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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Includes all-new ma-ma-material! ALL NEW CHAPTER: Baba Booey’s Afghanistan Journal! and . . . the Shvoogie Buzzer story! One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and... read more

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  • “Following the simple plan outlined in this book, I lost fifteen pounds and became a happier wife and better mother.”
    Howard Stern
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  • I also learned a valuable lesson: If you do shitty tasks well and without attitude, someone will give you better stuff to do.
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  • “You are not a man until your dad dies.” At the time I thought it was such bullshit. Just something stupid someone says to lend gravity to a moment. But after my father died I believed it. If your dad is around you can always call him if you need to, no matter how grown-up or successful you are. But now I had no safety net. I was my own man. I just hoped I was the man he wanted me to be.
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  • I feel like my professional life is at a nine and my personal life is at a two.
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  • I lost my lover and I lost my best friend. And you lost your lover and you lost your best friend. You gained a lover and a best friend: I gained a couple lovers, I mean one lover, but I gained no friends.
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  • He always told me, no matter what I did, I was selling a product. And if you didn’t believe in what you did, people would see right through you.
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  • “You can’t give it to your kid. Don’t be a pussy.”
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  • “After you graduate, go do what you always wanted to do. Go to Europe. Because when you get that first job you will be working for the rest of your life.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

"Why are you talking to me like this?"

Table of Contents edit see section history

Becoming Baba Booey: The Cure for What Ails Me, 1997
Chapter 1: War Heroes, Psych Wards, Mental Breakdowns...and My Mom
Chapter 2: Blind Rages and Bedwetting
Chapter 3: Throwing Shoes, Swinging Shrubs, and the Shock of My Life
Chapter 4: My Hippie Brother, My Gay Brother, and Me
Chapter 5: Casey Kasem, Countdowns, and Columbia House
GREATEST AM RADIO SINGLES OF THE '70S
Becomng Baba Booey: A Day that WIll Live in Infamy, 1990
GREATEST ALL-TIME BABA BOOEY SHOUT-OUTS
Chapter 6: There is Such as Thing as Being Overprotective
Becoming Baba Booey: My Caps, 1988
Chapter 7: The Mott Street Gambler Goes Broke
Chapter 8: These Are My Guys
Becoming Baba Booey: The Nancy Chronicles, 1984-1988
Chapter 9: Conspiracies, Roy Rogers, Tampons and Finding My Calling
Chapter 10: The Coolest Radio Station Ever and Sticking It to Rick Cerone (Go Mets!)
BABA BOOEY'S TOP 7 CONCERTS
Chapter 11: I Own Nassau Coliseum
Chapter 12: Champale and Intimate Companions
Becoming Baba Booey: My Brother Steven, 1991
Chapter 13: My Fellow Music Nerds
RECORD WORLD PLAYLIST, CIRCA 1982-1983
Chapter 14: I Am A Clemo Winner, Dammit!
Becoming Baba Booey: The Videotape, 1988/1999
Chapter 15: Fridays and Sally Foo
GREATEST BAD STORYTELLING SONGS OF THE '70S
Chapter 16: The Birthday Pact
Becoming Baba Booey: Marrying Mary, 1992
Chapter 17: Roz Makes WNBC Feel Just Like Home
Chapter 18: Piloting the "N" Car
GARY'S REVERSE BUCKET LIST
Chapter 19: Dial-a-Date Is a Serious Turn-on
Chapter 20: Boy Gary, Tassels, and a Snow Bunny
Becoming Baba Booey: The Pitch, 2009
Chapter 21: 6:54:30...The Long Walk Back to Howard's Office
Chapter 22: 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

Acknowledgments, Part 1
Acknowledgments, Part 2

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Gary Dell'Abate (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Chad Millman (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Country: United States
Publication Date: 11/2/2010
ISBN: 978-1400069552
Page Count: 340

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  • Library of Congress: PN1991.4.D46A3 2010
  • Dewey: 790

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