I'm not sure but I think they found Larry didn't work as well in daytime at WHDH and moved him to midnight (if I remember right, he had trivia guy Morgan White Jr on his WHDH show and it was at midnight)
Posted on 03/27/2009 8:51:40 AM PDT by raccoonradio
One of Boston radio greats Larry Glick passed away last night at the age of 87. Glick retired from Boston radio in 1992 but in the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s he was a household name with a cult-like following among late night radio buffs with his overnight show reaching close to 40 states and eastern Canada thanks to the powerful, clear-channel WBZ AM 1030’s 50,00watt signal.
Glick was born in Roxbury and drove a cab while studying radio at Emerson College. After his graduation, he began radio career working for WLMH radio in Laconia, NH.
Most of the 1950's Glick worked in sales and management jobs at stations in the Jacksonville, FL market. In 1958, he bought a weak FM station WZOK-FM in Jacksonville. His first big on-air job came in 1960 when became a talk show host Miami's WINZ AM. He came to Boston four years later as host of a talk show on WMEX. After a dispute with management, he signed on with WBZ in 1967.
WBZ AM where Glick worked until 1987 is reporting this morning that he passed away after undergoing 10 hours of open heart surgery in Florida where he lived since his retirement. During his WBZ tenure Glick worked mostly overnight shift but later moved to other dayparts including evenings and mid-afternoons.
In 1987, Glick parted ways with WBZ when he accepted a very lucrative 5-year offer from a rival WHDH AM 850(now WEEI) to host 10pm to 2am show. However, due to a non-compete clause in his WBZ contract, Glick had to sit out a full year. While waiting on the sidlines between radio jobs, and being paid by WHDH, Glick launched a popular cable access "The Larry Glick Show" carried by most local cable systems.
After retiring from WHDH in May 1992, Glick retired to Boca Raton,Florida where he worked as a greeter at Legal Seafoods.
Glick was also a US Army veteran. He actually re-enlisted in the late early 50's to take a job as a country music DJ at Armed Forced Radio in Munich, Germany.
WBZ has set up a tribute page where Glick's former listeners can leave comments and memories of the great radio host.
http://www.wbz.com/WBZ-legend-Larry-Glick-dies/4096057
RIP
An Era closes, I was a Glick-nick in the 70’s, RIP
http://northeastairchecks.com/
Larry Glick WBZ Boston “The Orangutan”. (9:28) Certainly Glick’s show overnights on WBZ was out of the ordinary, and is the kind of talk radio show that probably isn’t heard anymore. The caller reads a story about an orangutan, adopted as a pet, where things go from bad to worse. Glick and the caller laugh so hard it’s becomes contagious!
Staff Announcer's Larry Glick page
(Excerpt; click link for much more incl. audio) Larry Glick 1922-2009 The Commander has passed away. This notice appeared on WBZ's website Friday, March 27, 2009. Boston (WBZ Newsroom) -- A Boston radio legend has died. Longtime WBZ radio host Larry Glick died Thursday night in Florida after undergoing 10 hours of open heart surgery. He was 87. Glick graced WBZ's airwaves for 20 years, building up a faithful group of fans known as "Glicknics." Larry and WBZ-TV's Jack Williams (right) had been close friends since 1975. Jack made frequent appearances on Larry's talk show on WBZ. Larry retired to Florida, where he most recently worked as a greeter at Legal Sea Foods in Boca Raton. Glick leaves his wife Lisa and a daughter Tali, both in Forida, and a daughter, Nannette in the Boston area. Rest in Peace, Larry! &&&&&&&&& Larry Glick! By Steve Cichon Did you ever win a Glick University T-shirt? Are you a Glicknick? My fascination with The Glick Program started when my family lived in Holliston, Massachusetts for 3 years in the mid 80s.... That's when Larry was doing afternoon drive on WBZ... and I was mesmerized by the show... A Pint-sized Glicknick.
I was interviewed by Larry for an hour while working as a Game Biologist in Nome, Alaska in 1974. He asked me about my work with walrus, belugas and migratory shore birds off the coast of Alaska. We also discussed Nome and its history. He was a very nice and interesting guy. RIP!
I used to lay under the covers listening to him every night from about 6th grade on.
My best friend’s father was Heywood Vincent WHDH. Remember him?
...A great T S host, RIP...
“I’ve got an Uncle in Alaska”
“Nome?”
“Of course I know him. He’s my Uncle.”
Ah, the old all nighters are going...Larry Glick, Chicago Ed Schwartz, KDKA’s old Ed & Wendy King, KMOX’s Jim White...all no longer with us and all gave us great radio.
Sorry, name doesn’t ring a bell, I must be too young ;)
My parents may remember his name...
http://grubstreet.ca/articles/radiointerviews-old/larryglick-afn41.htm
Detailed bio plus audio of a 1976 call.
4th or 5th grade for me...
How about you RR? By the way I talked to the ex-mid morning guy from WRKO yesterday.
only heard him a few times; I know once I taped his WHDH show (after he left WBZ) because Morgan White Jr was on (tape
later broke). I got into talk radio in mid 80s with Jerry
Williams, and some of the WMRE people like Morgan White,
Bob Katzen, etc....
Funny ... I was just thinking about Larry Glick last night. Hmmm.
Listened to Larry throughout the 70’s and 80’s... between the fade in and fade outs as I lived in central NY state. He has been missed for a long time.
My Condolences to the Family.
Reese Hopkins? How is he doing?
I heard that a week after getting laid off from WRKO, he got arrested for allegedly raping an 11-year-old friend of his stepdaughter in New York four years ago. However, he denies the charge, saying he was living and working in Connecticut at the time and that the apartment in which the rapes supposedly took place was vacant and being repainted.
Radio sucks anymore. FM radio in Pittsburgh is a joke. There are only a few stations that are indepenent but for the most part are all canned and no real good music.
I lived in Pittsburgh until 10 years ago and listened to the Kings and Jack Wheeler, but still was glad my radio pulled in Glick, Schwartz, Richard Hayes and Bill Corsair from Philly, KMOX and other stations.
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