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My friend, another "radio great," Robert L. Scott (1953 to 1998).
Robert L. Scott was born on October 25, 1953, in Seattle, Washington. Working in radio was Robert's childhood…
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Norm Bobrow, impresario and champion of Seattle jazz, and Maia Santell, jazz vocalist, at the New Orleans Restaurant. (Norm passed away a few months after this photo was taken.)
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John R. Forrest was a librettist. He composed lyrics for musicals and operettas. John R. Forrest was a lyricist; he composed words for popular songs.
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Pat O'Day emailed me, confirming that, yes, he knew Johnny! Pat said Johnny's newscasts were state of the art!
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http://www.seatacradio.com/blog/
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WOW...check out SeatacRadio.com! Thank you, Jason Remington! Now we have actual news articles about Johnny and an audio of his KOL newscast!
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Special thanks to the following for helping me "revive" Johnny Forrest: (I could not have accomplished this with you!!) Terry G. G. Salomonson (Audio Classics/ Old Time Radio),…
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One of John's close friends was Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976), an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film…
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John Forrest, to my knowledge, had three wives---the mother of Bonnie and Connie, the mother of Suzanne and Debbie, and the mother of Maia Santell.
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http://www.archive.org/details/SUSPENSE9 (This is the link to John's play, "Daisy Chain." You have to click on #70 in order to hear it.)
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http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/various-artists-best-golden-crest-tall-cool-ones-p-1027778.html (This is the link to order "The Best of Golden Crest!")
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Frank Sugia was known as Seattle's most popular entertainer. He hired only top notch jazz musicians in the Northwest, including Hayden Shaner, Gene Sargent, Al Turay, Bob Winn,…
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Vocalist Ivie Anderson, friend of Lola Sugia and Frank Sugia, toured around the country with Duke Ellington, and sang in Seattle at the Town and Country Club, The Black and Tan…
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Maia Santell is Lola Sugia's daughter, Frank Sugia's niece and Tebby (saxophonist, Gaylord Jones Band) daughter. John R. Forrest (Johnny) was Maia Santell's stepfather.
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News Flash! Johnny Forrest and Lola Sugia's 1959 record, Blue Tears, has been re-released on the double CD, "The Best Of Golden Crest"!
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Some of the living descendants of Seattle's Jackson Street era of jazz are Don Anderson Jr. (son of trumpeter Don Anderson), Jay Thomas (son of trumpeter Marv Thomas), Marty…
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Some of the living descendants of Seattle's Jackson Street era of jazz are Don Anderson Jr. (son of trumpeter Don Anderson), Jay Thomas (son of trumpeter Marv Thomas), Marty…
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Lola Sugia sang with bands and orchestras led by Pep Perry, Curt Sykes, Gordon Greene, Max Pillar, Clyde Jensen, Don Anderson, Jackie Souders, Norm Hoagy, and at Seattle's Town…
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Lola Sugia sang with bands and orchestras led by Pep Perry, Curt Sykes, Gordon Greene, Max Pillar, Clyde Jensen, Don Anderson, Jackie Souders, Norm Hoagy, and at Seattle's Town…
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