224. Ron Delsener

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Legendary concert promoter Ron Delsener regales Gilbert and Frank with stories about growing up in the era of Automats and bowling pin boys, his early days as a promoter of live events, inventing the free concert in Central Park and working with Woody Allen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Lenny Bruce and The Beatles. Also, Arthur Godfrey lusts after Haleloke, Bruce Springsteen "opens" for Anne Murray, Ol' Blue Eyes boots Jimmy Roselli out of Vegas and Ron presents Groucho at Carnegie Hall. PLUS: Murray the K! The genius of David Bowie! The return of Swain's Rats & Cats! "Jimi Hendrix' Eclectic Thanksgiving"! And Ron sees Dean & Jerry's final show at the Copa! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Because we're alive from New York!
0:02.6	It's Saturday night!
0:04.0	Fire!
0:07.0	It's 7 o'clock!
0:10.0	Hi, I'm Alan's Wipe-Bell, and you'll listen to Gilbert Garfee's amazing colossal podcast.
0:16.0	I swear.
0:18.0	Well, why would I lie about a thing like this?
0:30.0	Hi, this is Gilbert Garfee's amazing colossal podcast.
0:55.0	I'm here with my co-host Frank Santopadre, and we're going once again record to get not
1:02.2	big with our engineer Frank Ferdarosa.
1:05.0	Our guest this week is a producer, entrepreneur, and one of the most prominent and successful
1:13.3	promoters of live events in the 20th and 21st centuries.
1:20.9	He began producing local events in and around New York, and soon found himself promoting
1:28.9	the very first outdoor performance of a little band known as The Beatles.
1:36.6	He would go on to promote dozens of live concerts for landmark acts such as Bob Dylan,
1:44.7	Bob Restrizen, Count Basie, and Frank Sinatra.
1:50.7	Years later, he created the highly successful Number 1 dollar concert series at New York Central
2:00.7	Park, which featured some of the biggest acts in the pop music history, including The
2:09.1	Who?
2:10.1	Led Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Janice Chaplin, The Great Fulted, Diana Ross,
2:19.6	Simon and Garfunkel, just to name a few.
2:24.2	But there's more.
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