What's My Line host John Daly (presumed) demise detailed?
Bryan Styble
started carrying Game Show Network--and that GSN has done the right thing and
extended its terrific Sunday Night Black & White lineup to Overnight Black &
White--I'm finally again whiling away my life reliving and savoring childhood
memories of late 50s and early 60s panel shows from that glorious pre-Winfrey
era when interrogative wit (rather than puerile, Oprah-style emoting) came
through America's video tubes.
All of which raises the question, when and how did "What's My Line" host
John Daly (whom the wonderful and ever-erudite Bennett Cert always insisted on
calling "John Charles Daly") die? And more interesting, what was Daly's
background that resulted in his being selected as host?
Outta dough but not "D'oh!",
BRYAN STYBLE/Albuquerque
Bryan Styble
me for the typographical error which resulted in the name of one of my greatest
heroes, Bennett Cerf, being misspelled "Cert" in my previous posting!
And while I'm surfing the Cerf wave...does anyone know which books,
nonfiction and novels, were the final ones he edited/published at Random House
prior to his death, which as I recall was in the mid-80s, no?
Ever-pedantically yours,
BRYAN STYBLE/Albuquerque
MadCow57
Kilgallen.
RClear
Died February 24, 1991. Born February 20, 1914. An early What's My
Line? MC
(Dead People Server)
RC
Corby Gilmore
> Now that Albuquerque's cable service has finally done the right thing and
> started carrying Game Show Network--and that GSN has done the right thing and
> extended its terrific Sunday Night Black & White lineup to Overnight Black &
> White--I'm finally again whiling away my life reliving and savoring childhood
> memories of late 50s and early 60s panel shows from that glorious pre-Winfrey
> era when interrogative wit (rather than puerile, Oprah-style emoting) came
> through America's video tubes.
>
> All of which raises the question, when and how did "What's My Line" host
> John Daly (whom the wonderful and ever-erudite Bennett Cert always insisted on
> calling "John Charles Daly") die?
John Daly died of a heart attack on February 24th, 1991.
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Corby Gilmore
co...@ncf.ca
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
Styble" <sty...@aol.com> 'n sez:
>> All of which raises the question, when and how did "What's My Line"
> host
>> John Daly (whom the wonderful and ever-erudite Bennett Cert always
> insisted on
>> calling "John Charles Daly") die? And more interesting, what was Daly's
>> background that resulted in his being selected as host?
>
> He was a journalist and news reporter before hosting "What's My Line?"
> (1950-1967).
...Daly was also a quiz show host on WJSV, the CBS-owned station in
Washington, in the '30s. The entire broadcast day of WJSV on 21 September
1939 was recorded, and those recordings were commercially issued on
cassette tapes several years ago; Arthur Godfrey was the morning disc
jockey, and the last half hour of the Godfrey show, 8:30 to 9:00 A.M., was
taken up by Daly's "Certified Magic Carpet" game. His emceeing of that game
is largely identical to his "What's My Line" performance...
...it wasn't unusual for newscasters to pull double duty or switch duties
in those days. In 1937, Herb Morrison reported on radio's first big
actuality story, the Hindenburg disaster, for WLS Chicago; a year later, he
was the utility announcer on the Mutual network's big band remotes (at
least one aircheck exists of him announcing a Bunny Berigan date)...
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MadCow57
Somehow I think if it had had a more mundane name there would have less fuss.
Cpl. O'Reilly
<madc...@aol.com> wrote:
> Anybody remember the stink over Arthur Godfrey buzzing the Teterboro Tower?
> Somehow I think if it had had a more mundane name there would have less fuss.
I remember that, but IIRC it happened around the time people started
getting sick of Arthur Godfrey (mostly because of the firing of Julius
La Rosa, I think). People were looking for an excuse not to like
Godfrey, and finding one was easy. I think there's a Stan Freberg song
about the buzzing, goes to the tune of Wabash Cannonball. Teterboro
Tower, this is Piper 2-0-2...
MadCow57
getting sick of Arthur Godfrey (mostly because of the firing of Julius
Eeew! I remember THAT well, and what a stink it was!
King Daevid MacKenzie, UltimaJock!
quotes MadCow57 <madc...@aol.com> 'n sez:
>> Anybody remember the stink over Arthur Godfrey buzzing the Teterboro
>> Tower? Somehow I think if it had had a more mundane name there would
>> have less fuss.
>
> I remember that, but IIRC it happened around the time people started
> getting sick of Arthur Godfrey (mostly because of the firing of Julius
> La Rosa, I think). People were looking for an excuse not to like
> Godfrey, and finding one was easy. I think there's a Stan Freberg song
> about the buzzing, goes to the tune of Wabash Cannonball. Teterboro
> Tower, this is Piper 2-0-2...
...Freberg also did a spoof of Godfrey's radio show that didn't see release
until that boxed set of his came out a few years back...my dad and I were
talking about Godfrey just yesterday, and he noted that Godfrey and Jack
Paar got along remarkably well, while both of them had their occasional
high-profile run-ins with Ed Sullivan...
Alasdair MacColla
That doesn't mean he sat on his ass between the 1967 cancellation of
What's My Line and 1991. He was director of the Voice of America
between 1967 and 68. Then he gave speeches at symposiums of a
Washington, DC think tank. He appeared briefly on PBS in the 1970s.
In 1975 he joined Arlene Francis and Mark Goodson to videotape their
reminiscences of What's My Line. You can see that tape at the museums
of TV and radio in New York and Beverly Hills. His mind remained
sharp until he died. The media got the news of his death from his
assistant named Lila Bader. She said that in her last telephone
conversation with him a couple days before he died he talked of doing
his income taxes.