Posted on 03/02/2009 3:59:53 AM PST by Scanian
I don't know about the rest of the nation, but here in Central time we could get Paul Harvey's News and Comment in the morning and again at noon, most likely on some crackly AM country music station. If I were out of town or on the road, I would surf the AM dial hoping to find a hint of that unmistakable voice: The Voice. Like a true news junkie, I needed my Paul Harvey fix.
Paul Harvey, born Paul Harvey Aurandt in Tulsa on Sept. 4, 1918, had a voice like a cannon at Gettysburg, like Teddy Roosevelt charging up San Juan Hill or General Anthony Clement McAuliffe answering the German surrender ultimatum with the expletive "Nuts!" His distinctive baritone was soothing and comforting, the optimistic, can-do voice of Middle America, the voice of hope decades before Barack Obama knew the meaning of the word.
Listening to Paul Harvey, who died Saturday at age 90, was like eavesdropping on radio in its golden age, which wasn't just radio's golden age, of course, but America's. Like many of his listeners, Paul Harvey did it all: wrote his own copy, read his own commercials, even invented his own vocabulary (Reaganomics, skyjacker, guesstimate, to name a few of his neologisms). When it came to selecting news copy Paul Harvey applied what he called his "Aunt Betty" test. Aunt Betty was an old fashioned Missouri housewife (his sister-in-law, actually), and no story too complicated or dull for Aunt Betty made it onto the newscast.
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He was truly a great American.
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Loved his "The Rest of the Story".
God Bless you Paul Harvey.
I've listened to him off and on since I was a little kid in the early 1950's
God bless and keep him; he did great work and is sue for a rest.
Now you are with Angel forever.
As an earlier post noted he was on at noon CST, just when 10,000 plus shipyard workers were sitting down to lunch. It was impossible to be out of earshot of his daily broadcasts. What a great memory!
Prayers for his family and friends and millions of Americans who are blessed to know how much was lost with his passing.
Lately I had been listening to his broadcasts thinking I should enjoy them while I can. I felt like I was listening to another time in America, one that wasn’t quite so focused on the latest BS today’s media finds so attractive. It wasn’t always what Mr. Harvey he said, it was hearing a voice that spoke with high character and class.
Mr Harvey, thank you...
and may your soul rest peacefully in Heavan
Paul Harvey was, and always will be, a Great American. May God grant him eternal peace and splendor with his departed loved ones, the Angels, and the Saints.
It’s hard to imagine the trip home without Paul Harvey!
Am I dreaming or were his broadcasts once much longer? I seem to remember him going to ‘page 7’ or ‘page 8’ as opposed to his latter-day 4-page format (with page 3 being an ad).
I have scarcely seen anyone who could suck you into a commercial unawares than Paul Harvey.
That’s how I remember him also but memory gets a little slippery after 60 :-)
I remember half hour broadcasts at noon.
I though so....we once took a cross-country car ride in the 70s. While I sat sweating on the vinyl back seat of a car in the mid-summer heat I listened intently to Paul Harvey while the scenery whisked by. It may have been 30 minutes long but I hung on every word and it seemed more like hours.
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