WBZ Boston Radio Aircheck - Dick Summer May 6, 1964

WBZ's 50,000 watt signal on 1030 AM covered New England and reached into Canada and the Midwest at night. Dick Summer ran his Night-Light show after midnight. This is a small sample from the wee morning hours of May 6, 1964. When radio had personality!

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[beatlejim64]

I used to listen to Dick Summer all the time as a kid on WBZ in the 1960's...

[leadsquirter]

Me too! I'd put my little six transistor radio under my pillow and listen to all the big 50,000 watt AM stations that would come booming in at night.

[FreddieGodofRock]

Wow, I never knew this existed!

I LOVE Dick Summer!!! What a voice! He was my favorite....for so many reasons. He was so inspirational, so nice, & just so decent. I still have my N.A.G. tag! I come across it every now and then and just smile @ all the late nights I spent w/ that wonderful voice in the dark of my bdrm. What memories!

[FREDDIEMANIAC]

@FreddieGodofRock ....The greatest voice in broadcasting! And the most recognizable......I hear Dick's voice every now and then on a commercial and 45 years later, I still recognize that unmistakable voice!

So happy to know his mellifluous voice is still ringing out under the pillows of a new generation.

Such sweet memories of an innocent time! :)

[opafortwo]

used to listen trough GE tube radio dark brown micarta case. could not sleep trough the nights then in the 60s now same problem but no dick summer to listen to, remember entranced to the sounds of circus maximus performing WIND qne then the doors LIGHT MY FIRE wow what a trip . thanks

[waterman9465]

I listened to WBZ all while we vacationed in NH every summer, then I could pick up WBZ on clear nights from Detroit. LOL @ Shrewsbury vs Sandwich.

[kingofclownz]

One hen Two ducks Three squawking geese Four limerick oysters Five corpulent porpoises Six pairs of Don Alverzo's? tweezers Seven thousand macedonians in full battle array Eight brass monkeys from the ancient sacred crypts of egypt Nine apathetic sympathetic diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity to procrastination and sloth Ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep hoo-ha who swim around the quay of the quo? of the que? of the queasy at the very same time.

[FREDDIEFREAK9]

@wamy49 - First off, thank you for sending this, my Freddie maniac friends! My Other Freddie maniacs, other than me, that is!

And to you, wamy.....Thank you SO much for reminding of this wonderful memory teaser that, of course I used to know by heart, but have been trying in vain to remember now that I'm in my dotage. Got together w/ my 1st boyfr reciting it together!

How did you ever remember it??

Loved Dick's voice so much. Liquid silk, someone put it so accurately....Perfect!

[wamy49]

@1946don "...denizens of the deep who all stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the queasy at the very same time." Or so I remember...thanks for your insights!

[1946don]

@wamy49

"lyrical, spherical, diabolical ... denizens of the deep blue sea??

[1946don]

@wamy49 ... yes, remember it well. I spent my college years in the Boston area listening to WBZ (and yes, occasionally switched over to Arnie 'the woo' Ginsberg) simply for Dick Summer's voice and his 'shtick.' Shrewsbury vs Sandwich, and remember his "softly as I leave you" stories.

[wamy49]

(cont.) make that "diabetic old men on roller skates, with a marked propensity for procrastination and sloth; ten lyrical, spherical,diabolical ... anyone remember the very last words? I've FINALLY forgotten...

[wamy49]

I also remember that he'd often tell the story of Lord Shrewsbury, the actual inventor ot the sandwich! He was so cute with his little stories. Then, could we EVER forget the official Nite Light password? "one hen, two ducks, three sqwacking geese, four Limerick oysters, five porpuline (?) porpoises, six pairs of Donoverse's tweezers, seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array, eight brass monkeys from the ancient, secret crypts of Egypt, nine apathetic, sympathetic old men on roller (cont.

[wamy49]

WBZ, on Soldier's Field Road. Yessiree, I was a proud member of the Boy Watchers' Club, and had my paper membership card for many years! Grew up in Blue Point, Long Island, and picked up this station effortlessly over the water. Loved Dick Summer. I remember that he made the first anit-war comment I'd ever heard, concerning a unit of American soldiers being "overrun" by the VC. He went into a subtle, intelligent rant about it and that was the very first time I ever had heard such a sentiment.