No more pieces of cake:(

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One of my sources for the conference piece writes a weekly summary of northeast US radio news.

This was this week's sad leadoff:

Of all the big names who graced the airwaves at WBZ (1030 Boston) over the decades, few wore as many hats as gracefully as Dave Maynard, who died Friday in Florida at age 82.

After beginning his career at two smaller stations, Medford’s WHIL (1430, later WXKS and now WKOX) in 1952 and then Boston’s WORL (950), Maynard came to WBZ in 1958 as part of the legendary “Live Five,” the station’s crew of top-40 DJs. But while most of those jocks moved on in the sixties, Maynard became a WBZ fixture, shifting from evenings to late mornings, then to afternoons in 1976.

By then, Maynard had become much more than just a radio host, taking over the reins of WBZ-TV’s “Community Auditions,” introducing the “Phantom Gourmet” to WBZ radio’s weekend lineup, making appearances on WBZ-TV’s “Evening Magazine” and, for a few years, serving as the one and only voicetracked host on the otherwise-neglected WBZ-FM (106.7). It was rather surprising, then, when new management at the station moved Maynard to the overnight shift in 1979 – but instead of working out the remainder of his contract and moving on, the versatile host flourished as a late-night talker, putting him in the right place at the right time a year later when WBZ’s venerable morning host Carl deSuze retired after nearly four decades on the job.

That is where I got to know the voice, usually after the radio played all night from me, or my Hubbish roommates, listening to Larry Glick the night before and leaving it on.  We also got WSBK, an early cable "superstation," and from that saw the commercials featuring Larry and Dave in various forms of distress, always ending with the Commander's punch line of "Piece of cake, Dave!"

I'd found a Youtube of one of those when I last shared some of these memories last year, but it's been taken down:(  Alas, so had Maynard in the Morning.  Rest well, man.

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[liddle-oldman.livejournal.com]

Dave Maynard's dead? There's another one.