Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness - Ep 121

Kia Ora (Key Orra) to our listeners in New Zealand! Thank you for checking out our little slice of fun here at the Vault of Silliness.

I give you Ep 121. It’s a NNS, the majority of which is from January 8^th and maybe the 9th, 1994.

According to the notes on the cassette, there’s a taste of December 4^th, 1993. Because of that this cassette was all over the place. I’ve pieced it together chronologically as best as I could. It appears that December show was the one affected by all the technical issues that Norm briefly discussed in a previous episode.

Our title will be: A Slushy Great Adventure of a Show

We begin with 12/4/93, The Night of Technical Difficulties with a Jack Harte traffic report that has a section of said trouble and you can hear the smile in Jack’s voice as he soldiers on.

Darrell Gould with an intro to another report from Jack

Jack and Norm then lament the cancelation of the DBG because of all the problems and glitches.

There’s Scott, a Bentley College student. He and Norm talk about working overnights and how to sleep during the day.

Another Scott, this time from Wayland, who was on a previous DBG (Ep 114) but had to leave because he got pulled over by the police. He gives us the rest of the story. Plus he asks about Larry Glick, Emperor Hudson and Ron Landry. Some old station call letters are bandied about too:

WITS – the I.T.S. standing for Info Talk and Sports, WMEX, WMRE and WSSH

We now jump to 1/8/94

The stars must have been aligned because Elvis Presley who’s was  ‘appearing’ on top of the dumpster at the Tedeschi’s in Weymouth. His main reason for calling was to request Norm sing Happy Birthday to him.

Norma from the N. End – the Old Howard Theater, candy hawkers selling naughty stuff with double entandrés and cats and dogs round out her call.

Chris in PA – Jason Robards is sexy and Norm looks just like him. She kindly inquires on the whereabouts of I. Norm gives her the lowdown and reveals just some of the things we do together off the air. Annnnd more cat talk with added raccoon fun.

Next caller had some Jazz questions about the Nat King Cole Trio but the call is cut short.

Now we hear from the lovely Helene from Belmont – They talk snow, sleet, windshield wiper issues and great adventures.

Joan talking Mac Davis, Elvis and more.

A great call with our good friend Rick from PA with more on Mac Davis, the TV production of ‘Gypsy’ and Tip O’Neill. His call is interrupted by  Lou Ambrosino with an icy traffic report but we do get back to him.

We move on to Vivian whom Norm left momentarily speechless.

Bob reads ‘Boston Shade of Green’ and a passage from ‘The Seagull’ for Tip O’Neill

Fred from NJ and his crazy cats Ritzy and Tiger. We also learn that Fred enjoys telephones and has multiple lines at his house.

Other schlunk:

Norm has learned special skills from his time in the Orient

Profound statements that make you want to throw up

Peals of Laughter

Engineers climbing all over the transmitter

Vitality!

Norm sings his High School Fight Song 

Years passing under the bridge

Looking your age

Historic Romances

Spending the Night with Helene and Norm bringing his jammies

Riding Phoebe Snow

Ringing phones

As for commercial content we get the first sentence of a few sponsors to what our appetite.

Ep 121, A Slushy Great Adventure of a Show, slides to your ears…now.

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