Bob Burns
Bob Burns was born in Van Buren, Arkansas, United States on August 2nd, 1890 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 65, Bob Burns biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Robin "Bob" Burns (August 2, 1890 – February 2, 1956) was an American musical comedian who appeared on radio and in movies from 1930 to 1947.
Burns performed a rare musical instrument of his own design, which he described as a "bazooka."
The US Army's handheld anti-tank rocket launcher nicknamed the "bazooka" during World War II.
Early years
Robin Burn in Greenwood, Arkansas, was born. His family moved to Van Buren, Arkansas, when he was three years old. Burns performed trombone and cornet in the town's "Queen City Silver Cornet Band" as a youth. He formed his own string band at 13 years old. He blew into a length of gas pipe when he was working in Hayman's Plumbing Shop one night, making an unusual sound. This became a musical instrument with changes, he named a "bazoo" (meaning a windy fellow from the Dutch bazuin for "trumpet"). In the Silver Cornet Band, he appears to be performing his invention. The musical bazooka had a narrow range, but this was deliberate.
Burns also studied civil engineering and worked as a peanut farmer, but by 1911, he was primarily an entertainer.
During World War I Burns, I Burns enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He sailed to France with the Marine 11th Regiment. He began as a sergeant and was Europe's top jazz band leader. Burns created another "bazooka" from stove pipes and a whiskey funnel, which he used to play with the Corps band. He and his "Marine Corps Melody Six" jazz band, with Burn playing his bazooka, were sent to the Marine Corps Recruiting Station in Manhattan in September 1919.
Personal life
Burns married Elizabeth Fisher in 1921. They had one child, Robert Jr., who was married to actress Naomi Stevens and died in 2012. Elizabeth died in 1936. Burns married Harriet M. Foster, a long-serving secretary, in May 1939. Barbara, William, and Stephen had three children, and they remained married until his death.
Burns, a wealthy man from his land investments, spent his remaining years on Sherman Way in Canoga Park, California's San Fernando Valley.
He died of kidney cancer in Encino on February 2, 1956, at the age of 65.
Radio career
Burns auditioned for a major Los Angeles radio station in 1930. He had planned a 10-minute performance but was asked to do 30 minutes, which he did not have preparing with improvised stories and bazooka tunes. The managers were unprepared for his compiled information but were captivated by his improvised content. Burns was hired. He appeared on "The Fun Factory" in the afternoon as a boy named "Soda Pop."
Burns, a 1935 visit to New York, asked bandleader and radio actor Paul Whiteman for an audition. Burns appeared on his nightly show, the Kraft Music Hall, which was nationally broadcast; Burns was a huge hit. Burns also appeared on Rudy Vallee's show The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour.
Burns returned to Los Angeles in 1936, where Bing Crosby hosted Kraft Music Hall. Burns remained a regular visitor on the bazooka, performing his imaginary hillbilly relatives, Uncle Fud and Aunt Doody.
On March 10, 1938, Bob Burns was the host of The 10th Academy Awards, which were held at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The event, which was supposed to be held on March 3, 1938, was postponed due to heavy flooding in Los Angeles.
Burns was given his own radio show, The Arkansas Traveler (1941–43) and The Bob Burns Show (1943–47).
Film career
Burns appeared briefly in the film Up the River in 1930, playing the bazooka in blackface for a prison vaindeville display. He appeared in ten films, either uncredited or in a minor role, the majority of which was playing the bazooka.
Burns rose from 1935-1936 to appear in Burns continued to appear in Burns rose from 1934-1936 in 1935-1936 as a contract actor with He was second lead with Crosby in Rhythm on the Range (1936). He appeared in eleven more films from 1936 to 1940, including eight in leading roles. The majority of these were comedies, but he also played a crusading advocate in the film Our Leading Citizen (1939). On December 4, 1939 Lux Radio Theatre one-hour adaptation A Man to Remember, starring Edward Ellis' film role as a humane small-town doctor battling the townspeople's greed.
Burns burned in 1941 rather than appear in a new film that he felt was overly demeaning to "the people of his native hills."
Burns appeared in the Yukon's Technicolor Western film Belle of the Yukon (1944), which was set in the Canadian Gold Rush. Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Dinah Shore were among Randolph Scott, John Moore, Jr., top-billed. His last appearance in The Windjammer (1945), which he also wrote, was as co-star.
On January 30, 1955, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show (then called Toast of the Town).
Burns was inducted posthumously into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for his contributions to the film industry.