Julius La Rosa
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Julius La Rosa was an American traditional popular music singer, who worked in both radio and television beginning in the 1950s.
La Rosa in 1955
Promotional photo of La Rosa for his 1957 summer replacement television show.
Arthur Godfrey
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Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. At the peak of his success, in the early to mid-1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to s
Julius La Rosa
…school, becoming a radioman. He sang in a Navy choir, at the officers' club, and at bars to pay for his drinks. La Rosa's Navy peers promoted him to Arthur Godfrey, one of America's leading radio and television personalities and a Naval Reserve officer himself. George Andrews from Omaha, Nebraska, was a mechanic…
Godfrey in 1947
Godfrey spoke directly to his listeners as individuals; he was a foremost pitchman into the TV era
In this CBS publicity photo of Arthur Godfrey Time, vocalist Patti Clayton is seen at the far right and Godfrey sits in the foreground. Clayton, the original 1944 voice of Chiquita Banana, was married to Godfrey's director, Saul Ochs.
Publicity still with Bing Crosby and Perry Como in 1950 for Crosby's radio show