prayers for Jess Cain

[Kevin Vahey]

Jess Cain will live forever because of this.

http://staffannouncer.com/blog/audio/yazsong.mp3

It would NEVER happen today but Dave Maynard played it almost everyday
in September of 1967 on WBZ

Years ago Pudge told me it took Jess one take

On 7/11/07, Bill O'Neill <me@billoneill.us> wrote:
> Kevin Vahey wrote:
> > Jay Fitzgerald in the Herald tells us this morning that long time WHDH
> > morning man Jess Cain is very ill. Get Well Jess!!!
> >
> >
> > http://news.bostonherald.com/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1010631
> >
> >
>
> Fitzgerald's article is a must-read if you have a chance. He gives Jess
> spot-on and well-deserved praise.
>
> In my relatively short tenure at WHDH back in the 80s, Jess was to bring
> his 35+ year career to a close, with the final radio chapter an
> interesting AM combo with Tom Doyle.  Let's just say that with Pudge
> Flynn, Jess needed no other partner - that was amazing chemistry.
>
> One of the funniest Jess bits was enshrined on Pudge's Wall of Carts in
> master at the old NE Life Hall studio. I forget the label but it was
> (Jess speaking in) faux Chinese with sitar and big-finish gong
> accompaniment (yes, very un-pc by modern standards). Eddie's echs often
> played that as a bed under Eddie's live Kowloon reads during Sportstalk
> and the Huddle.  Hysterical.  The first time I saw it done was when Don
> Albanese was teching the board.  It was then that I learned that the bit
> was that of Jess - never would have guessed.  I also witnessed Jess read
> the weather report over practically all of the Axel F
> Theme/Faltermeyer(?)  (from the Eddie Murphy film) but Jess actually
> spoke the words of the forecast to the actual syncopation of the song.
> He was standing there doing it all on the fly just for the heck of it
> but it was flawless.  Now, if I ever hear that song in the background I
> can only remember Jess's "It will be Sun-shine and bree-zy to-MO-row..."
> all in a soft, underplayed voice/tone.
>
> Glad to hear that Jess is in good hands and held in prayer. Get well soon!
>
> Bill O'Neill
>