Monday, July 14, 2025
Larry King on the radio, during the 1970s
[“‘Conservative’ news sites and social media are turning into a 24/7 Art Bell show”]
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, july 14, 2025 at 1:15:00 a.m. edt
Larry King on the radio, during the 1970s
Before that, I used to listen to Larry King, on the radio, in the ‘70s. Great guests, and his “Open Phone America” was hilarious when “regular callers” would irritate him to no end. Many subjects, including UFOs, entertainment, sports and political interviews. youtube has a limited number of radio shows to listen to. It ticked me off when he went to tv.
--GRA
N.S.: You’re lucky, GRA. I used to listen to the “Sinatra Station,” WNEW-AM. But then, however, during the early 1990s, in what was, in retrospect, an omen of things to come, management stopped paying a DJ to host “the Milkman’s Matinee (which for a generation was hosted by Bob Jones), from midnight to 4 or 6 a.m. Instead, it paid for the syndicated broadcast of Larry King. I listened to him briefly, but stopped when I encountered (not personally, since I never called in) his practice of immediately cutting off any caller who disagreed with him about anything.
King must have dramatically degenerated since your days of listening to him, GRA.
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"Let's go to French Lick,Indiana.Hello,you're on the air with Francis Albert Sinatra.""
"Hi,Larry."
"What's your question for Frank Sinatra?"
"Frank Sinatra...who's that?"
Click
--GRA
Was it Larry King who had two phone numbers, "west of the Mississippi" and "east of the Mississippi"? Jake Hartford turned that into a gag on his single-phone number local show on WLS.
I tried to listen to/watch Larry King. We didn't agree. So I cut him off.
Tom Synder? Not really. But I liked the theme music, such as this 20-second bumper cut and would endure a few more minutes of bland conventional wisdom blah-blah just to get to the next bumper or end- and top-of-the-hour theme, which came from the same composer who wrote....
... the original TalkNet theme. Bruce Williams in this great voiceover, also with two numbers. One was for "the 47 contiguous states" and another just for New York. Must have been some telephone company reason. Found his show by accident one night when baseball was rained out. His TalkNet teammates, not so much: Sally Jessy Raphael, Dr. Harvey Rubin, Neil Myers, etc.
Caller: "I was offered a great promotion at work but we'd have to relocate and I don't know if my kids are going to be okay with that."
Bruce (somewhat annoyed): "Who gave them a vote? Take the job. The kids will adjust. I wish you well. (pause) I'm Bruce Williams (longer pause, about four seconds). This is TalkNet." Cut to commercial.
Listening to Art Bell was a lot of fun--not that I believed most of the stuff.And I don't remember hearing a lot of leftist crap--or I wouldn't have listened.
I believe the Mississippi phone # question WAS Larry,but only when he was on the Mutual Broadcasting network--as I remember it. Then,Mutual was replaced(bought out) and it seems there was just one toll free number. Just hazy thoughts there though. I got a kick out of Larry being rude to dumba** callers.
--GRA
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