The late great Gerry Anderson.... (10)

Sep 28, 2015 4:43 AM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
I don't mean Thubderbirds but the Radio host who hailed from Stroke City. And for those of you who never got to hear his show live, your life, no matter want you think cannot be complete....

Some of Gerry's wit, humour and intelligence...

Sep 28, 2015 4:56 AM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
Here Gerry explains the similarities between women and goats...



Beards, good looks and other things.....



How to hypnotize a hen with chalk...

Sep 28, 2015 2:22 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Phoenix: I don't mean Thubderbirds but the Radio host who hailed from Stroke City. And for those of you who never got to hear his show live, your life, no matter want you think cannot be complete....

Some of Gerry's wit, humour and intelligence...


He was very popular, his radio show was funny alright. thumbs up
Sep 28, 2015 3:24 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
WittyandWise: He was very popular, his radio show was funny alright.


He was and still is the best radio host I ever heard...He is up there with Dewey Phillips...
Sep 29, 2015 8:06 AM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Phoenix: He was and still is the best radio host I ever heard...He is up there with Dewey Phillips...


He and his colleague had a right laugh at my daughter years ago when she was about 3.
Sep 29, 2015 3:17 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
WittyandWise: He and his colleague had a right laugh at my daughter years ago when she was about 3.


Did she speak to them on the show..or was it a chance meeting and she said something that made them laugh?
Sep 29, 2015 3:44 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Phoenix: Did she speak to them on the show..or was it a chance meeting and she said something that made them laugh?


Chance lunch meeting and she made them laugh a few times with her conversation to my mother. Gerry just giggled away.
Sep 29, 2015 4:01 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
WittyandWise: Chance lunch meeting and she made them laugh a few times with her conversation to my mother. Gerry just giggled away.


Do you know he met Elvis...
Sep 29, 2015 4:10 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
WittyandWise
WittyandWiseWittyandWiseDerry, Donegal Ireland15 Threads 2 Polls 3,364 Posts
Phoenix: Do you know he met Elvis...


Yeah he claimed to have met him when he was touring with a band I think
Sep 29, 2015 4:43 PM CST The late great Gerry Anderson....
Phoenix
PhoenixPhoenixBelfast....., Antrim Ireland274 Threads 65 Polls 6,948 Posts
WittyandWise: Yeah he claimed to have met him when he was touring with a band I think



1. Stroke City

If for nothing else, Gerry will go down in the annals of broadcasting as the author of the designation ‘Stroke City’ for Derry. It originated from the BBC term ‘Derry-stroke-Londonderry’, used in a forlorn effort to appease both sides of the religious divide.

Gerry, a Catholic from a working class background and educated by the Christian Brothers, would regularly offer his own view on the religious niceties that pertain in the North.

On one occasion he dated a young Protestant lass from Donegal. During a visit to her home, the woman’s granny, described a particularly bad silage smell from a nearby farm with the words: “It smells for all the world like a busload of wet Catholics.”

For some reason, Gerry mused, the romance never really got off the ground.


11. Gerry and Elvis

In 1963, having taught himself the guitar, Gerry moved to Manchester where he worked in the clubs, playing mostly middle of-the-road pop music.

Throughout the late 1960s Anderson was heard on drums and bass with the showband The Chessmen.

In 1971 he left to join the hugely influential Canadian band Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks. The Hawks eventually morphed into The Band, who gave us The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.

During his rock & roll years Gerry hung out with Bob Dylan, loaned money to Phil Lynott in a toilet in Dublin and helped launch The Undertones.

He claimed to have met both Elvis Presley and Brendan Behan (not together). When challenged about the Elvis story by Sean Coyle — specifically to give more details — Gerry replied: “I’ve decided to keep it for The Late Late Show.”


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