The first time I met Victor Gold, it was at his home in Falls Church just outside of DC where he told me something I’ve never forgotten.(At the time I was smitten by his daughter) Mr. Gold was the type of person who when wasn’t suited up to watch the Crimson Tide demolish another team on TV, or busy writing a new book, could be found in the Whitehouse assisting several of our presidents.
When I had the privilege of meeting him, he was writing the screenplay for a movie based on one of his novels. After touring the house and admiring the pictures of all the famous people who had visited his home before me, including his good friend Bear Bryant, I asked how the scriptwriting was going? He said that it was finally finished, but when he showed it to me, surprisingly, it appeared to be less than a third the size of the original book. When I queried him about how much he left out, he said, “Absolutely nothing!” Noticing the confused look on my face he explained, “George there’s a scene in the novel where a woman is visiting her husband in prison which took me thirteen pages to describe. I wanted the reader to be able to visualize how dark and rainy the day was, and how gloomy the prison looked as she walked towards the entrance where the intimidating guards awaited her.” The cameras he claimed, will show all of this in less than five seconds.
Ahh, I said to him, “Are you suggesting Vic that it would behoove a disc-jockey to use some descriptive phrases which may start a movie in the mind of the listener, helping them see what he’s saying?” Exactly!
Ahh, I said to him, “Are you suggesting Vic that it would behoove a disc-jockey to use some descriptive phrases which may start a movie in the mind of the listener, helping them see what he’s saying?” Exactly!
A FEW OTHER THINGS THAT WERE RUNNING THROUGH MY MIND (they dare not walk)…
Victor Gold, (pictured above) also told me, “Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets replaced not greased.”
You’re only deemed courageous when everyone else is afraid, and you’re not.
The only women I know who are treated as sex objects are those who wear too much makeup, show lots of cleavage while strutting around in stiletto heels wearing very short skirts.
Does anybody other than the government give a damn what Mr. Businessman wants?
Walt Disney believed that it all came down to metaphysics. You either believed life was good or you believed it would turn out bad. Oh, and if you believed bad, you couldn’t work at Disney.
Hey FCC, listen up. Most radio stations in America don’t have a local staff so they couldn’t have handled the Santa Rosa fires which would mean that peoples lives would have been in danger. Fortunately, KZST handled the crises just fine.
Men have a lot of “me too” stories too; unfortunately, I guess we liked them.
I think the saddest day in a man’s life would be the day that he discovers he’s not even the star of his own story.
What do you do when you finally get what you dreamed about, and it doesn’t make you happy?
I yearn to see a golden triangle.
It only takes one person to start and end a dispute.
I wonder how much money businesses are losing by saving money?
Is it possible to buy anything without being upsold?
Figuring out how to do product placement should be radio’s new quest.
The responsibility of a program director is to make his or her radio station sound as good as it’s fans already thought it did.
Just because the PPM device is deaf in the early mornings doesn’t mean the listeners are.
92.3 % of all statistics are made up on the spot including this one.
My old pal Aristotle claims that what you perceive the truth to be, doesn’t change what the truth is.
Not only will the truth set you free, sometimes it will make you laugh out loud.
For years back home in Canada, the slogan on our license plates read, “Friendly Manitoba.” I don’t think that would ever work well in Quebec.
How come most real estate agents are so good looking?
The population of our planet is almost eight billion people, and only eleven of them are qualified to be called Victoria’s Secret Angels. How much should that gig pay do you suppose?
Through all my years of consulting various radio stations, the only thing they had in common was the PDs telling me that they were already doing what I suggested that they should do.
Most great radio stations had a cause, but I don’t believe paying down the debt was one of them.
Accountants don’t have ears they only have eyes, so we radio people all look the same to them, so they go with the cheapest.
Great radio personalities observe life and describe it using an exaggerated and slightly distorted view.
I wonder what radio would sound like today if TV hadn’t come along?
Rich people only care about saving money. People who want to get rich only care about making money.
Why do politicians think that they have more rights than the rest of us?
I truly believe that lobbyists harm America but the only people who can get rid of them are the only people who derive any benefit from them. The politicians.
It cost $30 a tank more to fill your car up in Canada than the US. Hey, somebody’s got to pay for that free health care.
Hey NFL, the longer you let the Dolphins hang around, the sooner Jay Cutler is going to turn into a real QB.
The first rule of showbiz is to get noticed, but if you’re not talented, that may not be a good thing.
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The only other thing you heard in common from every PD you ever consulted is “But George, this market’s different….”
You’ve been quoted as replying, “Yeah, I guess you’re right. I guess the Beatles were a stiff here…”
That’s true Doug I did hear the old, “This market’s different” quote a lot. My actual answer was, “Oh Elvis & the Beatles didn’t make it here huh?”