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 Remembering
Billy Goodman
- Jerry talks with Cosmo, of the Cosmic
Connection TV show about Goodman. Cosmo started in radio as the
producer of the Billy Goodman Happening in 1989- Goodman
broadcast nightly on KVEG at various times but originally he was on
the air from 10:00 to whenever..later he started at Midnight and ran
until at least 3:00 a.m. In both cases he followed Jerry on the air
at the 50,000 AM radio station that covered the entire west like a
blanket.  MP3
Running time: 20 minutes, 41 seconds
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Media VersionRelated Links: Cosmos' new video channel, tvufo Cosmic Connection on YouTube |
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When Billy moved to the new genre of talk
radio, he took that ability with him. Humor, off the cuff remarks and a certain sense that if you had guests who said
outrageous things people would listen to see who you would have
on next. The call-in phone element was central to all of our
success. This was before talk hosts figured out that they could
turn callers on and off, we used to let them ramble, and we used
to go for the jugular but usually not in a mean-spirited way but
somehow in an entertaining way...No one was better than Billy
Goodman at the game.
He had all kinds of weird and unusual people
and one night we were talking and he said something that is
definitely true, "Jerry some of these weirdos are probably not
weird at all. This stuff may be happening to them." His
obituary is below:
GOODMAN, WILLIAM L., 67, an internationally known radio and television personality, died February 10, 2009 at the Philip Hulitar Hospice Center surrounded by his family. He was the husband of Judith M. (Iuliano) Goodman and the son of the late Anne V. (Gabriele) Goodman. He also leaves two children, Wanda Clark and her husband Michael of Warwick and Billy Jaymes and his wife Sandra of Providence, three grandchildren, Joshua, Stacey, and Samantha, and two step-grandchildren, Kevin and Kayla. His funeral service was held Friday at 11 a.m. in the Robbins Funeral Home, 2251 Mineral Spring Ave., North Providence. Burial in St. Ann Cemetery. |
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p.m. Central Time 2-11-09
We worked with Billy Goodman on the
air for only about a year, 1989 at KVEG AM 840 in Las Vegas, NV.
However we talked to him from time to time over the years after
he had returned home to Providence, R. I. He was my kind of
radio personality, bigger than life, not exactly a leading
citizen but a man of enormous energy, and talent. His talent was
simple to define. He had worked in personality top 40 radio as
they used to call it, where the DJ flew by the "seat of his
pants" every day and most DJs frowned on show prep. It was a
place where the ego would not let us be boring, so we worked
hard at being entertaining and unique.