For David, an ex-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, passed
away in 2003 but in 1992
was 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!" interview 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 above tour, while in Boston, I found
mine next to Whitehill's "Topographical
History"
in the Old State House bookstore window. Wow.
