query: genre the honey dreamers
supports: The Honey Dreamers was a singing group composed of 3 males and two females that appeared on radio and early television programs like CBS 's Faye Emerson 's Wonderful Town and The Ed Sullivan Show . The group was formed at St. Olaf College in 1946 by Keith Textor and his roommate Dick Larson , who introduced Keith to Sylvia Mikelson . Textor led the group and was responsible for the group 's intricate harmonies Their manager , at one point , was Art Ward . Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901  October 13, 1974) was an American television personality, sports and entertainment reporter, and longtime syndicated columnist for the "New York Daily News". He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program "The Toast of the Town", later popularlyand, eventually, officiallyrenamed "The Ed Sullivan Show". Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great TV show," proclaimed television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories." The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948, to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the "CBS Sunday Night Movie", a single season failure.  CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major production facilities and operations in New York City (at the CBS Broadcast Center) and Los Angeles (at CBS Television City and the CBS Studio Center). A variety show, also known as variety arts or variety entertainment, is entertainment made up of a variety of acts (hence the name), especially musical performances and sketch comedy, and is normally introduced by a compère (master of ceremonies) or host. Other types of acts include magic, animal and circus acts, acrobatics, juggling, and ventriloquism. The variety format made its way from Victorian era stage to radio to television. Variety shows were a staple of anglophone television from its early days (late 1940s) into the 1980s.
candidates: comedy entertainment musical news pop radio sketch television variety variety show
answer: pop