"Hi There, Boys and Girls" update from Radio Lady and thanks!

[Radio_Lady]

Thanks to everyone who participated in my discussion of children's show hosts on the DU last month. Your DU names are on this list and I am grateful for everyone who participated in the original thread, which is still available at:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3258390#3277245

Many kind regards go to: XanaDUer, gater, no_hypocrisy, Mizmoon, Pendrench, phaseolus, tuvor, blue neen, HeeBGBz, TlalocW, Left Is Write, Beausoir, MidwestMomma, peekaloo, democracyindanger, solinvictus, spacelady, enigmatic, Lindsay, johnnie, steely, Beware the Beast Man, GalleryGod, MountainLaurel, Crazy Guggenheim, salin, mitchum, Longgrain, crispini, maveric, evlbstrd, JonathanChance, henslee, mgdecombe, ChoralScholar, ovidsen, eleny, Aristus, Debbi801, ronnykmarshall, luvLLB, underpants. (Hope I haven't missed anyone!)

Many of your memories will be included in a pre-recorded audio program. My guest will be Tim Hollis, who wrote a book on this subject called "Hi There Boys and Girls: America's Local Children's TV Programs." You can read about this book at his publisher's web site, which is:

http://www.upress.state.ms.us/catalog/fall2001/hi_there_boys_and_girls!.html

This program is scheduled to air on the Internet on: Monday, June 13, 2005, at 1 PM PT/2 PM MT/3 PM CT/4 PM ET.

If you wish to hear the program on the Internet, go to:

http://www.opb.org/programs/streams

Choose one of the media players in the MIDDLE of the page for "Golden Hours" -- any of these players will bring up the Internet Audio Stream. Of course, you need to have the player installed and a sound card and speakers on your computer.

You'll need to do this at or near the top of the hour, but please be patient as the station runs IDs and news for 5 - 7 minutes before the 50-minute show starts.

I will give credit to the Democratic Underground and many of your stories will become part of the show.

FYI, I was a children's show co-host -- my first job in broadcasting while I was in college in the late 1950's. It was "Popeye Playhouse" produced for WTVJ, Miami, Florida. I took care of about 100 children in the studio, served Royal Castle hamburgers and Pepsi Cola, and ran some of the puppets. Here's my photo -- almost 50 years ago:



Warm regards,

Radio Lady

[XanaDUer]

1. Ah, Skipper Chuck.

Memories.

[Radio_Lady]

2. I just PMed you, XanaDUer. (You're reading my mind. )

Some of the links don't work, however -- sorry.

Did you ever see this photo of him?



Yes, he was (is?) kind of a hottie....

[XanaDUer]

3. No!

I remember meeting him circa 1974-75 at some local fete in North Miami Beach. Nice man.

:hi:

[Radio_Lady]

5. I haven't seen him since 1987 when he was at a real estate show

on Long Island, New York. He was quite ill with a virus but it was still nice to see him.

[enigmatic]

4. Thank you!

This is really cool; I'm dying to here this..

[Radio_Lady]

6. Enigmatic, you're welcome. Appreciate your participation in this.

Check the connection to "Golden Hours" per my instructions before Monday just to see if it's working OK for you. We're a low-budget affiliate of Oregon Public Broadcasting and we hope and pray all of our equipment is working properly.

In peace,

Radio Lady

[Radio_Lady]

7. Kicking this on a busy afternoon!

[Radio_Lady]

8. Is your DU name here? Check below. If so, thank you.

gater, no_hypocrisy, Mizmoon, Pendrench, phaseolus, tuvor, blue neen, HeeBGBz, TlalocW, Left Is Write, Beausoir, MidwestMomma, peekaloo, democracyindanger, solinvictus, spacelady, Lindsay, johnnie, steely, Beware the Beast Man, GalleryGod, MountainLaurel, Crazy Guggenheim, salin, mitchum, Longgrain, crispini, maveric, evlbstrd, JonathanChance, henslee, mgdecombe, ChoralScholar, ovidsen, eleny, Aristus, Debbi801, ronnykmarshall, luvLLB, underpants. (Hope I haven't missed anyone!)

I just realized that PMs don't work well because of truncated addresses to the archived threads. Not sure how to fix this and have to make dinner for my (hungry) husband. Sometimes I wish we didn't have to eat three times a day!!!! (Sometimes, I don't, but then I get a headache...)

[trof]

9. Oh damn. I could have told you about Benny Carl.

Birmingham, AL in the early 50s.
Buffalo Bob-type costume. Cartoons and Keystone Cops shorts.
My Cub Scout troop was the "audience" once.
A sponsor was Peter Pan peanut butter. We each got a free jar and proceeded to dig in with fingers immediately.
Then he became a client of my mom's (investment advisor) and I found out his real name was Benito Carlucci, or something like that.
Cool!

I think he owns a TV station and a couple of radio stations around Huntsville now.

Then we had Cousin Cliff Holman for years. He became a local kiddie show institution. Much loved. Did a lot of charity work if I remember.

When I was in my early 20s, I worked in advertising for a short time. Got to know a local TV/radio announcer named Ward McIntire. We were in some downtown bar one night, both of us maybe a couple of sheets to the wind. I was listening to him tell a story, and, listening to his voice, something dawned on me.
"BOZO! You summitch. You're BOZO!"
"If you ever tell anybody I'll kill you. Swear to god I will."
Cool, sophisticated, urbane, cosmopolitan man-about-town (at least for Birmingham back then) Ward McIntire was our local Bozo-The-Clown.
This is the first time I've ever told.
;-)

[Radio_Lady]

10. Trof, the author of the book on kid show hosts lives in Birmingham.

I'll have to mention this to Tim Hollis. He devotes pages to Benny Carle and "Cousin Cliff" Holman, with some photos, too. See if you can get hold of Tim's book, "Hi There, Boys and Girls" published in 2001.

Tim and I will speak on Friday, 06/10/05. Great story! Thanks for taking the time to tell it to me!

[Left Is Write]

11. What a fabulous photo, Radio Lady!

[Radio_Lady]

12. Thanks, Left Is Write --

appreciate your compliments! (Are you left-handed or just "left" politically?)

[Left Is Write]

15. Both!

:D

[Radio_Lady]

16. Hey, me too! n/t

[Left Is Write]

19. And...

I used to be a radio lady too.

[Radio_Lady]

20. Really? Where? When? What kind of show? I'm intrigued ---

[Left Is Write]

21. Early to mid-90s, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

I briefly did news and a midday music show in MN, then went on to afternoon drive/music director at a country music station in WI. I also had a brief part-time stint here in Boise, but they wanted more hours than I could give.

[Radio_Lady]

22. OT: What's Boise really like? We drove through Idaho once on our way

to Utah, but didn't stop. I saw a beautiful documentary on public broadcasting once all about Idaho; the guy who runs the parts shop at our car dealership wants to retire to Coeur D'Alene (did I spell that right)? What can you tell me about it from your perspective?

[Left Is Write]

23. It's a nice city.

It's a smaller city than I prefer, but it's nice, nestled in the foothills of the mountains. The greater Boise area is called the Treasure Valley.

Many parts of the city itself, especially the downtown area, are reasonable liberal. There's a lot to do downtown also; a few museums, the rose gardens in Julia Davis park, walking along the Greenbelt, lots of great restaurants and a couple of old-fashioned style movie theaters.

It's a pleasant enough place, the weather is usually good (mild winters), though the summers can be brutally hot. It's been unseasonably cool so far this year, but I am not complaining. :D

Coeur d'Alene is quite a ways from here. I've heard it's beautiful, but I've never been there.

[trof]

13. Have you read "Say Kids, What Time Is It?"?

Great bio of the Howdy Doody show.

[Radio_Lady]

14. Yes! And there's a terrific link to "The Howdy Doody Show"

http://www.howdydoodytime.com/index.html

Thanks for refreshing my memory -- I watched it from the beginning in 1947 -- I was eight years old.

[trof]

17. Well damn. You're 2 years older than me.

Who knew?
;-)
Thanks for the other info.

[Radio_Lady]

18. Well, damn -- I'm two years older than you! When I was 16,

I probably would have thought you were just a kid!

I marvel at the fact that I've actually been in love with a man who was 14 years older than me (he was already married and still is, I believe) -- and then I married (and divorced) one who was 12 years older.

Now I'm married to a 70 year old (five years older than me when his birthday comes around on June 23) who has so much energy, he should have two 35-year-olds to keep up with him.

[Radio_Lady]

24. Hope you get to hear the show if you wish! See info in post #0 --

for all of you who missed it during the past two days. This has been lots of fun for me and hope it was for you, too.