* Bob ‘Shamrock’ Shannon; Radio, TV Announcer

Bob “Shamrock” Shannon, 79, longtime radio and television announcer. Shannon began working as a radio announcer in his hometown of West Allis, Wis., in 1938, while he was still in high school. He got his big break at WTMJ in Milwaukee announcing for Heinie and the Grenadiers, a locally well-known polka band. He came to Hollywood after military service in World War II and was a CBS network announcer in the late 1940s. His voice was heard on such shows as Lionel Barrymore’s “Mayor of the Town” and “The Jimmy Durante-Garry Moore Show.” From 1949 to 1954, Shannon had a radio quiz show, “The Man Says Yes.” With the advent of television, he worked as an announcer and a writer. He went into the investment business but resurfaced on the airways in the 1980s, trying to revive “The Man Says Yes,” on KCSN-FM (88.5). On Aug. 15.