Dell Sharbutt
| Speaker | Dell Sharbutt |
| Event | Blackstone Meeting |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Year | 1964 |
| Era | Classic Era |
| Fellowship | AA |
| Duration | 47:50 |
| RS Number | RS-G107 |
Transcript
Thank you very much, and I still can't bring myself to say peanut, Mr. Ridenour. Now one of these days I will call you peanut and be probably just as comfortable as an old shoe doing it. I know something about peanuts. You know, as a kid in Texas I used to live in goober country. You know what goobers are? And of course, we raise pecans down in Texas, and I know they raise pecans in Georgia, Alabama, elsewhere. That's what we call them. That's what you call them down here, isn't it? In New York, you know, they have some affectation. They call them pecans. And a very good friend of mine by the name of Ben Grauer, a wonderful announcer, dear friend of mine for all these 30 years, used to do a program on the radio years ago called the Baker's Program on Sunday night with Ozzie Nelson, Harry Hilliard, in which they would extol the products of the bakery industry each week, whether it would come up. And he said every so often it would be, we're going to have a feature, the Bakers of America is going to feature this week, pecan pies, pecans, and so forth. And he got a letter one time, which he has framed in his study, from a retired colonel in San Antonio, Texas. He said, Dear Mr. Grauer, I've always enjoyed you as an announcer. Your tones are dulcet and your diction is crisp. But please, sir, in talking about the various bakery products, you refer now and then to a pie called pecan pie. He said, Down here the proper pronunciation is pecan. Pecan is that which goes under the bed on cold winter evenings. By now I've left the cow out of the bag. You know I'm from Texas. But having lived in New York and Los Angeles a long time, you can see that I've lost my draw. I had to, because up there we were supposed to develop sort of a national speech, whatever that was. They didn't know what the hell they were talking about either when they used to tell us those things. They told us just be yourselves, you know, and this has been much better. But I want to tell you what a great kick it is to come to Blackstone. I've heard so much about this from friends who…
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