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THIS IS A WINNER'S DANCE OF TOM KENNEDY, STAR OF "NAME THAT TUNE," EVER SAW ONE! Mark Straus began to hop around the stage of Ralph Edwards' "Name That Tune" immediately after he won more than $18,000 by correctly identifying tunes...Straus, an insurance company employee, was tired and almost didn't show up for the show. "But my wife told me to go. She said we could use the money!" Straus said. Straus rushed to the telephone to break the good news to his wife Cherri and she said, "You're kidding." "Then she was speechless," Straus said.

GRANNY NAMES THOSE TUNES and wins more than $19,000 on Ralph Edwards' "Name That Tune." Giving Carolyn Bostrom a congratulatory hug is the star of the show, Tom Kennedy. Among Mrs. Bostrom's prizes is a car; luckily, because, just a few days before, her parked car rolled over an embankment and narrowly missed two houses. The mother of four and a grandmother to one, she says she plans to give her mother some of the money and then "I'm going to spend it!"

BIG WINNER-- Ziggy Stone, left, freelance writer from San Francisco, shows of one of his prizes, a trip to Acapulco, won on Ralph Edwards' "Name That Tune." Stone, guided by emcee Tom Kennedy, went on to win the top $15,000 prize on the Golden Medley segment of the show for total winnings of $18,885

BIG WINNER-- Emcee Tom Kennedy raises the hand of Jim Joyce, Altadena, California, deputy sheriff, as the $15,000 Golden Medley winner on Ralph Edwards' "Name That Tune." Joyce won a total of $16,883 on the show, including a trip for two to Hong Kong.

BIG WINNER-- Bob Grubb, Lovita, Calif., telephone company superintendent, comes up with the right answer on the Bid-a-Note segment of Ralph Edwards' "Name That Tune," to the amusement of host Tom Kennedy and fellow contestant Pam Brown. Grubb later went on to win the $15,000 Golden Medley portion of the show for total winnings of $18,125.

PAROLEE MISSES TUNE-- Bob Kegher, left, on parole from the California State Prison for Men, misses a tune on "Name That Tune" after being given a shot at the show by producer Ray Horl. "We wanted a personable, outgoing man with a good background in music and who was now eligible for parole," Horl explained. "If he could win some money on the show, it would not only give him a leg up financially but a good psychological boost in the difficult return to civilian life." Tense and nervous during his appearance, Kegher won no money but later was given $850 worth of prizes by the show's producers. "I didn't expect to do too well," he admitted, "but I wanted to appear to show that ex-cons are people, that we can have a normal good time. Maybe it mnight take away some of the apprehension people have about ex-cons."

JOYOUS LEAP! Tom Kennedy, star of the new "$100,000 Name That Tune," catches contestant Evelyn Key, young grandmother from Philadelphia, Pa., just after she won $19,202 last night on the Ralph Edwards production. Next week the vivacious Evelyn will try to name one tune correctly and take home $100,000.

You might recognize Evelyn's joyous leap from the Today Show's Game Show Legends Week in 2002.

TENSE MOMENT as Tom Kennedy, star of the new "$100,000 Name That Tune," asks contestant Gaye Ellen Lopez, housewife from Davis, Calif., to correctly identify one Mystery Tune for $100,000. Last week Gaye won $19,372 on the Ralph Edwards game show, thus earning her chance to try for the big prize.

TOM KENNEDY, star of "Name That Tune."
(I guess they figured the photo was self-explanatory as it was.)

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