The Auntie Dee Show

The Auntie Dee Show was a 1950s television show in Detroit, Michigan.[1] The show's host Dee Parker sang with Vaughn Monroe's orchestra from 1943-44, with whom she recorded such songs as "One Too Often" and "When You Put On That Old Blue Suit Again" under the name "Del Parker".[2] She changed her name to "Dee Parker" when she joined Jimmy Dorsey's band, with whom she recorded more than a dozen songs for Decca Records and MGM Records,[3] before she found fame in Detroit [early 1950s] as TV kiddie talent show host, "Auntie Dee".[4] She also hosted a short-lived variety show titled "Rehearsal Call" in 1949.[5] "Uncle Jimmy" (Stevenson) was the piano player on "The Auntie Dee Show." Parker moved to Los Angeles in 1956, where she continued her TV show and was a fixture at local supper clubs.[6] She died in 2000. Among the performers on the show was 5 year old Mary Prevost and 7 year old composer/pianist Paul Schoenfield. The reward for performing was a can of New Era potato chips.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.dptv.org/programs/history-of-detroit-tv/?cmpgn=docs
  2. ↑ https://bandchirps.com/artist/dee-parker
  3. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/artist/1653281-Dee-Parker
  4. ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=I3teZvXYNl8C&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=%22Auntie+Dee%22+TV&source=bl&ots=c1aui98Bjk&sig=ftVNAI633N-dlaxltjoEbCz7mWg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi-9L_Nw4jaAhVJ5IMKHQ8AAzYQ6AEIZDAJ#v=onepage&q=%22Auntie%20Dee%22%20TV&f=false
  5. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400017/
  6. ↑ https://bandchirps.com/artist/dee-parker
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