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- Jun. 20, 1994: Died:Merwyn Bogue
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Jun. 20, 1994 The War on Welfare Mothers
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 23
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- <p> DIED. MERWYN BOGUE, 86, cornet player and comic; in Joshua
- Tree, California. Billed as Ish Kabibble, Bogue made a career
- out of pretending to be what he was not. Sporting an undersize
- hat and over-size bangs, he played a moronic sidekick to Big
- Band leader Kay Kyser on the radio and TV hit Kay Kyser's
- Kollege of Musical Knowledge. In reality the workaholic Bogue
- served as the band's treasurer, advance man and publicist during
- his 20-year hitch. And while he sang nonsensical novelties with a
- voice once described as the sound of "a woodpecker trying to
- open a can of beer," Bogue was actually a skilled jazzman who
- worshipped the work of contemporaries like Louis Armstrong.
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