My Mon's Ruth Lyon's autograph.

On our local NBC station my mom always had watch the 50/50 club as I recall it was on exactly at noon.  

I was in grade school at that time ,but we never had school lunches and we had to walk to and from school about 5 city blocks (1 1/4 miles) regradless of the weather ,and when we had lunch at home, my mom always had the 50/50 club on the television.

I remember one episode where they had a tv on stage and they change the channels to see what was on the other networks  There was no such thing as "fair use" back then and they got fined by the FCC.

Another episode I remember is when Ruth Lyons had Johnny Mathis as a guess star and she gave him a song she had written "Wasn't The Summer Short ?"  he did record the song.

 My mom had various albums of Ruth Lyons singing (most of which can be still be heard on youtube)  plus my mom  sent out for Ruth Lyon's autograph. She got it ,but even I could tell,even as a kid it was just a printed copy.     
                click here to see Ruth Lyon's 50's picture.
          click here to hear "Wasn't The Summer Short ?"

   Of course I did not like that song as a grade school kid--lol