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Thirty years after the narrator, a teen in 1969, loses a Good Guy radio contest on New York's WMCA, he suddenly gets another chance. Cell phones and FM car radios have replaced rotary dials and transistor radios, and the combination could be fatal. It's at least dangerous, but it seems important to the narrator, who keeps dialing while driving, in order to redeem himself.
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Thirty years after the narrator, a teen in 1969, loses a Good Guy radio contest on New York's WMCA, he suddenly gets another chance. Cell phones and FM car radios have replaced rotary dials and transistor radios, and the combination could be fatal. It's at least dangerous, but it seems important to the narrator, who keeps dialing while driving, in order to redeem himself.
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Review of Good guy winner at lastI fondly remember "name it and claim it" as well. This was a nice trip down memory lane as well as a reminder that you're never too old to conquer a fear or solve a problem. |
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WMKY/Mountain Edition/11/18/05
Transcript
"Good Guy" winner at last
Here's a radio story for you. In the late 1960s, WMCA was one of top top-40 AM radio stations in New York City. Their DJs were called the Good Guys and one of their Good Guy promotions was a "Name It and Claim It" contest. The prize was an egg-yolk-colored Good Guys sweatshirt printed with a squiggly black smiley face.
As a young teenager I coveted this loud sweatshirt. I listened constantly to the "Name It and Claim It" drama through my transistor radio's tinny speaker. But I was too intimidated to dial Murrayhill 8-5700 myself.
In our tiny kitchen we had one of those old rectangular wall phones. The kind with the hand set hanging from a silver hook in front of the dial. It was the same egg-yolk yellow as the Good Guy sweatshirt.
That phone was the gateway to my desire; dialing just one phone number would change me from a dreamer to a doer, maybe e...
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Phil Corriveau
Posted on January 08, 2006 at 11:56 AM | Permalink
Review of Good guy winner at last
The key to a good piece of nostalgia for me is when it makes me daydream about where I was and what I was doing at a certain point in time while listening to the piece. This bit of narrative made me think of my teen years with rotary phones and transistor radios and contests on the radio. The narration is well-written and effectively delivered. It is an enjoyable and nicely produced piece.