And now you know the rest of the story..............good day
May 11, 2001 11:04 AM   Subscribe

And now you know the rest of the story..............good day Well, we got chatting a bit about ol' Paul Harvey the other day, and it turns out that this is the 25th anniversary of his "The Rest of the Story" program. (more inside)
posted by briank (13 comments total)
 
The article called him the "most listened-to broadcaster" of all time. I haven't heard a Paul Harvey radio piece since the time a moose waded into my friend's swimming pool (pre-Web, so no link).

Is there anyone in the media like Paul Harvey (other than himself) left? Could there ever be a media personality like this again who isn't a political flamethrower?
posted by briank at 11:07 AM on May 11, 2001


Driving cross country two years ago, we heard Paul Harvey on the radio in probably 15 states. The only person we heard as much was Dr. Laura. Go figure.
posted by owillis at 11:11 AM on May 11, 2001


I think Charles Osgood is reminiscent of Harvey, though Osgood is more entertaining and less likely to fudge facts.

Harvey's great, though. His psychotic cadence and weird moments of dead air are hypnotic.
posted by rcade at 11:16 AM on May 11, 2001


Page 2.
posted by trox at 11:22 AM on May 11, 2001


there's pages for people like you in reader's digest!
posted by jcterminal at 12:26 PM on May 11, 2001


Paul Harvey's great because he doesn't blur the line between advertising and content, he ignores it. What at first sounds like a cute human interest story will, often as not, turn into an ad for JD Weld or an air purifier. Very odd.
posted by Doug at 12:35 PM on May 11, 2001


Paul Harvey is dead, I fear. He sounded really weak last week - old-man wavery-voice weak - and he's had subs all week. And his son is now reading, as well as writing, the ROTS spots. His son tries to match his father's cadences, and it's not right. It's a little creepy.

As for Paul's famous pauses: since we used to run the ROTS in delay, we'd stretch out the pauses until they were absolutely painful. As in: "And now you know . . . (18 seconds dead air) the rest of the story." The release was pure ecstacy.
posted by lileks at 12:51 PM on May 11, 2001


Paul Harvey is dead, I fear

The Boston Globe article said he was ill, but not seriously.
posted by briank at 12:54 PM on May 11, 2001



Paul Harvey's great because he doesn't blur the line between advertising and content, he ignores it.


No Kidding!!!! In fact, whenever I think of Paul Harvey, I think of this little gem I heard on the radio once (Realaudio req'd)...it still kills me whenever I listen to it!
posted by DiplomaticImmunity at 1:14 PM on May 11, 2001


The Boston Globe article said he was ill, but not seriously.

Why would they joke about something like that?
posted by rodii at 1:27 PM on May 11, 2001


Harvey better not be seriously ill; he just signed a new 10-year contract.
posted by aaron at 3:43 PM on May 11, 2001


Man, then, if he dies, he'll really be in trouble. Maybe they'll sue.
posted by dhartung at 5:29 PM on May 11, 2001


It's just laryngitis people -- relax! Paul Harvey can't possibly die! I mean the guy's a national treasure. Of course, I said the same thing about George Burns some five or ten years ago...
posted by ZachsMind at 1:41 AM on May 12, 2001


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