71 years ago today

[micropolitan guy]

Leslie Lynch King, Jr. = Gerald R. Ford

 

[MisterCreosote]

I always thought "Jerome Horwitz Elementary School" in the Captain Underpants novels was a nice touch.

 

[MTM]

Frances Gumm = Judy Garland

 

[Huggy]

Vincent Furnier = Alice Cooper

 

[da man]

Phyllis Naomi Hurwitz -- Shari Lewis
Charles Buchinsky -- Charles Bronson
Dino Crocetti -- Dean Martin
Joseph Levitch -- Jerry Lewis
Issur Danielovitch -- Kirk Douglas
Vivian Mary Hartley -- Vivian Leigh
Richard Starkey -- Ringo Starr
Frederic Austerlitz -- Fred Astaire
Benjamin Kubelsky -- Jack Benny
Nathan Birnbaum -- George Burns
Marion Morrison -- John Wayne

 

[wicked]

Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez --> Martin Sheen
Carlos Irwin Estévez --> Charlie Sheen

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Johnny Baffa = Tony Roberts, the Notre Dame play-by-play man for many years.

 

[wicked]

Saul Hudson --> Slash

 

[maumann]

Robert Weston Smith = Wolfman Jack

In my experience in radio, I'd say about a third of on-air people, particularly jocks -- ahem, talent -- use a stage name. In fact, I know of several who used multiple on-air names based on the format and market. "Larry the Oyster" on 98.6 Rock in Oklahoma City might be moonlighting as "Tom Richards" on Wichita's Big Country when his real name was Sidney Quackenbush. And I'm amazed those people can keep it straight because I just used my real name and assumed no listener would be bright enough to figure out the correct spelling.

Thankfully, I don't remember ever calling anybody by their real name on air by mistake. And I'd get a kick out going to AP national conventions and realizing I knew somebody by three or four different handles.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Ruby Catherine Stevens = Barbara Stanwyck

Gladys Marie Smith = Mary Pickford

Emanuel Goldberg = Edward G. Robinson

 

[MisterCreosote]

Jim Hellwig —> WARRIOR.

 

[LanceyHoward]

Robert Weston Smith = Wolfman Jack

In my experience in radio, I'd say about a third of on-air people, particularly jocks -- ahem, talent -- use a stage name. In fact, I know of several who used multiple on-air names based on the format and market. "Larry the Oyster" on 98.6 Rock in Oklahoma City might be moonlighting as "Tom Richards" on Wichita's Big Country when his real name was Sidney Quackenbush. And I'm amazed those people can keep it straight because I just used my real name and assumed no listener would be bright enough to figure out the correct spelling.

Thankfully, I don't remember ever calling anybody by their real name on air by mistake. And I'd get a kick out going to AP national conventions and realizing I knew somebody by three or four different handles.

Which gives me an excuse to post a link off YouTube from WKRP in Cincinnati where Dr. Johnny Fever runs down the various names he used.