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The Auntie Dee Show was a 1950s television show in Detroit, Michigan. [1] The show's host Dee Parker sang with Vaughn Monroe's orchestra from 1943-44, with whom she recorded such songs as "One Too Often" and "When You Put On That Old Blue Suit Again" under the name "Del Parker". [2] She changed her name to "Dee Parker" when she joined Jimmy Dorsey's band, with whom she recorded more than a dozen songs for Decca Records and MGM Records,[ citation needed] before she found fame in Detroit [early 1950s] as TV kiddie talent show host, "Auntie Dee". [3] She also hosted a short-lived variety show titled "Rehearsal Call" in 1949.[ citation needed]
"Uncle Jimmy" (Stevenson) was the piano player on "The Auntie Dee Show." Parker moved to Los Angeles in 1956, where she continued her TV show and was a fixture at local supper clubs. [2] She died in 2000. Among the performers on the show was 5 year old Mary Prevost, 7 year old composer/pianist Paul Schoenfield, and 14 year old Ursula Walker.[1]
The reward for performing was, depending on the episode's sponsor, a six-pack of Faygo Pop [3] or a can of New Era potato chips.