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4 unusual facts about Bob Shreve


Bob Shreve

With a cover sporting the King Records legend of "A James Brown Production," the album is now one of the most coveted Shreve (and Brown) collectables; only two or three thousand copies were pressed.

Among the celebrity visitors to the PPP set over the course of that decade were Adam West, Bill Cosby, comedian Pete Barbutti and the buxom stripper then known as "baseball's kissing bandit," Morganna.

In 1975, the show moved to WKRC-TV, then Cincinnati's ABC affiliate, with the new Saturday Night Live-influenced title, The Past Prime Playhouse. Schoenling no longer sponsored the show, which gave way to new advertisers like LaRosa's Pizza, Hemsath Sound Centers, and Mayor's Jewelers.

Able to keep himself only intermittently busy with voice work and the occasional Public-access television interview, his health began to wane.



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