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Thread #155982   Message #3674332
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
03-Nov-14 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Tom Magliozzi, 'Tappet Bros' Car Talk 2014
Subject: Obit: Tom Magliozzi, 'Click & Clack' Car Talk
The Magliozzi brothers Tom and Ray are best known for the National Public Radio program Car Talk and a newspaper column also about car repair, but they were also good musicians. It'll take digging down a bit to find examples of this, but I've read in the past, and heard them speak about their blue grass band.

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/03/357428287/tom-magliozzi-popular-co-host-of-nprs-car-talk-dies-at-77 Here is an obit from NPR today. Tom was 77 and died of complications from Alzheimers.

Tom Magliozzi, one of public radio's most popular personalities, died on Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 77 years old.

Tom and his brother, Ray, became famous as "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers" on the weekly NPR show Car Talk. They bantered, told jokes, laughed and sometimes even gave pretty good advice to listeners who called in with their car troubles.

If there was one thing that defined Tom Magliozzi, it was his laugh. It was loud, it was constant, it was infectious. . .


The program stopped taping new interviews two years ago, but they had a lot of extra material that has been bundled into new programs. Ray would like this to continue, to honor his brother.

SRS