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A voice for the ages: Longtime Madison radio personality Ben Benedetti provides a link to another era.
http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=66487&ntpid=3
MON., DEC 26, 2005 - 1:20 PM
A voice for the ages: Longtime Madison radio personality Ben Benedetti provides a link to another era.
ROGER ANDERSON For the State Journal
Contact Roger Anderson at [email protected] the radio "The Ben Benedetti Show" airs at 11 a.m. Sundays on WTUX 1550 AM.
He grew up in a time when a nickel looked a lot like gold. For a boy whose family was too poor to buy him a bicycle, the radio became his toy, his retreat and eventually his way of life.
Hearing his voice today, broadcast over Madison's WTUX-AM 1550, it's hard to imagine that the bold and lucid tone behind "The Ben Benedetti Show" is nearly 80 years old.
"Here I am, pushing 80, in excellent health and where others in my age group are looking to retirement. ... I'm actually hoping to do more on- air work if the cards fall the way I'd like," Benedetti said.
For the last half-century, Benedetti has worked alone, in a studio surrounded by the best friends he's never met. But the names on each of the nearly 10,000 records he owns are not just consonants and vowels strung together. They are a lifeline to a different era. ...
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http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/index.php?ntid=66487&ntpid=3
MON., DEC 26, 2005 - 1:20 PM
A voice for the ages: Longtime Madison radio personality Ben Benedetti provides a link to another era.
ROGER ANDERSON For the State Journal
Contact Roger Anderson at [email protected] the radio "The Ben Benedetti Show" airs at 11 a.m. Sundays on WTUX 1550 AM.
He grew up in a time when a nickel looked a lot like gold. For a boy whose family was too poor to buy him a bicycle, the radio became his toy, his retreat and eventually his way of life.
Hearing his voice today, broadcast over Madison's WTUX-AM 1550, it's hard to imagine that the bold and lucid tone behind "The Ben Benedetti Show" is nearly 80 years old.
"Here I am, pushing 80, in excellent health and where others in my age group are looking to retirement. ... I'm actually hoping to do more on- air work if the cards fall the way I'd like," Benedetti said.
For the last half-century, Benedetti has worked alone, in a studio surrounded by the best friends he's never met. But the names on each of the nearly 10,000 records he owns are not just consonants and vowels strung together. They are a lifeline to a different era. ...
[Click link above for the rest of the WSJ newspaper article.]