RIP Paul Harvey

[buckweaver]

AP alert just moved.

EDIT: http://cbs2.com/national/paul.harvey.dies.2.947030.html

 

[Mystery_Meat]

And now we know ... the rest of his story (RIP Paul Harvey)

http://cbs4denver.com/national/radio.host.paul.2.947030.html

If heaven didn't need Gold Bond Medicated Powder before, they will after hearing his first show up there.

 

[buckweaver]

He was 90 years old.

Damn, what ****ty news to end a ****ty week.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Dammit, all that time I spent on a stupid pun for my RIP Paul Harvey thread title, you used to actually post your own thread.

 

[Monday Morning Sportswriter]

Re: And now we know ... the rest of his story (RIP Paul Harvey)

I loved The Rest Of The Story.

Embellishments everywhere, but they were five solid minutes of radio.

 

[playthrough]

What a legend. RIP.

To me he was the soundtrack of long road trips; he'd always pop up somewhere while surfing the dial.

 

[DanOregon]

Re: And now we know ... the rest of his story (RIP Paul Harvey)

The guy knew how to do radio and tell a story. But it creeped me out when he'd drift into quasi-racist stuff with his grandfatherly voice.

 

[buckweaver]

To me he was the soundtrack of long road trips; he'd always pop up somewhere while surfing the dial.

Funny, I've got the exact same memory. We always started family road trips early in the morning, and my dad would always have ABC radio on (or whatever affiliate carried Harvey's show then.) I grew up hearing -- and never getting tired of -- all those Rest of the Stories for years and years, even the ones he repeated all the time. After he finished up, in that distinctive, soothing voice of his, then I'd fall asleep for the rest of the ride until it was time to stop somewhere.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

RIP Harvey.

 

[markvid]

Good day.

 

[93Devil]

RIP

He was a member of a country club I worked at in college.

He was really tall in person. College basketball tall if I remember correctly. Yellow Caddy, I think.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Re: And now we know ... the rest of his story (RIP Paul Harvey)

Friends, do you remember a time when penny candy was really a penny, men wore suits on airplanes and members of a certain segment of our society knew their place? Well, take a sip of Moxie soda, and you'll feel like you're back at Grandma's house ...

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Growing up, I spent a lot of summers at my grandparents' house. Every day at 12:30 p.m., we listened to Paul Harvey's news on one of the AM stations. Every day at 3:30 p.m., we'd listen to "The Rest of the Story."

Hearing Harvey's voice always made me think of those days with my grandparents. I'll miss it.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Sad, sad news. Among other things, Paul Harvey was a hell of a writer. Broadcast writing is an odd form, and he was very good at it.

Just lost his wife last year. Can't imagine how much that took out of him.

He had a mansion in the Biltmore Estates in Phoenix. A rather silly news director once sent me there to knock on his door and ask him if he wouldn't mind sitting down for a one-on-one interview, since it was the last day of book and the news director thought it might give us a bump in the ratings. I rang the bell at his gate. No one answered, but the gardener stared at me like I was crazy.

RIP.

 

[Small Town Guy]

He read about 10 lines of one of my stories once. One of his longtime friends from when he was a teenager lived in the area and he'd always send Paul interesting stories. The reader was also one of those old guys who'd call up the paper 10 times a week, sometimes to rant, sometimes to talk about the Vikings, sometimes to suggest a story. So he called one day at like 10 a.m. and said to turn on Paul Harvey because one of my stories would be mentioned. Paul didn't mention my name but he did read from the story - a small school in our area had a kid who was the No. 1 ranked wrestler in the nation in his class and a girl who was the No. 1 ranked volleyball setter in the country - and then summarized it in his own words. It was really cool. Still have the tape somewhere.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Inky, your thoughts pretty much summed up how I will remember Paul Harvey. When I was in preschool, I would ride around with my grandparents and they would have the radio on, glued to The Rest of the Story. I kept wondering when will the rest of the story will come up.

And yes, I still listened to Paul Harvey as late as 2006, before the station I was listening to dropped him for garbage babble.

A true radio man and one of the last of the radio greats.

Good night dear sir.

 

[king cranium maximus IV]

And now.

Page two.

RIP

 

[Boom_70]

macular degeneration must have gotten him

 

[Blitz]

Rest in Peace, Mr. Paul Harvey.
You were and are a media legend.
A sound voice for anyone who chose to listen.
Never met you, but wish I had.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

A familiar a voice as Vin Scully
An American Icon and unique piece of Americana.
The man was an institution. When he advetised or endorsed something - Bose radio, I took it as gospel.
He will be greatly missed.
90... Good Day Paul.