Anybody reading this have access to any old Larry Glick airchecks from either his evening or overnight gigs at WBZ? It must have been mid-March of 1982, maybe 1983, when I phoned him from my apartment about the KICY radio studios in Nome, Alaska with the runner up to the Iditarod race on the phone, who was a musher from New Hamp-shire. They must have spoken on the air for at least 45 minutes.
Of course, being way before webstreaming and podcasting, I never got to hear what it sounded like on the air on WBZ, since I was in the room with the musher and only got to hear his responses. I would love to hear that broadcast, if anyone has tape of that event, or can suggest a source that might. I was told by friends who used to DX WBZ at night from where they lived in Ohio that it was repeated several times, including on the Sunday night best of Glick they ran for awhile.
Larry also had a few regular classic calls he used to pull out and repeat from time to time when I drove home from my late night air shifts in Parkersburg WVa in 1977 and 1978. I remember one was a caller from somewhere else in West-By-God-Virginia who told a hilarious story about hunting a deer, and the turns-out-it-was-only-stunned deer coming back to life in the back seat of his truck. It was hard to keep your car in your lane on the curvy roads of Appalachia when listening to that one. Would be a real hoot to hear that and a few others with Commander Glick again, may he rest in peace.
I did buy a set of mp3 CD airchecks someone in Grand Rapids, michigan made of Larry in the late 1970s. I'm looking for some from a few years later, 1982 and 1983, and hopefully with clearer audio than the DX was in west Michigan.
Of course, being way before webstreaming and podcasting, I never got to hear what it sounded like on the air on WBZ, since I was in the room with the musher and only got to hear his responses. I would love to hear that broadcast, if anyone has tape of that event, or can suggest a source that might. I was told by friends who used to DX WBZ at night from where they lived in Ohio that it was repeated several times, including on the Sunday night best of Glick they ran for awhile.
Larry also had a few regular classic calls he used to pull out and repeat from time to time when I drove home from my late night air shifts in Parkersburg WVa in 1977 and 1978. I remember one was a caller from somewhere else in West-By-God-Virginia who told a hilarious story about hunting a deer, and the turns-out-it-was-only-stunned deer coming back to life in the back seat of his truck. It was hard to keep your car in your lane on the curvy roads of Appalachia when listening to that one. Would be a real hoot to hear that and a few others with Commander Glick again, may he rest in peace.
I did buy a set of mp3 CD airchecks someone in Grand Rapids, michigan made of Larry in the late 1970s. I'm looking for some from a few years later, 1982 and 1983, and hopefully with clearer audio than the DX was in west Michigan.