Details
Rent They Call Me Baba Booey
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Narrator: Gary Dell'abate
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: Nov 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
Retail Price: $32.00
Synopsis
One of pop culture's great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell'Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on earth.
Baba Booey! Baba Booey! It was a slip of the tongue—that unfortunately was heard by a few million listeners—but in that split second a nickname, a persona, a rallying cry, and a phenomenon was born. Some would say it was the moment Gary Dell'Abate, the long-suffering heroic producer of The Howard Stern Show, for better or worse, finally came into his own. In They Call Me Baba Booey, Dell'Abate explains how his early life was the perfect training ground for the day-to-day chaos that comes with producing the most popular radio show on earth.
Growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, the youngest of three boys born to a clinically depressed mother, Gary learned how to fend for himself when under attack. Obsessed with music, he listened with religious intensity to Casey Kasem's Top 40 every Sunday morning, compulsively bought 45s of his favorite songs, and nerdily copied the lyrics into a notebook. Music became an ordering principle to his life, even as the chaos at home got out of hand. Dell'Abate's memoir sketches the trajectory from the obsessive pop-music trivia buff to the man in the beekeeper's mask who handily defeats his opponents playing "Stump the Booey." We learn about the memorable moments in his life that taught him to endure epic bouts of humiliation and get his unique perspective on some of his favorite Stern show episodes—such as the day he nearly killed the Mets mascot while throwing out the first pitch, or the time his mother called Howard's mother and demanded an apology.
Hilarious, painful, and eye-opening, it's Gary as you've never seen him before, telling a story that even Stern show insiders can't begin to imagine.
From the Hardcover edition.
Reviews
11/28/2010 Howard Stern Fans are waiting to find out if the show will continue on Sirius into 2011 as I write this review. Gary Dell'Abate dellabata may not have been the best choice to read 'They Call Me Baba Booey', he does not put ANY emotion into the reading of this book. If you are not a fan of The Howard Stern Show you may not understand a lot of this book or care. I thought this was going to be a real autobiography, it is not, there is no depth or detail, it is a short story. Gary does not kiss and tell about The Howard Stern Show. He just tells a few stories about things that have happened to him due to his job with or because of The Howard Stern Show. Hence the title of the book. The chapters are not in chronological order. Gary has a list of songs he wants to have with him on a desert island instead of a deserted island. The song lists are odd. The list do not provide any nformation and do nothing to enhance the book. At the end of the chapters Gary very briefly speaks with a person in the story. I liked not loved the book and there just wasn't enough of it. It was so brief it was maddening! This is the kind of a book you get from booksfree.com or the library. Only a hardcore Howard Stern Fan will want to own a copy of this book and there are enough of them to put this book on the bestseller list. Congratulations Baba Booey I hope you make a lot of money, because that is the only reason anyone writes a book like this.