The Steve Dahl Audio Vault

Here are Steve & Garry from Tuesday, January 4, 1983 as broadcast on WLS-FM. We have about 70 minutes of audio in 2 parts.

Highlights

Part 1 (47:52)

• Clean up after your dog!
• Wacky DJ story
• A call to Lipschitz
• “You’re in the air” (turn everything off)
• Steve is trying to call “Dial a Jewish story”
• Myron Cohen story

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Part 2 (32:42)

• Steve on the Bob Braun Show
• Tape of Marcus on New Year’s Eve at Times Square
• Mark Czerniec
• Talkin’ Sports (Steve doesn’t like hockey. Boy how things change)
• More on Marcus
• End of show

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More odds & ends left over from the New Year. If you missed yesterday’s post Steve & Garry ended 1982 with their year in review; part of which included a tribute to Marcus Palmer. This show was broadcast on Monday, January 3, 1983 on WLS-FM and continues with an interesting story about Marcus that happened New Year’s Eve. It is below in 2 parts.

Highlights include:

Part 1 (22:44)

• Leslie with traffic
• Dan came over to Steve’s on New Year’s Day
• New Year’s Eve stories – Did Steve see Marcus on TV?
• “You’re in the air”

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Part 2 (36:46)

• More Marcus talk
• Indian Guides
• Maggie with news
• More Marcus talk
• Mark Czerniec  – AMC
• Ripping The Loop – How to fill out your survey

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Here are Steve & Garry from Tuesday, May 4, 1982 as broadcast on WLS-FM. There is over 60 minutes of audio that is presented below in 3 parts.

Part 1 (18:02)

• Detroit newspaper article about Marcus’ death
• Diver Dan
• Steve likes farm commercials on TV
• “You’re in the air!”

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Part 2 (23:07)

• “You’re in the air!”
• Steve makes music recommendations
• Diver Dan/Jim Johnson with news (signal drop outs)
• Steve reads letters and a poem about Marcus

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Part 3 (23:35)

• Steve reads letters and a poem about Marcus (cont.)
• The Shopping Bag Lady is back
• Recap on Detroit newspaper article/Appeal for help

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Here is about 20 minutes of audio of Steve & Garry from Thursday, April 29, 1982 as broadcast on WLS-FM. Not in this aircheck is a news story that the family of Marcus Palmer had filed a $5 million lawsuit against Cook County Hospital.
 

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Photo credit: Steve, Garry and Marcus (behind Steve) prepare to take the first ride on the American Eagle at Great America in 1981.

Marcus Palmer was big. Big in all aspects of the word. Including having a really big heart. Not only did he help Steve & Garry with the show, he became a friend to them both and was much loved by staff and regular listeners.

Marcus passed away Monday, April 26, 1982. He was just 20 years old at the time. Marcus had a cardiac arrest following routine tonsil surgery. The news was discovered during a phone call to the hospital while Steve & Garry were on the air making for a surreal and devastating experience. What starting a few days before as jokes and wise remarks about a routine procedure turned into the unthinkable.

S&G left the show after hearing the news and did not come into the studio or record The Network Show on Tuesday (4/27). This is about 70 minutes of audio from the Steve and Garry show as broadcast on WLS-FM the day they returned, Wednesday, April 28, 1982. This is about as real as radio gets.

An interesting note about this date is that 4/28/82 was Patrick Dahl’s first birthday.

Please post any Marcus memories that you may have in the Comments section.

Parts of this aircheck has been previously played on this site but the first post was a lot shorter and of questionable quality. This aircheck is twice as long.

You can hear additional airchecks with Marcus on The Stever Vault by clicking the “Marcus” tag at the bottom of this post.

Part 1 (29:40)

• Maggie with news (in progress)
• Steve talks about the funeral
• Patrick’s 1st birthday – Steve plays a tape of Pat being born
• The Patrick Polka
• Listener letter
• Listener call addressing Another One Bites the Dust song

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Part 2 (26:06)

Maggie with news
Tribute to Marcus

• Marcus’ favorite song – Born to Run
• Jeopardy! – Omar Sadat
• Marcus singing Dirty White Boy
• Song – Elton John, Funeral for a Friend (end of tape)

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Part 3 (18:16)

• Stan talks about Marcus
• End of show

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This is a brief article that ran in the Milwaukee Sentinel. Click on photo for a larger version.

Photo credit: The top photo is Marcus “helping” Steve at ChicagoFest in 1981. Thank you Victor for letting me use your photo. You can see more his great Steve Dahl photos here.

Here are Steve & Garry from Monday, April 26, 1982 as broadcast on WLS-FM. This is the show where Steve & Garry hear of the passing of their dear friend Marcus Palmer. It doesn’t get any more real than this. The first 9 minutes are S&G trying to confirm the bad news. The two left the studio shortly after that and the remaining 4 minutes of audio are snippets of the show with Brant Miller filling in. Maggie also fills in with news and is on the verge of tears as she talks about it.

Listening to this is like watching an old, familiar movie that has an unhappy ending where you wait, and wait, knowing that it is not going to end well. Every time I hear this aircheck my stress level begins to rise as each minute passes by.
 

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Here are Steve & Garry from Friday, April 23, 1982 as broadcast on WLS-FM. We have over 95 minutes of audio from this show in 3 parts below…

This is the last show that Marcus Palmer appeared in. There is talk (and some joking) during the show about his surgery on Monday and how Marcus thought he was going to die.

Parts of this show were previously posted on this site but the quality was horrible. This is a longer aircheck and the quality is much better.

Part 1 (24:40)

• Call/letter from a disgruntled Park West show attendee
• Maggie – Diaper stories
• News w/ Maggie

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Part 2 (36:09)

• Steve Martin – Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid promo w/ talking cutout
• More doo doo/diaper talk
• More about disgruntled guy
• Marcus w/ Steve Martin cutout on the street
• Maggie with news
• More w/ Steve Martin cutout on the street

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Part 3 (35:05)

• Garry on the street w/ the Steve Martin cutout
• Talking about Marcus going into the hospital
• Show Close

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