Also a well-respected barbershop quartet singer. I have no idea why I know that fact, or how I came to know it.
-----Original Message----- >From: danny burstein <[email protected]> >Sent: Apr 27, 2011 3:59 PM >To: wnn <[email protected]> >Subject: [misc] taking one last Carpet nap > >[Chicagoist] > >Lynn "Empire Carpet Guy" Hauldren Passes Away > >ad news for those of us who grew up with the Empire Carpet jingle in our heads >through years of watching local television. Elmer Lynn Hauldren, best known as >the Empire Carpet Man, passed away at the age of 89. > >Mr. Hauldren was an ad copywriter for Empire when he wrote the now-ubiquitous >jingle and began playing the role of the Empire Carpet Man in commercials in >1973, and his image lives on in commercials, animations and bobble head toys. >This Chicagoist post from 2006 fills in the blanks on other aspects of Mr. >Hauldren's life. Now let's play the jingle one more time. > ------- >rest: >http://chicagoist.com/2011/04/27/lynn_empire_carpet_guy_hauldren_pas.php > >obwnn: Typically a Late Night commercial fill in, which > made it a perfect match for WNN... >_____________________________________________________ >Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key > [email protected] >[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded] > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >"World News Now Discussion List" group. >To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >[email protected]. >For more options, visit this group at >http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "World News Now Discussion List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wnndl?hl=en.
