RJ Remembers the Beautiful People in Entertainment
Local in Philadelphia and National Celebrities,
Who Passed Away This Year
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Soupy Sales - National Al Martino - National Gale Storm - National Patrick Swayze - National Farrah Fawcett - National Michael Jackson - National Ed McMahon - National Fred Travalena - National Dom Deluise - National Bea Arthur - National David Carradine - National Karl Malden - National Paul Harvey - National Walter Cronkite - National Les Paul - National Henry Gibson - National Mary Travers - National Jett Travolta - National Gene Barry - National |
Ted Kennedy - National Eunice Kennedy Shriver - National Ricardo Montalban - National Altovise Davis - National Natasha Richardson - National Jim Nettleton - Local Harry Kalas - Local Gary Papa - Local Irv Homer - Local Fred Sherman - Local Frank Ford - Local Steve Friedman - Local Al Alberts - Local Nat Wright - Local Charles A. Morrison - (Valerie’s husband) |
Tony Mammarella Honored
Tony Mammarella, former American Bandstand producer, is being inducted
into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame posthumously
this week. It’s a shame that it’s 30 years overdue.
However, RJ Ron Joseph honored Tony (pictured above with RJ) with a
This-Is-Your-Life television show on WTAF-TV 29 in 1972
after Tony retired from ABC TV.
RJ presented singer Al Martino at the North Wildwood
Italian Festival Saturday, June 24th 2006
RJ presented Al Martino at the Italian Festival in Wildwood three years ago.
RJ believed Al never got the publicity he so rightly deserved.
Al Martino is now more popular in death than in life.
Al’s song Here in My Heart was the first song RJ and Robin heard
during their honeymoon in Rome. For years, Al was RJ’s favorite singer.
Al died at his home in Springfield a day after doing a tribute to Mario Lanza
who, in 1952, allowed Al to have his first hit. Al Martino was 82.
© 2009 J.R. Miller