Kay Kyser(1905-1985)

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Swing Fever (1943)

Kay Kyser was born on 18 June 1905 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for You'll Find Out (1940), That's Right - You're Wrong (1939) and Playmates (1941). He was married to Georgia Carroll. He died on 23 July 1985 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

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Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 2: Radio Shows
Short
- Kay Kyser - on Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
- 1945
Carolina Blues
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- Kay Kyser
- 1944
Around the World
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- Kay Kyser
- 1943
Swing Fever
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- Lowell Blackford
- 1943
Thousands Cheer
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- Kay Kyser
- 1943
Stage Door Canteen
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- Conductor of the Kay Kyser Band
- 1943
My Favorite Spy
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- Kay Kyser
- 1942
Playmates
5.5
- Kay Kyser
- 1941
You'll Find Out
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- Kay Kyser
- 1940
If I Forget You
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Short
- Orchestra
- 1940
Slap Happy Pappy
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Short
- Kay Kyser Rooster (voice, uncredited)
- 1940
Africa Squeaks
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Short
- Cake Icer (voice, uncredited)
- 1940
That's Right - You're Wrong
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- Kay Kyser
- 1939

Outer Range
7.1
TV Series
- performer: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"
- 2024
Nightmare Alley
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- performer: "The Umbrella Man", "Cherokee"
- 2021
The Big Lez Show
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TV Series
- performer: "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle"
- 2013
Paul Williams: Still Alive
6.9
- performer: "On A Slow Boat To China"
- 2011
Fallout: New Vegas
8.9
Video Game
- performer: "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle"
- 2010
Mafia II
8.5
Video Game
- performer: "PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION" (uncredited)
- 2010
Cold Case
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TV Series
- performer: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition" (uncredited)
- 2007
Lolita
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- performer: "Woody Woodpecker"
- 1997
Devil in a Blue Dress
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- performer: "On a Slow Boat to China"
- 1995
FDR
TV Movie
- performer: "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition"
- 1982
Alice, Sweet Alice
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- Soundtrack ("Three Little Fishies")
- 1976
The Milton Berle Show
7.5
TV Series
- writer: "Friendship" (uncredited)
- 1949
Swing Fever
5.9
- performer: "Sh-! Don't Make a Sound", "Mississippi Dreamboat", "I Planted a Rose", "One Girl and Two Boys", " (I've Grown So Lonely) Thinking of You"
- 1943
Du Barry Was a Lady
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- performer: " (I've Grown So Lonely) Thinking of You" (1926)
- 1943
Playmates
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- performer: "Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes" (uncredited)
- 1941

Trivia
Kyser organized his first band at the University of North Carolina in the mid-1920's. However, he came down with severe stage fright on his opening night, so that a friend -- the songwriter Johnny Mercer -- had to front the orchestra for the occasion.