Michael C. Gwynne

Son of 1940s and 1950s band leader Frankie Kaye and former nationally known radio personality during the 1960s during Top-40 radio era under the names "Lee Vaunce" at KGFJ in Los Angeles and "Mike Sheppard" at both San Francisco's KDIA and New York's WWRL. While a DJ at KPOI in Honolulu, Gwynne broke the Guinness Book of Records for nonstop drumming (92 hours) at the 1965 "Drum-A-Thon". He went on to sit in at the drums with many R&B bands of that era. Arriving in Hollywood in 1969 to visit a friend, he met a man at a party who said he was the Universal Studios producer Jerrold Freedman. They hit it off over jazz music and radio, Gwynne even expressing an interest in acting and Freedman saying they would work together. Realizing he was at a "Hollywood" party, Gwynne did not believe the man was really a producer and dismissed the whole thing. Three weeks later, Gwynne received a telegram instructing him to be at Freedman's office at Universal. Seems he really was a producer and when G