Tiny hodge-podge about Majors and minors

1978

I hope you click the photo on the left and know that with a Blu-ray DVD, you could probably fit every piece of audio and literature in that photo onto a single disc.

That shows you how times have changed.  The world of technology and computers continues to change us all, giving us more and more information in less space and greater speeds...

When I was a kid, I remember my mom and dad talking about a 'Major Bowes.'  To me, Major Bowes was someone who must have been in the military.  I never asked about Major Bowes, I only accepted the fact that there was such a man....

Speaking of majors, both Danny Kaye (Seattle Mariners) and Bob Hope (Cleveland Indians) owned interests in Major League baseball teams...

One of my favorite films was "The Major and the Minor"; a fine film starring Ray Milland and Ginger Rogers...

The other day, I jotted down a list of kids in radio who eventually went on to TV and films: Walter Tetley, Dick Van Patten, Jackie Kelk, Dick York, Mason Adams, Bobby Breen - those are just a few.

That Brewser Boy (with a young Dick York)

Finally, a photo of Dick York as That Brewster Boy

I'm pretty sure Dick York is 15 years old here.

Learn something new every day

First, another really cool ad from CBS Radio (I love these) with it's caricature drawings.

Lo and behold, there is Dick York, someone who I never knew was on radio! He played on a show called, That Brewster Boy - a show I have never heard before, until now.

He's not on this episode but it's an example of the show. No known episodes exist with Dick York as That Brewster Boy.

And here's a photo of Dick York. He played Darren (the first one as there were 2 different ones) on tv's Bewitched. And come to think of it, his mother-in-law was played by radio stalwart Agnes Moorehead.

Dick York