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They Call Me Baba Booey
- Narrated by: Gary Dell'Abate
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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
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- NaomiH
- 2020-12-19
BabaBOOOOEY!!!!
Awesome insight into Gary Dell’Abate! Not a ton of behind the scenes stuff... but if you have been a HS fan for a long time, you’ll like the book! Goes into the stories about Gary’s family that they don’t talk about much on the air. And you will hear the clips Howard plays to big Gary all the time!
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- OTD
- 2018-04-16
Great audio book
If you're a fan of the show you should like this book. I personally found it very entertaining and to my surprise I enjoyed hearing about Fa Fa Fooey's stories. However, the fact that Howard did not participate or even commented in the book should tell you just about how much he cares for Gary. I would have wished we'd heard Howard's take on Gary. One last thing: there's no mention of his early "sex, drugs and rock'n'roll" years on the show, like if it never happened. Hence the 4 stars.
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- Devin Duguay
- 2018-03-16
Fafa fooohi
Great book very interesting. I would recommend you’re a Howard Stern show fan. Baba Booey
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- Tyler Sloss
- 2020-01-07
FLOW
Great flow and story! Always a fan of the show happy to hear the story of Boy Gary
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- personpeopleson
- 2021-12-14
ehh?
what an odd book. Gary seemed to enjoy being the star of his own show for once which made this a little fun to listen to.
Feels like if my 5 year old daughter drew a picture and showed it to me. I play along and act like it's the best picture I've ever seen, but in reality it's just cute she put so much effort into it. Bababooey is my 5 year old in this analogy.
His stories are left entirely out of sequence in a way that often doesn't lend to the narrative. We're interrupted constantly with Gary's favorite record lists, or awkward conversations and gaudy background music.
Occasionally were rewarded with an interesting story, and we get some small insight into Gary's life.
other than these few moments however we're left confused, bored or annoyed. As a long term Howard Stern fan I always loved Gary and thought although obviously it's a part of the show, that Gary was often unfairly characterised as an oaf.
However, after listening to this audiobook I think that characterization is accurate, and I actually walk away from this with less respect for him than I started out with.
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