END OF AN ERA - Bob Grant Let Go At New York's WOR

The Radio Equalizer- Brian Maloney ^ | December 14th, 2005 | Brian Maloney

[chuckpez]

Even though it's Rush Limbaugh who correctly gets credit for revolutionizing talk radio, several others first laid the foundation for the medium's eventual societal impact.

One of those key players has been Bob Grant, a northeastern broadcast giant, who today was let go from New York's WOR 710 AM. The New York Post's John Mainelli has the scoop:

LEGENDARY talk-radio titan Bob Grant is leaving WOR next month by what is said to be a "mutual agreement," The Post has learned.

In a move sure to shock fans who made him New York's top-rated afternoon gabber for decades,

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[bybybill]

Doesn`t Bob Grant get fired every couple of years?

[Slow Lane]

I'll miss him. I remember first listening as kid in the 70's when there was very little political talk radio, let alone one with a conservative outlook in New York City.

He getting older so who knows if another area station will carry him.

(I'll also miss caller Jimmy from Brooklyn's updates on communist plots and infiltrations).

Bye Bob!

[kublia khan]

I hope that someone picks him up, Hawn Vannity, Limbaugh, Liddy and a host of others owe a great deal to him.

[nopardons]

You left off Mark Levin, who uses Grant's "GET OFF MY PHONE" snarl, as though he invented it; which he didn't.

[kublia khan]

And just what is a gabone? anyway?

[nopardons]

HUNH ?

[kublia khan]

Didn't you ever hear Grant say "your a gabone"?

[nopardons]

I have listened to Bob Grant, on and off for the past 33 years. I can sing the MARIO song, I can give you all his version of GET OFF MY PHONE, I can do a fair mimic of the flim flam Floria screech, but "you're ( the correct spelling of the conjunction of YOU ARE, which you got wrong ) a gabone isn't familiar.

Gambon is ham in French. French and Italian are cousin languages; however, I really haven't a clue.

[kublia khan]

Sorry for the grammar, I once heard him call Mario (I don't recall his last name) former governor of NY that name. I may be misspelling it but it came off as very funny.

[Claud]

It's "cavone"...from the Italian "cafone", meaning basically a dumb hick.

[kublia khan]

Thank you, I was certain that someone in this august company would know.

[earlyamerican]

I'm so depressed about this news.

[nopardons]

After I had logged off, I realized what word you had really meant. Fortunately, someone else figured it out and told you the word and its meaning. :-)

That's Mario Cummo, who was then the Governor of New York. But the song about him, is much better and yes, in Italian. I'd sing it for you, but FR doesn't have any way for me to do so.

[Michael.SF.]

The word was probably "Jabone" (Pronounced Ja-bone-knee), it is a derogatory word, an ethnic slur, which I have heard used by some people from New Jersey.

[nopardons]

Nope, it really was CAVONE.

But Bob called Mario many other things, in the song he made-up and now, I can't get out of my head. LOL

[JewishRighter]

it's gavone, means something like dope in Italian.

[JewishRighter]

Mario Azienda me: tu se profiono sfacim. And he is.

[peter the great]

I kind of figured out what a gavone is but what is a spachim? I always wondered about that.

[Claud]

that word is something I'm not quite sure about..Bob maintained it was from "sfacciato" meaning two-faced, but I've heard elsewhere that it is an extremely vulgar thing to say in Napolitano. My family's not from Naples, so I dunno.

So that one's a mystery.