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This must be about 1998, Mr. Rodgers started in 68, and they mention a 30th anniversary.

at about 1:00 in to that video it says 1964. thats got to be a mistake.

Paul Schmidt was at KPRC TV in the 50s and early 60s, and provided incidental music for the old Midnight With Marietta movies, and later the Bill Calder midnight TV show. Believe it or not, I ran into him in the mid 90s at a big luncheon I covered at the old Astrodome Hotel. He was still out there working, playing background piano music, and I made a point of telling him how much I always enjoyed the way he played the foil for Mariettta and Calder -- much like Paul Schaefer now does for David Letterman. He looked ancient, and I fear he may be dead now.

Larry Rasco passed away sometime in the early 80s. He was one of the nicest guys I ever worked with at KPRC. Easy going, unpretentious, funny, no trace of self-importance. Just like Ron Stone.

Johnny Temple passed away in 1994. Lee Gordon worked at KPRC till the late 70s, when Channel 26 went on the air. The owners hired Gordon to manage it. It didn't work out. The station later changed hands and call letters, and I don't know what happened to Gordon after that. If he's still living he's waaay up in years. He may well be living, because he was always into health and fitness in a big way.

ch 26 went on the air in the first half of the 70s.

Interesting list! Bob Nicolas was on the recent Channel 2 tribute to Ron Stone so I presume he is still alive. Larry Rasco may also have been - I stepped out of the room at a couple of points. Re: Carl Mann and Lee Gordon, do you also remember Bob Dundas and Jane Christopher of TV Kitchen? Marijane Vandiver?

David Glodt I believe parlayed his expose journalism skills into a job in NYC, at WABC-TV???, where KTRK-TV alum Dan Lovett was doing sports. A dated reference (1993) online shows him as Executive Producer of This Week with David Brinkley.

Is that Paul Schmidt as in Paul Schmidt and the Tuneschmidts?, a group that provided the music on **** Gottlieb's Matinee on 2 in the very early 50s? I didn't remember him on 13.

paul schmidt was on dialing for dollars with troy dungan on 13.