Talk:Bobby Breen

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Earlier radio premiere?
From the article as it stands currently: "His first major appearance was on Eddie Cantor's weekly radio show in 1936"

From the RadioGOLDINdex.com page :

48683. Recollections At Thirty. July 18, 1956. NBC net. Sustaining. "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" with Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, W. C. Fields, Don Ameche, Mary Boland. Little Jack Little sings (1936). "Vox Pop" with Parks Johnson and Jerry Belcher (January, 1936). Al Pearce and His Gang: Tizzy Lish gives a recipe for upside down cake. Ben Bernie introduces eight year old Bobby Breen, who sings. Dixie Lee Crosby appears on "The Shell Chateau." Al Pearce, Ben Bernie (panelist), Bob Mauer (director), Bobby Breen, Dixie Lee Crosby, Don Ameche, Ed Herlihy (announcer), Edgar Bergen, Fred Collins (announcer), Jerry Belcher, Little Jack Little, Mary Boland, Parks Johnson, W. C. Fields, Bill Comstock. 25:05. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.

The audio for this show is available for free (legally) at archive.org - http://www.archive.org/details/Recollections_At_30 - specifically this link: Hobedits (talk) 08:37, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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Age and military service
If Breen was born in November 1928 how was it possible for him to enlist in the army in the "early 1940s"? Either his date of birth is wrong or there must be serious questions about how he managed to enlist in the army at such a young age. DerbyCountyinNZ (Talk Contribs) 01:12, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey, Derby. Since I'm the one who wrote that section, I double-checked the sources to see if it really said "early 1940s". I couldn't find anything so I removed that part of the sentence. Btw, he was born in 1927, so he was a vet towards the very end of the war at age 17/18.  O s c a r L  20:27, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

Note: I as born June 10, 1927, five months before Breen. I volunteered for the Army on my 18th birthday near the end of World War 2 in 1945 and served in the US and Japan. Bobby Breen could have certainly served in the Army after his 18th birthday in 1945.(George B. Johnson, email: johnsongbj@roadrunner.com )