[msb-alumni] Re: Long-Time Radio Legend and Talking Book Narrator Milton Metz Dead at 95

  • From: "Mark Martin" <mbmartin1984@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <msb-alumni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2017 21:37:26 -0500

Marcia, the author was James B. Garfield, and BARD has 2 copies of the book but neither narration is from Milton Metz. John Polk reads one copy and the other is read by Erik Sandvold.

Mark Martin, 73.
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I was honored to meet MR.  Metz for a few minutes in the summer of 1969.
I read a few of the talking books he read, as well as listening to his radio
show on WHAS.
It was a very hot day in Louisville. He said something llike, "It's a hell
of a hot day, why are you driving around?"
We were visiting family in Louisville, and somehow, my older cousin had his
phone number.
The first book I remember reading he narrated was Follow My Leader, back in
first grade.  I have no idea who the author was.
Can anybody help?
Marcia

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Subject: [msb-alumni] Long-Time Radio Legend and Talking Book Narrator
Milton Metz Dead at 95

BlankLocal radio legend Milton Metz dead at 95 Andrew Wolfson , @adwolfson
Published 9:26 p.m. ET Jan. 12, 2017 | Updated
12:04 p.m. ET Jan. 13, 2017
WHAS radio's Milton Metz signed off his show after 34 years last night.
He'll be doing a 90-second commentary that will air twice a day. but it
can't quite compare to three hours a night of "Metz Here."(Photo: SAM RICHE,
THE COURIER-JOURNAL)Buy Photo

Milton Metz, a pioneer in broadcasting in Louisville and the longtime host
of the talk show  "Metz Here" on WHAS Radio, died Thursday, according to
former colleagues Wayne Perkey and Terry Meiners.
He was 95 and died at Magnolia Springs, a senior living facility, Perkey
said.

"El Metzo," as he was affectionately known, began at the station in 1946.
"Metz Here" debuted July 30, 1959, with the title "Juniper 5-2385," after
its phone number, and ended on June 10, 1993.

"Every time Milton Metz clicked on the mic, people across middle America
were guaranteed wit, wisdom, and balance," Meiners said.
"On or off the air, Milton was first and foremost a gentleman, bringing
grace and intellect into a sometimes inelegant media landscape," Meiners
said. "Rest easy, brother.  You blazed a beautiful trail and we shall
follow."

Perkey said Metz was a role model and father figure for a younger generation
of broadcasters that included Meiners, Perkey and Jack Fox.

"He was not afraid to ask difficult questions, but he tried to be fair,"
Perkey said. "He had a great wit and he showed it. I loved him because he
was Milton."

Bob Johnson, a retired political reporter on WHAS Radio and TV, said that
unlike contemporary talk radio, his show never featured "talking heads
shouting at each other."
"He had a sweet, gentle nature and his graciousness carried over into his
work on the air," said Johnson, later a Courier-Journal reporter. "I was
very fond of him."

Perry Metz said his father enjoyed "a good joke, a long conversation and
listening to different points of view.
"If civility is old-fashioned, you could say he was old-fashioned," said the
younger Metz, who followed in his father's footsteps and now runs public
radio and TV stations at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Metz could be serious on the air but at a roast held when he retired he
recalled how a publicity agent had called plugging his client's appearance.
"She's written `Why Diets Don't Work,' " the agent said. "But if that
doesn't appeal to you, we could talk about her new book, `The One-Hour
Orgasm.' "

He also carefully guarded his age.


In an interview with Courier-Journal columnist Tom Dorsey in 1993, he would
only say, "Let's just say I'm older than Diane Sawyer and younger than Mike
Wallace." Wallace was 75 at the time.

Sportscasting legend Cawood Ledford, who spent 22 years at WHAS with Metz,
once recalled that when Metz started his program back in the 1950s the dial
was full of talk shows.
Ledford joked that he would like to say that Metz's popularity drove the
other shows off the air, but the truth was that Metz simply outlived them
all.

He was born in Cleveland to a Russian-born father and English-born mother
and started his radio career in the 1930s in Cleveland after graduating from
Ohio State University.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- It is with great sadness that we report the
death of WHAS TV and Radio legend, Milton Metz. He died peacefully in
Louisville at the age of 95.
Milton became one of this area's most recognized personalities, first heard
on WHAS Radio in 1946. He helped put Channel 11 on the air. In fact, he was
one of the first faces you saw on Channel 11 in 1950.
Milton just celebrated his 95th birthday in September in rehab. The WHAS
Crusade for Children staff brought him a cake. More than 300 viewers mailed
get well cards to him after he had fallen and broken his shoulder in the
summer and was in recovery last August. He loved every card and letter, and
along the way, he always told me that he was getting wonderful care.
His trailblazing nighttime radio show called "Metz Here" was one of the
first nighttime talk shows in the United States. It ran from 1959 to 1993.
He also hosted "Omelet" on WHAS-TV, an interview program that aired before
the Noon News on WHAS-TV. He picked Faith Lyles as his co-host.
He retired from WHAS AM in 1993 but kept doing ads for TV and Radio.
He came to Louisville from Columbus, Ohio and married his beloved wife Mimi
whom he met in Louisville. She died last April. He is survived by his son
Perry Metz.
Memorial services for Milton Metz will be held Sunday, January 22 at 2 p.m.
at The Temple on Brownsboro Road.

You can see a link of some of his broadcasts at:
http://www.whas11.com/news/local/whas-legend-milton-metz-dies-at-95/38566075
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Steve
Class of '72

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