[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'56250\' date=\'Sep 8 2004, 02:51 PM\']
[quote name=\'JCGames\' date=\'Sep 7 2004, 07:54 PM\']Peggy Taylor.....the name is familiar....was this the same Peggy who sang on Stan Freberg's radio show in 1957? She's "Alice Leen" singing Moonlight and Shadows on the Lawrence Welk spoof. Wuunnerful, a-wunnerful-am![/quote]
That would be her. In the 70s she was NBC's first and only female staff announcer heard regularly on the network (frequently in the Pacific time zone and as an announcer on NBC's movie slots). It also seems to me that she was the last staff announcer NBC ever hired in New York or Burbank.
One wonders that if she was working as an announcer back in the days when staff announcers often did game shows if any producer would've given her a shot (although her voice might've been too husky for a game show).[/quote]
That sentence in parentheses on the last paragraph was an interesting observation, given that during her days as a singer on the Freberg show (and for that matter, before that on Don McNeill's Breakfast Club), her voice was as clear as a bell, comparable with such other female vocalists as Helen Forrest . . . but I digress.
I read that she'd joined NBC Burbank's announcing staff in March 1973. Now if she was the last to be hired, when did fellow West Coast voicer Victor Bozeman (the only other African-American that I know of besides New York-based Fred Facey to be employed by the network as an announcer) join? I assume his hiring would've preceded hers . . . furthermore, given what I've read from various places about Don Stanley's long run as West Coast NBC announcer ending in 1990 (and his being quoted in an old-time radio book as saying he was the last of the network's staff announcers on "the Coast" to leave), when did Ms. Taylor's tenure come to a close (also, considering Bozeman's death in 1986, and Donald Rickles' passing the year before that)?
