Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 - Prerecorded Theme Vocal / Announcer. The opening and closing material is presented as sung or prerecorded show-theme material rather than live host dialogue.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine, Host. The speaker identifies himself as Jim Craine, refers to the program as his show, discusses his career and Steel Pier history, and conducts the interview.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso, Guest. The host introduces Tony Catanoso as the owner/operator of Steel Pier, and the guest then discusses the pier’s operations, attractions, family history, and upcoming reunion.

Speaker 4 - “Godfather” Promo Voice / Character. This short Italian-food promotional segment is introduced by the host as “the Godfather.” The transcript does not establish whether it is prerecorded or performed live by the host, so the identity is left intentionally nonspecific.

[Opening Theme Song]

Speaker 1 - Prerecorded Theme Vocal / Announcer:
From the shoreline to the spotlight, from the stories behind the stars, welcome to The Jim Craine Show.

Where the boardwalk meets the rolling tide, a young dreamer found the stage inside. Steel Pier lights and a summer sky - you learn how to laugh, how to leap, how to fly. A day on the beach, keeping watch on the blue; by night in a tux, making old songs new.

From the lifeguard chair to the microphone, Jim brings every listener home. He’s got a memory, a melody, a joke that lands right on time; a lifetime full of stories and a voice that’s still divine.

It’s The Jim Craine Show, where the good times roll. Hear the stars, hear the hearts; let the laughter take control. From Atlantic City lights to the airwaves coast to coast, come on in, the band is hot, and Jim Craine is your host. Whoa - everybody knows it’s The Jim Craine Show.

He shared the bill with legends of the stage, turned 50 years into a golden page. Casinos, clubs, and ships at sea - every room became a family. Now the guests pull up a chair and stay, with songs and stories from yesterday. Actors, singers, friends passing through, and Jim finds the magic hiding in the truth.

With a wink, a song, a memory, he keeps the whole room bright - a little classic showbiz and a lot of heart tonight. It’s The Jim Craine Show, where the good times roll. Hear the stars, feel the heart; let the laughter take control. From Atlantic City lights to the airwaves coast to coast, come on in, the band is hot, and Jim Craine is your host. Whoa - everybody knows it’s The Jim Craine Show.

Who’s got the stories? Who brings the music? Who keeps Saturday swinging? The Jim Craine Show.

Some voices fade when the curtain falls; some keep it going through it all. Through changing times and changing scenes, he keeps alive the songs and dreams. There’s always room for one more friend, one more laugh before the ending. So turn it up and gather close - the show is starting. Here we go.

It’s The Jim Craine Show, where the good times roll. Celebrity conversations, classic music, art and soul. Saturdays at 2 Central, BBS Radio TV, Station 1. Come for the stories, stay for Jim - the celebration’s just begun. Whoa, let the whole world know: it’s The Jim Craine Show. From the boardwalk to the broadcast, the legend carries on.

The Jim Craine Show, Saturdays from 2 to 3 Central on BBS Radio TV, Station 1.

[Music - “The Lady Is a Tramp”]

[Jim Craine performs “The Lady Is a Tramp” with The Steel Pier Remembered Big Band. The automated source transcript contains heavily garbled song lyrics; the musical performance is identified here rather than silently reconstructing uncertain lyric text.]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Hi, everybody. That’s Jim Craine with my big band, The Steel Pier Remembered Big Band. On our second national podcast here, we want to welcome you all to South Jersey. That’s where we’re from, at the Pleasantville Music Shop, right here on the Black Horse Pike in beautiful downtown Pleasantville - 15 East Black Horse Pike.

We are a full-line music shop and everything else. So let me hear that music there, pilgrim, and we’ll tell them about our sponsors.

[Music]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Well, pilgrims, we’re back here on a Saturday. I want to say hello to Elaine out there, and Lorraine out there. She’s listening to the big show today. She’s a big fan of our old show.

We want to tell you about Pleasantville Music Shop, the number-one East Coast mom-and-pop music shop at the Jersey Shore.

[Applause]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Let’s not forget Joe Italiano’s [exact sponsor wording and locations unclear in the source], in Hamilton, Mays Landing, and Vineland - some of the finest Italian food you can eat in your life.

And don’t forget the Dr. Jonathan Pitney House and the Colonial Inn, both beautiful bed-and-breakfasts here in historic Smithville and historic Absecon. Don’t stay in a hotel room; stay in a B&B with the Fitzgerald family. It’s a nice rhyme, huh, pilgrims?

And let’s not forget Copiers Plus, pilgrims. They’re over there in EHC. Bob Matthews and his great family do a great job. Service is their specialty - printing, copiers, and all the stuff - and they can even wrap your truck, pilgrims.

All right, so make sure you support all of your local businesses in our South Jersey area. It’s so nice to be back with you here on The Jim Craine Show.

Let’s get back to that pilgrim Jim Craine. All right, here we go.

Right now it is Central Time, quarter after two. Can I hear the birdie? Is he there?

[Bird sound effect]

It’s fun to see if the birdie was in there. Oh, that’s enough. It’s so nice to have my birdie back on the show. It’s really a good thing.

Today in the Atlantic City area, it’s hot again, and it’s going to be hot all this week. We want to say congratulations to the Atlantic City Beach Patrol because they won the South Jersey Lifeguard Championships last night.

I am a proud member. For 25 years I was on the Atlantic City Beach Patrol down there in Atlantic City, on Indiana Avenue and a lot of other places, working with a lot of great guys.

Monday night, this coming Monday night, August 17th, over at the Vagabond restaurant in Ventnor on the Mile Stretch, we are having the ACBP alumni reunion. All you guys out there who know “the Shill” - that’s my nickname from the beach - we’re all going to be over there at Vagabond at six o’clock. Tickets are at the door, with a cash bar, food, and everything.

If you’re one of the old Beach Patrol guys, we hope to see a lot of the old fellows out there. We’re going to have a great, great time.

All right, so here we are at the mom-and-pop music shop at the Jersey Shore. We’re having our Summer Sizzler - not contest, our Summer Sizzler sale - going on here. We’re the only music shop that has real pianos. We have Takamine guitars, vintage gear, and everything.

We’re here Monday through Friday, every day from 10 to 6, and Saturdays from 10 until 5. All the material you hear on this show - my CDs and The Steel Pier Remembered Big Band - you can get right here at the store.

[Phone rings]

Oh my God, somebody’s calling. Talk about live radio, folks. Anyway, The Steel Pier Remembered Big Band - we can get that right here at the store, so it’s really kind of interesting.

We’re going to be talking to Tony Catanoso in a little bit, at the 2:30 hour here on the show. He’s the owner and operator of Steel Pier now, and I’m going to be talking to him about what’s going on over there. We’ve got a big alumni reunion coming up this year at Steel Pier, and it’s going to be really cool.

I’m going to mute my phone. Anyhow, I’ve got a couple of quick jokes. Oh no, I’ve got some Craine’s Picks, too. Let me get these in before the Godfather, because the Godfather is coming back today. We haven’t heard from him in a while, and it’s going to be really nice.

Let me just mute this because it’s driving me crazy. All right, I’m putting it away. Go away. Bye.

Okay, let’s see. Tonight there is a free concert down at Gardner’s Basin in Atlantic City. That’s actually where the old Steel Pier diving bell is, and the aquarium is up there. It’s where the Flying Cloud used to be in Atlantic City.

There’s an amphitheater up there, and there’s a great group there tonight. The Boudessa Brothers are there this afternoon, and Gina Roche and Mary Lou, my sax player. It’s going to be a really great night at Gardner’s Basin with a free concert. They have jazz and everything, and there’s free parking. It’s up there at the end of New Hampshire Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Go check it out.

I also wanted to say hi to my buddy Mike Altman, who was my partner from the Beach Patrol. This is the first day he’s listening to the show, so a nice shout-out to Mikey out there. I hope you got to hear that.

And I did say that the South Jersey Lifeguard Championships were won by Atlantic City Beach Patrol.

Also, I had lunch today from Carluccio’s in Northfield - best pizza in the area on Tilton Road. Go check them out. They are really cool.

Also, tomorrow up at Wheaton Village - now, Wheaton Village is where they used to make glass here in our area in Millville, New Jersey - it’s 1112 Wheaton Avenue in Millville. The number is 856-825-1131. They have a great event going on there tomorrow, and it’s free. I think it’s from 10 until 4.

They have the Atlantic County Fire Museum’s muster out there every year. There are going to be 80 fire trucks on display, and they do demonstrations with the hoses and everything. It’s a really nice event. They have food out there, and you can’t beat it because it’s free.

I’m a big follower of old antique fire engines. I was very close to being a fireman at one time because my father was in the Atlantic City Fire Reserve.

Also, Lee Greenwood, the guy who did “Proud to Be an American,” is going to be with the Ocean City Pops. That’s at the Music Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey, tomorrow night at 7:30, at Moreland Avenue and the Boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey.

We like to keep up on the free stuff and the good stuff that’s going on here in the South Jersey area on The Jim Craine Show.

All right. I think we’re going to go to the Godfather now. If we could have his music, I’d like to bring the Godfather back.

[“Godfather” music cue]

Speaker 4 - “Godfather” Promo Voice / Character:
The best Italian food you’re ever going to eat. Oh, the gnocchi. Oh, the sauce. Oh, the meat.

It’s so nice to be back with you here at the Pleasantville Music Shop. Enjoy everything here in the South Jersey area. Make sure you get them to cater your dinners, take Mom there, and enjoy all this fabulous Italian food.

Don’t forget Joe Italiano’s / Maplewood [exact sponsor wording and locations unclear in source]. Mr. Godfather, God bless.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
All right. That worked, anyway. It’s nice to do that again. I really enjoy that.

Right now it’s 20 minutes after the hour, and we are here on The Jim Craine Show on BBS Radio TV, Station 1. We’re going to have our guest coming up, Tony Catanoso. We’re going to contact him right now and have some talks with him.

Like I said, it’s a beautiful sunny day here in South Jersey. We’ve got plenty of summer left.

Next Saturday here on the big show, we’re going to be talking to Laurie Jacobson. She is married to Jon Provost, the guy who was Timmy on Lassie, and she’s a big Beatles fan. We’re going to talk about when the Beatles were here back in 1964, and I got to go.

That was kind of interesting. I was 10 years old, working at Steel Pier, and Bonnie Marion, my boss, was the head electrician at the Atlantic City Convention Hall, and that’s where the Beatles were going to be. He asked me if I wanted to go, and I said, “Sure.”

So I get down there, and I think Jackie DeShannon opened the show. They were nice and quiet for her. Then, as soon as Hy Lit from Philly radio said, “Here’s the Beatles,” it hit. They opened with “Twist and Shout,” and I left right after “Twist and Shout” because it was really loud.

Anyway, I’m going to be talking with her next week, and we’re going to be talking about the Steel Pier alumni reunion.

Make sure you put that on your calendars, everybody out there. It’s August 23rd up on the pier. If you worked at Steel Pier, performed at Steel Pier, were in Tony Grant’s Stars of Tomorrow, were on Ed Hurst’s Summertime at the Pier, or just liked coming to the pier, we want you there.

I worked there for 10 years, from 1963 until 1973. I did lie about my age, but I needed a job. I did everything on the pier, from barking the games - “Hey, step right up!” - and the whole nine yards. I ran the diving bell, and I actually took care of the diving horses on the pier back in the day.

We’re going to have this great event, and the Catanoso family is still taking great care of the pier. They’ve got excellent rides up there, and they’re going strong - 128th year this year. When the pier opened in 1898, the opening act was John Philip Sousa’s band, and the host also recalls Wild Bill Hickok and Annie Oakley shooting targets off the back.

Oh, I wish I could see that.

All right, we’re going right now to the owner of the fabulous Steel Pier, my good friend and boss, Tony Catanoso. And I get his name right all the time.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Hey, what do you say? Everything all right?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Everything’s good. Thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, sure. Everybody’s going to Steel Pier, of course. How is it over there today? You’re having a nice day today?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Beautiful day.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yeah, beautiful day.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
A lot of families here really enjoying themselves.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And you’ve got the new coaster going. You’ve got that Sky Coaster. You’ve got the helicopter. Who’s playing at the Tiki Bar today?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
You know what? [Live-act name unclear in source] today, I can tell you.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Okay.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
The front today is [unclear].

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Wow. Yeah, those guys are good.

And this is right on the Boardwalk, ladies and gentlemen. They have food out there. You still have that fabulous seafood buffet, right?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Yes. We’ve got the seafood buffet and the Crab House there on the front. We’ve got 12 other food outlets up here with everything you can imagine for boardwalk food: hamburgers, hot dogs, funnel cake, french fries, cheesesteaks, pizza. We’ve got it all.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And you’ve got all the games. You have the games and everything, and it’s all separate tickets. Tell them about the observation wheel.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
We’re the third-largest observation wheel in the United States. We’re 227 feet, with 40 climate-controlled gondolas. So you can get in there and take a snack up with you, a nice drink. It’s air-conditioned, and when it gets a little chilly in the fall, it’s heated.

We’ll keep the wheel open until January 1st. So, yeah, it’s a beautiful ride.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
You’ve had people get married on the wheel and stuff, right?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
We’ve had people get engaged on the wheel and have gender reveals on the wheel. They get married right on the wheel deck.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Wow. I mean, that is so cool. You can do private parties at the pier and everything, right?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Oh, yeah. We’ve got two great event spaces. One handles about 250 people, and one handles 150. Then we’ve got the wheel deck, which is a very, very large deck where people do their wedding ceremonies and have parties.

We do bar mitzvahs, reunions, corporate outings, weddings, engagement parties - a whole array of different things.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And really, anything you want to do, you’ve got it - extreme rides and family rides, helicopter rides, a Slingshot, bars, games, rides. There’s so much to do up there in this facility.

And the facility at the end, where the helicopter lands, that’s beautiful.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Yeah, the Ocean Reef Bar. You can have a drink. You’re a thousand feet over the ocean, and you have an incredible view of the city skyline down the beach. You can watch the helicopter come in and out, which is pretty exciting.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
That is pretty cool.

And you’ve got that new bar where we’re going to be next Sunday, on the 23rd. Is that called the Sandbar, or is that now the T.C. Bar?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
That’s the Sandbar. The T.C. Bar is on the Boardwalk. The Sandbar is right there on the pier. When you come through the archway, it’s over to the right and overlooks the beach. There’s beach access there and stairs down to the beach.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, cool.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
It’s a nice little bar. We’ve got couches and chairs there, umbrellas. You can really, really enjoy yourself.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yeah. We’re getting everybody ready to go - all the Tony Grant alumni and the Ed Hurst people and everybody. We’re all going to be there next week with Teddy Fusco and yours truly. It should be a lot of fun for the Steel Pier alumni reunion.

You know, I’ve told you a thousand times, I worked there from ’63 to ’73. Today is the anniversary of Woodstock, right? I was working at the pier on the diving bell on Friday, August 14, 1969, and Bart Beck, my boss, said to me, “You’re not thinking about going to Woodstock, are you?”

I said, “I don’t think so, boss.” When you worked at the pier back then, you couldn’t take a day off because if you took a day off toward the end of the year, it was, “I’ll see you next summer.”

So I did not get to go to Woodstock, but I was at the pier running the diving bell on August 15th.

One of my other stories about running the diving bell was when we had the moon landing. Tiny Tim was up in the Music Hall, and Duke Ellington was out on the end. We had a TV in the break room right across from where the diving bell was, in the hallway there.

We were letting everybody know, and I went over and told my boss. That’s when I was on the microphone out there at the diving bell, doing the loading-platform spiel. He said, “Jimmy, go tell everybody we’re on the moon.”

We were packed, because remember what used to happen when it rained up there? It would be so packed you couldn’t move through the hallway.

I told everybody, and everybody cheered. That was really cool.

The pier - I’m so glad you guys are keeping it going and everything. How’s your mom doing?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
So good. Ninety-five.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And she’s got 40 grandkids at this point - grandkids and great-grandkids.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Exactly. And she gets up here once a week, enjoys the casinos, makes appearances, and sees us. She’s doing strong. Thanks for asking.

But, yeah, this is our 36th summer up here on Steel Pier. So we’re the longest-running operators of the pier since it was built in 1898. I did the math - who had it, when they had it, and how long they had it - and we’ve been running it the longest out of its 128-year history.

It’s really special to be a torchbearer of such a great, iconic brand.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And you guys -

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
I’m sorry.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
No, it’s okay.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
The stories and the memories we hear from people who visit us are just amazing.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, it’s so cool. Again, I remember meeting your dad back in the day. You guys were all down in Wildwood first, right?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Yeah. We’re from North Wildwood. I had an insurance agency, and we used to write amusement insurance. That’s how I hooked up with some of my clients and built some go-kart tracks. That’s how we got started with go-karts down in North Wildwood.

Then we were able to make contact with Trump in ’92 and talk him into letting us put something up there for a couple of years. We just stayed and never looked back.

He treated us right. He liked us, kept extending our lease, and eventually, in 2011, he sold us the place. He leased to us for about 20 years. He was fair with us. Whenever I had an issue, he would call me and check in with us. He’d come and see me every summer. He treated us fairly, and he was a good landlord.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yeah, so that’s a good thing. It’s so cool.

And you’ve had quite a few stars. You actually let Jimmy Buffett land on the end when he did that thing on the beach, right?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Oh, yeah. We’ve had Jimmy Buffett land, and Diana Ross. Tony Bennett was out here one time. I came out in the morning, and he was walking his dog back in the ’90s.

There have been a lot of celebrities out here. The Cake Boss did a feature out here for our grand opening on June 24, 2012.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Right.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
He filmed an episode, and he built a replica of our carousel. It was a 2,000-pound cake, and it actually collapsed on the truck ride down. It was the only cake he ever had collapse, but it was one of the most-watched episodes.

It was really pretty interesting. The cake was amazing.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yeah. That was pretty crazy.

Do you know that [name unclear], from the Marine Mammal Stranding Center, actually dove the horse once or twice back in the day? That’s where they got the idea from Ocean World when they bought that stuff from Aquarama back in the day. That’s where she met Bob Shelkoff, because he was the manager. That’s when I met them, and I actually swam in that tank when we had dolphins and everything there.

She says hello. We’re going to be raising some funds for her at the event that we’re going to have on the 23rd.

We’re also going to have the lady who wrote the book The Last American Diving Horse. She rescued two of the horses. When they shut the pier down, they put down one horse, Powder Face, that had actually been diving from 1957 until the pier closed. But Gamal and Shiloh were both saved by Cleveland Amory, who had the Ranch of Hope.

The woman who wrote the book about it took Gamal up to New Hope. She is going to be at the event on the 23rd selling her book, The Last American Diving Horse. We’re going to be giving one away that day.

I thought that was so cool that she’s going to be there. One of the diving-horse girls, Terry McDevitt, is coming also. She’s one of the last girls who dove the horse back in the day. She’s actually a school crossing guard in Atlantic City now. That’s so cool. I just think that’s so cool.

A lot of the people who worked the rides and a lot of the divers are coming because they’re on vacation now. My old diver friends are all coming. I sent a note to Frankie Avalon. I don’t know if he’s going to make it, but we’ll see.

The memories for everybody - and the best part about this whole thing - is that we want the Tony Grant people to be there and the people who were on Ed Hurst. If you performed on the pier, or you just loved going to the pier, we want you there.

I’m going to be there in the bar. I already checked the long-range forecast from my weatherman, Jim Everwine. It looks like we’re going to have a nice day next Sunday, and it’s going to be a lot of fun.

Take your family up to the pier. Now, give the website and the phone number. If somebody wants to book a party or something with Sharon or whatever, how do they find you?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Go to the website. Everything’s on there: SteelPier.com. That’s all they need to do. The phone numbers and everything are on there.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
So, if you go to SteelPier.com. You’re open now until Halloween, right? You stay open after Labor Day?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
We’ll go weekends right through the end of October, and then we’ll stay open weekends, with some weekday operations, until January 1st.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And all the rides? You’ve got all the rides running? What time do you guys open - 12?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Twelve on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays, and two during the week.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And what time do you close?

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
We close at midnight during the week and a little later than that on weekends.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Dude, I love it.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
Jim, thank you. Thanks for having me on the show. I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Good luck with it. I owe my career to that place. Mr. Ham used to always say to me, “Jim, you’re going to end up in show business,” and here I am, still doing it 51 years later.

We love Steel Pier, the Showplace of the Nation, and we’ll keep giving it plugs all the time, my boss. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
All right.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
I’m going to come over.

Speaker 3 - Tony Catanoso:
You got it, Jim. See you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Okay. Bye-bye.

Give him a big “ooh” and an “ah” there.

[Sound effect / voices: “Ooh! Ah!”]

Great.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Anyway, let’s see. So we got Tony in today. I didn’t write the number down, Tom, so could you send it back to me again? I know it’s 800, but I don’t know the rest.

Oh, I’ve got it now. 888-627-6008. That’s the number to call if you want to say hello before we leave the airwaves here today on our new station, BBS.

This is a cool station. You’ve got to go on the site, BBSRadio.com, and look at all the other stuff that we have. We’re national, and we want you to support our show. If you go on the site, you can click on my show, and make sure you tell everybody. As soon as this show is done, you’ll be able to listen to it right on the site.

It is so great to be back on the radio and here at Pleasantville Music. Make sure you stop in and see us here at the music shop. We are now featuring vinyl, and you’ll be able to listen to it right here at the store.

We have an excellent guitar tech whose name is Tom Hawk, who does all the work. We have lessons here. We’ve been here since 1938, folks. My father-in-law, Gaston Ragno, got this business going. He put a lot of music in people’s hands.

My wife Joanne and I are so proud to be here at the store, maintaining the music. Music is so important in your life.

Another footnote about Woodstock today: I know a lot of you went to it and stuff. I wanted to go, but I saw the movie, and the movie is really cool.

We had the Atlantic City - I think it was called the Jazz Festival or something - out at the Atlantic City Racetrack. It had almost every group that was at Woodstock, too, and that was about the week before Woodstock.

So anyway, if you’re a Woodstock guy, I hope you had a good time.

We’ve got a lot more coming up here. It’s about 20 minutes before the hour, and we love having you here on the big show.

I have a couple of new jokes I wanted to tell today. We used to have Craine’s Comedy Corner. We can’t do that anymore, so, you know.

Like I said, if you want to call in, 1-888-627-6008. We’ve got a few minutes left.

I told my six-year-old, “I have never seen Frozen. Could you summarize it for me?” The little girl looked at him and said, “If I summarize it, it’ll be melted.”

Ah, it’s so good having a drummer back.

Two skeletons were having a heated argument. One said to the other, “You bring that pile of old bones over here, and I’ll knock your head off.” The second one ran away because he didn’t have the guts to fight him.

I like that one. I don’t need writers anymore. I’ve got the internet.

Walking home late last night, I passed a hot-fudge sundae, a lemon cheesecake, and a slice of apple pie. I thought to myself, “The streets are strangely desserted tonight.”

That’s not bad either. You can use these, folks.

I applied for a job down at the diner. I told them I could really bring a lot to the table. They said, “I hope you can just clear it. That’s all you have to do.”

Anyway, nobody’s calling in. Why don’t we play that other song so we get the whole thing in? Don’t play it yet, but I’m just saying we’re going to get to the top of the hour here.

For next week, we want to tell everybody that it’s so cool you’re with us here on BBS and The Jim Craine Show.

This is from my big-band album that I did with a lot of the guys from Steel Pier back in the day. We’re going to do this show possibly next year for the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. This is one of my favorite recordings, and I want to dedicate it to all my friends out there who are listening to us.

This is called “My Favorite Things.”

[Music - “My Favorite Things”]

[Jim Craine performs “My Favorite Things.” The automated source transcript contains a mostly complete but error-filled lyric transcription; the musical performance is identified by title rather than silently reconstructing uncertain lyric text.]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
All right. Like I said, you can get that album right here at Pleasantville Music Shop. It only costs $10. It’s on CD, and we have it right here available for you.

I want to let everybody know that Jim Craine and the Atlantic City All Stars will be at - this is actually our 13th year - the Smithville Italian Festival out in Smithville, New Jersey. That’s coming up on September 19th, and it’s from 10:30 until 4:30.

We do four separate shows with Tony DeLuca on piano and accordion. He is a genuine Italian. Andy Lallis plays bass; we’re not sure what his background is, but he’ll be with us. John Guida on sax is going to be with us. My drummer, who has been with me for 51 years, who is from Southville - he’s also a genuine Italian - Ray Nonesy.

It’s a beautiful thing out there. They have bocce ball, and man, you should see these old guys play. It gets a little spirited out there.

It’s out on Route 9 there in Smithville, New Jersey, and it’s one of the biggest-attended festivals they have. The area also hosts Oktoberfest, and the Smithville Inn is out there. The Colonial Inn is actually out there, one of our sponsors for the B&B.

Like I said, a B&B is like staying at home. It’s so nice. Eddie Fitzgerald and his wife, Wendy, do a great, great job.

That’s coming up. Then we have a few other things happening here at the music shop.

If your kid does stuff in school, we’re getting ready for back-to-school here at Pleasantville Music. If you want to get in touch with us, go to PleasantvilleMusic.com. [The host begins giving an email address, but the address is garbled in the source transcript.] Anyway, the website is PleasantvilleMusic.com.

Like I said, we’re so glad to be here, and we’re going to be having a lot of great guests.

I just heard back from Kathy Garver. That’s the lady who played Cissy on Family Affair, and it’s the 60th anniversary of her show. She’s going to be with us in a couple of weeks.

Joyce Bulifant, who was on Match Game and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, is going to be with us, too, along with a lot of other fun things.

I’m getting all back into the groove here on The Jim Craine Show on a Saturday. We’re here in the afternoons at Pleasantville Music Shop, and I want to be here with you all on the BBS Radio Network.

[Store phone rings]

Uh-oh, somebody’s got to get that. That’s the store phone. My wife will get it. That’s somebody calling in a complaint, I guess. Who knows?

Anyway, stay tuned to BBS and whatever is coming up next. It’s such a great pleasure to be here on Saturday afternoons.

We’ve got our great bye-bye song coming up in two seconds or so. I just want to say, in the words of the great Red Skelton, good night and God bless.

And don’t forget to go on BBSRadio.com and subscribe and tell us you like our show.

So nice to be with you here. Good night and God bless. Thanks, everybody.

[Closing Theme Song]

Speaker 1 - Prerecorded Theme Vocal / Announcer:
Another story, another song, another hour has rolled along, but the laughter and the memories keep shining when the lights are gone.

From the boardwalk to your radio, where old friends meet and new ones grow, Jim Craine will leave the light on until it’s time for the next show.

So long, but never goodbye. Keep a little music in your heart and a little laughter in your soul. We’ll meet again where the good times start, on The Jim Craine Show.

Join Jim Craine Saturdays from 2 to 3 Central on BBS Radio TV, Station 1.

Until the next tide rolls in.