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3 unusual facts about American Boy


Herb Butterfield

His other roles in radio programs included: Rex Kramer on Dan Harding's Wife, Ziehm in Girl Alone , Clarence Wellman in The Halls of Ivy, Weissoul in Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, Preacher Jim in Kitty Keene, Inc., Judge Carter Colby in Lonely Women, Phineas Herringbone in Ma Perkins, Judge Glenn Hunter in One Man's Family, and Judge Colby in Today's Children.

Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy

There was a real Jack Armstrong, a member of Sam Gale's college fraternity, Phi Sigma Kappa at the University of Minnesota.

Younglord

After speaking at lectures at Berklee College of Music, Frierson met Keith Harris, guiding him to LA, where he eventually became Production Partner for Black Eyed Peas' Will I Am, working on two of the last Black Eyed Peas albums, and also working on Estelle's hit single, "American Boy".



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Căluşari

A Season 2 episode of the television series The X-Files, entitled "The Calusari", featured a group of Romanian elders (ethnicity and religion unspecified) attempting a folk exorcism on a Romanian-American boy.

Kenny Blank

In 1991 he starred as Linus Bragg in the movie "Carolina Skeletons" (or "The End of Silence"), featuring an African-American boy who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14, a story based on the true events around George Stinney Jr..

Max Friedman

He composed several songs about World War I including "Like a Baby Needs its Mother That's How Uncle Sam Needs You" (1917); "Our Own American Boy (1917); and the post-war "Give the Job to the Gob and the Doughboy" (1919), a plea for employers to hire veterans, featuring lyrics by Lew Porter and Alex Sullivan.

Remember Then

This song was featured in the 1993 film Bronx Tale about a young Italian-American boy growing up in a Mafia-controlled neighborhood in the 1950's and 1960's.

Saudi Arabian Boy Scouts Association

In addition, there are American Boy Scouts in Dhahran, Riyadh, Jeddah, Ras Tanura, Udhailiyah, and Khamis, linked to the Direct Service branch of the Boy Scouts of America, which supports units around the world; as well as Boy Scouts of Scouts Canada in Riyadh.

The Scout and Guide Association of Qatar

There are American Boy Scouts in Doha, linked to the Direct Service branch of the Boy Scouts of America, which supports units around the world, as well as Girl Scouts of the USA).

Where's Dick?

The opera is satire on 1980s American life and tabloid journalism and follows the experiences of Junior ("an all-American boy") who in reaction to the crime and corruption he sees around him searches for the detective hero Dick Tracy.