Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Today we have a show that was marked as April 2, 1995, but April fools on me as it was a Norm Nathan show from May 14, 1995. Hang on, because this one is titled the Cliffhanger. It begins with a local feature that was hosted by Dave Maynard called the Other side. What, pray tell, was the subject, you ask?
How about some R rated housekeepers? Yes siree.
Sneak a peek. Topless cleaning service located in South Wayne, Wisconsin, owned by Vicki Henderson.
You're welcome. Now it's norm time, with Emilio Morata producing callers. Julie answers a question and wins a paper keychain. Michael talks about his dumb birthday game prizes and defended himself for a poor performance on Bob Raleigh's Quick Recall where Bob and other callers put him down.
Generosa Gloria from Duxbury, Jim and Hull Fred from New Jersey with another wild true story. Paul Elwell, a local comedian who was possibly appearing at Sully's and Gardner but is definitely doing nine shows at the comedy stop at the Trop World in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Then the dreaded unknown Caller. Next, Ruth Clement with her entertainment report, Talking Harbor Lights, the amazing shows and the ticket costs. And in a cool Tony Bennett story, another unknown caller also included in this great highlight. Norm reads the AccuWeather forecast and some news, including the Boston Brewers Festival. Sting and Nancy Wilson receiving honorary degrees at the Berkeley College of music. The U.S. coast Guard Band giving a free concert down in Eastham and Bradford and Becker Colleges having commencements.
Norm wishing to get a call from a small school to give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree. Maybe like, you know, the New England Barber School or a pet grooming school. How about the New England Bartending School? And please stay tuned for story time with Uncle Tony after the show.
Episode 281. The cliffhanger dangles its way to your ears in three, two and one.
[00:02:12] Speaker B: But the head of Sneak A Peek says there's nothing dirty about her business. Yeah, they come in, they clean your home.
However, when they clean, it's also entertainment.
[00:02:24] Speaker C: Why?
[00:02:24] Speaker B: Well, that's because all of the maids and butlers are topless.
[00:02:28] Speaker D: Well, isn't that special?
[00:02:30] Speaker B: I'm Dave Maynard. More on the other side in 60 seconds.
Cleaning service will send a topless maid or butler to do your dusting.
[00:02:39] Speaker E: And
[00:02:41] Speaker B: what else?
[00:02:41] Speaker F: I'm afraid to ask.
[00:02:42] Speaker D: Dust and make beds and pick up clothes and wipe countertops. But there's things that we don't do too.
[00:02:48] Speaker G: Uh huh.
[00:02:49] Speaker B: That's Vicki Henderson, owner of Sneak A Peek in South Wayne, Wisconsin.
[00:02:53] Speaker D: There's no physical contact of the. The people that work for us, they're not allowed to take any kind of solicitation. They're not allowed to have any tips, any sexual gestures. They are to get their clothes back on, get our material and leave automatically. If they don't, they will be turned over to the authorities for prosecution.
[00:03:12] Speaker H: Oh, neat.
[00:03:13] Speaker B: Vicki has 13 R rated housekeepers and she says cleaning in the nude is comfortable.
[00:03:18] Speaker D: I think it would be more uncomfortable if you had to have tight jeans on and trying to bend over and pick up a glove, you know?
[00:03:24] Speaker H: Yeah.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: So why would anyone want to have this kind of job?
[00:03:27] Speaker D: It's for the money. We do pay well. A lot of people are trying to get through college and you can do just about anything to try and put yourself through school to do what you'd like to do for a living.
[00:03:35] Speaker B: And what do your family and friends think about your topless cleaners?
[00:03:39] Speaker D: My family want my autograph?
Some of my friends, some don't want to talk to me anymore.
[00:03:44] Speaker B: Vicki says the business is already so successful that she plans to take her R rated housekeepers nationwide. And to that we say for the
[00:03:53] Speaker I: final time, well, isn't that special?
[00:03:56] Speaker B: And that's the other side. I'm Dave Mayard.
[00:03:59] Speaker D: I was old enough to be studying history.
[00:04:02] Speaker F: Oh, I'm going to say
[00:04:06] Speaker D: it was 1948.
[00:04:11] Speaker F: Oh, nine.
[00:04:12] Speaker C: Eight.
[00:04:12] Speaker F: 1948 is exactly right.
[00:04:15] Speaker D: No, it was eight or nine.
[00:04:16] Speaker F: No, it was 1948 is correct.
[00:04:18] Speaker I: Oh, bingo.
[00:04:20] Speaker F: Yeah. On May 14, 1948, the independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. As British rule in Palestine came to an end. But it was May 14, 1940.
[00:04:31] Speaker D: I won't forget that.
[00:04:32] Speaker F: You win yourself one of these.
I think that's so kind of cute. Yeah.
Okay, I'm gonna turn you over to Emilio, so he'll take your name and address.
[00:04:42] Speaker D: Thank you. And who was that doing the singing tonight? Was that Tony?
[00:04:46] Speaker C: No, it was Jack.
[00:04:47] Speaker F: Jack Hart. Yeah, a big traffic guy.
[00:04:49] Speaker C: Tell him he's in the wrong department.
[00:04:51] Speaker F: You think he should be a singer?
[00:04:52] Speaker D: He should sing the Traffic Report.
[00:04:55] Speaker F: Maybe there'd be a unique twist.
[00:04:57] Speaker C: Everybody would listen.
[00:04:59] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:04:59] Speaker I: Hey, have a great day, you two.
[00:05:00] Speaker F: Hold on now and I'll turn you over to Emilio.
And anyway, he's gonna take all the information. And she and Julie wins a key ring.
Okay, let's see. It's 23 after 4. Let me check the weather for you.
The book. Four phone calls. We do have maybe one open line, something like that. Anyway, love to hear from you.
[00:05:23] Speaker G: Good.
[00:05:24] Speaker F: Thank you.
[00:05:25] Speaker E: Hey, I won the Birthday game last week.
[00:05:27] Speaker F: Hey, congratulations. Did you get anything? Have I sent you anything yet?
[00:05:30] Speaker I: Yeah, you sent me out some.
[00:05:32] Speaker F: Some stuff, some tacky.
[00:05:34] Speaker E: I got. Let's see, I got three books.
I got an ugly picture of Dick Mafia.
That's just a horrible picture.
[00:05:44] Speaker F: Was that. Does he not look like that or does he look like that? And it's so. That's why it's a horrible picture.
[00:05:51] Speaker E: I hope you don't look like him.
[00:05:52] Speaker F: No, no, I don't look like that. I thought he's a good looking guy compared to what I look like. No, but, but overall though, I got a couple of great books.
[00:06:01] Speaker E: I love them.
[00:06:02] Speaker F: Oh, see, don't say anything too nice about that. Everybody who wins now is going to expect something decent.
[00:06:07] Speaker H: And I got a huge picture.
[00:06:09] Speaker E: Well, not a big picture, but like a. A poster of WBZ on it.
[00:06:13] Speaker F: Oh, yeah, okay.
[00:06:14] Speaker E: And I plastered that on my wall.
[00:06:16] Speaker F: You're okay, Michael.
[00:06:18] Speaker J: But.
[00:06:18] Speaker F: But no. Yes.
[00:06:19] Speaker E: I called you for some help. I.
I was on the Bob Raleigh
[00:06:24] Speaker F: Recall game last night.
Oh.
[00:06:26] Speaker E: And a lot of people called up
[00:06:29] Speaker G: last night and put me down.
[00:06:32] Speaker F: Why'd they do that?
[00:06:34] Speaker E: Well, I just thought it was a.
[00:06:36] Speaker C: I don't know why.
[00:06:38] Speaker H: I just.
[00:06:38] Speaker I: I played.
[00:06:39] Speaker E: I didn't do well. I did real bad.
[00:06:41] Speaker F: Well, that doesn't mean anything. It's just for. These things are just for fun, Norm.
[00:06:44] Speaker H: I just.
[00:06:45] Speaker E: I tried my hardest and you know, everybody's got a call up.
[00:06:51] Speaker F: Oh, you're okay in my book, Michael, so don't you worry about it.
[00:06:54] Speaker E: Don't.
[00:06:55] Speaker F: Don't take those things seriously.
[00:06:57] Speaker E: I was just so very upset, so.
[00:07:00] Speaker F: Oh, you should.
[00:07:01] Speaker E: People are out there.
[00:07:03] Speaker F: I mean, forgive me.
[00:07:04] Speaker E: I. I tried my hardest and.
[00:07:07] Speaker F: Oh, don't, don't. You don't even have to apologize. There's no need.
[00:07:10] Speaker E: Yeah, well, I'm not apologizing. I'm just enough for myself.
[00:07:14] Speaker F: Well, I know that, but you're defending yourself and you don't really need to. I'm sure you did fine.
And if you didn't do as fine as you would have liked, what the heck? It's only. It's only a game. It's not. We're not preventing World War Three.
[00:07:28] Speaker E: But I don't mean to talk while Bob's not there to back himself up, but he was just putting me down.
I mean, he was saying so much. I mean, you shouldn't play if you don't know what you're saying.
[00:07:41] Speaker F: But I just call that fun. Yeah, well, that's. That's what I think those things ought to be. They should just be that. And we shouldn't take them. Take it seriously. Anyway.
[00:07:51] Speaker E: How you doing, Norm?
[00:07:52] Speaker F: I'm doing okay.
[00:07:53] Speaker H: You doing good?
[00:07:54] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:07:55] Speaker H: Now, how old are you now?
[00:07:56] Speaker F: 68. Wow. Wow. And you're just. What are you. You're like about 19? I'm a young lad.
[00:08:02] Speaker E: I'm 20 years old.
[00:08:03] Speaker F: 20. Well, I came close. Well, then, if you're 20, my age would seem like 155,000 to you. Because I remember when I was 20, anybody over the age of 27 even, I thought, who helps them out of bed in the morning?
[00:08:20] Speaker E: I'll tell you have a lot of listeners out there, and I have a lot of aunts and uncles. They'll listen to you all night.
[00:08:27] Speaker F: Well, I think that's great, and I'm glad you listened, too. I got to get going because we got news coming up, Michael.
But don't. Don't ever take it seriously and call again. We'll do the game another time.
[00:08:37] Speaker J: Have a good night.
[00:08:38] Speaker F: Good night. Good night. Thank you. Thank you, Michael. Now, the reason. The reason I think I'm one of the only people who mentions their age on the air, unless you're very young, you don't mind mentioning so much then, is because I think there's an awful lot of put down to older people. And it really bothers me, younger people. And I don't blame you. I did the same thing when I was young. And then, boy, look at that. Boy, I wonder how he bends over to tie his shoelace. Look at the veins sticking out of it. You know, all that kind of stuff.
And so I just want to show you that because you're older, you don't have to put yourself in the mothballs and retire and all that kind of stuff. The only thing that I resent about older people myself, and I am one, so I, you know, I'm not. I'm not denying that is sometimes you tend to reminisce so much that you. That you. You don't live in the present anymore. And everything used to be swell. I've talked about this a million times before.
Living day to day is kind of fun. And wondering what tomorrow will bring ought to be a challenge and a wondrous thought to you, no matter what your age is.
Here's my speech. And sometimes I think maybe I shouldn't make it.
[00:09:43] Speaker D: Radio wrestling, I remember that, too. And hosted local big bands. Nathan can now be heard on Boston superstation WBZ Radio.
[00:09:55] Speaker I: Okay.
[00:09:56] Speaker F: No, they must have got that from some other source. That doesn't sound like the AP story?
[00:10:00] Speaker D: No.
[00:10:00] Speaker F: Anyway, that's very nice.
[00:10:02] Speaker D: And it goes on. It's quite, quite. It's a long thing.
[00:10:06] Speaker F: What. What. What issue is it? The Friday PBD Times. Yeah. Yesterday. Well, I. I don't. I don't.
[00:10:12] Speaker D: I'll send this along.
[00:10:13] Speaker F: Oh, that'd be nice. Because that means I will only have to pick up 740 other copies of the newspaper.
[00:10:19] Speaker D: No, you don't have to, dear. Because for those of them that.
[00:10:23] Speaker F: That, that.
[00:10:24] Speaker D: Well, they all know your history because they all know what a fine gentleman you are.
[00:10:29] Speaker F: They do? Everybody says that whenever I meet them. They say, boy, you know, you're a fin.
And a role model for all of us American school kids. Well, you are
[00:10:41] Speaker D: a good, clean, clean living man, a family man, and a. And a great person.
[00:10:48] Speaker F: I'm a fat old lecher. And the sooner you understand that generous, the sooner you'll stay out of my way.
[00:10:54] Speaker D: Wait until I get you at the farm stand. No hugs and kisses for you.
[00:10:58] Speaker F: Oh, come on. Have a break. Jeez.
[00:11:02] Speaker D: No, but anyway, it's very nice and I'm going to send it.
[00:11:06] Speaker F: I would appreciate that. Thanks a whole lot.
[00:11:08] Speaker I: Okay.
[00:11:08] Speaker F: Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day. Bye. Bye. Generosa.
Okay, let me see Gloria in Duxbury. Hi, Gloria.
[00:11:17] Speaker C: Good morning, Norm. How are you?
[00:11:19] Speaker F: I'm okay. How are you? Gloria and Duxbury, I haven't talked to
[00:11:22] Speaker C: you for a long time.
[00:11:23] Speaker F: I know you haven't. I've been just so worried. Yeah, I said, whatever happened to Gloria? And dark, sweeping Kevin sakes?
[00:11:30] Speaker C: Well, I don't call too often, but I do listen.
[00:11:33] Speaker F: Well, I thank you for that, Matt.
[00:11:34] Speaker C: And I do enjoy your program.
[00:11:36] Speaker F: Thank you. You must be a silly person.
[00:11:39] Speaker C: Yeah, well, I am.
[00:11:40] Speaker F: Oh, that's good.
[00:11:41] Speaker C: And I love the dumb birthday game.
[00:11:42] Speaker F: Oh, thank you very much.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: That is so cute. I was thinking about how it all evolved the other night from, you know, just nothing to a very popular program.
[00:11:51] Speaker F: Oh, thank you. Yeah, it started actually, with. With when Darrell Gould was doing the news overnight. And I would ask him how old he thought these people were having birthdays. And he said, boy, do we have to play that dumb birthday game again. And that's how the name came about. I thought, that's pretty good and catchy.
[00:12:08] Speaker C: Cute.
[00:12:09] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:12:10] Speaker C: Well, the reason I'm calling, actually, I do have a purpose besides to tell you how much I do enjoy you.
You have a very large audience in the North End section of Boston.
[00:12:23] Speaker F: Well, that's very nice.
[00:12:25] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: And I was wondering. I'm in need Of a picture.
And it's a saint. It's St. Margaret of Antioch.
And I was wondering if maybe one of the listeners would be willing to loan it to me and I would return it to them.
It can be just a little picture,
[00:12:43] Speaker F: but I do need it desperately of saint. Say that again.
[00:12:46] Speaker C: St. Margaret of Antioch. And that's spelled A, N, T, I, O, C, H.
Okay, you need a
[00:12:55] Speaker F: picture of St. Margaret's of Antioch.
[00:12:57] Speaker C: Yeah. And she died in 270 A.D.
there's a lot of St. Margaret's out there. Yes, this particular lady died in 270 A.D.
okay.
[00:13:10] Speaker F: And so some. Some. Somewhere there's a painting of her or
[00:13:13] Speaker C: something like that or a little, you know, math thing or whatever. Just some little thing that I can borrow and then return.
[00:13:21] Speaker F: All right. I'll turn you over to Emilio and you can just give him just my name and address. Yeah, your name and address. And just tell them to write down so I'll remember St. Margaret of Antioch. And anybody wants to get in touch with me can write to me directly here at the station or whatever. Or just drop the mail a picture in.
[00:13:40] Speaker C: Oh, that'd be great.
[00:13:41] Speaker F: Are there no copies of the picture, like in encyclopedias or someplace?
[00:13:45] Speaker C: No. I have hunted all over. I found St Margaret of Scotland, St Margaret Mary. I mean, I've gone to the libraries, I've looked in the encyclopedias. There just doesn't seem to be a picture to be found.
[00:13:59] Speaker F: Really?
[00:14:00] Speaker C: Yeah. None of this particular lady.
[00:14:03] Speaker F: Well, I hope you find one.
[00:14:05] Speaker C: Well, I hope so, too.
[00:14:06] Speaker F: What are you doing? You're doing a whole of the. A book or something on saints?
[00:14:10] Speaker C: Well, no, but in the summer I work at a camp and they do not have a picture. They are the Order of St. Margaret.
[00:14:20] Speaker I: I don't have a picture of her.
[00:14:22] Speaker C: I see, and I paint.
And I wanted to do a portrait and give it to them as a surprise.
[00:14:28] Speaker F: Oh, isn't that nice?
[00:14:29] Speaker C: I hope nobody from that group is listening. I hope they're all asleep like they should be.
[00:14:33] Speaker F: They should be asleep. If you're awake, you're not hearing correctly. You're dreaming this.
[00:14:37] Speaker C: But that's what I want it to do.
[00:14:39] Speaker F: Okay. All right. Let me turn you over to Medio. He'll take.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: Thanks.
[00:14:43] Speaker F: Take your name and address. Thanks a lot.
I like to turn stuff over to Amedio because he's a tough old bugger and can handle all of the stress.
Okay, Jim and Hull. Hi, Jim. You're on wbc.
[00:14:57] Speaker G: Hi, Norm. I'm glad I got through.
[00:14:59] Speaker F: I'm glad you did, too.
[00:15:01] Speaker G: I'm a letter carrier from Quincy and today's our big day. We have a food drive.
[00:15:08] Speaker F: Oh really?
[00:15:09] Speaker G: Canned food door to door. It's part of a national drive.
[00:15:12] Speaker F: Well now how does that work? Say that again.
[00:15:14] Speaker G: Okay. We sent out notices and this is our national drive. We're picking up that non perishable food door to door of our deliveries today.
And what we're going to do is replenish all the shelters. And in Quincy we have six organizations. Home for Battered Women, Father Bill Shelter.
Most of these people that donate food run out of food in the summer because people are away on vacation and they don't see the pictures of the homeless freezing out there. But they still have to eat all year and all their stocks dry up in the summer. So we have a big drought. It's done three years ago in 20 cities and then the next year it spread to I think 80 cities and this year it's 700 different cities nationally.
[00:16:09] Speaker F: No, you as a letter carrier are picking up, you kept, you're picking up all these groceries.
[00:16:14] Speaker G: It's going to be a logistic nightmare. We've had some volunteers on our roots.
[00:16:19] Speaker F: Oh, you must. Geez, I hope you get a lot of volunteers. That's an awful lot of work for you.
[00:16:23] Speaker G: It sure is. But you know, it's a one day deal. We already have, I'd say about a ton of food that's come into the station. We'll have people out in front of Quincy all day.
[00:16:34] Speaker F: Yeah, no, because I think it's such a noble, wonderful thing to do. It seems to me that though that maybe they all ought to be volunteers and not you who are out, you know, delivering mail and all that.
[00:16:46] Speaker G: Well, we'd appreciate any help we could get.
[00:16:49] Speaker F: And what cities now you said Quincy.
[00:16:50] Speaker G: Well, we're representing Quincy Branch 34, which is the Boston area. And this is a trial basis in Boston because most cities that do it, they have jeep routes so they can just throw it in their jeep. But in the Boston area we're mostly foot routes but we want to get involved and so we're going to see how it goes this year as a matter of fact we have a lot of off duty letter carriers, people that are off today from other stations coming out to help us. Oh, I would think so day come out and help and you know, if it's successful this year we'll spread it throughout the branch.
[00:17:24] Speaker F: Yeah, and get, you get a whole lot of volunteers so you won't, you know, be weighed out, weighed under by all of this because I Live out in the outskirts where we have RFD delivery so that, so the jeeps do come by and that's a lot easier. Even that would be difficult too.
[00:17:40] Speaker E: Right.
[00:17:40] Speaker G: I believe they're doing it in stoughton, Canton, about 15 communities in the area.
But we sent a letter out. We appreciate any help we can get today.
[00:17:52] Speaker F: Well, I wish you good luck and I, I, I think you're, you're great for, you know, for doing stuff like this.
[00:17:59] Speaker G: Well, thank you, Norm.
[00:18:00] Speaker F: Well, good luck to you, Jim. If you get a chance, if you get a chance, maybe you can tell me how it came out.
[00:18:06] Speaker H: I sure will.
[00:18:07] Speaker F: Thanks a lot.
Bye. Bye, Jim.
Okay, 2 5, 4, 1030 area code 617.
I think just being at Lenticare, going out delivering mail, especially with the kind of winter we've had with these guys trudging and women too, trudging through the snow and ice and unplowed sidewalks and everything else. Boy. And now warmer weather. Well, today, today won't be too bad so far as that's concerned. And I think now is a good time to lead into the WBZ AccuWeather forecast. Thank you.
Today will be mostly sunny with a gusty wind.
And it has been windy, hasn't it's almost like the March winds continuing all through April anyway. Gusty wind, milder though. High temperatures around 70.
Mostly clear at night with low temperatures about 47.
Sunday sunshine and some cloudiness with highs in the about the low to mid 70s.
And Monday, mostly cloudy with showers. High temperatures 67 degrees. It is a very cool morning at 42 degrees. This is the kind time of the year when you expect you're going to save a lot on fuel and we're not, I mean 42, it's only about 10 degrees here in Boston anyway. Only about 10 degrees above freezing.
That's not nice for the way May 14th should act.
See a lot of things happening throughout the area today besides what Jim was telling us about the letter. Lettermen picking up groceries and things throughout the area for the poor and the, the homeless and all.
They'll be at 1 o'. Clock. There'll be a in the Trinity Church Plaza, the beautiful plaza in front of the lovely old church in Copley Square.
Starting at one o', clock, Boston Police will have a 1994 gun buyback program going on.
And let me see, also at that time in the World Trade center. Here's a beer drinkers paradise.
Boston brewers Festival. About 75 microbrewers present, 300 kinds of beers, all kinds of beers. That maybe you never even heard of before.
First session ends at 5pm and the second session, or that is 1 to 5pm in the afternoon, second session 8pm to midnight. I'm not quite sure how that works exactly, but it's at the World Trade center. And if you like your beer, here you go. Cause they got a lot of it there.
And why am I talking funny like that? I don't know.
And at 8:15 at night at the Berklee College of Music, the honorary degree recipients, Sting and Nancy Wilson, one of my favorite vocalists, and Sting too, both will give concerts.
Commencement is Sunday tomorrow at the Berkeley College.
And Sting and Wilson also available to the press at 10pm I guess. 10pm Tonight. Yeah, after the, after the concert.
And a free concert down on the Cape at Eastham at one o' clock this afternoon. U.S. coast Guard Band giving a free concert at Cape Cod National Seashore Salt Pond Visitor Center Amphitheater.
Oh, you never realized how important and busy this area is.
Couple of colleges have commencements today.
Bradford College has its commencement at 11 o' clock this morning. Bradford College up in Bradford, which is part of Haverhill, Massachusetts.
And a speaker is the executive director of Amnesty International.
I don't have his name or her name.
And that's about. Those are some of the key things that are happening. Oh, Becker.
Becker College is also having its commencement over in Worcester.
The speaker is Professor Emeritus John Scarborough. You always tell how important a school is or how important it's conceived, cannot conceive. Is that the word? It appears to be anyway, by the commencement speaker. I forget where President Clinton will be speaking somewhere. And you know, all the top colleges have all these national figures, international figures, and you get to some of the smaller colleges and they have one of their own professors speaking. I'm waiting for one of the really small, tiny, tiny colleges or schools like the New England Barber School or something to ask me to be a commencement speaker and give me an honorary degree. But no. Oh no, it's three minutes before five o'.
[00:22:56] Speaker H: Clock.
[00:22:56] Speaker F: You're busy even. How about the pet, the pet grooming school? I could give a commencement speech before one of those.
Or the bartenders. The New England Bartender School would be good.
But they don't ask me. They don't care.
Look at that. It's three minutes before five. You want to care to call me? We can squeeze in one more phone call before I say goodbye. Otherwise, you know it's going to happen. I'm going to sit here babbling on for the next few minutes in A very incoherent and particularly stupid manner.
And since I've already been doing that since midnight, it may be a little too much for you to take.
[00:23:33] Speaker C: Every.
[00:23:34] Speaker F: Every time you read about Michael Jackson, it's. It's something else that's awful that's happened to him.
He's now being sued by a photographer who claims that Michael Jackson took no action as his bodyguards beat him up, beat up the photographer and took his film.
So he's been.
He's suing Michael Jackson for a million dollars.
He alleges that the two bodyguards attacked him. Alex Oliveira, as the freelancer tried to photograph Jackson in Manhattan Central park on March 31.
Oliveira contends that one of them told him to, quote, give me the film or I'll break your neck.
Then he said the two bodyguards pushed, choked and shoved him as they took his film and camera.
There must be some funny punchline to this, to this story. If I were Jay Leno, I'd have a screamingly funny punchline. Or if I were David Letterman or somebody, but I've got no, no punchlines. Just reminds me of the photographer who used to take pictures of Jackie Kennedy. Remember, he used to follow her around, so suddenly, no matter where she was, he'd pop out of a bush or someplace and take pictures.
And I think she sued him, as I recall. I'm not sure, but Oliveira sounds like he would. Well, I don't know. This is a lawsuit, so maybe he made up with some of this. But he contends he suffered severe and permanent injuries, including back, shoulder, neck pain, sleeplessness, anguish, and psychological and emotional distress.
And his orchestra. Thank you. Anyway, I think. I think we filled up the air with enough goodies now we can just go. Thank you so much.
[00:25:25] Speaker H: The girlfriend, I. I remember I insulted her painting because I told her, her. Her flock of sheep look like a flock of French poodles.
[00:25:34] Speaker F: Yes, I made up with her, and she's gonna.
[00:25:39] Speaker H: She's gonna attempt to restore the painting that I destroyed.
[00:25:44] Speaker F: You destroyed one of her paintings?
[00:25:45] Speaker H: No, no, no.
[00:25:46] Speaker J: It's a.
[00:25:47] Speaker H: It's an old painting.
[00:25:48] Speaker G: Remember?
[00:25:48] Speaker H: I. It was all dark.
[00:25:50] Speaker F: Oh, you were scraping off something, trying
[00:25:53] Speaker H: to clean it, scrubbing on it with detergent, trying to brighten it up and see what was really there because it was so dark you could hardly see it.
[00:26:00] Speaker F: Oh, yeah. And you kind of took some of the paint away.
[00:26:03] Speaker H: I took the varnish and the paint off, yeah.
[00:26:06] Speaker F: And now what's bring us up today? What happened from that point?
[00:26:09] Speaker H: Well, she's got it now, and she's Gonna go and try to restore. And she said, it's a shame. It's a crime what I did to it. Because it was a beautiful painting and she remembered it. And she remembered pretty much what it looked like and the pieces that are missing. She thinks she can do for memory.
The only thing is it's gonna be new paint on it. It won't be old paint.
[00:26:34] Speaker F: Yeah. How do you make old, new paint look like old paint? I don't know.
[00:26:39] Speaker H: I think you can.
[00:26:39] Speaker F: You can't put it outside and let it weather because then the old paint will weather, and that'll look like new. It looked like old paint versus very, very old paint.
[00:26:48] Speaker H: Yeah, that. That fellow who called up after I had told you about.
I'm sorry, I don't know.
[00:26:56] Speaker F: That was somebody just yelling something. I didn't quite get the gist of that. Just ignore that.
That didn't make any more sense than anything else on this program does.
[00:27:06] Speaker H: The fellow who called up and told about a restorer, an art restorer named Williams in Boston, who does work for a lot of famous people who have paintings they want restored.
That was interesting. Do you remember him?
[00:27:23] Speaker F: Yes, I do. He was also suggesting to call a museum near you for somebody who. Because they could tell you who does that kind of work.
[00:27:33] Speaker H: Yeah. But he. The only thing he neglected to mention was the price.
[00:27:38] Speaker F: I would think it not. It would not be cheap.
Is this a really worthwhile painting?
[00:27:42] Speaker H: Well, she said it should be worth a lot of money because it's old and it's done by a Dutchman, either somebody from Brussels or Holland. The first name was Jan, and I don't remember what the last name was anymore. But she read it with a magnifying glass, and it was dated 1783. I thought it was 63, but it was 1783.
[00:28:09] Speaker F: And she figures this is a reputable painter.
[00:28:12] Speaker H: Oh, yeah. She said it. She said the painting is worth, you know, a lot of money. Like maybe a couple hundred thousand dollars.
[00:28:19] Speaker F: Oh, really? Well, then you want to get somebody decent then, don't you? I would. I would think that. Is there a museum close by? I don't even know where in New Jersey you live. I forget.
[00:28:29] Speaker H: Well, I live at the shore. There is a museum in Trenton, which is the capital, and there's one up in Newark, which. Which is a very famous museum.
So if she doesn't do a good job, I guess I'll have to bring it to somebody up there and let them. Oh, and Princeton University has a museum, and they have curators there also. So I got. I got through three choices of places I can bring it if I think it's.
If it's worthwhile.
[00:29:01] Speaker F: There you go.
[00:29:02] Speaker H: But if she's right. If she's right, it's worth that kind of money, then I guess it's worth having restored.
[00:29:08] Speaker F: I would think so.
[00:29:10] Speaker H: So, I mean, I learned a lesson the hard way. And that is, if you have anything that's old and you don't know what you're doing with it, don't try to improve it or clean it, because you're going to ruin it.
[00:29:22] Speaker F: See, now my son. My son has finally grown up and you've learned your lesson. And I could have told you that before, but I said, no, Freddie has to learn it in his own way.
[00:29:34] Speaker H: Well, I wish you had.
[00:29:36] Speaker F: So I'm getting to sound more and more like my father, and I'm not happy about that. So I apologize for that. Big Fred.
I'd like to know the rest of the rest of the story. Wait a minute. I think we have. We're onto a feature here.
Now we'll know the rest of the story.
[00:29:52] Speaker H: Good day. I just wanted to tell you that the reason why I made up with my girlfriend is because after that terrible experience with the.
Leaving the bar with the woman, the lovely woman who turned into a man, I was very shook up over that and I decided an old girlfriend was better than none. At least I knew she was a girl anyway.
[00:30:17] Speaker F: Okay. That story. You didn't make that story up, though. That was the truth.
[00:30:21] Speaker H: That's a true story.
[00:30:22] Speaker F: Oh, you. You, you. You ignited the interest.
I don't know, the interest is the kind of thing you ignite. But anyway, you sparked the interest. And in a whole lot of people who call that night and then people I bumped into in the course of my travels throughout the rest of the week, as you know, I get around a lot because I'm a bon vivant.
So I see a lot of people. And a lot of people kept saying, that guy who called about this beautiful woman, extremely beautiful woman, picked up at a bar and she took him out to her big mansion out there on the coast.
[00:30:54] Speaker H: She had a beautiful house on the ocean front.
[00:30:56] Speaker F: Yeah. And then he found out that this beautiful woman, at the moment when he thought he was paradise, had struck. He couldn't believe his good fortune. And the woman turned out to be a man.
I mean, everybody seemed to get such a big kick out of that story.
[00:31:12] Speaker H: I wonder if that's the guy that you're supposed to have on who does the female impersonation that Jim Bailey, do
[00:31:19] Speaker F: you think he allows himself to be, but he dresses as various people. Mostly he does. And he's coming into Boston soon to do Judy Garland.
And I mean, he really does it remarkably well. And Barbara Streisand, he does a whole evening of both of these performers, you know, one each evening.
[00:31:37] Speaker H: Right.
[00:31:38] Speaker F: So I don't know whether he'd be the kind hang around bars, you know, and pick up some lunkhead like you who doesn't even know enough to how to stop ruining paintings.
Go away from me, Jim. Now, stop it.
That was. That was a dramatization.
[00:31:55] Speaker H: Oh, and one last thing.
[00:31:57] Speaker F: Emilio just discovered sound effects. So I'm going to be in trouble the whole night. I can tell.
[00:32:04] Speaker H: One last thing. I passed the house where I had run up on the lawn, and the truck ran into the back of me.
[00:32:12] Speaker F: Oh, that's right. That was another story. We won't go through all of that.
[00:32:16] Speaker H: Well, that guy had a landscape truck there, and there were three people out, and. And they were planting arborvitae and azalea bushes.
And I think that he's going to try to stick me for the cost of the landscaping. And if he does, he's committing a crime and I'm going to sue him.
[00:32:36] Speaker F: I don't know what.
Who has what kind of a case and. Okay, that was the kid. Is it possible for us to sum up that other situation in about a half a minute for people?
[00:32:47] Speaker H: Well, that was a little red car that was right in back of me. And I heard the brakes screeching behind me. I looked in the rearview mirror and I saw the pickup truck. I knew it was gonna hit the little red car and drive it right into my car.
So I had enough space in front of me, and I ran up on the shoulder and then on the grass, but the truck skidded around the car and it ran up on the grass and hit me in the back.
[00:33:08] Speaker F: Okay, now. And now the guy was gonna sue you for ruining his lawn.
Oh, you think that's a possibility anyway?
[00:33:14] Speaker H: I think so.
[00:33:15] Speaker F: Okay, I'll let you know. Okay, Fred, have a good night.
[00:33:19] Speaker H: I'll be listening.
[00:33:20] Speaker F: Okay, Fred.
[00:33:20] Speaker H: Bye.
[00:33:21] Speaker J: Bye.
[00:33:22] Speaker F: Yeah, but you're also appearing.
Sully's in Gardner.
Okay, now, I've. I see your ad, the ad listing you.
So you're doing Boston. A lot of Boston clubs, too, are you not?
[00:33:38] Speaker J: Yeah, I've been. I've been home for a while, but Monday I'm leaving for Atlantic City.
[00:33:42] Speaker F: Really?
[00:33:43] Speaker J: Yeah, I'm going to the. The Tropicana for nine Shows.
[00:33:46] Speaker F: Oh, isn't that great?
[00:33:47] Speaker J: Yeah. So I'm hoping to meet Fred's friend at the New Jersey shore front.
[00:33:53] Speaker F: You should let Fred know that if
[00:33:54] Speaker J: that guy is upset about his landscaping, I'm sure the guy that took him home to the mansion could probably do some pretty impressive landscaping himself.
[00:34:02] Speaker F: No, but I don't know whether you heard the whole story as he told it. About a week ago, he was in the spire and he said, this incredibly beautiful woman.
He couldn't believe his good fortune and the fact that she seemed at latch onto him. I mean, you know, dressed beautifully and took him home to a place that was extremely wealthy. Big mansions and the whole thing, and she lived in one of them. And then at the critical moment, found out that it wasn't a woman at that, you know.
[00:34:29] Speaker J: You know that story too well. Norm, is there something that we don't know?
[00:34:33] Speaker F: Well, I've been trying to meet up with a person like that. Never mind. Forget I said that. I can hear my kids talking. Oh, dad, dad, come on.
[00:34:42] Speaker J: Oh, yeah, I can hear them saying things like long term care.
[00:34:47] Speaker F: That's right. He's been in broadcasting. What does he say, 50 years now? I. I saw that.
[00:34:52] Speaker J: I saw that story about the, The Jacksonville Jaguar upstairs. And you know, I used to have a pet jaguar, but it was killed when they installed the car phone.
[00:35:03] Speaker F: That is.
[00:35:04] Speaker J: That's awful. I wrote that on the highway.
[00:35:06] Speaker F: How bad that is, that's. I'd throw it right out the window if I were you.
[00:35:10] Speaker J: Did you see the other story this week about John Wayne Gacy? Some scientists, after he was executed, they removed and preserved his brain so they could study it and find out what makes him tick.
[00:35:20] Speaker G: The only thing they know for sure
[00:35:21] Speaker J: right now, it tastes like chicken.
[00:35:28] Speaker F: You're a silly pook. No, you're a talented guy and I want to. I just want to watch your show straight just a bit. Tell me now, when is the next chance that people around here can catch you? Of course we get out to. To New Jersey. So anybody in Atlantic City knows you're going to be at the, The Tropicana. They still name clubs with names like Tropicana.
[00:35:47] Speaker J: It's actually the Tropicana is called Trop World and the club is the, the comedy stop at the Trop.
[00:35:52] Speaker F: Oh, I see. Okay. Because Tropicana sounds like something out of a 1940s.
[00:35:58] Speaker G: It's a big orange juice show.
[00:36:00] Speaker F: Yeah, I don't know how to respond to that.
So you, you held me speechless there for a minute.
[00:36:08] Speaker J: Where are all your guests who was
[00:36:09] Speaker F: coming in, I don't know, yesterday. Well, yesterday was going to be Jack. Jim Bailey. Not Jack Bailey. You remember Jake Bailey, Beetle Bailey, who knows? No, Jack Bailey was the guy on Queen for a Day. A little sleazy little guy with a little thin mustache.
[00:36:24] Speaker J: Queen for a Day.
[00:36:25] Speaker F: Queen for a Day, that's right.
Anyway, this is Jim Bailey, who's quite a. He doesn't call himself an impressionist or a female impersonator, but an illusionist. And he, he does it very, very well. He'll. He'll be opening in Boston about a week or so, so we may still talk to him before the night is out. And then we had a.
[00:36:44] Speaker J: He could already be there.
[00:36:46] Speaker F: Wait a minute. I think I see a shadow right across from me, said E. Playing along with Paul. And brilliant.
[00:36:52] Speaker J: A chair in the room could be him.
[00:36:54] Speaker F: Also we were going to have. And tomorrow night we will have a
[00:36:57] Speaker G: couple of people on.
[00:36:57] Speaker F: One will be Bill Dodds, who's written a book called. And this I think is rather appropriate. Not so much for you. In fact, not at all for you, but for me called Are you.
[00:37:07] Speaker J: I can read now.
[00:37:08] Speaker F: No, it isn't. It isn't a question of that, you saucy fellow. It's called are you over the hill?
Find out before it's too late. He has a lot of little signs there that indicate whether you're really aging or not.
[00:37:21] Speaker G: Such as.
[00:37:22] Speaker F: Yeah, when you buy jeans.
[00:37:23] Speaker J: Over the Hill. Oh, I, I thought it had something to do with Tom and Roseanne Arnold.
[00:37:32] Speaker F: See, they're getting divorced again.
Yeah, yeah, apparently. This sounds like it's for real. I don't know.
[00:37:37] Speaker J: Ugly. Tom Arnold has filed physical abuse charges.
[00:37:41] Speaker F: Like what could have happened? She get on top?
[00:37:43] Speaker E: What happened?
[00:37:45] Speaker F: No, but I.
Somebody had written an article in the. One of the Boston papers and I shouldn't know who wrote that because I love writers and I was married to one and one of my daughters is. And they never get credit for anything you write in a newspaper. People steal from them all over the place and don't give them credit. But it seems like every time they're coming into sweepsuite, that is when the ratings are important.
They're either going to get divorced or, or something, or they've decided on a three way marriage. Remember that business and all that kind of stuff.
[00:38:18] Speaker J: Yeah, but you know, they could have a three way marriage and still be the two of them.
[00:38:22] Speaker F: Okay. Hey, Paul.
[00:38:24] Speaker J: Hey.
[00:38:25] Speaker F: Hey. I got to go.
[00:38:26] Speaker J: Good to speak to you.
[00:38:27] Speaker F: Good. Always good to speak to you. Paul Elwell.
[00:38:29] Speaker J: All right.
[00:38:30] Speaker F: Thank you. Bye. Bye. Paul Elwell is a very funny guy. He plays the comedy clubs around here, and, as you heard, going to New Jersey.
I forgot another.
Pardon me.
[00:38:41] Speaker I: He's my brother.
[00:38:43] Speaker F: Okay, so your mother, who's the musician, may be down in Randolph Monday night.
Monday night is the night that the musicians raise some funds for. I forget what they're raising the funds for, but they'll be down at. Is it Lombardo's or Lantanas? I guess?
Lombardo.
[00:39:05] Speaker D: I know where that is.
[00:39:07] Speaker F: Well, they're both down in Randolph, and they're going to feature the Bo Winiker Band and also one of my favorite bands, the Bob Bachelder Band. And it's an annual affair raising funds. I don't know whether it's for scholarships or for musicians who've hit upon hard times.
But whatever they raise it for, it's always a good cause. And it's a great night because they have just a great deal of fun. I mean, you know, you hear a lot of great musicianship, and usually I bump into your mother at these things.
So maybe she. She may very well be planning to come on Monday night.
[00:39:43] Speaker D: Right? Well, it's a long story, but we haven't been spoken to for a while.
[00:39:49] Speaker F: You and your mother haven't spoken to
[00:39:51] Speaker D: each other on the ear.
[00:39:52] Speaker F: Okay. Well, I won't push on that, then. I'm sorry to hear that.
[00:39:56] Speaker D: Well, it happens.
[00:39:58] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:39:59] Speaker F: Do you want to come down to Lantanas or whatever the place is? I think it's Then. Or maybe Landolf. It's not awful for me not to know that I'll find out before the night is out. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, man.
[00:40:12] Speaker J: Oh, man.
[00:40:13] Speaker F: Yeah, man.
[00:40:38] Speaker G: Okay.
[00:40:38] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:40:40] Speaker I: Now, the other night, she got to go to Landover, Maryland, to the Barbra Streisand opening. So are you going to pick up all my tabs if I, you know, hop on the plane and come back with a report or what?
[00:40:53] Speaker F: I. I guess the answer is a resounding not in your life.
No. I mean, if I. If I could pick up the tabs, don't you think I would go myself?
[00:41:04] Speaker I: Well, then I figured, too, because I've
[00:41:06] Speaker F: suggested that we ought to do this program, like, on the road out of.
I don't know, like, Dorchester. I can't. I can't even get them to pick up the tag for that.
[00:41:16] Speaker I: Well, I also think. I was thinking tonight as I was listening to the news, my name is not really good. Like, you know, Joyce Go Haywick. That's like, how about If I call myself Mitt Romney.
[00:41:30] Speaker F: You've been sitting around all day thinking of that avenue.
[00:41:32] Speaker I: No, I just saw him about three minutes ago.
I love that name, Mitt Romney. I don't know a thing about the man, but.
[00:41:40] Speaker F: Yeah, his name. His. His name is. I think. I think his first name is actually Willard.
No, I really mean that. I think that's. It's something like that. I don't know where Mitt came out of, though. His father is George Romney, who was the governor of Michigan. Was governor of Michigan. Ran for president. You know all that.
[00:41:57] Speaker I: I knew that.
[00:41:58] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:41:58] Speaker I: But that's all I know. But I like that name, Mitt Brown.
[00:42:01] Speaker F: I don't know how long he's been here. Do you know?
[00:42:03] Speaker I: No, I really don't know anything about him.
[00:42:05] Speaker D: Seriously.
[00:42:05] Speaker I: I just know that. Who he was.
[00:42:07] Speaker F: But that's it.
[00:42:08] Speaker I: I mean, I. I'm very busy doing entertainment. I can't do politics.
[00:42:14] Speaker F: No, that's. Unless there's. You find some entertainment. Maybe an entertainer appearing in a political meeting. But otherwise, no, this. You're totally separate. We have our own political reporter. And I can't remember who that is offhand.
[00:42:26] Speaker I: I know that.
[00:42:27] Speaker C: Now.
[00:42:27] Speaker I: Listen, another thing is this Harbor Lights. What do you think? Isn't that a nice thing, coming to Boston?
[00:42:33] Speaker F: Oh, that's excellent. Right on. Right next to Anthony Spear.
[00:42:35] Speaker I: Four people. Now, I have this list here, and a very good friend of mine is going to take me to see Natalie Cole, which is great.
[00:42:43] Speaker F: Oh, that's lovely.
[00:42:44] Speaker I: But the best one is. How's this? Mel Torme and Maureen McGovern together.
[00:42:50] Speaker F: That would be excellent. Either one of them separately, of course. Mel Torme is a favorite of mine. Yeah, that would be a love. What's the date on that one?
[00:42:59] Speaker I: On Friday, July 22nd.
[00:43:01] Speaker F: This is. Now, this is Don Law. He's put all this together.
[00:43:04] Speaker I: Yeah, I guess so. I just found that out yesterday from your old friend Fred Taylor. He gave me all the dirt.
[00:43:09] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:43:10] Speaker I: The thing is, though, you know, I was trying. We were talking about it yesterday, Fred and I, and I said I worked with Mel Torme when I was in the record business. So obviously he had to have made a record on Coral Records way back when, and we couldn't figure it out, but we figured that he did because I took him on his promotion tour here in Boston. Yeah. And I wouldn't have done that if he wasn't on that label. How's that?
[00:43:38] Speaker F: That's very good. No, I don't. I don't know. There must be ways of looking that up?
[00:43:41] Speaker D: Yes.
[00:43:44] Speaker F: There must be, you know, a discography of all the things he's.
Somebody was having. Of all the things he's recorded, what the labels were and all that.
[00:43:51] Speaker I: Yeah, right. I'm sure he was. I mean he had to be on one or the other that I was with there at that time.
[00:43:56] Speaker F: Yeah, we had some, we had some very small labels or some labels that hardly anybody would remember anymore. One of which one was Musicraft. Did he. You remember Musicraft?
[00:44:08] Speaker I: A little bit.
[00:44:10] Speaker F: I just remembered a little bit too. I thought, I thought he'd recorded for them with Mel Torme and the Meltones back then.
But I don't know.
We're going back an awful lot of years, so I don't know.
[00:44:21] Speaker I: Listen to this. How's this for lineup? On August 1st, the day I got married, the Count Basie Band, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Lionel Hampton and the Ink Spots.
[00:44:33] Speaker F: Now where was this?
[00:44:34] Speaker I: That's going to be there too. Sunday, August 14th, you mean.
[00:44:37] Speaker F: Oh, that, that's.
[00:44:37] Speaker I: They're all going to be together.
[00:44:38] Speaker F: Oh, that's going to be coming up. No kidding.
[00:44:41] Speaker I: Big, big, big bands. Wow, they really got some great acts here.
[00:44:45] Speaker F: That's lovely.
[00:44:46] Speaker I: The most expensive is Frank Sinatra, 67.50 a ticket.
How's that?
[00:44:54] Speaker F: Well, you know, you know, if you were to go to a musical in Boston at the Schubert Colonial Wang, that's the price of a fairly decent ticket. Cost you $60.
[00:45:05] Speaker D: Yeah, I guess so.
[00:45:06] Speaker F: You know, I mean it sounds exorbitant and it's not the kind you want to, you know, you want to go out every night spending that kind of money.
But the prices of things are just tremendous. But for a 78 year old guy broken away there and Harley can remember the lyrics, that's an awful lot of money.
[00:45:23] Speaker I: It is. Because the next one in line price wise is Liza Minnelli and she's only
[00:45:28] Speaker F: 42.50 and she's right in the prime of everything.
[00:45:31] Speaker I: That's right. And my good friend Steven Edie are going to be here too.
[00:45:36] Speaker F: And that's a buck and a half.
[00:45:39] Speaker I: $30. And they're going to be in your neighborhood in the North Shore the next night.
[00:45:43] Speaker F: Oh, up the North Shore Music Theater.
[00:45:45] Speaker I: So I think maybe we should scout around here and see we get a few of these people to come on your show.
[00:45:50] Speaker F: No, we really should. I haven't done that yet, but we really should. We get in touch with the Don Law's group of North Shore Music Theater.
[00:45:58] Speaker I: You know, I usually speak to Steve when he comes in town. Because I. I really knew him when, you know, as a little child. And he still is. No, he's beautiful. Did you see him? He was on Burke's Law last week.
[00:46:09] Speaker F: No, I did not.
[00:46:10] Speaker I: He does a lot of. He does a lot of those kind of things. He was on Empty Nest as a comedian a couple weeks back.
[00:46:16] Speaker F: Oh, yeah.
[00:46:17] Speaker I: Red hair all of a sudden.
[00:46:19] Speaker F: He has wet hair.
[00:46:20] Speaker I: Red.
[00:46:21] Speaker F: Oh, red hair.
No, he's a. He's quite a good actor as a matter of fact.
[00:46:25] Speaker I: He's a very funny guy, too.
[00:46:27] Speaker F: Yes, he is a very funny guy. Now who.
[00:46:29] Speaker I: If you had your choice, who would you like to see besides some of those names? I named all of them. Great. Charles gonna be with Shirley Horn.
[00:46:38] Speaker F: I love. Oh, I love both of them.
[00:46:41] Speaker H: Oh, sure.
[00:46:41] Speaker I: Rosemary Clooney.
[00:46:43] Speaker F: Yeah. She's singing better now than she ever has.
[00:46:45] Speaker I: I'm looking up your. A. Fewer kind of people here. Let's see.
Tony Bennett.
[00:46:52] Speaker F: Love to watch Tony Bennett a lot.
[00:46:54] Speaker I: So he's going to be here next.
[00:46:56] Speaker F: He's abandoned us, us really hip guys who've been with him through the lean years. And he's adopted all these rock jocks who suddenly discovered him. I really resent that.
[00:47:05] Speaker I: Did I ever tell you that story? I think I did once, but I'll repeat it if you're not bored.
[00:47:10] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:47:11] Speaker I: I had a small apartment in Kenmore Square. And at the time, you know, the trade papers, Cash Box, Billboard, Variety and all. And you. If you would go around as directed, promoter, and you had a record that was a hit, the disc jockeys would put in the listing and you would get $10 from your company, you know, for the one each one you got in.
So Don Cornell, your favorite singer.
[00:47:39] Speaker F: Oh, geez.
We were just going along in paradise. And you.
[00:47:45] Speaker I: Well, he did have a big hit record called Hold My Hand, was in the movie called Susan Slept Here with Debbie Reynolds.
[00:47:53] Speaker F: Anyway, I don't remember the movie and I don't remember the song.
[00:47:56] Speaker I: It wasn't.
[00:47:57] Speaker F: Must have lasted about four minutes.
[00:48:00] Speaker I: It was a big tip. Don't make me laugh.
[00:48:02] Speaker D: So
[00:48:05] Speaker I: I have.
[00:48:05] Speaker F: Let's not Hold My Hand. I'm a stranger in paradise.
[00:48:09] Speaker I: So this is the kingdom of heaven.
You don't want to hear me sing. So anyway, I got a lot of money because the record was a big number one record, was the number one record in the country for a long time. And you must have been sleeping during that time.
But anyway, so I promised all the disc jockeys who played the record that I would have a party when Don Cornell Came in town and he never was here, but Tony Bennett was. And Tony Bennett and Don Cornell were together up in New Hampshire when I was doing some promotions. So we had the party with Tony Bennett and pretended he was Don Cornell. Now, isn't that the most boring story you've ever heard?
[00:48:49] Speaker F: Boring? You pretended that Tony Bennett was Don Cornell?
[00:48:53] Speaker I: Yeah, because, I mean, the guys wanted to have a party. And I kept saying, they said, when are you going to have this party? We're going to have a big Chinese food dinner.
[00:49:01] Speaker F: But did they. Did they think that Tony Bennett was Darnold?
[00:49:04] Speaker I: No. No. But they knew that I was in Salisbury beach with them together.
And because of that, I had taken them on all these radio station things, you know, all the promotion tour and all this, and John Cornell never got here. So we said, well, we'll pretend that it's John Cornell, and we have this big party. And your old cousin Joe Smith was there and all this, that and the other thing. And it was nice, but I mean, it was sort of stupid and funny at the same time. Now, isn't that a boring story?
[00:49:33] Speaker F: I'm sorry. I sort of drifted off there for a minute.
Oh, geez. You don't have any more of those, do you?
Let me pray to God you don't have any more of those.
[00:49:43] Speaker I: No, because I'm just looking at this list, and I don't know if there's anybody at Peter, Paul and Mary.
[00:49:47] Speaker F: This is. This is like the. The Bob Clayton show of 1951 or something.
[00:49:52] Speaker I: The what?
[00:49:53] Speaker F: It's like the old Bob Clayton Show. Oh, yeah.
[00:49:56] Speaker I: He's having a birthday June 12th. I never forget. You're gonna call him?
I'm giving you all this entertainment that you need.
[00:50:04] Speaker F: That's right. You're.
[00:50:05] Speaker H: That's.
[00:50:06] Speaker F: You're the entertainment reporter. And you. You really dig up stuff.
[00:50:09] Speaker I: Yeah, well, see, I really haven't study too much this week. I've been sort of busy doing other stuff. But I had this list and actually, another great person, of course, I don't want to mention Dave Mayer's name because this is one night I didn't mention his name. You notice, but at the North Shore Music Theater on July 31, Dave Mayer is going to sing An Evening with Bernadette Peters.
[00:50:35] Speaker F: Oh, that's his favorite person.
[00:50:37] Speaker I: Yeah.
[00:50:37] Speaker F: Why. Why does he get so steamed and turned on by her?
[00:50:40] Speaker I: He think, well, besides the fact he likes the way she looks, he really thinks she's a great singer, and he always loved her voice. So I guess, you know, everybody has their own thing I think she's pretty good. I like. What?
[00:50:52] Speaker F: No, she sings pretty well, but you know how square Dave is. For God's sake.
This is. This is Mr. Squaresville.
Come on. Give me a break. Come on.
[00:51:01] Speaker I: Excuse me. When James made his way lived in New York when he was a child, he used to sneak and not go to school and go to the Paramount Theater and sit there and sell. He saw every band that you love.
[00:51:14] Speaker F: I know it, I know it. I'm just.
[00:51:16] Speaker I: You.
[00:51:17] Speaker F: I'm just. I know it. I'm just. Well, I don't know about that part, but I'm just. No, I'm just kidding. No, we very often sat around here when we were both kind of around here more often and before they cut wires to us and we would talk about that and the big bands and all. So our tastes are very similar.
[00:51:33] Speaker I: He actually has gone to Alaska today.
[00:51:36] Speaker F: Well, see that. See, now you. You said you didn't mention his name. Now you're making up for it by mentioning everything.
[00:51:42] Speaker I: I mentioned it twice. Well, he's gone away, so I can get a lot of work done now.
[00:51:45] Speaker D: Okay, now that's it.
[00:51:47] Speaker I: Who else do you want to see?
[00:51:49] Speaker F: I think. I think that entertainment report will hold us for a while.
[00:51:54] Speaker I: I mean, are you going to say goodbye to me now?
[00:51:56] Speaker F: I think I better, yeah.
[00:51:57] Speaker I: Oh, all right. Well, we may never speak again.
[00:52:00] Speaker F: Oh, what a sore head you turned out.
Hey, thanks a lot.
[00:52:04] Speaker I: I'll go out and do some more reporting.
[00:52:06] Speaker F: Okay.
[00:52:08] Speaker E: My wife, if you know what I mean, Uncle Norman, you know, just between us, between friends, I hope.
[00:52:13] Speaker F: I hope I know what you mean. Because if that. If you mean what I think you mean, I'm delighted.
[00:52:18] Speaker E: Well, thank you very much.
[00:52:19] Speaker F: I love when husbands and wives get along and treat their stuff other really nice.
[00:52:24] Speaker E: But, you know, if I can't be with her on the overnight, it's you
[00:52:28] Speaker F: I want to be with.
Okay, I appreciate that, too.
[00:52:32] Speaker E: I want to answer a couple of questions. That woman that called a couple callers
[00:52:37] Speaker G: ago, I believe her name was Joe,
[00:52:39] Speaker E: also from New York.
[00:52:40] Speaker F: Yes.
[00:52:41] Speaker E: The question that Barbara had, and I know that you're musically, musically interested also, like I am, the question that he had was what was the longest song title between the 60s and the 80s that was a number one hit. And the answer to the question was a song by B.J. thomas. Hey, won't you play another Somebody done somebody wrong song?
[00:53:05] Speaker F: Oh, I see. Okay.
[00:53:07] Speaker E: That was to answer her question.
[00:53:10] Speaker F: Okay. Because somebody else called, said it was Mersey Dotes and Dozy, and I know Mersey Dotes was the whole title. So that wasn't a song.
[00:53:17] Speaker E: Actually, a lot of people called in and guessed.
[00:53:20] Speaker F: Does your chewing gum move lose its
[00:53:22] Speaker E: flavor on the bedpost overnight?
Now, when did that come out, Uncle Norman?
[00:53:27] Speaker H: When.
[00:53:28] Speaker E: When that.
[00:53:29] Speaker F: Well, that seems to me like a 40 song. I think. I mean, before.
[00:53:33] Speaker E: That's long before.
[00:53:35] Speaker F: Yeah, long before this. You said 60. Between the 60s and 80s.
[00:53:38] Speaker E: Right.
[00:53:39] Speaker F: You know that, that, that's. That's predates that and Merzy Dos, too, which the other woman said. That's a 40 song also.
[00:53:46] Speaker H: Yeah.
[00:53:47] Speaker F: So.
B.J. what's wrong? B.J. thomas, you said. Yeah, yeah, that. That would be within that time period.
[00:53:54] Speaker E: Yeah, it was.
[00:53:55] Speaker G: It had to.
[00:53:56] Speaker E: There was a couple of prerequisites. It had to be a number one. It had to be between the 60s and the 80s, and they had to have more than 10. 10 words in it. So, you know, it was one of these.
One of these special, special trivia questions.
[00:54:12] Speaker C: It's.
[00:54:12] Speaker E: Speaking of trivia, I wanted to know when you would be having the gentleman on that did the musical trivia or is he scheduled to be on?
[00:54:19] Speaker F: Oh, the music. Now, we haven't set up a time, but that's a good idea.
[00:54:23] Speaker H: That's a very.
[00:54:24] Speaker E: Always a very enjoyable.
[00:54:25] Speaker F: Okay. Yeah, usually we have. Let's see, we have Ed Mullen, I think, is who you're talking about.
[00:54:29] Speaker G: Right.
[00:54:29] Speaker F: And Tony. Tony Nesbitt sits in with us and Jack Hart. Usually we do it on a.
Do it during the week or on a Friday night or something like that. That's a good idea. I think we'll have that on. Maybe we'll. We'll do that again in the next couple of weeks.
[00:54:44] Speaker E: Okay. And last but not least, I want to, you know, all. All your regular callers and listeners want to know, how'd you make out on your big date? Did you have your big date?
[00:54:55] Speaker A: No way. There's the cliffhanger I talked about. This one was really good. Completely unintentional April Fool's episode.
As promised, it's story time with Uncle Tony. An incredible entry into the signs of Norm Files. While taking my copious notes during the listening process, as you've already heard, the subject of then female impersonator Jim Bailey comes up. A few days ago, I was having dinner with friends and the subject of drag shows came up. It made me recall seeing Jim Bailey at the Charles Playhouse, the show that Norm was talking about. So you can imagine how shocked I was when in the middle of this one, Norm talks about Jim Bailey. That was cool. Enough. But what really cements this is the fact that the tape was mislabeled April 2nd and was from May 14th. So keep in mind I picked this out like two weeks ago and recorded it on March 16th. And then it specifically talks about Jim Bailey just days after I thought about him. The randomness of that is outrageous and I cannot in any way look at it as a coincidence.
Goosebumps abound, and as always, I look around the room and say, hello, Norm. Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Now we'll move to chapter two of Signs of Norm, and it relates to this same episode. Ruth gives that great Tony Bennett story and mentions Don Cornell, who Norm is hates.
So same evening after I had recorded the episode, I go to bed and I'm wondering what should I listen to tonight? I've been in a big band mood, so I thought I'd put on SiriusXM and throw on some big band music from the 40s junction. In some of the music that they play, they will include introductions not from a dj, it's actually on the recording. It could be the US Armed Services and please welcome here and and so on. So this one happens to say, like please welcome to the stage Don Cornell. I had a bolt upright in bed, now looking around going, well, you're here. Why don't you make an appearance, Norm? Again, I don't know. I'm just stumped and mystified. But it doesn't take away from how absolutely cool that is. He sent me many signs over the years, however, these were some of the strongest. I've shared others on Patreon as one of those exclusive perks of supporting the show there. There are other great ones that I haven't shared as of yet. So patrons, there just may be some more coming your way soon. Closing the vault and leaving this world a little sillier than we found it. 4. The other side Sneak a Peek Topless Cleaning Service Vicki Henderson South Wayne, Wisconsin Nice books. The Peabody Times. A desperate plea for a picture of St. Margaret of Antioch.
How about the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch? Tough old buggers. Letter carriers, Food drives, Logistic nightmares. The Boston Brewers Festival, Berklee College of Music, Sting, Nancy Wilson, the New England Barber School, Pet Grooming School and New England Bartending School. Battered paparazzi, failed painting restorations, making new paint old or old paint even older.
The rest of the story Beautiful oceanfront homes, arborvitaes and azalea bushes. Sully's and Gardner Trop World in Atlantic City. The comedy stop at the Trop Fred's friend, John Wayne Gacy's Brain, Jim Bailey, Jack Bailey, Queen for a Day, Lantanas or Landolfi's or Lombardos and Randolph, the Bull Winiker Band, the Bob Bachelder Band, Good Causes and Great Nights, Musical Interludes, Willard Romney, Harbor Lights, Mel and Maureen, Don Law, Fred Taylor, Choral Records, Music Craft Records, the North Shore Music Theater, Tony Bennett and Don Cornell, Bob Clayton, Bernadette Peters, Mr. Squaresville, Dave Maynard, Darrell Gould, Paul Elwell, Emilio Morata, Ed Mullen, the future singing traffic reporter, Jack Hart, and the fine gentleman, clean Living, family man, role model and fat old lech, Norm Nathan. I'm Tony Nesbitt.
[00:59:17] Speaker F: Well, I've been trying to meet up with a person like that.
[00:59:19] Speaker G: Never mind.
[00:59:20] Speaker F: Forget I said that. I can hear my kids talking. Oh, dad.
Dad, come on.
