Talk shows through the ages

[Bill O'Neill]

brouder@juno.com wrote:
> I'm surprised no one has mentioned Sherm Feller.  In 1981 I interviewed him in conjunction with WGIR Manchester's 40th anniversary (he helped put WMUR Radio on the air in the fall of 1941).
>
> Sherm said he was hired by WEEI Boston the day after Pearl Harbor was attacked (12/7/41), "where I started the first talk show in America at midnight."  He didn't say specifically when he began the all-night talk show.
>
>   

I hear that they were wracked with technical glitches with Sherm's 
debut.  It seems every time Sherm opened his mouth and said anything 
there was this annoying 1 second echo.  And then that zany organ music.  
Didn't fit the mood.  Sad.

Bill...bill   O'Neill....neill....