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John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 – October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer. Olson is perhaps best known for his work as an announcer for game shows, particularly the work he did for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions; Olson was the longtime announcer for the original ''To Tell the Truth'' and ''What's My Line?'' early in his career and spent over a decade as the announcer for both ''Match Game'' and ''The Price Is Right'', and he had been working on the latter series at the time of his death. ==Early career== Born in Windom, Minnesota, while landing jobs at WIBA and KGDA in Madison, Wisconsin after 1928, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, from soda jerk to singer. Johnny joined WTMJ in Milwaukee in the late 1930s, organizing a five-piece Jazz band called ''The Rhythm Rascals'' and became one of the station's most popular personalities. The ''Rascals'' eventually made it to Hollywood, however they would send daily recordings of their shows back to WTMJ. Olson would eventually return to WTMJ and Milwaukee, where he would go on to create the first iteration of ''Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room''. Under Olson, ''Rumpus Room'' attracted major national performers, including Spike Jones and The Andrews Sisters. By 1942, the immense popularity of ''Rumpus Room'' prompted WTMJ to dedicate the large unfinished Television studio (Plans for what would later become WTMJ-TV were suspended due to World War II) in their new facility to the program. Olson's first network job on radio was in New York City in 1944, announcing the musical game show, ''Ladies Be Seated'', a stunt game along the lines of ''Truth or Consequences'' broadcast on the NBC Blue radio network. He previously hosted several radio shows in Chicago, including ''Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room'', a late-night variety radio show broadcast from 10:30 pm to 12 midnight, which was also the name of a later daytime talk show he hosted on the DuMont Television Network. As late as 1956, Olson had a crack at another radio quiz, the short-lived ''Second Chance'', somewhat similar to the earlier hit ''Queen for a Day'' in that this show, too, focused on guest contestants' tribulations, in this case a chance at rectifying a mistake or a loss in life. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johnny Olson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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