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Jamey Greek

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Face The Music article
« on: December 14, 2021, 12:02:11 AM »
Those of you who have a newspapers.com subscription Here is an article about Face The Music and before it became Face The Music, Sandy Frank bougbt the rights to another old musical game show that is not NTT and you won't believe who hosted it!

https://www.newspapers.com/image/226505239/?terms=Face%20The%20Music&match=1

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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2021, 12:29:46 AM »
Especially since paywall.
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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2021, 06:18:12 AM »
and you won't believe who hosted it!

Is that right?
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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2021, 07:32:37 AM »
Patrick Wayne. Non-subscribers can access OCR of the article. Saved everyone the trouble.
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Frank, meanwhile, bought the rights to an old game show, "Stop the Music," and was developing a new edition for TV syndication. He had Word attend the daily run-throughs and report on how the show was shaping up. It was early September, the host was Patrick Wayne (the Duke's son), and "Stop the Music" wasn't jelling. Wayne was replaced with one of the producer's tennis buddies, ex-Tarzan Ron Ely. Word recalls being instantly impressed with Ely. The show, however, still wasn't working, So Frank gave up the rights to "Stop the Music" and called in a new pro-'ducer, David Levy, to start building from scratch a show they titled "Face the Music."

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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2021, 08:06:11 AM »
Thank you A-A-Ron.

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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2021, 04:14:01 PM »
you won't believe who hosted it!
When GSN aired that Patrick Wayne episode of Celebrity Bullseye, I remember him mentioning that he hosted a pilot. Given the timeframe, I'm guessing this was the show.

For some reason, I also remember Steve Beverly mentioning a Stop the Music pilot around the same time. He cited Variety magazine as the source, but that blurb was from 20 years ago.
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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2021, 08:39:56 PM »
David Levy was pals with Mark Goodson.

The E.P. of Face the Music was Bruno Zirato, Jr.

Make the connection.

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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2021, 09:28:54 PM »
David Levy was pals with Mark Goodson.

The E.P. of Face the Music was Bruno Zirato, Jr.

Make the connection.

Wasn't Bruno Zirato, Jr. a producer on To Tell The Truth?
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Re: Face The Music article
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2021, 10:48:37 PM »
David Levy was pals with Mark Goodson.

The E.P. of Face the Music was Bruno Zirato, Jr.

Make the connection.

Wasn't Bruno Zirato, Jr. a producer on To Tell The Truth?

Indeed he was.