Gene Rayburn
Laurie D. T. Mann
> Gene Rayburn, who died today (Wednesday 12/1)...
Darn. I just got two questions about this at Dead People Server
and can't find any confirmation (beyond the report that
"In Memory Gene Rayburn 1917-1999" appeared on the Game Show
network today).
Gene Rayburn was one of my favorite game show hosts. He had
exactly the right blend of humor and pacing for a show
like The Match Game.
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Brad Ferguson
<lm...@city-net.com> wrote:
> rad...@bigfoot.commmmmmmm wrote:
> > Gene Rayburn, who died today (Wednesday 12/1)...
>
> Darn. I just got two questions about this at Dead People Server
> and can't find any confirmation (beyond the report that
> "In Memory Gene Rayburn 1917-1999" appeared on the Game Show
> network today).
>
> Gene Rayburn was one of my favorite game show hosts. He had
> exactly the right blend of humor and pacing for a show
> like The Match Game.
I'm sorry to hear about this one. Rayburn has been working for as long
as I've been alive ... and, yes, he was very good at what he did.
Great voice, too.
It's a little unbelievable to me that a 24/7 network has been
established to rerun old game shows, but we got DirecTV last week and
so I've seen the thing for myself. The GSN is apparently quite
popular, so Rayburn ought to be visible for a long time to come.
BTW, the Game Show Network is chock full of dead hosts and celebrity
guests. People around here ought to love it.
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: rad...@bigfoot.commmmmmmm wrote:
:> Gene Rayburn, who died today (Wednesday 12/1)...
: Darn. I just got two questions about this at Dead People Server
: and can't find any confirmation (beyond the report that
: "In Memory Gene Rayburn 1917-1999" appeared on the Game Show
: network today).
Here's a URL:
http://www.public.usit.net/sbeverly/index_gameshow.html
It's from the Game Show Convention Center. We may hear more today as news
is released. Keep an eye on AP, CNN, et al.
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Amanda
> Gene Rayburn, who died today (Wednesday 12/1), was one of the early broadcasters
> who was most influential in my decision to go into radio and TV as a career. In
> fact, I wrote to him about two weeks ago, to let him know that.
>
> Won't it be strange if I receive a reply, in tomorrow's or Friday's mail ...
>
> -- Gene Christianson
> WLIT-FM / Chicago
I used to watch Match Game all the time. I don't know if Gene Rayburn directly
influenced me to go into comedy, but that show taught me two things...1) Contestants
are stone-dumb and 2) Celebrities can say anything they want.
Plus Gene had the greatest cheekbone structure in television. What a grin!
Let us know if you hear back on that letter...
-Amanda
Terrymelin
unmatched in games how history. Take a look at the current re-make of "Match
Game." The host is a cardboard stick figure; Mr. Rayburn was an old-fashioned
entertainer. RIP.
Terry Ellsworth
Randy Amasia
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> :> Gene Rayburn, who died today (Wednesday 12/1)...
>
> : Darn. I just got two questions about this at Dead
People Server
> : and can't find any confirmation (beyond the report that
> : "In Memory Gene Rayburn 1917-1999" appeared on the Game
Show
> : network today).
>
> Here's a URL:
>
> http://www.public.usit.net/sbeverly/index_gameshow.html
>
> It's from the Game Show Convention Center. We may hear
more today as news
> is released. Keep an eye on AP, CNN, et al.
Nope. I just (7:30 am PST) checked CNN, Yahoo! and the Los
Angeles Times -- nothing.
King Daevid MacKenzie
television industry depended upon to make the audience a collective
friend of the business. Like many of his '50s contemporaries -- most
notably Arthur Godfrey, Dave Garroway, Garry Moore, Bill Cullen, Dick
Clark, Hugh Downs and Jack Paar -- his only talent was merely to keep
the show going without being dull or abrasive. (Of his breed, the only
apparent survivors are Paar, Downs, Clark, Tom Snyder and Regis Philbin,
and only Philbin is still working.) Gene was much more than simply a
game show host (compare him to, for example, Bob Barker or Bob Eubanks)
or a radio disc jockey (in which capacity he served for many years at
WNEW New York and on NBC Radio's "Monitor" program). He communicated the
best qualities of American life in every position he ever took, which is
much more than can be said for the Howard Stern clones that glut today's
airwaves...
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>I liked Peter Marshall, and I don't know about anyone else, but I
>think Regis Philbin is an excellent host of "Millionaire".
David is that your final answer?
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Tim Dunleavy
>He communicated the
>best qualities of American life in every position he ever took, which is
>much more than can be said for the Howard Stern clones that glut today's
>airwaves...
How odd that one of the last times I saw Gene was as a guest on
Howard's TV show... :>)
Gene was my childhood hero. Other kids played sports; I ran home from
school every day to see Match Game. If I didn't make it home by 3:30,
it was a lousy day.
I don't think I've ever seen a television host as consistently
entertaining as Gene was. And I doubt I ever will again.
Damn, damn, damn.
-Tim
Dave Mackey
>
> http://www.public.usit.net/sbeverly/index_gameshow.html
>
> It's from the Game Show Convention Center. We may hear more today as news
> is released. Keep an eye on AP, CNN, et al.
I think we ought to give Steve Beverly a lot of the credit for doing the
legwork and getting quotes from other game show legends while the Big News
Media didn't seem to want to pursue this story. Bravo to Steve!
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Shawn Wilsie
this one. I am inclined to believe; however, that Gene would have wanted
it this way. I mean his no funeral, no burial etc., he didn't want a fuss.
What a class act with no ego. At least those of us that love him know.
-Shawn
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>
><To...@Fred.Net> wrote in message news:vOt14.298$kU6.2...@news.abs.net...
>> Here's a URL:
>>
>> http://www.public.usit.net/sbeverly/index_gameshow.html
>>
>> It's from the Game Show Convention Center. We may hear more today as news
>> is released. Keep an eye on AP, CNN, et al.
>
>I think we ought to give Steve Beverly a lot of the credit for doing the
>legwork and getting quotes from other game show legends while the Big News
>Media didn't seem to want to pursue this story. Bravo to Steve!
Agreed, But where did he pass on? Steve has him in New York. AP says it was in
his daughter's home in Massachusetts. TV Guide puts it in a hospice in
Massachusetts.
Brad Ferguson
<eeee...@aol.com> wrote:
It would be fitting if there were six different answers to that
question.
I go back to the original version, the one that opened with Bert
Kampfaert's "Swinging Safari." The score was kept differently then.
Two teams (each made up of a celebrity and two regular people) played
against each other. Gene would ask a (non-salacious) question, and the
three members of each team would have to fill in the blank. A team got
points if its members matched each other. Anyway, the score for each
team was kept on a backlit roller, and that sucker would get up to well
over 600 points in a repeatedly tied game. As a kid, it was my fondest
desire to see the score outrun the roller. It never happened.
Mad Magazine writer Dick DeBartolo, who often worked for
Goodson-Todman, wrote all the questions. For some reason, I remember
that there were exactly 1,732 original MATCH GAME shows.
Gene Rayburn hosted a show called DOUGH RE MI, which (IIRC) was a
knockoff of NAME THAT TUNE. This was well before MATCH GAME.
Brad Ferguson
<E9F097D5B1287FB2.A0A3929D...@lp.airnews.net>,
David Carson <da...@neosoft.com> wrote:
> That report gives his age as 82 and even has a quote from someone who
> attended his 82nd birthday party, which means his date of birth must
> not be 22 December 1917, as the IMDB shows.
Perhaps they threw him his party a little early because they knew he
was dying.
King Daevid MacKenzie
that he once discussed being fluent in Serbo-Croatian with a "Match
Game" contestant...
King Daevid MacKenzie
Time newscasts tonight...they also used Johnny Olson's introduction to
the NBC '60s version of "Match Game" (including the Bert Kaempfert
version of "Swingin' Safari" as the theme music)...
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> ...
>
> Speaking of hosts and "Family Feud," Richard Dawson is an enigma. I
> thought he was an average actor in "Hogan's Heroes" and a
> below-average emcee on "Family Feud". But when he was cast as an
> actor to play the part of an emcee in "Running Man", he was brilliant!
A local college radio station, KFJC (Foothill Junior College) has the
occasional Sore Throat Special, several hours of some of the worst
recordings you've ever heard, usually by actors and celebrities that
should never been allowed anywhere near a recording studio. (Muhammad
Ali sings "Mr. Tooth Decay" or Mae West's "Twist and Shout", of course,
Shatner and Nimoy; the list goes on and on.) Richard Dawson did a
talking version of a song called "This Land Belongs To Me", which sounds
like an English translation of a Hitler speech. Absolutely terrifying.
MattH
Matthew Hubbard
>
> On 02 Dec 1999 13:59:24 GMT, terry...@aol.com (Terrymelin) wrote:
>
> >His delivery, facial expressions, and interaction with celebrity
> >panelists was unmatched in games how history. Take a look at the
> >current re-make of "Match Game." The host is a cardboard stick
> >figure; Mr. Rayburn was an old-fashioned entertainer. RIP.
>
> think Regis Philbin is an excellent host of "Millionaire".
For me, Gene Rayburn and Bill Cullen were the most pleasant game show
emcees; as much as I love Jeopardy! as a game, I can't say I liked
either Art Fleming (what a throwback!) or Alex Trebek, whom I met; off
screen, Trebek was a little more spontaneous than he is on screen, but
he's not someone I'd want to have as a dinner companion.
As for Philbin, his teeth are so white and his make-up so orange, I
believe he may in fact be the world's tallest Oompa Loopa, fired by
Willie Wonka not only for his freakish size but also because he has
absolutely no sense of rhythm.
"Oompa Loompa, doompa dee doo,
I've got another riddle for you...
AND IT'S ABSOLUTELY UNBELIEVABLE!
IT'S OUT OF CONTROL!"
MattH
Chris Engelke
but I have often watched the 70s version of MatchGame and still loved the
show. He was my favorite game show host ever.
"Brad Ferguson" <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
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> In article <3845E86D...@city-net.com>, Laurie D. T. Mann
> <lm...@city-net.com> wrote:
>
> > rad...@bigfoot.commmmmmmm wrote:
> > > Gene Rayburn, who died today (Wednesday 12/1)...
> >
> > Darn. I just got two questions about this at Dead People Server
> > and can't find any confirmation (beyond the report that
> > "In Memory Gene Rayburn 1917-1999" appeared on the Game Show
> > network today).
> >
Brad Ferguson
<obe...@NOSPAMteleport.com> wrote:
> Right now, I don't get GSN with my cable (but I will hopefully next month),
> but I have often watched the 70s version of MatchGame and still loved the
> show. He was my favorite game show host ever.
It occurred to me last night that Gene Rayburn is the first TONIGHT
SHOW regular to die. (He was Steve Allen's announcer.) All the other
hosts, sidelicks and bandleaders are still alive, AFAIK.
King Daevid MacKenzie
<<It occurred to me last night that Gene Rayburn is the first TONIGHT
SHOW regular to die. (He was Steve Allen's announcer.) All the other
hosts, sidelicks and bandleaders are still alive, AFAIK.>>
..not really...for a while in the last year of Steve Allen's tenure on
"Tonight," so as for SA to concentrate on his Sunday night prime-time
variety show opposite CBS' Ed Sullivan and ABC's "Maverick," NBC had
Ernie Kovacs take over the Monday and Tuesday "Tonight" broadcasts on a
regular basis. Rather than utilising the Allen regulars, Kovacs brought
with him his usual support cast and crew, including announcer Bill
Wendell. Of course, both Kovacs and Wendell died before Rayburn...
..as well, before hiring Hugh Downs, Jack Paar regularly (albeit
briefly) used the late Franklin Pangborn as his announcer...does anyone
know the current status of Paar's bandleader Jose Melis?...
Dave Mackey
Brad Ferguson <thir...@frXOXed.net> wrote in message
> It occurred to me last night that Gene Rayburn is the first TONIGHT
> SHOW regular to die. (He was Steve Allen's announcer.) All the other
> hosts, sidelicks and bandleaders are still alive, AFAIK.
There were many hosts and formats to the Tonight Show in its early years.
Among the performers and regulars on the show who aren't around anymore:
Charley Weaver, Hy Averback, Peggy Cass, Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins, Bob
Considine, Hermione Gingold, Jack Haskell, Ed Herlihy, Jack Lescoulie, and
columnist Earl "Pearls" Wilson.
From 1956 to 1957, Ernie Kovacs hosted with announcer Bill Wendell,
bandleader Leroy Holmes, and Barbara Loden. All are gone. Peter Hanley, who
was one of Ernie's constant sidekicks, may still be around.
And of the Mighty Carson Art Players who worked on Johnny Carson's "Tonight
Show", I can think of two off the top of my head who are deceased: Carol
Wayne and Fred "The Girl In My Life" Holliday.
Louis Epstein
Kate Smith's rendition of "Where Do I Go?" from HAIR,
coupled with her introduction as one of the few who
sings songs the way they should be sing,lingers
corrosively in my memory...
T. Jay
>
> It occurred to me last night that Gene Rayburn is the first TONIGHT
> SHOW regular to die. (He was Steve Allen's announcer.) All the other
> hosts, sidelicks and bandleaders are still alive, AFAIK.
>
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Doc Severensen's bandleader pre-cursor, Skitch
Henderson, been dead for several years?
T. Jay
Brad Ferguson
<rad...@bigfoot.commm> wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Dec 1999 02:39:51 GMT, "T. Jay" <net...@ohio.net> wrote:
>
> >Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Doc Severensen's bandleader
> >pre-cursor, Skitch
> >Henderson, been dead for several years?
>
>
> Nope. Skitch still performs on occasion, especially around New York.
When I was still up there, he was in charge of the New York Pops.
Tjhornikel
>
>>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Doc Severensen's bandleader
>pre-cursor, Skitch
>>Henderson, been dead for several years?
Teej, you can hear NEW NEW NEW episodes of Skitch Henderson's radio show on
WCLV 95.5 FM.
Who says Cleveland Radio is dead?
Tom Hornikel
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