Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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==Personnel==

Besides Kyser, the show's personnel included singers Trudy Erwin, Julie Conway, [[Gloria Wood]], [[Lucy Ann Polk]], [[Mike Douglas]], Sully Mason, the [[The King Sisters|King Sisters]],<ref name="dunningota" /> [[Georgia Carroll]] (Kyser's wife),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reinehr |first1=Robert C. |last2=Swartz |first2=Jon D. |title=The A to Z of Old Time Radio |date=2010 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=9781461672074 |page=148 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5uzfQjhlUXoC&pg=PA148&dq=%22Kollege+of+Musical+Knowledge%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTrsLfn8DeAhXHlFQKHUa3Cu8Q6AEIMDAB#v=onepage&q=%22Kollege%20of%20Musical%20Knowledge%22&f=false |accessdate=9 November 2018 |language=en}}</ref> [[Harry Babbitt]] and [[Ginny Simms]]. Other regulars were pianist Lyman Gandee, trumpeter Bobby Guy, Sully Mason, and Merwyn Bogue (better known as [[Ish Kabibble]]).<ref name=":1" /> Fran Coughlin was the writer.<ref name=":2" /> Announcers were [[Ken Niles]], Bud Hiestand, Vern Smith, Bill Forman, and Jack McCoy.<ref name=dunningota/>

A review in Billboard in 1947 attributed the program's success more to Kyser than to its format. Paul Ackerman wrote: "In fact, the Old Professor's most noteworthy characteristic is ebullience. He's go tit to a degree that make another facets of the program secondary."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ackerman |first1=Paul |title=Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge |url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/40s/1947/BB-1947-11-15-OCR-Page-0014.pdf |accessdate=8 November 2018 |work=Billboard |date=November 15, 1947 |page=14}}</ref>