Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arthur Godfrey...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...
...Fine Arts, Brown University), Charles Briggs (Folklore and Mythology, University of Chicago), Michael Jennings (German, University of Virginia), John T. Kneebone (History, University of Virginia), James M. Weiss (History, University of Chicago), Ellen Fitzpatrick (History of American Civilization, Brandeis University), Misia Landau (History of Science, Yale University), and Sima Godfrey (Romance Languages, Cornell University...
Arthur M. Godfrey New York City
...else performs for Jerry's Kids? Lesser Wayne Newtons, really. There's Julius LaRosa, who sang on Arthur Godfrey's radio show. And Tony Orlando, sans Dawn. Tony Orlando, Otis Elevator Co's favorite performer. Tony Orlando, who lives in that sapping--if profitable--wasteland reserved for performers with one smash record so monstrously huge that no one will ever forget their names, but, by the same token, so monstrously huge that they will never come close to matching it. It's a career built on the past, and thus that much safer for the audience; no surprises here. Orlando...