Years ago Doris Day ( who even favors saving the dead fish .. I think she likes the smell) was at WLW Radio in Cincinnati as a regular singer on the Midwestern Hayride Show.This was way back in the 40's. It had a live studio audience and was broadcast on the NBC network. Bill (the Studio Engineer) used to make Doris stand on a wooden Pepsi carton in order to sing into the mike. A tall guy preceded her and Bill refused to lower the mike for her. He made her carry the Pepsi carton on stage and them climb upon it to sing her song. Bill later became a station owner and I worked for him in the 60s.
Bill played some transcriptions of this show for me in which the audience was snickering as Doris was being introduced. She was climbing upon the Pepsi carton.
Bill did not like Doris. He said she was an airhead snob who thought she was better than lowly engineers. She complained to Powell Crosley (WLW's owner) about Bill. Powell told her good engineers were hard to find but air head singers were a dime adozen... He told her to do what Bill wanted her to do or go some where else.
Bill had created enough Doris Day jokes to get me banned for life if I told them. He used to tell me one just before he opened my mike for me to read the obituaries. I rarely broke up. One day I did read a fake obituary... his. He did not think it was funny at all. I had him dying from heart failure while receiving his first full body massage from the stations new resident masseuse, Miss Wigglebottem. I had Miss Wigglebottem giving Bill REAL Respiration in an attempt to save him. I noted that there was nothing about Miss Wigglebottem that could in fairness be termed artificial . The rest of the staff really liked it. But it was time for me to get a new dial position anyway.