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Actress Terry Moore was married five times, six, if you include her disputed marriage to eccentric business magnate Howard Hughes. She received a reported $350,000 settlement from the Hughes estate. Terry was nominated for an Oscar in “Come Back, Little Sheba” with co-star Burt Lancaster. She appeared in many films and TV programs including “Peyton Place,” “Love Boat,” “Batman” and “Murder She Wrote.” Terry posed nude in Playboy magazine at age 55. She’ll discuss that experience.

Hugh Downs was a radio and TV broadcaster into the late 1990s. He was Jack Paar’s sidekick on the “Tonight Show,” co-host on the “Today Show” and anchor on “20/20.” Hugh was also the announcer on the “Kuka, Fran and Ollie Show,” “Sid Caesar Hour” and the game show “Concentration.” Downs was very much involved in public service, including consultant to the United Nations refugee programs and on the board of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. On his last 20/20 appearance, he was one of the first public figures to say that marijuana should be legalized.

Who is more Milwaukee than Lawrence Welk? With his accordion and orchestra, played polkas plus light and bubbly “champagne music,” which laid claim to the bubble machine. He played many dance dates in Milwaukee, including George Devine’s Million Dollar Ballroom. It was there, as a youngster, my parents took me to see him, and they bought me an accordion. That didn’t last long, as I preferred to play baseball instead of playing the squeeze box. Welk recorded some of his records in Grafton, Wisconsin. Today those recordings are rare and valuable. Welk started out in radio and later his very popular “Lawrence Welk Show.” He mentions the threat of being canceled, but that never happened, and reruns are seen today on local TV. He had several hits including “Calcutta,” which was a number one record in 1961. Welk was inducted into the International Polka Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He even appeared on Saturday Night Live. You might remember when Stan Freberg impersonated him in a recording called “Wunnerful Wunnerful.” Welk was not happy with Freberg’s mimic but ended up using it for the title of his book.

I’m sure that the older podcasters in the audience watched the very popular TV series “Dallas” in the 1980s. Morgan Brittany played Katherine Wentworth, the scheming half-sister of Pam Ewing and Cliff Barnes. In the 1987 season finale she drove a car that stuck Bobby Ewing, resulting in both of their deaths. Morgan worked with many super stars during her career. She will talk about that, also her husband’s very dangerous job in films and some personal information the ladies will love.

Barbara Mandrell at one time, was considered one of the most successful country singers and all-around entertainers, with six number one singles and 25 top ten singles on the Billboard Country charts.  Barbara also had her own primetime TV show and appeared in “Touched by an Angel,” “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” and “Baywatch.”  Her hit records included: “Sleeping Single in a Double Bed” and “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool.” Barbara is very talented, playing several instruments. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009. Mandrell has been only one of a few women to win the CMA Entertainer of the Year award twice, alongside Taylor Swift. In 1979 she crossed over into the Top 40 pop charts with “If Loving You is Wrong, I Don’t Want to be Right.”

The Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, 109 years ago this month. We spoke with one of the survivors of this tragedy. In 1911, Marshall Drew had sailed with his aunt and uncle on the RMS Olympic to visit family in England. The voyage home began in Southampton on April 10, 1912, aboard the maiden voyage of the Olympics’ sister ship, the Titanic. Marshall was very generous with his time and seemed pleased to tell his story.