Johnny Patrick was the stage and air name of John Patrick Goggan, born in Louisville, KY.
While working at KYA, Patrick started writing a series of 15-minute musical comedy sketches called Cecil and Sally. He played the role of Cecil and colleague Helen Troy was Sally. Patrick wrote the scripts and sang; Troy sang and played the piano and organ
When the short-lived ABC network collapsed in 1929, Cecil and Sally moved to KPO and NBC.
Between 1930 and 1933, Patrick and Troy distributed Cecil and Sally via transcription disc to a network of more than 50 stations, garnering a reported audience of 15 million listeners. Patrick would eventually write more than a thousand scripts for the series.
In 1934, Patrick declared bankruptcy, listing his radio partner Helen Troy as one of his creditors.
Patrick would go on to a lengthy run as a successful playwright and Hollywood screenwriter following his early years in radio. His adaptation of the novel “The Teahouse of the August Moon” for the stage in 1953 earned him a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award.
Johnny Patrick died in 1995 at age 90.