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#10629: TEX AND JINX SHOW: STARRING TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1949-12-29, WNBC, min.

TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959.

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948.

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.”

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.”

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show.

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003.

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The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world.

Topics discussed: Predictions for good year in 1950. Milk prices to be lowered, Thomas Dewey will not run for President. Personalities of 1949: Frederick March defends himself on smear accusations of being a communist, General Omar Bradley on interservice feud, refers to characteristics of martyrs, Pancho Gonzalez on proposed championship tennis match, Herbert Hoover poking fun at Truman's budget, Senator Robert Taft on his foreign policy, Walter Reuther on wages and prices. Today's guest: Kay Kyser. Includes recording by Kay Kyser announcing end of WW II.
Kyser talks about this experience, comments on proposed TV show for 1950 and television in general.

#13164: TONY AWARDS, (A RADIO SPECIAL) 11TH ANNUAL, THE

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1957-04-21, WCBS, 38 min.

A special WCBS radio broadcast of the 1957 Tony Awards with host Bud Collyer. There was a television blackout of this special due to a union issue. 

11th Tony Awards
Date	April 21, 1957
Location	Waldorf-Astoria
New York City, New York
Hosted by	Bud Collyer
Television/radio coverage
Network	none
Winners were "My Fair Lady" for the best musical play, Rex Harrison, for best musical actor in "My Fair Lady," Frederick March for the best dramatic actor, and Judy Holliday for best actress in "The Bells Are Ringing." 

NOTE:   Due to a union dispute, there was no television broadcast, which had been scheduled for WCBS-TV Channel 2.
 
THIS AUDIO AIR CHECK, THE ONLY KNOWN BROADCAST RECORD OF THIS ANNUAL TONY AWARD PRESENTATION (EXCERPT) WAS RECORDED OFF THE AIR ON TO 1/4" REEL TO REEL AUDIO RENDERING EXCELLENT SOUND AT THE TIME OF ITS BROADCAST. THIS AIR CHECK WAS SOLD TO THE AMERICAN THEATER WING IN 2002 FILLING A GAP IN THEIR ARCHIVE. SUCH TRANSACTION, ALONG WITH ANOTHER LOST TELEVISION TONY AWARD BROADCAST, SUCH TRANSACTION LED TO THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT BY GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS FOR THE MOST MONEY (FOUR FIGURES) EVER PAID FOR A TELEVISION AUDIO AIR CHECK. 

The following productions received multiple awards.
6 wins: My Fair Lady
2 wins: Bells Are Ringing, Li'l Abner and Long Day's Journey into Night.

#6959: JOHN F. KENNEDY INAUGURAL GALA

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1961-01-19, N/A, 174 min.

Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford star-studded gala and party fundraiser staged at the national Armory in Washington DC on the night before JFK's formal inauguration.

#15244: "IS PARIS BURNING?" MOVIE PREMIERE

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1966-11-16, WPIX, 60 min.

The New York and Hollywood movie premiere of "Is Paris Burning?" starring Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Alain Delon, Gert Frobe, and Orson Welles. Directed by Rene Clement.

In New York, Jack Lescoulie talks to Otto Preminger, Frederick March, Florence Eldrich, Leslie Caron, Ann Francis, John Erikson, Polly Bergen, and Barbara Rush.
In Los Angeles, Debbie Reynolds talks to Army Archerd.

Hosts: Jack Lescoulie and Army Archerd.

#19542: "IS PARIS BURNING?" MOVIE PREMIERE

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1966-11-16, WPIX, 60 min.

The New York and Hollywood movie premiere of "Is Paris Burning?" starring Leslie Caron, Kirk Douglas, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Alain Delon, Gert Frobe, and Orson Welles. Directed by Rene Clement.

In New York, Jack Lescoulie talks to Otto Preminger, Frederick March, Florence Eldrich, Leslie Caron, Ann Francis, John Erikson, Polly Bergen, and Barbara Rush.
In Los Angeles, Debbie Reynolds talks to Army Archerd.

Duplicate of #15244.

Hosts: Jack Lescoulie and Army Archerd.

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#10629: TEX AND JINX SHOW: STARRING TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1949-12-29, WNBC, min.

#13164: TONY AWARDS, (A RADIO SPECIAL) 11TH ANNUAL, THE

1957-04-21, WCBS, 38 min.

#6959: JOHN F. KENNEDY INAUGURAL GALA

1961-01-19, N/A, 174 min.

#15244: "IS PARIS BURNING?" MOVIE PREMIERE

1966-11-16, WPIX, 60 min.

#19542: "IS PARIS BURNING?" MOVIE PREMIERE

1966-11-16, WPIX, 60 min.