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A Birthday To Remember

T

Tilden

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Saw a post today that this would have been Jerry Williams' 94 Birthday.
The Dean took the best of radio with him.
Missed every time I turn on the radio at 2PM.
Now, we only have white noise.
" Wake Up, America...."
Rest in Peace, my friend.
Always missed.
 
He was a giant.
I remember when he moved to Chicago and WBBM ran ads in the Globe and Herald telling folks how to tune in.
 
Pic online shows his grave with his sayings: Good night, good luck, good night to you (Murrow), I never had a dinner (Red Buttons), They're out there
 
Two things that I recall: 1)At the height of the ongoing Watergate revelations, he would open the show with "Well, another shoe has dropped . . ." 2) He talked from time to time about one of the early stations where he worked-it was in a town that was on the border of Virginia and Tennessee (was it Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee?) and the town was actually in both states. I think he did HS football play by play and everything else on the station. He well understood that the business of talk radio is entertainment, but he was able to do important public policy issues in an entertaining way (along with some frivolous stuff that was also entertaining).
 
raccoonradio said:
Pic online shows his grave with his sayings: Good night, good luck, good night to you (Murrow), I never had a dinner (Red Buttons), They're out there
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Actually it was "good night, good luck, good night T" when he was on WBZ. His wife, Terri, lived in Florida and could often hear him. I think he dropped the "T" part when he went to afternoons on WRKO since the signal would not have reached Florida.
 
aerie said:
Actually it was "good night, good luck, good night T" when he was on WBZ. His wife, Terri, lived in Florida and could often hear him. I think he dropped the "T" part when he went to afternoons on WRKO since the signal would not have reached Florida.
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Terri was quite a beautiful woman. She was a concert pianist and became an antique appraiser in Palm Beach.
 
Where was Jerry buried? I ask because anyone who listened knows he used to say he wanted the Vet's Cemetery in Marion (I think). He claimed he had cost the Gov' nothing and wanted a free burial paid for with his Army service.
 
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