Real name: Pierre Meyers
Years active: 1957
Now here we have a true oddball, and I mean that in the best way. Pete Meyers was a disc jockey who transitioned into television. Hosting Shock Theater in Cleveland on WJKW-TV Channel 8, Madd Daddy was a vampire cape wearing weirdo. He did his own novelty songs and from most account even did episode with the scene upside down.
Sadly this may have been too out there for Cleveland, who called for his firing not soon after. A pity, but the man was ahead of his time.
Meyers passed away in 1968.
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