They call me Baba Booey

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 pr...

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Main Author: Dell'Abate, Gary, 1961-
Other Authors: Millman, Chad.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Becoming Baba Booey: the cure for what ails me, 1997
  • War heroes, psch wards, mental breakdowns ... and my mom
  • Blind rages and bedwetting
  • Throwing shoes, swinging shrubs, and the shock of my life
  • My hippie brother, my gay brother, and me
  • Casey Kasem, countdowns, and Columbia House
  • Greatest AM radio singles of the '70s
  • Becoming Baba Booey: a day that will live in infamy, 1990
  • Greatest all-time Baba Booey shout-outs
  • There is such a thing as being overprotective
  • Becoming Baba Booey: my caps, 1988
  • The Mott Street gambler goes broke
  • These are my guys
  • Becoming Baba Booey: the Nancy chronicles, 1984-88
  • Conspiracies, Roy Rogers, Tampons, and finding my calling
  • The coolest radio station ever and sticking it to Rick Cerone (Go Mets!)
  • Baba Booey's top 7 concerts
  • I own Nassau Coliseum
  • Champale and intimate companions
  • Becomin g Baba Booey: My brother Steven, 1991
  • My fellow music nerds
  • Record world playlist, circa 1982-83
  • I am a Clemo winner, dammit!
  • Becoming Baba Booey: the videotape, 1988/1999
  • Fridays and Sally Foo
  • Greatest storytelling songs of the '70s
  • The birthday pact
  • Becoming Baba Booey: marrying Mary, 1992
  • Roz makes WNBC feel just like home
  • Piloting the "N" car
  • Gary's reverse bucket list
  • Dial-a-date is a serious turn-on
  • Boy Gary, tassels, and asnow bunny
  • Becoming Baba Booey: the pitch, 2009
  • 6:54:30 ... the long walk back to Howard's office
  • Things were better when they were bad
  • Rejected book titles
  • Baba Booey's desert island discs
  • Baba Booey's must-have jukebox songs
  • Stump the Booey: the home version.