Speaker Identification

Speaker 1 - Prerecorded Announcer / Theme Voice
The opening and closing show themes are clearly prerecorded promotional material for the program.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine, Host
The host repeatedly identifies the program as The Jim Craine Show, discusses his own 51 years in show business, his Atlantic City and Steel Pier history, his music-store location, and personally conducts the interview.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson, Guest
The guest is introduced by the host as Laurie Jacobson. She discusses her books, her comedy background, Beatlemania, classic television performers, her husband and his connection to Lassie, and ProvostPets.com.

Speaker 4 - Off-Mic / Control-Room Voice
A few brief acknowledgments appear to come from a producer or engineer addressed by the host as Don or Donna. The source does not provide enough consistent information to identify this person more precisely.

Speaker 1 - Prerecorded Announcer / Theme Voice:
A lifetime full of stories, and a voice that's still [unclear]. 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.

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.

Who's got the stories? Jim Craine! Who brings the music? Jim Craine! Who keeps Saturday swinging? The Jim Craine Show!

Some voices fade when the curtain falls; some keep that glow 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. 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 performance - "Up a Lazy River." The automated transcription of several lyric lines is unclear.]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine, Host:
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, 51 years in show business - it's me. There you go.

Good afternoon, y'all. How are you doing? How sweet it is. I'm in a Jackie Gleason kind of mood today. It's a beautiful day here in downtown Pleasantville, New Jersey, at the mom-and-pop music shop at the Jersey Shore, 15 East Black Horse Pike in Pleasantville, New Jersey. We're only eight miles outside of Atlantic City. You can hear the people crying, playing the slot machines from here, but that's another story.

It is now five minutes past the hour, so let's hear that birdie real quick. Okay, here we go. When he gets the full thing on this one - in my old show, he never got that long - but anyway, it is so nice to be here with you today.

We're having our Summer Sizzle Sale here at Pleasantville Music, and we've got lots coming up today on the big show. But we have to tell you about our sponsors, so give me the Pilgrim's song, would you?

This is the Duke, Duke Wing Tony, all about our sponsors. You've got to remember Joe Italiano's Maplewood. The Maplewood locations in Vineland, Hamilton, and Mays Landing are the best. And don't forget Pleasantville Music Shop, the mom-and-pop music shop at the Jersey Shore. It is the best.

And Copiers Plus - especially for all your printing needs, getting your printers fixed, or renting a printer. They're the best. The Matthews family in [unclear township].

I'm sorry, I have to laugh.

Anyway, let's not forget the Jonathan Pitney House and the Colonial [Inn/name unclear], the best bed-and-breakfasts here in Absecon, New Jersey, and beautiful historic [unclear].

All right, let's get back to Jim Craine, who's going to tell you what's going on here today.

We've got lots going on this weekend here on the big show, and I already gave you the time. The weather here is partly sunny right now, so it's not too bad.

We're going to have a great guest today. We're going to have Laurie Jacobson. Laurie wrote several books about Hollywood and everything. She used to do stand-up, and she's a really interesting guest. She also is a publicist for a lot of the child stars. She has a great book out about their favorite recipes. We're going to talk about that.

But mainly we're going to talk about the Beatles. I thought she was at Shea Stadium in '65, and I was here in Atlantic City in '64 and saw the Beatles, so we're going to talk about the Beatles. That'll be nice, I think.

Let's see, what else do we have here? I lost my ["Queen's Picks" - unclear] thing, and I don't know what I did with it, but I'll fake it. You know, I write myself notes and lose them, so what are you going to do?

We hope you will support our show and like our show on BBSRadio.com. And if you want to call us, you can. Let's see, I'm getting that number again. My notes are all messed up here today, Don. I'm so sorry. Stand by.

All right. You can call us at 888-627-6008 if you'd like to say hello to us on the air here on The Jim Craine Show on a Saturday afternoon.

But anyhow, like I said, we're going to have Laurie Jacobson. She's really cool. And her husband is actually the guy who played Timmy in Lassie. He's going to be on here with us - he may say hello. I don't know if he's home in California right now, but we will find out.

It's 3:13 on the big show. I've got a couple of good jokes for you today, folks. Got some good ones.

You know, I was walking home last night, folks, and I passed a hot-fudge sundae, a lemon cheesecake, and a slice of apple pie. I thought to myself, "There's something strangely deserted about the streets."

I applied for a job at the diner. I told them I was really good and could bring a lot to the table. They just wanted to know if I could clear it off.

Oh, this is a beauty. I love this one. What did the bra say to the hat? "You go on ahead, and I'll give these two a lift."

Thank you.

And I'm going to give you this one. I have to, folks. I have to. I'm sorry, but, you know, I'm a stand-up comedian at heart. Always have been. Fifty-one years in show business. This one's good.

A genie granted this guy a wish. He says, "I want to be happy." Now I'm living in a cottage with six other dwarfs and working in a mine. Hi-ho, hi-ho!

There we go.

It's getting close to our guest here. We just want to tell you that tomorrow is the big Steel Pier Alumni Reunion. That's right. I worked at Steel Pier for 10 years straight, from 1963 until 1973. Took care of the diving horses. Hey, I shoveled horse poop, but I was in show business!

Anyway, we're going to have the big thing tomorrow. The weather is going to be absolutely perfect. If you worked at the Steel Pier or performed on the Steel Pier in Tony Grant's Stars of Tomorrow - Frankie Avalon, Bobby Rydell, Fabian, Connie Francis, they were all back in the day - Tony Grant was like the Ted Mack. Betsy Daley is going to be there.

So if you were a Tony Grant dancer or performer, get yourself in gear. And the Ed Hurst Summertime on the Pier show - if you danced on that, then you've got to come over and see us tomorrow. Or, like I said, if you just loved going to the Steel Pier.

The Steel Pier this year is 128 years old, and they've been there forever. I love the history of that place because, growing up there, I saw every act there was. I started ushering in the Music Hall and the Marine Ballroom back in the day: Herman's Hermits, the Rolling Stones, the McCoys, Tommy James and the Shondells, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich's big band, the Glenn Miller Band under a lot of different directors, and everything.

We had a big-band show actually on the pier called the Steel Pier Big Band, and they have an album out still to this day that they recorded in New York. That's where I got the idea to have my big-band album, Steel Pier Remembered, which is available right here at the Pleasantville Music Shop.

I also wanted to tell you about Pleasantville Music Shop real quick because we are selling vinyl here at nice prices. We're not buying any, though, because I have plenty, and we have a lot of selections and a whole bunch of different stuff.

It's coming up on back-to-school time here at Pleasantville Music Shop, and we do the rentals for all the schools in our local area - instruments for kids to learn. I think that's great. I'm the rep for the schools, and I love going to the schools and talking to the kids about learning music.

I went to Holy Spirit Grammar School, and one nun found out I could sing, so you know where I was every Sunday. I owe my career to this nun. Her name was Sister Bernardo [spelling uncertain], the nicest lady you ever met, and she could play a swinging organ. She was really good. We sang at [hall name unclear] back in the day before it was Resorts and did a lot of performances. We had the pretty choir things and everything. That's where I learned all about harmony, which is kind of interesting.

I just wanted to do one more time check here. It's 3:19 on the program, live from Pleasantville Music. Give me that birdie one more time, will you, Don, please?

[Sound effect.]

See, Don, I missed out on a duck. I got a cuckoo. That's the way it is. And that's called "Dance of the Cuckoos" [following phrase unclear].

We've got to get the Godfather in for the Maplewood, so let's have his music, please.

[Music cue.]

The Maplewood locations in Vineland, Mays Landing, and Hamilton - the best kind of food you're ever going to eat unless your mother made it. That's the way I look at it. Jimmy Italiano, he is one of the absolute best. All three locations serve the gnocchi, the veal parm, the pasta fazool [dish wording partially uncertain]. They give you this beautiful salad and garlic bread even before you eat. I'm telling you, they can cater your parties and they love it.

So go online and check out the Maplewood restaurants. Like I said, they're in Hamilton, New Jersey, Vineland, New Jersey, and down there in Mays Landing, New Jersey. The Godfather gives them three thumbs up, and their food is fantastic.

All right, so that's the Godfather here on a Saturday afternoon on The Jim Craine Show.

I broke up with my old girlfriend Lorraine because I was seeing another girl named Claire Lee. But now the good news is I can see Claire Lee now because Lorraine is gone.

Oh, here's another one. Go on Facebook. We're on Facebook under Jim Craine - C-R-A-I-N-E - and friend me. I also have some tickets to give away for the Steel Pier. So if you want to win them, we'll open the phones up after we talk to Laurie.

Your vet will not tell you this, Don. He will not tell you this. If you have a dog that has a fever, try mustard. Best thing on a hot dog. I'll tell you that.

We also want to remind you that Stan Richards and Sandy Fontana are over at The Cove in Brigantine tonight and tomorrow night. We might go over there after the show tomorrow afternoon and visit them. They do a great job, and they have great food over there. The exact location given in the source is unclear.

We're going to get our guest on the phone. I had one more here. I love this one today. This is "in the news today." I do that news voice.

In the news today: Tesla founder Elon Musk is originally from South Africa, which is kind of strange. You'd think he must have been from Madagascar.

We hope you're enjoying the program. We've got more music coming up, and we're going to be talking to Laurie about the Beatles. I was there in Atlantic City. I went to that show in August - I think it was August 30, 1964 - and I got to go because I was working at the pier.

My boss was the electrician on the Steel Pier, and he was also the guy who took care of Convention Hall. He wanted to know if I wanted to go, so I said, "Sure." It was at 8:30 at night. My mother didn't care. "Go." She didn't care.

Jackie DeShannon was on first. She sang, and everybody was quiet. Then Hy Lit, one of our biggest DJs from around here - rated up there with Cousin Brucie - he was from WIBG in Philly back in the day. As soon as he said, "Here's the Beatles," it went crazy.

They sang. The first song was "Twist and Shout," and all you heard was screaming. It was so loud. I was way up in the balcony on the right-hand side of the stage. I could see them perfectly. One of our local guys, Larry Kane, was with them, and that was like one of his first jobs.

We're getting close to guest time, but I want to say congratulations to the Atlantic City Beach Patrol - my beach patrol. That's the one I worked on. They won the [event name unclear] last night, and I think they're seven-and-oh this year, so they did really well. That's a cool thing. I'm really glad they did that.

During these summer months, only swim at a beach that has lifeguards. It can get dangerous out there, and they're going to help you. When the beach closes, get out of there. There was a recent incident in [place unclear] involving a young person after the beach closed [remainder unclear].

I had so many arguments with people about getting out of the water at the end of the day. They'd argue and say, "I have the right to be here." The ocean can get crazy. Those rip currents are not nice. We did a lot of after-hours rescues back in the day.

So remember: swim at the lifeguard stations when they're open. Most of them are 10 to 6 every day, all up and down the Jersey Shore - or wherever you live while listening to us on BBS Radio.

Like I said, we're going to have our guest and talk about the Beatles, and that's our good friend Laurie Jacobson. Don, let me know when she's on the line. That's going to be a good thing here on the Saturday-afternoon extravaganza known as The Jim Craine Show.

It feels so good to be back. I want to give a shout-out to Les Saltzman [spelling uncertain] down in Palm Beach with the horses. He used to rent the horses on the beach back in the day with his family and had the My Way Lounge [name uncertain].

We've got Les listening today. Lorraine is listening - we told her joke a little while ago. Big fan of The Jim Craine Show. We hope Justin McCarthy [spelling uncertain] is out there listening today, my former producer from back when we were on the air for 14 years.

I was a disc jockey, and I've had this voice since I was a child. I used to call people up, back when you couldn't see who was calling, and I'd go, "Hey, you just won a million dollars on the Cash Call. Do you know the code?" They'd be like - you know, that was pretty cool.

Ladies and gentlemen, she was just 17 - you know what I mean. Laurie Jacobson's on the phone, and I'm still madly in love with her. Don't tell John.

Hey, Laurie, how are you?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson, Guest:
I'm good.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
I love the crowd. You know, when Connie Francis was on the phone, she thought I really had an audience. God bless her. I miss her. I love Conchetta. I had her twice here on the show, as a matter of fact, and I saw her at Steel Pier many a time back in the day.

How is Timmy? Is he staying away from the well and everything?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Yes, he is. He's doing just great. He had that event in Wayne, New Jersey.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, what a city slicker. He was in Wayne, New Jersey, doing a collie thing last week. And you guys are big pet advocates, right? I mean, you support getting a dog from a shelter instead of getting a breed or whatever. That's really cool.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Absolutely. And I want to invite your listeners to go to ProvostPets.com. We have created a CBD product for dogs and cats that helps keep them calm in stressful situations. You know, fireworks, going to the vet - some animals hate riding in the car - and separation anxiety is a big deal. Our product also helps with arthritis and joint pain.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
That's great. Like I would know nothing about that! I've been a pet freak for quite a while. I had a couple of dogs. I had an Airedale that was crazy. I mean, that dog -

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
They're such a great breed.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
We had her for like 15 years, and fireworks - oh, no. She'd be right next to you shaking. It was really something.

Did you hear that joke?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
I heard the one about the hot dog.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
No, I missed that one? Something your vet will never tell you: if your dog has a fever, the best thing for a hot dog is mustard.

Anyway, you still have all of your great books, and I didn't know you did stand-up. How long did you do stand-up?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Not that long. I'll tell you, I was in a comedy-improv workshop that was run by the late, great Harvey Lembeck. Some of my classmates were the as-yet-undiscovered comedians Robin Williams, John [surname unclear], John [surname unclear], and a bunch of other people. They all came from the world of stand-up, so I thought I would give that a try.

I did it for a short time. It was like the more I did it, the worse I got. I started out good, but people kept giving me advice. There weren't that many women doing it, and you'd be lucky to go on at two o'clock in the morning in a smoke-filled room. So I thought - you know.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
What clubs did you work? The Comedy Store? Did you work the Store?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Yeah.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
I'll tell you a neat Robin Williams story. I was working at the Sands. We used to do this game show called the Island Sweepstakes. It was in the showroom, and I was in my tuxedo like Monty Hall. I gave away cars and money and all this stuff, and then they used to have a big dinner and everything.

That particular night at the Sands Hotel Casino, Robin was there with Eddie Murphy's band, The BusBoys, at 12 o'clock. We got done at 10. I'm walking out of the stage area, I turn the corner, and there's Robin. He's standing right there, and he's in full Mork. You knew it was him.

I walked over to him and put my hand out, and he goes, "Hello, mustache person. How are you?" It was so neat to talk to him.

There was a bar right across the street - it was called the Colonial Inn or the Colony [name uncertain]. It was open all the time and had a pool. Everybody used to go there. It was right across the street from the Sands, and we took him over there. The place went ballistic. You're hanging out with Robin Williams.

He amazed me with how he could ad-lib, and so fast. He used to ad-lib like there was no tomorrow. He was singular in the way his brain worked. Everybody knows there was not another brain like it.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Nope. And on top of that, he was the kindest man - gentle and sweet and fun.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
He was great. I love that video when he's with the gorilla that did sign language.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Oh, yeah. Koko.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yeah. That was amazing, wasn't it? And watching Comic Relief, with people like Don Rickles - that was real comedy to me.

I always want to ask you about some of the people you know. Do you have any contact with [names unclear]? I'd love to talk to them. That would be awesome, if you could work that out for me.

And you said Billy Gray's still doing pretty good. I had him on three times, thanks to you.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Billy's still active. I book him at shows, and he loves to go. He's kind of the grandpa of our group, among the baby boomers. He's well into his 80s, and he is really amazing.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
I love talking to him about The Day the Earth Stood Still. I still watch that. Joanne gets mad at me because I watch a lot of old movies. When that's on, I'm going to watch it, just to hear "Nikto."

You handle a lot of people. Don't you still have the girl from Dennis the Menace? I can't remember her name.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Jeannie/Jenny Russell [spelling to verify].

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yes, of course. I'd love to talk to her in the future because she's a chiropractor. She's a chiropractor, right?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Yes.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And I go to a chiropractor, so we'll have something -

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
I was going to say, you have that in common.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
That's true.

Let's get to the Beatles. Did you go to Shea Stadium?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
No, I did not. I'm trying to think how old I would have been in '65. I was about 12, and I was at summer camp, I'm sure, when it occurred. Besides that, I lived in St. Louis.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, then that would be a long walk.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
My parents wouldn't have let me go quite that far. But I did see them in St. Louis the following year, in '66.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Wow.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
So I have seen the Beatles, and it is memorable. But that Shea Stadium concert changed everything.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
I mean everything, not just concerts. For example, as you said, the screaming began. Two years later, they still opened with "Twist and Shout." I think that's so funny.

But the second they started, nobody could see them. They were like little ants down there, and nobody could hear them. Technology woke up the next morning and said, "This is the future, and we have failed."

When you think that just four years later there was Woodstock, with half a million people, everybody could see the people on stage. They had invented the screens. They didn't have those back at Shea, and they had improved the sound system.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, yeah. That was a Shure [model name unclear]. That's what those things on the sticks were called - that PA system. That's what we always called them.

Like I said, I saw them at Convention Hall here, and I only stayed for one song. But we had A Hard Day's Night that whole summer in the movie theater at Steel Pier. You had to tell the girls to shut up, and I can act out that whole movie. And the other one, Help!, it was the same situation. You had to tell the girls to shut up. It was there for the whole summer. That's another one I can act out.

One of my favorite scenes is when he has his hand in the mailbox and they grab him, and John goes, "What are you doing?" "Posting a letter." It's just so funny.

The Beatles will always be there. They'll always be there.

And when I interviewed people for - it's called Top of the Mountain, right? You can get it on Amazon, or where do we get it?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Sure, you can get it on Amazon. You can get it at Provost Pets. And if you get it at Provost Pets, I can sign it to you.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Isn't that nice? Talk about Top of the Mountain.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
It's called Top of the Mountain because, several years later, John was out with Sid Bernstein, who was the promoter of that concert, and they were reminiscing about it. John turned to Sid and said, "I saw the top of the mountain on that unforgettable night."

It truly was the absolute peak of Beatlemania. They played Shea Stadium the following year, and it wasn't even a sellout because John had made the "more popular than Jesus" comment, and things dropped off.

That moment when they walked out onto the field at Shea and saw, for the first time, 56,000 people gathered in one place to hear them - they had been frightened. They didn't know what to expect. The mayor of New York said, in effect, that if 10,000 of those people decided to rush the stage, there would be nothing anyone could do.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And those girls were going nuts. You remember The Ed Sullivan Show. There are stories about those girls in the audience and everything.

I just watched a video of Paul on with David Letterman, and the exchange was something like, "How come you never wanted to be on our show?" and Paul replied, "I don't like the show" [exact wording unclear]. I thought that was great. Only he could get away with saying that to Letterman.

Have you ever met any of them?

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
No, I haven't.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
You never got to meet them. I was this close one time when Paul was here. A guy who's on my big-band album, Vic Powell [name to verify], was a sax teacher back in the day. This was after Linda had passed, and Paul was here in Atlantic City with his new wife, and she played sax [details to verify].

My buddy who used to teach here said, "I'm going over to Convention Hall. I've got to teach Paul McCartney's wife." I said, "What? Can I go?" He said, "No, you can't go."

He went over there, and they invited his whole family to come to Convention Hall to see the show. That was really cool. Vic Powell has passed, but he was one of the best musicians here in Atlantic City. Paul sat with him after the lesson, and they reminisced about teaching. Can you imagine how cool that must have been?

Vic Powell is also the only person I know who told Frank Sinatra, when they were playing in Palm Springs, that he didn't want to come back to his house. He's the only person I know to get away with it. That's unbelievable.

Before we run out of time, talk a little bit about the one book I really loved - the one with the recipes. I gave it away to my sister-in-law. Talk about that.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Oh, well, I have two. I think the one you mean is TV Dinners.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Yeah, TV Dinners. That's it.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Well, as you mentioned, my husband is John Provost from Lassie [first-name spelling to verify]. I have had the enormous pleasure over these last 30 years to be friends with all of his peers, his friends from back in the day: Angela Cartwright, Bill [surname unclear], Stan/Stanley [Livingston - exact name unclear], Paul [Peters/Petersen - spelling unclear], and [Jay/Jane] North, and the list goes on and on.

They're wonderful people. Their generation ushered in television popularity - TV history, Leave It to Beaver, Dennis the Menace, everybody.

The book gives their favorite recipes. So many of these shows were on at dinnertime that TV dinners were invented for this generation, along with TV trays and all the accoutrements that went with them. I had this lovely idea to bring the TV-dinner generation together.

There's a biography of each person. There are 40 former kid stars in the book, with a bio of each one, lots of photos, and then their favorite recipe from back in the day.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
It's awesome. It's a great book to have on the coffee table and let everybody look at it.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
If you're a baby boomer, believe me, your childhood is in there.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And Billy [surname unclear] and Angela are coming to Philly. I already told them, "You must be on my show." Don't forget, I'm 60 miles from Philly.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Also, at the end of September, John and I will be in Quakertown.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, there you go.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
We're going to a tavern that was built in 1747. Two hundred years after that, a man named Eric Knight went there every day with his typewriter and his collie dog, and he wrote the novel Lassie Come-Home.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
No kidding.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
No kidding. All the Lassie movies and the TV shows are based on that book. They thought it would be an incredible full-circle moment for John to be there. So we're coming on Sunday afternoon, September 27.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Oh, we will talk again. That's when I get to talk to the boy from the well. I've got to get you back on, and we're going to plug that. Get John to post that on Facebook so I can write it down and everything.

Laurie, do you know how nice it is that you guys are my friends? I can call [name unclear] my friend. I haven't talked to Jerry in quite a while, but I still get emails. I appreciate so much that I got to talk to Tony Dow a couple of times.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
He was such a sweetheart.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
He was. And Max Gail - Wojo. Wojo was so great.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Max is the best man.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
I got such a kick out of him. I still watch those reruns.

Before we let you go, give your website again.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Provost.com.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
There you go. And you're on Facebook still and all that good stuff. Make sure you tell Johnny that I said hello. If you see Paul Petersen or any of those guys, and Chip and everybody, tell them I said hello. [Several following names are unclear.] I want to get Billy set back up. I want to talk about The Day the Earth Stood Still again.

And I have to call my friend Sarah [surname unclear], because she loves how good I do her father's line: "You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch."

All right, my dear. You stay well. Thanks. We love you. Just go on BBSRadio.com, and you'll be able to hear this whole interview later this week.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Okay. Fabulous.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Thanks for being with me.

Speaker 3 - Laurie Jacobson:
Thank you.

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
Bye-bye there.

[Retro Maplewood commercial plays. The automated transcript contains an obvious repeated-phrase loop and does not preserve usable commercial copy.]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
And that's a retro commercial for them. He had that made back in the '70s, and it still applies.

Like I said, you want to go to the Maplewood, and you want to make sure that you support local businesses, support your small businesses, because they got this whole thing with Fauci. I can't wait till he has to pay everybody back. But that's another story.

I'm just saying, support your local businesses - the small businesses. They're like us. We're a mom-and-pop store, and we can take care of all your musical needs here at Pleasantville Music. It's a really good thing.

Like I said, next week I don't know what we're going to be doing, but we're going to be talking about something. Don't forget the Steel Pier Alumni Reunion tomorrow.

And speaking of the Steel Pier, here's the big band doing one of my favorite instrumentals that we do with the band. It's called "Have You Met Miss Jones?"

[Instrumental music - "Have You Met Miss Jones?" The automated transcript produced repeated filler syllables during the music, which have been removed as transcription artifacts.]

Speaker 2 - Jim Craine:
All right. This is the first time I've played this. Steel Pier Alumni Reunion - or stop in and say hi to us here at Pleasantville Music Shop.

All right, let's go to the nice bye-bye theme. In the words of the great Red Skelton: good night, everybody, and God bless. Thank you.

Speaker 1 - Prerecorded Announcer / Theme Voice:
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 till 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 when 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 time rolls in.