Speaker 1: On wz D.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Dan Watkins, and I'm gonna enjoy it. Not
Speaker 2: that I didn't enjoy have enjoyed and on or brian on,
Speaker 2: but this takes me back to one of the men
Speaker 2: I personally have to tip a cap to that helped
Speaker 2: me get into radio, that helped me get on WBZ
Speaker 2: and that I used to enjoy listening to when I
Speaker 2: was a civilian. I'm just gonna say, Sonya, welcome, old Sport.
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. It's so nice to be with you.
Speaker 2: It's nice to have you. And I'm asking you if
Speaker 2: you remember the last time we were face to face.
Speaker 3: I well, I believe it was at the movies. It
Speaker 3: was at the Friday night books.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was free Friday nights.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 3: In fact, I went recently. I went. I hadn't been
Speaker 3: in years, and I went back this past summer and
Speaker 3: I and I was so sad. Yeah, you were. You
Speaker 3: were one of the attractions for me besides the movie.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for saying that. I did that for
Speaker 2: fourteen years in a row, and things happened. It was
Speaker 2: time to hang up the holsters, so to speak.
Speaker 5: You get a great thank you.
Speaker 2: I thank you for saying that Let's talk about your dad.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about peepers, Let's talk about the dumb birthday game,
Speaker 2: let's talk about sounds in the night. For anybody who
Speaker 2: may not have been around for Norm Nathan, explain to
Speaker 2: them the magic of your father.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't even know where to begin, because I'm
Speaker 3: going to start breaking up a little bit. I'm going
Speaker 3: to try not to do this because nobody, nobody wants
Speaker 3: to hear me ugly cry. But he just was one
Speaker 3: of the funniest human beings I knew, and everyday situations
Speaker 3: he could twist them around and make them funny. And
Speaker 3: he just always had a bright side to him. And
Speaker 3: I know that his tagline was I want to leave
Speaker 3: the world a little funnier than I found it, And
Speaker 3: I think that he absolutely achieved that goal.
Speaker 2: Of the things that I mentioned that were purely Norm
Speaker 2: talk about his love of the peepers.
Speaker 3: He would every single year, he would go out because
Speaker 3: he was one of those people that live for warmer
Speaker 3: weather like most of us do, and he would start
Speaker 3: his countdown as soon as the days started getting longer,
Speaker 3: and as soon as the peepers it was peeper season.
Speaker 3: He would go out and go out and near. We
Speaker 3: had a bog and on our property and he would
Speaker 3: go out and record the peepers. And to this day,
Speaker 3: when I and he had he actually had a little
Speaker 3: key chain made where you could hit a button and
Speaker 3: it would make that sound. And I we must have
Speaker 3: a couple of them somewhere in the house. But to
Speaker 3: this day, every time I hear the peepers, I can't
Speaker 3: help but think about my dad, that he's synonymous with
Speaker 3: that sound.
Speaker 2: Now, I told you a number of stories that I
Speaker 2: heard Nor talk about on the air, and I talked
Speaker 2: about one and you remembered him bringing back a promotion
Speaker 2: from that. There was a movie that came out in
Speaker 2: the mid sixties with James Coleburn. They did two of them,
Speaker 2: Our Man Flint and In Like Flint and In Like
Speaker 2: Flint had had a theme song called Your Fabulous Face,
Speaker 2: and every now and then on easy listening stations you'll
Speaker 2: hear it. And that movie shows up on old movie
Speaker 2: channels a lot, and Norm was chosen as one of
Speaker 2: I don't know a dozen people that the movie company,
Speaker 2: twentieth Century Fox, I do believe, flew down to Puerto Rico,
Speaker 2: where a lot of the movie was filmed and they
Speaker 2: were asked to review the movie, and norm as tactfully
Speaker 2: as he could, didn't really like the movie. He tried
Speaker 2: to say nice things about it. But I told you
Speaker 2: that story, and you added to it by remembering something
Speaker 2: he brought home from that movie.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, right, Well, he my father was not a shopper,
Speaker 3: and so apparently I think he was given some kind
Speaker 3: of straw hat, and I think he wanted to be
Speaker 3: a big hit with my mother and he brought it
Speaker 3: home and she was not impressed at the slightest and
Speaker 3: she wasn't really a material person. But I do remember
Speaker 3: that story vividly because she was really upset that that
Speaker 3: was his offering after being away, you know, with you know,
Speaker 3: on a pretty exciting junket, and that's what he brought
Speaker 3: her home. So I will never forget that movie myself either,
Speaker 3: And most people.
Speaker 2: Know, but for those that don't. Norman was married to
Speaker 2: Norma Nathan. The I column of the Herald page six
Speaker 2: reference like from New York. That's what Norman Nathan did,
Speaker 2: like page six does in New York. And she would
Speaker 2: do celebrity stories and who did what to whom depending
Speaker 2: and they made a great couple, Norman Norman Nathan.
Speaker 3: Yeah. She named them the Mockdown media couple because because
Speaker 3: because the non mockdown media couple at that time was
Speaker 3: Nat and uh Natalie and check.
Speaker 2: And check Curtis.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 2: I'm going to take a break in about two minutes now.
Speaker 2: My producer said, you want a producer, your producer to
Speaker 2: join us. Tell us who's going to be joining us.
Speaker 3: So his name is Tony Nesbitt, and I with him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know very well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, so Tony Tony has has created he's cultivated
Speaker 3: I don't know what the what the rape burb is,
Speaker 3: but he's created a YouTube YouTube channel on my dad
Speaker 3: and it's called Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness with Tony
Speaker 3: Nesbit and he is cultivated over to one hundred volumes
Speaker 3: of this so or episodes, I guess that's what you
Speaker 3: would call it. And so I listened to it, and
Speaker 3: it's just such a treating. Anybody who is a fan
Speaker 3: of my dad's would would would love it just as
Speaker 3: much because it brings back all those laughs.
Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna suggest to people, I'm a minute away
Speaker 2: from a break, if you want to call in and
Speaker 2: talk Norm Nathan would Sonya Nathan Now, Sonya Nathan broad Street?
Speaker 2: Is that your marriage?
Speaker 3: Last name Brad brad Street.
Speaker 2: Brad Street. I'm sorry, sir, that's okay. She is here.
Speaker 2: We're going to talk about that old sport Norm Nathan.
Speaker 2: Up to eleven o'clock. Please join us phone number six one, seven, two,
Speaker 2: five four ten thirty or eight eight eight, nine to nine,
Speaker 2: ten thirty. And I can't wait to talk to Tony
Speaker 2: because I haven't spoken him in easily six or seven years.
Speaker 2: And let's just take the break so we can get
Speaker 2: it up the way asap. Time and temperature ten fifteen
Speaker 2: forty one degrees on Nightside.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
Speaker 1: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: Oh boy o, boy o boy, this is going to
Speaker 2: be a fun hour. I've got Sonya Nathan, daughter of
Speaker 2: Norm Nathan. I've got Tony Nesbitt, former producer here at WBZ. Tony.
Speaker 2: How the hell are you?
Speaker 5: Morgan?
Speaker 4: Sonya?
Speaker 5: How are you?
Speaker 2: It's good to hear your voice. For those of you
Speaker 2: who don't know, Tony produced everything here BZ Bruins, games,
Speaker 2: Norm Nathan's show, News. He was mister everything in those days.
Speaker 5: Brud's David Brudnoy Peter read Dave Maynard.
Speaker 2: On there was no end, no end to the way
Speaker 2: the station used you.
Speaker 6: Well, it's funny because you mentioned it. Thanksgiving us tomorrow
Speaker 6: and happy Thanksgiving to both of you. There was definitely
Speaker 6: uh I thank tonya my sister from another mister.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 5: I remember driving in to do the Majord Show during
Speaker 5: a little bit of a snowstorm early one morning on
Speaker 5: Thanksgiving morning. I can't quite recall if that was the
Speaker 5: day I was working sixteen hours and something like that.
Speaker 5: I was doing like from five am to nine pm.
Speaker 5: That was the only person. I was the only person available.
Speaker 2: Giving You want to know something, I am in my
Speaker 2: home so when I say goodbye bye boss the at
Speaker 2: twelve o'clock, I can walk twelve steps and be in
Speaker 2: my bedroom.
Speaker 3: Wow, you I know, right, And what you've.
Speaker 2: Left to have had that option back.
Speaker 5: In the day, you know, I don't know. Because it
Speaker 5: was such a thrill. I have to pinch myself sometimes
Speaker 5: all those people that I got a chance to work
Speaker 5: with and get to know and just be a part
Speaker 5: of a great time in radio. So it would be
Speaker 5: better to be there with everything than to be.
Speaker 2: Will never be replaced. You've got magic.
Speaker 3: Well, I was gonna say Tony would miss out on
Speaker 3: all my dad's really beautiful outfits if he didn't come. Yes,
Speaker 3: because you really needed to witness my dad's wodrobe in person.
Speaker 5: The plaid and the hay on the shoes being at home.
Speaker 6: You just you can't get that it doesn't have the
Speaker 6: same effect.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to bring another I'm going to bring
Speaker 2: another person into this conversation because I know all of
Speaker 2: you knew him, and he knew your father very well.
Speaker 2: Call from Brookline, Bill Winnaker, Bill, good evening.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5: Good evening, Sonia, Hello everybody you know Bow and I
Speaker 5: considered Norm almost like a second father because we got
Speaker 5: addicted to his radio show. This was before Busy Sounds
Speaker 5: in the Night.
Speaker 2: Morgan.
Speaker 5: You must remember the show.
Speaker 2: Oh clearly I mentioned it.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm sorry, I'm late to the show tonight. But
Speaker 5: Sounds in the Night on HDH, which is no more
Speaker 5: HDH as far as I know.
Speaker 3: But.
Speaker 5: That show went into the wee small hours of the morning.
Speaker 5: I was about twelve years old when I started listening
Speaker 5: to that, and I would go to school every morning
Speaker 5: like hop dead. I couldn't you know. I was up
Speaker 5: all night listening because he played. He played all jazz
Speaker 5: all night long, and I learned about the local organist
Speaker 5: Joe Boucci who used to play on Route one and
Speaker 5: different clubs, and it'd play Count Basie and it played
Speaker 5: Oh Meltormee and Eli Fitzgerald and you name it. I
Speaker 5: got an education between my father and your father, listening
Speaker 5: all night long, just learning all kinds of great music
Speaker 5: and enjoying your father's personality. Eventually, I don't know if
Speaker 5: you know about this, son, but one of the TV stations,
Speaker 5: either four, five or seven, asked your father to make
Speaker 5: a pilot for a show that would be just like
Speaker 5: the Tonight Show, but come out of Boston. And so
Speaker 5: Norm had my mother and father bo and myself play
Speaker 5: on the show. We were one of the acts. We
Speaker 5: thought it was going to come out, but they never
Speaker 5: It never happened. But he had all kinds of nice
Speaker 5: guests on that night, and you were a little little child.
Speaker 5: I don't know if you know about it.
Speaker 3: I had no knowledge of that. I'm so happy to
Speaker 3: learn of it though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was an incredible he was so witty, I mean,
Speaker 5: he was a great, great host. It would have been
Speaker 5: a great show, but they decided not to finance it
Speaker 5: and go with it. But he did have us play
Speaker 5: this big benefit fundraiser and Bo was only ten and
Speaker 5: I was thirteen at the time. But we get a
Speaker 5: lot of special things with your dad, and we even
Speaker 5: played at your house. You did, and yes we did
Speaker 5: for a very special occasion.
Speaker 2: What community.
Speaker 5: U whe Where were you up like a farm up there? What?
Speaker 5: What town was that?
Speaker 3: Middleton?
Speaker 2: Middleton?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we came to Middleton. We played at Middleton for
Speaker 5: like a s busnister or something like that.
Speaker 3: You can't I'm rubbing all this, all these all these
Speaker 3: stories about my dad.
Speaker 2: That of that uh was a paper.
Speaker 5: We never got to see it, you know, all the
Speaker 5: all the years I was looking for it, and it's
Speaker 5: got to be a lost tape or something. But the
Speaker 5: show would have been incredible. He had great guests on
Speaker 5: and we we played the music and oh it was
Speaker 5: just I wanted to see that so much, but never
Speaker 5: go to see it.
Speaker 2: To begin to.
Speaker 5: Search, it's one of the four one of the three
Speaker 5: major stations, either four or five or seven. Okay, seven
Speaker 5: is now not not the seven It was back.
Speaker 2: Then, and don't forget back. Then five was hd H
Speaker 2: that's right, seventy two it became CVB.
Speaker 5: But it gave me goosebumps. If your dad did such
Speaker 5: a great job, I mean that show could have gone national,
Speaker 5: but they didn't want to finance at whatever station that was.
Speaker 2: Your best guess place to start looking would have to
Speaker 2: be Channel four because they've stayed in the same building
Speaker 2: TV wise.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so yeah, no, normal was all. I've been trying
Speaker 5: to track that down for years. And while we're.
Speaker 7: Well, she.
Speaker 5: Told you your mother was so good to us too.
Speaker 5: Over the years. She was great.
Speaker 2: I did.
Speaker 5: I did her a favor. One night she we were
Speaker 5: playing at the Kennedy wedding well. Peter Lawford's thought I
Speaker 5: got married to uh uh got married to Peter McKelvey.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so Peter Laffer was married to one of the
Speaker 5: Kennedy sisters. And so we played on the compound and
Speaker 5: your mother wanted coverage of that, but no one could
Speaker 5: get in. So I took pictures of the whole night,
Speaker 5: brought them to the Herald about two three in the morning.
Speaker 5: They developed them. I was I never got my film back,
Speaker 5: so I don't have those pictures. But they filled the
Speaker 5: whole column of the Sunday paper the next day to
Speaker 5: Kennedy wedding. But I love both of your parents and
Speaker 5: that's all I can say. Great people, Well, we loved
Speaker 5: them dearly. Nor Norm was such a sweet man. I mean, wow,
Speaker 5: what a what a wonderful man.
Speaker 2: And I know I've told this story before, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to do the best I can to be as
Speaker 2: brief as possible with a break coming up. Norm was
Speaker 2: working at HDH the summer of eighty Saturday nights. He
Speaker 2: would do trivia on his show and Joe and Jane
Speaker 2: Citizen I say it that way, meaning just the listeners.
Speaker 2: He would pick and choose a variety of listeners to
Speaker 2: be a part of the trivia panel, of which I
Speaker 2: got chosen uh to be a regular contributor. That fall,
Speaker 2: Norm left HDH. You went to RKO. I had been
Speaker 2: bitten by the radio bug and I called Norm and
Speaker 2: I said, Norm, how can we keep the show going?
Speaker 2: If if I wanted to keep doing trivia on the radio,
Speaker 2: how could I achieve this? And he said, Morgan, there's
Speaker 2: a thing called broker radio. Will you pay for your time?
Speaker 2: You get your own sponsors, you own the show and
Speaker 2: perhaps that is the way you could do it. I
Speaker 2: took the lead. I began a show called Talking Trivia,
Speaker 2: which was on two am to four am Mondays, the
Speaker 2: worst time slot in Ragiono. Yeah, that was, oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: And what happened within for my months well within yeah,
Speaker 2: four months spring the Red Sox I went out on
Speaker 2: strike with all of baseball and I got a chance
Speaker 2: to join the station that covered the Red Sox in
Speaker 2: those days. Its because they were desperate to fill time.
Speaker 2: And that's how I got to be in radio. And
Speaker 2: Norm spoke to Peter Casey here at BZ and said,
Speaker 2: you know, at Morgan White Junior is pretty good, maybe
Speaker 2: you should give him a chance to come over to BZ.
Speaker 2: And David BREDNOI pretty much told Peter the same thing, boom.
Speaker 2: That was all necessary to get me on this station
Speaker 2: years later, So I'm.
Speaker 5: I never heard that story before. So I'm glad you
Speaker 5: told it. You You're you're the best trivia person I've
Speaker 5: ever run across, because there isn't a subject you can't
Speaker 5: talk about.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that. But I have to do this.
Speaker 2: Take a break because it's ten to thirty. We've got
Speaker 2: news coming up. If Tony was here, he'd be yelling
Speaker 2: in my earphones right now.
Speaker 5: So let's say the three of you. Yes, you have
Speaker 5: a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll bring you Bill. It's going to hang up. Bill,
Speaker 2: Bye bye. Thank you for calling. Simon Temperature here on
Speaker 2: night Side ten thirty made it forty one.
Speaker 1: Degrees night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ Boston's
Speaker 1: news radio sound.
Speaker 2: You're hearing our papers recording made by Norm Nathan somewhere
Speaker 2: in the i'll say eighties and nineties, and the redistributing
Speaker 2: of the sound is thanks to Tony Nesbitt, who has
Speaker 2: painstakingly that all of Norm's cuts and clips from back
Speaker 2: in the day and made them available again. We have
Speaker 2: Sonia Nathan here and Tony is as well. So Tony
Speaker 2: tell people how they can hear, because I think you
Speaker 2: have over two hundred clips of Norm.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 6: First, I wanted to say I know exactly where that
Speaker 6: cut was recorded when, probably early nineties, like you said,
Speaker 6: But that was Norm risking his life at the end
Speaker 6: of his driveway in Middleton, at the bog that he
Speaker 6: had at the end. That's why you hit the cars
Speaker 6: racing by as.
Speaker 5: He was recording.
Speaker 2: I hope it's worth something irridescent so people could see him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I don't know the plaid. Maybe he
Speaker 5: had some reflectors on, or he pocked the car down
Speaker 5: there too before he came into work. That's every spring.
Speaker 5: That's where he got the cuts from. And now I
Speaker 5: go out every spring and I record the peepers and
Speaker 5: air them on the little podcast if you will, or rebroadcast.
Speaker 6: Podcast that I do called norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness
Speaker 6: with your what.
Speaker 2: Are the call letters? Or how do you find that?
Speaker 5: All?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: So it's it's on all sorts of streaming platforms, so
Speaker 6: you can find it on YouTube and Spotify, Amazon, Uh,
Speaker 6: you know, pocket cast Cast dos just every whey pretty
Speaker 6: much everywhere good pods. iHeart that's a familiar name, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, it's every week I put out an episode.
Speaker 6: It varies in length anywhere from an hour to this week,
Speaker 6: we've got like ninety minutes, and I've got a whole
Speaker 6: bunch of cassettes, some that from my own personal collection
Speaker 6: and a ton of them that were just I mean,
Speaker 6: you want to talk about pains taking Lee and just
Speaker 6: the love and dedication that was put into this by
Speaker 6: a listener, Joan from Cooksbury, who is still with us,
Speaker 6: and I'm still in contact with her today. And she
Speaker 6: recorded so many programs on cassette and she sent some
Speaker 6: to me, and she sent some to Jackhart. And now
Speaker 6: I have the entire collection of them along with I
Speaker 6: should say I should add Ed Mullen, who helped us
Speaker 6: host the Swell Music Quiz that we would do on
Speaker 6: like holiday weeks and when Norm would fill in on
Speaker 6: vacations during the week. I have a bunch of those
Speaker 6: as well. What I do I listened to them, I
Speaker 6: take notes. I freshen them up as much as I
Speaker 6: can the software that I had write in an opening
Speaker 6: clothes and put it out there.
Speaker 2: And Jack Hart listening, call in, call in and what's
Speaker 2: the lady from Tewkesbury's name, Joan? Joan, if you're listening,
Speaker 2: please call in. And anybody listening who had affection in
Speaker 2: their heart for Norm Nathan. We have about twenty minutes
Speaker 2: of this subject to go. Please call in and Sonya
Speaker 2: do me a favorite. Tell people what Norm was like.
Speaker 2: He has just done five or six hours of overnight
Speaker 2: radio and he comes in the house six thirty quarter
Speaker 2: of seven.
Speaker 5: Talk about that experience, Well, he a lot of times,
Speaker 5: I e.
Speaker 3: It was I probably was sleeping when he came home,
Speaker 3: and that that was one of the downsides of all
Speaker 3: of the different shifts that he had, because most of
Speaker 3: them were at night. However, he loved working at night
Speaker 3: because he had a real distrust of bosses and management
Speaker 3: and so he he just thought this was well because
Speaker 3: right Tony he had all the freedom he wanted, which
Speaker 3: was great. And that's why that was that was magical,
Speaker 3: magical radio that was happening during those those wee hours.
Speaker 2: And if I'm not mistaken, both HDH and bz's management
Speaker 2: program directors then let them play what of the music
Speaker 2: he wanted to play? Is that accurate?
Speaker 3: Well, this was funny. But when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: I would he had to fill out these sheets where
Speaker 3: he would have to put in the songs that he
Speaker 3: was going to play during his his shift, and he
Speaker 3: didn't really want to do that, so he had me
Speaker 3: do it. And I was thrilled because I thought this
Speaker 3: is really cool. And so I would, you know, make
Speaker 3: up all of the playlists for him for his shifts,
Speaker 3: and I thought that was really fun. And he, you know,
Speaker 3: because at the time, there were two shifts at WHH.
Speaker 3: One was overnight right sounds in the night, which was
Speaker 3: really fun because he was playing his music. But then
Speaker 3: later on in his career when he was at HDH
Speaker 3: was he was doing drivetime, like from two to six,
Speaker 3: and that wasn't really his music.
Speaker 5: That was my music.
Speaker 3: So anyway, but getting back to when he came home,
Speaker 3: he would probably feed the chickens, and because he really
Speaker 3: considered himself like a Lloyd farmer or a lord mayor
Speaker 3: of our property, which we had a nice piece of property,
Speaker 3: and he lovingly, you know, took care of the horse
Speaker 3: and we had a compost bin and chickens and dogs
Speaker 3: and cats that all kind of ran free on our property.
Speaker 3: And and in between that you would try to sleep
Speaker 3: because you know, it's pretty hard to sleep during the
Speaker 3: day when everybody else is awake.
Speaker 2: All right, That darn sun casts so much light into
Speaker 2: the windows. Let's let's speaking of the phone ringing, Let's
Speaker 2: take a call. It's Scott and Land. So Scott, let's
Speaker 2: talk about norm Nathan. How do you feel about.
Speaker 8: Nor Hi Morgan? Scott Scot, I know you, Sonia, I
Speaker 8: know you. We have a mutual we have a mutual
Speaker 8: friend Wendy.
Speaker 3: Wendy. We oh, okay.
Speaker 8: I think that's maybe how how we might have met.
Speaker 3: I think I'm excusing you with another scritch, but I
Speaker 3: know the Wendy that you speak of.
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, well, Sonia, I loved hearing your dad on
Speaker 8: Friday and Saturday nights overnight. I would see it my
Speaker 8: friend's bakery. He was an overnight baker on Newman's Bakery
Speaker 8: and swamp Scott and uh. While we were on hanging
Speaker 8: out in the shop, we'd have norm on and one
Speaker 8: of our favorite things is was when he would call
Speaker 8: phone booths around the world.
Speaker 3: He would call part remember that.
Speaker 8: Let's say remember that, Morgan, Yes, I do. Oh? Was
Speaker 8: that was that enjoyable? And you know in those days.
Speaker 6: Still have the list of phone numbers Scott, Oh you
Speaker 6: do you?
Speaker 8: Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5: I don't even know if.
Speaker 8: They say, I don't think, I don't. You can't find
Speaker 8: a phone booth anymore.
Speaker 3: I know I would be ask if you got anybody
Speaker 3: with it would be fun to try and see who
Speaker 3: picked up.
Speaker 5: Was still by somebody else?
Speaker 2: You know, well, you.
Speaker 5: Try that, I'll do a live broadcast or something, and.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we'll do that, but that was that was funny.
Speaker 8: And someone would pick up and Norman say, you're on
Speaker 8: the air in Boston and you know what's going on
Speaker 8: in Paris, And it was just such an exciting thing
Speaker 8: to hear on the radio. And and then and then
Speaker 8: and they talked to his friend Chauncey. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 8: of this, the character with his lovely bride, remember, you know,
Speaker 8: and he would say, how are you, Norman old Sport?
Speaker 4: Remember those it was yet Yeah.
Speaker 8: That's right, that's true, Tonya, yes, oh yeah. One one
Speaker 8: year there was one of those First Night celebrations in
Speaker 8: Beverly and your dad was a featured speaker at the
Speaker 8: one of the church. One of the churches in Beverly
Speaker 8: is part of the First Night and I went. I
Speaker 8: went to see him. This was probably back in the nineties,
Speaker 8: and it was able to He talked about radio and
Speaker 8: then he met the people after the show, and I,
Speaker 8: me and my friend went up to him and said, Norman,
Speaker 8: we wish you were on Monday through Friday and Bob
Speaker 8: Rawley was on two days.
Speaker 3: Okay, Tony, don't you find that amusing? Tony?
Speaker 5: Oh? I do?
Speaker 3: I know?
Speaker 5: You do?
Speaker 3: You know what you wish for the same.
Speaker 8: But today Friday and Saturday overnights are a special time slot,
Speaker 8: you know, for the over the weekend, and it was
Speaker 8: I just wanted to say, it was such such a
Speaker 8: pleasure to hear your.
Speaker 4: Dad on the radio over the years.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 5: Yes, that time.
Speaker 2: Slot has been golden hours for legends of BZ. Yes,
Speaker 2: think of I think it term Bergeron, think of Jordan Rich.
Speaker 2: I can keep going, but I'm gonna take a break,
Speaker 2: So Scott, thank you for the call.
Speaker 8: Thank you very much, and every Thanksgiving to everybody.
Speaker 2: All right, let me take a break. We'll get one
Speaker 2: more segment, and we've got a call from Idaho. Next
Speaker 2: up here on night Side, Dan Rai's off tonight. I'm
Speaker 2: here on Morgan time and temperature ten forty six forty
Speaker 2: one degrees.
Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2: All right, we have got two callers and two people online.
Speaker 2: Tony Nesbitt is one of the two people online. Former
Speaker 2: producer here at BZ, producer everyone and everything. There was
Speaker 2: not a show that he was not a master control
Speaker 2: riding the board as they say, and Sonya was, yes
Speaker 2: you were, and overworked and underpaid. And they said Brad
Speaker 2: Street is here, and her claimed the same. She was
Speaker 2: Norm's daughter. So let's take a couple more calls and
Speaker 2: get out cleanly. I have Laurie and Idaho Laurie.
Speaker 7: Good evening, good evening, everybody nice to us. No, I
Speaker 7: don't I have to say thank you for the peepers.
Speaker 7: It almost maybe cried. Was in New England for years.
Speaker 7: I came out to the Pacific Northwest to do the
Speaker 7: aging parent thing for a few years. And oh, I'm
Speaker 7: assuwing them, but thank you for those peepers. So Tony
Speaker 7: on the stuff you have on your your podcast or
Speaker 7: whatever it is, can I get those peepers and listen
Speaker 7: to them?
Speaker 5: Yes, they are part of usually I played them at springtime. Okay,
Speaker 5: so end of March April. So the shows that are
Speaker 5: around that time, I'd have to do a quick search
Speaker 5: as to you know which number of the shows. I
Speaker 5: also am on Patreon to help support the show.
Speaker 6: I didn't do anything for a few years, and I
Speaker 6: started that up. Also, there's another thing called buy me
Speaker 6: a coffee.
Speaker 7: Obviously, all right show, how I hear you guys right
Speaker 7: here too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And so the show is on iHeart. I'm not
Speaker 6: sure how many they There's some streaming platforms like Amazon.
Speaker 6: Google used to do this as well, Spotify with they'll
Speaker 6: only have the last twenty five episodes. But YouTube and
Speaker 6: my distributor Castos they have every episode all the way
Speaker 6: from one to currently two hundred and eleven. I think,
Speaker 6: oh wow, yeah, so there's a lot to listen. Then
Speaker 6: I need to discover the Patreon site. I should add
Speaker 6: is that I put it. I put exclusive content there
Speaker 6: so I could put up just some paper recordings and
Speaker 6: you can just hear those if you want.
Speaker 2: Let me ask.
Speaker 7: I don't mind doing the torch rob.
Speaker 2: I mean anything like that number. I don't know.
Speaker 5: Number was what? Uh?
Speaker 2: Is there a number attached to the peeper clip that
Speaker 2: you played? Okay, all right.
Speaker 5: I can I can do a quick search here, Yeah
Speaker 5: you can, you guys.
Speaker 7: Please, I want to say my production.
Speaker 5: Right. When I get a little I will search my
Speaker 5: scripts and just do a little word search for papers
Speaker 5: and see what happens.
Speaker 7: All right, la, but tell me no. My introducing to
Speaker 7: Norm was I was I went from friends to a
Speaker 7: place northern Vermont of summer camp and I'm a terrible sleeper.
Speaker 7: So I had my walkman with the radio thing on it.
Speaker 7: The only station that came in was whatever station he
Speaker 7: was on at that time, and that was my discovery
Speaker 7: of him, and I loved him. And I have to
Speaker 7: agree with the Bob Broley comment. So thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Ry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving. There goes Laurie, and probably i'll
Speaker 2: last call it some quincy John. You made it happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4: Happy Thanksgiving and many many more and greatly appreciated what
Speaker 4: you all do. And God bless and Okay, everything's fantastic
Speaker 4: as usual. Thank you. First, Yeah, Nom Nathan was great.
Speaker 4: Mister McDonald was great, and your other gentleman, mister Brudnoyd,
Speaker 4: he was great, and all the shows are great and
Speaker 4: w h C H W b Z. Yeah, it's we're
Speaker 4: very buss where we live. And that was nice to war.
Speaker 4: He's cutting from Idaho. It's a very fortunate your trivia.
Speaker 4: I answered the trivia question on the radio one time,
Speaker 4: but I was working. I was driving, so I told
Speaker 4: you to donate the sweater to the homeless. That's sort
Speaker 4: of shirt.
Speaker 2: I do recall that, I recall the situation. I don't
Speaker 2: remember the question, but I do even remember you saying
Speaker 2: donated to the homeless, which I did.
Speaker 4: I know you did, your your your, You're a keeper,
Speaker 4: as they say.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Yes he is. What about norm Nathan?
Speaker 2: What more do you want to add to what's been
Speaker 2: said over the past hour.
Speaker 4: Uh, other than he was a class act and the
Speaker 4: credit to the way he was raised and brought up
Speaker 4: into the business and everything else. And he you know,
Speaker 4: he made the world a better place.
Speaker 2: Yes, he did. Good thing to say at the end.
Speaker 4: And when you said Nemuth, the first thing I thought
Speaker 4: it was the monkeys.
Speaker 2: It's funny you mentioned the monkeys. Over the weekend on
Speaker 2: my show Tend to Midnight, The Morgan Show, I interviewed
Speaker 2: Mickey Dolans just fortality was.
Speaker 5: The only only live, only one alive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that be a question, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Mike is gone and Peter's gone.
Speaker 3: It's sad he's he's the keeper of the plane.
Speaker 4: And the other one Dave Davy Jones, Peter Jones.
Speaker 2: David Jones passed away first, Peter Tork passed away second,
Speaker 2: and Mike Nesmith passed away within the past two years,
Speaker 2: and Mickey is the one left. All right, John, I
Speaker 2: gotta go, but but thank you for your merry Christmas Giving, well,
Speaker 2: happy Thanksgiving, and Tony, I'm glad to hear you still
Speaker 2: around and your thing, your fingers are still in the business.
Speaker 5: It's the radial courses through my veins.
Speaker 2: What can I said? Well, there you go, and it's
Speaker 2: nice to hear your thank you and Sonya. I'm so
Speaker 2: glad that we were able to get in touch and
Speaker 2: I could get you in the radio because as you hear,
Speaker 2: there's still a lot of people who have an elevated
Speaker 2: perspective of your father.
Speaker 3: Well as I as I said you because I think
Speaker 3: this all came about because we heard you talk about
Speaker 3: my dad over the summer with Jack Hrt and when
Speaker 3: I wanted to call your producer, not to be on
Speaker 3: the air, but just to let you know how grateful
Speaker 3: I am that you are keeping his memory alive, because
Speaker 3: that's that's so important for us. And isn't it nice
Speaker 3: that we're sharing that mission with you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and well you know what, I wouldn't be sitting
Speaker 2: in front of this microphone now if it weren't for
Speaker 2: your father.
Speaker 3: Well, he was the best and you were you were
Speaker 3: inh worm. You absolutely are all.
Speaker 2: Right, you too. I gotta go, you know, news is
Speaker 2: knocking you guys.
Speaker 5: Happy, thank you, thank you very much, thank.
Speaker 2: You, Tony. Happy Thanksgiving, Sonya. We will be in some time.
Speaker 2: We will do it again sometime in twenty two.
Speaker 3: I would love that, would love that, and be well
Speaker 3: and thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. All right, next hour, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 2: your favorite concert here in BC time. In temperature ten
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