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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. How you doing, guys? Weekends coming. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat nothing to brag about, $5.71 a bushel. 550lb steer calf not moving much now, but I'll quote them where they are, $5 to $5.10 a pound. Butcher Hog in Iowa 70ยข a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $3.08 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. Okay. If I say the name Vicky Lawrence, what do you think of? Vicky Lawrence. You ponder that and I'll find us a bible verse.
OK Solberg:Listen, it's from the book of Esther 4:14 And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this. Esther 4 verse 14. Now, Esther became the queen and this something big came by happenstance. Well, Vicky Lawrence did the same.
OK Solberg:In her life, there was a happenstance that changed her whole career. So what comes to mind when you hear the name Vicki Lawrence? Now some of you younger folks can't think of a thing. Yet others of us, well, immediately, we think of the Carol Burnett show. Vicky was on the Carol Burnett show for the full 11 seasons from 1967 all the way through 1978.
OK Solberg:Now if this jogs your memory, you might well remember that I did a 405 episode on Vicki not that many weeks ago. And at that point in time, I brought to your attention the fact that the brunette, Carol Burnett show was not her only claim to fame.
OK Solberg:She had a #1, a number one hit song as well. You remember The Night the Lights went out in Georgia. He was on his way home from Candle Top, then 2 weeks gone, and he thought he'd stop at Webb's and have him a drink before he went home to her.
OK Solberg:But you're thinking, this is old news, Orvin. Why the repeat? Well, I'll tell you why. Because of my friend in Longmont, I have more, much more. Listen to this delightful story. Absolutely delightful.
OK Solberg:And I quote Vicky word for word from an interview that she was in. And she says, I was 17 years old my senior year in high school, and and I entered a little contest called Miss Fireball in my hometown of Englewood, California.
OK Solberg:It was the fireman's ball, and and they wanted some girls to entertain them. So they said they'd call it a contest. So we'll get a bump bunch of bimbos to come out. There were eight of us, and the local newspaper gal did an article, and she said that I looked like a young Carol Burnett.
OK Solberg:So my mom said, I think you should write her a fan letter because I was a big fan letter writer when I was a kid, but it was all the cute boys that were on TV. You guys can probably help me jog my memory.
OK Solberg:Johnny Crawford, Paul Peterson, Fabian, and let's see who else. All those young cute guys. Oh, the Beach Boys, which we lived really near. I actually saw them on the street one time. I nearly lost it.
OK Solberg:Anyway, so I wrote Carol a letter. I told her I looked like her. I told her I'd love to meet her someday, and I I didn't really ask for anything. I mailed it off to well, I think I mailed it to Carol Burnett Hollywood or something stupid like that. Right? And it actually happened to land on her desk before that contest.
OK Solberg:So she took my dad's name out of the newspaper. She looked us up in the phone book, which, you know, you no longer can do, and she called me after school and she said, wanna come see the contest. She said, I'm very pregnant. Don't tell anyone. Get me two seats way in the back.
OK Solberg:I'm gonna sneak in and sneak out, and then I'll call you in a couple of weeks, and I'll discuss your career, sweetie. This is November of my senior year. She watched the contest. I won the contest. There was a bunch of stupid pictures of us with the mayor and the fire chief and all that stuff, and she disappeared.
OK Solberg:And I didn't hear from her. Then January, she was very pregnant. In January, I came home from school and my mom said they announced on the radio that Carol had the baby and she's at Saint John's. So I was on my way to a recording session with the young Americans which was the group I sang with when I was young. I said, my ride's here.
OK Solberg:I wanna go by the hospital and say hi to her because I had not heard anything. He said, you'll never get to see Carol Burnett. Well, I said, I know her married name now, so I'm I'm gonna try. So I went into the hospital. I looked up the maternity ward.
OK Solberg:I went up to the floor. There there was two nurses sitting behind the nurses station, you know, doing nothing. It was very quiet. I said, I'm here to see Mrs. Hamilton. And they said to me, oh, you must be her sister Chrissy.
OK Solberg:They said, wait till you see her. Wait till you see the baby. They took me right into her room. End of quote, and you can figure out what happened from there.
OK Solberg:So now you know the best of the story, and it's all thanks to my friend in Longmont. Lucky here, we're a pretty good team. Fame and fortune will be pouring down on us soon. I hope not.
OK Solberg:So until next time. As you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.