foo ", with words and " FOOsic " by Mack Kay — was recorded by Eddie DeLange and His Orchestra on Bluebird Records in 1939.
However, at this time, traditional pop music was being superseded by rock and roll, and Kay had only two hits, the aforementioned which is sometimes considered her attempt to sing rock and roll and sometimes as a song making fun of it, " The Rock And Roll Waltz ".
* " One " ( Crystal Kay song )
* Kay, an album by John Wesley Ryles, or its title track, " Kay " ( song )
The song was recorded by numerous artists, including the popular big band leader Kay Kyser, and became a national hit.
Travis appeared in the video for the Comic Relief version of the The Proclaimers song " I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles )", performed by Peter Kay and Matt Lucas.
' Although the lead singer and lyricist of the band, Fish, had at one point dated a woman whose forenames were Kay Lee, the song was more a composite of several different women with whom he had had relationships.
Mary Kay Bergman, the voice actress who sang the female parts in the song, committed suicide months before the performance, forcing the organizers to search for a replacement for her and Trey Parker, who did the male voices.
In Hong Kong, the melody is used by Queen's College as its school song, with its lyrics written by Headmaster Mr. William Kay ( 1920 ).
In 2007, The Krankies appeared in the video for the Comic Relief remake of The Proclaimers ' song I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles ), which featured Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin ( fictional characters portrayed by Peter Kay and Matt Lucas respectively ).
Kay gave his blessing to take the time off, but when Zender returned he found that Kay had recruited a session bassist, known only as " Mr X ", to play on the song.
He also appeared in Rod Stewart's music video for the song " Infatuation " in 1984, with Mike Mazurki and Kay Lenz.
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