Paul Harvey RIP

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/02/28/paul.harvey.obit/index.html

one of the truly great distinctive voices of American radio

yeah. his politics were implicitly appalling (wasn't an accident that his guest substitutes included fred thompson and mitt romney), but his whole shtick was so golden-age-of-radio. stumbling across him on the air was like a time machine.

And now a word about Husqvarna...

And that young car wash employee was named ... John Travolta.

RIP.

One of my close friends works two buildings over from me in Chicago Loop - who did he share the elevator with for years in the morning - Paul Harvey on the way to tape his show ... He's gonna be floored.

always loved his "good-day!" + stifled laugh after reading some remotely amusing story :(

gooouuuud day!

RIP

i refuse to believe he was only 90.

Harvey: By now your new, improved lovelife should have you flinging woo like nobody's business. So to you, Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American, I bid...goodday.

[the tape flies out the car window and onto the road]
[Homer stops, backs up, and repeatedly drives over the tape]

stumbled on one of his shows in the middle of a staticfest while driving around in the rain a few months ago and it was really kind of magical. that gentle, unassuming voice had a real way of drawing you in. i assumed it was a repeat from the '80s or something, so it's kinda stunning to realize he was still doing them and it was probably a new one.

(pause)

i assumed it was a repeat from the '80s or something, so it's kinda stunning to realize he was still doing them and it was probably a new one.

i refuse to believe he was only 90.

OTM>i remember hearing him on the car radio while doing the teenage cruising thing ca. 1975 and laughing "this guy sounds 100 years old." RIP.

big lover of McCarthy & Nixon

There's a threesome.

ditto m coleman!

what's w/ ILX love for old fascists? Burn in hell w/ WF Buckley.

Friends, let me tell you about the Bose Acoustic Wave.

He had his schtick down solid and it worked for him. He was just what every pitchman should sound like.

I am reminded of the brief moment on the Simpsons where Bart turns on a radio and you hear a PH-ish voice saying: "...and that lit-tle boy who no one liked grew up to be (pauses) Roy Cohn, and that's the rest of the story."

I think I agree with Dr Morbius!(!)
My bus driver in grade school always had him on the radio, and he seemed to me like the voice the fascists would put on the radio after a military coup.
There was no value in all his bullshit chain letter / email forward anecdotes, except to keep his listeners from using that time to actually hear some factual news about the world.

I remember being fascinated with his delivery whenever I heard him, which was exclusively at my grandmother's house, on an extremely tinny radio.

clearly paul harvey was the only thing keeping real news off the air.

even Tim Russert was more of a newsman.

http://rapidshare.com/files/204268483/I_Am_Amway.mp3.html

Bar's Stop Leak, who will promote you?

Used to hear him on CFYN back in the late '70s/early 80s when I listened to the AM practically all the time. He prepared a special tag specially for his Northern affiliates, adding a bemused-sounding "...and...Canadians!" to the "Hello Americans!" salutation. Great golden-age-of-radio delivery. RIP