Woody Fraser created for Westinghouse's KYW (then in Cleveland) a lively-for-its-time daytime talk show fronted by a forgotten singer named Mike Douglas--Westinghouse made the show national and the syndicated talk show was born--he later created at ABC "Good Morning America," the "Today" show's first real competition, and his lite-and-brite treatment of morning television easily beat the more sobersided Frank McGee and Barbara Walters on "Today" and pretty much forced them to go lite-and-brite, as most morning television remains today--in the 80s, Mr. Fraser can be blamed for inflicting Richard Simmons on America--heart failure at his daughter Madeline's home in Ojai, CA, Dec. 21 (another daughter, Wendy, wrote the theme songs for the Simmons show and his other later projects and sang "She's Like the Wind" with Patrick Swayze for the film "Dirty Dancing"):
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