SERENITY SAM RIP AA SPEAKER FROM RICHMOND IN @ THE SANTA BARBARA CONVENTION IN SB ~ NOVEMBER 3, 2001 скачать в хорошем качестве

SERENITY SAM RIP AA SPEAKER FROM RICHMOND IN @ THE SANTA BARBARA CONVENTION IN SB ~ NOVEMBER 3, 2001

SERENITY SAM MEIER NOVEMBER 4, 1927 - JANUARY 6, 2008 HE PASSED @ 80 YEARS OF AGE. THE FOLLOWING IS FROM A FACEBOOK POST BY SAM'S FAMILY A Little Bit of Hollywood In Richmond: Some of you from Richmond may have been acquainted with my uncle William "Sam" Meier. For years he was a script doctor for movies and television shows in Hollywood. He also had his own radio shows on FM stations in Richmond and Miami, Ohio. He also was a tireless advocate and speaker for Alcoholics Anonymous. To this day a number of his recorded speeches for AA remain available online under the moniker "Serenity Sam." A sizable article about Sam's years in Hollywood was featured in the Richmond Palladium-Item on Sunday July 19, 1992. Hard to believe this was almost 30 years ago now! Here's the article in its entirety, broken down into parts for easier legibility and reading. I've also included Sam's 2008 obituary and pictures of him from over the years. Writer, jazz historian, radio host and speaker who sometimes called himself "the world's oldest living teenager". 2008 Tribute by Cleve Callison, then-general manager of WMUB-FM, the National Public Radio affiliate of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: A long-time friend of WMUB, Richmond's Sam Meier, passed away on January 6th in a hospice in Santa Monica, California at age 80. Sam was host of "Sam's Place" on WMUB for many years, drawing on his amazing knowledge of early jazz history on the show. At age 14 Sam began work for Richmond's Starr Piano company. Starr's sister company Gennett Records is where legends like Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael and Louis Armstrong made some of the very first jazz recordings. In recent years Sam produced three volumes of Gennett Records' "Greatest Hits" CDs that preserve priceless recordings of these early pioneers. He was a tireless promoter of them on his show and on frequent guest appearances on the Mama Jazz show. Sam was also a "script doctor" in Hollywood, punching up comic scenes in films and in shows as diverse as the original Smothers Brothers show on CBS (working with his longtime friend Steve Martin) to "Everybody Loves Raymond" in recent years. See Barry Levinson's 1994 film "Jimmy Hollywood" for a scene inspired by Mama Jazz as a truculent customer in a diner. I'll always remember Sam both for his profound love of early jazz and his inexhaustible sense of wry humor at the comedy of life. He will be greatly missed. **** In the community of Alcoholics Anonymous, Sam was for decades a popular speaker known across America as "Serenity Sam." Recordings of his talks are still available. With great humor, he told the story of his troubled family, his encounters with the law and his addiction to alcohol and drugs. He credited AA with saving his life and was clean and sober from January 1957 through the remainder of his life. IF YOU'D LIKE TO SUPPORT MY CHANNEL IN A MORE DIRECT WAY YOU CAN SEND A DOLLAR OR TWO TO MY PAYPAL ACCOUNT [email protected] VIDEO IS EDITED WITH DA VINCI RESOLVE 20.1 A GO PRO HERO 7 FOR TAPER DAVE 4K VIDEO SHOTS. 4K VIDEO FOOTAGE MADE FROM A POTENSIC ATOM 3 AXIS GIMBAL DRONE. THIS AUDIO WAS ADJUSTED USING SONY SOUND FORGE 7.0