… Billy! Billy Jack, you don’ get that barn cleaned up yer not goin’ out in the pickup tonight! …
[Description by Gary Tinnes]
Ted (The Bear) Richards is a perfectionist and an extremely talented guy. You didn’t just do his show, you lived it.
Allan and Donny Osmond (left) with Ted The Bear Richards (right). Photo copyright 2001, Gary Tinnes
On Sunday nights, he started doing these “stars” nights. You will hear various clips recorded by Pat Holiday (as Billy Preston, Ed Sullivan, John Wayne), Marc Daly (Fats Domino), etc. You will hear Ted trying to lower his voice to sound like he was doing the voice because officially we weren’t supposed to be running taped clips like that. It didn’t fit the format. I think that privilege was reserved for the Gary Burbank show in the morning.
The second segment has a High-Low Jackpot contest with a very young contestant. See if you can figure out her answer! The background noise is not another station but leaking from the other track on the tape. The clip is not the best quality, but priceless.