Re: Dick Summer WBZ

["Mountain Wireless" <mountainwireless@skow.net>]

Dan-

You probably misheard Morgan. I just checked with him and he said he
referred to the fact that Dick Summer regularly used it on his program (in
part because of the nice WBZ tie-in), but he says he did not credit Summer
as the author.

I have never been able to verify the origin of it, but I've heard that it
was an audition piece that was started in New York (at Radio City?) in the
late-'30s or early-'40s. I've been told that announcers would be asked to
read it cold.

I've also heard it that Jerry Lewis used it on stage many, many moons ago.
Some people claimed he wrote it, but others said he appropriated it from the
above New York announcers' audition.

So I'm pretty sure Summer didn't write it, but now I want to find out who
did.

-J.

Jason Roberts
WCTB - WHQO - WSKW



----- Original Message -----
From: <dan.strassberg@att.net>
To: "Dave Faneuf" <tklaundry@juno.com>
Cc: <DonKelley@aol.com>; <Boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: Dick Summer WBZ


> Unless I misheard Morgan White Jr (possible), it was Morgan who claimed
that
> Summer had claimed to have authored the piece.
> --
> dan.strassberg@att.net
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>
> > I never heard that Dick Summer claimed to have authored that, I thought
> > it was a tongue twister than an old time broadcaster (not that Dick
> > Summer can't be described that way now) used as a warmup before going on
> > the air,  I don't recall who it was.
> > df