Once Howie gets control of his show, so to speak, I wonder if these will reappear:
"The Immigrant Horn"--a car horn playing La Cucaracha, when talking about illegal immigrants (involved in car accidents etc)
"The Scondras Cough"--a tape of openly gay city councillor David Scondras coughing, when talking about gays
"Explosion"--Years ago Howie would play a tape of an explosion after a caller said something outrageous; aka "blowing them up". When the Okla. City bombing
happened, this discontinued. Stephanie Miller used to also use the sound effect. When something a caller said outraged her, she'd make a kind of sound indicating
she was disgusted, and the caller was "blown up"...
I posted on YouTube audio of Howie back in Aug of 1994, talking with the diver in the Chappaquiddick incident. They were broadcasting from the "party house" on the 25th
anniversary of Ted Kennedy's scandal. This was just before Howie and Rush got shifted to WRKO, and you can hear Jim Cutler announcing at the start-- "on WHDH...news talk
850..".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miAyUKStliM
(As Tommy James' Crystal Blue Persuasion played, Howie quips, "another bad song from 1969") Can't remember when Howie started exactly on radio, but I
recall him appearing with Jerry Williams in 88 at the Dem. National Convention; appearing with Barbara Anderson and Jerry as "the Governors" on Tue. afternoons with Jerry,
and filling in for Jerry.
For a time I recall Howie being on WRKO late mornings in an arrangement where he had two hours, liberal talk host Victoria Jones had two hours, and the two shared an hour.
Think WRKO fired him, maybe after an incident involving treatment of an intern? He wound up 3-6 pm on WHDH 850, produced by Kevin "Little Al" Straley and Doug "Virgin Boy"
Goudie (I think HDH had an exec named Al Mayers or something, and Kevin was nicknamed "Little Al" a la "Little Al" of auto racing--Al Unser Jr) In Sept of 94, around the time
of sending off WHDH with a toilet flush, Rush and Howie were sent to WRKO.
One other memory: I don't think Ray Flynn was much of a drinker, but Howie used to maybe allege he was by playing a bit of Flynn speaking, and in the background was
a jingling country-style piano from a TV commercial. Then the vocals came in: "If you've got the time, we've got the beer..." Flynn was later on WRKO Sat. afternoons.
Remember Andy Moes on RKO? Once he had Menino on and Andy asked the then-mayor about Ch 5's Don Gillis. Menino: "Who Don Gillis." (sic)