The Radio Rascals
Feb. 10, 1907 - July 10, 1964
As you're probably aware, I get a lot of my info on celebrity deaths from Wikipedia and the Internet Movie Database. So, it can be and often is wrong. On any given day, there is a column of celebrity births on that day, and another of celebrity deaths. Keeping to the spirit of Dead Person of the Day, I can pick either one...just as long as the dead person was either born or died that day. But sometimes I stumble upon an entry that makes absolutely no sense, and I'm forced to investigate.
"The Radio Rascals" was born in Marshfield, Missouri on Feb. 10, 1907 and died in Dallas Texas, on July 10, 1964. It is listed under "actor" and has three screen credits (from the '30s and '40s) under "singer". And nothing else. No real names, no cause of death, no explanation of who or what the Radio Rascals was. A search of Wikipedia and the internet turned up nothing related to this.
If it was a person, a real name should have been given. If it was a group, it makes no sense that all the members were born on the same day in the same place and died the exact same way. It couldn't have been a radio show, since commercial radio didn't exist in 1907 and the show wouldn't have run for 57 years without some mention on the internet. It's entirely possible that the entry was slipped in as a joke, but why the time frame? 1907-1964? What could this mean?
It's weird. I don't even care...it just frustrates me that there is something that I cannot know about.
Epic fail, information superhighway.
Check out the IMDB entry here.
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