Re: Local Radio News (Was Re :Manchester, NH 7-5-0 AM Coming to a radio dial near you?

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

For some reason--maybe because it had to have been 
improvised on the spot--a particular Bob and Ray bit 
sticks in my mind. Took place on NBC Monitor CA 1953 
(Monitor...going places and doing things...You're on the 
Monitor beacon...take five).

Anyone else old enough to remember the prerecorded 
celebrity interviews that were distributed on 16-
in "electrical transcriptions" back in the 50s? On one 
side you had the complete interview--questions (usually 
posed by an interviewer with _some_ name recognition) 
and answers. On the other side were just the celeb's 
answers with pauses between them long enough to deliver 
the questions. A script was provided on paper so that 
local DJs could ask the questions and the celeb would 
appear to answer them. It took _a lot_ of practice to 
make these "interviews" sound anything but totally 
ridiculous. And needless to say, _a lot_ could go wrong.

On this particular monitor broadcast, 
the "interviewer's" nightmare occurred. 
The "interviewer" missed a question, and from that point 
forward, the answers preceded the questions.

Twenty minutes or so later, Bob and Ray did their 
version of such a prerecorded interview gone awry. Of 
course, for listeners who had missed the genuine 
article, B+R had to set the stage and provide a behind-
the-scenes description of how such "interviews" were 
conducted. In any event, as hilarious as the original 
had been, the Bob and Ray version was even funnier. 

I guess this posting is sort of a Bob and Ray bit in 
itself. You'll just have to accept that the bit _was_ 
funny.

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> I know that Ray Goulding lived in Lowell (Highlands?) and I think some
> of his relatives/decedents remain there.  I believe the duo got their
> start at WLLH, then WHDH prior to W?? in NYC.