Today's 45 record is a relic from an era when local personalities ruled the airwaves. The Paul Dixon Show broadcast live from WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1955 until Paul's sudden death from a brain aneurysm in 1974. The daily 90 minute show was syndicated throughout Ohio and Indiana, and was a huge influence on a young Indianapolis resident, David Letterman. Letterman would occasionally drop in and hang out in the control room during Dixon's show--in fact, Dave's canned ham giveaway bit was surely borrowed from Dixon, whose audience members often received Oscherwitz Kosher Salamis.
Dixon's most memorable broadcast was in 1969, when he decided to throw an on-air wedding for the two prop rubber chickens, Harry and Pauline, he used frequently for the live commercials. I would absolutely watch that program if it were still on today!
More about the man known affectionately as "Paul Baby" here and here.
Paul Baby "Sings?!!" - Paul Dixon with Colleen Sharp and Bonnie Lou
QCA records 412
Side 1 You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You
Side Rehearsal (marked "censored", though it's clean as a whistle)
A look at Paul Dixon in action:
3 comments:
"you can have the salami"
did I hear that right ?
omg...
Well, he DID do salami giveaways to his audience...mostly made up of young housewives in miniskirts....so maybe it's much more innocent tha it sounds.
Paul Dixon was a national presence for awhile in 1968 as the voice of a one shot Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" * cartoon character in the briefly reconsituted Warner Bros.-Seven Arts studio [basically the dark ages] dey, "Norman Normal". This was a very odd commentary short based oin Peter, Paul and Mary**'s, 1967 song.Directed by Hanna-Barbera veteran Al Lovy.
*Actually a "Cartoon Special", neither a Merrie Melodies short nor a Looney Tunes.
**Paul, aka Paul Stookey, did the support voices.
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