Larry Glick

[John Francini]

I grew up with Larry. For reasons best left unsaid, as a child my mom  
would spend a lot of time driving around greater Boston (usually  
North Shore or South Shore) in the middle of the night, with Larry on  
the air.  We'd often end up staying up to see the sunrise off Revere  
Beach or Lynn Beach.

And we'd hear Larry play the German marching song, have the cabbie  
on, talk to Muck, take calls from all over the 38-state signal area,  
and generally have a fun time.

And then he'd "Reveille" just before he went off the air, after  
saying "Goodbye" in a whole bunch of languages.

So what *was* the German marching song?  I can only mentally recall  
snatches of it, but I'd love to find a copy of it again.

He put out a record album "Larry Glick?... Let me check", but it was  
mostly of stuff from before I started listening in the early 70s.

John




On 8 Mar 2008, at 15:27, kvahey@comcast.net wrote:

> My recollection was clubs only.
>
> He once told me a story off air. Mac Richmond once told him that
> everytime he played the German marching song Mac would shut his radio
> off. So Larry played it as often as he could.
>
> Obviously his producer Muck Meyer would know as much as anyone about
> Larry assuming he still with us.
>
> He was never the same after his forced year off when he left BZ for
> HDH. Larry had gotten dependent on being heard in 38 states and was
> lost just trying to be local.
>
> He made every caller feel important and never talked down or insulted
> a bad one.
> He really was the best friend for untold millions of lonely people
> across the country.
>
> When he left WMEX Mac didn't even try to compete against him and just
> ran Steve Fredricks reruns.
>
> On 3/8/08, Donna Halper <dlh@donnahalper.com> wrote:
>> At 01:18 PM 3/8/2008, you wrote:
>>> I was a Glicknic almost from Day 1 at MEX which had to be 1965.  
>>> Larry
>>> was even featured in Time Magazine about his show.
>>
>> I've got the article from Time.  Any interesting recollections?  Did
>> he do the hypnosis thing on the air, or was that just something he
>> did in the clubs?  (I came to listening to his show much later, and
>> don't know what he was up to originally...)
>>
>>