By Karen Peterson For those of a certain age, somewhere in the memory banks is the image of a smiling, freckle-faced, red-headed guy—not the marionette Howdy Doody—wearing a bright Hawaiian shirt and plucking a ukulele. It was Arthur Godfrey, and in the baby days of television, the early 1950s, the “Ole Redhead,” as he called … Continue reading Gods of Uke: How Arthur Godfrey Helped Spark the 1950s Uke Craze