Anyone on this board know where I might be able to find some old Larry Glick airchecks? Circa 1977 and 1983 on WBZ. There are some bits I still fondly recall that I wish I could hear again. Stuff that played on the "best of Glick" on Sunday nights for awhile, and that Larry would recycle from time to time in the wee hours. Especially would enjoy hearing the guy who called from somewhere in West-by-God-Virginia with a hilarious story about stuffing a deer he shot in the back seat of his truck - only to have it come to while he was driving. Must have gone on for 15 minutes. I used to hear it driving back to my dorm at Ohio University late at night on a lonely country road (with plenty of deer lurking in the fog) after hosting Sunday night airshifts on a station in Parkersburg, W Va.
Larry sure knew how to have fun with his callers, and wasn't afraid to spend enough time with them to get some real golden moments. Occasionally there were more serious moments too, which made it all the more poignant, since we usually expected light hearted material from Larry and his callers.
I got on the show one night from where I was doing a grad school radio consulting gig in Nome, Alaska. I lined up the runner-up musher of that year's Iditarod sled dog race on the phone in my apartment, and he and Larry chatted on the air for at least a half hour. The racer, whose name escapes me at the moment, was from New Hampshyre, as Larry would pronounce it, which got an instant "sure, we'll talk to him - how about we call you back in 20 minutes?" from his producer when I called in to 354-5678, area 617, from my apartment upstairs from KICY's studios in Nome.
I never got to hear how this sounded, since there was no internet streaming back then, and I couldn't get anybody back home in Toledo to ever record it off the air for me when it was replayed on the Sunday night "Best of" slot. And while WBZ covers a lot of ground at night, I doubt any DXer has ever logged it on the Bering Sea coast.
I would love to hear this interview Larry did from an old Larry Glick aircheck, if anybody on this board either has one, or knows where to find one. I did buy a stack of mp3 CDs from a guy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who recorded hours and hours of Larry from a few years earlier. Still got more of those to enjoy, despite more fading on the signal that I got in Ohio. But I'm talking about stuff I heard (and when I was on a time or two) in the late 1970s and the Nome Iditarod interview would have been from mid-March 1983, if I'm counting the years back correctly.
Listening to some vintage Larry Glick would also be a good practice for some of today's wanna-be air personalities. Even tho' the pacing was slower back then, Larry knew how to bring you the real flavor of Boston, and other places, thru simply asking questions and talking to people. He took a genuine interest in his callers, and made me as a listener feel like I was part of the party and in on the act - and want to hear more. He never disrespected his callers or relied on insult humor - unless you took being 'shot off the air' the wrong way!
ps - I stll have a WBZ Larry Glick T shirt - in stylish maroon, and in a size that's way to small for me to wear now. I've "kept it clean" all these years. Anyone else still got one?
Larry sure knew how to have fun with his callers, and wasn't afraid to spend enough time with them to get some real golden moments. Occasionally there were more serious moments too, which made it all the more poignant, since we usually expected light hearted material from Larry and his callers.
I got on the show one night from where I was doing a grad school radio consulting gig in Nome, Alaska. I lined up the runner-up musher of that year's Iditarod sled dog race on the phone in my apartment, and he and Larry chatted on the air for at least a half hour. The racer, whose name escapes me at the moment, was from New Hampshyre, as Larry would pronounce it, which got an instant "sure, we'll talk to him - how about we call you back in 20 minutes?" from his producer when I called in to 354-5678, area 617, from my apartment upstairs from KICY's studios in Nome.
I never got to hear how this sounded, since there was no internet streaming back then, and I couldn't get anybody back home in Toledo to ever record it off the air for me when it was replayed on the Sunday night "Best of" slot. And while WBZ covers a lot of ground at night, I doubt any DXer has ever logged it on the Bering Sea coast.
I would love to hear this interview Larry did from an old Larry Glick aircheck, if anybody on this board either has one, or knows where to find one. I did buy a stack of mp3 CDs from a guy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who recorded hours and hours of Larry from a few years earlier. Still got more of those to enjoy, despite more fading on the signal that I got in Ohio. But I'm talking about stuff I heard (and when I was on a time or two) in the late 1970s and the Nome Iditarod interview would have been from mid-March 1983, if I'm counting the years back correctly.
Listening to some vintage Larry Glick would also be a good practice for some of today's wanna-be air personalities. Even tho' the pacing was slower back then, Larry knew how to bring you the real flavor of Boston, and other places, thru simply asking questions and talking to people. He took a genuine interest in his callers, and made me as a listener feel like I was part of the party and in on the act - and want to hear more. He never disrespected his callers or relied on insult humor - unless you took being 'shot off the air' the wrong way!
ps - I stll have a WBZ Larry Glick T shirt - in stylish maroon, and in a size that's way to small for me to wear now. I've "kept it clean" all these years. Anyone else still got one?
