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The West Virginia native who hosted NBC’s “Hollywood Squares” has died.
Peter Marshall died in Los Angeles Thursday of kidney failure at age 98, according to the Associated Press.
Marshall was born in Clarksburg and grew up in Huntington.
The game show ran 5,000 episodes from 1966 to 1981 and won four Daytime Emmy Awards.
He was also a Broadway and film actor, starring in stage shows such as “Bye Bye Birdie,” “The Music Man” and “Anything Goes.”
Marshall became a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
But he became a household name on “Hollywood Squares,” where he played the straight man to comedians like Paul Lynde, Jonathan Winters and Joan Rivers.
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Daniel Johnston recorded songs in his parents' basement in rural West Virginia that would eventually inspire artists such as Kurt Cobain, Beck, Wilco, and Sonic Youth. In this award-winning episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay explores the life, art, and enduring legacy of the late singer-songwriter and visual artist whose creative genius and struggles with bipolar disorder made him one of America's most influential outsider artists.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThe late singer-songwriter Daniel Johnston grew up in West Virginia and came onto the indie music scene in the 1980s. Last year, Johnston was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame and he’s featured in the next episode of Us & Them. In this award-winning show, host Trey Kay learns about Johnston’s legacy which was partly shaped by his challenges with mental illness.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAmerica continues to wrestle with racial division, but music has often been a space where those barriers are challenged. In this episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay revisits a 1960s moment when a band refused to perform unless a mixed-race couple was allowed to dance — and paid the price for taking that stand. It’s a story about courage, consequences and the uneasy intersection of music and race in America.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsEd Rabel’s attorney Timothy Koontz confirmed Rabel died on Dec. 3. He was 86 years old.
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