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The men at the bar would dab at their eyes and they'd start tossing coins. "Always there'd be one guy who would pull out his handkerchief and as he was wiping away the tears before they dropped in his beer, he'd say, 'What's your name, And I'd say, 'I'm Michael Delaney "And the guy would shake his head and smile and say, 'Sure, and 'tis a foine lad from the Ould Sod you must be. Sing us another tune, Michael Delaney Dowd. won't you "Well, I would then sing 'Dear Old Donegal' and 'The River Shannon' and 'McNamara's Band' to be lively and 'The Rose of Tralee' and, for a closer, 'Did Your Mother Come From The coins made a pleasant clatter as they hit the floor. My friend kept scooping 'em up and I kept warbling.

"Why." says Mike Douglas, "with those few songs, plus maybe 'Galway Bay' for an encore, I brought home bags of coins. WITH THE years, Michael Delaney Dowd would Microwave Qvan become Mike Douglas, singer, TV host and proprietor of the whoppingly successful Westinghouse show. His show is now seen weekdays at 7 p.m. on Channel 12. During a taping break, Mike recalled how he became Mike Douglas.

Kay Kyser, a prominent bandleader of the time, had heard him sing "Strange Music" from "Song of Norway" on a radio show and promptly hired him. "My wife. Gen, was in the studio audience just about to have our first child-twins it turned out to be--and I sang that song right to her. When Kyser hired me, he said, 'Mike Dowd's no good as a name for you. I'd confuse you with Mike referring to the Broadway producer.

Then I realized that with his heavy southern accent, Kyser pronounced 'Mike Dowd' and 'Mike Todd' almost exactly the same. "One night we're working a dance and Kyser introduced the next singer as 'Michael It was a mistake. I figured, and I almost didn't get up to sing. I whispered to Kyser. 'I'm not Michael And he said.

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