We Love Lucy On the Radio

We Love Lucy On the Radio On Saturday, March 1, 2003, KAAT Radio's Ron Paul presented a special tribute to the late Roz Borden (of "Teensy and Weensy" fame). Special guests included Roz's twin sister Marilyn and We Love Lucy's Stuart Shostak and Thomas Watson. To hear a recording of the broadcast you will need Real Player. The recording can be accessed at: Salute to Roz

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(L to R): Jimmy Garrett, Stuart Shostak, Tom Watson, Ron Paul; (seated): Marilyn and Roz Borden.

June 18, 2002

On Saturday, May 18, We Love Lucy participated in the first of what we hope will be a series of radio "webcasts." This first one was produced by station KAAT- Radio (Fresno, CA) on-air host Ron Paul, in association with station-owner and general-manager Larry Gamble, and the entire staff and crew of KAAT.

Paul's in-studio guests included Roz and Marilyn Borden, who portrayed Teensy & Weensy in the "Tennessee Bound" episode of I Love Lucy; Jimmy Garrett, who co-starred as Jerry Carmichael in the first three seasons of The Lucy Show; Stuart Shostak, who was Lucy's film archivist for many years; and We Love Lucy president, Tom Watson.

Paul turned over nearly three hours of his weekly "Flying Home" radio show to a lively roundtable discussion of Lucille Ball and her various television programs. Watson was asked to explain how the We Love Lucy fan club -- and the annual Loving Lucy Conventions -- came into being. Garrett and the Borden Sisters shared memories of working with the lady, and Shostak presented a mini version of his "Lucy Fans are Fabulous" game show (the game he produced and hosted at the 2000 and 2001 Lucy Conventions). Longtime Lucy-lover Michael Stern, whom Lucy called her "number one fan," called in from his home in Northridge, California, and recalled meeting the redhead when he was in junior high school -- and told of just a few of his many experiences with her over the years.

Congratulations are in order to game-show call-in contestants Glen Charlow and Mike Broad (of Brooklyn, New York, and Windsor, Ontario, respectively), Daniel Dedmon (of Grover, North Carolina), Tom O'Brien (of Chicago, Illinois), Melanie Joy (of New Gloucester, Maine), Larry Pane (of Los Angeles, California) and Jimmy Sheridan (of Port Washington, New York), all of whom won prizes. As this illustrates, "webcasts" allow radio programs to be heard all over the country -- and the world. (Laura Johansen, creator of the Lucie Arnaz web site, was reportedly listening in from her home in Australia!)

We hope to schedule additional Lucy-related webcasts in the near future.

Here, courtesy of Ron Paul, are more photographs of the May 18 web-cast:

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