Larry Glick, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Larry Glick

American radio host

Date of Birth: 16-May-1922

Date of Death: 26-Mar-2009

Profession: radio personality

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Larry Glick (May 16, 1922 – March 26, 2009) was an American talk radio host, based in Boston, Massachusetts, whose long-running show on WBZ and later WHDH became a New England institution in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Prior to ending its run on WHDH in 1992, Glick's show went out first over WMEX in 1965.
By 1967, he had been hired by WBZ, where he would spend the next 20 years.After his retirement from the air and as late as 2007, Larry was the Ambassador of Good Will for the Legal Seafood Restaurant in the Boca Raton (Florida) Mall.
In September 2008, he traveled back to Dedham, Massachusetts for his induction into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame at Massasoit Community College.
His acceptance speech "brought the house down".Outside of his broadcasting career, Larry pursued pilot training and was a founding partner in a commercial hypnotherapy business in Brookline, Massachusetts, to help people quit smoking and with weight loss. Larry died on March 26, 2009 following 10 hours of open-heart surgery, when complications arose and the doctors were unable to revive him.
In Boston, his obituary ran March 28, 2009 in the Boston Globe.