Celebrities & Microphones

Dorothy Shay

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Shay

Julie London (1957)

Bob Hope and Judy Garland

Doris Day and Bob Hope.

 
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
http://www.fiftiesweb.com/freed.htm
http://www.tsimon.com/freed.htm
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/AlanFreed.html

Tennessee Ernie Ford circa 1950 at WOPI, Bristol, Tennessee.
Photo courtesy of William H. Mountjoy, Jr.

 
Bill Monroe

Fibber McGee and Molly (Jim and Marian Jordan).

Frank Sinatra

Stacy Harris

Judy Garland

Patsy Cline

Roy Rogers

Paul Howard, “The Arkansas Cotton Picker.”

Frank Sinatra