Posted on 01/24/2024 3:47:54 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets
From Variety. Story at link. My comment is from Wikipedia.
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United States Army Band
Immediately after graduating from Fordham University, Osgood was hired as an announcer by WGMS (AM) and WGMS-FM, the classical music stations in Washington, D.C. (today WWRC and WTOP-FM respectively). Shortly afterward, however, he enlisted in the military to be the announcer for the United States Army Band. In 1991, he explained this turn of events in an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
Besides acting as the band's master of ceremonies, he performed as a pianist with the band and sang with the United States Army Chorus.[10][After college graduation] I went right to work for a classical musical [sic] station in Washington called WGMS. I was an announcer. I learned a lot doing that. I was about to be drafted in the Army, this was 1954, and I ran into a guy while I was having dinner with a friend of mine and he was dressed in a white uniform, the most fancy uniform this side of the Ritz Hotel. It turned out he was the announcer for the United States Army Band. I asked him when he was getting out and he said within the next few weeks, so the next morning I was parked out at the commanding officer's office. He was impressed with the fact I could pronounce Rimsky-Korsakov. That's how I got the job. I spent three years with the United States Army Band. It was a great experience.[9]
His roommate was, John Cacavas, who composed arrangements for the band. They would collaborate on many songs, a relationship which would continue through the 1960s. In 1967, along with U.S. Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Illinois), together they shared a Grammy Award for best spoken word performance for their single Gallant Men.[11] As Dirksen read a patriotic poem written by H. Paul Jeffers about the dignity of duty in the armed forces, it was framed by Cacavas and Osgood's martial music and stirring choral refrains.[12] In 1967 it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200 record chart.[13
I didn’t know any of that.
I enjoyed his CBS Sunday Morning show, but also liked Charles Kuralt in that role.
It didn’t seem as negative and was more intelligent and positive.
Of course, the separate news desk stuff was that.
Osgood was the voice of the narrator of Horton Hears a Who!, an
animated film released in 2008, based on the book by Dr. Seuss.
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