Here is an excerpt from a lengthy interview which I conducted recently with Bill Hayes, a fine singer whose resume included a starry role in the original Broadway cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Me and Juliet” and a lengthy stint on Sid Caesar’s classic variety program “Your Show of Shows.” (Hayes later achieved still more fame for his prominent role on the soap opera “Days of our Lives,” on which he still appears.) I connected with Mr. Hayes (and with his lovely wife, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes) through Joanne Hayes Bozeman, who is a highly regarded voice teacher at Lawrence University. She and her husband Ken Bozeman have set up a fund to endow a music theater prize in Hayes’s honor. Anyone interested in contributing to that fund can go to http://www.nats.org/cgi/page.egi.donate.html. Scroll down to the bottom of the list to designate the Bill Hayes Fund and from there you can make a secure on-line donation to the fund. It’s a lovely way to pay tribute to this very special human being.
The official Morning Show archive is housed on the station’s website, wgtd.org. It is there that you can listen to nearly all of the Morning Show interviews, in their entirety, that have aired over the last several years.