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You would be proud of me. Yes, he would. Yes, he would. You went on to bigger and better things. Hey, have you seen Matty at the station? Sure. I can't look right here. I can't. I had no idea what the commercials are, but whatever you recollect, tell me about it. The commercials that we have here on film. I think because I haven't seen them in a long time, I don't have the facilities to plan, but I think one of them could be a Black and Decker commercial with Chris Barry and myself. And it'll probably turn out to be something else, but that's what I think it is. Now, the other one, I believe, was Bunny Bread for a bakery up in Frederick, Maryland, or Hagerstown, Maryland. And it would be accomplished along the same lines that we used to, as you remember, do the Castres bread commercials. It would be almost a direct takeoff on the Custer's Bread commercials because the same man wrote both of them. But this was bunny bread and it wasn't a subsidiary. But they must have had a working agreement so that they could do these spots. And I certainly hope that's the other one. Or I've used a lot of verbiage for nothing. The you were well, let's say you were one of the films that I'm using over and over and over to extract some of the nostalgia from Baltimore back in the in the late 50s was made by Monumental films. Right. And you were there when? Yes, I was there when that film was made. And you were also there when? When I worked there? Sure was. I mean, I got my career in motion picture work at Monumental Film. That's where it began.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=1.95,135.54"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"By the beginning up to that point, I was a staff photographer and I was even a stock photographer when I went there. But that was the beginning of my career in the movies. Yes, I remember because I remember the first day you came there and Vernon Spurgeon, who was to be your mentor or what have you commented? He said, Gosh, this guy is good. He even used ice cubes and water to develop the still films that you had taken and nobody had ever bothered to, you know, cool down the water for anything. You were the first person that he considered was doing it correctly. Yeah, I remember that too. It's amazing that you recall that. But anyway, do you recall working on that old film from back in the 59? You know, when when they talked about Jack Welch and they talked about buddy dangers coming in, they talked about, just being purchased by Westinghouse and changing the name to WJC. Right? Vaguely. I remember it. I don't remember the whole thing. But I do remember, you know, spasms or whatever you call of it. But tell me about yourself. You were Baltimore boy. I was born and raised in Baltimore. I was born at an early age. I was born and raised in Forest Park, went to Forest Park High School. I went down to the Eastern Shore. I went I worked at WAFB, your first. This was way back in 1939. Even while I was in school, I was doing programs on WAFB. Your then. I eventually. Thank you very much. Okay. All right, let's try it again. Okay. So now you you were telling me you were. You were. Where are you from? The city. From the Forest Park. I'm from both.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=137.01,246.48"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I was born and raised in Forest Park with the Forest Park High School. Garrison Junior High School and school number 69, 69 and Forest Park have both been torn down. And the forest part of the course was rebuilt. But that's where I grew up. And I went I worked at WAFB, are doing special programs back in 1939. Then in 1944, I went down to the Eastern Shore and became the chief announcer of W, B or C down there. And you met a young lady. I met a young lady and I married her. And we've been married for 47 years and we made it all the way. That was a lot of fun. I am when I went to w b o c we used to do all time radio remotes, which some people may remember, but of course, this was way before television. A lot before television. In fact, it was, gosh, 1944 television as we know it. Okay, Clock, let's hold it all. Television as we know it didn't until Wynn went on the air. When was that? 1948. I believe out in 1948. So this was well before then or even before? FM was as we know it now, that FM radio. So there was only one thing that was all a m radio. And then after I left Salisbury, I went to a few other stations, came back to Baltimore, started a WC idea, was the first person on the air on West Side here in Baltimore while it was Baltimore six radio station. So from there I went to w c b m while I was a w CBM. I also worked at Monumental films because we were trying to get the company started. So I was doing two jobs. Though you were actually vice president, one of the vice presidents of Monumental.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=246.87,374.64"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's right. Vernon's Ben and myself. And he was, of course, I guess your boss. He was vice president in charge of all photographic operations. And I was vice president in charge of all audio operations. The black and dagger thing. I recall. We did. We did a an industrial film on on the duel and saw. But do you recall the Black and Decker spot once again how you got involved with that? No. Well, being an announcer, it was sort of cheaper to use me, I think, because I remember the I that's the one I think with Chris Barry, I could be totally mistaken, but I think we were standing up in that studio upstairs on Maryland Avenue, the big studio, and we were over on the side with the door, and that's as far as I can remember. I guess I had a backdrop, some sort of remember how we always used to shoot with cocoa lorries. You never had a backdrop without a cook on it. Yeah, right. And cutting all kind of funny little designs and that sort of thing. Yeah, You. I was there the day that a tragedy in Baltimore went. The day that Bailey, gosh, died. That's right. And we had to redo every national. Tell me about. That's right. Every single national spot. The national Bohemian Beer spot that went on the air had to be redone because Bailey died that morning. And in fact, one of the men from the agency came up to the top of the stairs, Denniston, and yelled down, Who will? We'll have to cut today's session because Bailey was killed, which was, you know, a tragedy. And then of that day, I had to turn out. I worked day and night, turn out all be what we call donut spots, the National Vogue jingle, but without any cell in the middle of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=375.36,486.51"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So what happened? We did that. And then the next day or the day after, Chuck Thompson came in to fill all these donuts, to put the verbiage back into the spot that Bailey had done originally. All right. Now, just for the sake of people who don't know what donuts in verbiage, tell me what what Chuck had to do that morning. He had to re announce everything that Bailey Goss had done. In other words, you have a jingle, then you have a place where they just play music and then the jingle song at the end. And that place where they just play music is where you put in the voice. And that's what Chuck Thompson had to do. And we did that the next day or so. And as I recall, it took us almost 24 hours to do it because between crying and the tears in both of our eyes, I couldn't see the dials. He couldn't see the copy. It was just one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. So you therefore then had an opportunity probably many times to work with Bailey. Gosh. yes. We were very good friends, went to parties together and so forth. Bailey was he and Frank Hennessy would get together and they could do comedy routine after comedy routine that would just break you up. They were funny. But he had he was in your studio not a monumental many times doing doing the spots for National. That's correct. Well, you may remember one time we had a red chair in the recording studio and he would love to come into that chair and go to sleep. So what I did one time while he was asleep and snoring, I put a microphone up to his mouth and we have the sound effect of Bailey Gore snoring.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=487.14,593.43"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Probably use it many times. No. Yes, highly enough. We have. So you you you got involved in the education. Yes. And feel and you retired from that. And what are you doing now? Well, right now I'm just doing I'm taking people from the senior centers to do different radio programs and so forth. I myself go to all I I'm a what we call a program take. Commission for the Baltimore County Department of Aging. And I go to the different senior centers around Baltimore County and do little programs for them, like old time radio. I play a bunch of all time radio theme songs I have on tape and let the people guess what the theme song was. I'm like, It could have been Dickens said. It could have been easy. Ace's, Amos and Andy. And they listen to these and then they guess which music was the music for which. For the sake of brevity, you are now presenting to senior groups. Senior groups, right? Some nostalgic. Exactly. Radio I'm doing exactly what you're doing on here at WJC. Nostalgia you know now and then sort of thing only radio only on. Yes, on radio. That's right. And how's it going? I just. I should have been doing this way back when we were at Monumental films. I've never had such a good time. It's just wonderful. So for an ending, I mean, what would you recommend for an ending to this piece? Well, I could fall over and drop dead thing. And, you know, I mean, I'm talking about some kind of a piece of radio that that comes to mind. Yes. Okay. How about a piece of radio that does come to mind? Okay. I remember of radio programs and I'm sure you do, too, that were very popular with kids.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=594.96,719.51"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"One was Jack Armstrong. Do you know who the original Jack Armstrong was? It was Don Ameche. And after he left to do other programs and became a big star, his brother, Jim Ameche, took over and became Jack Armstrong and Jack Armstrong, the all-American boy. And they sounded so much alike. You couldn't tell the difference, Don and Jim. I mean, you sounded exactly alike. And that was Jack Armstrong. And then there was, of course, who's that little chatterbox? The one with pretty auburn locks? Who could it be? It's Little Orphan Ernie and everybody. All kids used to watch the finale. Well, listen to it. Sorry. One of the. One of the ones I remember is Jack Armstrong. Right in that lens. And do it. Jack Armstrong Strong. Jack Armstrong. Jack Armstrong. Jack Armstrong. The all American boy. They did that. I thought about that. But the theme song and everything, just to make sure I have it. Talk to me about the half again, assuming it's bunny bread. Yes, It I think we had a there may have been a piece of animation on that bunny bread commercial. I'm not sure. Or maybe we just shot the loaf of bread. I don't remember. But you were the announcer. As far as I know. I must have been because I would never save anything from anybody else. You may have been the cameraman. I don't know. Now, Bernie wouldn't let me shoot anything. You say that for himself. My. So for the heck of it. Well, and I got together and we said, Well, okay. Say, well, we'll close this piece from a little ditty out of the past. That's right. Jack Armstrong. Jack Armstrong. Jack Armstrong. Strolling around the sun. They all are in the paper with Jack Armstrong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=721.22,847.99"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jack Armstrong. Jack Armstrong, the all American boy. But that's not an ending. I don't think it will never have an end. Hey, I've never heard that again. Well, let me say. My. We may. And then we get. We may not. And just for the heck of it, we kind of got together and that one little Jack Armstrong ditty. Okay, Let's close this segment with Jack Armstrong. Jack O Armstrong. Jack O Strong. They all American boy. Well, it's a good, good. It's a good. Never got that camera. How old are you? I was 13 on the bottom, and I guess I was about 25, 13 on the little one. Right. And this was taken where? In Atlantic City. And you were vacationing there, right? Then you say you're about, like 26. Yeah. Yeah, I'm 26. We're going to study assigned? That's correct. You recall about what year? I can tell you all exactly. Yes. I was 1948 for 1948. It was about 28 years old, he says. Now. Actually, it is about 22 or 23. All righty. My little girl from the Eastern shore named Peggy brought her to Baltimore, and they've been married for 47 years. They were married and live and had lived in Baltimore for the past 47 years. Really paid. He had his pay. Do you recall that was a Westport stay in? You recall when Buddy Ritchie Raceway found Ritchie? Where was Ritchie Raceway? We raced. So these are all disc jockeys with the exception of the starter, which is the fella holding the checkered flag. And these are all, you know, fairly well the black guys. Are they still alive? Yeah, I think Herb Kenny and I believe the one on the right to your left, rather, is for Kenny and Vernon Blackmon.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877#t=848.83,1057.93"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136865/file/253877/transcript/71644/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Really just it was the best thing that ever happened to me. I had. Well, I had. I had a baby born. Well, Christmas was the 25th. I had a baby born on the 26th and I was laid off on the 23rd. I never forgot you for that, but really never been able to stand Johnny her. Robbie was really the only sane within the whole family other than his mother. Mar is a very nice person, but the pay phone was just not the kind person under any by any stretch of the imagination. I get something better than I will? I think so. I think the lesson is direction. I think that my mom. 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