Larry Solway, TV and radio broadcaster, dies at 83
Larry Solway’s deep booming radio voice brought him fame and sometimes controversy. Not even cancer could quiet the audacious – and often abrasive – broadcaster
In the 1960s he was at CHUM, hosting talk radio shows like Speak Your Mind, taking thousands of calls from Torontonians a year on all kinds of subjects with all kinds of opinions.
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READ: Talk radio pioneer Larry Solway let listeners speak their minds
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Broadcast Date: March 7, 1965"Make sense fast, I'm running out of time and patience," says Speak Your Mind radio host Larry Solway to a caller rambling about reform schools. It's a night like any other as Seven Days rides shotgun with Solway for his two-hour tour of switchboard duty at CHUM radio. Logging 7,000 calls a year, Solway takes it as good as he gives it. "I don't get offended," he says to a caller worried his views might rankle the prickly host. Then with the push of a button, the next caller cues up to speak their mind into the broadcast night.
View clip here: http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/media/clips/15146/
Career
Radio
- 1960s: Speak Your Mind, 1050 CHUM
- September 1976 - January 1979: Talkback (CHIC)
- September 1986 - ?: Larry Solway Show, CFGM
- 1989 - ?: talk show, CFLY-FM] Talk show host CFRB 1991-92, Talk 640 1995=97
Television
- 1971-1975: This Is the Law, panelist (CBC)
- 1973-1975: Juliette and Friends, co-host[9] Hosted Larry Solway Show (syndicated) 1974-76. Wrote, and hosted 8 part series: "Our Fellow Americans" (CBC - 1976.)
Film
- 1979: Meatballs, interviewer - http://eighties.weebly.com/meatballs.html
- 1979: The Brood lawyer
Books
1971 - "The Day I Invented Sex,"* 2008: contributor, Don't Be Blindsided by RetirementTheatre
Returned to the stage 1979-1984. Appearances at Neptune Halifax, Oakville, Red Barn, Teller's Cage, National Arts Centre. Appeared in leading roles in "Same Times Next Year" "Plaza Suite" "The Subject Was Roses." "Last of the Red Hot Lovers. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Solway
5 comments:
For starters, the picture is of Garry Ferrier, NOT Larry Solway.
Garry was Larry's comedy partner and wrote many funny features.
I've worked on the official CHUM Archives and Museum with Bob Laine from October 2003 until Bob's death in August last year and worked with Larry Solway at CHUM from the day I started, February 1st 1965 until the day he left in 1970.
Thanks Doug.
Our bad.
The correct photo is now up.
We can't wait for the new CHUM site. Hope the work on it is still progressing.
Globescoper
It is. We've almost completed the (semi) official CHUM site. You've done an amazing job here and you're to be congratulated for helping keep the memory of 1050 CHUM alive.
Thanks for the compliment Doug.
I started this blog because I was not that upset with the fact 1050 CHUM went off the air - I could see it coming - but, I was angry with the fact the archives vanished from public view.
I am very happy to hear that the new site will soon be up.
Globescoper
I'll always remember him for telling callers to 'turn your radio your radio down' and if the caller didn't, Larry would hang up. Even as an early-teen I loved listening to "The Larry Solway Show".
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