Unsung hero Gary Dell’Abate will be continuing his coast-to-coast signing tour of his book co-authored by Chad Millman, titled “They Call Me Baba Booey.”
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Dell’Abate has been Howard Stern’s producer for 27 years and this memoir is 26 years in the making. In it he delves into his childhood and the dysfunctional home life that prepared him for his dream job and his dysfunctional radio family. In case ya didn’t know, Dell’Abate’s nick name “Baba Booey” originated on The Howard Stern Show on July 26, 1990, after telling a story of his collection of animation cels and mispronouncing “Baba Looey.”
Book Signing Tour
June 2, 2011
7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
Bethesda Avenue
Bethesda, MD.
June 3, 2011
7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
West Northwest Highway
Dallas, TX.
June 11, 2011
2:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
Waterworks Mall
Pittsburgh, PA.
June 16, 2011
7:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
Old Orchard Center
Skokie, IL.
From the Publisher
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.
Source: barnesandnoble.com
LOL on that book cover, that’s some serious 70s hair.