I always hated Uncle Al. Children are not stupid, but he always talked down to the "audience" (who paid for the pleasure of being there).
Thinking about it now, I can see that the dumbing down of America started with Uncle Al.
R.I.P Uncle Al
If I had some, I'd raise a Momma's cookie in your honor!
My condolence to your family and friends!
Cincinnati's "Uncle Al" Passes Away
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Uncle Al Lewis and Captain Windy (WCPO)
The man everyone in Cincinnati knew as "Uncle Al" has passed away.
Al Lewis entertained thousands of tri-state children and their families as host of "The Uncle Al Show" from 1950 to 1985 on WCPO. According to the station's web site, Lewis' program actually began as a call-in show. Viewers were encouraged to phone in requests for a tune to be played by Lewis and his accordion. Children eventually became part of the audience and they apparently dubbed the program "The Uncle Al Show."
Lewis' wife Wanda joined the program in 1956. Her character was known as "Captain Windy."
"Uncle Al" Lewis was 84.
Let's all do the Uncle Al Twist one more time!
"The question isn't what are we going to do today, the question is what aren't we going to do today"-Ferris Buehler<p>T.T.Y.L. Greg
I always hated Uncle Al. Children are not stupid, but he always talked down to the "audience" (who paid for the pleasure of being there).
Thinking about it now, I can see that the dumbing down of America started with Uncle Al.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. -- Karl Marx
Yeah, well, I won't speak ill of the recently departed.
But there's nothing shameful in being truthful, and the truth is, he made a lot of kids happy, and he apparently also made a lot of the ladies happy....
Parked in the lumber yard freezin' our asses off<p>My kid's in the back seat gotta graveyard cough<p>Well I'm sleepin' up in front with my wife<p>Billy club tappin' on the windshield in the middle of the night<p>sayin' "Move along, Man"<p>yeah move along
Radio personality Paul Harvey died the other day too. I loved listening to his program. We used to have a wonderful AM station here called The Gull and it played my kind of music and ran his program still. It felt so odd just a few years ago to be able to listen to him when I remember my mom listening to his program on WKRC when I was a little kid. That station is now talk radio, he's gone and I'm not a little kid anymore...
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