[BC] Tito Guizar...

[Burt I. Weiner]

"Tito Guizar and his Guitar".  Once introduced as, "Tito Guitar and 
his Guizar".  I remember his black outfit and black hat with the 
little tassels.  He would play his "Guizar" for fifteen minutes in 
the evening on channel 5.  He stood with one foot up on a chair.

As a little kid I got acquainted with Stan Chambers.  Stan treated me 
very well and on numerous occasions invited me to  spend a day with 
him at KTLA.  I saw the Time for Beany set and I remember being 
surprised at how large Beany and Cecil really were.  Many years later 
when I was chief at KFAC I ran into Stan at the Dorothy Chandler 
Pavilion.  There were a bunch of people standing around him and I was 
part of the group.  After a short time I noticed that he was looking 
at me with a quizzical look, then asked, "Burt?".

As a result of my growing up under the examples and kindness of 
people such as Stan I always try and pass the tradition on.  Whenever 
I've been out doing a remote and some little kid is curious about 
what I'm doing and what all the equipment is about I always make it a 
point to invite them over to sit with me.  Depending on their level 
of interest I may give them a set of headphones to put on have them 
push a fader up or down.  I remember what it was like for me.

Burt


At 06:35 AM 2/14/2006, you wrote:
>From: Larry Bloomfield <Larry at Tech-Notes.TV>
>Subject: Re: [BC] Plunk your magic memory...
>To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
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>The Time for Beany Show first aired on KTLA in Los Angeles in February
>1949. Now Burt, I saw that origional set. It was in the same studio as
>the Gil Martin News. Do you know the stage name of the guy who played
>the music for the Time for Beany Show. His real name John Red and
>recorded under the name of Juan Rolando. He was made famous by Klaus
>Landsburg when he sent him to the Paramount costume shop and told him to
>come up with a gimick. He had more hours on television in the early days
>than anyone else and never spoke a word.  Who was he?
>
>LB
>
>Burt I. Weiner wrote:
>
> > Ok, take this:  http://users.ultinet.net/~kfo/
> >
> > Burt

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