{"id":3427,"date":"2025-05-01T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2025-05-01T20:45:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T00:45:54","slug":"recollections-of-1960s-entertainers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"Recollections of 1960s entertainers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3416 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6a00e008dca1f0883402942f8d70d4200c-500wi-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6a00e008dca1f0883402942f8d70d4200c-500wi-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6a00e008dca1f0883402942f8d70d4200c-500wi.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/>By Steve Crum<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">THROWING BACK&#8230;to my undergraduate days of 1965-69, when an array of celebs traveled to Emporia, Kansas to entertain at Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University)\u2014on campus and at the Civic Auditorium.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3421 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/a9fe1a90da0b468596de0577ac251d69-236x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/>I was dazzled by: director\/producer Tyrone Guthrie, \u201cMan of La Mancha,\u201d \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d (Dorothy Lamour), Hans Conried (\u201cAbsence of a Cello\u201d), Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, Pat Paulsen, Skitch Henderson, Stan Kenton, Nancy <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3423 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitch-miller_320-9a4b532716c546eb8987116e8c655397-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitch-miller_320-9a4b532716c546eb8987116e8c655397-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mitch-miller_320-9a4b532716c546eb8987116e8c655397.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/>Wilson, The Amazing Kreskin, Mitch Miller, Preservation Hall (from New Orleans), Glenn Yarbrough, Pete Fountain, The Back Porch Majority, Sandy <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3417 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-1018x1018.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/57.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>Baron, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Mantovani and His Orchestra, Drew Pearson, Robert Russell Bennett, William Stafford (Kansas poet; my guest teacher for a session), and the touring musical \u201cHalf a Sixpence.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">A plus was getting in free since I was either reviewing the event for the school newspaper or ushering via my service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. Great times!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Steve Crum THROWING BACK&#8230;to my undergraduate days of 1965-69, when an array of celebs traveled to Emporia, Kansas to entertain at Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University)\u2014on campus and at the Civic Auditorium. I was dazzled by: director\/producer Tyrone Guthrie, \u201cMan of La Mancha,\u201d \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d (Dorothy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crumonshowbiz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}