Necrology: Molly Bee, 69, 50s Country Music & TV Star

[RicoGregg]

Longtime Los Angeles TV watchers especially will remember her. Details:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-molly-bee11-2009feb11,0,7175717.story

Southern Californians will especially remember her numerous appearances on Cliffie Stone's "Hometown Jamboree", and her singing car commercials:

Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet
Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway
1-1-9-8-oh East Firestone
Stanley Chevrolet

 

[Tim L]

Longtime Los Angeles TV watchers especially will remember her. Details:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-molly-bee11-2009feb11,0,7175717.story

Southern Californians will especially remember her numerous appearances on Cliffie Stone's "Hometown Jamboree", and her singing car commercials:

Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet
Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway
1-1-9-8-oh East Firestone
Stanley Chevrolet

Molly was also a regular performer and later guest star on all of Tennessee Ernie Ford's national television shows. Ford had also been discovered by Cliffie Stone and gained his first TV exposure on "Hometown Jamboree"

 

[LKellerIII]

Longtime Los Angeles TV watchers especially will remember her. Details:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-molly-bee11-2009feb11,0,7175717.story

Southern Californians will especially remember her numerous appearances on Cliffie Stone's "Hometown Jamboree", and her singing car commercials:

Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet
Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway
1-1-9-8-oh East Firestone
Stanley Chevrolet

Oddly enough - I don't think I ever saw the real Molly Bee on TV...country music shows were not my thing. But I do remember the animated Molly Bee in the Stanley Chevrolet commercials.

TRIVIA: That jingle was "covered" in the late 70s for Dial Chevrolet...at the same location, naturally.

 

[bpatrick]

In addition to her work with Tennessee Ernie,
I seem to recall her as co-host (with Roy Clark
and Rusty Draper) of an NBC daytime show,
"Swingin' Country," in 1966. I had not seen
her since. IIRC, Dick Clark produced that show.

 

[Tim L]

Longtime Los Angeles TV watchers especially will remember her. Details:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-molly-bee11-2009feb11,0,7175717.story

Southern Californians will especially remember her numerous appearances on Cliffie Stone's "Hometown Jamboree", and her singing car commercials:

Stanley, Stanley, Stanley Chevrolet
Two blocks off the Santa Ana Freeway
1-1-9-8-oh East Firestone
Stanley Chevrolet

Oddly enough - I don't think I ever saw the real Molly Bee on TV...country music shows were not my thing. But I do remember the animated Molly Bee in the Stanley Chevrolet commercials.

TRIVIA: That jingle was "covered" in the late 70s for Dial Chevrolet...at the same location, naturally.

In Cleveland, West Park Chevrolet was owned by a guy named Ray Herzberger, who called himself "Commander Ray" .He had been a navy pilot and came home to help run his father's Chevy Dealer..His commercials, all over Cleveland TV from the 1960's to the 1980's, went like this:

Chevy, Chevy
See Commander Ray
At West Park Chevrolet (deep bass voice at the end)