A few celebrities with various microphones.

Great Scot! It’s Sir Harry Lauder, 1870-1950, “Laird of the music hall.”
Photo courtesy of Bruce McCausland.

Julie London in 1957.

Arthur Godfrey.

Groucho Marx.

Herbert Marshall.

Ethel Merman.

  
Walter Winchell and Jimmy Durante.

Dave Garroway hosting the Today show on December 1, 1952.
Mr. Garroway was the show’s first host.

Gregg Donovan
NBC staff announcer, 1947.

Willie Nelson in 1966.

Dr. Martin Luther King.
Drawings are of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Michael Schwerner.

From left: Jack Benny, Dick Powell, Ken Murray, Bing Crosby on drums, Shirley Ross.

Photo taken during the first broadcast of “Arthur Godfrey Time” in
1941. Mr. Godfrey is center foreground, the band and singers are
in the background. The lead singer, Patty Clayton, is at right.

Bob Hope and Judy Garland.

Doris Day and Bob Hope.

Johnny Carson.

Brian Wilson.

Sir George Martin.

Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra.

Lana Turner.

WCKY program host Rex Dale interviews Gloria Swanson.

Dinah Shore
in the late thirties.

Nat “King” Cole.

Ruby Keeler and Al Jolson.

NBC staff announcer Nelson Case.

Nikita Khrushchev and Richard Nixon.
“Kitchen debate” in model home at the American National
Exhibition in Moscow, from news summaries of July 25, 1959.

The legendary Les Paul.

DJ Tiny Markle, Mary Ford, and Les Paul.

Alan Freed.

DJ Alan Freed, who coined the phrase “rock and roll.”
For more information on Mr. Freed, visit these sites.
http://www.alanfreed.com/
http://www.history-of-rock.com/freed.htm

Mel Blanc.

Gary Owens.

Orson Welles.

Tennessee Ernie Ford circa 1945 at WOPI, Bristol, Tennessee.
Photo courtesy of William H. Mountjoy, Jr.