80 years ago, the cover of this day’s issue of Radio Guide, December 14, 1935, featured actress, singer, and radio personality Vivienne Segal.  The magazine noted that she had until that week been featured on the “American Album of Familiar Music” and “Waltz Time” programs, and that she expected to begin a new series of broadcasts shortly.

The magazine noted that she had been awarded an honorary professorship of music at the New York School of Music, in recognition of her encouragement of talented young singers, including endowing scholarships and awarding trophies in amateur competitions.

Ms. Segal was born in Philadelphia in 1897 and is best known for introducing the song “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” in the 1940 production of Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey.  She died in California in 1992 at the age of 95.

The 1940 production of Pal Joey was never recorded, but she made the following recording of her most famous performance in 1951.

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