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Troy
Cory
 Troy
Cory, "Troy
Cory-Stubblefield,"
[1]
born in Denver,
Colorado, is an American
international
television/recording
personality, songwriter,
author, producer,
director and
businessman. Troy Cory
is the grandson of
inventor, Nathan
B.
Stubblefield.
As a young
boy, his parents moved
to Southern California.
He attended Pepperdine
University and Cleveland
College, in Los Angeles,
completing his studies,
majoring in accounting
finance, law and
medicine.
[2]
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Troy serves as
chairman and chief
executive of the NBS100
Radio Trust, and the
Troy Cory Show, which is
featured on DVD discs,
"LookRadio" and
"Xingtv." He is best
known for hosting his
long-running independent
syndicated television
shows such as the "The
Troy Cory Show," -
China, and the 6 minute
"YouTube" versions of
the Troy Cory Show, and
the History of the
Wireless
Telephone™. Troy is
also known for his
performances in China
introducing new talent
and pop music culture,
never seen by Chinese
television audiences. He
is the grandson
of
Nathan
B.
Stubblefield,
the inventor of the
Wireless
Telephone™, who was
granted U.S. Patent in
1908, for the trademark
name wireless telephone
and wireless/landline
system design. [4]
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STORY
 Biography
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Early Life
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Troy Cory became a
professional singer
singer and entertainer
at 18 years old. He
mixed his Pepperdine
University studies with
record sessions and
writing songs. His A
& R man in the late
50s was Sonny Bono. Troy
Cory and his first wife,
singer, songwriter,
Dorothy Swafford,
co-wrote songs with
Sonny Bono, Rene Hall,
Joe Jackson, Bob
Roberts, the Sherman
Brothers, Richard M.
Sherman and Robert B.
Sherman, and Jimmy
Messina (of Login &
Messina). The Sherman
Brothers later won an
Academy Award for Best
Music Score and Best
Song fo Disney Studios'
"Mary
Poppins."
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Troy Cory recorded
original songs for major
labels that included
Mercury Records,
Specialty
Records,
BBC RadioPlay Records,
and Philles Records
(Highland), a record
label owned by record
producers and partners,
Phil Spector and Lester
Sill. Other independent
labels Troy licensed his
music masters to,
included: Coast Records,
IBIS, Jupiter Records,
Bingo Records, VRA
RadioPlay, Agil Musik,
and Cinema Prize.
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Early television
appearances included,
"The Dick Clark Show,"
"Shebang," "Joe
Franklin's Memory Lane,"
"Country America," "The
Ed Sullivan Show," "Dave
Garaway," Casey Kasem's
"American Top 40," "The
Red Row's Show," on CBS,
and "Chef Milani," a
daily variety show on
ABC.
The
Road To
Europe
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In 1970, Troy Cory
teamed up with famous
German Orchestra leader,
Ambros Seelos, music
arranger, composer and
songwriter, Sylvester
Levay, (Lysy, Levy), and
lyricist and translator,
Jossi Sigl, to produce
recording sessions and
the Cory/Seelos concert
performances in Germany,
Innsbruck, Austria, and
Basel, Switzerland. The
String section on the
Munich Sound recordings
was provided by "The
Munich Philharmonics";
piano and arrangements
by Sylvester Levay, who
later garnered a Grammy
Award for "Fly, Robin,
Fly," and wrote the
music scores for the
film "Howard the Duck"
and the musical
"Elisabeth."
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•
Troy
Cory
collaborated with Cinema
Prize Records and Agil
Musik and co-wrote the
song material with the
Seelos/Levay/Michalke/Sigl/
team, in producing the
album, entitled,
"Today's Puzzle."
  The
end of the 1970s found
Troy Cory playing Santa
Claus in the
German/American
production film "Merry
Christmas: Just in the
Nick of Time," starring
Priscilla Cory, as
"Little Miss Santa," and
featuring the late
German singer, Manuela.
Produced by VRA TelePlay
Pictures, Bohemia Film
and Gábor Wagner,
of ARD, the story was
filmed in and around the
city of Munich,
Nymphenburg and Castle
Neuschwanstein, Germany
and in Oberndorf,
Austria, the small
village and church where
the Christmas carol
"Silent Night" was
performed for the first
time on December 25,
1818.
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The p
 The
Troy Cory Show,
Syndicated
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Troy
Cory had his own
television Variety Show,
called "The Troy Cory
Evening Show," aka
"The
Troy Cory
Show,"
taped at the Culver
Studios (where "Gone
with the Wind" was
filmed), and at Warner
Bros. The Shows were
televised on channels,
KCOP, and KTLA Los
Angeles, California
beginning in 1974. Troy
Cory, his daughter,
Priscilla Cory, and John
Barrymore hosted the
show with numerous guest
celebrities. Among the
guest stars were, Alan
Hale Jr., Sammy Fain,
Clint Walker, Foster
Brooks singer Mel
Carter, jazz guitarist
Nick Lucas, Sugar Ray
Robinson and Jack
Foreman of the Samuel
Goldwyn
Studio.
•
•
 Beginnings
of Father & Daughter
Duo
•
•Troy
Cory and actress/singer,
Priscilla
Cory
were
one of the first
father-and-daughter
duets in the TV and
music world. They sang
and danced on the weekly
television show, and one
of their many recordings
together was titled,
"That's My Weakness
Now," written by, Sam H.
Stept and Bud Green.
Troy and Priscilla
re-wrote the song to
suit the times."That's
My Weakness Now" was
recorded in Jackson,
Mississippi, and is part
of the music for the
Duo's "Easy Lovin',"
album, a Country Pop
genre, released on BBC
Radioplay Records,
London,
England.
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Some of Troy's early
country songs and
Christmas tunes were
recorded in Nashville,
Tennessee and Jackson,
Mississippi; his pop-,
disco-, rock-, blues
genre in Hollywood, San
Francisco, Munich,
Germany and Worcester,
England, not far from
Shakespeare's quaint
hometown,
Stratford-upon-Avon.
Hollywood
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Those early
performing years on
stage, screen, radio and
TV in Hollywood,
provided Troy with the
new knowledge he needed
to enter the world of
Beta, VHS and Laser
disc, leading to the
co-founding of Video
Record Albums of America
(VRA).
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 In
1976, Troy and Josie
Cory purchased Vine
Street Video Centre,
their own high tech
campus facilities which
played host to some of
the first music videos
produced. The musical
artists included Rod
Stewart, Jackson Browne,
Tom, Petty, Nicolette
Larson, Priscilla Cory,
Joni Mitchell, Raquel
Welch, Chaka Khan, and
Randy Meisner, formerly
of The Eagles.Vine
Street Video Centre also
housed the famous "Au
Petit Cafe," a favorite
meeting place of
Hollywood industry
players.
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After selling the Vine
Street Video Centre
Studios to entertainer,
Donna  Summer,
the Corys continued to
produce syndicated
television programming
at their Pasadena,
Rosemont Studio
facilities.
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"The Troy Cory Show" and
"R&B" Plus,
televised on KCAL 9, in
1984, not only featured
Troy Cory's music but
other popular American
singing stars,
including, Jeffrey
Osborne, James Brown,
George Duke, Rockwell,
R. J. Reynolds, Beau
Williams, Freda Payne,
Dennis Weaver, Timmy
Thomas, Nona Hendrix,
and Janice Marie
Johnson, (formerly with
Taste of Honey), as well
as saxophonist, Kenny G.
Cory produced and
directed the Weaver
music video, "Calhoun,"
featuring Dennis Weaver
and directed the Pete
Allman/James Brown
in-concert interview
segment at the House of
Blues, in West
Hollywood.
 
Later
Years - The Road to
China
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T roy
Cory was among
the
first
international
entertainers and the
first American
entertainer to ever be
allowed to perform in
the People's Republic of
China, beginning in
1988. In itself a
notable
culture-historical feat,
in view of China's
closed door policies of
the late 70s and well
into the 80s. The PRC's
administrative climate
in comparison is much
less restrictive now and
China's open door policy
enables many
entertainers to
introduce themselves to
the populace Chinese
audiences.
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However, back in the
80s, as a goodwill
ambassador representing
the U.S.A., Troy Cory
and his back-up dancers
and singers, "The Brooke
Sisters," were the first
entertainers from the
United States to appear
in a full staged program
in the People's Republic
of China during the
Shanghai TV Festival,
and on China's National
Television, viewed by
over 300 million
people.
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It was there Cory met
Jiang Zemin, then mayor
of Shanghai, and who
later became the 5th
President of the
People's Republic of
China.
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The '88 Shanghai Concert
was the beginnings of
Troy's concert tours in
China for the next two
decades. The concerts,
just to name a few,
included the following
cities: Shanghai,
Beijing, Anshan,
Tsingtao or Qingdao,
Fuzhou, Longyan,
Guangzhou, and Harbin,
the center of the annual
China Harbin Summer
Music Festival. Since
1988 some of "The Brooke
Sisters" included, Joey
Lauren Adams, Angelica
Bridges, Tina Kincaid,
and Jeannie Yoou.
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Troy Cory broadcast the
first Webcast from
Harbin, China in 2000.
His second Webcast in
2004, originated from
Fuzhou in southern
China. That webcast
featured Ron Rice, owner
of the "Hawaiian Tropic"
suntan products and his
daughter Sterling Rice,
a singer. Some of the
Miss Hawaiian Tropic
models performed as the
"Brooke Sisters" back-up
dancers and singers;
Sterling Rice was
featured, singing "Who I
Am. SEE
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STORY•
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Awards
•
Video Clip Award (1984):
Festival International
Du Video Clip De
Saint-Tropez
• Appreciation
Award (1980): From
President Ronald Reagan,
United States.
• Appreciation
Award (1985): From the
United States Senate;
Senators, Bob Dole, John
H. Chafee, Strom
Thurmond, Thad Cochran,
Don Nickels, Alan K.
Simpson
• Certificate
of Merit (1986):
Republican Presidential
Task Force, President
Ronald Reagan.
• Achievement
Award (2000): To Troy
Cory and The China
Harbin Summer Music
Festival - From the
County of Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors,
Michael
Antonovich.•
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  Author
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Troy
Cory
co-authored a 4-volume
set of books with TVI
publisher,
Josie
Cory,
entitled "The Smart Daaf
Boys," The History of
The Inventors of Radio
and Television: Nathan
Stubblefield, Ambrose
Fleming, Reginald
Fessenden, Tesla, ...
DeForest, Armstrong,
Alexanderson and
Farnsworth; Library of
Congress Catalog Card
No. 93-060451, ISBN
1-883644-34-3,
1993.•
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• The Smart-Daaf
Boys," Vol. I.
• The All-In-One
Telecommunications &
Multi Medial
Encyclopedia-Dictionary,
Volume II.
• Reinventing
Radio & Television
with a Glossary,
Vol. III.
• Rediscovering
Radio & Television
with Documents, Vol.
IV.
• BofA, The
Tortfeasor, The
Truth and Untold Story
about the Bank of
America, in
co-authorship with
attorney, Melvin Belli.
Library of Congress No.
93-061742 (1994). ISBN
No. 1-883644-85-2,
(1994).
•
Clichés for
Social Climbers, Social
Rhymers, Song Writers
And For Special
Occastions, Library
of Congress No.
94-069523; ISBN No.
1-883644-90-9,
(1994).
•
Disappointments Are
Great! Follow the Money!
. . . the Internet!
(2003) Library of
Congress No. 5-967-411;
ISBN No.18-8364-434-8,
(2003).•
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  Marriage,
Children and
Grandparents
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Troy Cory (born Keith
Stubblefield) has four
children by his first
wife, Dorothy Swafford;
three boys, Alden, Keith
and Scott, and one girl,
Priscilla.
(singer/actress
Priscilla Cory)
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Troy and his second
wife, German-born Jossi
Sigl, married in 1972,
in Pasadena,
California.
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Troy's Mother and Father
are: Priscilla Alden and
Oliver J. (RayJack)
Stubblefield.
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Education
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In attending Pepperdine
University[3]
as
his college of choice
for higher learning,
Troy Cory had received a
sports Scholarship from
Wilson High School, in
Long Beach, California,
in Track & Field,
where he became a state
Pole Vaulting Champion.
He is a graduate of
Pepperdine University as
well as Cleveland
College. His academic
degrees include a B.A.,
Bachelor of Science, and
a Doctorate (D.C.)
Degree -
1966.
Discography
•
Troy
Cory
songs
CDs
•
•
List
of LPs, CDs and Singles
Recorded By Troy
Cory
 
References
•
Troy
Cory In
China
•
Google
Videos Troy
Cory
•
Yahoo
Troy Cory Show Music
Video
•
Sumo.TV-
Troy Cory Show
Video
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AOL-The
Troy Cory Show
Video
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Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Fraternity Troy
Cory
•
Amazon
Song Music
CD
•
A9
Smart Daaf Boys, By Troy
Cory
Stubblefield
Books
- Who is Who
Reference
•
Men
of Achievement
•
Who
Is Who
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Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia
Fraternity of
America
Newspaper
Articles
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TV Guide 1984,
"The Troy Cory Show" and
"R&B" Plus -
televised on KCAL
9
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Pasadena Star
News - Showcase Home
couple win case, May 17,
1990
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The Hollywood
Reporter - "Cory
inks Chinese TV, disc
deal," Dec. 20,
1988
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China Daily -
Culture Notes: "Troy
Cory, an American
singer, entertains
concert goers with the
Brooke Sisters" - Nov.
21,
1990
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South China Morning
Post World News -
"Pageant Plans May Not
Get Beijing Approval,"
Troy Cory and
Contestants on Tienanmen
Square, Feb. 27,
1991
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People's Daily -
In Chinese, February
1991
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Daily Variety -
Just For Variety, By
Army Archerd, ... Cory
heading over to China,
Feb 17, to set up
first-time pagent, Jan.
29,
1991
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Pasadena Star
News - Troy Cory:
Grandfather Invented
Radio, April 12,
1991
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Murray Ledger &
Times - Troy
Cory-Stubblefield and,
MSU Professors on the
topic of the 100th
Anniversary of the Birth
of Radio, March 13,
1991
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The San Diego Union
Tribune -
"Stubblefield, First to
Go Wireless," Troy Cory
Tries to Rewrite 1st
Chapter in Radio
History, May 8,
1991
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The Dallas Morning
News - Troy Cory
"He's making radio
waves," July 9,
1991
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Los Angeles Times -
"Only in L.A.," By Steve
Harvey; Troy Cory
preparting to open box
containing records of
his grandfather, April
12, 1991
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Las Vegas Sun -
Troy Cory News
Conference, American:
"Marconi didn't invent
Radio," April 16,
1991
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Harbin Daily -
Troy Cory in Concert,
August 8, 2000
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China Press -
Troy Cory Show Concert
in Beijing; Photos and
Article. Article in
Chinese, June 13,
2000
•
•
Fuzhou Evening
News - Troy Cory
Concert, June 23,
2004
•
•
Fuzhou Evening
News - Troy Cory and
Hawaian Tropic
Performers in Concert,
June 25, 2004
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•
Las Vegas
Ttribune - Cory
speaks on Historical
Aspects of Disney, Oct.
28,
2005
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External
links
http://smart90.com/rosemont
•
Troy
Cory Official
website
•
Troy
Cory at
IMDB
•
The
Troy Cory Evening Show
at
IMDB
•
 Notes
- Troy Cory's
Grandfather
Citations
•
Making
the Hillsides Blossom
with
Lights
•
Stubblefield
Legend
•
Adventures
in
Cyberspace
•
The
Real Father of
Radio
Patents
Granted To Troy Cory's
Grandfather
•
U.S.
Patent
329,864
Patent
- "Lighting
device" -
November 3,
1885.
•
U.S.
Patent
378,183
Patent
- "Mechanical
telephone" -
February
21,
1888.
•
U.S.
Patent
600,457
Patent - "Electric
battery" -
March
8,
1898.
•
U.S.
Patent
887,357
Patent
- "Wireless
telephone" -
May
12,
1908.
•
Canadian
patent
114,737
"Wireless
Telephone" dated
October 20,
1908
Other
•
Troy Cory is a lifetime
member of the United
States Navy League, Bel
Air Chapter
•
Member of the Hollywood
Radio and Television
Society
(HRTS)
•
Member of ASCAP, BMI,
and GEMA, and former
member of
AFTRA
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