I was waiting for Henderson to do something but Snyder beat her to it. Tom's radio show didn't last for very long but I gotta say one learns from his show. For example one night Tom Snyder had Linda Ronstadt on and Linda admitted on his show that her old hits such as "You're No Good', "I Can't Let Go" and even "Different Drum" well sucks as she said "..it just ruins my day when I hear them !!".
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Huntley/Brinkley vs. Cronkite
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I was waiting for Henderson to do something but Snyder beat her to it. Tom's radio show didn't last for very long but I gotta say one learns from his show. For example one night Tom Snyder had Linda Ronstadt on and Linda admitted on his show that her old hits such as "You're No Good', "I Can't Let Go" and even "Different Drum" well sucks as she said "..it just ruins my day when I hear them !!".
Personally, I like all 3 of those songs. Don't know why either Snyder or Ronstadt would diss them. I saw her up close and in person twice - first time performing when she was just starting her solo career - I want to say 1970...at McCabe's Guitar Shop (IIRC), when they used to do performances there - second time about 12 years later, she came in my video store with George Lucas, who she was dating, and who lived nearby. She was not only talented, but beautiful.
If you like her singing ability, you need to see "Pirates of Penzance" - very pure tones! Hamster never said that Snyder didn't like those songs, only Ronstadt.
Well, not sure how this thread got off track, but back to Huntley-Brinkley vs. Cronkite...
When Huntley/Brinkley broke up, due to Chet's retirement in 1970, David continued on NBC. Brinkley teamed up with John Chancellor, and there were various pairings over the years, until Tom Brokaw was named permanent anchor in '82. Cronkite had retired in '81, replaced by Dan Rather.
When Huntley/Brinkley broke up, due to Chet's retirement in 1970, David continued on NBC. Brinkley teamed up with John Chancellor, and there were various pairings over the years, until Tom Brokaw was named permanent anchor in '82. Cronkite had retired in '81, replaced by Dan Rather.
Many celebrities don't like their own work especially down the road. The late sportscaster George Michael was one as for some reason he didn't like Denver and his days as KBTV/KBTR. My boss went to a party once and George was there. Telling stories about his days at Philly's 56 WFIL and NYC's 77 WABC and of course WRC-TV. When George said he first got into sports casting at WRC my boss said some lady said "...George...I remember you doing sports on Denver's channel 9 as KING George Michael !!". George Michael left the part mad.
I don't think so. Interestingly, with all the conservative hand wringing about media reporters being mostly liberal, I seem to recall that Chet was a conservative. I also recall that Howard K. Smith caught a lot of crap from the anti-war movement in the early 70s because he continued to support the war in Vietnam.
It always bugs me when artists - musicians in particular - disown their early work. I remember attending a Jefferson Airplane concert about 1970. The audience was yelling for the band to play White Rabbit - probably their biggest hit. Grace Slick put the song down, and the band refused to play it. I can understand that a musician can get sick of playing a certain song, but they're at the concert - and making a s**t ton of money - for the concert-goers, not for themselves. I remember thinking that they wanted to disown a song that made them rich, and was the reason the concert was sold out.
Ronstadt probably made a gazillion for Different Drum and You're No Good. I remember the latter was used in a lot of commercials and films...so they $$ kept coming for her.
As I recall, Chet Huntley returned to his farm in Montana and did a national radio commentary from there. According to Wikipedia, he built the Big Sky resort but died three days before it opened.
While it's not necessarily indicative of his Conservative leanings, there's the audio of Chet dismissing the arrival of The Beatles in February 1964:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCU-VvpASJQ
It's only indicative of him being middle-aged at the time rocknroll burst on the scene. Chuck Berry was nothing like Frank Sinatra and there was nothing in their musical background to prepare adults for the experience! A mere nine years later, any rock act was still perceived by them, as a curiosity. My aunt asked my mother (40 years older than I)at the time what she thought about The Beatles. My mother said she thought they were cute, at which point my aunt replied, "So do I.". When "Yesterday" came out the next year, it changed a lot of people's minds. In 1966, my 42 year-old music teacher said there were only too good "modern" songs, "Yesterday" and "Blowin' in the Wind"!
Sorry this is off topic but my late parents saw Jeannie C. Riley in concert in the early 80's at a high school in Virginia. Everyone wanted to hear her sing "Harper Valley PTA". Unfortunately despite that being her biggest hit she would not sing it. Jeannie explained to the 500 people or so that Barbara Eden now "owns" that song now ( Barbara Eden does not own that song then and now ) and wanted no part of it. She went on to sing religious songs and praised Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker for their "fine work". Needless to say everyone including my parents got up and left that concert and Jeannie had to finish the concert to an empty house.
Chet Huntley was a big fan of Janis Jopin by 1970. Not long before she died she and Chet appeared on Dick Cavett. It was easy to notice that he was interested in what she was saying and Janis was interested in what Chet had to say.
There was a lot of musical change between 1964 and 1970 and apparently, it wasn't wasted on Chet.
The interesting is if Brokaw had went to ABC, Roger Mudd would have been sole anchor- and i'm not so sure if he would have the tenure that Brokaw did. The other thing is that at Today, does Gumbel come in anyway, or does NBC decide to upgrade Jane Pauley's role there?
Mudd was Brokaw's main backup, as he did much of the coverage during the hostage crisis in 1985...
Roger Mudd said in his autobiography that he was never happy at NBC and that even though NBC gave him a shot, his heart still remained with CBS despite the way he felt he had been treated in being passed over for Cronkite's job.
Ancient history - but my choice to replace Cronkite would have been Mudd - he had better on air presence than Rather, in my opinion.
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