For nearly 45 years Bob and Ray entertained millions of radio listeners and television viewers. Bob and Ray’s long partnership began at Boston radio station WHDH in 1946 when Goulding, after delivering the news on Elliott’s music program, began to stick around and swap anecdotes with the host. Listeners demanded more, however, and the station soon scheduled Matinee with Bob and Ray. It offered offbeat comments on the day’s news, fables about fictitious characters and bogus contest offers.
TODAY, “Down The Byway” in Elk Horn, Kentucky, Farley Gerard interviews a proud printshop owner who prints replicas of United States currency…
**The Bob & Ray CBS radio show ran locally on KIRO 710/100.7 **
This is one of their best. The announcer and the listener are pretty sure that this “proud craftsman” will soon be spending time in a Federal penitentiary with Martha Stewart, but he is blissfully ignorant. This irony is the essence of a lot of great Bob & Ray bits.