He Risked
Everything He Had
“This has to be the dumbest
stunt that you have pulled to
date!” Those were pretty
much his wife’s words when he
told her. And what he had
just told her was not what she
wanted to hear. After all,
she had put up with quite a bit
in this marriage thus far.
As a radio station disc-jockey
at KACY, Robert wasn’t exactly
on the top of the salary
scale.
Oh, don’t misunderstand,
he was making ends meet, but
getting rich? Nope, not
spinning platters. That’s
what we called it before the
days of CD’s and digital
music. Some of you may
remember the old 45's, 33’s and
even 78's. I consider my
days spent in the radio station
to be golden. I love
radio, always have, but you
don’t get rich. Robert
knew that too and he decided to
do something about it.
He had heard of a new
recording group that would be
touring and they had an open
play date in his area. If
he could get them, he figured he
could clean up and make a tidy
profit. The problem was
the rock group was getting more
popular all the time and their
management company wanted some
big bucks to guarantee the
date. Not only would
Robert have to put up a large
sum of money, but in order to
hold the expected crowd, it
would have to be held
outside.
That made it susceptible
to the weather, too! A
good rain and it would all be
over and Robert would be
ruined. The group’s
schedule did not allow for a
return engagement for
rain. It was an all or
nothing proposition. Not
that all that was so bad, but as
I said, he needed money to send
as a deposit to guarantee the
band’s appearance.
That’s what his wife was
so cranky about. In order
to get the money, he mortgaged
his house. Her
house! As if being the
wife of a disc-jockey wasn’t
tenuous enough already, with the
frequent changes in programming
and stations being sold, this
bozo had to go and take a second
on her house to get the money
for a rock group.
The next two months were
pure agony for her. She
couldn’t believe that her whole
life was wrapped up in some
silly, almost unknown musical
group. But it was!
To make a good story short, let
me tell you that in the end, all
went well. The group came
and performed to an over-sold
house. It didn’t rain and
Robert made a very handsome
profit, with which he paid off
the mortgage and promised never
to do it again.
He became the manager
for such greats as Stevie
Wonder, Ike and Tina Turner, The
Beach Boys, Elton John, Barbara
Mandrell, Dolly Parton, Bob
Dylan, just to name a few.
He created and produced
television hit shows such as the
Tony Tennile Show, The Guinness
Game, Infatuation, and even the
major motion picture
Payback. And I’ll bet you
didn’t know any of that, but you
do know Robert. You knew
the man that mortgaged his home
and nearly lost a wife for a
chance at the big time, but you
know him as host for one of the
most popular game shows of all
time.
It’s a Little Known Fact that Robert,
Bob Eubanks, was the host of the
The Newlywed Game, and nearly lost
everything he had to promote an
unknown but growing rock
group. But as I said, that
worked out alright for both Bob
Eubanks and The Beatles!
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