Re: Arnie Ginsburg's Music/Adventure Car Hop

[Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com>]

Shel wrote--
>Ever wonder how Arnie's theme song came to be?  Where it was recorded at,
>and when?  Remember what it sounded like?  Well, Arnie Ginsburg sent me a
>crystal-clear recording of same, [snip]

You are indeed a lucky man.  Do you mean the jazz song "Night Train" or the
original LONG version of Arnie's theme, the one cut for WBOS?  That one had
a chorus that ended with "It's Arnie Ginsburg, on the night train show; at
16-hundred, dee-doobie doo wah, on your radio."  When he joined WMEX, I am
told, Mac Richmond was too cheap to let him recut it, so he just chopped out
the part with WBOS's frequency...

I used to enjoy hearing Arnie having fun with the Adventure Car Hop Jingle--
he would sing along or put in his own comments, such as when the jingle went
"Out at route 1 in Saugus, come dressed just as you are"-- and Arnie would
chime in, "YOU SLOB!"  Arnie never took himself too seriously, and his shows
were among the most entertaining on top-40 radio, imho...

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