For David, a former broadcaster who married a broadcaster, the radio tour for Always Something Doing was a treat
- a chance to catch up with old friends and meet some true radio legends.
It began at WBZ, with
former colleague and friend David Brudnoy, on whose show David
would ultimate appear
five times to promote various projects...
Then on to WRKO, with
another radio legend whom David engineered broadcasts for six years, Jerry
Williams.
Williams crusaded
for the renaming of Government Center to Scollay Square, which took place
in 1987.
"Hi Larry, how are
you doing?" "Let me check..." Yep, it's the one and only Larry
Glick,
in his WHDH studios
in Copley Place.
A special interview
with the amazing Marsha Masters. Marsha, a dear friend, was then
the morning host
for one of Boston's
great radio format experiments - "Show Biz Radio" WRCA.
There used to be a
local program on Channel 5 here in Boston (back when TV stations did local
programs other than
news) called "Good Day. Here, David is being interviewed live
in Scollay Square
by Good Day's Ted Reinstein.
The very next day after
the "Good Day!" INTERVEW was David's very first book signing, at the
Walden Books at 2
Center Plaza, which was right across the street from where the Channel
5
interview had taken
place. It was, according to the bookstore's staff, the biggest crowd
ever
for a book signing.
Timing - and location - truly are everything...
I promise you that
for an author there few thrills bigger than seeing a first book on display.
Several months after
the tour, while in Boston, I found mine next to Whitehill's "Topographical
History" in the Old
State House bookstore window. Wow.
