page_title: Kay Kyser
section_title: Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
hierarchical_section_title: Kay Kyser / Career / Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Kay Kyser from a 1942 New York Sunday News magazine. The magazine contains four color photos of Kay Kyser, Nan Grey, Eve Arden and George Tobias with Gene Autry File:Gene Autry 1942.JPG on the cover. Kyser is performing his "Ol' Perfesser" character from the act which brought him and his band to national attention: The "Kollege of Musical Knowledge". Kyser and the orchestra performed this act as part of their show on radio, at personal appearances and in films. A search for renewals was done in periodicals for the years 1969 and 1970 There were no listings for New York Daily News or New York Sunday News--the first "New York" listing is for New York Supplement. There's no evidence of renewal for the newspaper.
context_page_description: James Kern Kyser, known as Kay Kyser, was an American bandleader and radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s.
context_section_description: Long before his national success, Kyser recorded two sessions for Victor in the late 1920s (Camden, New Jersey in November 1928 and Chicago in early 1929). These were issued on Victor's V-40000 series devoted to country music and regional dance bands. Following graduation, Kyser and his band, which included Sully Mason on saxophone and arranger George Duning, toured Midwest restaurants and night clubs and gradually built a following. 
  They were popular at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant, where Kyser came up with an act combining a quiz with music which became "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge." The act was broadcast on the Mutual Broadcasting System  in 1938 and then moved to NBC Radio from 1939 to 1949. The show rose in the ratings and spawned many imitators. Kyser led the band as "The Ol' Perfessor", spouting catchphrases, some with a degree of Southern American English: "That's right—you're wrong", "Evenin' folks, how y'all?" and "C'mon, chillun! Le's dance!"
caption: Kyser as the "Ol' Perfessor" in 1942
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