{"id":1898,"date":"2013-10-30T20:26:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2013-10-30T20:26:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T20:26:35","slug":"tim-sample","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/tim-sample\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 85: Maine humorist Tim Sample"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 85
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0October 26
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Tim Sample
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Mark Gould (Sharky)
\nAssistant Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tim Sample<\/a>, Maine\u2019s native humorist, was born in Fort Fairfield and raised in Boothbay Harbor (or as Sample would pronounce it, “Boothbay Hah-bah”).\u00a0 Sample told Stevoe how at a young age memorizing and mimicing came easily and he enjoyed making people laugh.\u00a0 Sample’s first album of Downeast humor was recorded in 1979 and produced by Noel Paul Stookey, “Paul” of Peter, Paul, and Mary.<\/p>\n

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Steve Woods (left) host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe in the studio with the hilarious Maine humorist Tim Sample (right).<\/p><\/div>\n

Sample was inspired and mentored by Marshall Dodge, who along with his partner, Robert Bryan, created the world-famous \u201cBert and I\u201d recordings back in the 1950s.\u00a0\u00a0 Sample toured with Dodge throughout Maine in the early 1980s. \u00a0After Dodge\u2019s death in 1982,\u00a0Sample recorded four albums and a video for the \u201cBert and I\u201d company.\u00a0 Sample and Bryan have collaborated on a number of projects, including several TV specials, the popular recording \u201cHow to Talk Yankee\u201d, and the TV specials \u201cOut of Season\u201d and \u201cMaine Humor Behind the Barn\u201d.<\/p>\n

Personally recruited by Charles Kuralt in the summer 1993, Sample became a regular correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. \u00a0Between 1993 and 2004, CBS broadcast about 100 of Sample\u2019s \u201cPostcards from Maine\u201d essays to a national audience of several million viewers.<\/p>\n

Sample has also written and\/or illustrated over a dozen books, including regional bestsellers \u201cSaturday Night at Moody’s Diner\u201d and his most recent \u201cMaine Curiosities\u201d, co-authored by Stephen Bither. \u00a0Sample has narrated award-winning films and books on tape, including Robert McCloskey’s children’s classic \u201cBert Dow, Deep Water Man\u201d and Stephen King’s \u201cThe Sun Dog\u201d.\u00a0 Sample told Stevoe how his column\u00a0“Stories I\u00a0Never Told You”\u00a0may lead to a manuscript.<\/p>\n

The Bert and I Company released the first new collection of \u201cBert and I\u201d stories in 30 years. \u00a0\u201cBert and I…Rebooted\u201d brings together Bob Bryan, founder of \u201cBert and I\u201d, and Sample for the first time since they released \u201cHow to Talk Yankee\u201d in 1983. The 22 tales on this CD — including a brand new Bert and I “Bluebird” story — are in the tradition of the stories from the original four Bert and I albums made by Bob Bryan and Marshall Dodge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Legendary Maine humorist Tim Sample stopped by the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio recently and talked with host Steve Woods about his facinating career. Sample told Stevoe how he got his start in show business and how he became a part of the “Bert & I” team. During the interview, Sample described the art of Downeast storytelling as “word jazz” and how it offers the listener with a different perspective. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}