Congrats to Barry Young...

[KOOL Listener Lauren]

This Friday, April 27, 2007 is the Nearly Famous Barry Young Day!
Being stuck in a lock-down for over two hours today, I turned on KFYI and caught the tail-end of his interview with Mayor Phil Gordon, so I wasn't sure if it was a joke or not... But that's got to be a wonderful feeling, especially for the fifth largest city in the country!
Congrats Barry 8)

 

[sledge350]

This Friday, April 27, 2007 is the Nearly Famous Barry Young Day!
Being stuck in a lock-down for over two hours today, I turned on KFYI and caught the tail-end of his interview with Mayor Phil Gordon, so I wasn't sure if it was a joke or not... But that's got to be a wonderful feeling, especially for the fifth largest city in the country!
Congrats Barry 8)

As it should be...Barry is a legend in this market. Period. He is a HUGE part of the legend status of KFYI...and he is a great talk show host (no matter what people on this board say). not to mention that 20 years at the same job in radio is virtually unheard of.

 

[brian4]

not to mention that 20 years at the same job in radio is virtually unheard of.

Is this true? When I first started listening to KFYI (late 2000) Barry wasn't on the air. I remember when he came back and bumped Bob Mohan to the 2-3 p.m. spot. People have posted on this board that he left the station for a while. Was he behind the scenes and that is where you are getting 20 years?

 

[bizwriter84]

In recognition of his special day, did Barry Young employ a super duper canned audience recording of "whooooeeeeeeeee" and play it about every 30 seconds?

(gosh, I detest those sfx he uses. Kim Komando, please oh please, stop also using them. Honestly, the sound of about 6 people clapping like crazy in a small bathroom is just not impressive. Honestly, this isn't 1952.)

 

[Legend City]

As much crap as I give him, I do congratulate him, 20 years of some wild times at KFYI.

I liked it much more when the beer baron was running the show.

 

[pattiwacki]

In recognition of his special day, did Barry Young employ a super duper canned audience recording of "whooooeeeeeeeee" and play it about every 30 seconds?

(gosh, I detest those sfx he uses. Kim Komando, please oh please, stop also using them. Honestly, the sound of about 6 people clapping like crazy in a small bathroom is just not impressive. Honestly, this isn't 1952.)

Barry knows how hoakie the sfx are and uses them as a put on. There's nothing hoakie about this guy, he's as sharp as they come, as are his children and wife, and nearly as rich as the lord. Even when he's running in "phone in" mode-he's got one of the most listenable shows on the air. That's why people are so critical of him.

 

[Kimballette]

Barry's show is my favorite time of day on KFYI. I hate when my real life prevents me from tuning in. LOL His intelligence and sarcasm are so entertaining! And even the tired old jokes are funny because you know he knows they're lame. He took off/quit for 18 months until Chick Boss coaxed him back. I may not always agree with his positions or comments, but there are few people as entertaining as Barry. Congrats, oh great one.

 

[oldiesfan6479]

"A little more snow in here and we can ski."
--Alan Brady (indirectly) to Laura Petrie in
Coast To Coast Big Mouth, 1965.

If the Nearly Bald One gets all of these kudos for 20,
one can only imagine the number of warm 'n' fuzzies
for Pat McBland on his upcoming 60th annniversary
at KT'R! ;D

All right, I suppose congrats are in order to Mr. 8-until-Rush.

 

[j henry waugh]

An ill-informed host, w/antiquated sound effects… …and this poster aptly put it:

"Why do you ask?" you ask. Well, seems that "Cruella Michella Buffy Lee" Larson — Young's producer and straight gal — is out of town on vacation this week. Yet she's still slogging through two full hours with the Mouth that Bored every day ... by telephone! Barry can't hang for even a week without her?

I sincerely hope this marks the end of the end for the "Nearly Famous Barry Young," a news talk-talk show that's taken way too long to die. You'd have to search dilligently to find a bigger waste of Phoenix air time — indeed, of Phoenix air — than Barry Young.

 

[bizwriter84]

Barry knows how hoakie the sfx are and uses them as a put on. There's nothing hoakie about this guy, he's as sharp as they come, as are his children and wife, and nearly as rich as the lord. Even when he's running in "phone in" mode-he's got one of the most listenable shows on the air. That's why people are so critical of him.

Pattiwacki, I understand your point. And I can see that some people live to be critical of others who are successful.

From my perspective, there was no funnier, more clever, more talented and more perfectly satirical radio performer than Phil Hendrie. You can go back deep into vintage radio and still not find anybody like him. Yet I see people on here dissing Phil, because they aren't smart enough to know what he is/was doing, or they just don't resonate to it.

So, I can see how people might come to like Barry Young and appreciate his program for its idiosyncracies. I guess his idiosyncracies rub me the wrong way, that's all. <clap-clap-clap-clap-clap>

You made some good points and I appreciate your perspective.

[Still -- Kim Komando doesn't need those awful sfx -- she isn't being deliberately hokie in the rest of her show.]

 

[pattiwacki]

Barry knows how hoakie the sfx are and uses them as a put on. There's nothing hoakie about this guy, he's as sharp as they come, as are his children and wife, and nearly as rich as the lord. Even when he's running in "phone in" mode-he's got one of the most listenable shows on the air. That's why people are so critical of him.

Pattiwacki, I understand your point. And I can see that some people live to be critical of others who are successful.

From my perspective, there was no funnier, more clever, more talented and more perfectly satirical radio performer than Phil Hendrie. You can go back deep into vintage radio and still not find anybody like him. Yet I see people on here dissing Phil, because they aren't smart enough to know what he is/was doing, or they just don't resonate to it.

So, I can see how people might come to like Barry Young and appreciate his program for its idiosyncracies. I guess his idiosyncracies rub me the wrong way, that's all. <clap-clap-clap-clap-clap>

You made some good points and I appreciate your perspective.

[Still -- Kim Komando doesn't need those awful sfx -- she isn't being deliberately hokie in the rest of her show.]




[/quote A fellow Hendrie fan!!!!!! I still think Kim is putting us on, bizwriter, it's just hoakie doesn't fit with beauty and youth, but maybe you're right. It's just I've heard those dumb fx for so many years they just don't bother me. One thing about Barry and Bob Mohan too, they could come on day after day, year after year, and make you laugh out loud, like Lohman and Barkley in L.A. I'm not in the broadcasting industry but that has got to be hard to do.

 

[pattiwacki]

Sorry about the above post being misplace, I've got to learn to use the "quote" thingy. ???

 

[Legend City]

BTW, Hendrie is coming back to radio, and he has a great blog site

http://herbsewell.blogspot.com/

 

[j henry waugh]

BTW, Hendrie is coming back to radio, and he has a great blog site

http://herbsewell.blogspot.com/

/bookmarked

 

[bizwriter84]

A fellow Hendrie fan!!!!!! I still think Kim is putting us on, bizwriter, it's just hoakie doesn't fit with beauty and youth, but maybe you're right. It's just I've heard those dumb fx for so many years they just don't bother me. One thing about Barry and Bob Mohan too, they could come on day after day, year after year, and make you laugh out loud, like Lohman and Barkley in L.A. I'm not in the broadcasting industry but that has got to be hard to do.

Hey -- a fellow Lohman and Barkley fan! (Before their nearly eternal gig on KFI, did you hear them on KFWB in the 60's, too?) I also saw their TV show that lasted, what, for a few weeks nationally, in about 1979 -- that wasn't too good -- Lohman really had a face for radio -- but you're right, day after day, year after year -- there is a real talent and skill in that.

 

[bizwriter84]

BTW, Hendrie is coming back to radio, and he has a great blog site

http://herbsewell.blogspot.com/

As much as I believe Phil Hendrie is a one-in-a-million brilliant satirist, when it comes to his "serious" views on subjects, I can't say I go to Der Philmeister for deep thought. I agree with several of his views, and sometimes for the reasons that he gives, but one has to see the difference between radio personality (brilliant) and political-social commentator (sketchy).

It's like going to Alec Baldwin -- you want acting, he's the man. You want advice on child-rearing, he's an idiot.

(Sorry Phil, forgive the juxtaposition.)

 

[Legend City]

As far as the blog goes, its still a work in process for him.

He went through some ugly stuff in the last year or so, has had a few acting gigs on TV.

When he comes back, it will be less schtick, but I find that hard to believe, the guy is a very talented satirist.

 

[pattiwacki]

Bizwriter, I remember them-my favorite character was W. Eva Schneider. Bob Hudson was a riot, too. Our own Jayaz was on KGBS and had a great show. He takes criticism on this board but he held his own in a big town full of bad boys!

 

[bizwriter84]

Bizwriter, I remember them-my favorite character was W. Eva Schneider. Bob Hudson was a riot, too. Our own Jayaz was on KGBS and had a great show. He takes criticism on this board but he held his own in a big town full of bad boys!

If I recall correctly, KGBS ran a country-western music format on AM 1020 or so, am I right?

Lohman's voices, W. and Judge Roy Bean and the others, were fun. Barkley was the best straight man, too, having to deal with the characters but always sounding pleasant and comfortable with their wackiness. I recall Barkley had one, just one, funny voice. I can't remember the character's name.

As you say, L & B consistently delivered a smile or a laugh on the way to work for something like 20 years. (I remember L & B's show on the day that Bruce Wayne, KF Eye-in-the-Sky, was killed on take off from the airport. They were absolutely serious, sober and respectful in a way that made me proud.)

I hate to compare, but Phil Hendrie took the whole genre to the next level. Several times I heard huge impassioned arguments among not two but three very different personalities, all delivered coherently and flawlessy by Phil Hendrie. I could hardly believe my ears. Absolute genius.

 

[KMGX]

With regard to Phil Hendrie: He is the definition of a super-talent in this business. I like his political commentary, whether I agree with all of it or not is something else, but I still find it to be enjoyable. Phil's characters/bits are incredible. Someone said he is a one-in-a-million and I would agree with that. Howard Stern pioneered the industry and many thought that there could be few others that could do what Stern did creatively (and still is doing for that matter), but Phil Hendrie is really someone to admire--he blazed his own trail.

Maybe FREE-FM would pick him up when he returns to radio. (although I doubt it as they refuse to do anything remotely interesting--maybe they can run even more "best of" Tom Leykis).