Re: **Kenny Mayer**HELP

["David W. Harris" <dwh@totalnetnh.net>]

Joe Tyburczy wrote:

> Kenny Mayer was a living anachronism lurking on the fringes of Boston
> radio.
> He had a "comedy" show that aired on WBOS and WUNR radio during the
late
> 1960's.  It was one of the few non-religious, non-community affairs
> programs
> that a bored kid with a transistor radio could pick up on Sunday
nights
> after
> 10 PM.
>
I can't help with airchecks, but I remember hearing "the night Mayer of
Boston" well into the '70s, by which time he was even more of an
anachronism.  He may have continued the show into the early '80s.  The
comedy cuts Mayer played were hardly cutting edge, mostly Borscht Belt
stuff, but I guess I, too, was listening because it was something
different on a Sunday night.  Actually, by 1974 the show started at
midnight, so it was something different on a Monday morning.  And the
spots.  Oh, the spots.  Lots of 'em.  Mostly restaurant ads which Mayer
did all by himself, in a manner similar to that heard on the Danny
Stiles All-Night Record Show on WEVD a few years back.

As Dan Strassberg mentioned, Mayer was a newspaper columnist.  Even in
that position he was an anachronism; I recall reading (probably in an
obituary;
Mayer died in 1982) about a new editor who viewed the entertainment
column as
a dinosaur and intended to get rid of it but changed his mind after
Mayer showed him a night on the town.  In the mid-'70s Mayer's column
appeared in the Herald American on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Sunday.  The Sunday paper featured a picture of him.  I forget which
paper he was with before the Record American took over the Herald
Traveler.