Variety show Stan Laurel revisited his music hall days when he performed at the "Royal Variety" show. In the United States, former vaudeville performers such as the Marx Brothers, George Burns and Gracie Allen, W. C. Fields, and Jack Benny honed their skills in the Borscht Belt before moving to talkies, to radio shows, and then to television shows, including variety shows. Variety shows were among the first programs to be featured on television during the experimental mechanical television era. Variety shows hosted by Helen Haynes and Harriet Lee are recorded in contemporary newspapers in 1931 and 1932; because of technical limits
Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love) their last Top 40 pop hit in 16 years, peaking at number 39 pop while reaching number one on the R&B singles chart. In 2006, the 7" single's instrumental B-side was sampled by J Dilla on the instrumental album "Donuts". Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love) "Don't Say Goodnight (It's Time for Love)" is a 1980 soul record by the Isley Brothers, released on their T-Neck imprint. The song, which was released as an answer of sorts to Teddy Pendergrass' hit, "Turn Off the Lights", was an ode to love sung by Ronald Isley, who begs his lady in