1. Bob McGrath was named for the Irish patriot Robert Emmet.
13 Facts About Bob McGrath
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Bob McGrath's mother enrolled him in the Roxy Theater's Amateur Program and he finished in second place.
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Bob McGrath graduated from the University of Michigan in 1954; he went to the school of music there.
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Bob McGrath earned a Master of Music degree in voice from the Manhattan School of Music in 1959.
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Bob McGrath worked with Mitch Miller and was the featured tenor on Miller's NBC-TV television singalong series Sing Along with Mitch for four seasons from 1960 to 1964.
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Bob McGrath was a singer on the Walt Kelly album Songs of the Pogo.
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Bob McGrath returned for the 2019 TV special Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration.
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Bob McGrath said that his two favorite moments on Sesame Street were Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, and the 1983 sequence that candidly addressed the death of longtime character Mr Hooper, played by his good friend Will Lee who had died the previous year.
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For 38 years, Bob McGrath was a regular fixture on Telemiracle, a telethon broadcast annually on CTV outlets in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
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Bob McGrath was given the Saskatchewan Distinguished Service Award in 2013 by the Premier of Saskatchewan, Brad Wall.
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Bob McGrath received a Distinguished Service Award for his decades of service by the Variety Children's Charity Telethon in British Columbia.
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Bob McGrath's Sing Me a Story was nominated for the 7th Annual Independent Music Awards for children's Album of the Year.
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Bob McGrath died from complications of a stroke at his home in Norwood, on December 4,2022, at age 90.