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The Music of the great Miss Frances Langford Being a previous guest on the show, here is her personal hello... Would you enjoy hearing our historic interview with Frances Langford? If so, then you need to be a WYYR supporter!Till then, here's a wonderful tribute to one of our great women of song as presented by Frances Langford author Charles Henry with her special records and rare broadcasts! Frances Langford Historian and Author Charles Henry Mr. Henry was our featured guest twice on our Sunday Night Special. His first visit was about his first Langford novel entitled Will I Ever Know. But more excitingly than his first visit is the fact that his second visit lined him up for his third visit for yet another Langford novel as history now dictates that Mr. Henry will be the first and only to author a Frances Langford trilogy! We talk to him about that fact as well. His newest which is the 2nd installment of the Langford trilogy is called Lost in the Spell. Both books are listed below. Two great shows below. Four great hours of Langford stories, music, and Langford developments.
Book Description - A Serling-esque Time Travel Novel. This engaging story involves her life and career just as you would expect it if you were watching The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling would've been proud! Author - Charles Henry Enjoy these programs! Program #1 Program #2 Author Comment - "I thank you for your expertise in conducting interviews. Not only did you make it easy for me, but some how, you made me come up with things I ordinarilly wouldn't come up with. You're a genious! I feel your interviews will become classics! Frances Langford Biography Frances Newbern Langford (April 4, 1913 – July 11, 2005) was an American singer and entertainer who was popular during the Golden Age of Radio and also made film appearances over two decades. BirthBorn Julia Frances Newbern Langford inLakeland, Florida, she was the daughter of Vasco Cleveland Langford and his wife, Anna Rhea Newbern. RadioLangford originally trained as an opera singer. While a young girl she required surgery on her throat, and as a result, she was forced to change her vocal style to a more contemporary big band, popular music style. While singing for radio during the early 1930s, she was heard by Rudy Vallee, who invited her to become a regular on his radio show. From 1935 until 1938 she was a regular performer on Dick Powell's radio show. FilmsWith her film debut in Every Night at Eight (1935) she introduced what became her signature song: "I'm in the Mood for Love". She then began appearing frequently in films such as Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935), Born to Dance (1936) and Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney, in which she performed the popular song "Over There." In several of these films, such as Broadway Melody, she appeared as herself as she did 1953 in "The Glenn Miller Story" where she sang "Chattanooga Choo Choo" with the Modernaires and the movie orchestra. World War IIFrom 1941, Langford was a regular singer on Bob Hope's radio show. During World War II, she joined Hope, Jerry Colonna, and other performers on U.S.O. tours through Europe, North Africa, and the South Pacific, entertaining thousands of G.I.'s throughout the world. In his memoir, Don't Shoot! It's Only Me!, Bob Hope recalled how Frances Langford got the biggest laugh he had ever heard. At a U.S.O. show in the South Pacific, Langford stood up on a stage to sing before a huge crowd of G.I.'s. When Langford sang the first line of her signature song, "I'm in the Mood for Love," a soldier in the audience stood up and shouted, "You've come to the right place, honey!" Also, during the war, Langford wrote a weekly column for Hearst Newspapers, entitled "Purple Heart Diary," in which she described her visits to military hospitals to entertain wounded G.I.'s. She used the weekly column as a means of allowing the recovering troops to voice their complaints, and to ask for public support for making sure that the wounded troops received all the supplies and comforts they needed. Her association with Hope continued into the 1980s. In 1989 she joined him for a USO tour to entertain troops in the Persian Gulf. TelevisionShe worked for several years in the late 1940s on Spike Jones' show before being teamed with Don Ameche for a short-lived television program, The Frances Langford/Don Ameche Show (1951), a spin-off of their successful radio series The Bickersons in which the duo played a feuding married couple. Langford was also the host of a variety television program Frances Langford Presents, which lasted one season. Francis Langford made an appearance in the Honeymooner's Lost Episode 'Christmas Party' which first aired December 19, 1953. Marriages and later lifeFrances Langford married three times. Her first husband, from 1934 until 1955, was actor Jon Hall. In 1948 they donated 20 acres of land near her estate in Jensen Beach, Florida to the Board of County Commissioners of Martin County, which named it Langford Hall Park. Located at 2369 N.E. Dixie Highway just south of the Stuart Welcome Arch, it is known today simply as Langford Park and is one of the county's major parks. In 1955, she married Outboard Marine Corporation President Ralph Evinrude. They lived on her estate in Jensen Beach and opened a resort they named The Outrigger, where Langford frequently performed. Evinrude died in 1986. In 1994, she married Harold Stuart, who had been an assistant secretary of the United States Air Force under President Harry S. Truman and who survived her. She had no children. Langford was a supportive member of the Jensen Beach community and constantly donated money to the community. She died at her Jensen Beach home at age 92 from congestive heart failure. In 2006, the Frances Langford Heart Center, made possible by a bequest from her estate, opened at Martin Memorial Hospital in Stuart, Florida. Hollywood Walk of FameAlthough her greatest successes were in radio, her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1500 Vine Street, acknowledges her contribution to motion pictures. Filmography
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