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For more than 40 years Mac Hudson and Irv Harrigan launched the workday for millions of Houstonians as the hosts of 1 of America's longest-running, most successful funny day shows at the legendary and award-winning KILT Radio. The Hudson & Harrigan Show shown constantly from 1967 until 2010, where time it became a real Houston institution. Randy Hames (as Irv Harrigan) co-hosted the previous 30 years of the show's run along with his on-air spouse and life-long good friend Fred Olson (Mac Hudson), and mutually they forged a new format and broke new ground as an early-morning funny team, with unprecedented tenure and ratings success. Over the generations, much misinformation has been written and circulated about how precisely the behind-the-microphone subject characters altered and the format was altered, so Hames has meticulously explored the show's history through endless interactions with its principal players. Houston's Morning Show carefully chronicles the program's outrageous and sometimes wacky twists and turns with wit and accuracy and reliability, and it pulls back the drape so listeners can experience for themselves the needs and rewards of anchoring a blockbuster, major-market team show. From local Tx possession to CBS, from the imaginary Jim Bob Jumpback to Tyrone Tyrone Tyrone, from the initial Hudson and Harrigan to the ultimate duo, Hames painstakingly recounts the progression of one of the most entertaining, iconic and award-winning day team shows in broadcasting history. A must hear for admirers and industry insiders as well, Houston's Morning Show is a one-of-a-kind, firsthand, fanciful romp through radio's heyday.
