Blues for Phil Donohue

No, Sweets, he didn’t perish in the back seat of a car on the South Side
with a single gunshot wound to the head

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/19/arts/television/phil-Donahue-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Phil Donahue, Talk Host Who Made Audiences Part of the Show, Dies at 88
Stalking the aisles with microphone in hand, he turned “The Phil Donahue
Show” into a participation event, soliciting questions and comments on
topics ranging from human rights to orgies.