Tom Snyder was one of the best talk show hosts of all time.

@stewartberger7734

Ай бұрын

Top 2 or 3. Very underrated

George Fenneman had such a great voice!

@joetursi9573

Жыл бұрын

He sure did!!

Wow what a great offering played on KZread, Tom Snyder was the best late night TV host ever! Enjoyed hearing all the chit chat from these veterans of the broadcast world. I admire those in the business of "announcing". My voice dropped down several octaves while still in the 7th grade. I wasn't really interested in radio work but with a friend got on the air with a 30 min record stint called 'Teen Top Tunes", the first radio show featuring "teen age" announcers, but have spent more than 65 years as public address voice live or on tape for hundreds of events, was the "voice" heard at local drive inn theatres on tape, and later was one of the very few persons who talked to indoor movie theatre patrons before the movie would begin, that lasted over 10 years and beat radio as there was always about 750 persons to see the show. I am not a professional radio TV announcer, but thousands remember my voice. It is indeed a great profession, Paul, in Spokane Washington.

Loved this segment . I felt I was in a room with some favorite Uncles

Tom was a genius at making you feel like you were going behind the scenes. Very intimate in a "radio-y" sort of way.

@lenhummel5614

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. He was very under rated and had some really great moments and interviews.

Some people put Snyder down, but he was actually quite good, especially when he did the original format without an audience in an intimate setting...perfect for the post 1AM slot. The network wrecked it when they insisted that he add an audience and threw Rona Barrett in.

@arttrombley7385

6 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with You, changing the format ruined everything for Tom and the show.

@michaelterry1000

5 жыл бұрын

I watched Snyder in the 70s and I watch the available KZread videos. Some of his interviews are irreplaceable.

@anniesnyder4776

5 жыл бұрын

he was the best ..you nailed it they destroyed that show on purpose because he was a truth teller.. way back before social media..

@hogfarmersforjustice4804

5 жыл бұрын

Snyder was deceptively good.

@henry20008

4 жыл бұрын

Rona Barrett was just awful

TOM HAD SOMETHING AND WAS SO NICE TO PEOPLE HE MET I BEING ONE OF THEM. SO SAD WE LOST HIM AND SO GLAD I HAD A CHANCE 3 TIMES TO MEET HIM.

Wonderful! I knew these men well from radio and B&W TV. Great to hear them extemporize.

What a wonderful show Tom had that night! I grew up listening to and watching these guys! Thanks so much for sharing this.

♥♥♥♥WONDERFUL to hear these LEGENDS speak again! THIS was the fastest 45 mins that I can remember! It could have gone on FOR HOURS and I wouldn't have noticed.

I love tom snyder I miss him

Wonderful. These guys are so bright, quick, and articulate. and all well passed 60 and 70 ! a treasury of memories and experiences. thanks for uploading this. Tom Snyder had some of the best guests EVER.

I can remember on summer vacations looking forward to staying up really late to see Snyder, very under appreciated late night host, his shows were like a 70’s time capsule

This was really great. So many great stories.

Best interviewer there ever was.

Tom and Dave got me through some all night study sessions in my college years in the early 80s. 😊😊

One interesting thing I enjoyed about Don Wilson -- He grew up in Denver Colorado, so did I. And we both went to Denver North High School (not at the same time) and I even saw Don's annual picture in perusing old annuals! By the way, I"ve been a radio TV announcer myself for 50 years!

Working for Groucho, George Fenneman probably had the best job. What a lucky man.

I always enjoyed Harry Von Zell. Great actor!

I was a teenager when I watched The Tomorrow Show in the mid to late 70's and I truly enjoyed many a show even though I wasn't supposed to be up so late. I can only speak for myself, but although I didn't know many of the people that were guests there were many others that I did know and those that I didn't know were still worth getting to know and be educated on whom they were. Anyway, some shows were very deep in subject and were the kind of show that would not be seen or shown during any family hour. I also remember how much Tom Snyder smoked on the show. Good show and miss this kind of talk show.

@Jay-vr9ir

2 жыл бұрын

Same here , then I had to walk to school , 2 miles in the morning with very little sleep .

A big thing I notice here, as different from today, is that these folks knew how to tell a story, keep it interesting and actually get their point across. You had to actually be good in those days to be employed in the industry. Didn't know Harry Van Zell was a serious CBS News correspondent. I always thought he was a comedienne.

This was a pretty good program, I was in high school at the time when this episode came out. Time fly’s!

What a great show! I miss Tom Snyder and his style of interviewing.

@TheaterPup

8 жыл бұрын

+jennifersman And I miss Dan Aykroyd's SNL imitation of him. ;)

@mr.majestic8713

Жыл бұрын

@@TheaterPup Dan's impersonation of Tom was very funny especially when he would do Tom's laugh!

@TheaterPup

Жыл бұрын

@@mr.majestic8713 Exactly ;D

@mr.majestic8713

Жыл бұрын

@@TheaterPup 🙂

I remember seeing this show when it was on originally, but I knew so much less about these guys in 1978 than I do now. It's a darn shame that Tom didn't give each one of these guys their own hour to reminisce about working with Burns, Benny, Marx, etc. Von Zell worked with Fred Allen as well. Burns was still around when this show was done. I would have loved to have seen an hour with Von Zell and Burns together. In today's age of podcasts you could certainly do that. The late Gilbert Gottfried would have had a great show with these guys.

Love Tom. He always knew when to just sit back. Especially when you have 4 men on who all go way back in the industry. They started to ask each other questions and compare. You get more from that than any preparation interviews they have now.

It is nice to see these gentlemen in their later years. Sadly they would soon pass away just a few years later.

Fascinating interviews with 4 legends

More historic gentlemen than the world has seen....truly a journalistic pleasure.

So glad to hear and see what I missed for along time. So much gratitude for you tube. Charajananda Angelo Harris. 😎

So awesome..thanks for posting.

George fennaman did the introduction to the original dragnet series in the early 1950s

@MrRtoman

5 жыл бұрын

the story you are about to see is true

@deloysterns

Жыл бұрын

Think he was a part of the 1960s rebot as well

Fantastic post. Thanks for your time and effort for posting.

this was awesome thank you.

A lot of us old-timers miss the informal and relaxed feel of late,late night talk perfected by the likes of Snyder,and the somewhat oddball atmosphere of the Joe Franklin show.Today's wee-hour offerings are far less genuinely convivial,although Seth Myers can be quite entertaining.

The Tomorrow Show was a real talk show, void of selatious tabloid stories, just a well done introspective, entertaining show with the perfect sraight laced host.

These are the greatest announcers of all time!

Was in Hollywood early 90s, before Tom died, he was doing a show at a local restaurant I wanted to go, didn't. I could kick myself!

@MrMenefrego1

3 жыл бұрын

Could'a, Would'a, Should'a...

What a Treasure!!!

Brilliant show!

TOM SNYDER IS A LIVING LEGEND!

@siggylloyd3566

Жыл бұрын

You can't be a LIVING legend if you've been dead almost 20 years.

John Reed King was a big name in radio for years. He announced many radio shows most on Mutual.

This is GOLD! 😊😊😊

I was in Burbank before Tom Snyder died. He was doing a live show at a local restaurant. I could kick myself for not going to see the man.

Tom Snyder was the best!

Spot the rugs, ladies and gentlemen, we may have more than one in play.

Mr. Fenneman sounds like Mike Wallace here

Had a friend in college who said he liked to get high and watch Tom Snyder's eyebrows go up and down. :D Harry von Zell made the famous "Hoobert Heever" blooper in 1931. Many people here are lamenting the passing of this casual, unscripted format but the problem for the network was that it didn't attract many viewers, no matter how much they plugged it. Without viewers, advertisers won't pay much to put on commercials.

@Gravydog316

9 ай бұрын

& today, 40 years later, people are still watching it for free on KZread... ...those (so-called) TV execs can learn something - young Canadian chick

I know this isn't the main focus here, but oh my goodness the WSLS station ID slide in the beginning! Finding any recordings of WSLS that predate the Flood of '85 is ridiculously hard!

@Gravydog316

9 ай бұрын

oh why? what flood?

@Hogstuff

9 ай бұрын

​@@Gravydog316 In the fall of 1985, the remnants of Hurricane Juan triggered a freak weather event dumping heavy rain in the Mid-Atlantic, with Virginia and West Virginia getting the worst of it. It is considered to be the worst flooding event in the city of Roanoke's history, claiming 10 lives and $225 million dollars in damages. I am a local tape collector and I have yet to come across any local television recordings made prior to November 1985. I suspect this is because most of those recordings were destroyed during the flood

I came here for George Fenneman.

@Gravydog316

9 ай бұрын

i just heard him on the Simpsons on an old rerun tonight on tv haha

In the past year or so Nov ‘21 to Nov ‘22 I’ve almost completely gone back to watching ‘classic’ television because like the content provider said in the notes of this video, TV was just better and more engaging back then. - It’s more innocent to an extent than the garbage produced today.

Wow!

R.I.P.

Four guests like these men was a bit too much all at once, but this is a lot of fun.

i miss 'ol Tom's stream-of-consciousness bad taste humor. It really was funny...Although ribbing dementia-ridden Harry Von Zell was a little harsh, Tom's remark to him that "They still make compacts, but now it's a different type of powder in them..." Nothing like a good 'coke joke' at 1 a.m. (It's fitting, in the late '70s, actually) to Von Zell when the strongest he's pitched was Carnation Evaporated Milk. ;-) Fenneman's toupe is so bad - and to think he willed it to Sam Donaldson.

@MrMenefrego1

3 жыл бұрын

😂 "and to think he willed it to Sam Donaldson" 😂

@bessied.5694

2 жыл бұрын

You voted for Biden, didn't ya? I recognize the symptoms.

Staff announcers were important people at one time at the networks. They introduced programs, but they were supposed to be the contingency...the go-to if the show failed for some reason. And that continued into Television. All three networks had a live announcer on hand up until the mid 1980s.

I always think of George Fenneman as an actor, for his role in THE THING (1951) -- he's the electrical whiz who figures out how to kill the invader; and Harry Von Zell for his role as a brash, big-talking Texan in a movie with Clifton Webb called FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE.

@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476

9 жыл бұрын

AGGeiger You think of Fenneman as an actor because of "The Thing from Another World"? The guy had maybe two lines in the whole film, and wasn't even credited. :)

@AGGeiger

9 жыл бұрын

Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life There are no small parts -- only small actors.

@DomenicDee

8 жыл бұрын

For what it's worth, I think he did he have an acting part in a Disney movie back in the 70's. \

@lowbaritonewwj

5 жыл бұрын

I know the movie because I am a massive Paul Frees fan, and Paul gets some decent screen time in that film. There is a story about George getting tripped over over some dialog he had to speak, and when he finally nailed it, his co-stars in frame with him work hard to suppress some chuckles. :)

@craigdallas784

5 жыл бұрын

@@lowbaritonewwj Did Chesterfield cigarettes kill Mr. Fenneman?

Where did you get this footage? I'm also looking for a full episode of The Tomorrow Show from 1975. Thanks!

Great show Tom, I hope you’re doing well

@katiezee2

3 жыл бұрын

Not doing so well now, since he's been dead for 13 years

@MrMenefrego1

3 жыл бұрын

@@katiezee2 He sure isn't a *real* Tom Snyder fan, seeing as he had no clue that the man has been dead for well over a decade! 👀

@philiphalpenny3783

2 жыл бұрын

@@katiezee2 Have you seen Tom's rare interview with Cagney from 1980 ? A part of it has just been posted on KZread...

Don Wilson looks and sounds like a combination of Harry Carey and Jack Brickhouse.

I love how at 3:05 he gets so indignant he drops the announcer voice

@boggy7665

Жыл бұрын

And it's over six billion $. How would he have reacted if it was $1.6 trillion.

Best voices and ,funnily enough, most gentlemen on this panel are von Zel and Wilson, who reminds me a bit of Harry Caray. The others are good, but these two are in a class by themselves.

The greats all of them!!!

Fenneman had class

Fascinating to hear these people reminiscing - even on the this side of the Atlantic I knew of Von Zell, Fenneman, and Wilson; not the other gentleman unfortunately. Great professionals.

All of a sudden Don Wilson reminds me of Harry Carry.

Do you have a tape of Sam Peckinpah on Tomorrow, aired September 4, 1974? From what I've heard, Sam was in great form.

Tuesday, April 4, 1978

You certainly picked a wonderful show to end with. To hear these fabulous announcers just being themselves, swapping stories, even if they didn't get Harry VonZell to own up to saying Hoobert Heever. Would you mind if I shared this with the Old Time Radio Lovers FB group?

@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476

9 жыл бұрын

Thanks, corner moose! Glad you enjoyed it. Be my guest, share away with anyone you want. :) If you don't mind, it would be great if you mentioned that it came from the YBYL channel. It astonishes me how many Groucho fans I still run across who don't know this channel exists.

@waynehowell6160

9 жыл бұрын

Will do.

@brainsareus

8 жыл бұрын

+corner moose i used to see Tom,as a bit corny,and,he often still is,to me;but, man,the guy really knew how to provide a great atmosphere,for comfortable conversation. he was much less interesting,with counterculture people;such as, Frank Zappa. but hey,who the hell is perfect,RT??

@pacochamaco5552

8 жыл бұрын

+corner moose He did own up to mispronouncing Hoover's name, just not quite as Kermit Schaffer recreated it. 37:07

The guy in the plaid pants belongs in a multiple-choice quiz: "Which of these does not belong?"

@Gravydog316

9 ай бұрын

??? he belongs he's not as famous though: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_King#Radio_Shows,_Host

@davemitchell116

9 ай бұрын

@@Gravydog316 Not as famous. That's why he doesn't belong.

I forgot all about the bear! From the first time TOMORROW aired, I rarely missed a program, even though I hated the studio audience format.

Classic!

John Reed King rules.

Cool video!!! Do you have anymore episodes?? I've been searching for episode 126 that aired on 4-19-78 shortly after this one....

Maybe the lack of, "Anouncers", is why News is Screws these days. In England the actually call them, "News Readers".

This was the best interview show ever! I used to drink a bottle of scotch while watching this show.

@brainsareus

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Drew i would've gotten plastered,too;but,i was a bit too young.. :)

@JSB1882

8 жыл бұрын

I could have watched Tom Snyder all night long. That hour show did a job on my liver. lol

@brainsareus

7 жыл бұрын

***** pretty good :)

@sweiland75

7 жыл бұрын

What's the point of drinking while watching, if it was already entertaining?

@brainsareus

7 жыл бұрын

sweiland75 Please tell me that's not your most creative inquiry?

Tom, you ain't seen nuttin yet. We wasted 5 trillion now!!!

@Gravydog316

9 ай бұрын

at least you Yanks got a wall... ...oh, wait...

"Drive the new 1957 Desoto today, you won't be sorry" And now back to You Bet Your Life!"

@walterweddle7644

3 жыл бұрын

Visit your DeSoto Plymouth dealer tomorrow and when you do tell them that Groucho sent you. It's delightful, It's Delovely, It's DeSoto!

@m42037

3 жыл бұрын

@@walterweddle7644 If i had the room (and 25k to drop on a car) meaning a garage there's a lot of Desoto's out west for sale. I seen a 56 mint, turn key it was about 25 grand, blue and white. They're so beautful cars and those Fireflight hemi motors are very reliable

jmr the tulpamancers book?...never heard of it..

I saw a sign in a store window, it said, " All Ladies underwear half off ", I quickly ran into the store and it was a lie, they were meerly selling Ladies underwear at reduced prices. What a disappointment.

That flub he speaks about Herbert Hoover must’ve been before the now famous 7-second delay.

✝️

I thought "boob city" was something else.

My late grandmother was a night owl who loved Johnny Carson, HATED Tom Snyder. I can't remember why she hated Snyder so much, but what I do remember is that she could quote you what he said on any given night, and she HATED him. She never missed a single minute, haha! I remember sitting up late and watching with her many times. I usually liked the show.

@ACcountryFan

2 жыл бұрын

There are some people out there who think informality translates into being unprofessional. Tom Snyder was radically different than your typical late-night talk show host and because he wasn't "the same" as the others...combined with his unpredictability when it comes to what he'd say at any given moment...his blunt nature and direct manner of speaking to all kinds of celebrities rubbed some people (celebrities and viewers alike) the wrong way.

Many years ago, I used to do radio news and one day was reading back-to-back stories involving Roswell, New Mexico, and Ken Rosewall, the tennis player. Such a flub! I must add that I, an American well past retirement age, have been living in mainland Southeast Asia for almost sixteen straight years. I genuinely fear to return home, so strange a place do I hear it's become. Americans today don't seem able even to recognize that they're being invaded under terms of an objective that was set in motion 1,400 years ago. I am shocked at the thumb-sucking naïveté in my native land! Programs like the above remind me of the difference between the GREAT country I grew up in and the shockingly suicidal one it has become.

I've seen several comments throughout filled with inaccuracies and random questions. Harry von Zell died from cancer in 1981 at age 75. Don Wilson died from complications of a stroke in 1982 at age 81. George Fenneman, the youngest of the announcer trio, passed away from respiratory failure in 1997 at age 77.

@johnandersen6752

2 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a trio, it was a quartet. Of course Even this KZread channel creator doesn't respect John Reed King. King had one of highest rated radio shows in New York in the 1930's and well as being the host of numerous game shows. He also was the announcer for the radio show Death Valley Days. He was the announcer for"Sky King." He also did a voice on the radio on the show Gilligan's Island. He died in 1979

Harry died 3 years later of cancer.

BEST DAMN SNYDER EVER I LOVE OLD RAIDO & TV & THESES GUYS WERE FANTASTIC !!! & Compleat GENTLEMAN CAUSE THEY COULD OF TAKEN OVER IN A SNAP & SNYDER WOULD OF JUST SMILE &TAKE ANOTHER DRAG Definitely a muti repeat!!!😂😂😂

Damn cigarettes killed Tom.

channel 28 never showed this program--- thank god for cable and wnbc 4

Harry Von Zell was a helluva good physical comedian also.

Tom Snyder begat Art Bell. Both are gone now...

Snyder was great but seemed to have to pause to swallow huge amounts of phlegm...likely from all those smokes....

Ju m oh

Everybody here is already dead and buried.

@joejakubec9708

Жыл бұрын

And as I read this 2 years later, you might be dead. Who cares? Your point?

@RjBenjamin353

Жыл бұрын

@@joejakubec9708 how old are you Slow Joe?

Freehole is close to GloryHole

@MrMenefrego1

3 жыл бұрын

what is "GloryHole"?

@RjBenjamin353

Жыл бұрын

@@MrMenefrego1 put a mirror under your ass. That’s your glory hole dumbass.

These guys had voices. Now they scream.