Howard Stern recalls late friend Ralph Cirella’s first radio show call-in: Listen
nypost.comlooking back on his late friend Ralph Cirella’s first time calling into his eponymous radio show.The stylist and makeup artist died on Tuesday at the age of 58.Cirella first contacted the “Howard Stern Show” on Dec.
24, 1985. His exchange with Stern, 69, and his co-host, Robin Quivers, was reshared to the program’s official Instagram account late Thursday.
Cirella was just a high school kid from New Jersey at the time.Howard noted that he spoke to Cirella and his mother on Christmas Eve before he ever met them.“Howard, can you play the new Connie Francis Christmas song,” a young Cirella asked Stern on the phone.The DJ wondered why the teen wanted to listen to the tune again, to which Cirella said: “Yea, my mother didn’t hear it.
She loves Connie Francis.”He then handed his telephone to his mom and she spoke to Stern while on the radio broadcast.Cirella’s mom joked: “What did my son say?
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