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recalled: "I felt so healed that I quit worrying about it and for the next 18 years I couldn’t think of anything except how to make better records and how to make the music more danceable. ... Underlying that was the unquenchable desire to serve mankind’s needs." In the 1940s, he began to experience his own health problems, which at times confined him to a wheelchair, and he turned to the religion in earnest; becoming a practitioner himself in 1961, a teacher of
Christian Science a few years afterwards, and in 1974 working at the church's headquarters in Boston directing its radio and television broadcasting. In the late 70s and early 80s he traveled around as a Christian Science lecturer, and in 1983, he became the church's president, a one-year position which he referred to as "honorary", joking that he hadn't "been elected Pope or anything".
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Carolina, lobbied the state legislature, and had his entertainment friends including
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was the announcer during the first season. Always the businessman, Kyser reunited his band especially for this series and just as quickly disbanded it when the show ended. After a four-year hiatus, the "Kollege of
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Inventory of the Kay Kyser and
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2059:: Kay Kyser (April 1, 1942)
2032:Kay Kyser: A Life in Motion
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