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Just call him LUCKY
At home, Bob admires wife Muriel's painting, lends half-note Karen a hand at the piano.
On the air, Bob lets loose with bandleader Jerry Jerome.
Bob Kennedy has found it takes more than talent and hard work to be a success
After some good years in show business and some lean — with the accent on lean — Bob Kennedy finds the present and future looking very rosy, indeed. But at 32, this blond six-footer still makes a point of taking his daily bow in the direction of Lady Luck. "Talent and hard work go hand in hand," Bob's wife Muriel says. "But don't forget that you have to be lucky, too." And Bob, knowing that the fates can be capricious, adds: "Amen!" . . . It's been seventeen years since a teen-aged Bob made his singing debut on New York's Station WNYC, and there have been many ups and downs in between. But today he stars on his own Bob Kennedy Show, seen daily from 3 to 5 P.M. on Station WPIX in New York, and his fan mail is something to write home about. In addition, Bob pinch-hit last summer as Beat The Clock emcee while Bud Collyer was on vacation, and he currently announces
CBS-TV's Name That Tune After Bob's radio debut
came church-choir singing, road-show work and study at City College of New York. Bob was singing for supperclub patrons of New York's Fifth Avenue Hotel when he was tapped to understudy Alfred Drake in "Oklahoma!" This proved to be unexciting after a year, so Bob joined the production of "Carousel," then returned to star in "Oklahoma!" when Drake left. Next, there were dribbles of night-club engagements, and then Dame Chance really beamed on Bob during a random singing chore at an upstate New York resort. He met darkeyed, brown -haired Muriel and they were married a few months later on little more than a firm belief that things were bound to get better. It took a while but, in 1952 — a week after daughter Karen was born — Bob won his first major spot on TV as emcee of Sense And Nonsense. . . . Today, the Kennedys live quietly and happily in Englewood, New Jersey, and are proud of Bob's basement tool shop and the decorating and painting he and Muriel did. Then, too, the Kennedy home is within easy commuting distance of the WPIX studios and the TV cameras that bring Bob to the many fans who count the Bob Kennedy Show as part of their own daily good fortune.