John Walker Hundley was a musical comedy singer, actor and CBS television executive.

On the Broadway stage, Mr. Hundley performed in musical comedies in the 1920s and 30's. In Spring Is Here (1929, score by Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart

Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership of composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist Lorenz Hart...

), he introduced the well known tune "With a Song in My Heart

With a Song in My Heart

With a Song in My Heart may refer to:*With a Song in My Heart , a 1952 movie biography of Jane Froman, starring Susan Hayward*""With a Song in My Heart" , a 1929 popular song by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, revived in 1948...

."

Hundley joined CBS Television in 1938. He rose from network announcer to various executive positions in programming and sales, including a stint as editor of "program practices," i.e., program censorship: in the era of live television, he would screen certain performers for sobriety and verify that necklines of women's dresses conformed to CBS standards.

Hundley was the namesake of his grandfather, the Reverend John Walker Hundley

John Walker Hundley

The Reverend John Walker Hundley was a prominent 19th-century Baptist minister and church leader in Virginia.Born in King and Queen County, Virginia, to William Clarke Hundley and Marion Street Hundley, John Hundley was raised by his maternal grandparents, John Walker Street and Frances Street,...

 (1841–1914), a well known Baptist Minister in Virginia. His father, H. Rhodes Hundley, was dean of Doane Academy at Denison University

Denison University

Denison University is private, coeducational, and residential college of liberal arts and sciences founded in 1831. It is located in Granville, Ohio, United States, approximately 30 miles east of Columbus, the state capital...

from 1900 to 1927.

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