No More Howdy Doody Time

A family friend said that Edward Kean, who from 1947 until circa 1955 or '56, was the principle writer for The Howdy Doody Show, and who wrote the theme song, "It's Howdy Doody Time, " sung and played to the melody of "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay," passed away on August 13 at age 85 from complications from emphysema at a nursing care facility at West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.