[78-L] Andy Williams and Vaughn Meader

[Cary Ginell]

I think his name was Janos Prohaska. 

Cary 

On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:18 PM, "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4tgBqSUvg
>> Cary Ginell
> 
> Wow!  Color videotape (although multi-generational). I might swipe a
> clip for my ARSC presentation.  Of course they both worked for the same
> record company, Archie Bleyer's Cadence.  I wonder if Williams got the
> First Family master tapes when he formed Barnaby.  It seems to me that
> the CD and late LP reissues were dubs of LPs.  Williams was a rather
> irrational ultra right-winger in recent years although back then he was
> a civil-rights Republican and friends with Robert and Ethel Kennedy.  I
> see some clips on line with PP&M and S&G.  Another with Kate Smith and
> the Cookie Bear.  The man inside the bear suit was Jim Prohaska who was
> killed in a movie helicopter crash a couple of years later.  I used to
> watch his show back then although once he started to spout loony-toons
> politics I wrote him off.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
> 
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