Baby Boomer Alert

Legendary actress Doris Day will turn 90 on April 3. At one time she was the #1 box office attraction in the world.  Day was also a singer of great repute.  She was the "girl singer" for Bob Crosby and Les Brown.  Her 1945 recording of "Sentimental Journey" sold over a million copies and is considered one of the most beloved songs of the World War II era...

How many remember Green Stamps? My memory of them is my mother jamming books filled with those little sticky stmaps, putting huge rubber bands around them and then stuffing them in a cupboard until she had enough for a toaster or a lamp...

Jim Lange, a radio broadcast legend who hosted the popular Dating Game show for over a decade, has died at the age of 81. Lange made his name and fame as a legendary California radio DJ in the Los Angeles and San Francisco markets.  He was on the air for an astonishing 45 years...

The microwave oven is celebrating its 67th birthday this week.  It was first available for sale by Amana.  They called their early ovens Radarange.  It was too expensive ($5,000), too big and too scary for most people so they stayed away in droves...

This week marks the anniversary of the death of broadcast legend Paul Harvey (1918-2009). I had never heard of Paul Harvey until I started at WDOS in 1989.  His 3-minute morning commentary piece was a bit odd sounding to me, with dramatic pauses, high pitched squeals and perfectly pronounced grammar...

Maria Von Trapp has died.  She was 99.  She was the last surviving singing children featured in the Oscar-winning movie "The Sound of Music." Von Trapp passed away peacefully at the Von Trapp Family Lodge in Stow, Vermont. The family has run a resort there since coming to America more than 50 years ago...

Singer Nancy Wilson has been part of our musical landscape seemingly forever.  This year she marks a full half-century since she blazed up the charts with her 1964 hit "How Glad I Am"  Young people of the Beatles-era had never heard such a smokey, sexy sultry sound come out of the jukebox...

He was one of the very first TV superstars.  Along with Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan, the name Sid Caeser was instrumental in selling television sets from coast to coast.  His "Your Show of Shows" was the inspiration for two generations of comic actors and stand up comedians...

Shirley Temple, the curly-haired 3-year old who cheered America through the Great Depression, has died at 85. During her heyday in the1930s she was called "America's greatest star."  She made dozens of movies and was a star of television and radio before she was a teenager...

Beverly Bremers had a huge hit back in 1972 with her classic song "Don't Say You Don't Remember."  It was her only major hit.  She has spent the last 40-years writing, producing music shows and gaining a great reputation as a vocal coach...