difference in audio quality between Grauer's announcements and the music tracks as they are now heard would have been blatantly obvious. An archival recording of Grauer's voice calling, "Here it is," begins Harry Shearer's Le Show. Final years and death In the decade before his death, Grauer collected material for a projected history of prices and pricing, with special attention to book prices. He was active in several professional journalistic organizations as well as the Grolier Club. Grauer had a strong interest in the graphic arts; he even printed his own Christmas cards. Ben Grauer died of a heart attack at New York University Medical Center in New York City on May 31, 1977, two days before his 69th birthday. He is interred in Westchester Hills Cemetery in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. Filmography Including early career as child actor: His Woman (1919) Mad Woman (1919) The Idol Dancer (1920) .... as Native Boy (film directed by D.W. Griffith) Annabel Lee (1921) .... David Martin, as a child The Town That Forgot God (1922) .... as a boy My Friend the Devil (1922) .... George Dryden, as a boy Does It Pay? (1923) Gaslight Follies (1945) .... Narrator, 'Stars of Yesterday' Fight of the Wild Stallions (1947) .... Narrator Kon-Tiki (1950) (voice) .... Narrator Radio creditsThe Coca-Cola Top-Notchers (1930)Thrills Of Tomorrow For Boys (1933)The Baker's Broadcast (1934)The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour (1934)Radio City Matinee (1935)The Nellie Revell Show (1935)Ripley's Believe It Or Not (1935)Circus Night In Silvertown (1935)Lux Radio Theatre (1935)The Magic Key of RCA (1935)Paul Whiteman's Musical Varieties (1936)The Shell Show (1937)Shell Chateau (1937)The Fact Finder (1937)The Royal Desserts Program (1938)Walter Winchell (1938)Pulitzer Prize Plays (1938)Battle of the Sexes (1938) NBC quiz.Pot o' Gold (1939–41) Considered the first "interactive" broadcast program. A popular game show hosted by Grauer.Horace Heidt and his Musical Knights played while Grauer asked listeners questions on the phone.It was this program that introduced the catchphrase "Stop the music".Richard Himber and His Orchestra (1939)The Vitalis Program (1939)H.V. Kaltenborn (1940)News Roundup (1940)Behind the Mike (1940)The News From Europe (1941)Sunday Evening News Roundup (1941)NBC Sunday News Roundup (1941)Jergens Journal (1941)The Hemisphere Review (1941)Two Years Of War (1941)Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge (1941)The March Of Time (1941)Radio City Music Hall On the Air (1942)Music Of the New World (1943)Mr. and Mrs. North (1943)Information, Please! (1943) NBC quiz showThe Fitch Bandwagon (1943)Your Home Front Reporter (1943)General Motors Symphony Of the Air (1943)Treasury