Hey, luckily it's Thursday already. We've got lots to get to, I can't believe, Bert Backwreck. We'll get to that coming up. We'll get to Joe Biden. There's a lot of flack and blowback and pushback over that speech and some of the horrible things he did that night. We'll get to Andrew Cuomo desperately looking for attention now. We'll get, hey, you know what's going on with the fire department and Eric Adams? This is not good. We'll get to that coming up. We'll get to Bill Gates' love life. That shouldn't take long. We'll get to the Super Bowl. Joe Bart Bart Backer, where should we start? Should we start with Bert Backrack? Yeah, because that just happened. Okay, now, this is weird. Bert Backrack, I knew well for years

And I used to see him

If you remember my old Saturday night show Now, this is weird. Bert Backrack, I knew well for years, and I used to see him.

If you remember my old Saturday Night Show, the music show, he was a regular guest on that.

But last time I'm talking to my friend, Tim Gleason, one of the great restaurateurs in New York.

And he back then was running the China Club, and Bert Backrack was always there.

And we'd always sit with him in Columbus restaurant owned by his former road manager anyway I hadn't talked to him in years and

either Tim so last night I don't know what brought this up he said some Bert Backer he says

Bert's still alive I said I don't think so he said I think he might be I said no I don't think so you He said, I think he might be. I said, no, I don't think so. You know, I get out my phone at Google Bert Backway. He's still alive. He's 94. This is last night, like 7 o'clock. Wow. He's still alive. He's 94. I couldn't believe it. So just 10 minutes ago, news comes over that he's passed away at 94.

What do you think that means? That's weird.

I don't know. Prevination, maybe, or maybe, you know what? Maybe he had passed away and there was this, there was a, his spirit was passing to the next level and you knew it subconsciously.

That's why he came to your mind i think that's it i

haven't mentioned or thought of bert back reckon yeah is what made that come up all so uh he was uh

uh on a most unbelievably successful composer uh if he ever saw him in concert uh there was a moment where

he would they would do all these different things then he at one time

if i saw him with dion warwick they were traveling he said let me do a medley of our hits

and each song was like 20 seconds the medley lasted like 25 minutes this guy not just all of his

hits that you know but uh millions of hit songs that he wrote for other people that you didn't know he wrote. Now, here's the sad part of all of this. You know, Bert Backrack was a very handsome movie star-looking kind of a guy. Quite the charming guy. He was always on The Tonight Show. He was a great guest. He was glib. He was married to

Angie Dickinson. He was always dating the most beautiful one. You know, when they say he wrote all

these songs, he had a partner. It was Bert Backrack, Hal David. Both wrote all these songs.

Hal David was a wonderful guy, but he looked like an accountant, and he lived out in Great Neck.

Bert Backrack lived in a plush Manhattan apartment, and Hal David would guy, but he looked like an accountant and he lived out in Great Neck.

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