What I Did For Love!
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The pages of my website are chapters of a love story. It began when I was a young child envisioning the person I eventually became. For nearly fifty years, I have lived that dream.
The entertainer/songwriter phase came first. After several years on the road playing the lounge circuit, I brought my piano bar act to Nashville's Printer's Alley in the early '60s. Performing by night, writing songs by day, I had songs recorded by Brenda Lee, Johnny Mathis and Al Hirt and many others.
But the broadcasting dream remained an unsettled calling. An introduction to the WSM radio program director led to various apprenticeship duties. For ten years I lived on Woody Allen's advice that eighty percent of success in show business is simply showing up. It worked! In 1969, I persuaded WSM radio officials to let me host its first call-in talk show.
A year later I became the host Channel 4's Noon Show, Nashville television's most prestigious television program. Three years later, WSM radio named me host of it's popular Waking Crew. Both programs were Middle Tennessee traditions.
Eleven years later, Nashville's ABC television affiliate made me an offer I should have refused as its prime time news anchor. I soon found that telling what as a news anchor lacked the fulfillment of asking why as an interviewer. So I returned to my first love—talk radio—and introduced Teddy Bart's Round Table to Middle Tennessee in 1984. The program aired for over twenty years.
Driven by my lifelong fascination with spiritual, paranormal and metaphysical subjects, I launched a talk show called Beyond Reason in 1987 that continues to this day.
Writing has always been a major part of my journey. A novel titled A Particle of God was published in 2009. My latest novel, Shadow Seduction, was published in 2011.
A blog site, www.talentsurvivalguide.com, launched in 2011 shares experience, observations and advice for professional artists about living the creative life.
I hope my website helps you discover what I did—and what I am still doing—for love!
Teddy Bart
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