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Line 50: ==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, 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. Rex Koury was the organist, and Frank O'Connor was the producer. Directors included Ed Cashman, John Cleary, William Warwick, and Harry Sax.<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> | |||