November 27, 2024 • 40 mins
Morgan White Jr. fills in for Dan!
If you’re a long-time listener of WBZ NewsRadio, then Norm is no stranger to you. He graced the airwaves for many years from the plush, yet not overly ostentatious studio on Soldiers Field Rd. Sonja Nathan Bradstreet chatted candidly about her dad’s lengthy career.
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If you’re a long-time listener of WBZ NewsRadio, then Norm is no stranger to you. He graced the airwaves for many years from the plush, yet not overly ostentatious studio on Soldiers Field Rd. Sonja Nathan Bradstreet chatted candidly about her dad’s lengthy career.
Ask Alexa to play WBZ NewsRadio on #iHeartRadio and listen to NightSide with Dan Rea Weeknights From 8PM-12AM!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
On wz D.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you, Dan Watkins, and I'm gonna enjoy it. Not
that I didn't enjoy have enjoyed and on or brian on,
but this takes me back to one of the men
I personally have to tip a cap to that helped
me get into radio, that helped me get on WBZ
(00:27):
and that I used to enjoy listening to when I
was a civilian. I'm just gonna say, Sonya, welcome, old Sport.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Thank you, thank you. It's so nice to be with you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's nice to have you. And I'm asking you if
you remember the last time we were face to face.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I well, I believe it was at the movies. It
was at the Friday night books.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, it was free Friday nights.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
In fact, I went recently. I went. I hadn't been
in years, and I went back this past summer and
I and I was so sad. Yeah, you were. You
were one of the attractions for me besides the movie.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, thank you for saying that. I did that for
fourteen years in a row, and things happened. It was
time to hang up the holsters, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You get a great thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I thank you for saying that Let's talk about your dad.
Let's talk about peepers, Let's talk about the dumb birthday game,
let's talk about sounds in the night. For anybody who
may not have been around for Norm Nathan, explain to
them the magic of your father.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, I don't even know where to begin, because I'm
going to start breaking up a little bit. I'm going
to try not to do this because nobody, nobody wants
to hear me ugly cry. But he just was one
of the funniest human beings I knew, and everyday situations
he could twist them around and make them funny. And
(02:20):
he just always had a bright side to him. And
I know that his tagline was I want to leave
the world a little funnier than I found it, And
I think that he absolutely achieved that goal.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of the things that I mentioned that were purely Norm
talk about his love of the peepers.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He would every single year, he would go out because
he was one of those people that live for warmer
weather like most of us do, and he would start
his countdown as soon as the days started getting longer,
and as soon as the peepers it was peeper season.
He would go out and go out and near. We
had a bog and on our property and he would
(03:05):
go out and record the peepers. And to this day,
when I and he had he actually had a little
key chain made where you could hit a button and
it would make that sound. And I we must have
a couple of them somewhere in the house. But to
this day, every time I hear the peepers, I can't
help but think about my dad, that he's synonymous with
(03:28):
that sound.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Now, I told you a number of stories that I
heard Nor talk about on the air, and I talked
about one and you remembered him bringing back a promotion
from that. There was a movie that came out in
the mid sixties with James Coleburn. They did two of them,
(03:52):
Our Man Flint and In Like Flint and In Like
Flint had had a theme song called Your Fabulous Face,
and every now and then on easy listening stations you'll
hear it. And that movie shows up on old movie
channels a lot, and Norm was chosen as one of
(04:19):
I don't know a dozen people that the movie company,
twentieth Century Fox, I do believe, flew down to Puerto Rico,
where a lot of the movie was filmed and they
were asked to review the movie, and norm as tactfully
(04:42):
as he could, didn't really like the movie. He tried
to say nice things about it. But I told you
that story, and you added to it by remembering something
he brought home from that movie.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Go ahead, right, Well, he my father was not a shopper,
and so apparently I think he was given some kind
of straw hat, and I think he wanted to be
a big hit with my mother and he brought it
home and she was not impressed at the slightest and
she wasn't really a material person. But I do remember
(05:17):
that story vividly because she was really upset that that
was his offering after being away, you know, with you know,
on a pretty exciting junket, and that's what he brought
her home. So I will never forget that movie myself either,
And most people.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Know, but for those that don't. Norman was married to
Norma Nathan. The I column of the Herald page six
reference like from New York. That's what Norman Nathan did,
like page six does in New York. And she would
do celebrity stories and who did what to whom depending
(05:56):
and they made a great couple, Norman Norman Nathan.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah. She named them the Mockdown media couple because because
because the non mockdown media couple at that time was
Nat and uh Natalie and check.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And check Curtis.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'm going to take a break in about two minutes now.
My producer said, you want a producer, your producer to
join us. Tell us who's going to be joining us.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So his name is Tony Nesbitt, and I with him.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, I know very well.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, well, so Tony Tony has has created he's cultivated
I don't know what the what the rape burb is,
but he's created a YouTube YouTube channel on my dad
and it's called Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness with Tony
Nesbit and he is cultivated over to one hundred volumes
(07:02):
of this so or episodes, I guess that's what you
would call it. And so I listened to it, and
it's just such a treating. Anybody who is a fan
of my dad's would would would love it just as
much because it brings back all those laughs.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now I'm gonna suggest to people, I'm a minute away
from a break, if you want to call in and
talk Norm Nathan would Sonya Nathan Now, Sonya Nathan broad Street?
Is that your marriage?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Last name Brad brad Street.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Brad Street. I'm sorry, sir, that's okay. She is here.
We're going to talk about that old sport Norm Nathan.
Up to eleven o'clock. Please join us phone number six one, seven, two,
five four ten thirty or eight eight eight, nine to nine,
ten thirty. And I can't wait to talk to Tony
because I haven't spoken him in easily six or seven years.
(07:58):
And let's just take the break so we can get
it up the way asap. Time and temperature ten fifteen
forty one degrees on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh boy o, boy o boy, this is going to
be a fun hour. I've got Sonya Nathan, daughter of
Norm Nathan. I've got Tony Nesbitt, former producer here at WBZ. Tony.
How the hell are you?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Morgan?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Sonya?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's good to hear your voice. For those of you
who don't know, Tony produced everything here BZ Bruins, games,
Norm Nathan's show, News. He was mister everything in those days.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Brud's David Brudnoy Peter read Dave Maynard.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
On there was no end, no end to the way
the station used you.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Well, it's funny because you mentioned it. Thanksgiving us tomorrow
and happy Thanksgiving to both of you. There was definitely
uh I thank tonya my sister from another mister.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I was.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I remember driving in to do the Majord Show during
a little bit of a snowstorm early one morning on
Thanksgiving morning. I can't quite recall if that was the
day I was working sixteen hours and something like that.
I was doing like from five am to nine pm.
That was the only person. I was the only person available.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Giving You want to know something, I am in my
home so when I say goodbye bye boss the at
twelve o'clock, I can walk twelve steps and be in
my bedroom.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Wow, you I know, right, And what you've.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Left to have had that option back.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
In the day, you know, I don't know. Because it
was such a thrill. I have to pinch myself sometimes
all those people that I got a chance to work
with and get to know and just be a part
of a great time in radio. So it would be
(10:39):
better to be there with everything than to be.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Will never be replaced. You've got magic.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, I was gonna say Tony would miss out on
all my dad's really beautiful outfits if he didn't come. Yes,
because you really needed to witness my dad's wodrobe in person.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
The plaid and the hay on the shoes being at home.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You just you can't get that it doesn't have the
same effect.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, I'm going to bring another I'm going to bring
another person into this conversation because I know all of
you knew him, and he knew your father very well.
Call from Brookline, Bill Winnaker, Bill, good evening.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Good evening, Sonia, Hello everybody you know Bow and I
considered Norm almost like a second father because we got
addicted to his radio show. This was before Busy Sounds
in the Night.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Morgan.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
You must remember the show.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh clearly I mentioned it.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Okay, I'm sorry, I'm late to the show tonight. But
Sounds in the Night on HDH, which is no more
HDH as far as I know.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
That show went into the wee small hours of the morning.
I was about twelve years old when I started listening
to that, and I would go to school every morning
like hop dead. I couldn't you know. I was up
all night listening because he played. He played all jazz
all night long, and I learned about the local organist
(12:33):
Joe Boucci who used to play on Route one and
different clubs, and it'd play Count Basie and it played
Oh Meltormee and Eli Fitzgerald and you name it. I
got an education between my father and your father, listening
all night long, just learning all kinds of great music
(12:54):
and enjoying your father's personality. Eventually, I don't know if
you know about this, son, but one of the TV stations,
either four, five or seven, asked your father to make
a pilot for a show that would be just like
the Tonight Show, but come out of Boston. And so
Norm had my mother and father bo and myself play
(13:18):
on the show. We were one of the acts. We
thought it was going to come out, but they never
It never happened. But he had all kinds of nice
guests on that night, and you were a little little child.
I don't know if you know about it.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I had no knowledge of that. I'm so happy to
learn of it though.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah, it was an incredible he was so witty, I mean,
he was a great, great host. It would have been
a great show, but they decided not to finance it
and go with it. But he did have us play
this big benefit fundraiser and Bo was only ten and
I was thirteen at the time. But we get a
(14:00):
lot of special things with your dad, and we even
played at your house. You did, and yes we did
for a very special occasion.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What community.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
U whe Where were you up like a farm up there? What?
What town was that?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Middleton?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Middleton?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Yeah, we came to Middleton. We played at Middleton for
like a s busnister or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You can't I'm rubbing all this, all these all these
stories about my dad.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That of that uh was a paper.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
We never got to see it, you know, all the
all the years I was looking for it, and it's
got to be a lost tape or something. But the
show would have been incredible. He had great guests on
and we we played the music and oh it was
just I wanted to see that so much, but never
go to see it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
To begin to.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Search, it's one of the four one of the three
major stations, either four or five or seven. Okay, seven
is now not not the seven It was back.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Then, and don't forget back. Then five was hd H
that's right, seventy two it became CVB.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
But it gave me goosebumps. If your dad did such
a great job, I mean that show could have gone national,
but they didn't want to finance at whatever station that was.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Your best guess place to start looking would have to
be Channel four because they've stayed in the same building
TV wise.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah, so yeah, no, normal was all. I've been trying
to track that down for years. And while we're.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, she.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Told you your mother was so good to us too.
Over the years. She was great.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I did.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I did her a favor. One night she we were
playing at the Kennedy wedding well. Peter Lawford's thought I
got married to uh uh got married to Peter McKelvey.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
And so Peter Laffer was married to one of the
Kennedy sisters. And so we played on the compound and
your mother wanted coverage of that, but no one could
get in. So I took pictures of the whole night,
brought them to the Herald about two three in the morning.
They developed them. I was I never got my film back,
so I don't have those pictures. But they filled the
(16:54):
whole column of the Sunday paper the next day to
Kennedy wedding. But I love both of your parents and
that's all I can say. Great people, Well, we loved
(17:17):
them dearly. Nor Norm was such a sweet man. I mean, wow,
what a what a wonderful man.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And I know I've told this story before, but I'm
going to do the best I can to be as
brief as possible with a break coming up. Norm was
working at HDH the summer of eighty Saturday nights. He
would do trivia on his show and Joe and Jane
Citizen I say it that way, meaning just the listeners.
(17:47):
He would pick and choose a variety of listeners to
be a part of the trivia panel, of which I
got chosen uh to be a regular contributor. That fall,
Norm left HDH. You went to RKO. I had been
(18:09):
bitten by the radio bug and I called Norm and
I said, Norm, how can we keep the show going?
If if I wanted to keep doing trivia on the radio,
how could I achieve this? And he said, Morgan, there's
a thing called broker radio. Will you pay for your time?
(18:30):
You get your own sponsors, you own the show and
perhaps that is the way you could do it. I
took the lead. I began a show called Talking Trivia,
which was on two am to four am Mondays, the
worst time slot in Ragiono. Yeah, that was, oh my goodness.
(18:55):
And what happened within for my months well within yeah,
four months spring the Red Sox I went out on
strike with all of baseball and I got a chance
to join the station that covered the Red Sox in
(19:18):
those days. Its because they were desperate to fill time.
And that's how I got to be in radio. And
Norm spoke to Peter Casey here at BZ and said,
you know, at Morgan White Junior is pretty good, maybe
you should give him a chance to come over to BZ.
(19:39):
And David BREDNOI pretty much told Peter the same thing, boom.
That was all necessary to get me on this station
years later, So I'm.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I never heard that story before. So I'm glad you
told it. You You're you're the best trivia person I've
ever run across, because there isn't a subject you can't
talk about.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Thank you for that. But I have to do this.
Take a break because it's ten to thirty. We've got
news coming up. If Tony was here, he'd be yelling
in my earphones right now.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
So let's say the three of you. Yes, you have
a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, I'll bring you Bill. It's going to hang up. Bill,
Bye bye. Thank you for calling. Simon Temperature here on
night Side ten thirty made it forty one.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Degrees night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ Boston's
news radio sound.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You're hearing our papers recording made by Norm Nathan somewhere
in the i'll say eighties and nineties, and the redistributing
of the sound is thanks to Tony Nesbitt, who has
(21:54):
painstakingly that all of Norm's cuts and clips from back
in the day and made them available again. We have
Sonia Nathan here and Tony is as well. So Tony
tell people how they can hear, because I think you
(22:14):
have over two hundred clips of Norm.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I do.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
First, I wanted to say I know exactly where that
cut was recorded when, probably early nineties, like you said,
But that was Norm risking his life at the end
of his driveway in Middleton, at the bog that he
had at the end. That's why you hit the cars
racing by as.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
He was recording.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I hope it's worth something irridescent so people could see him.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, you know, I don't know the plaid. Maybe he
had some reflectors on, or he pocked the car down
there too before he came into work. That's every spring.
That's where he got the cuts from. And now I
go out every spring and I record the peepers and
(23:04):
air them on the little podcast if you will, or rebroadcast.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Podcast that I do called norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness
with your what.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Are the call letters? Or how do you find that?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
All?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
So it's it's on all sorts of streaming platforms, so
you can find it on YouTube and Spotify, Amazon, Uh,
you know, pocket cast Cast dos just every whey pretty
much everywhere good pods. iHeart that's a familiar name, I think.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
So yeah, it's every week I put out an episode.
It varies in length anywhere from an hour to this week,
we've got like ninety minutes, and I've got a whole
bunch of cassettes, some that from my own personal collection
and a ton of them that were just I mean,
(24:09):
you want to talk about pains taking Lee and just
the love and dedication that was put into this by
a listener, Joan from Cooksbury, who is still with us,
and I'm still in contact with her today. And she
recorded so many programs on cassette and she sent some
(24:29):
to me, and she sent some to Jackhart. And now
I have the entire collection of them along with I
should say I should add Ed Mullen, who helped us
host the Swell Music Quiz that we would do on
like holiday weeks and when Norm would fill in on
vacations during the week. I have a bunch of those
(24:50):
as well. What I do I listened to them, I
take notes. I freshen them up as much as I
can the software that I had write in an opening
clothes and put it out there.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And Jack Hart listening, call in, call in and what's
the lady from Tewkesbury's name, Joan? Joan, if you're listening,
please call in. And anybody listening who had affection in
their heart for Norm Nathan. We have about twenty minutes
(25:32):
of this subject to go. Please call in and Sonya
do me a favorite. Tell people what Norm was like.
He has just done five or six hours of overnight
radio and he comes in the house six thirty quarter
of seven.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Talk about that experience, Well, he a lot of times,
I e.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It was I probably was sleeping when he came home,
and that that was one of the downsides of all
of the different shifts that he had, because most of
them were at night. However, he loved working at night
because he had a real distrust of bosses and management
(26:20):
and so he he just thought this was well because
right Tony he had all the freedom he wanted, which
was great. And that's why that was that was magical,
magical radio that was happening during those those wee hours.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And if I'm not mistaken, both HDH and bz's management
program directors then let them play what of the music
he wanted to play? Is that accurate?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, this was funny. But when I was a kid,
I would he had to fill out these sheets where
he would have to put in the songs that he
was going to play during his his shift, and he
didn't really want to do that, so he had me
do it. And I was thrilled because I thought this
is really cool. And so I would, you know, make
(27:10):
up all of the playlists for him for his shifts,
and I thought that was really fun. And he, you know,
because at the time, there were two shifts at WHH.
One was overnight right sounds in the night, which was
really fun because he was playing his music. But then
later on in his career when he was at HDH
(27:31):
was he was doing drivetime, like from two to six,
and that wasn't really his music.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
That was my music.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So anyway, but getting back to when he came home,
he would probably feed the chickens, and because he really
considered himself like a Lloyd farmer or a lord mayor
of our property, which we had a nice piece of property,
and he lovingly, you know, took care of the horse
and we had a compost bin and chickens and dogs
(27:59):
and cats that all kind of ran free on our property.
And and in between that you would try to sleep
because you know, it's pretty hard to sleep during the
day when everybody else is awake.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
All right, That darn sun casts so much light into
the windows. Let's let's speaking of the phone ringing, Let's
take a call. It's Scott and Land. So Scott, let's
talk about norm Nathan. How do you feel about.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Nor Hi Morgan? Scott Scot, I know you, Sonia, I
know you. We have a mutual we have a mutual
friend Wendy.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Wendy. We oh, okay.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
I think that's maybe how how we might have met.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I think I'm excusing you with another scritch, but I
know the Wendy that you speak of.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Yes, yes, well, Sonia, I loved hearing your dad on
Friday and Saturday nights overnight. I would see it my
friend's bakery. He was an overnight baker on Newman's Bakery
and swamp Scott and uh. While we were on hanging
(29:22):
out in the shop, we'd have norm on and one
of our favorite things is was when he would call
phone booths around the world.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
He would call part remember that.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Let's say remember that, Morgan, Yes, I do. Oh? Was
that was that enjoyable? And you know in those days.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Still have the list of phone numbers Scott, Oh you
do you?
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
I don't even know if.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
They say, I don't think, I don't. You can't find
a phone booth anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I know I would be ask if you got anybody
with it would be fun to try and see who
picked up.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Was still by somebody else?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know, well, you.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Try that, I'll do a live broadcast or something, and.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Yeah, we'll do that, but that was that was funny.
And someone would pick up and Norman say, you're on
the air in Boston and you know what's going on
in Paris, And it was just such an exciting thing
to hear on the radio. And and then and then
and they talked to his friend Chauncey. Yeah, it's kind
of this, the character with his lovely bride, remember, you know,
(30:42):
and he would say, how are you, Norman old Sport?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Remember those it was yet Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
That's right, that's true, Tonya, yes, oh yeah. One one
year there was one of those First Night celebrations in
Beverly and your dad was a featured speaker at the
one of the church. One of the churches in Beverly
is part of the First Night and I went. I
(31:10):
went to see him. This was probably back in the nineties,
and it was able to He talked about radio and
then he met the people after the show, and I,
me and my friend went up to him and said, Norman,
we wish you were on Monday through Friday and Bob
Rawley was on two days.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Okay, Tony, don't you find that amusing? Tony?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Oh? I do?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I know?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
You do?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You know what you wish for the same.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
But today Friday and Saturday overnights are a special time slot,
you know, for the over the weekend, and it was
I just wanted to say, it was such such a
pleasure to hear your.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Dad on the radio over the years.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yes, that time.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Slot has been golden hours for legends of BZ. Yes,
think of I think it term Bergeron, think of Jordan Rich.
I can keep going, but I'm gonna take a break,
So Scott, thank you for the call.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Thank you very much, and every Thanksgiving to everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
All right, let me take a break. We'll get one
more segment, and we've got a call from Idaho. Next
up here on night Side, Dan Rai's off tonight. I'm
here on Morgan time and temperature ten forty six forty
one degrees.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
All right, we have got two callers and two people online.
Tony Nesbitt is one of the two people online. Former
producer here at BZ, producer everyone and everything. There was
not a show that he was not a master control
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riding the board as they say, and Sonya was, yes
you were, and overworked and underpaid. And they said Brad
Street is here, and her claimed the same. She was
Norm's daughter. So let's take a couple more calls and
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get out cleanly. I have Laurie and Idaho Laurie.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Good evening, good evening, everybody nice to us. No, I
don't I have to say thank you for the peepers.
It almost maybe cried. Was in New England for years.
I came out to the Pacific Northwest to do the
aging parent thing for a few years. And oh, I'm
(33:57):
assuwing them, but thank you for those peepers. So Tony
on the stuff you have on your your podcast or
whatever it is, can I get those peepers and listen
to them?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yes, they are part of usually I played them at springtime. Okay,
so end of March April. So the shows that are
around that time, I'd have to do a quick search
as to you know which number of the shows. I
also am on Patreon to help support the show.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I didn't do anything for a few years, and I
started that up. Also, there's another thing called buy me
a coffee.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Obviously, all right show, how I hear you guys right
here too.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah, And so the show is on iHeart. I'm not
sure how many they There's some streaming platforms like Amazon.
Google used to do this as well, Spotify with they'll
only have the last twenty five episodes. But YouTube and
my distributor Castos they have every episode all the way
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from one to currently two hundred and eleven. I think,
oh wow, yeah, so there's a lot to listen. Then
I need to discover the Patreon site. I should add
is that I put it. I put exclusive content there
so I could put up just some paper recordings and
you can just hear those if you want.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Let me ask.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
I don't mind doing the torch rob.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I mean anything like that number. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Number was what? Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Is there a number attached to the peeper clip that
you played? Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I can I can do a quick search here, Yeah
you can, you guys.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Please, I want to say my production.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Right. When I get a little I will search my
scripts and just do a little word search for papers
and see what happens.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
All right, la, but tell me no. My introducing to
Norm was I was I went from friends to a
place northern Vermont of summer camp and I'm a terrible sleeper.
So I had my walkman with the radio thing on it.
The only station that came in was whatever station he
was on at that time, and that was my discovery
(36:17):
of him, and I loved him. And I have to
agree with the Bob Broley comment. So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Ry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving. There goes Laurie, and probably i'll
last call it some quincy John. You made it happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Happy Thanksgiving and many many more and greatly appreciated what
you all do. And God bless and Okay, everything's fantastic
as usual. Thank you. First, Yeah, Nom Nathan was great.
Mister McDonald was great, and your other gentleman, mister Brudnoyd,
he was great, and all the shows are great and
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w h C H W b Z. Yeah, it's we're
very buss where we live. And that was nice to war.
He's cutting from Idaho. It's a very fortunate your trivia.
I answered the trivia question on the radio one time,
but I was working. I was driving, so I told
you to donate the sweater to the homeless. That's sort
of shirt.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I do recall that, I recall the situation. I don't
remember the question, but I do even remember you saying
donated to the homeless, which I did.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
I know you did, your your your, You're a keeper,
as they say.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Well, thank you, Yes he is. What about norm Nathan?
What more do you want to add to what's been
said over the past hour.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Uh, other than he was a class act and the
credit to the way he was raised and brought up
into the business and everything else. And he you know,
he made the world a better place.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yes, he did. Good thing to say at the end.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
And when you said Nemuth, the first thing I thought
it was the monkeys.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
It's funny you mentioned the monkeys. Over the weekend on
my show Tend to Midnight, The Morgan Show, I interviewed
Mickey Dolans just fortality was.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
The only only live, only one alive.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, that be a question, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Mike is gone and Peter's gone.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
It's sad he's he's the keeper of the plane.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
And the other one Dave Davy Jones, Peter Jones.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
David Jones passed away first, Peter Tork passed away second,
and Mike Nesmith passed away within the past two years,
and Mickey is the one left. All right, John, I
gotta go, but but thank you for your merry Christmas Giving, well,
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happy Thanksgiving, and Tony, I'm glad to hear you still
around and your thing, your fingers are still in the business.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
It's the radial courses through my veins.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
What can I said? Well, there you go, and it's
nice to hear your thank you and Sonya. I'm so
glad that we were able to get in touch and
I could get you in the radio because as you hear,
there's still a lot of people who have an elevated
perspective of your father.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Well as I as I said you because I think
this all came about because we heard you talk about
my dad over the summer with Jack Hrt and when
I wanted to call your producer, not to be on
the air, but just to let you know how grateful
I am that you are keeping his memory alive, because
that's that's so important for us. And isn't it nice
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that we're sharing that mission with you?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, and well you know what, I wouldn't be sitting
in front of this microphone now if it weren't for
your father.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Well, he was the best and you were you were
inh worm. You absolutely are all.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Right, you too. I gotta go, you know, news is
knocking you guys.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
Happy, thank you, thank you very much, thank.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You, Tony. Happy Thanksgiving, Sonya. We will be in some time.
We will do it again sometime in twenty two.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I would love that, would love that, and be well
and thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Bye bye. All right, next hour, we're gonna talk about
your favorite concert here in BC time. In temperature ten
fifty eight forty one degrees
On wz D.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you, Dan Watkins, and I'm gonna enjoy it. Not
that I didn't enjoy have enjoyed and on or brian on,
but this takes me back to one of the men
I personally have to tip a cap to that helped
me get into radio, that helped me get on WBZ
(00:27):
and that I used to enjoy listening to when I
was a civilian. I'm just gonna say, Sonya, welcome, old Sport.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Thank you, thank you. It's so nice to be with you.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's nice to have you. And I'm asking you if
you remember the last time we were face to face.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
I well, I believe it was at the movies. It
was at the Friday night books.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, it was free Friday nights.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
In fact, I went recently. I went. I hadn't been
in years, and I went back this past summer and
I and I was so sad. Yeah, you were. You
were one of the attractions for me besides the movie.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, thank you for saying that. I did that for
fourteen years in a row, and things happened. It was
time to hang up the holsters, so to speak.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You get a great thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I thank you for saying that Let's talk about your dad.
Let's talk about peepers, Let's talk about the dumb birthday game,
let's talk about sounds in the night. For anybody who
may not have been around for Norm Nathan, explain to
them the magic of your father.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, I don't even know where to begin, because I'm
going to start breaking up a little bit. I'm going
to try not to do this because nobody, nobody wants
to hear me ugly cry. But he just was one
of the funniest human beings I knew, and everyday situations
he could twist them around and make them funny. And
(02:20):
he just always had a bright side to him. And
I know that his tagline was I want to leave
the world a little funnier than I found it, And
I think that he absolutely achieved that goal.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Of the things that I mentioned that were purely Norm
talk about his love of the peepers.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
He would every single year, he would go out because
he was one of those people that live for warmer
weather like most of us do, and he would start
his countdown as soon as the days started getting longer,
and as soon as the peepers it was peeper season.
He would go out and go out and near. We
had a bog and on our property and he would
(03:05):
go out and record the peepers. And to this day,
when I and he had he actually had a little
key chain made where you could hit a button and
it would make that sound. And I we must have
a couple of them somewhere in the house. But to
this day, every time I hear the peepers, I can't
help but think about my dad, that he's synonymous with
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that sound.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Now, I told you a number of stories that I
heard Nor talk about on the air, and I talked
about one and you remembered him bringing back a promotion
from that. There was a movie that came out in
the mid sixties with James Coleburn. They did two of them,
(03:52):
Our Man Flint and In Like Flint and In Like
Flint had had a theme song called Your Fabulous Face,
and every now and then on easy listening stations you'll
hear it. And that movie shows up on old movie
channels a lot, and Norm was chosen as one of
(04:19):
I don't know a dozen people that the movie company,
twentieth Century Fox, I do believe, flew down to Puerto Rico,
where a lot of the movie was filmed and they
were asked to review the movie, and norm as tactfully
(04:42):
as he could, didn't really like the movie. He tried
to say nice things about it. But I told you
that story, and you added to it by remembering something
he brought home from that movie.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Go ahead, right, Well, he my father was not a shopper,
and so apparently I think he was given some kind
of straw hat, and I think he wanted to be
a big hit with my mother and he brought it
home and she was not impressed at the slightest and
she wasn't really a material person. But I do remember
(05:17):
that story vividly because she was really upset that that
was his offering after being away, you know, with you know,
on a pretty exciting junket, and that's what he brought
her home. So I will never forget that movie myself either,
And most people.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Know, but for those that don't. Norman was married to
Norma Nathan. The I column of the Herald page six
reference like from New York. That's what Norman Nathan did,
like page six does in New York. And she would
do celebrity stories and who did what to whom depending
(05:56):
and they made a great couple, Norman Norman Nathan.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah. She named them the Mockdown media couple because because
because the non mockdown media couple at that time was
Nat and uh Natalie and check.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And check Curtis.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Yes, yes, And.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
I'm going to take a break in about two minutes now.
My producer said, you want a producer, your producer to
join us. Tell us who's going to be joining us.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
So his name is Tony Nesbitt, and I with him.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Yeah, I know very well.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Yeah, well, so Tony Tony has has created he's cultivated
I don't know what the what the rape burb is,
but he's created a YouTube YouTube channel on my dad
and it's called Norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness with Tony
Nesbit and he is cultivated over to one hundred volumes
(07:02):
of this so or episodes, I guess that's what you
would call it. And so I listened to it, and
it's just such a treating. Anybody who is a fan
of my dad's would would would love it just as
much because it brings back all those laughs.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Now I'm gonna suggest to people, I'm a minute away
from a break, if you want to call in and
talk Norm Nathan would Sonya Nathan Now, Sonya Nathan broad Street?
Is that your marriage?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Last name Brad brad Street.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Brad Street. I'm sorry, sir, that's okay. She is here.
We're going to talk about that old sport Norm Nathan.
Up to eleven o'clock. Please join us phone number six one, seven, two,
five four ten thirty or eight eight eight, nine to nine,
ten thirty. And I can't wait to talk to Tony
because I haven't spoken him in easily six or seven years.
(07:58):
And let's just take the break so we can get
it up the way asap. Time and temperature ten fifteen
forty one degrees on Nightside.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Now back to Dan ray Line from the Window World
night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh boy o, boy o boy, this is going to
be a fun hour. I've got Sonya Nathan, daughter of
Norm Nathan. I've got Tony Nesbitt, former producer here at WBZ. Tony.
How the hell are you?
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Morgan?
Speaker 4 (08:35):
Sonya?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It's good to hear your voice. For those of you
who don't know, Tony produced everything here BZ Bruins, games,
Norm Nathan's show, News. He was mister everything in those days.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Brud's David Brudnoy Peter read Dave Maynard.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
On there was no end, no end to the way
the station used you.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Well, it's funny because you mentioned it. Thanksgiving us tomorrow
and happy Thanksgiving to both of you. There was definitely
uh I thank tonya my sister from another mister.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I was.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
I remember driving in to do the Majord Show during
a little bit of a snowstorm early one morning on
Thanksgiving morning. I can't quite recall if that was the
day I was working sixteen hours and something like that.
I was doing like from five am to nine pm.
That was the only person. I was the only person available.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Giving You want to know something, I am in my
home so when I say goodbye bye boss the at
twelve o'clock, I can walk twelve steps and be in
my bedroom.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Wow, you I know, right, And what you've.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Left to have had that option back.
Speaker 5 (10:14):
In the day, you know, I don't know. Because it
was such a thrill. I have to pinch myself sometimes
all those people that I got a chance to work
with and get to know and just be a part
of a great time in radio. So it would be
(10:39):
better to be there with everything than to be.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Will never be replaced. You've got magic.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, I was gonna say Tony would miss out on
all my dad's really beautiful outfits if he didn't come. Yes,
because you really needed to witness my dad's wodrobe in person.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
The plaid and the hay on the shoes being at home.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
You just you can't get that it doesn't have the
same effect.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Well, I'm going to bring another I'm going to bring
another person into this conversation because I know all of
you knew him, and he knew your father very well.
Call from Brookline, Bill Winnaker, Bill, good evening.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Oh wow, that's cool.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Good evening, Sonia, Hello everybody you know Bow and I
considered Norm almost like a second father because we got
addicted to his radio show. This was before Busy Sounds
in the Night.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Morgan.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
You must remember the show.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Oh clearly I mentioned it.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Okay, I'm sorry, I'm late to the show tonight. But
Sounds in the Night on HDH, which is no more
HDH as far as I know.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
But.
Speaker 5 (12:12):
That show went into the wee small hours of the morning.
I was about twelve years old when I started listening
to that, and I would go to school every morning
like hop dead. I couldn't you know. I was up
all night listening because he played. He played all jazz
all night long, and I learned about the local organist
(12:33):
Joe Boucci who used to play on Route one and
different clubs, and it'd play Count Basie and it played
Oh Meltormee and Eli Fitzgerald and you name it. I
got an education between my father and your father, listening
all night long, just learning all kinds of great music
(12:54):
and enjoying your father's personality. Eventually, I don't know if
you know about this, son, but one of the TV stations,
either four, five or seven, asked your father to make
a pilot for a show that would be just like
the Tonight Show, but come out of Boston. And so
Norm had my mother and father bo and myself play
(13:18):
on the show. We were one of the acts. We
thought it was going to come out, but they never
It never happened. But he had all kinds of nice
guests on that night, and you were a little little child.
I don't know if you know about it.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I had no knowledge of that. I'm so happy to
learn of it though.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Yeah, it was an incredible he was so witty, I mean,
he was a great, great host. It would have been
a great show, but they decided not to finance it
and go with it. But he did have us play
this big benefit fundraiser and Bo was only ten and
I was thirteen at the time. But we get a
(14:00):
lot of special things with your dad, and we even
played at your house. You did, and yes we did
for a very special occasion.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
What community.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
U whe Where were you up like a farm up there? What?
What town was that?
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Middleton?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Middleton?
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Yeah, we came to Middleton. We played at Middleton for
like a s busnister or something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
You can't I'm rubbing all this, all these all these
stories about my dad.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
That of that uh was a paper.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
We never got to see it, you know, all the
all the years I was looking for it, and it's
got to be a lost tape or something. But the
show would have been incredible. He had great guests on
and we we played the music and oh it was
just I wanted to see that so much, but never
go to see it.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
To begin to.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
Search, it's one of the four one of the three
major stations, either four or five or seven. Okay, seven
is now not not the seven It was back.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Then, and don't forget back. Then five was hd H
that's right, seventy two it became CVB.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
But it gave me goosebumps. If your dad did such
a great job, I mean that show could have gone national,
but they didn't want to finance at whatever station that was.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Your best guess place to start looking would have to
be Channel four because they've stayed in the same building
TV wise.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah, so yeah, no, normal was all. I've been trying
to track that down for years. And while we're.
Speaker 7 (16:07):
Well, she.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Told you your mother was so good to us too.
Over the years. She was great.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I did.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I did her a favor. One night she we were
playing at the Kennedy wedding well. Peter Lawford's thought I
got married to uh uh got married to Peter McKelvey.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
And so Peter Laffer was married to one of the
Kennedy sisters. And so we played on the compound and
your mother wanted coverage of that, but no one could
get in. So I took pictures of the whole night,
brought them to the Herald about two three in the morning.
They developed them. I was I never got my film back,
so I don't have those pictures. But they filled the
(16:54):
whole column of the Sunday paper the next day to
Kennedy wedding. But I love both of your parents and
that's all I can say. Great people, Well, we loved
(17:17):
them dearly. Nor Norm was such a sweet man. I mean, wow,
what a what a wonderful man.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And I know I've told this story before, but I'm
going to do the best I can to be as
brief as possible with a break coming up. Norm was
working at HDH the summer of eighty Saturday nights. He
would do trivia on his show and Joe and Jane
Citizen I say it that way, meaning just the listeners.
(17:47):
He would pick and choose a variety of listeners to
be a part of the trivia panel, of which I
got chosen uh to be a regular contributor. That fall,
Norm left HDH. You went to RKO. I had been
(18:09):
bitten by the radio bug and I called Norm and
I said, Norm, how can we keep the show going?
If if I wanted to keep doing trivia on the radio,
how could I achieve this? And he said, Morgan, there's
a thing called broker radio. Will you pay for your time?
(18:30):
You get your own sponsors, you own the show and
perhaps that is the way you could do it. I
took the lead. I began a show called Talking Trivia,
which was on two am to four am Mondays, the
worst time slot in Ragiono. Yeah, that was, oh my goodness.
(18:55):
And what happened within for my months well within yeah,
four months spring the Red Sox I went out on
strike with all of baseball and I got a chance
to join the station that covered the Red Sox in
(19:18):
those days. Its because they were desperate to fill time.
And that's how I got to be in radio. And
Norm spoke to Peter Casey here at BZ and said,
you know, at Morgan White Junior is pretty good, maybe
you should give him a chance to come over to BZ.
(19:39):
And David BREDNOI pretty much told Peter the same thing, boom.
That was all necessary to get me on this station
years later, So I'm.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
I never heard that story before. So I'm glad you
told it. You You're you're the best trivia person I've
ever run across, because there isn't a subject you can't
talk about.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Thank you for that. But I have to do this.
Take a break because it's ten to thirty. We've got
news coming up. If Tony was here, he'd be yelling
in my earphones right now.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
So let's say the three of you. Yes, you have
a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Yeah, I'll bring you Bill. It's going to hang up. Bill,
Bye bye. Thank you for calling. Simon Temperature here on
night Side ten thirty made it forty one.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Degrees night Side with Dan Ray on w BZ Boston's
news radio sound.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
You're hearing our papers recording made by Norm Nathan somewhere
in the i'll say eighties and nineties, and the redistributing
of the sound is thanks to Tony Nesbitt, who has
(21:54):
painstakingly that all of Norm's cuts and clips from back
in the day and made them available again. We have
Sonia Nathan here and Tony is as well. So Tony
tell people how they can hear, because I think you
(22:14):
have over two hundred clips of Norm.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I do.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
First, I wanted to say I know exactly where that
cut was recorded when, probably early nineties, like you said,
But that was Norm risking his life at the end
of his driveway in Middleton, at the bog that he
had at the end. That's why you hit the cars
racing by as.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
He was recording.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I hope it's worth something irridescent so people could see him.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah, you know, I don't know the plaid. Maybe he
had some reflectors on, or he pocked the car down
there too before he came into work. That's every spring.
That's where he got the cuts from. And now I
go out every spring and I record the peepers and
(23:04):
air them on the little podcast if you will, or rebroadcast.
Speaker 6 (23:10):
Podcast that I do called norm Nathan's Vault of Silliness
with your what.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Are the call letters? Or how do you find that?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
All?
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Right?
Speaker 6 (23:21):
So it's it's on all sorts of streaming platforms, so
you can find it on YouTube and Spotify, Amazon, Uh,
you know, pocket cast Cast dos just every whey pretty
much everywhere good pods. iHeart that's a familiar name, I think.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
So yeah, it's every week I put out an episode.
It varies in length anywhere from an hour to this week,
we've got like ninety minutes, and I've got a whole
bunch of cassettes, some that from my own personal collection
and a ton of them that were just I mean,
(24:09):
you want to talk about pains taking Lee and just
the love and dedication that was put into this by
a listener, Joan from Cooksbury, who is still with us,
and I'm still in contact with her today. And she
recorded so many programs on cassette and she sent some
(24:29):
to me, and she sent some to Jackhart. And now
I have the entire collection of them along with I
should say I should add Ed Mullen, who helped us
host the Swell Music Quiz that we would do on
like holiday weeks and when Norm would fill in on
vacations during the week. I have a bunch of those
(24:50):
as well. What I do I listened to them, I
take notes. I freshen them up as much as I
can the software that I had write in an opening
clothes and put it out there.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
And Jack Hart listening, call in, call in and what's
the lady from Tewkesbury's name, Joan? Joan, if you're listening,
please call in. And anybody listening who had affection in
their heart for Norm Nathan. We have about twenty minutes
(25:32):
of this subject to go. Please call in and Sonya
do me a favorite. Tell people what Norm was like.
He has just done five or six hours of overnight
radio and he comes in the house six thirty quarter
of seven.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Talk about that experience, Well, he a lot of times,
I e.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
It was I probably was sleeping when he came home,
and that that was one of the downsides of all
of the different shifts that he had, because most of
them were at night. However, he loved working at night
because he had a real distrust of bosses and management
(26:20):
and so he he just thought this was well because
right Tony he had all the freedom he wanted, which
was great. And that's why that was that was magical,
magical radio that was happening during those those wee hours.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
And if I'm not mistaken, both HDH and bz's management
program directors then let them play what of the music
he wanted to play? Is that accurate?
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, this was funny. But when I was a kid,
I would he had to fill out these sheets where
he would have to put in the songs that he
was going to play during his his shift, and he
didn't really want to do that, so he had me
do it. And I was thrilled because I thought this
is really cool. And so I would, you know, make
(27:10):
up all of the playlists for him for his shifts,
and I thought that was really fun. And he, you know,
because at the time, there were two shifts at WHH.
One was overnight right sounds in the night, which was
really fun because he was playing his music. But then
later on in his career when he was at HDH
(27:31):
was he was doing drivetime, like from two to six,
and that wasn't really his music.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
That was my music.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
So anyway, but getting back to when he came home,
he would probably feed the chickens, and because he really
considered himself like a Lloyd farmer or a lord mayor
of our property, which we had a nice piece of property,
and he lovingly, you know, took care of the horse
and we had a compost bin and chickens and dogs
(27:59):
and cats that all kind of ran free on our property.
And and in between that you would try to sleep
because you know, it's pretty hard to sleep during the
day when everybody else is awake.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
All right, That darn sun casts so much light into
the windows. Let's let's speaking of the phone ringing, Let's
take a call. It's Scott and Land. So Scott, let's
talk about norm Nathan. How do you feel about.
Speaker 8 (28:28):
Nor Hi Morgan? Scott Scot, I know you, Sonia, I
know you. We have a mutual we have a mutual
friend Wendy.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
Wendy. We oh, okay.
Speaker 8 (28:47):
I think that's maybe how how we might have met.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
I think I'm excusing you with another scritch, but I
know the Wendy that you speak of.
Speaker 8 (28:57):
Yes, yes, well, Sonia, I loved hearing your dad on
Friday and Saturday nights overnight. I would see it my
friend's bakery. He was an overnight baker on Newman's Bakery
and swamp Scott and uh. While we were on hanging
(29:22):
out in the shop, we'd have norm on and one
of our favorite things is was when he would call
phone booths around the world.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
He would call part remember that.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Let's say remember that, Morgan, Yes, I do. Oh? Was
that was that enjoyable? And you know in those days.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Still have the list of phone numbers Scott, Oh you
do you?
Speaker 8 (29:46):
Wow, that's great.
Speaker 5 (29:50):
I don't even know if.
Speaker 8 (29:51):
They say, I don't think, I don't. You can't find
a phone booth anymore.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I know I would be ask if you got anybody
with it would be fun to try and see who
picked up.
Speaker 5 (30:05):
Was still by somebody else?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You know, well, you.
Speaker 5 (30:13):
Try that, I'll do a live broadcast or something, and.
Speaker 8 (30:16):
Yeah, we'll do that, but that was that was funny.
And someone would pick up and Norman say, you're on
the air in Boston and you know what's going on
in Paris, And it was just such an exciting thing
to hear on the radio. And and then and then
and they talked to his friend Chauncey. Yeah, it's kind
of this, the character with his lovely bride, remember, you know,
(30:42):
and he would say, how are you, Norman old Sport?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Remember those it was yet Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
That's right, that's true, Tonya, yes, oh yeah. One one
year there was one of those First Night celebrations in
Beverly and your dad was a featured speaker at the
one of the church. One of the churches in Beverly
is part of the First Night and I went. I
(31:10):
went to see him. This was probably back in the nineties,
and it was able to He talked about radio and
then he met the people after the show, and I,
me and my friend went up to him and said, Norman,
we wish you were on Monday through Friday and Bob
Rawley was on two days.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Okay, Tony, don't you find that amusing? Tony?
Speaker 5 (31:36):
Oh? I do?
Speaker 3 (31:39):
I know?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
You do?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You know what you wish for the same.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
But today Friday and Saturday overnights are a special time slot,
you know, for the over the weekend, and it was
I just wanted to say, it was such such a
pleasure to hear your.
Speaker 4 (31:55):
Dad on the radio over the years.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
I agree with you.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Yes, that time.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Slot has been golden hours for legends of BZ. Yes,
think of I think it term Bergeron, think of Jordan Rich.
I can keep going, but I'm gonna take a break,
So Scott, thank you for the call.
Speaker 8 (32:16):
Thank you very much, and every Thanksgiving to everybody.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
All right, let me take a break. We'll get one
more segment, and we've got a call from Idaho. Next
up here on night Side, Dan Rai's off tonight. I'm
here on Morgan time and temperature ten forty six forty
one degrees.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Nightside Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
All right, we have got two callers and two people online.
Tony Nesbitt is one of the two people online. Former
producer here at BZ, producer everyone and everything. There was
not a show that he was not a master control
(33:07):
riding the board as they say, and Sonya was, yes
you were, and overworked and underpaid. And they said Brad
Street is here, and her claimed the same. She was
Norm's daughter. So let's take a couple more calls and
(33:30):
get out cleanly. I have Laurie and Idaho Laurie.
Speaker 7 (33:36):
Good evening, good evening, everybody nice to us. No, I
don't I have to say thank you for the peepers.
It almost maybe cried. Was in New England for years.
I came out to the Pacific Northwest to do the
aging parent thing for a few years. And oh, I'm
(33:57):
assuwing them, but thank you for those peepers. So Tony
on the stuff you have on your your podcast or
whatever it is, can I get those peepers and listen
to them?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
Yes, they are part of usually I played them at springtime. Okay,
so end of March April. So the shows that are
around that time, I'd have to do a quick search
as to you know which number of the shows. I
also am on Patreon to help support the show.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
I didn't do anything for a few years, and I
started that up. Also, there's another thing called buy me
a coffee.
Speaker 7 (34:37):
Obviously, all right show, how I hear you guys right
here too.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah, And so the show is on iHeart. I'm not
sure how many they There's some streaming platforms like Amazon.
Google used to do this as well, Spotify with they'll
only have the last twenty five episodes. But YouTube and
my distributor Castos they have every episode all the way
(35:02):
from one to currently two hundred and eleven. I think,
oh wow, yeah, so there's a lot to listen. Then
I need to discover the Patreon site. I should add
is that I put it. I put exclusive content there
so I could put up just some paper recordings and
you can just hear those if you want.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Let me ask.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
I don't mind doing the torch rob.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
I mean anything like that number. I don't know.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
Number was what? Uh?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Is there a number attached to the peeper clip that
you played? Okay, all right.
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I can I can do a quick search here, Yeah
you can, you guys.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
Please, I want to say my production.
Speaker 5 (35:50):
Right. When I get a little I will search my
scripts and just do a little word search for papers
and see what happens.
Speaker 7 (35:57):
All right, la, but tell me no. My introducing to
Norm was I was I went from friends to a
place northern Vermont of summer camp and I'm a terrible sleeper.
So I had my walkman with the radio thing on it.
The only station that came in was whatever station he
was on at that time, and that was my discovery
(36:17):
of him, and I loved him. And I have to
agree with the Bob Broley comment. So thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Ry Christmas, Happy Thanksgiving. There goes Laurie, and probably i'll
last call it some quincy John. You made it happy Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Happy Thanksgiving and many many more and greatly appreciated what
you all do. And God bless and Okay, everything's fantastic
as usual. Thank you. First, Yeah, Nom Nathan was great.
Mister McDonald was great, and your other gentleman, mister Brudnoyd,
he was great, and all the shows are great and
(37:00):
w h C H W b Z. Yeah, it's we're
very buss where we live. And that was nice to war.
He's cutting from Idaho. It's a very fortunate your trivia.
I answered the trivia question on the radio one time,
but I was working. I was driving, so I told
you to donate the sweater to the homeless. That's sort
of shirt.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
I do recall that, I recall the situation. I don't
remember the question, but I do even remember you saying
donated to the homeless, which I did.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
I know you did, your your your, You're a keeper,
as they say.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Well, thank you, Yes he is. What about norm Nathan?
What more do you want to add to what's been
said over the past hour.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Uh, other than he was a class act and the
credit to the way he was raised and brought up
into the business and everything else. And he you know,
he made the world a better place.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Yes, he did. Good thing to say at the end.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
And when you said Nemuth, the first thing I thought
it was the monkeys.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
It's funny you mentioned the monkeys. Over the weekend on
my show Tend to Midnight, The Morgan Show, I interviewed
Mickey Dolans just fortality was.
Speaker 5 (38:23):
The only only live, only one alive.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Yeah, that be a question, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Mike is gone and Peter's gone.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
It's sad he's he's the keeper of the plane.
Speaker 4 (38:36):
And the other one Dave Davy Jones, Peter Jones.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
David Jones passed away first, Peter Tork passed away second,
and Mike Nesmith passed away within the past two years,
and Mickey is the one left. All right, John, I
gotta go, but but thank you for your merry Christmas Giving, well,
(39:02):
happy Thanksgiving, and Tony, I'm glad to hear you still
around and your thing, your fingers are still in the business.
Speaker 5 (39:14):
It's the radial courses through my veins.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
What can I said? Well, there you go, and it's
nice to hear your thank you and Sonya. I'm so
glad that we were able to get in touch and
I could get you in the radio because as you hear,
there's still a lot of people who have an elevated
perspective of your father.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
Well as I as I said you because I think
this all came about because we heard you talk about
my dad over the summer with Jack Hrt and when
I wanted to call your producer, not to be on
the air, but just to let you know how grateful
I am that you are keeping his memory alive, because
that's that's so important for us. And isn't it nice
(40:00):
that we're sharing that mission with you?
Speaker 2 (40:02):
Yeah, and well you know what, I wouldn't be sitting
in front of this microphone now if it weren't for
your father.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
Well, he was the best and you were you were
inh worm. You absolutely are all.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Right, you too. I gotta go, you know, news is
knocking you guys.
Speaker 5 (40:22):
Happy, thank you, thank you very much, thank.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You, Tony. Happy Thanksgiving, Sonya. We will be in some time.
We will do it again sometime in twenty two.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
I would love that, would love that, and be well
and thank you so much, thank you.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Bye bye. All right, next hour, we're gonna talk about
your favorite concert here in BC time. In temperature ten
fifty eight forty one degrees
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