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Some top ten thrills...after 50 years in radio & tv...from...Stan Major
My first interview with a celeb......when I was working at WCRA in Effingham, Il while still in H.S. I got to interview Gene Autry’s movie sidekick...Smiley Burnette. Quite a thrill for a teenage kid.
MANY YEARS LATER I WOULD BE SITTING IN THE STATION OWNER'S OFFICE IN PHILLY CHATTING WITH NONE OTHER THAN ROY ROGERS..A VERY NICE MAN. ROY HAD SHOWED UP AN HOUR EARLY FOR HIS
ON -THE- AIR- INTERVIEW SO WE GOT A CHANCE TO VISIT WITH HIM AT LENGTH. IN FACT WE GOT HIM TO TELL THAT JOKE ON HIMSELF ABOUT THE "CAT THAT ATE HIS NEW BOOTS!" (Google That one)
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Shaking hands with ELVIS...from the stage...at the Las Vegas Hilton in 1970. He actually DID mumble...”thank ya man!”
I was his boss...Colonel Parkers guest... after returning from my NBC News Vietnam run.
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In Boston interviewing actress PAULA PRENTISS (Catch 22) who just finished a flick with Rock Hudson. We melded into some strange connection and talked for a couple of hours later...very late into the night. She wondered if her new hubby Richard Benjamin should try radio. Lucky he didn’t!
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In the car driving south thru Cambodia...waving and smiling at the North Vietnam solders carrying AK-47’s...who were walking to kill Americans in Vietnam.
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Chatting with DAVID BRINKLEY in his NBC news office before heading to Nam.
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Doing a half hour tape show with DAN RATHER of CBS News...atop the Caraville Hotel in Saigon. It was so hot the tape began to stick so Dan had to keep pressure on the take up reel for me while I held the mic.
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Sitting next to a nice elderly gentleman at a Major League Baseball owners press conference in Chicago...offering him a stick of Juicy Fruit gum...and finding out later when he got up to speak it was none other than PHILIP K. WRIGLEY...founder of the chewing gum empire...and owner of the Chicago Cubs. I usually have Dentyne
gum (not his)...but not that day
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