Don’t Pass Me By with Bob Wilson

Vintage Baseball Photos with Kevin Baskin

Don't Pass Me By welcomes Kevin Baskin back onto the program. Kevin runs the wildly successful social media page: Vintage Baseball Photos (that you can find on Facebook). Kevin and host Bob Wilson discuss: The Astros championships & buzzers, Pete Rose, Steroids, Babe & Shohei, Legalized Gambling, Aaron Judge, the Hall of Fame, and so very much more. ~Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show.   

Dean Andrews III: Talks JFK

Bob Wilson and Don Jeffries (the Hidden History series of books) combine to interview Dean Andrews III on  Don't Pass Me By. Dean Andrews III discusses his late father Dean Andrews, Jr. , Jim Garrison, and the background to the assassination of JFK. A lot of strange happenings were transpiring in New Orleans, and Dean was a first person witness to many of them. Topics include Clay Shaw, Clem Bertrand,Carlos Marcello, David Ferrie, and Perry Raymond Russo. Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show. 

Bob Hope’s Bunglow: with Carol Shaw

Bob Wilson welcomed Carol Shaw and Don Jeffries to Don't Pass Me By. Bob and Don interview Carol on her book, Bob Hope’s Bungalow: Tales From The Typing Trenches (Bear Manor Media, 2022). It is a lighthearted account of Carol Shaw's year as a young personal secretary for Bob Hope during 1983 and 1984. It chronicles her time at Mr. Hope’s Toluca Lake residence in “The Bungalow“ with Bob, his writers, staff, and celebrity friends. It was a one-of-a-kind adventure filled with jokes, zany antics, and her Lucy-like escapades. ~Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show. 
 

JOHN LENNON: Jay Bergen & Jude Kessler

Jude Southerland Kessler (The John Lennon Series) joins Bob Wilson on Don't pass me by to interview John Lennon's lawyer Jay Bergen (Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer). Just as his Rock 'n' Roll oldies album hit the market, Morris Levy, the Mob-connected owner of Roulette Records, released Roots, an unauthorized version of the same record. Levy had used rough mixes of John's unfinished Rock 'n' Roll recordings-and claimed the former Beatle had verbally agreed to the arrangement. The clash led to a lawsuit and countersuit between Levy and Lennon.
Attorney Jay Bergen, a partner in a prestigious New York City law firm, represented John in this epic battle over the rights to his own recordings. Millions of dollars were at stake.
Jay tells the intimate story of how he worked closely with John to rebut Levy's outrageous claims. He also recounts how John explained his recording process in poetic, exacting terms before a judge who knew little about the Beatles and John's solo career.
Lennon, the Mobster & the Lawyer catches the high drama of the courtroom skirmishes in this previously untold story. It also paints a detailed personal picture of John and his world in 1975-76, when he was soon to have a new son and went into happy seclusion to be a husband and father. ~Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show.

Nowhere Man: Robert Rosen

Bob Wilson welcomes Robert Rosen to Don't Pass Me By. Rosen is one of the few people outside John Lennon’s inner circle to have read his personal diaries, Nowhere Man reveals an emotional truth about the ex-Beatle that can’t be found in any of the approximately 400 other Lennon biographies currently in print. Twenty-one years after its publication, the book is an acknowledged cult classic in the U.S. and U.K. It has been translated into many languages, and the Spanish Web magazine iLeon has chosen it as one of the “10 essential music biographies of all time.” The “official” version of Lennon’s five-year tenure as househusband was one of domestic bliss. In reality, his daily life at the Dakota drifted between contradictory desires and minor obsessions—all magnified by the tedium of isolation. Nowhere Man is an intimate journey through Lennon’s last years, carrying us from his self-imposed seclusion to his re-entry into public life with the making of Double Fantasy. Each chapter offers a glimpse into a different aspect of Lennon’s life, including his relationship with Yoko Ono, parenthood, drug use, and his pseudoscientific, esoteric, and religious forays. The portrait that emerges is a life during a time of turmoil that is just reaching creative renewal, only to be cut short by an act of delusional violence. Nowhere Man reveals a very human side of a beloved cultural icon, giving the reader a compelling account of John’s solitary struggle to create a meaningful life in the glaring spotlight of fame. Robert Rosen does not let us go until we’ve faced the abrupt and tragic fate of one of the most creative minds of our time. ~Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show. 

Pastor Paul Begley: The Great Escape

Pastor Paul Begley came onto Don't Pass Me By with host Bob Wilson. The Pastor covers relevant ground with the signs of the times, including the Fig Tree Generation, the Gog-Magog War, energy and food shortages, rocking economies, the UFO phenomena and Nephilim, and so very much more. The pastor's message tells us how to seize hope, and how to make it through these exciting times. -Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show. 

Robert Rosen: A Brooklyn Memoir

Don't Pass Me By welcomes author Robert Rosen (A Brooklyn Memoir: My Life as a Boy). From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, A Brooklyn Memoir is an unsentimental journey through one rough-and-tumble working-class neighborhood. Though only a 20-minute and 15-cent subway ride from the gleaming towers of Manhattan across the East River, Flatbush remained insular and provincial—a place where Auschwitz survivors and WWII vets lived side by side and the war lingered like a mass hallucination.Meet Bobby, a local kid who shares a shabby apartment with his status-conscious mother and bigoted father, a soda jerk haunted by memories of the Nazi death camp he helped liberate. Flatbush, to Bobby, is a world of brawls with neighborhood “punks”, Hebrew school tales of Adolf Eichmann’s daring capture, and grade school duck-and-cover drills. Drawn to images of mushroom clouds and books about executions, Bobby ultimately turns the seething hatred he senses everywhere against himself.From the best-selling author of Nowhere Man: The Final Days of John Lennon.

Diary of a Beatlemaniac: Patricia Gallo-Stenman

Don't Pass Me By welcomes author Patricia Gallo-Stenman (Diary of a Beatlemaniac) to the program. Patricia and host Bob Wilson discuss what the Beatles live concerts were like in person. Patricia relates her trips to see the lads live, and lets us see the show through her eyes. ~Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show. 

Ivor Davis & Joseph Brutsman: Marlon & Greg Part 2

Don't Pass Me By welcomes authors Ivor Davis and Jospeh Brutsman to the show for the second half of their fascinating discussion. Bob Wilson hosts as topics cover Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, and Classic Hollywood with all of the trimmings. ~Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show. 

Bruce Spizer & Billy Shears: The Clues

Beatles expert Bruce Spizer joins Bob Wilson on 'Don't Pass Me By'. The author relates an air-tight summation on the clues relating to Paul McCartney being replaced by 'Billy Shears'. Discussion covers the album covers, backward messages in the songs, and where the rumors got their start.  -Lend us your ears, and we'll give you a show! 
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