Jerry was a genius, my favourite score of his is 'The challenge' it is a masterclass in film scoring the odd meters and instruments always keeps you on the edge of your seat, Total recall is good and also the hijacking cue in Air Force One. I think these composers are all gone now except Bruce Broughton. Jerry had so much range as a composer , but hollywood prefer Hans Zimmer and Desplat sounds thesedays.
But the show showed us that Archie was a three dimensional person and he wasn't a bad dude. He showed incredible love for his family and eventually even Meathead.
What a charismatic man he was ❤❤❤ Looking back at this interview , it somehow seems , like he's still going strong ..... ( alive ) ***** Strange to see SMOKING on tv being allowed back then .......
Sam didn't want to give Marion Keisker full credit for discovering Elvis. He was not there,he did not discover Elvis, and he did not record ELVIS first.
The station carried by radio giants, such as Wolfman, Harve, Casey, Eubanks, The Emperor, Biondi, Hull, Jimmy O, Real Don, Tuna, Huggy, Art Laboe, Hayes & many others, lead by Wagner.
The interview was fresh after Elvis' death so feels more real. Narratives got a little crazy later on. Its touching how he remembers Elvis the teenager and human being. Sam was a great man.
Thank you very much! The host,Bill Moran was extremely polite to Caller#2, who thought Robert Hilburn was a good critic. Huh?, What? ...Hilburn was quite the opposite .Hilburn was the most close minded, lazy "reviewer" that thought his bitchy, negative quips held validity & could hurt recording artists. An awful, bitter queen & so horrid to be around. It was a poorly kept industry "secret" that he was insufferable. His negativity toward artists was only Robert projecting his own self loathing towards talented people. In fact, many people considered a negative review from Robert Hilburn was really a stamp of approval in the highest order. And what makes a critic "worthy" to judge artists anyway? They seem to have so much to say, but have they ever proved themselves as writers or performing artists?
As a kid meathead and Gloria were much older young people but represented the then modern attitude. Archie and Edith were the establishment in an Archie rebelious decline. Now in retrospect older now than Archie and Edith, one feels at odds with Meathead and Gloria as life makes Archie's sarcrastic point of view more believable A movie ro watch is Law and Disorder starring Carrol Oconner was Ernest Borgnine that ehows more of an Archie bunker like character dealing with 70s NY
