Paul Harvey

Radio Personality

Name at birth: Paul Harvey Aurandt

The radio show Paul Harvey News and Comment was first broadcast nationally in 1951 and continued into the 21st century, making Harvey one of the longest-lasting and best-known voices on American radio. Harvey's program -- an idiosyncratic mix of headlines, comments, quips and advertisements, all voiced by Harvey -- is syndicated to hundreds of radio stations around the country daily. Harvey is famous for his work ethic: he writes and records his shows six days a week from studios in Chicago. His brisk, quirky delivery and signature greeting "Hello, Americans!" have been widely (if fondly) parodied. In 1976 Harvey began a companion radio feature, The Rest of the Story, telling little-known tales from the lives of famous people.

Extra credit: Harvey's nickname for his wife (the former Lynne Cooper) is "Angel"... The two were married in June of 1940.

Paul Harvey joins Garrison Keillor and Rush Limbaugh in our loop on the Legends of Radio.