Donald "Don" Kennedy (born June 10, 1920 in Beaver, Pennsylvania) is a radio, TV personality and voice talent whose career began in the late 1940s with a radio announcer at the WPIC PA station.
In the mid-1950s, Kennedy became a contributor to NBC's Monitor radio show where he developed several features, including one about a local character known as Goat Man.
He is remembered as Don's Officer, the long-running Atlanta children's TV host The Popeye Club (1956 to 1970). During his time at Popeye Club, Kennedy founded WKLS, an Atlanta FM radio station, serving as President and General Manager of the station. It is rumored that K in the summons is for his last name.
He is best known today for his voicework playing Tansit on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, and several characters at The Brak Show and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. >. He began hosting the Big Band Jump, an internationally syndicated radio show devoted to music from the Big Band era, in 1986. He then added a second syndication program, "Don Kennedy Show" titled "Don Kennedy Show," which featuring vocals and general pop instrumental from the 1940s to the 1970s, as well as the modern interpretation of the Great American Songbook.
Kennedy is a recipient of several awards including the Silver Circle Award, two Emmies, awards from Pioneer Broadcaster and Georgia Broadcaster Hall of Fame, and honorary membership at Di Gamma Kappa Broadcast Fraternity at the University of Georgia. Kennedy continues to support causes including the Georgian President of the Chapter of Muscular Dystrophy, treasurer of the Atlanta Humane Society, a member of the Atlanta Cancer Society council, as well as volunteer as a reader for Georgia Radio Reading Services for the Blind.
During the summer of 2013, Don Kennedy announced that he would retire from radio, ending his work on the syndication of "Big Band Jump" and "Don Kennedy Show." The final broadcast of both programs takes place on the weekend of 28-29 September 2013.
Television character actor Don Kennedy (aka Derrick Slaugenhaupt, born 1920) is often confused with the personality of TV/Radio Don Kennedy above. Their information and credits are intertwined in the Internet Movie Data Base. Character actors appeared on many TV shows in the 1950s and 1960s like 'The Rifleman'.
Video Don Kennedy
Partial filmography
Aqua Teen Hunger Force (various episodes, 2001-2010) (TV) as Assisted Living Dracula, Vegetable Man & amp; Rubberman (Lance Potter)Maps Don Kennedy
References
External links
- Don Big Band Jump's syndicated radio show
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