Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts is an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS from 1946 until 1958. Sponsored by Lipton Tea, it stars Arthur Godfrey, who was also hosting Arthur ...

Arthur Godfrey’s show, and Ted Mack’s “Original Amateur Hour” before, were like the “America’s Got Talent” at the dawn of television. Godfrey’s show helped catapult Tony Bennett’s career, but ...

“And here’s that man himself,” cried the announcer—”Arthur, the-man-with-the-natural-look, Godfrey !” Wearing his earphones, a swept-up shock of copper hair and a winning, country-boy grin that belied ...

In my class about the history of mass media and broadcasting I teach at Valparaiso University, singer Julius LaRosa is a name that comes up in text and lecture, dating back to the early dates of live ...