[BC] Just for fun - a little serious too.

[Barry Mishkind]

In the late 1960s, I remember announcing, after a spurt of dead air:
" ... and that was the original version of Simon and Garfunkle's 
Sounds of Silence"

At 08:08 PM 3/8/2009, Dana  Puopolo wrote:
>In the movie FM, Martin Mull claimed that the minute of dead air was a song
>from Marcel Marceau's greatest hits LP...
>
>-D
>
>From: Mike McCarthy <Towers at mre.com>
>I heard the basis of that line on WMAQ in the late 70's after 30 seconds of
>nothing.  The talent came on and said, "That moment of silence was brought
>to you by the Chicago Public Library." I looked at the guy I was with and
>said only in a major market would someone come up with that on the fly.