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Hee Haw creator John Aylesworth dies
The Desert Sun
... as known for writing comedy for some of the biggest names in traditional pop music, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Perry Como and Andy Williams. ...


The Pig of Happiness
StarPhoenix
A Perry Como and Nirvana mashup is particularly clever and funny. Duthie also performs music-centred shows and records CDs. Methinks that's where this ...


Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Mascot focuses on borough art in Canonsburg
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
... it has charted more singles -- 192 -- than any other community of its size, thanks to crooners such as Perry Como, Bobby Vinton and the Four Coins. ...


'Hee Haw' creator, John Aylesworth, dies at 80
Southwest Riverside News Network
Aylesworth also wrote comedy for major stars, including Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Perry Como and Andy Williams. In 1965, Aylesworth co-wrote the TV special ...
Hee Haw creator John Aylesworth diesThe Desert Sun

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Gibson

This Day in Music: July 28
Gibson
1956, Gene Vincent made his first appearance on national TV in the US on the Perry Como Show. Vincent had released “Woman Love” the previous month, ...


SoundSpike

TV: Paul McCartney: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song on PBS
SoundSpike
The classical pianist plays a portion of McCartney's orchestral work "Standing Stone" and it sounds mighty similar to the Perry Como hit "More. ...

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TVbytheNumbers

TV Ratings: 'Family Guy' Leads FOX; Big Brother Bigger; Scoundrels Shrinking Away
TVbytheNumbers
Chevrolet and Bonanza, Kelloggs and The Beverly HIllbillies, Geritol and Lawrence Welk, Kraft and Perry Como and the Kraft Music Hall. ...


Why all country roads lead back to the roots of Elvis Presley
Herald Scotland
He heard hillbilly music – including Bill Monroe's original Blue Moon of Kentucky – on the Bob Neal radio show, he loved pop singers like Perry Como and ...


Review: 'Seven Dirty Words' revisits the life and humor of George Carlin
San Jose Mercury News
... "Perry Como's Holiday in Hawaii"; "The Tony Orlando and Dawn Rainbow Hour." He became a grizzled, bankable survivor. A weird anger began to light him, ...

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A GLOBAL STOCKER AFFAIR
The Morning Journal
... the musical fondly looks to the hits of '50s and early '60s and elicits memories of the day that were more about Perry Como than Elvis Presley. ...


How to Throw a 'Mad Men' Season 4 Viewing Party
Lemondrop (blog)
Betty also likes Perry Como. If you wanted to be really hip, you could play 'Kind of Blue' by Miles Davis, but that's what the bohemians were listening to. ...

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I'm with Stupid
Aspen Times
If that doesn't work, replace all their downloaded music with songs by Celine Dion, Abba, Perry Como, anything that is so offensive to young ears that it ...


Gone, not forgotten
Kokomo Perspective
The voices of Nat King Cole, Patty Page, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Doris Day, and Tony Bennett are coming from uptown alleys. The sounds will always be in ...


Scranton Times-Tribune

Entertainer Mickey Rooney and wife Jan to perform at Mount Airy Casino Resort
Scranton Times-Tribune
Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Mel Torme. His favorite picture that he's appeared in? Uh-oh. Mr. Rooney abruptly halts the question-and-answer session in the ...

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Football: Former Runcorn winger Jack Hilton delighted with Millbank Linnets ...
Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News
“One of the players loved the singer Perry Como so we used to call him Perry.” A number of other former Linnets heroes turned out on the day, ...

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Capito won't run for the Senate
msnbc.com
As Perry Como might sing...."Dream along with me". We were at one time until the people got scared that the Dem's were going to take their guns away. ...

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Gillette brothers tuning up for Cowboy Poetry concert
Willits News
... of the 1973 United Artists best banjoist of Northern California contest, having performed and worked with music legends like Bing Crosby and Perry Como. ...

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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Latest "Idol" judge rumors: Chris Isaak
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Isaak is so laidback he is frequently mistaken for Perry Como's ghost after a roofie, but that's part of his relaxed, Southern California charm. ...

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PopMatters

Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, and the Narratives of American Popular Song
PopMatters
... “Dozens of other pop singers based their styles on his, among them Russ Columbo, Perry Como, Bob Eberle, Billy Eckstine, Dick Haymes, and Dean Martin. ...

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Canada Free Press

`Rosary Priest' on path to Sainthood
Canada Free Press
One lady who sends me care packages from Texas, is a distant cousin of Bing Crosby, who along with Loretta Young, Jimmy Stewart, Perry Como and Lucille Ball ...


Mafia II
IGN
During the '40s you'll hear crooners like Perry Como and Bing Crosby. Cross over to the '50s and you'll hear the birth of rock and roll. ...

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Examiner.com

Mel Brooks on WLIW 21 tonight
Examiner.com
Anne and Mel met when she was rehearsing for the Perry Como television show the musical number, "Married I can Always Get." She was wearing a white suit. ...


The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com (blog)

Loretto employees go the extra mile to help resident; plus the latest on Holy ...
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com (blog)
“To make the trip more memorable for him, I made a disc with artists such as the Andrew Sisters, Bing Crosby, Perry Como and Frank Signature. ...


Rehearsals Begin Today For AN ERROR OF THE MOON at The Beckett
Broadway World
The team of Hugo and Luigi chalked up dozens of gold records with such artists as Sarah Vaughan, Jimmie Rodgers, Perry Como, Sam Cooke, Della Reese, etc. ...


Leave It To Daddy (then again, maybe not)
Waterloo Record
Gurgling and cooing with wild abandon, the smiley newcomer is a miniature Perry Como, content to spend his days propping himself up on the living room floor ...


Creede Repertory Theatre Presents ITS THE FIFTIES AGAIN 7/26
Broadway World
... delivers songs and stories from the music of Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Bobby Darin, Doris Day, The Four Lads, Perry Como, and more. ...


Social Wellness Month: Famous author at prime struck by Alzheimer's in his 50's.
allvoices
Abe Burrows (Actor), Perry Como (Singer), Aaron Copland (Composer), Thomas Dorsey (Song Writer), Arlen Francis (Actor), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Poet), ...

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Rob Quist and the Great Northern Bluegrass Band headlines tonight
Great Falls Tribune
... music from the mid-1950s and earlier, covering artists such as Frank Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Tony Bennett and Ela Fitzgerald. ...

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AN ERROR OF THE MOON To Begin Off-Broadway Run Aug. 13 at The Beckett
Broadway World
The team of Hugo and Luigi chalked up dozens of gold records with such artists as Sarah Vaughan, Jimmie Rodgers, Perry Como, Sam Cooke, Della Reese, etc. ...

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Peter Greenberg.com Travel News

Singer Andy Williams & Peter Greenberg's Shared History
Peter Greenberg.com Travel News
PG: And my mom moved to New York at the end of World War II to sing with The Perry Como Chesterfield Show. AW: She got you on the show, I assume? ...


Salon

What's on TV: Not women's sports
Salon
My father used to listen to Nat King Cole and Perry Como, and he had one Elvis eight-track. Later on I was introduced to the movies and saw what he looked ...

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SILive.com

Do you know the way to Snug Harbor?
SILive.com
Their early collaborations included hits for Perry Como and Marty Robbins. The Dionne Warwick/Dusty Springfield era came a little later. ...


Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show': They're Just Not That Into Lame Female Comics
Politics Daily (blog)
Even now, as both disco and Perry Como are fading in public memory, SCTV's all-star skit, "Perry Como: Still Alive," is still a classic. ...

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Washington Post

Disney's Cinderella Dies at 81
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Before retiring from show business in 1970, Woods began singing on the Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows in the 1950s. Woods is survived by her husband of ...
Ilene Woods, the Voice of Disney's Cinderella, Dies at 81New York Times
Singer Ilene Woods, 81, dies; was the voice of 'Cinderella'Washington Post
Ilene Woods Voice of 'Cinderella', Dies at 81Peace FM Online
CBC.ca -The Associated Press
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Ed Schultz Wonders If Obama Is 'Still Alive'
NewsBusters (blog)
One of the great comedy bits from the classic SCTV show was a skit satirizing an ultra relaxed and disengaged Perry Como ...


Barnstable Patriot

Heat wave?
Barnstable Patriot
There's even an appearance by Perry Como with the Plaids singing back-up for Mr. C. The cool set looks like a giant jukebox. The four guys – Jinx, Sparky, ...


To the Ramparts of Comedy, Playfully Profane
New York Times
...Perry Como's Holiday in Hawaii”; “The Tony Orlando and Dawn Rainbow Hour.” He became a grizzled, bankable survivor. A weird anger began to light him, ...

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'Plaid Tidings' will keep you smiling at Playhouse
Sandwich Broadsider
This comes in the second act, for which they don red cardigans to sing back-up for Perry Como, whose black-and-white Christmas show is projected onto a ...

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Film Threat

RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE (DVD)
Film Threat
Later, after catching the rock bug, Lee suspected that his Perry Como-loving mother perceived him as a “drug taking freak.” Young Lifeson, a teacher's pet ...

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Washington Post

The voice of Disney's Cinderella passes away at 81
WDBO Radio
Woods also sang in Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows in the 50s. She is survived by her son and daughter, and three grandchildren. ...
Ilene Woods, the Voice of Disney's Cinderella, Dies at 81New York Times
Disney's Cinderella Dies at 81TheCelebrityCafe.com
Singer Ilene Woods, 81, dies; was the voice of 'Cinderella'Washington Post
Peace FM Online -CBC.ca
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CBC.ca

Ilene Woods, the Voice of Disney's Cinderella, Dies at 81
New York Times
Ms. Woods sang on the Perry Como, Arthur Godfrey and Garry Moore television shows in the 1950s. She retired from show business in the early 1970s.
The voice of Disney's Cinderella passes away at 81WDBO Radio
Voice of Disney's Cinderella Dies at 81TheCelebrityCafe.com
Singer Ilene Woods, 81, dies; was the voice of 'Cinderella'Washington Post
Peace FM Online -CBC.ca
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NAMES + FACES Aretha, Rice to play together
Detroit Free Press
She appeared on the Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows in the 1950s before retiring from show biz in the 1970s. • Longtime Hollywood agent Ed Limato, ...

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Washington Post

Singer Ilene Woods, 81, dies; was the voice of 'Cinderella'
Washington Post
On TV during the 1950s, she sang on Perry Como's and Arthur Godfrey's shows and was a regular on Garry Moore's daytime show, where she met Shaughnessy. ...
Cinderella Voice Actress DiesContactmusic.com
Voice of Disney's Cinderella Dies at 81TheCelebrityCafe.com
Ilene Woods, voice of Cinderella, diesCBC.ca
The Associated Press -In Entertainment (blog)
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New Zealand Herald

Voice of Disney's Cinderella Dies at 81
TheCelebrityCafe.com
... mannerisms were even similar to the character. According to CBS, the song bird also sang on the Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows before retiring in 1970.
Cinderella Voice Actress DiesContactmusic.com
Ilene Woods, voice of Cinderella, diesCBC.ca
Ilene Woods dies at 81; voice of Disney's CinderellaLos Angeles Times
The Associated Press -In Entertainment (blog)
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A showbiz career filled with variety
The Columbian
... '70s with stars including Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Bob Hope, Perry Como, Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews and Johnny Mathis. ...


Benedetti a voice for the ages
Madison.com
He still will recall the times he met Tony Bennett, Perry Como and Frankie Laine. And he will always remember the way his Helen used to dance the night away ...

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Sportswriters' Notebook
Reading Eagle
"They say Screwball has the energy of Perry Como." Hmm. I can see Perry Como fans across the country uniting to file a defamation lawsuit. ...


Other Deaths, 07/04/10 The Denver Post
Denver Post
We met and talked for a while, and he said, 'How would you like to be Cinderella?' " Woods sang on the Perry Como and Arthur Godfrey shows in the '50s.

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Canonsburg revels in July 4 parade
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
In the 48 years since it started, the parade has almost come to define Canonsburg, a town that, as the hometown of crooners such as Vinton, Perry Como and ...


Tbo.com

Disney Princess Dies at 81
TheCelebrityCafe.com
She went on to perform on the Arthur Godfrey and Perry Como shows in the 1950s and finally retired in the 1970s.
Ilene Woods dies at 81; voice of Disney's CinderellaLos Angeles Times
Ilene Woods, voice of Cinderella, dies at 81The Associated Press

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