Ik krijg net een bericht van Hans Knot dat Larry Tremaine is overleden. Larry werkte onder andere voor RNI.

"It is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that I inform you of the untimely passing of Larry Tremaine , the Geeter with the Heater... "

Helaas, ik luisterde altijd met genoegen naar deze "schreeuwende dj".

Al weer één,

Juul

Reactie van Hans Knot op het overlijden van Larry Tremaine:

Early Sunday, June 1st the sad news came in that another of our radio legends died: ‘It is with a heavy heart and profound sadness that I inform you of the untimely passing of Larry Tremaine, ‘the Geator with the Heater.’

Larry Tremaine, the American who took over from Roger Day as Programme Director of Radio Northsea International in the summer of 1970. He later becoming Managing Director of Mebo Ltd., the company that operated the station. He had been involved in the music business for some time, having worked with the Beach Boys early in their career, sung with his own band Larry Tremaine and His Renegades (later to become the Sunrays) and hosted ‘Casino Royal’, a nationally syndicated U.S TV dance show. He went on to work for KRLA, KBLA, KDAY, KABC-TV, KTTV-TV and KCET-TV. The Geator broadcast daily on RNI during election week June 1970 when the station was temporary on the air as ‘Caroline International’ and later presented a weekly rock'n'roll show on Sunday afternoons. After the September 1970 closedown, he moved back to the United States. He lived in Beverly Hills, California and ran the Carol Lawrence Fine Art Gallery chain. The ‘Geator with the Heater’ nickname had previously been used on American radio by DJ Jerry Blavat. ‘Geator’ is slang for an alligator. (with thanks to Jon at the Pirate Hall of Fame).

Another radio friend who was in contact with Larry on regular base is Paul Rusling who wrote me: ‘Very sad news that Larry Tremaine died. Only two weeks ago I spoke to him with a report about the RadioDay in Amsterdam. A very big loss for me, he was very helpful for me in many ways. Good fun and so entertaining to chat with about music. He was a huge man in radio, even though he was only on the air in Europe for a short time. This is so sad.’

Edwin Bollier, one of the owners of Mebo Ltd, the company behind RNI wrote: ‘Dear Larry - the most beautiful monument that you can get is compassion in the heart of others.’ Larry didn’t make it to one of the RadioDays in Amsterdam, although he tried to plan it twice.

I was in contact with him during the past 13 years by mail and it was always fun to have ‘talks’ with him about the memories to RNI and Europe in the early seventies of last century.

Some of the memories were shared with the readers of the ‘Hans Knot International Radio Report’

http://www.offshore-radio.de/HansKnot/april2005.htm

http://www.offshore-radio.de/HansKnot/reports/hans%20knot%20int%20radio%20report%20-%202012-07-08.pdf

But also interesting to see that more than 30 years after he left the radio scene in Europe he was found back in Beverly Hills, by reading one of my stories on internet. See the next report:

http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/jocks/whofound5.html

I wish Larry’s Donna, family and friends a lot of strength to carry this sudden lost.

Hans Knot

Helaas, ik luisterde altijd met genoegen naar deze "schreeuwende dj".

Inderdaad een luide maar entertainende stem van deze USA dj op RNI in 1970

Maar het blijkt wel weer, dat zo'n operatie aan galstenen, niet zonder risico is, 12 jaar geleden overleed Crispian st John ook al,

tijdens een ( zogenaamde) routine operatie, om galstenen te verwijderen.

Heel triest allemaal.

Robin

Ja het is diep triest dat dit soort dingen nog kan gebeuren.

Very sad to read this. Larry is best remembered by me from 29 August 1970, when he came out to the Mebo 2 in answer to the calls for help broadcast during the attempted boarding by Kees Manders. He is the third of the broadcasters from that day to go, after Carl Mitchell and Spangles Muldoon.

Regards

Michael

En toch zijn er wat merkwaardige dingen aan de hand met Larry.

Soms lees je dat ie "oprichter" was van de Beach Boys ( founder )......

Ik heb in m'n Poster tijd heel wat Beach Boys story's gemaakt, maar nooit ben ik z'n naam als "founder" van de Beach Boys tegengekomen. Wel heeft ie met ze gewerkt. Maar da's wat anders.

Als je bijvoorbeeld hier kijkt dan kun je lezen dat er wel een soort van link was, maar dat was met de vader van Brian Wilson. Maar nog steeds was ie geen oprichter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunrays

Nou is Wiki ook niet zaligmaken maar toch.

Alle andere "verwijzingen" als "founder" komen van hem zelf.....

Of zijn door andere inmiddels voor waar aangenomen.

Zo dit weer een gevalletje zijn van, "ach het is zo lang geleden, wie weet dat nou nog ?."

Jammer dat dan weer zo gaat. Voor je het weet gaat ie echt de geschiedenis in als oprichter van de Beach Boys.