On the other hand
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2015 12:50 am Post subject: Don Harron is dead |
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Don Harron, who created the Canadian comedic icon Charlie Farquharson during a decades-long career in show business, has died at his Toronto home. He was 90.
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Doubtlessly recognizable to most Canadians of a certain age for his Charlie Farquharson persona, a lovable and loving send-up of rural Canada. Well, more precisely, rural Ontario Scots.
Also well-known to any Americans who watched Hee Haw, as the KORN news announcer, also in the Charlie persona.
KORN News
If you were Canadian, he was one of those guys who was ubiquitous in the 1970s and early 80s, mostly, though not exclusively, as Charlie. He also hosted the Mornigside radio program, and wrote the book and some of the lyrics to the musical Anne Of Green Gables.
I had a minor part in that musical when I was a kid. Somewhat despite myself, I can still remember a few of the songs.
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