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Hi gang this is Glicknick Dave speaking with you about the Larry Glick digitization project.

Here it is September 2019 and with a little bit of sadness I must announce that we have reached the end of The Larry Glick digitization project. All of our Larry Glick audio files have been posted between both Larry Glick Podcast Pages. Those podcast pages are:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/larryglick
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/larryglick2

This project was conceived in the middle of 2006 when I was up in the attic looking through some old stuff when I came across some reel-to-reel tapes that I had made in the 1970's -- many of them were of Larry Glick.

Back then, I would set up a tape recorder to record Larry because he was so funny and enjoyable to listen to, but I worked nights at a Cleveland Radio Station, hence the recordings. So they sat in my attic for 30 years when I re-discovered them.

I thought Gee, wouldn't it be nice to digitize these tapes so that other people could enjoy them and give younger listeners a window on the world in the 1970's when there was no Internet, cable TV, Smart Phones, Satellite Radio Networks and such.

And by uploading these files we could use The Internet to show just what it was like back then.

Most of these tapes were un-scoped, or un-edited. They included commercials and the news.

Podcasts were becoming popular in 2006, but not quite as popular as they are now. We may have been a little bit ahead of our time.

I signed up for an account on Pod-O-Matic.com which was a new podcast service that just began around that time. It was in December of 2006 that I posted the first Larry Glick audio file. Larry did a show centered on Old Time Radio, and I was into OTR at the time and so was Larry, as he mentioned many times throughout the years.

You can still hear those files, and every Larry Glick audio clip we ever posted on the two previously mentioned Podcast pages.


I didn't post much of anything for about a year and a half as we got involved with other things. Then early in 2009 we began posting on a regular basis and started to include a summary description in text form of what the audio clip consisted of. I think it made it more interesting than if you would have just listened to the uploaded clip.

We got the word that Larry had passed away on March 26, 2009 when somebody posted the announcement on our Larry Glick Tribute Yahoo group.

After that we made the commitment to complete this project no mater how long it took.
It took from December 2006 to August 2019 –13 years to complete this project.

Most of these clips are my recordings. I have re-posted a few that were not my original recordings like “The Graveyard Marauder”.

I recorded the audio clips with my Reel-To-Reel tape recorder. There are more Larry Glick recordings on the Internet and you can find them if you look, so we decided not to repost those.

One of my pet projects of listening to Larry over the years was trying to identify a musical jingle from a radio station that was on the same frequency as WBZ. That jingle was audible many times in the background. Curiously, the jingle was only audible to someone listening hundreds of miles away from WBZ. This was due to radio signal propagation at night when signals skip off the Ionosphere. Those listeners who were listening within a hundred miles or so received the WBZ signal via what is called Ground Wave where the signal is very strong and over powers the weaker signals.

I always wondered what radio station that jingle was from. I got my question answered on October 14, 1978 when a caller from Ohio explained to Larry that it was a station the Caribbean.

We posted that call on April 2, 2019 on the LarryGlick2 podcast page.

Here is the shortened version now:


[INSERT CALL]



So that was the answer I was looking for way back then. After all that time listening to it, I found out about a month before my last Larry Glick recording.

My last dated recording of Larry was Thanksgiving 1978. I lost track for some time and when I once again tuned into WBZ looking for Larry, I heard somebody else doing the show. After a few weeks I finally had to call the station. I asked the screener where Larry was? She responded that he now did his show during the days. I was shocked and a bit saddened because WBZ was not receivable during daylight in Cleveland. The screener asked if I wanted to be put on the air. I politely declined.

Getting back to this mysterious DX jingle and something only a serious radio Dx'er would do, I digitized these jingles each and every time they occurred during the recordings. I then pasted them back to back in a separate audio file.

Your about to hear that in a minute. It's about 20 minutes in length, so feel free to zoom ahead if this is not your cup of tea. Larry will bid you Adieu after the clip so you may want to stay tuned.

So that's it...Thank you very much and I'm going to leave these files up hopefully forever. They'll stay up at least is is long as Pod-O-Matic is around.

The reason for Two Larry Glick podcast pages is that they are free accounts with limited space for files. I wanted to keep the site free so that many can enjoy these efforts. I would like to thank the Three people who donated via Pay Pal early on in this project. My reel-to-reel had broke down and I was unable to play back any tapes. I was able to find a used – parts only exact reel-to-reel on E-Bay. So we were able to see this project to the end thanks to you kind folks.

Larry will be back to say goodbye after this following DX clip.

[INSERT DX STATION JINGLE:]

And with that thank you very much again once again we will leave these clips up as long as we can so folks can enjoy them.

I'm going to eventually make all clips on both sites down-loadable again. We had to switch to streaming clips only due to the incredible amount of traffic we were seeing as we were exceeding our bandwidth every month – another drawback of those free accounts.


Thank you very much -- this is Glicknick Dave and here's The Commander to say goodnight!

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