AUDIO TAPES OF THE BILLY GOODMAN RADIO SHOW

It seems that some band called The Pixies http://www.pixiesmusic.com wrote a song about my friend boss and radio mentor

Billy Goodman. The show I worked on in 1989 was the Billy Goodman Happening. Go Figure.

Cosmo...

they got a ranch they call
number fifty-one
they got a ranch they call
number fifty-one
can't see it all
'less your flying by
just sitting there square
baking in the sun
beneath the sky

they're gonna put it down
right on the strip
they're gonna put it down
on the Vegas strip
they're gonna put it down
and step outside
into the lights
right outta that ship
saying Hi!

i was driving doing nothing on the shores of Great Salt Lake
when they put it on the air i put it in the hammer lane
i soon forgot myeslf and i forgot about the brake
i forgot all laws and i forgot about the rain
they were talking on the 9 and all across the amy band
across the road they were turning around and headed south with me
it got so crowded on the road i started driving in the sand
my head was feeling scared but my heart was feeling free
the desert turned to mud it seems that everybody heard
everybody was remembering to forget they had the chills
then i heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird
they were getting interviewed by some Goodman whose name was Bill
i'm almost there to Vegas where they're puttin' on a show
they've come so far i've lived this long at least i must just go and say
hello

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THE BILLY DAYS

BILLY GOODMAN always said " HELLO ANYBODY " that was his moniker. Hosting the legendary " The Billy Goodman Thing " which later became " The Billy Goodman Happening " back in the day. During the period 1989 - 1991. Billy was doing his show in Las Vegas on KVEG 840 AM from 10 pm to when ever he felt like closing the show you see he had total control of his time slot, also there was no 7 second delay so at times a few if not a lot of unsaviour language escaped out into the night waves. Goodman was in competition with Art Bell KDWN 720 AM who was also doing a show from the second floor of The Union Plaza Hotel at number one main street during that time period, only one thing Billy did UFOs and Art Bell did boring USA Today stories and general call-in late night talk radio. I know... I was there. I was a late night talk show junkie just like you. I also heard Art's first week on air, it was a co-host event with the departing late night host Ted Bair of KDWN at the time.

It was Billy who was really the first one who made Area 51 a house hold name he interviewed Bob Lazar, John Lear and Bill Cooper when all that weirdness started. I just happened on the show one late night in the late eighties and got instantly addicted. At the time Billy had been with KVEG all of two weeks when one night he spoke of a ufo event he witnessed on the freeway in Providence Rhode Island with others who had stopped on the freeway to gawke at the sighting. The KVEG phones lite up like a brush fire with the callers own ufo accounts from the fifteen western United States, Canada and Mexico. You see KVEG and KDWN were 50,000 watt boomers that laced across the night skies cutting their swath of entertainment to millions of listeners. I also remember one night Tom Leykis and Billy got in to a big feud over what I can not remember today but it was quite a scene.

Then I called in and related my own ufo sighting. A 1987 Las Vegas event at Koval and Tropicana." Billy liked my engaging style his words not mine" that he asked me to call him after the show about 2 am and asked me if I would like to produce his programs, I said yes. I ran Road Watch America Reports and produced calls from the likes of 606, Mr. Skeptic, Yellow Fruit, County Joe, Bill Hamilton, Christa Tilton, Roger The Dodger, Bo Gritz, Colonel Keith, Mary Marrier, and an inebriated many times over Bill Cooper and so many more. One night Billy asked me to make sure I would open the door for a news reporter that was coming to the station that night to interview him about the Ufo show, his name was George Knapp they arrived and I was immediately shoved aside as I was just a new kid in town so to speak and did not know how to plug in a microphone cord to the BOARD. It was an Comprehensive Standard Series XLR Cable. I later found out L.O.L. Its been 25 years since those days of learning the radio / television insights, I have the recordings of many of those precious shows and listen to them often. I miss them dearly.

My name Theodore Rice and I was there.

...Now you know the rest of the story.