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The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television
Television

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 variety show
Variety show

A variety show or variety entertainment is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and comedy skits, and normally introduced by a Master of Ceremonies or Presenter....
 that was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday nights) on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. It began as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
 Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood
Avalon Hollywood

Avalon is a historic night club and music venue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California, located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, at 1735 N....
.






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The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 variety show
Variety show

A variety show or variety entertainment is an entertainment made up of a variety of acts, especially musical performances and comedy skits, and normally introduced by a Master of Ceremonies or Presenter....
 that was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday nights) on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. It began as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
 Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood
Avalon Hollywood

Avalon is a historic night club and music venue in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, California, located near the intersection of Hollywood and Vine, at 1735 N....
. A little-known starlet named Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch is a Golden Globe winning, American actress....
 was cast during the first season as the "Billboard Girl," who put the names of the acts on a placard (similar to that of a vaudeville house).

Overview

Unlike similar programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show
The Ed Sullivan Show

The Ed Sullivan Show is an United States television program variety show that ran from June 20, 1948 to June 6, 1971, and was hosted by entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan....
, guest hosts were used instead of a permanent one. Among the performers and hosts on the show were Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
, Bette Davis
Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
, Milton Berle
Milton Berle

Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
, Sammy Davis Jr., Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
, Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx

Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
, Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
, Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
, Judy Garland
Judy Garland

Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
, Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante

James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
, The Supremes
The Supremes

The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
, Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers

Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
, The Temptations
The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
, Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller is a Golden Globe-nominated United States Comedian, considered to be one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder....
, and many other famous faces. The off-screen announcer for each program was Dick Tufeld
Dick Tufeld

Dick Tufeld is an United States actor, announcer, narrator, and voice actor from the 1950s onward.He is perhaps best known as the voice of the Robot in the TV series Lost in Space, a role he reprised for the Lost in Space ....
.

A number of popular music performers got their start on the show. For example, The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
 made their first US television appearance June 3, 1964, and The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5

The Jackson 5 was a two-time Grammy Award-nominated American popular music Jackson family Musical ensemble from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally co...
 made their first national television appearance on the October 14, 1969 episode of the show. The folk-rock group We Five
We Five

We Five was a 1960s folk rock musical group based in San Francisco, California. Their best-known hit single was their 1965 in music remake of Ian and Sylvia's "You Were on My Mind", which reached #1 on the Cashbox chart, #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart....
 performed their hit "You Were on My Mind," within a few weeks of its release in 1965.

In a famous June 1964 telecast, The Rolling Stones were repeatedly ridiculed by host Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
 when they did two songs "I Just Want To Make Love To You" and "Not Fade Away." Later, when the Stones proved popular, reruns of their performance were shown with the current host and the original Martin comments edited out.

The February 25, 1967 edition featured the American television debut of the Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
' music videos
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 for "Penny Lane
Penny Lane

"Penny Lane" is a song by The Beatles, written by Paul McCartney, recorded during the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band sessions, and released in February 1967 as one side of a double A-sided single, along with John Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever"....
" and "Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever

"Strawberry Fields Forever" is a song by The Beatles. Recorded at the end of 1966, the song was written by John Lennon during the filming of How I Won The War and is formally credited to the Lennon/McCartney songwriting team....
", introduced by guest host Van Johnson
Van Johnson

Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during World War II.Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy next door," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the Second World War years...
.

New version

In 2004, Hollywood Palace returned to television, produced by Margate Entertainment Company, the trademark owner of Hollywood Palace. The first episode starred TV icon Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (game show host)

Peter Marshall is an United States television personality and radio personality, singer and actor.He is the original host and "The Master" of The Hollywood Squares, from 1966 to 1981....
 and featured guests Marty Allen
Marty Allen

Marty Allen may refer to:*Marty Allen , American actor and comedian*Marty Allen , former head of Computervision Corp*"Marty Allen" a former disc jockey at WCZX Radio in Poughkeepsie, NY...
, a regular on the earlier version, and legendary 1950's singer Don Cherry
Don Cherry (singer/golfer)

Donald Ross Cherry is a singer of traditional pop music and a golfer.Cherry was born in Wichita Falls, Texas. He started as a big band singer, in the orchestras of Jan Garber, Victor Young and Tommy Dorsey....
.

Full list of guest stars


1964

  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     (guest host)
  • Gary Crosby
  • Bob Newhart
    Bob Newhart

    George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
  • Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • Bobby Van
    Bobby Van

    Bobby Van was a Musician actor probably best known for his career on Broadway theatre in the 1950s and 1970s.Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up wiktionary:backstage to many memorable Great Depression-era acts....
  • The Young Americans
    The Young Americans

    The Young Americans is a non-profit organization and performing group based in Southern California. First founded in 1962 by Milton C. Anderson, the group is credited with being the first show choir in America, mixing choreography with choral singing....
  • Nancy Wilson
    Nancy Wilson (singer)

    Nancy Wilson is an United States singer with seventy-plus albums, and three Grammy Awards so far in her career. She's been labeled a singer of blues, jazz, cabaret and pop music; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer." The title she prefers, however, is song stylist....
  • Robert Cummings
    Robert Cummings

    Robert Cummings , also known as Bob Cummings, was an United States motion picture and television actor, noted for his fresh faced youthful look which lasted long into his old age....
     (guest host)
  • Mel Brooks
    Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
  • Carl Reiner
    Carl Reiner

    Carl Reiner is an United States actor, film director, television producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career....
  • Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney

    Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  • Anthony Newley
    Anthony Newley

    Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
  • Ginger Rogers
    Ginger Rogers

    Ginger Rogers was an Academy Awards-winning United States film and stage actor, dancer and singer. In a film career spanning 50 years, she made a total of 73 films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre....
     (guest host)
  • Marty Ingels
    Marty Ingels

    Marty Ingels is an actor, comedian, theatrical agent, and, by many, best known as the voice of many cartoon characters and commercials. He is the son of Jacob and Minnie Ingerman....
  • Johnny Mathis
    Johnny Mathis

    Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
  • Johnny Puleo
    Johnny Puleo

    Johnny Puleo was an American musician and actor, who specialized in playing the harmonica.He performed in front of such notables as the Royal Command in England and the Presidents of the United States and France....
  • Joanie Sommers
    Joanie Sommers

    Joanie Sommers , is an United States singer and actor....
  • Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine

    Ermes Effron Borgnino , better known by his stage name Ernest Borgnine, is an United States Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award-winning actor....
     (guest host)
  • Carl Ballantine
    Carl Ballantine

    Carl Ballantine is an United States actor, Magic and comic.Under the guise of "Ballantine The Great" or "The Amazing Ballantine," Ballantine's trademark involves magic tricks, which always flop in comedy fashion....
  • Tony Bennett
    Tony Bennett

    Tony Bennett is an United States singer of traditional pop music, pop standards and jazz.Raised in New York City, Bennett began singing at an early age....
  • Vikki Carr
    Vikki Carr

    Vikki Carr is an United States singer who has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop music and country music, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language....
  • Joe Flynn
    Joe Flynn (US actor)

    Joe Flynn was an United States character actor best known for his participation in the popular 1960s TV sitcom, McHale's Navy. He was also a frequent guest star on 1960s sitcoms such as Batman and appeared in several Walt Disney film comedies....
  • Miriam Makeba
    Miriam Makeba

    Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika....
  • Eleanor Powell
    Eleanor Powell

    Eleanor Torrey Powell was an United States film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s, known for her exuberant solo tap dancing....
  • Donald O'Connor
    Donald O'Connor

    Donald David Dixon Ronald O?Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
     (guest host)
  • Francis Brunn
    Francis Brunn

    Francis Brunn was a notable German-American juggler. He was born in Aschaffenburg in Germany and after the Second World War made his home in New York....
  • Mary Costa
    Mary Costa

    Mary Costa is an United States singer, best known for playing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 The Walt Disney Company film Sleeping Beauty ....
  • Buddy Greco
    Buddy Greco

    Buddy Greco is an United States singer and pianist.Greco began playing piano at the age of four. His first professional work was playing with Benny Goodman's band....
  • Don Knotts
    Don Knotts

    Jesse Donald Knotts was an United States comedy actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show , and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom Three's Company in the 1980s....
  • Gig Young
    Gig Young

    Gig Young was an Academy Award-winning American film and television actor....
     (guest host)
  • Michael Bentine
    Michael Bentine

    Michael Bentine Order of the British Empire was a comedian, comic actor, and founding member of The Goon Show.Bentine was born Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire, of Anglo-Peruvian parentage and grew up in Folkestone, Kent, one of his friends being the young David Tomlinson....
  • Dorothy Collins
    Dorothy Collins

    Dorothy Collins was a popular United States singer, actor, and recording artist. She was born Marjorie Chandler in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and adopted her stage name in her mid-teens....
  • Buddy Hackett
    Buddy Hackett

    Buddy Hackett was an United States comedian and actor. In his later life, he and his wife set up the Sinigita Animal Sanctuary in the San Fernando Valley, California....
  • The Mills Brothers
  • Yma Sumac
    Yma Súmac

    Yma Sumac [] was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music and became an international success, based on the merits of her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak....
  • Dale Robertson
    Dale Robertson

    Dale Robertson is an United States actor best known for his starring roles on television....
     (guest host)
  • Red Buttons
    Red Buttons

    Red Buttons was an American comedy and actor....
  • Vic Damone
    Vic Damone

    Vic Damone is an United States singer and entertainer....
  • The Smothers Brothers
  • Jane Morgan
    Jane Morgan

    Jane Morgan is an United States popular music singing, specializing in traditional pop music....
  • Gene Kelly
    Gene Kelly

    Eugene Curran "Gene" Kelly was an United States dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and choreographer.A major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, Kelly was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen....
     (guest host)
  • Bill Dana
  • Phil Ford and Mimi Hines
    Mimi Hines

    Mimi Hines is a singer and a comedienne best knows for her appearances on The Tonight Show and her work on Broadway theatre. She replaced Barbra Streisand in the original production of Funny Girl ....
  • Joey Heatherton
    Joey Heatherton

    Joey Heatherton is an United States actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s....
  • Della Reese
    Della Reese

    Della Reese , is an United States actress and singer. She started her career in the late 1950s as a jazz singer, best known for her 1959 hit single "Don't You Know"....
  • Roy Rogers
    Roy Rogers

    Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
     and Dale Evans
    Dale Evans

    Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith , a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers....

    (guest hosts)
  • The Flying Wallendas
    The Flying Wallendas

    The Flying Wallendas is the name of a famous group of circus act and daredevil stunts performers, most known for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net....
  • Sons of the Pioneers
    Sons of the Pioneers

    The Sons of the Pioneers was an United States cowboy singing group founded in 1933 by Leonard Slye , with Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan. They were joined by Hugh Farr in 1934, Karl Farr in 1935 , and Lloyd Perryman in 1936....
  • Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
  • Dean Martin
    Dean Martin

    Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
     (guest host)
  • Leonard Barr
    Leonard Barr

    Leonard Barr was an old-style, one-liner standup United States comic in the tradition of Henny Youngman. He was the uncle of Dean Martin . Thanks to Martin, and TV talk shows, he achieved a significant amount of visibility and recognition in the twilight of his career....
  • Barrie Chase
    Barrie Chase

    Barrie Chase is an United States dancer and actress.She made four television appearances as Fred Astaire's dance partner in his An Evening With Fred Astaire between 1958 and 1968....
  • Jackie Mason
    Jackie Mason

    Jackie Mason is an United States stand-up comedy. He grew up in New York City .Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York and, at the age of 25, was ordained, as his three brothers and father had been, a rabbi in Latrobe, Pennsylvania....
  • Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
     (guest host)
  • Morey Amsterdam
    Morey Amsterdam

    Morey Amsterdam was a veteran United States television actor and comedian, renowned for his large, ready supply of jokes. He is probably best known for his role as Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s....
  • Gilbert Bécaud
    Gilbert Bécaud

    Gilbert B?caud was a France singer, composer and actor, known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances. His best-known hit record are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love "....
  • José Greco
    José Greco

    Jos? Greco was a flamenco dancer and Choreography.He was born Costanzo Greco in Montorio nei Frentani, Italy of Italian parents. He was raised in New York City from the time he was 10 years old....
  • Rose Marie
    Rose Marie

    Rose Marie is an American actress who also had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, theater and television....
  • Dee Hartford
    Dee Hartford

    Dee Hartford is a retired American television actress, former wife of Howard Hawks and sister of Eden Hartford, who was married to Groucho Marx ....
  • Marty Allen
    Marty Allen (comedian)

    Marty Allen is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor. He has worked as a comedy headliner in night clubs and as a dramatic actor in TV roles....
     and Steve Rossi
    (guest hosts)
  • Diahann Carroll
    Diahann Carroll

    Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
  • Ken Murray
  • Paul Winchell
    Paul Winchell

    Paul Winchell , born Pinkus Wilchinski , was an United States ventriloquist and voice actor from New York City whose career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s....
  • George Burns
    George Burns

    George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
     (guest host)
  • Sergio Franchi
    Sergio Franchi

    Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.He was born in Cremona, Italy. His sister is singer Dana Valery. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously....
  • The Lennon Sisters
    The Lennon Sisters

    The Lennon Sisters were a singing group consisting of four siblings: Dianne , Peggy , Kathy , and Janet . They were all born in Los Angeles, California....
  • Patti Page
    Patti Page

    Clara Ann Fowler , known by her professional name Patti Page, is an United States singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music....
  • Cyd Charisse
    Cyd Charisse

    Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s....
     and Tony Martin
    Tony Martin (entertainer)

    Tony Martin is an United States actor and traditional pop music singer....

    (guest hosts)
  • The Collins Kids
    The Collins Kids

    The Collins Kids were a juvenile rockabilly duo, featuring sister Lawrencine "Lorrie" Collins and younger brother Lawrence "Larry" Collins . Their hits, such as "Hop, Skip and Jump", "Beetle Bug Bop" and "Hoy Hoy", were geared towards kids, but their infectious singing and playing crossed over generations....
  • Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson

    Mahalia Jackson was an United States gospel music singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre, and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music"....
  • Ferrante and Teicher
  • Fran Jeffries
    Fran Jeffries

    Fran Jeffries , was a singer/actress/model in the 1960s and early-1970s. She had a cameo in the 1963 film The Pink Panther , in which she sang a song called Meglio Stasera while sashaying around a fireplace....
  • Jack E. Leonard
    Jack E. Leonard

    Jack E. Leonard was an United States comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety show and game shows....
  • Rich Little
    Rich Little

    Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canada Impressionist and voice actor. Little has long been known as a top impersonator of famous people throughout the world, which has earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices."...
  • Jerry Van Dyke
    Jerry Van Dyke

    Jerry Van Dyke is an United States comedian and actor. He is the younger brother of comedian and actor Dick Van Dyke, and made his acting debut on The Dick Van Dyke Show with several guest appearances as Rob Petrie's brother, Stacey....
  • Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante

    James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
     (guest host)
  • Jack Carter
    Jack Carter (comedian)

    'Jack Carter' is an United States comedian, actor and Host .Carter's only Broadway theatre appearance was opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1956 musical Mr....
  • Liberace
    Liberace

    Wladziu Valentino Liberace , better known by only his last name Liberace , was a famous United States entertainer and pianist of Poles and Italian people descent....
     (guest host)
  • Rowan and Martin
  • Eddie Albert
    Eddie Albert

    Edward Albert Heimberger , better known as Eddie Albert, was an American actor, gardener, humanitarian, activist and World War II veteran....
  • Charlie Callas
    Charlie Callas

    Charlie Callas is an American comedian and actor most commonly known for his work with Mel Brooks, Jerry Lewis, and Dean Martin. Familiar from his many appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson , he is known for his rubbery face, trademark nervous chattering and dark comedy....
  • Chad and Jeremy
    Chad and Jeremy

    Chad and Jeremy was a singing folk music rock music duet in the 1960s, comprising Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde . They were part of the British Invasion, a large influx of Great Britain rock and pop music musicians to the United States music scene....
  • The Four Step Brothers
    The Four Step Brothers

    The Four Step Brothers were a 1920s dancing team. The group started out as a trio in 1925, with the original members, Maceo Anderson, Al Williams and Red Walker....
  • Louis Jourdan
    Louis Jourdan

    Louis Jourdan is a French film actor. He is known for his roles in several Hollywood films, including The Paradine Case , Gigi , The Best of Everything , and Octopussy ....
     (guest host)
  • Anna Maria Alberghetti
    Anna Maria Alberghetti

    Anna Maria Alberghetti is an Italian-born actress and operatic singer.Born in Pesaro she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Awards in 1962 as Best Actress for Carnival ....
  • The King Sisters
    The King Sisters

    The King Sisters were a big band era quartet....
  • John W. Bubbles
    John W. Bubbles

    John William Sublett , known by his stage name John W. Bubbles, was an United States vaudeville performer, dancer, singer and entertainer....
  • Henny Youngman
    Henny Youngman

    Henry "Henny" Youngman was a United Kingdom-born comedian and violinist famous for "one-liner joke," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire....
  • Betty Hutton
    Betty Hutton

    Betty Hutton was an United States Cinema of the United States actor and singer....
     (guest host)
  • Carole Cook
    Carole Cook

    Carole Cook is an United States actress. She has appeared in many films and on television.Carole Cook was a protege of Lucille Ball. Ball gave her the stage name of "Carole", after her friend Carole Lombard because, said Ball, "you have the same healthy disrespect for all things in general"....
  • John Gary
    John Gary

    John Gary was an American singer and a technically accomplished vocalist....
  • Paul Lynde
    Paul Lynde

    Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry McAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie....
  • Trini Lopez
    Trini Lopez

    Trini Lopez is a Mexican-American singing and guitarist....
  • George Gobel
    George Gobel

    George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian, best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, from 1954 to 1960....
  • Victor Borge
    Victor Borge

    Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, entertainer and piano, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane....
     (guest host)
  • Louie Bellson
    Louie Bellson

    Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni , better known by the stage name Louie Bellson , was an Italian-American jazz drummer. He was a composer, arranger, bandleader, and jazz educator, and is credited with pioneering the Double bass drumming....
  • Dennis Day
    Dennis Day

    Dennis Day , born Owen Patrick Eugene McNulty, was an Irish-American singer and radio and television personality.Day was born and raised in New York City, the son of Irish immigrants....
  • Philly Joe Jones
    Philly Joe Jones

    Joseph Rudolph Jones was a Philadelphia-born United States of America Jazz drumming, known as the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet....
  • Shelly Manne
    Shelly Manne

    Shelly Manne , born Sheldon Manne in New York City, was an American Jazz drumming. Most frequently associated with West coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, Swing music, bebop, avant-garde jazz and Jazz fusion, as well as contributing to the musical background of...
  • Caterina Valente
    Caterina Valente

    Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italy artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown....
  • Phil Harris
    Phil Harris

    Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
     (guest host)
  • Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
  • Pete Barbutti
    Pete Barbutti

    Pete Barbutti is an United States comedian and musician . He made at least twelve appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, from 1971 through 1982....
  • Peter Gennaro
    Peter Gennaro

    Peter Gennaro was an American dancer and choreographer....
  • Louis Nye
    Louis Nye

    Louis Nye was an United States comedy actor....
  • Gene Barry
    Gene Barry

    Gene Barry is an United States actor....
     (guest host)
  • Buster Keaton
    Buster Keaton

    Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an Academy Award-winning United States comic actor and filmmaker. Best known for his silent films, his trademark was physical comedy with a stoicism, deadpan expression on his face, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face" ....
  • Wayne Newton
    Wayne Newton

    Carson Wayne Newton is an United States singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born in Roanoke, Virginia. While Newton was still a child, his family moved to a home near Newark, Ohio....
  • Juliet Prowse
    Juliet Prowse

    Juliet Anne Prowse was a South African dancer, whose four decade career included stage, television and film but dancing remained her true love....
  • Barbara Rush
    Barbara Rush

    Barbara Rush is an United States stage, film, and television actress.A student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures....
  • Gloria Swanson
    Gloria Swanson

    Gloria Swanson was an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She was prolific during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B....
  • The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones

    The Rolling Stones are an English rock music band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards....
  • Joey Forman
    Joey Forman

    Joey Forman was an American comedian and comic actor. He first attracted attention in Las Vegas as the opening act for Mickey Rooney. He also co-starred in Mickey Rooney's 1954-55 sitcom Hey, Mulligan! as Mickey's best friend, Freddy....
  • Stan Getz
    Stan Getz

    Stanley Gayetzky or Stanley Gayetsky , usually known by his stage name Stan Getz, was an American jazz saxophone player. Known as "The Sound" because of his warm, lyrical tone, Getz's prime influence was the wispy, mellow tone of his idol, Lester Young....
  • Astrud Gilberto
    Astrud Gilberto

    Astrud Gilberto is a Brazilian singer best known for her samba and bossa nova music, most famously as the vocalist on the Grammy Award-winning song "The Girl from Ipanema"....
  • Ed Wynn
    Ed Wynn

    Ed Wynn was a popular United States comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor....
     (guest host)
  • Eydie Gormé
    Eydie Gormé

    Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....
  • Zizi Jeanmaire
    Zizi Jeanmaire

    Ren?e Marcelle Jeanmaire, known as Zizi Jeanmaire , is a ballet dancer and wife of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s because of her title role in the ballet Carmen , produced in London in 1949....
  • The Nicholas Brothers
  • Maurice Chevalier
    Maurice Chevalier

    Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, and popular entertainer. Chevalier's signature songs included "Louise", "Mimi", and "Valentine"....
     (guest host)
  • Tim Conway
    Tim Conway

    Thomas Daniel Conway, known professionally as Tim Conway , is an American comedian and Emmy award winning actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television....
  • Jane Powell
    Jane Powell

    Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s....
  • Shecky Greene
    Shecky Greene

    'Shecky Greene' , is a comedian known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has been a headliner for more than 30 years. He has appeared in several films, including History of the World, Part I and Splash , and has guest starred on such television shows as Mad About You, Laverne & Shirley, Love, America...
  • Morgana King
    Morgana King

    Morgana King is a jazz singer who has recorded over thirty albums to date.King was born in Pleasantville, New York, New York of Sicily#People descent, and as a vocalist toured extensively giving memorable concerts in Rome, S?o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro....
  • Dorothy Provine
    Dorothy Provine

    Dorothy Provine is a singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne.Provine appeared in many professional and amateur stage productions while attending the University of Washington....
  • Dan Dailey
    Dan Dailey

    Daniel James Dailey Jr. was an United States dancer and actor....
  • Harry James
    Harry James

    Harry James was an United States musician and band leader, and a well-known trumpet virtuoso. James was one of the most outstanding instrumentalists of the swing era, employing a bravura playing style that made his trumpet work instantly identifiable....
  • Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen

    Buddy Ebsen was a versatile United States character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he is best remembered for his starring roles as Jed Clampett in the popular 1960s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the long-running 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones....
     (guest host)
  • Willie Mays
  • Shani Wallis
    Shani Wallis

    Shani Wallis is an England actress and singer, who released several records in the 1950s.Making her first stage appearance at the age of four, she later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on a scholarship, and went on to play many leading lady roles in the West End, but she is best known for the role of Nancy in Carol Reed's 19...
  • Ben Blue
    Ben Blue

    Ben Blue , born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.In the 1920s Bernstein joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers....
  • Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
  • Olivia de Havilland
    Olivia de Havilland

    Olivia Mary de Havilland is a two-time Academy Awards-winning actor. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner....
  • Arthur Godfrey
    Arthur Godfrey

    Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey was an United States radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead....
     (guest host)
  • Alice Faye
    Alice Faye

    Alice Faye was an United States actor and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris....
  • Pat Morita
    Pat Morita

    Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was an Academy Award nominated United States actor who was well-known for playing the roles of Arnold on the TV show Happy Days and Kesuke Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984 in film....
  • Shelley Berman
    Shelley Berman

    Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
  • Dino, Desi and Billy
  • Ted Lewis
    Ted Lewis

    Ted Lewis may be:*Ted Lewis , Edward Morgan Lewis*Ted Lewis , US bandleader, musician, entertainer, singer*Ted Lewis , English crime novelist...
  • The McGuire Sisters
    The McGuire Sisters

    The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in United States popular music. The group was composed of three sisters; Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire ....
  • Burl Ives
    Burl Ives

    Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
     (guest host)
  • Edgar Bergen
    Edgar Bergen

    Edgar John Bergen was an Academy Award-winning United States actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquism....
     and Charlie McCarthy
  • Candice Bergen
    Candice Bergen

    'Candice Patricia Bergen' is an Academy Awards-nominated and Golden Globe- and Emmy Awards-winning United States actress and former fashion model, best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy Murphy Brown, and as Shirley Schmidt, the legal partner of Denny Crane , on the American Broadcasting Company comedy-drama B...
  • Ann Miller
    Ann Miller

    Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress....
  • Anna Moffo
    Anna Moffo

    Anna Moffo was an Italian-American opera singing and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation. She possessed a warm and radiant voice of considerable range and agility, and was an affecting singing-actress of great physical beauty....
  • Charley Weaver
    Cliff Arquette

    Clifford Arquette was an actor and comedian, famous for his role as "Charley Weaver"....
  • Norm Crosby
    Norm Crosby

    Norm Crosby is a comedian sometimes associated with the Borscht Belt, but often seen on television in the 1970s. He is best known for his use of malapropisms, and is often called "The Master of Malaprop."...
  • Vienna Boys' Choir
    Vienna Boys' Choir

    The Vienna Boys' Choir is a choir of boy soprano and altos based in Vienna. It is one of the best known boys' choirs in the world. The boys are selected mainly from Austria, but also from many other countries around the world, and individually interviewed....
  • Betty Grable
    Betty Grable

    Betty Grable was an American dancer, singer, and actress.Her iconic bathing suit photo made her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era....
     (guest host)
  • Van Johnson
    Van Johnson

    Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during World War II.Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy next door," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the Second World War years...
     (guest host)
  • Paul Gilbert
    Paul Gilbert (actor)

    Paul Gilbert was a US film and television actor.Gilbert played various roles and appeared as himself from The Spike Jones Show in 1954 through Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In in 1973....


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  • Liberace
    Liberace

    Wladziu Valentino Liberace , better known by only his last name Liberace , was a famous United States entertainer and pianist of Poles and Italian people descent....
     (guest host)
  • Gene Baylos
    Gene Baylos

    Gene Baylos was a nightclub comedian. Not widely known by the general public, Baylos was a favourite of many "celebrity" comedians in New York City....
  • Rowan and Martin
  • Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
  • Shani Wallis
    Shani Wallis

    Shani Wallis is an England actress and singer, who released several records in the 1950s.Making her first stage appearance at the age of four, she later studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art on a scholarship, and went on to play many leading lady roles in the West End, but she is best known for the role of Nancy in Carol Reed's 19...
  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     (guest host)
  • Gene Barry
    Gene Barry

    Gene Barry is an United States actor....
  • George Burns
    George Burns

    George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
     (guest host)
  • Cyd Charisse
    Cyd Charisse

    Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s....
     and Tony Martin
    Tony Martin (entertainer)

    Tony Martin is an United States actor and traditional pop music singer....
     (guest hosts)
  • Jacques d'Amboise
    Jacques d'Amboise

    Jacques d'Amboise is a well-known United States ballet dancer and choreographer....
  • Buddy Ebsen
    Buddy Ebsen

    Buddy Ebsen was a versatile United States character actor and dancer. A performer for seven decades, he is best remembered for his starring roles as Jed Clampett in the popular 1960s television series, The Beverly Hillbillies and as the title character in the long-running 1970s detective series Barnaby Jones....
  • Beverly Garland
    Beverly Garland

    Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas," in the long-running 1960s sitcom, My Three Sons ....
  • Phil Harris
    Phil Harris

    Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
  • The King Sisters
    The King Sisters

    The King Sisters were a big band era quartet....
  • Groucho Marx
    Groucho Marx

    Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx , was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers and also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho....
     (guest host)
  • Frank McHugh
    Frank McHugh

    Frank McHugh was an United States film and television actor.McHugh came from a theatrical family. His parents ran a stock theatre company and as a young child he performed on stage....
  • Debbie Reynolds
    Debbie Reynolds

    Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds is an Academy Award-nominated United States actor, singer, and dancer....
  • Ed Wynn
    Ed Wynn

    Ed Wynn was a popular United States comedian and actor noted for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later career as a dramatic actor....
  • Ben Blue
    Ben Blue

    Ben Blue , born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.In the 1920s Bernstein joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers....
  • Jack Carter
    Jack Carter (comedian)

    'Jack Carter' is an United States comedian, actor and Host .Carter's only Broadway theatre appearance was opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1956 musical Mr....
  • Trini Lopez
    Trini Lopez

    Trini Lopez is a Mexican-American singing and guitarist....
  • Shaike Ophir
  • Mort Sahl
    Mort Sahl

    Morton Lyon Sahl is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Dick Gregory....
  • Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
     (guest host)
  • Kay Starr
    Kay Starr

    Kay Starr is an United States jazz singer who enjoyed considerable success in the 1950s....
  • David Janssen
    David Janssen

    David Janssen was a Golden Globe-winning Emmy Award- nominated United States film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr....
     (guest host)
  • Edie Adams
    Edie Adams

    Edie Adams was an United States singer, Broadway theatre, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde."...
  • Mel Brooks
    Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
  • Tim Conway
    Tim Conway

    Thomas Daniel Conway, known professionally as Tim Conway , is an American comedian and Emmy award winning actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television....
  • Vic Damone
    Vic Damone

    Vic Damone is an United States singer and entertainer....
  • Shecky Greene
    Shecky Greene

    'Shecky Greene' , is a comedian known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has been a headliner for more than 30 years. He has appeared in several films, including History of the World, Part I and Splash , and has guest starred on such television shows as Mad About You, Laverne & Shirley, Love, America...
  • Carl Reiner
    Carl Reiner

    Carl Reiner is an United States actor, film director, television producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career....
  • Rich Little
    Rich Little

    Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canada Impressionist and voice actor. Little has long been known as a top impersonator of famous people throughout the world, which has earned him the nickname "The Man of a Thousand Voices."...
  • Wayne Newton
    Wayne Newton

    Carson Wayne Newton is an United States singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born in Roanoke, Virginia. While Newton was still a child, his family moved to a home near Newark, Ohio....
  • Connie Stevens
    Connie Stevens

    Connie Stevens is an United States Actor and singer....
  • Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
     (guest host)
  • Barrie Chase
    Barrie Chase

    Barrie Chase is an United States dancer and actress.She made four television appearances as Fred Astaire's dance partner in his An Evening With Fred Astaire between 1958 and 1968....
  • Bert Lahr
    Bert Lahr

    Bert Lahr was a American of German-Jewish heritage Tony Award-winning comic actor and vaudeville comedian....
  • Julius LaRosa
  • Jan Murray
    Jan Murray

    Jan Murray was an United states stand-up comedian and actor who made his name on the Borscht Belt....
  • Roy Rogers
    Roy Rogers

    Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
     and Dale Evans
    Dale Evans

    Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith , a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers....

    (guest hosts)
  • Shelley Berman
    Shelley Berman

    Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
  • Jan and Dean
    Jan and Dean

    Jan and Dean were a rock and roll duet , popular from the late 1950s through the mid 1960s, consisting of William Jan Berry and Dean Ormsby Torrence ....
  • Billy De Wolfe
    Billy De Wolfe

    Billy De Wolfe was an United States character actor. He was active in films from the mid-1940s until his death in 1974. He was a good friend of Doris Day from the time of their meeting during the filming of Tea for Two until his death....
  • The Nicholas Brothers
  • Eddie Fisher
    Eddie Fisher (singer)

    Edwin Jack Fisher is an United States singer and entertainer....
     (guest host)
  • Victor Borge
    Victor Borge

    Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, entertainer and piano, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane....
     (guest host)
  • Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney

    Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  • Robert Goulet
    Robert Goulet

    Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
     (guest host)
  • Bill Cosby
    Bill Cosby

    William Henry "Bill" Cosby Jr. is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy....
  • Bill Dana
  • Carol Lawrence
    Carol Lawrence

    Carol Lawrence is an American actress most often associated with musical theatre.Born as Carolina Maria LaRaia in Melrose Park, Illinois, Carol Lawrence made her Broadway theatre debut in 1952....
  • Tony Randall
    Tony Randall

    Tony Randall was an American comic and actor....
     (guest host)
  • Vikki Carr
    Vikki Carr

    Vikki Carr is an United States singer who has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop music and country music, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language....
  • Nelson Eddy
    Nelson Eddy

    Nelson Ackerman Eddy was an American singer and movie star who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs....
  • Pat Morita
    Pat Morita

    Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was an Academy Award nominated United States actor who was well-known for playing the roles of Arnold on the TV show Happy Days and Kesuke Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984 in film....
  • The Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  • Allan Sherman
    Allan Sherman

    Allan Sherman was a Jewish United States musician, parody, satire and television producer....
  • Dale Robertson
    Dale Robertson

    Dale Robertson is an United States actor best known for his starring roles on television....
     (guest host)
  • George Gobel
    George Gobel

    George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian, best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, from 1954 to 1960....
  • Lisa Kirk
    Lisa Kirk

    Lisa Kirk was an United States actor and singer.Born as Elsie Kirk in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, she enrolled as a law student at the University of Pittsburgh but abandoned her studies when she was offered a spot in the chorus line at the Versailles nightclub in Manhattan....
  • Barbara McNair
    Barbara McNair

    Barbara McNair was an United States singer and actress.Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, McNair studied music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago....
  • Margaret Dumont
    Margaret Dumont

    Margaret Dumont was an United States comedic actress.She is remembered mostly for being the double act to Groucho Marx in seven of the Marx Brothers films....
  • Gordon
    Gordon MacRae

    Albert Gordon MacRae was an USA actor and singer, best known for his appearances in musical theater of the 1950s.Born in East Orange, New Jersey, MacRae graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1940 and served as a navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II....
     and Sheila MacRae
    Sheila MacRae

    Sheila MacRae is an actress and author.She is sometimes credited as Sheila Stephenson.MacRae appeared in such films as Pretty Baby , Caged , Backfire , and Sex and the Single Girl ....
  • Miriam Makeba
    Miriam Makeba

    Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil rights activist. The Grammy Award winning artist is often referred to as Mama Afrika....
  • Melinda Marx
    Melinda Marx

    Melinda Marie Marx is an United States actress who had a brief movie career. She is the daughter of Groucho Marx and his second wife, Kay Marvis Gorcey....
  • Pat Boone
    Pat Boone

    Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone is an United States singer, actor and writer who was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s....
     (guest host)
  • Dorothy Collins
    Dorothy Collins

    Dorothy Collins was a popular United States singer, actor, and recording artist. She was born Marjorie Chandler in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and adopted her stage name in her mid-teens....
  • Jack E. Leonard
    Jack E. Leonard

    Jack E. Leonard was an United States comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety show and game shows....
  • Liliane Montevecchi
    Liliane Montevecchi

    Liliane Montevecchi is a France actor, dancer, and singer.Born in Paris, France, Montevecchi began her career as a prima ballerina in Roland Petit's dance company....
  • Louis Armstrong
    Louis Armstrong

    Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
     (guest host)
  • Diahann Carroll
    Diahann Carroll

    Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
  • Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante

    James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
  • Steve Lawrence
    Steve Lawrence

    Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
     (guest host)
  • Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • Bobby Van
    Bobby Van

    Bobby Van was a Musician actor probably best known for his career on Broadway theatre in the 1950s and 1970s.Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up wiktionary:backstage to many memorable Great Depression-era acts....
  • Jack Jones
    Jack Jones (singer)

    Jack Jones is an United States jazz and pop music singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s....
  • Mary Costa
    Mary Costa

    Mary Costa is an United States singer, best known for playing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 The Walt Disney Company film Sleeping Beauty ....
  • The Young Americans
    The Young Americans

    The Young Americans is a non-profit organization and performing group based in Southern California. First founded in 1962 by Milton C. Anderson, the group is credited with being the first show choir in America, mixing choreography with choral singing....
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford
    Tennessee Ernie Ford

    Tennessee Ernie Ford an American recording artist and television host who enjoyed success in the Country music, Pop music and Gospel music musical genres....
     (guest host)
  • Ann Miller
    Ann Miller

    Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress....
  • Jack Burns
    Jack Burns

    Jack Burns is an United States comedian and Voice acting....
     and Avery Schreiber
    Avery Schreiber

    Avery Lawrence Schreiber was an United States comedian and actor. He was a veteran of stage, TV and film....
  • Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire

    Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
     (guest host)
  • Margot Fonteyn
    Margot Fonteyn

    Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias, Order of the British Empire, , the British prima ballerina Ballerina#Prima ballerina assoluta, was considered by many to be the greatest English ballerina, and one of the greatest dancers of the 20th Century....
  • Rudolf Nureyev
    Rudolf Nureyev

    File:Rudolph Nureyev.jpgRudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Tatar dancer from the Soviet Union, primarily known for his work in ballet....
  • Paul Lynde
    Paul Lynde

    Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry McAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie....
  • Jackie Mason
    Jackie Mason

    Jackie Mason is an United States stand-up comedy. He grew up in New York City .Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York and, at the age of 25, was ordained, as his three brothers and father had been, a rabbi in Latrobe, Pennsylvania....
  • We Five
    We Five

    We Five was a 1960s folk rock musical group based in San Francisco, California. Their best-known hit single was their 1965 in music remake of Ian and Sylvia's "You Were on My Mind", which reached #1 on the Cashbox chart, #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart....
  • Joan Crawford
    Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
     (guest host)
  • Marty Allen
    Marty Allen

    Marty Allen may refer to:*Marty Allen , American actor and comedian*Marty Allen , former head of Computervision Corp*"Marty Allen" a former disc jockey at WCZX Radio in Poughkeepsie, NY...
     and Steve Rossi
  • Joanie Sommers
    Joanie Sommers

    Joanie Sommers , is an United States singer and actor....
  • Godfrey Cambridge
    Godfrey Cambridge

    Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge was an United States comedian and actor. He was especially popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a regular guest on The Merv Griffin Show and other talk shows....
  • Frank Sinatra
    Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
     (guest host)
  • Count Basie
    Count Basie

    William "Count" Basie was an United States Jazz piano, organist, bandleader, and composer. Widely regarded as one of the most important jazz bandleaders of his time, Basie led his popular Count Basie Orchestra for almost 50 years....
  • Peter Gennaro
    Peter Gennaro

    Peter Gennaro was an American dancer and choreographer....
  • Milton Berle
    Milton Berle

    Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
     (guest host)
  • Sonny & Cher
    Sonny & Cher

    Sonny & Cher were an United States pop music duo, made up of husband and wife team Sonny Bono and Cher in the 1960s and 1970s. In their career Sonny & Cher had sold 80 million records worldwide....
  • Abbe Lane
    Abbe Lane

    Abbe Lane is an American singer and actress.Born Abigail Francine Lassman to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York State, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway theatre....
  • Ray Bolger
    Ray Bolger

    Ray Bolger was an United States entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz ....
     (guest host)
  • Norm Crosby
    Norm Crosby

    Norm Crosby is a comedian sometimes associated with the Borscht Belt, but often seen on television in the 1970s. He is best known for his use of malapropisms, and is often called "The Master of Malaprop."...
  • Lionel Hampton
    Lionel Hampton

    Lionel Leo Hampton , was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players....
  • Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
     (guest host)
  • Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera

    Chita Rivera is an American actress dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award ....
  • Kessler Twins
    Kessler Twins

    Alice and Ellen Kessler are twins popular in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing and acting....
  • John W. Bubbles
    John W. Bubbles

    John William Sublett , known by his stage name John W. Bubbles, was an United States vaudeville performer, dancer, singer and entertainer....
  • Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh

    Janet Leigh was an American actress.Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s....
     (guest host)
  • Larry Storch
    Larry Storch

    Lawrence Samuel "Larry" Storch is an United States actor best known for his comic television roles, including voice-over work for top cartoon shows, including Mr....
  • Ken Berry
    Ken Berry

    Kenneth Ronald "Ken" Berry is an United States dancer, and comedic actor. Berry, like Dan Dailey and Buddy Ebsen , began his career as a dancer and went on to star in 1960s sitcoms....
  • Andy Russell
    Andy Russell (singer)

    Andy Russell was an United States popular music vocalist, specializing in traditional pop music and Latin music.He was born Andr?s Rabago P?rez in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles....
  • Forrest Tucker
    Forrest Tucker

    Forrest Tucker was an American actor in both films and television from the 1940s to the 1980s. Tucker, who stood and weighed , appeared in nearly 100 action films in the 1940s and 1950s....
  • Milton Frome
    Milton Frome

    Milton Frome was an American television and film actor.Frome was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, United States. Although his first acting job was in Daredevil O'Dare in 1934, he did not act again until 1939 when he joined the cast of Ride 'Em Cowgirl as Oliver Sheahe....
  • Joey Heatherton
    Joey Heatherton

    Joey Heatherton is an United States actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s....
  • The McGuire Sisters
    The McGuire Sisters

    The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in United States popular music. The group was composed of three sisters; Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire ....
  • Cesar Romero
    Cesar Romero

    Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was a Cuban American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of Joker's appearances in other media#Batman in the 1960s television series Batman ....
  • Johnny Puleo
    Johnny Puleo

    Johnny Puleo was an American musician and actor, who specialized in playing the harmonica.He performed in front of such notables as the Royal Command in England and the Presidents of the United States and France....
  • Caterina Valente
    Caterina Valente

    Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italy artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown....
     (guest host)
  • Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
  • John Banner
    John Banner

    John Banner was a Jewish Austrian actor. Ironically, he is best known for his role as a World War II Germany soldier, the comedic Sgt. Hans Schultz on the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes ....
  • Bob Crane
    Bob Crane

    Robert Edward Crane was an American disc jockey and Emmy Award-nominated actor, best known for his performance as Colonel Robert E. Hogan in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes from 1965 to 1971, and for his violent and unsolved death....
  • Robert Clary
    Robert Clary

    Robert Clary is a France-born Jewish-United States actor, author, and lecturer....
  • Richard Dawson
    Richard Dawson

    Richard Dawson aka 'The Kissing Bandit' is a United Kingdom-United States actor, comedian, game show panelist and host. He is best known for his role as Bob Crane's British non-commissioned officer, Corporal Peter Newkirk, on the World War II situation comedy Hogan's Heroes, and as the original host of the Family Feud game show from 1...
  • Ivan Dixon
    Ivan Dixon

    Ivan Dixon was an United States actor, director, and Film producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for his Emmy Award-nominated role in the 1967 telefilm The Final War of Olly Winter, and for directing hundreds of episodes of television series....
  • Larry Hovis
    Larry Hovis

    Larry Hovis was an United States singer and actor best known for playing a fictional character prisoner of war on the 1960s television series sitcom Hogan's Heroes....
  • Werner Klemperer
    Werner Klemperer

    Werner Klemperer was an Emmy Award-winning comedic actor, best known for his role as Colonel Klink on the television sitcom, Hogan's Heroes....
  • Fred Waring
    Fred Waring

    Fredrick Malcolm Waring was a popular musician, bandleader and radio-television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing." He was also a promoter, financial backer and namesake of the Waring Blendor, the first modern blender on the market....


1966

  • Bing Crosby
    Bing Crosby

    Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
     (guest host)
  • Ben Blue
    Ben Blue

    Ben Blue , born Benjamin Bernstein, was a Canadian-American actor and comedian.In the 1920s Bernstein joined a popular orchestra, Jack White and His Montrealers....
  • Sonny & Cher
    Sonny & Cher

    Sonny & Cher were an United States pop music duo, made up of husband and wife team Sonny Bono and Cher in the 1960s and 1970s. In their career Sonny & Cher had sold 80 million records worldwide....
  • Bob Newhart
    Bob Newhart

    George Robert "Bob" Newhart is an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who is best known for playing psychologist Dr. Robert "Bob" Hartley on the popular 1970s sitcom The Bob Newhart Show and as innkeeper Dick Loudon on the popular 1980s sitcom Newhart....
     (guest host)
  • Danny Thomas
    Danny Thomas

    Danny Thomas was an United States nightclub comedian and television and film actor, best known for starring in the television sitcom Make Room for Daddy....
  • Kate Smith
    Kate Smith

    Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
     (guest host)
  • Charles Aznavour
    Charles Aznavour

    Charles Aznavour, Order of Canada is an Armenian-France singer, songwriter, actor and public activist. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the most well-known singers in the world....
  • Jack Burns
    Jack Burns

    Jack Burns is an United States comedian and Voice acting....
     and Avery Schreiber
    Avery Schreiber

    Avery Lawrence Schreiber was an United States comedian and actor. He was a veteran of stage, TV and film....
  • Juliet Prowse
    Juliet Prowse

    Juliet Anne Prowse was a South African dancer, whose four decade career included stage, television and film but dancing remained her true love....
  • Phil Harris
    Phil Harris

    Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
     (guest host)
  • Alice Faye
    Alice Faye

    Alice Faye was an United States actor and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris....
  • Tim Conway
    Tim Conway

    Thomas Daniel Conway, known professionally as Tim Conway , is an American comedian and Emmy award winning actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television....
  • Sergio Franchi
    Sergio Franchi

    Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.He was born in Cremona, Italy. His sister is singer Dana Valery. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously....
  • Fred Astaire
    Fred Astaire

    Fred Astaire was an United States Academy Award-winning film and Broadway theatre dance, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films....
     (guest host)
  • Barrie Chase
    Barrie Chase

    Barrie Chase is an United States dancer and actress.She made four television appearances as Fred Astaire's dance partner in his An Evening With Fred Astaire between 1958 and 1968....
  • Petula Clark
    Petula Clark

    Petula Clark, Order of the British Empire , is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II....
  • Mickey Rooney
    Mickey Rooney

    Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
  • Bobby Van
    Bobby Van

    Bobby Van was a Musician actor probably best known for his career on Broadway theatre in the 1950s and 1970s.Bobby Van was born Robert Jack Stein to vaudeville parents in The Bronx, New York City, and grew up wiktionary:backstage to many memorable Great Depression-era acts....
  • Arthur Godfrey
    Arthur Godfrey

    Arthur Morton Leo Godfrey was an United States radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead....
     (guest host)
  • Sid Caesar
    Sid Caesar

    Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
  • The Mamas & the Papas
    The Mamas & the Papas

    The Mamas & the Papas were a vocal group of the 1960s. The group recorded and performed from 1965 to 1968 with a short reunion in 1971, releasing five albums and ten hit singles....
  • Abbe Lane
    Abbe Lane

    Abbe Lane is an American singer and actress.Born Abigail Francine Lassman to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York State, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway theatre....
  • Vince Edwards
    Vince Edwards

    Vince Edwards was an United States actor, director, and singer, best known for the role of TV doctor "Ben Casey"....
     (guest host)
  • Bette Davis
    Bette Davis

    Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime films to historical film and period piece and occasional comedy, though her greatest successes were h...
  • Liza Minnelli
    Liza Minnelli

    Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
  • Liliane Montevecchi
    Liliane Montevecchi

    Liliane Montevecchi is a France actor, dancer, and singer.Born in Paris, France, Montevecchi began her career as a prima ballerina in Roland Petit's dance company....
  • Joan Rivers
    Joan Rivers

    Joan Rivers is an United States comedian, actress, talk show Host , and businesswoman. She is known for her brash manner and loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York dialect....
  • Donald O'Connor
    Donald O'Connor

    Donald David Dixon Ronald O?Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
     (guest host)
  • Paul Anka
    Paul Anka

    Paul Albert Anka, Order of Canada is a Canada singer, songwriter, and actor of Lebanese people origin. He became a Naturalization US citizen in 1990....
  • Shecky Greene
    Shecky Greene

    'Shecky Greene' , is a comedian known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has been a headliner for more than 30 years. He has appeared in several films, including History of the World, Part I and Splash , and has guest starred on such television shows as Mad About You, Laverne & Shirley, Love, America...
  • Edward G. Robinson
    Edward G. Robinson

    Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Sr. was an honorary Academy Award-winning United States actor born in Romania. Although he has played a wide range of characters, he is best remembered for his roles as a gangster, most notably in his star-making film Little Caesar....
  • Jane Morgan
    Jane Morgan

    Jane Morgan is an United States popular music singing, specializing in traditional pop music....
  • Roger Williams
    Roger Williams (pianist)

    Roger Williams , born Louis Weertz, is one of the most popular pianists in United States popular music history. As of 2004, he has released 116 albums....
  • Edgar Bergen
    Edgar Bergen

    Edgar John Bergen was an Academy Award-winning United States actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquism....
     and Charlie McCarthy
  • Rosemary Clooney
    Rosemary Clooney

    Rosemary Clooney was an United States singer and actor. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the novelty hit "Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers "Botch-a-Me " , "Mambo Italiano ", and "This Ole House", songs which tended to obscure her talents as a jazz vocalist....
  • Gary Crosby
  • Liberace
    Liberace

    Wladziu Valentino Liberace , better known by only his last name Liberace , was a famous United States entertainer and pianist of Poles and Italian people descent....
     (guest host)
  • John Davidson
    John Davidson (entertainer)

    John Hamilton Davidson, Sr. is an United States singer, actor and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine , and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of Pyramid in 1990....
  • Marni Nixon
    Marni Nixon

    Marni Nixon is an American soprano whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in well known movie musicals earned her the sobriquet "The Ghostess with the Mostess", and also "The Voice of Hollywood"....
  • Channing Pollock
    Channing Pollock (magician)

    Channing Pollock was an American magician and film actor.As one of the most sophisticated and charismatic practitioners of his craft; strikingly handsome with an enigmatic stage presence, he was best known for an act in which he would elegantly produce doves out of thin air and he was often billed as "the most beautiful man in the world"....
  • Milton Berle
    Milton Berle

    Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
     (guest host)
  • Martha Raye
    Martha Raye

    Martha Raye was an United States comic actress and traditional pop music singer who performed in film, and later on television.Biography...
     (guest host)
  • Adam West
    Adam West

    Adam West is an United States actor who played the role of Batman on the 1960s TV series Batman , which was also adapted to a Batman . He is currently known for his voice work on animated series such as Fairly Oddparents and Family Guy....
     (guest host)
  • Sandler and Young
    Sandler and Young

    Sandler and Young were a popular singing team from the 1960s through the 1980s, comprised of Belgium-born Tony Sandler and native New York City Ralph Young ....
  • Henny Youngman
    Henny Youngman

    Henry "Henny" Youngman was a United Kingdom-born comedian and violinist famous for "one-liner joke," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire....
  • Jack Jones
    Jack Jones (singer)

    Jack Jones is an United States jazz and pop music singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s....
  • Marcel Marceau
    Marcel Marceau

    Marcel Marceau was a French mime and actor....
  • Ethel Merman
    Ethel Merman

    Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
  • Pat Morita
    Pat Morita

    Noriyuki "Pat" Morita was an Academy Award nominated United States actor who was well-known for playing the roles of Arnold on the TV show Happy Days and Kesuke Miyagi in the The Karate Kid movie series, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1984 in film....
  • Robert Goulet
    Robert Goulet

    Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
     (guest host)
  • The Muppets
    The Muppets

    ----The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson. Individually, a Muppet is one of the puppets made by Jim Henson or his The Jim Henson Company....
  • Jan Murray
    Jan Murray

    Jan Murray was an United states stand-up comedian and actor who made his name on the Borscht Belt....
  • Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera

    Chita Rivera is an American actress dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award ....
  • Nancy Sinatra
    Nancy Sinatra

    Nancy Sandra Sinatra is an United States singer and actor. She is the daughter of singer/actor Frank Sinatra from his first wife, Nancy Barbato, and remains known for her 1966 signature song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"....
  • Nanette Fabray
    Nanette Fabray

    Nanette Fabray is an United States actress....
  • David Frost
    David Frost

    David Frost may refer to:*Sir David Frost , British broadcaster*David Frost , South African golfer*David Frost , classical record producer*David Frost ...
  • Tammy Grimes
    Tammy Grimes

    Tammy Lee Grimes is an American award-winning actress and singer....
  • Jackie Mason
    Jackie Mason

    Jackie Mason is an United States stand-up comedy. He grew up in New York City .Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College of New York and, at the age of 25, was ordained, as his three brothers and father had been, a rabbi in Latrobe, Pennsylvania....
  • Marty Allen
    Marty Allen

    Marty Allen may refer to:*Marty Allen , American actor and comedian*Marty Allen , former head of Computervision Corp*"Marty Allen" a former disc jockey at WCZX Radio in Poughkeepsie, NY...
     and Steve Rossi
  • George Carlin
    George Carlin

    George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedy. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....
  • Ann Miller
    Ann Miller

    Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress....
  • Chad and Jeremy
    Chad and Jeremy

    Chad and Jeremy was a singing folk music rock music duet in the 1960s, comprising Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde . They were part of the British Invasion, a large influx of Great Britain rock and pop music musicians to the United States music scene....
  • Barry Sadler
    Barry Sadler

    Barry Sadler was an American author and musician. Sadler served as a United States Army Special Forces medic and Staff Sergeant#United States in the United States Army during the Vietnam War....
  • Gene Barry
    Gene Barry

    Gene Barry is an United States actor....
     (guest host)
  • Wally Cox
    Wally Cox

    Wallace Maynard Cox was an American comedian and actor, particularly associated with the early years of television in the United States....
  • Don Drysdale
    Don Drysdale

    Donald Scott "Don" Drysdale was a Major League Baseball player and National Baseball Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers....
  • Sandy Koufax
    Sandy Koufax

    Sanford Koufax is an United States left-handed former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played his entire career for the Los Angeles Dodgers, from to ....
  • The McGuire Sisters
    The McGuire Sisters

    The McGuire Sisters were a singing trio in United States popular music. The group was composed of three sisters; Christine McGuire , Dorothy McGuire , and Phyllis McGuire ....
  • Cyd Charisse
    Cyd Charisse

    Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s....
     and Tony Martin
    Tony Martin (entertainer)

    Tony Martin is an United States actor and traditional pop music singer....
     (guest hosts)
  • Vikki Carr
    Vikki Carr

    Vikki Carr is an United States singer who has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop music and country music, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language....
  • Norm Crosby
    Norm Crosby

    Norm Crosby is a comedian sometimes associated with the Borscht Belt, but often seen on television in the 1970s. He is best known for his use of malapropisms, and is often called "The Master of Malaprop."...
  • Rowan and Martin
  • Cesar Romero
    Cesar Romero

    Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was a Cuban American film and television actor, best known for his portrayal of Joker's appearances in other media#Batman in the 1960s television series Batman ....
  • Victor Borge
    Victor Borge

    Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, entertainer and piano, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane....
     (guest host)
  • Irwin Corey
    Irwin Corey

    'Professor' Irwin Corey is an United States comic, film actor and left-wing political activist, who is often billed as 'The World's Foremost Authority'....
  • Peter Gennaro
    Peter Gennaro

    Peter Gennaro was an American dancer and choreographer....
  • Jane Powell
    Jane Powell

    Jane Powell is an American singer, dancer and actress. She was a star of MGM musicals as a teenager in the 1940s, and continued in the 1950s....
  • Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
  • Louis Nye
    Louis Nye

    Louis Nye was an United States comedy actor....
  • Helen O'Connell
    Helen O'Connell

    Helen O'Connell was a singer, actress, and dancer.O'Connell joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early forties with "Green Eyes ", "Amapola ," "Tangerine " and "Yours_." In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement....
  • Judy Garland
    Judy Garland

    Judy Garland was an American actress and alto singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage....
     (guest host)
  • Jack Carter
    Jack Carter (comedian)

    'Jack Carter' is an United States comedian, actor and Host .Carter's only Broadway theatre appearance was opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1956 musical Mr....
  • Van Johnson
    Van Johnson

    Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during World War II.Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy next door," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the Second World War years...
  • Johnny Rivers
    Johnny Rivers

    Johnny Rivers is an United States rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll songs and some original material....
  • Shelley Berman
    Shelley Berman

    Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
  • The King Sisters
    The King Sisters

    The King Sisters were a big band era quartet....
  • Johnny Mercer
    Johnny Mercer

    John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
  • Leslie Uggams
    Leslie Uggams

    Leslie Uggams is United States actress and singer, perhaps best known for her Tony Award-winning work in Hallelujah, Baby!Uggams first started in show business as a child in 1950, playing the niece of Ethel Waters on the television series Beulah #Television....
  • George Burns
    George Burns

    George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
     (guest host)
  • Lola Falana
    Lola Falana

    Lola Falana is an United States dancer and actress of Cubans and African American descent. Falana's father left Cuba to become a welder in the United States, where he met his wife....
  • Phil Silvers
    Phil Silvers

    Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
     (guest host)
  • Polly Bergen
    Polly Bergen

    Polly Bergen is an United States Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and entrepreneur....
  • Mel Brooks
    Mel Brooks

    Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
  • Carl Reiner
    Carl Reiner

    Carl Reiner is an United States actor, film director, television producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career....
  • The Lovin' Spoonful
    The Lovin' Spoonful

    The Lovin' Spoonful is an United States pop rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band's name was inspired by some lines in a song of Mississippi John Hurt called the "Coffee Blues." John Sebastian credits Fritz Richmond for suggesting the name....
  • Elizabeth Montgomery
    Elizabeth Montgomery

    Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery was an United States film and television program actor whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered for her roles as Samantha Stephens in Bewitched, as Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape and as Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden#Film....
     (guest host)
  • Vic Damone
    Vic Damone

    Vic Damone is an United States singer and entertainer....
  • Paul Lynde
    Paul Lynde

    Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry McAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie....
  • Morgana King
    Morgana King

    Morgana King is a jazz singer who has recorded over thirty albums to date.King was born in Pleasantville, New York, New York of Sicily#People descent, and as a vocalist toured extensively giving memorable concerts in Rome, S?o Paulo and Rio de Janeiro....
  • Roy Rogers
    Roy Rogers

    Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
     and Dale Evans
    Dale Evans

    Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith , a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers....
  • Ray Charles
    Ray Charles

    Ray Charles Robinson , known by his stage name Ray Charles, was an United States pianist, singer, and songwriter who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues....
  • Joey Heatherton
    Joey Heatherton

    Joey Heatherton is an United States actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s....
  • Herman's Hermits
    Herman's Hermits

    Herman's Hermits were an England pop band, formed in Manchester in 1963 as 'Herman & The Hermits'. The group's management and producer Mickie Most emphasized a simple, non-threatening and clean-cut image, although the band originally played Rhythm and blues numbers ....
  • Phyllis Diller
    Phyllis Diller

    Phyllis Diller is a Golden Globe-nominated United States Comedian, considered to be one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder....
     (guest host)
  • Gilbert Bécaud
    Gilbert Bécaud

    Gilbert B?caud was a France singer, composer and actor, known as Monsieur 100,000 Volts for his energetic performances. His best-known hit record are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love "....
  • The Supremes
    The Supremes

    The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
  • Dale Robertson
    Dale Robertson

    Dale Robertson is an United States actor best known for his starring roles on television....
     (guest host)
  • Hendra & Ullett
    Tony Hendra

    Tony Hendra is an English satire and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School and Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor....
  • The Geezinslaw Brothers
    Geezinslaws

    The Geezinslaws are a Austin, Texas-based country music comedy duo consisting of Sammy Allred and Dewayne "Son" Smith. They have been performing for more than 50 years and released numerous recordings over a 40+ year span from 1963 to 2005....
  • George Jessel
    George Jessel

    George Jessel may refer to:*George Jessel , American actor*George Jessel , English Jurist...
  • Peter Nero
    Peter Nero

    Peter Nero is an United States pianist and pop music Conductor ....
  • The Standells
    The Standells

    The Standells were a 1960's garage rock band from Los Angeles, California, California....
  • Bill Dana
  • Dorothy Lamour
    Dorothy Lamour

    Dorothy Lamour was an United States film actor. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby....
  • Jean-Pierre Aumont
    Jean-Pierre Aumont

    Jean-Pierre Aumont was a France actor....
  • Marisa Pavan
    Marisa Pavan

    Marisa Pavan is an Italy-born actor who first became famous as the twin sister to film star Pier Angeli before achieving movie stardom on her own....
  • Jimmy Durante
    Jimmy Durante

    James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
     (guest host)
  • Peter Lawford
    Peter Lawford

    Peter Sydney Lawford was an English-born actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting....
  • Mrs. Miller
  • The Turtles
    The Turtles

    The Turtles are an United States Pop music and folk rock band led by vocalists Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who became notable for numerous Top 40 hits beginning with their cover version of Bob Dylan's "It Ain't Me Babe" , and "Happy Together " ....
  • Eddie Fisher
    Eddie Fisher (singer)

    Edwin Jack Fisher is an United States singer and entertainer....
     (guest host)
  • Joey Forman
    Joey Forman

    Joey Forman was an American comedian and comic actor. He first attracted attention in Las Vegas as the opening act for Mickey Rooney. He also co-starred in Mickey Rooney's 1954-55 sitcom Hey, Mulligan! as Mickey's best friend, Freddy....
  • Kessler Twins
    Kessler Twins

    Alice and Ellen Kessler are twins popular in Europe, especially Germany and Italy, from the 1950s and 1960s and until today for their singing, dancing and acting....
  • Agnes Moorehead
    Agnes Moorehead

    Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career that spanned more than thirty years, Moorehead is most widely known to modern audiences for her role as the witch Endora in the t...
  • The Young Americans
    The Young Americans

    The Young Americans is a non-profit organization and performing group based in Southern California. First founded in 1962 by Milton C. Anderson, the group is credited with being the first show choir in America, mixing choreography with choral singing....
  • Kathryn Grant
    Kathryn Grant

    Kathryn Grant may refer to:* Kathryn Crosby, American actress who also used the stage name Kathryn Grant* Kathryn Ptacek, American author who also wrote under her married name, Kathryn Grant...
  • Harry Crosby
    Harry Crosby (actor)

    Harry Lillis Crosby III is an United States actor, singer and investment banker.Crosby was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, the eldest from Bing's second marriage to Kathryn Crosby ....
  • Mary Crosby
    Mary Crosby

    Mary Frances Crosby is an United States actor. She is most often credited as simply Mary Crosby for her performances....
  • Nathaniel Crosby
    Nathaniel Crosby

    Nathaniel Patrick Crosby is an United States golfer.Crosby was born at Hillsborough, California. He is the sixth son of the actor and singer Bing Crosby and the youngest of his three children from his second marriage to the actress Kathryn Crosby....
  • Dorothy Collins
    Dorothy Collins

    Dorothy Collins was a popular United States singer, actor, and recording artist. She was born Marjorie Chandler in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and adopted her stage name in her mid-teens....
  • Skitch Henderson
    Skitch Henderson

    Lyle Russell Cedric ?Skitch? Henderson , was a pianist, conducting, and composer. His nickname reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key....
  • The Mills Brothers
  • Johnny Puleo
    Johnny Puleo

    Johnny Puleo was an American musician and actor, who specialized in playing the harmonica.He performed in front of such notables as the Royal Command in England and the Presidents of the United States and France....


1967

Ray Bolger
Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger was an United States entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hunk in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz ....
 (guest host) Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
 The King Sisters
The King Sisters

The King Sisters were a big band era quartet....
 Paul Revere & the Raiders
Paul Revere & the Raiders

Paul Revere and the Raiders is an United States rock and roll band that saw enormous mainstream success in the second half of the 1960s and earlier 1970s, best-known for hits like "Indian Reservation " , "Steppin' Out" & "Just Like Me" , "Kicks" , "Let Me" , and "Hungry " ....
 Audrey Meadows
Audrey Meadows

Audrey Meadows was an United States actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners....
 Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 (guest host) Edie Adams
Edie Adams

Edie Adams was an United States singer, Broadway theatre, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde."...
 Tim Conway
Tim Conway

Thomas Daniel Conway, known professionally as Tim Conway , is an American comedian and Emmy award winning actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television....
 Everett Dirksen
Everett Dirksen

Everett McKinley Dirksen was a Republican Party United States United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from Illinois. As Republican Senate leader he played a highly visible and key role in the politics of the 1960s, including helping to write and pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Open Housing Act of 1968, both...
 Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante

James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
 (guest host) Donald O'Connor
Donald O'Connor

Donald David Dixon Ronald O?Connor was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule....
 (guest host) Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
 (guest host) Don Ho
Don Ho

Don Ho, born Donald Tai Loy Ho , was a Hawaiian and traditional pop music musician and singer and entertainer....
 Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis was an United States ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s. She is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop , first appearing on Hi Mom, a local morning show that aired on WNBC in New York City....
 Ted Lewis
Ted Lewis

Ted Lewis may be:*Ted Lewis , Edward Morgan Lewis*Ted Lewis , US bandleader, musician, entertainer, singer*Ted Lewis , English crime novelist...
 Jack Benny
Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
 (guest host) Petula Clark
Petula Clark

Petula Clark, Order of the British Empire , is an English singer, actress, and composer whose career has spanned seven decades.Clark's professional career began as an entertainer on BBC Radio during World War II....
 (guest host) Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis

Johnny Mathis is an United States singer of popular music.One of the last in a long line of traditional male vocalists who emerged before the 1960s, Mathis concentrated on romantic jazz and pop standards for the adult contemporary audience through to the 1980s....
 Ernie Terrell and the Heavyweights
Ernie Terrell

Ernie Terrell is an United States singer, record producer, and former World Boxing Association List of heavyweight boxing champions.Terrell is the older brother of The Supremes's early 1970s lead singer Jean Terrell....
 Sammy Davis Jr. (guest host) Liberace
Liberace

Wladziu Valentino Liberace , better known by only his last name Liberace , was a famous United States entertainer and pianist of Poles and Italian people descent....
 Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney

Mickey Rooney is an United States film actor and entertainer whose film, television, and theatre appearances span nearly his entire lifetime. During his career he has won multiple awards, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award....
 Kaye Stevens
Kaye Stevens

Kaye Stevens is an American actress. Kaye's big break in show business came at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, when the headliner for the night, Debbie Reynolds, became ill and Stevens filled in for the night....
 Dom DeLuise
Dom DeLuise

Dominick "Dom" DeLuise is a Golden Globe- nominated United States actor, comedian, film director, television producer, and chef. He is the husband of actress Carol Arthur, and the father of actor, writer, director Peter DeLuise, and actors David DeLuise and Michael DeLuise....
 Phil Harris
Phil Harris

Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
 Alice Faye
Alice Faye

Alice Faye was an United States actor and singer. She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her second husband, bandleader-comedian Phil Harris....
 Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
 Van Johnson
Van Johnson

Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during World War II.Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy next door," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the Second World War years...
 (guest host) George Carlin
George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin was an American stand-up comedy. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums....
 Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
 Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
 (guest host) Eydie Gormé
Eydie Gormé

Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....
 (guest host) Bill Dana Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller is a Golden Globe-nominated United States Comedian, considered to be one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder....
 Florence Henderson
Florence Henderson

Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer, perhaps best known for playing the role of Carol Brady in the television program The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974....
 Kate Smith
Kate Smith

Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its most-remembered zenith in the 1940s....
 (guest host) Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean is an United States country music singer, television Host , actor, and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the founder of the Jimmy Dean , he first rose to fame for his country crossover hits like "Big Bad John," and for his television appearances....
 Ann Miller
Ann Miller

Ann Miller was an American dancer, singer and actress....
 The New Vaudeville Band
The New Vaudeville Band

The New Vaudeville Band was a group created by songwriter Geoff Stephens in 1966 to sound recording and reproduction his novelty song composition "Winchester Cathedral ", a song inspired by the dance bands of the 1920s....
 George Burns
George Burns

George Burns was an United States comedy, actor, and comedy writer.His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen....
 (guest host) Lainie Kazan
Lainie Kazan

Lainie Kazan is an United States actress and singer....
 Enzo Stuarti
Enzo Stuarti

Enzo Stuarti, Italian American tenor..Born Lorenzo Scapone in Rome, Italy, Enzo Stuarti moved to the United States in 1934, settling in Newark, New Jersey with his family who had already immigrated to the United States sometime earlier....
 Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
 Red Buttons
Red Buttons

Red Buttons was an American comedy and actor....
 Nanette Fabray
Nanette Fabray

Nanette Fabray is an United States actress....
 Cyd Charisse
Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse was an American dancer and actress.After recovering from polio as a child, and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s....
 and Tony Martin
Tony Martin (entertainer)

Tony Martin is an United States actor and traditional pop music singer....

(guest hosts) Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks

Mel Brooks is an United States film director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and Film producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parody....
 Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner

Carl Reiner is an United States actor, film director, television producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career....
 Buffalo Springfield
Buffalo Springfield

Buffalo Springfield was a short-lived but influential folk rock group that served as a springboard for the careers of Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay and Jim Messina , and is most famous for the song "For What It's Worth "....
 Milton Berle
Milton Berle

Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
 (guest host) Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
 and Dale Evans
Dale Evans

Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith , a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers....
 Willie Mays Jimmy Piersall
Jimmy Piersall

James Anthony Piersall is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball. Between 1950 and 1967, he played for the Boston Red Sox , Cleveland Indians , Texas Rangers , New York Mets and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ....
 Maury Wills
Maury Wills

Maurice Morning Wills is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and switch-hitter batter who played most prominently with the Los Angeles Dodgers , and also with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Montreal Expos ....
 Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an United States Jazz drumming, bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed....
 Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce , for which she won the Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Actress....
 (guest host) Nancy Ames
Nancy Ames

Nancy Ames is an American folk singer and songwriter. She regularly appeared on the television series That Was the Week That Was.She was born in Washington, DC....
 The Cyrkle
The Cyrkle

The Cyrkle was a 1960s United States rock and roll band ....
 Julius LaRosa Gene Barry
Gene Barry

Gene Barry is an United States actor....
 (guest host) Theodore Bikel
Theodore Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel is an Academy Award- and Tony Award-nominated character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his role as the Southern Sheriff in The Defiant Ones ....
 Jack Burns
Jack Burns

Jack Burns is an United States comedian and Voice acting....
 and Avery Schreiber
Avery Schreiber

Avery Lawrence Schreiber was an United States comedian and actor. He was a veteran of stage, TV and film....
 Jack E. Leonard
Jack E. Leonard

Jack E. Leonard was an United States comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety show and game shows....
 Mort Sahl
Mort Sahl

Morton Lyon Sahl is a Canadian-born American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Dick Gregory....
 Don Ameche
Don Ameche

Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning United Statesn actor....
 Frances Langford
Frances Langford

Frances Newbern Langford was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades....
 Barbara McNair
Barbara McNair

Barbara McNair was an United States singer and actress.Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Racine, Wisconsin, McNair studied music at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago....
 Louis Nye
Louis Nye

Louis Nye was an United States comedy actor....
 The Association Joey Heatherton
Joey Heatherton

Joey Heatherton is an United States actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s....
 Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
 Frankie Avalon
Frankie Avalon

Frankie Avalon is an United States actor, Singing, Sex_Symbol, and former teen idol....
 Annette Funicello
Annette Funicello

Annette Joanne Funicello is an United States singer and actress. She was Walt Disney's most popular Mickey Mouse Club, and went on to appear in a series of beach party films....
 The 5th Dimension Joey Bishop
Joey Bishop

Joey Bishop was an United States entertainer who was perhaps best known for being a member of the "Rat Pack" with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin....
 Diana Ross
Diana Ross

Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
 & The Supremes
The Supremes

The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
 Raquel Welch
Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch is a Golden Globe winning, American actress....
 Victor Borge
Victor Borge

Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, entertainer and piano, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane....
 (guest host) Hendra & Ullett
Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra is an English satire and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School and Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor....
 Mireille Mathieu
Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu is a France singer. She has achieved great success in France, as well as becoming an international superstar . She has performed and recorded songs in at least nine languages....
 Adam West
Adam West

Adam West is an United States actor who played the role of Batman on the 1960s TV series Batman , which was also adapted to a Batman . He is currently known for his voice work on animated series such as Fairly Oddparents and Family Guy....
 Kaye Ballard
Kaye Ballard

Actress Kaye Ballard, also credited as Kay Ballard was born as Catherine Gloria Balotta on November 20 1925, in Cleveland, Ohio, to an Italy immigrant father....
 Irving Benson
Irving Benson

Irving Benson was a standup comic in the Borscht Belt or Vaudeville tradition. He resembled Myron Cohen to some extent.He worked with fellow vaudevillian Milton Berle over the years, and gained a good deal of recognition as a heckler in Berle's weekly variety series in the 1960s, playing a character named "Sidney Spritzer" ....
 Joe Besser
Joe Besser

Joe Besser was an American comedian, known for his impish humor, and is now best remembered for his brief stint as a member of the Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1956-57....
 Irwin Corey
Irwin Corey

'Professor' Irwin Corey is an United States comic, film actor and left-wing political activist, who is often billed as 'The World's Foremost Authority'....
 Noel Harrison
Noel Harrison

Noel Harrison is an English people actor and singer....
 Lynn Redgrave
Lynn Redgrave

Lynn Rachel Redgrave Order of British Empire is an English actress.A member of the Redgrave family of actors, Lynn Redgrave trained in London, before making her theatrical debut in 1962....
 George Sanders
George Sanders

George Sanders may refer to:*George Sanders , British actor*George Sanders , Victoria Cross recipient in World War I*George Nicholas Sanders , American official suspected in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln...
 Paul Lynde
Paul Lynde

Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched and Harry McAfee, the befuddled father in Bye Bye Birdie....
 Roger Miller
Roger Miller

Roger Dean Miller was an United States singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his mid-1960s country/pop hits such as King of the Road , Dang Me and England Swings....
 Sergio Franchi
Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.He was born in Cremona, Italy. His sister is singer Dana Valery. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously....
 Fran Jeffries
Fran Jeffries

Fran Jeffries , was a singer/actress/model in the 1960s and early-1970s. She had a cameo in the 1963 film The Pink Panther , in which she sang a song called Meglio Stasera while sashaying around a fireplace....
 Marlo Thomas
Marlo Thomas

Margaret Julia ?Marlo? Thomas Donahue is an United States actor, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s....
 Checkmates, Ltd.
Checkmates, Ltd.

Checkmates, Ltd. were an United States Rhythm and blues group from Fort Wayne, Indiana, Indiana. The group, discovered by Nancy Wilson , included both black people and white people members; their one major hit single was 1969's "Black Pearl", record producer by Phil Spector....
 The Fearsome Foursome
Fearsome Foursome (football)

The "Fearsome Foursome" was a title first used in reporting American professional football, when referring to the dominating defensive lines of the New York Giants, Detroit Lions, San Diego Chargers of the American Football League in the early 1960s, and most famously, to the St....
 Buddy Greco
Buddy Greco

Buddy Greco is an United States singer and pianist.Greco began playing piano at the age of four. His first professional work was playing with Benny Goodman's band....
 Larry Bishop
Larry Bishop

Larry Bishop is an United States actor, screenwriter and movie director.Bishop was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Sylvia Ruzga and comedian Joey Bishop....
 and Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner

Robert "Rob" Reiner is an United States actor, Film director, Film producer, writer, and political activist. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Archie and Edith Bunker's son-in-law, Michael Stivic, on All in the Family....
 The Grass Roots
The Grass Roots

The Grass Roots are a United States rock and roll band that charted between 1966 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriter duo P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri....
 Milt Kamen
Milt Kamen

Milt Kamen Born Milton Kaminsky was an United States Stand-up comedy and actor who discovered Woody Allen while he was performing at a resort in the Catskill Mountains....
 The Lennon Sisters
The Lennon Sisters

The Lennon Sisters were a singing group consisting of four siblings: Dianne , Peggy , Kathy , and Janet . They were all born in Los Angeles, California....
 Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
 Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert

Herbert "Herb" Alpert is an United States musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short....
 (guest host) Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
 Boyce and Hart
Boyce and Hart

Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart were a songwriter duo, best known for the songs they wrote for The Monkees.Hart's father was a church minister of religion....
 Sérgio Mendes
Sergio Mendes

S?rgio Santos Mendes, Pronunciation. , is a Grammy Award-winning List of Brazilian musicians. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
 Wes Montgomery
Wes Montgomery

John Leslie "Wes" Montgomery was an United States jazz guitarist. He is generally considered one of the major jazz guitarists, emerging after such seminal figures as Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and influencing countless others, including Pat Martino, George Benson, and Pat Metheny....
 Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby (actor)

Harry Lillis Crosby III is an United States actor, singer and investment banker.Crosby was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, the eldest from Bing's second marriage to Kathryn Crosby ....
 Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby

Mary Frances Crosby is an United States actor. She is most often credited as simply Mary Crosby for her performances....
 Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby

Nathaniel Patrick Crosby is an United States golfer.Crosby was born at Hillsborough, California. He is the sixth son of the actor and singer Bing Crosby and the youngest of his three children from his second marriage to the actress Kathryn Crosby....
 Kathryn Grant
Kathryn Grant

Kathryn Grant may refer to:* Kathryn Crosby, American actress who also used the stage name Kathryn Grant* Kathryn Ptacek, American author who also wrote under her married name, Kathryn Grant...
 Anissa Jones
Anissa Jones

Mary Anissa Jones was an United States child actress best remembered as "Buffy" on the CBS Situation comedy Family Affair. She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18....


1968

Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller is a Golden Globe-nominated United States Comedian, considered to be one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder....
 (guest host) Shari Lewis
Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis was an United States ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s and 1990s. She is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop , first appearing on Hi Mom, a local morning show that aired on WNBC in New York City....
 Charlie Manna
Charlie Manna

Charlie Manna was a New York City resident, a once-aspiring opera singer, turned standup comedian in the 1960s and into the early 1970s, when he died at a relatively young age from cancer....
 Johnnie Ray
Johnnie Ray

John Alvin Ray was an United States singer, songwriter, and pianist. Popular for most of the 1950s, Ray has been cited by critics as a major precursor of what would become rock and roll, for his jazz and blues-influenced music and his animated stage persona....
 Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn

Robert Francis Vaughn is an American Academy Award-nominated actor noted for theater, film and television work. He is perhaps best known as suave spy Napoleon Solo in the popular 1960's TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.....
 Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 (guest host) Milton Berle
Milton Berle

Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
 (guest host) Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante

James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
 (guest host) Phil Harris
Phil Harris

Phil Harris was an United States singer, songwriter, jazz musician, actor and comedian. Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his Voice acting in animation and the radio situation comedy in which he co-starred with his second wife, singer-Actor Alice Faye, for eight years....
 (guest host) Peggy Lee
Peggy Lee

Peggy Lee was an United States jazz and traditional pop singer and songwriter and Academy Award-nominated actress. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota....
 The Fearsome Foursome
Fearsome Foursome (football)

The "Fearsome Foursome" was a title first used in reporting American professional football, when referring to the dominating defensive lines of the New York Giants, Detroit Lions, San Diego Chargers of the American Football League in the early 1960s, and most famously, to the St....
 Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk

Lawrence Welk was a musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, hosting The Lawrence Welk Show from 1951 to 1982. His style came to be known to his large number of radio, television, and live-performance fans as "champagne music." He is a 1961 inductee of North Dakota's Roughrider Award....
 Jack Benny
Jack Benny

Jack Benny was an American comedian, vaudeville, and actor for radio programming, television, and film.Widely recognized as one of the leading American entertainers of the 20th century, Benny was known for his comic timing and his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, such as his signature exasperated "...
 (guest host) Iris Adrian
Iris Adrian

Iris Adrian was an United States film actress.Born in Los Angeles, California as Iris Adrian Hofstadter, Adrian won a beauty pageant and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, before she entered films at the end of the silent movies in Chasing Husbands ....
 Peter Allen
Peter Allen

Peter Allen was an Australian songwriter and entertainer. His songs were made popular by many recording artists, including Melissa Manchester and Olivia Newton-John, Elkie Brooks, and one, Arthur's Theme, won the Academy Award....
 Sammy Davis Jr. (guest host) Liza Minnelli
Liza Minnelli

Liza May Minnelli is an United Statesn actress and singer. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and Garland's second husband, film director Vincente Minnelli....
 Phil Silvers
Phil Silvers

Phil Silvers was an American entertainer and comedy actor. He is best known for starring in The Phil Silvers Show, a 1950s sitcom set on a United States Army post in which he played Sergeant Bilko....
 (guest host) Polly Bergen
Polly Bergen

Polly Bergen is an United States Emmy Award-winning actress, singer, and entrepreneur....
 James Brown
James Brown

James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
 Jack Jones
Jack Jones (singer)

Jack Jones is an United States jazz and pop music singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s....
 Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens is an United States Actor and singer....
 Henny Youngman
Henny Youngman

Henry "Henny" Youngman was a United Kingdom-born comedian and violinist famous for "one-liner joke," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire....
 Victor Borge
Victor Borge

Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, entertainer and piano, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane....
 (guest host) Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
 Dino, Desi and Billy The King Sisters
The King Sisters

The King Sisters were a big band era quartet....
 Jayne Meadows
Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows is an American movie and stage actress and author....
 Vikki Carr
Vikki Carr

Vikki Carr is an United States singer who has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop music and country music, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language....
 Jimmy Dean
Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean is an United States country music singer, television Host , actor, and businessman. Although he may be best known today as the founder of the Jimmy Dean , he first rose to fame for his country crossover hits like "Big Bad John," and for his television appearances....
 Van Johnson
Van Johnson

Van Johnson was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during World War II.Johnson was the embodiment of the "boy next door," playing "the red-haired, freckle-faced soldier, sailor or bomber pilot who used to live down the street" in MGM movies during the Second World War years...
 The Temptations
The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
 Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong , nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer.Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers....
 The Lettermen
The Lettermen

The Lettermen are an United States pop music human voice band . The Lettermen's trademark is close-harmony pop music songs with light arrangements....
 Enzo Stuarti
Enzo Stuarti

Enzo Stuarti, Italian American tenor..Born Lorenzo Scapone in Rome, Italy, Enzo Stuarti moved to the United States in 1934, settling in Newark, New Jersey with his family who had already immigrated to the United States sometime earlier....
 Don Knotts
Don Knotts

Jesse Donald Knotts was an United States comedy actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show , and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom Three's Company in the 1980s....
 (guest host) Nancy Ames
Nancy Ames

Nancy Ames is an American folk singer and songwriter. She regularly appeared on the television series That Was the Week That Was.She was born in Washington, DC....
 Mary Costa
Mary Costa

Mary Costa is an United States singer, best known for playing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 The Walt Disney Company film Sleeping Beauty ....
 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The Merry-Go-Round
The Merry-Go-Round

The Merry-Go-Round were a Los Angeles based pop band, best known for producing singer/songwriter Emitt Rhodes and featuring Joel Larson on drums Gary Kato on lead guitar, Bill Rinehart on bass....
 Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
 Checkmates Ltd. Rowan and Martin Peter Lawford
Peter Lawford

Peter Sydney Lawford was an English-born actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting....
 Phillip Crosby
Phillip Crosby

Phillip Lang Crosby was an United States actor and singer, who began his career singing along with his brothers and father, Bing Crosby....
 Bill Dana The Hollies
The Hollies

The Hollies are an England Pop music band from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style they became one of the leading British bands of the era, and they enjoyed considerable popularity in many other countries although they did not achieve major US chart success until the early 1970s....
 Abbe Lane
Abbe Lane

Abbe Lane is an American singer and actress.Born Abigail Francine Lassman to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York State, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway theatre....
 Rose Marie
Rose Marie

Rose Marie is an American actress who also had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, theater and television....
 Tim Conway
Tim Conway

Thomas Daniel Conway, known professionally as Tim Conway , is an American comedian and Emmy award winning actor, primarily known for his roles in sitcoms, films and television....
 Don Adams
Don Adams

Don Adams was an United States actor, comedian, game show panelist and occasional Film director, who in his five decades of television was best known for his role as Maxwell Smart in the TV situation comedy Get Smart , for which he also directed and wrote....
 (guest host) Big Brother and the Holding
Company
Big Brother and the Holding Company

Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco, California in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic rock San Francisco Sound that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane....
 (with Janis Joplin
Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
) Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden is an American film and television actor and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie....
 Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson

Arte Johnson , full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is an United States comedy actor.Arte Johnson was a regular on "Laugh In." His best-remembered "character" was that of a German soldier with the catchphrase: "Very interesting, but......
 Hendra & Ullett
Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra is an English satire and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School and Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor....
 Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock and roll, blues, Pop music, Rhythm and Blues and Gospel music....
 Spanky & Our Gang Johnny Whitaker
Johnny Whitaker

Johnny Whitaker is an United States actor best known for several notable television and film performances during his childhood. The naturally redheaded Whitaker is best known for his role as Brian Keith's 6-year-old nephew, Jody Davis, on Family Affair from 1966-1971, originated the role of Scotty Baldwin on General Hospital in 1965,...
 Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas

Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. , was an United States entertainer....
 (guest host) Donovan
Donovan

Donovan , is a Scotland singer-songwriter and guitarist. Emerging from the British folk music scene, he developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, Popular music, psychedelic rock, and world music....
 Sérgio Mendes
Sergio Mendes

S?rgio Santos Mendes, Pronunciation. , is a Grammy Award-winning List of Brazilian musicians. He has released over thirty-five albums, and plays bossa nova heavily crossed with jazz and funk....
 Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
 (guest host) Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca

Imogene Fernandez de Coca was an United States Emmy-winning comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows....
 (guest host) The Bee Gees Lou Rawls
Lou Rawls

Louis Allen Rawls was an United States soul music, jazz, and blues singer. He was known for his smooth vocal style: Frank Sinatra once said that Rawls had "the classiest singing and silkiest chops in the singing game"....
 Jane Morgan
Jane Morgan

Jane Morgan is an United States popular music singing, specializing in traditional pop music....
 Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera

Chita Rivera is an American actress dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award ....
 Joe Besser
Joe Besser

Joe Besser was an American comedian, known for his impish humor, and is now best remembered for his brief stint as a member of the Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1956-57....
 Barrie Chase
Barrie Chase

Barrie Chase is an United States dancer and actress.She made four television appearances as Fred Astaire's dance partner in his An Evening With Fred Astaire between 1958 and 1968....
 Martha Raye
Martha Raye

Martha Raye was an United States comic actress and traditional pop music singer who performed in film, and later on television.Biography...
 Joey Forman
Joey Forman

Joey Forman was an American comedian and comic actor. He first attracted attention in Las Vegas as the opening act for Mickey Rooney. He also co-starred in Mickey Rooney's 1954-55 sitcom Hey, Mulligan! as Mickey's best friend, Freddy....
 Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes

Mary Beth Hughes was an American film, television, and Theatre actress best known for her roles in b-movies....
 Jack Carter
Jack Carter (comedian)

'Jack Carter' is an United States comedian, actor and Host .Carter's only Broadway theatre appearance was opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1956 musical Mr....
 Lola Falana
Lola Falana

Lola Falana is an United States dancer and actress of Cubans and African American descent. Falana's father left Cuba to become a welder in the United States, where he met his wife....
 Carmen McRae
Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae was an United States jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable....
 Ike & Tina Turner
Ike & Tina Turner

Ike & Tina Turner were an United States rock & roll and soul music duo, made of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner in the 1960s and 1970s....
 Jo Anne Worley
Jo Anne Worley

Jo Anne Worley is an United States actress. Her work covers television, movies, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In....
 Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman was an United States actress and singer known for musical theatre, well known for her powerful voice, and often hailed by critics as "The Grande Dame of the Broadway stage"....
 Leland Palmer
Leland Palmer (actress)

Leland Palmer is an United States actress, dancer, and singer who has appeared on stage, in motion pictures, and on television. She appeared on Broadway in Bajour, A Joyful Noise, Hello, Dolly! , Applause, and Pippin ....
 Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray Robinson

Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. Frequently cited as the greatest boxer of all time, Robinson's performances at the welterweight and middleweight divisions prompted sportswriters to create "pound for pound" rankings, where they compared fighters regardless of weight....
 John Byner
John Byner

John Byner is an American actor, comedian, and impressionist who has had a lengthy television and movie career. His voice work includes the cartoon series The Ant and the Aardvark, in which the title characters are voiced by Byner's dead-on impressions of Dean Martin and Jackie Mason, respectively....
 Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell

Glen Travis Campbell is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning, and two time nominated Golden Globe Award United States country pop singer, guitarist and occasional actor....
 Harry Crosby
Harry Crosby (actor)

Harry Lillis Crosby III is an United States actor, singer and investment banker.Crosby was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. He is the fifth son of actor and singer Bing Crosby, the eldest from Bing's second marriage to Kathryn Crosby ....
 Mary Crosby
Mary Crosby

Mary Frances Crosby is an United States actor. She is most often credited as simply Mary Crosby for her performances....
 Nathaniel Crosby
Nathaniel Crosby

Nathaniel Patrick Crosby is an United States golfer.Crosby was born at Hillsborough, California. He is the sixth son of the actor and singer Bing Crosby and the youngest of his three children from his second marriage to the actress Kathryn Crosby....
 Kathryn Grant
Kathryn Grant

Kathryn Grant may refer to:* Kathryn Crosby, American actress who also used the stage name Kathryn Grant* Kathryn Ptacek, American author who also wrote under her married name, Kathryn Grant...
 The Lennon Sisters
The Lennon Sisters

The Lennon Sisters were a singing group consisting of four siblings: Dianne , Peggy , Kathy , and Janet . They were all born in Los Angeles, California....
 Judy Carne
Judy Carne

Judy Carne is an actor best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. This phrase was actually first used at the end of Mitch Ryder' Devil with a Blue Dress, released in the winter of 1966-1967....
 Bob Hope
Bob Hope

Bob Hope, Order of the British Empire, Order of St. Gregory the Great , was an British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway theatre, and in radio, television and movies....
 Tiny Tim
Tiny Tim (musician)

Herbert Khaury , better known by the stage name Tiny Tim, was an United States singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist. He was most famous for his rendition of "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" sung in a distinctive high falsetto / vibrato voice ....
 Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry

Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music to write and produce her own material....
 Stu Gilliam Earl Wilson
Earl Wilson (columnist)

Earl Wilson was an United States journalist, gossip columnist and author, perhaps best known for his Print syndication Column , It Happened Last Night....


1969

Jimmy Durante
Jimmy Durante

James Francis ?Jimmy? Durante was an United States singer, pianist, comedian and actor, whose distinctive gravel delivery, comic language butchery, jazz-influenced songs, and large nose ? his frequent jokes about it included a frequent self-reference that became his nickname: "Schnozzola" ? helped make him one of America's most familiar and...
 (guest host) Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald , also known as "Jazz royalty" and the "First Lady of Song", is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century....
 Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye

Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye was an United States singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range....
 Pat Cooper
Pat Cooper

Pat Cooper is an American comedian. Cooper is primarily known for his stand-up routines, where he often makes reference to his Italy heritage from Mola di Bari, Italy....
 Sergio Franchi
Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.He was born in Cremona, Italy. His sister is singer Dana Valery. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously....
 Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
 and Dale Evans
Dale Evans

Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith , a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers....
 (guest hosts) George Gobel
George Gobel

George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian, best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, from 1954 to 1960....
 (guest host) Burl Ives
Burl Ives

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an United States actor, writer and folk music singer. The prominent music critic John Rockwell has been quoted in the New York Times as saying that "Ives's voice......
 Sonny James
Sonny James

Sonny James is an United States country music singer and songwriter. In 2006, James was elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame....
 Jeannie C. Riley
Jeannie C. Riley

Jeannie C. Riley is a country music singer. She is best known for her 1968 Country and Pop hit "Harper Valley PTA". She became the first woman to have a single become a Billboard Country and Pop List of Billboard country chart chart achievements#Songs that reached No....
 Irene Ryan
Irene Ryan

Irene Ryan was an Emmy- and Tony Award-nominated actress, one of the few entertainers who found success in vaudeville, radio, film, television and Broadway theatre....
 Don Adams
Don Adams

Don Adams was an United States actor, comedian, game show panelist and occasional Film director, who in his five decades of television was best known for his role as Maxwell Smart in the TV situation comedy Get Smart , for which he also directed and wrote....
 (guest host) Ruth Buzzi
Ruth Buzzi

Ruth Buzzi is an American actor and comedian of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973....
 Barrie Chase
Barrie Chase

Barrie Chase is an United States dancer and actress.She made four television appearances as Fred Astaire's dance partner in his An Evening With Fred Astaire between 1958 and 1968....
 Joey Forman
Joey Forman

Joey Forman was an American comedian and comic actor. He first attracted attention in Las Vegas as the opening act for Mickey Rooney. He also co-starred in Mickey Rooney's 1954-55 sitcom Hey, Mulligan! as Mickey's best friend, Freddy....
 Tony Martin
Tony Martin (entertainer)

Tony Martin is an United States actor and traditional pop music singer....
 Alan Sues
Alan Sues

Alan Sues is a U.S. comic actor best known for his performances as part of the ensemble on the 1968-1973 television program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In....
 Robert Goulet
Robert Goulet

Robert Gerard Goulet was a Canadian-United States Grammy Award- and Tony Award- winning entertainer. He rose to international stardom in 1960 as Lancelot in Lerner and Loewe's hit Broadway theatre musical Camelot ....
 (guest host) Hendra & Ullett
Tony Hendra

Tony Hendra is an English satire and writer, who has worked mostly in the United States. Educated at St Albans School and Cambridge University, he was a member of the Cambridge University Footlights revue in 1962, alongside John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Tim Brooke-Taylor....
 The Mills Brothers Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, Officer of the Order of the British Empire , known as Dusty Springfield, was a leading pop music singer and entertainer....
 Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson

Kay Thompson was an United States author, composer, musician, actress and singer. She is best known as the creator of the Eloise children's books....
 Milton Berle
Milton Berle

Milton Berle, born Milton Berlinger was an Emmy-winning United States comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater , he was the first major star of television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie and Mr....
 (guest host) Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
 Jayne Meadows
Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows is an American movie and stage actress and author....
 Leland Palmer
Leland Palmer (actress)

Leland Palmer is an United States actress, dancer, and singer who has appeared on stage, in motion pictures, and on television. She appeared on Broadway in Bajour, A Joyful Noise, Hello, Dolly! , Applause, and Pippin ....
 Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé

Melvin Howard Torm? , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known as one of the great jazz singers. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books....
 Dana Valery
Dana Valery

Dana Valery is a singer, actress and television performer who started her career in the entertainment industry at the age of 16 in Johannesburg, South Africa where her family had immigrated from Italy in 1952....
 Rowan and Martin (guest hosts) Gene Sheldon
Gene Sheldon

Gene Sheldon was an American comic actor influenced by Harpo Marx's slapstick to specialize in pantomime acting as his career. Born Eugene Hume in Columbus, Ohio, he is best remembered as the mute servant Bernardo on Walt Disney's live-action television series Zorro ....
 Betty Walker
Betty Walker

Betty Walker was a Jewish-American comic who performed primarily during the 1950s and 1960s. She was born Edith Seeman in Elizabeth, New Jersey to Latvians immigrants....
 Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 (guest host) Gary Crosby Victor Borge
Victor Borge

Victor Borge was a Danish-American comedian, entertainer and piano, affectionately known as the Clown Prince of Denmark and the Great Dane....
 Frank Sinatra, Jr.
Frank Sinatra, Jr.

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra, Jr. is an United States singer and conducting.He is the son of famed musician and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato....
 The Temptations
The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group that achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, funk , disco, soul music, and adult contemporary music....
 Diana Ross
Diana Ross

Diane Ernestine "Diana" Ross is a recording artist, actress, and entertainer. During the 1960s, she helped shape the Motown Sound as lead singer of The Supremes before leaving for a solo career in the beginning of 1970....
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The Supremes
The Supremes

The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
 (guest hosts) Donald McKayle
Donald McKayle

File:Donald mckayle portland oregon crop.jpgDonald McKayle is an African American Modern dance in the United States, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and 60s that focus on expressing the human condition and more specifically, the black experience in America...
 Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales

Soupy Sales is an United States comedian and actor.Sales got his unusual nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone"; Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later shortened to "Soupy." When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name "Soupy Hines." After he became established, i...
 Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters was an United States blues and jazz vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway theatre stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues....
 Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty US top ten hits, won twenty-two Grammy Awards , plus one for Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, won an Academy Award for Best Song, an...
 Sammy Davis Jr. (guest host) James Brown
James Brown

James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing....
 Charo
Charo

Mar?a Rosario Pilar Mart?nez Molina Moquiere de les Esperades Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Najosa Rasten , better known as Charo, is a Spanish and American chick....
 Peggy Lipton
Peggy Lipton

Peggy Lipton, also known as Peggy Lipton Jones is a United States actress. She is best known for her portrayal of hip young detective Julie Barnes in the late 1960s early 1970s television show The Mod Squad and conflicted waitress Norma Jennings from the 1990s television drama Twin Peaks on American Broadcasting Company....
 Dave Madden
Dave Madden

Dave Madden is a Canada actor. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario, but was raised in Terre Haute, Indiana....
 Nipsey Russell
Nipsey Russell

Julius "Nipsey" Russell was an United States comedian, best known today for his appearances as a guest panelist on game shows from the 1960s through the 1990s, especially Match Game, Password , Hollywood Squares, To Tell the Truth and Pyramid ....
 Don Rickles
Don Rickles

Donald Jay "Don" Rickles is an United States comedian and actor. A frequent guest on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic....
 (guest host) Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller

Phyllis Diller is a Golden Globe-nominated United States Comedian, considered to be one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder....
 (guest host) The King Sisters
The King Sisters

The King Sisters were a big band era quartet....
 Terry-Thomas
Terry-Thomas

Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens was a distinctive England comedy actor, known as Terry-Thomas. He was famous for his portrayal of disreputable members of the upper classes, especially Rake s, the trademark diastema , cigarette holder, dressing gown, and such catch-phrases as "What an absolute shower!" and "Good show!"...
 Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
 (guest host) Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca

Imogene Fernandez de Coca was an United States Emmy-winning comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows....
 (guest host) Edie Adams
Edie Adams

Edie Adams was an United States singer, Broadway theatre, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde."...
 Gene Baylos
Gene Baylos

Gene Baylos was a nightclub comedian. Not widely known by the general public, Baylos was a favourite of many "celebrity" comedians in New York City....
 Gladys Knight & the Pips
Gladys Knight & the Pips

Gladys Knight & the Pips were an R&B/soul music musical act from Atlanta, Georgia, active from 1953 to 1989. The group was best known for their string of hit singles from 1967 to 1975, including "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia" ....
 Buddy Rich
Buddy Rich

Bernard "Buddy" Rich was an United States Jazz drumming, bandleader and former Marine. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed....
 Shelley Berman
Shelley Berman

Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman is an US comedian, writer, teacher, and actor....
 Phillip Crosby
Phillip Crosby

Phillip Lang Crosby was an United States actor and singer, who began his career singing along with his brothers and father, Bing Crosby....
 The Four Tops Sally Ann Howes
Sally Ann Howes

Sally Ann Howes is an English people singer and actress, who currently holds dual United Kingdom-United States citizenship. Her career on stage, screen and television has spanned over six decades....
 Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry

Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music to write and produce her own material....
 Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
 and Eydie Gormé
Eydie Gormé

Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....
 Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward Officer of the British Empire , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, particularly noted for his powerful voice and wide vocal range....
 Dick Shawn
Dick Shawn

Richard Schulefand , an United States actor and comedian known professionally as Dick Shawn, was born in Lackawanna, New York. Early in his career he performed under the name Richy Shawn....
 Sweetwater
Sweetwater (band)

Sweetwater was a rock and roll band best known as the first group scheduled to play at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, although they eventually were the fifth act to go on....
 Flip Wilson
Flip Wilson

Clerow Wilson Jr., known professionally as Flip Wilson, was an American comedy and actor. Time magazine featured his image on their cover and named him "TV's first black superstar"....
 (guest host) Gwen Verdon
Gwen Verdon

Gwyneth Evelyn ?Gwen? Verdon was an United States dancer and actress....
 The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5

The Jackson 5 was a two-time Grammy Award-nominated American popular music Jackson family Musical ensemble from Gary, Indiana. Founding group members Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson and Michael Jackson formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally co...
 Willie Tyler
Willie Tyler

Willie Tyler, , is an United States ventriloquist, comedian and actor. Most of the time, he is credited as Willie Tyler and Lester or Willie Tyler & Lester....
 Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck is a well-known Pop music singer who rose to international fame during the 1960s and 1970s, after adopting the name of the famous Germany opera composer Engelbert Humperdinck as his own stage name....
 (guest host) Nancy Ames
Nancy Ames

Nancy Ames is an American folk singer and songwriter. She regularly appeared on the television series That Was the Week That Was.She was born in Washington, DC....
 Maureen Arthur
Maureen Arthur

Maureen Arthur is an American actress. In 1967, she played Hedy LaRue in the movie: How to Succeed in Business . In the mid 1960s she recorded a pop tune on the Carlton record label titled "Don't Make The Angels Cry" and "What Does He Do With Her"....
 Lonnie Donegan
Lonnie Donegan

Lonnie Donegan Order of the British Empire was a skiffle musician, possibly the most famous of them all, with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name....
 Jack E. Leonard
Jack E. Leonard

Jack E. Leonard was an United States comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety show and game shows....
 The Dells
The Dells

The Dells are an influential Rhythm and blues musical group who were one of the few groups to span music genres resulting in successful recordings surpassing more than four decades....
 Cass Elliot
Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot , born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted United States singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas....
 Rosey Grier
Rosey Grier

Roosevelt "Rosey" Grier is an United States actor, Christianity minister, and former professional American football player. He was a noteworthy college football player for Pennsylvania State University who earned a retrospective place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association 100th anniversary list of 100 most influential student athl...
 Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton , was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Like Red Norvo, he was one of the first jazz vibraphone players....
 Peter Lawford
Peter Lawford

Peter Sydney Lawford was an English-born actor, member of the "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting....
 Roy Clark
Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark is a versatile and well-known country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, one of the first nationally televised country variety shows in the United States, from 1969?1992....
 The Everly Brothers
The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers are brothers and top-selling country music-influenced rock and roll performers, known for steel-string guitar playing and close harmony singing....
 Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl

Minnie Pearl was the stage name of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon , a country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991....
 Sons of the Pioneers
Sons of the Pioneers

The Sons of the Pioneers was an United States cowboy singing group founded in 1933 by Leonard Slye , with Tim Spencer and Bob Nolan. They were joined by Hugh Farr in 1934, Karl Farr in 1935 , and Lloyd Perryman in 1936....
 Hines, Hines and Dad
Gregory Hines

Gregory Oliver Hines was an American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer....
 Martha Raye
Martha Raye

Martha Raye was an United States comic actress and traditional pop music singer who performed in film, and later on television.Biography...
 Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens is an United States Actor and singer....
 The Youngbloods
The Youngbloods

The Youngbloods were an United States folk rock musical ensemble consisting of Jesse Colin Young , Jerry Corbitt , Lowell Levinger , and Joe Bauer ....
 Diahann Carroll
Diahann Carroll

Diahann Carroll is an American award-winning actress and Singing....
 (guest host) Alvin Ailey
Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey Jr. was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York Theater. Ailey is largely credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th century concert dance....
 John Byner
John Byner

John Byner is an American actor, comedian, and impressionist who has had a lengthy television and movie career. His voice work includes the cartoon series The Ant and the Aardvark, in which the title characters are voiced by Byner's dead-on impressions of Dean Martin and Jackie Mason, respectively....
 Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge was an United States comedian and actor. He was especially popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a regular guest on The Merv Griffin Show and other talk shows....
 Robert Culp
Robert Culp

Robert Martin Culp is an United States actor and scriptwriter, perhaps best known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy , the espionage television series, where he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents....
 Anthony Newley
Anthony Newley

Anthony George Newley , was an England actor, singer and songwriter....
 (guest host) Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon

Dyan Cannon is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning United States film and television actor, Film director, screenwriter, Film editing#Film Editor, and Film producer....
 Lola Falana
Lola Falana

Lola Falana is an United States dancer and actress of Cubans and African American descent. Falana's father left Cuba to become a welder in the United States, where he met his wife....
 Lulu
Lulu (singer)

Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, Order of British Empire, , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scotland singer-songwriter, actress, model and television personality, who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day....
 Jo Anne Worley
Jo Anne Worley

Jo Anne Worley is an United States actress. Her work covers television, movies, theater, game shows, talk shows, commercials, and cartoons. She is best known for her work on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In....
 O. C. Smith
O. C. Smith

O.C. Smith was an United States musician.Born Ocie Lee Smith in Mansfield, Louisiana, Louisiana, Smith moved with his parents to Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas, before their divorce saw Smith and his mother move to Los Angeles, California, California....
 Perry Como
Perry Como

Pierino "Perry" Como was an United States singer and television personality. During a career spanning more than half a century he recorded exclusively for the RCA Victor label after signing with it in 1943....
 (guest host) Shecky Greene
Shecky Greene

'Shecky Greene' , is a comedian known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he has been a headliner for more than 30 years. He has appeared in several films, including History of the World, Part I and Splash , and has guest starred on such television shows as Mad About You, Laverne & Shirley, Love, America...
 Kukla & Ollie
Kukla, Fran and Ollie

Kukla, Fran and Ollie was an early television show using puppets, originally created for children but soon watched by more adults than children....
 Edward Villella
Edward Villella

Edward Villella is an American ballet dancer and choreographer, frequently cited as America's most celebrated male dancer.Villella enrolled in the School of American Ballet at age ten, but then interrupted his studies to complete his college education....
 Vikki Carr
Vikki Carr

Vikki Carr is an United States singer who has performed in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop music and country music, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish language....
 (guest host) Enrico Macias
Enrico Macias

Enrico Macias is a Jewish-France singer....
 Edwin Hawkins Singers
Edwin Hawkins

Edwin Hawkins is a Grammy Award-winning United States gospel music and rhythm and blues musician, pianist, choir leader, composer and arranger....


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Bing Crosby
Bing Crosby

Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an United States popular singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death.One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses....
 (guest host) Mary Costa
Mary Costa

Mary Costa is an United States singer, best known for playing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 The Walt Disney Company film Sleeping Beauty ....
 Sergio Franchi
Sergio Franchi

Sergio Franchi was an Italian tenor.He was born in Cremona, Italy. His sister is singer Dana Valery. His father wanted him to become an electrical engineer, so he studied both music and engineering simultaneously....
 Leland Palmer
Leland Palmer (actress)

Leland Palmer is an United States actress, dancer, and singer who has appeared on stage, in motion pictures, and on television. She appeared on Broadway in Bajour, A Joyful Noise, Hello, Dolly! , Applause, and Pippin ....
 Burt Bacharach
Burt Bacharach

Burt Bacharach is an United States pianist and composer. He is best known for his many pop hits from the early 1960s through the 1980s, with lyrics written by Hal David, many of which were produced for and recorded by Dionne Warwick....
 (guest host) Angie Dickinson
Angie Dickinson

Angie Dickinson is a Golden Globe-winning United States television and film actor, perhaps best known for her role as Sergeant Leann "Pepper" Anderson in the successful 1970s crime drama Police Woman ....
 (guest host) Scoey Mitchell
Scoey Mitchell

Scoey Mitchell is an United States actor, known for frequent game-show appearances, starring in the short-lived series Barefoot in the Park , and a recurring role on Rhoda, and appearances as himself on Match Game....
 Sam and Dave Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield

Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien, Officer of the Order of the British Empire , known as Dusty Springfield, was a leading pop music singer and entertainer....
 Roy Clark
Roy Clark

Roy Linwood Clark is a versatile and well-known country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw, one of the first nationally televised country variety shows in the United States, from 1969?1992....
 (guest host) Bobbie Gentry
Bobbie Gentry

Roberta Lee Streeter , professionally known as Bobbie Gentry, is an American singer-songwriter. Gentry was one of the first female country music to write and produce her own material....
 (guest host) John Hartford
John Hartford

John Cowan Hartford was an United States folk music, country music and Bluegrass music composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore....
 (guest host) Frankie Laine
Frankie Laine

Frankie Laine, born Francesco Paolo LoVecchio , was a successful United States musician, singer and songwriter whose career spanned 75 years, from his first concerts in 1930 with a marathon dance company to his final performance of "That's My Desire " in 2005....
 Louis Nye
Louis Nye

Louis Nye was an United States comedy actor....
 Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence

Steve Lawrence is an United States singer, perhaps best known as a member of a Duet with his wife Eydie Gorm?, billed as Steve and Eydie. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen 's The Tonight Show in the mid-1950s....
 and Eydie Gormé
Eydie Gormé

Eydie Gorme is an United States singer credited heavily, along with husband Steve Lawrence, with helping to keep the classic Traditional pop music repertoire alive and well....

(guest hosts) Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Steve Allen may refer to:*Steve Allen , American musician, comedian, and writer*Steve Allen , presenter on the London-based talk radio station LBC 97.3...
 Jayne Meadows
Jayne Meadows

Jayne Meadows is an American movie and stage actress and author....
 Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers

Roy Rogers , was a singer and cowboy actor, as well as the founder of the famous Roy Rogers Restaurants chain. He and his third wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger , and his German Shepherd Dog, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and The Roy Rogers Show....
 and Dale Evans
Dale Evans

Dale Evans was the stage name of Frances Octavia Smith , a writer, movie star, and singer-songwriter. She was the third wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers....
 Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy Award-winning United States comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2....
 Imogene Coca
Imogene Coca

Imogene Fernandez de Coca was an United States Emmy-winning comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows....
 Don Knotts
Don Knotts

Jesse Donald Knotts was an United States comedy actor best known for his portrayal of Barney Fife on the 1960s television sitcom The Andy Griffith Show , and as landlord Ralph Furley on the television sitcom Three's Company in the 1980s....
 (guest host) Bobby Goldsboro
Bobby Goldsboro

Bobby Goldsboro is an United States Country music and Popular music singer-songwriter as well as an accomplished painting and television producer....
 Joey Heatherton
Joey Heatherton

Joey Heatherton is an United States actress, dancer and singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the 1960s....
 Mitzi McCall
Mitzi McCall

Mitzi McCall is an American actress married to actor Charlie Brill. She performed on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Other credits include guest appearances on Life Goes On , The Twilight Zone , Silk Stalkings , and voice work on many cartoons....
 and Charlie Brill
Charlie Brill

Charlie Brill is an United States actor. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.His first motion picture was in The Beast of Budapest. He also appeared in Blackbeard's Ghost, The Amazing Dobermans and Off the Wall....
 Lance Rentzel
Lance Rentzel

Thomas Lance Rentzel is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Minnesota Vikings, Dallas Cowboys and the St....
 Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....


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