Comments on: Dick Summer, The Lovin' Touch Show on WBZ Boston | 197x

By: Steve Leeman

Steve Leeman — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:57:22 +0000

I cannot believe this is online. I can’t tell you what Dick Summer, and the Lovin Touch, meant to me growing up as a teenager in the Boston area in the late 60’s-early 70’s. He was a lifesaver. I would go to bed with the radio at my ear, playing very softly as I went to sleep. I am truly overwhelmed to hear this program again, and believe he had a lot to do with my becoming a professional musician, as well as becoming what my wife refers to as a “heart” man. Dick, if your still out there somewhere, THANK YOU.

By: Dick Summer

Dick Summer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:49:11 +0000

Pretty special note Linda. Thank you. Radio is a parade…It seems like once it’s over all that’s left is sweeping up after the horses. But your note sounds like memories of the marching bands. Please go to http://www.dicksummer.com and pick one of the cds there. Let me send it to you as a “Thanks for remembering” gift. Dick Summer

By: Linda Gnat-Mullin

Linda Gnat-Mullin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:00:25 +0000

I remember Dick Summer from WISH in Indianapolis. He was so different and cool, and I missed listening to him when he moved to Boston. Then, late one summer night in the 1960’s, I was trying to fall asleep at my Grandmother’s house in the country in Indiana. Feeling misunderstood as teenagers are wont to do, I was dialing my transistor radio very softly, muffling the sound a little with my pillow (where was my earphone?). Out of the darkness, I heard Dick Summer, all the way from Boston, on WBZ. It was like the Universe was saying, “It’ll be OK.”

By: Joe Crain

Joe Crain — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:14:26 +0000

I’m struck by how GREAT the audio was for an aircheck recorded in Wisconsin of a station in New England! 1971 audio for AM was much better in the analog world vs. the current world of distortion and buzz from all of the digital transmissions on AM. Plus, AM receivers in 1971 were still being made with an eye toward quality. All in all, a wonderful example of how great radio used to be…