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Larry Glick passed away

My day has just been ruined. So long Commander Glick. Thanks for all the memories.
 
Larry was one of a kind. Had the pleasure to be a caller on his show several times back in the late '70's before I went to Larry's Alma Mater, Emerson College.

I still remember seeing his hypnotism show down on the Cape.... It was very funny. Glad I was in the audience and not one of his subjects. He told one big guy who was in a hypnotic state that the guy was the strongest man in the world... but he could not pick up a single chair on the stage. Then he reintroduced the guy along with the most petite woman also in a hypnotic state. Larry asked the guy to move the chair so someone could sit down. The guy couldn't budge it. Then Larry would ask the woman to move it, and of course, she could with ease. The "Strongest Man in the World" would do a slow burn on stage.

Hey Larry... shoot me off the air!!!
 
Another true talent is gone

Another talent, from the golden age of radio, before the business was ruined

Back in the days when you had to be profound, not profane

Back when you could work your whole career in one market

Back when radio people were looked upon as stars

Back when people wanted to graduate from Glick University

God speed Larry.... Thanks for the memories
 
For those old enough to remember him (I am), there was perhaps no more iconic Boston radio personality than Larry Glick. The sad commentary is that when you think back to his show and you overlap it against radio today, you simply groan.
 
Spent many a nights in the late 60s and early 70s listening to Jerry Williams and Larry Glick (on my small transister in Roanoke, VA)

A couple of guys who inspired me enough to try this business.
 
You might want to know how Larry was behind the scenes and off the mic. Without a doubt, the nicest guy you ever wanted to meet. He wasn't happy unless you were happy. When you'd bump into him he'd smile or he'd say something so that you couldn't help liking him.
 
this is sad news indeed for Larry Glick was a major inspiration for me. In the summer of 1971 I listened to Larry in my little dorm room in Washington, DC and dreamed of being a talk host. WBZ blasted into DC at night in those days. I even tried to call in from time to time but it meant getting together a bag of quarters and sitting in a hallway phone booth. I never got on before the phone money ran out. Surely a gem of a talent from the last Golden Age of radio. RIP Mr. Glick.
 
First, I have to agree with jimcutler that Larry was an incredibly generous, nice guy on and off the air. In a business of hefty egos, he never needed to model his, he really liked people. You never outgrew Larry. I remember getting a thrill out of a "round of applause" he gave me on the air for a tip. At the time, I was Larry King's producer and had my name noted on 250+ stations daily, but still got a kick out of a mention by the Commander.

On another note, the whole idea of the WBZ "Hall of Fame" is getting to be a strange joke. While I don't question Gary's inclusion, the fact that Carl deSuze, Dave Maynard, Streeter Stuart and David Brudnoy haven't been honored is insane. And, that doesn't even mention the two best ever at what they did, Jerry Williams and Larry Glick. Is it because they didn't end their careers at 1030? With that logic, Bobby Orr's number wouldn't be in the rafters. He was the absolute best and so were they.
 
My late mother who suffered form insomnia spent many an evening with her bedside radio tuned to WBZ which came booming into Ohio at night. Maybe he is doing his show for her again up there in the Great Beyond.

Anyone else remember when overnight hosts were the biggest thing on the big flame throwers. Many of them were so much more talented that the current crop and Mr. Glick was one of the very best and you could tell that he really was enjoying it. Now the late night world belongs to Coast to Coast, it is a shame.
 
I remember Glick had a brother who I don't think made it out of his 40's. Larry was determined to have a long lifespan, and did a great job.

The era of overnight power-station programming was pretty cool, but it's long gone.
 
"Hello there, Glick here..."

...was the way I recall Larry Glick on WBZ.

How many of you wrote to Larry and got a post card in response?

I did so back in the late 1970s over here near Cooperstown, NY.

Can you recall Larry singing the phone number to call in, 254-6878? I think it was that number...

Thanks, Larry! In my earliest years in radio in the early 1980s, Larry Glick faced another "Larry" on the overnight hours I worked in the Binghamton market. That was Larry King.

Caller? Hello?
 
TelZone said:
On another note, the whole idea of the WBZ "Hall of Fame" is getting to be a strange joke. While I don't question Gary's inclusion, the fact that Carl deSuze, Dave Maynard, Streeter Stuart and David Brudnoy haven't been honored is insane. And, that doesn't even mention the two best ever at what they did, Jerry Williams and Larry Glick. Is it because they didn't end their careers at 1030? With that logic, Bobby Orr's number wouldn't be in the rafters. He was the absolute best and so were they.
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You raise an interesting point. First, Carl deSuze didn't finish his career at WBZ? Where did he go afterward? He lived not far from my family when we lived in Concord.

If a person's long-tenured career was essentially 'defined' by WBZ, he or she ought to be on their Wall of Fame. Otherwise, the whole thing becomes a questionable and impotent exercise in self-aggrandizement if certain people are highlighted while others aren't. I've always rolled my eyes when media people sponsor their own awards shows and 'Walls of Fame.' It's as though the message is, 'We're pretty darned important people, and don't you forget it!'
 
nmoore6676 said:
My late mother who suffered form insomnia spent many an evening with her bedside radio tuned to WBZ which came booming into Ohio at night. Maybe he is doing his show for her again up there in the Great Beyond.

Anyone else remember when overnight hosts were the biggest thing on the big flame throwers. Many of them were so much more talented that the current crop and Mr. Glick was one of the very best and you could tell that he really was enjoying it. Now the late night world belongs to Coast to Coast, it is a shame.
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Yes it is a shame. The late night local talk is gone.
 
cmrivdog said:
Spent many a nights in the late 60s and early 70s listening to Jerry Williams and Larry Glick (on my small transister in Roanoke, VA)

A couple of guys who inspired me enough to try this business.
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Jerry Williams worked for awhile in Chicago on WBBM, but he was never as big as he was in Boston.
 
Jerry, Larry, David, David M, all had troubles with management: two were fired. How that affects Walls of fame I have no idea.
 
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