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Gary Corry

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Gary is very ill and in intensive care at a hospital in Northeast Atlanta. Please keep him in your prayers and/or send positive thoughts to him and his family.
 
grhof said:
Gary is very ill and in intensive care at a hospital in Northeast Atlanta. Please keep him in your prayers and/or send positive thoughts to him and his family.
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Indeed. His book is excellent, by the way.
 
God bless him. He and "tangerine" were at my fund-raiser, "An Evening With Mark Twain." Can anyone give us an update on his condition and why he had to be hospitalized????
He's such a great human being.
 
I went over to his table a couple of years ago at the GRHOF and said I was a fan and I sure missed him on the air. He could always make me laugh and he came across as a kind soul. If you are reading this and visit him, tell him his fans wish him well.
 
secondchoice said:
IIRC I last head Red on Captain Herb’s racing show. Will Herb do a tribute this Saturday?
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Red was calling in to George and BJ on WDUN 550 out of Gainesville lately. Gonna miss him!
 
So sad to read of his passing. Growing up in ATL back in the 70's obvioulsy Garro and the gang were a big part of every morning.

I've been trying all day to recall Red's 'catch phrase'/'tag line' but can't remember. Can anyone help me out ?

Thanks !
 
dawgfan44 said:
I've been trying all day to recall Red's 'catch phrase'/'tag line' but can't remember. Can anyone help me out ?
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"just ask yerself!"

i couldn't remember either. but it's on http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/files/2010/09/Red-Neckerson.jpg this pic in rodney's column.

by the way, changed a lot since http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buH0XUIZ5LM in 1964. that is him, right? i would have rather heard some of his radio commentaries. somebody upload some of those. he was a genius.

-amos
 
Actually, I DO have something to add:

I don't care who you are or why you're here--I'm assuming you have some kind of interest in Atlanta/Georgia radio, and any interest is appreciated. Really, thanks, so please indulge me. It's about old stuff, kinda historical, but at the same time important.

So, can I get you to take a deep breath and reflect for a second on people like Gary Corry, and the influence they've had on people you currently hear on the air?

Please understand that Gary Corry is IMPORTANT to Georgia Radio for so many reasons. Important so much that this particular Atlanta board wouldn't exist without him. He was a mentor to so MANY people who are commented about on this board. He was a supporter to those people. And, he came from a generation likely NOT to be repeated, which is: a talent-oriented manager who really cared about developing his people in terms of their on-air presentation. That's a unique thing, not so easy to replicate today.

Quick story: I remember my first meeting with my on-air talent team at KABL in San Francisco in 1993, where I'd just been named PD. This is market #4. No one on the staff had received ANY kind of feedback, EVER, from ANY PD they'd ever worked with: so much so that the poor midday guy showed up for his first aircheck session in a SUIT!! He was terrified. Now, understand, this guy had done a great job for the station, sounded great, and had done national Safeway supermarket radio ads for 20+ years. In other words, a talent. But, he was terrified that the new PD would tear him apart...the poor guy had NEVER had any feedback, at all, for years!

How this relates to Gary: there's no way in hell that anyone who worked for him wouldn't know how they were doing. And, they all LOVED HIM. He'd tell them how/what/why and they'd buy it, and get better. No better talent evaluator/motivator ever lived.

This, plus he was simply a first-class man. He was married to his wife for 50+ years, a devoted family man, an artist (as in, painting and writing) and all in all a marvelous man. And, in his latter years, he'd send me humorous, thoughtful, and supportive messages on Facebook.

What further can I tell you? He was the best.
 
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