grew up in Chicago 50s-60s and found out about hockey listening to Lloyd Petit on the radio, his famous saying.."A Shot and A Goal". and remember him saying when the old Chicago Stadium was full, "their hanging from the rafters". after i got out of the service in '67 we had seats up in the 2nd balcony, 2nd row. and there actually were people(workers) walking up on the catwalks above the ice... RIP Robert Marvin Hull
My fondest memory of Lloyd Petitt was his call of Pit Martin’s hat trick versus the Montreal Canadians at the Chicago Stadium in the 1973 Stanley Cup finals! I was listening to the game on radio and remembered my dad calling me from a pay phone just after Pit Martin scored the third goal. Thank you so much for sharing these recording broadcasts of Lloyd Pettit! I also love hearing the great old pipe organ and the monotone voice of Harvey Wittenberg saying something like this: “Blackhawk Goal, scored by number 21 Stan Mikita! His 21st of the season at 16:36 of the second period! Love this so much!
I was born in 1968. We moved to Streamwood when I was 4. That was 1972. Same year my uncle took me to my first hockey game and the first time I was helping my Dad turn the antenna so we could get da Hawks game on channel 44 Lloyd was the GREATEST Pat Foley I think modeled himself after Lloyd Pat Foley and Dale Tallon! Yeah! How bout that?! Pat and Eddie! I’ll bleed black and red until I’m cold and dead
I went out and bought me Hockey Games because of the excitement ar Blackhawks games at home we never saw way back then at Old Chicago Stadium. Great announcer he and Jim West
Does anybody remember the game on TV in which Pettit said, "A shot and a goal, a shot and a save, a shot and a goal!"? The next day, the neighborhood kids were playing our daily after-school hockey game, we realized that we had all heard it and had a good laugh. I don't remember the specific game - sometime in the late '60s-early '70s.
Could remember exactly when I was listening on WGN radio in bed. At 15 years old at the time. I would say the most exciting hockey announcer I have ever listened to. Great time growing up.
AH this is so much fun to listen to Lloyd Pettit. He would do Cubs games with Jack Brickhouse when I was a kid he never did sound the same calling baseball but his hockey calls are classic
I Covered Blackhawks Hockey for a Chicago radio station (WTAQ) from 1981-85. I was able to broadcast my Sunday Night program (SportsJournal) live from the Chicago Stadium prior to the Blackhawks games. I was honored to be on the night they retired Bobny Hull's #9 and featured an interview with Bobby taped the day before.
Lloyd Pettit was THE VOICE of the Hawks and was, in my opinion, the greatest ice hockey announcer of all time. He painted a word picture that was immaculate, accurate, and exciting. Frankly, letting one's mind become actively engaged in the game abd allowing THE VOICE to frame the game was ll one needed. I bet he's looking down now and mighty happy the Hawks are #1 again!
I am a Blues fan in Texas, my intro to hockey was kmox the sports voice of St Louis in 67 or 68. In those days in my hometown you couldn't see any hockey on tv. It was several years before I could see what I was falling in love with on the radio. I got books in school you could order from your teacher and one of my first was Hockey Stars of 1967-1968. That was also I think my first paperback. Of course the Blues had the great Dan Kelly. However on a few occasions I happened to run across Chicago Blues broadcasts on Chicago radio, when kmox wouldn't come in. Even though I never knew who the broadcaster was, I always could recall hearing a shot and goal. Like it was yesterday. Thanks for the video. I can finally put a name to the voice. Was he your broadcaster when the Hawks won any cups? It's a shame Dan never saw the Blues win it all.
I was 7 years old and with my dad at this game. Henri Richard went around Keith Magnuson and lifted it over Tony O right in front of me seated behind the Hawk net. Heartbreak.
Thanks . I barely remember beginning to follow the Blackhawks in 71 and than they became terrible after 74 or 75. So I turned them off until Savard arrived.
Lloyd Pettit is right up there with Dan Kelly. He could make this life long Blues fan a Blackhawk fan if only for a few hours a night. And when they aren’t playing the Blues.
Lloyd Pettit's play by play of Chicago Blackhawk games of the late 60s and 70s provided the soundtrack to my youth. He was a class act and a gifted announcer. RIP
I know how you feel. I grew up in New York listening to Marv Albert on the radio, I remember listening to the Ranger Blackhawk triple overtime game in 1971 when Stan Mikita hit the post with an open net and Pete Stemkowski scored the game winner at the beginning of the third overtime period!
Two of my fondest memories of a misspent youth in Chicago: Phil Georgeff calling the races at Arlington Park and Lloyd Pettit calling the Blackhawks at the Stadium or on the road. They turned the events they described into magical experiences. My sincerest thanks to both of you gentlemen; I miss you both.
Good ol Lloyd. Emmy award winner.. I recall the scooter line.. Mohns. Mikita, Warrem... and many a day at the old Stadium.. Tony the Cop out side.. a good pal.. always took care of parking for us back in the day.. Would appreciate if you had more.. to upload.. I looked on my old reel to reel tapes.. we did that off the radio.. but most are all gone.. had a few Franklin McCormacks left from the Meister Brau Showcase.. my fav beer back then
No other hockey play by play announcer on radio could enable the listener to envision what was happening on the ice the way Lloyd Pettit could. He was the best by far.
Although many hockey announcers would say "He shoots, he scores", Lloyd Pettit's famous "Shot and a goal" followed by the Chicago Stadium crowd roars, was truly music to Blackhawk fans.
Foster Hewitt coined "He shoots, he scores", way back before the 50s, and before TV! He is a LEGEND up here in Canada. Leafs owner Harold Ballard scrapped the gondola that Hewitt did the games from at Maple Leaf Gardens! That should have been saved in a museum! Ballard wasn't too popular for that!
I grew up with Lloyd doing the games on both radio and WGN TV. I remember when Hamms beer was the sponsor. I too remember the heartbreak of the '71 Cup in game 7..I still can't believe Lemaire's shot beat Tony-O...Pat Foley was a great choice to replace Lloyd Pettit. I'm so glad he came back after what old man Bill Wirtz did to him...things are so good now, but this is nice to listen to and remember the good old days of Blackhawks hockey..."A shot...AND A GOAL!"
If Lloyd Pettit were around the doing the Blackhawks on radio in the 2010 Finals, his call of the series would have ended with "A Shot, A Goal, AND A CUP!!!!". The "original six" NHL teams each had a legendary play-by-play broadcaster: Pettit in Chicago, Foster Hewitt in Toronto, Danny Gallivan in Montreal, Bud Lynch in Detroit, Fred Cusick in Boston, and Marty Glickman in New York (Rangers).
Boy some of those great names on this tape,brings back some very good times in my life.How I wish I could go back in time.I saw most of these players at the Chicago Stadium.
Billy Reay was a great coach! I was a young black kid growing up in Gary when your grand dad coached the Hawks. The first professional sports franchise I followed. What a great group of guys. I still have a post card that Bobby Hull took the time to write me in response to my fan mail. And Tony O. Those guys gave me such happiness.
If Billy Reay had been a great coach the Blackhawks would have won two more Stanley Cups while Bobby Hull played there. There is no way they should have lost game 7 in 1971 while leading by two goals going into the third period at home.
I watched the Hawks in 1973 on Channel 9 while living in Holland Michigan. A roof antenna with a rotor along with good celestial conditions where necessary. At times I couldn't see the puck because of all o the snow, but could always hear BP. Anyone under the age of 30 doesn't understand a word of this.
I always figured some day if I died and went to heaven, I could turn on my transistor radio and listen to Lloyd doing the play-by-play of a Chicago Blackhawks game. So thanks for taking the time to put this together and letting me spend 10 minutes in heaven! And thanks Lloyd, you were The Best!
@stucknda60s same here, i was only 8 when the Hawks last won cup so don't remember it real well, but this was sweet, washed away the memories of cming up short in 71,73 and 92
I think I once heard somewhere that during the 1970's, not only were Chicago Blackhawks home games blacked out from local TV, but that only ten or so regular season away games were televised. To make matters worse, the games were supposedly shown on a tape delay at 10 P.M. Central time!
My brother and I were at the ols madhouse for th 50 goal game. I can still see the Bruins shking Bobby's hand. Lloyd was absolutely the best, and is yet to be matched. These are great memories. And 2010 may bring another Cup. I hope.
Greatest sports announcer ever. Can't even think of who would come in second place to Lloyd. Loved it when he began speaking at a 100 mph. Many thanks for some wonderful memories!!
EVERY YOUNG CHICAGO KID REMEMBERS LLYOD. HE DID THE LEAD OFF MAN CUB PREGAME SHOW.. NOW YOU KNOW ALL OF THIS IS GREAT NHL HISTORY.. "A SHOT AND A GOAL"! AND REMBER THERE WERE A LOT OF HIGHLIGHTS BECAUSE THE RADIO COVERAGE DID NOT START UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST PERIOD OF PLAY!!
Man, thanks so much for posting this. For some reason, I recalled “a shot and a goal” today; I tried looking up Lloyd Pettit on CZcams, and there you were... my mom & dad & 3 sisters used to watch Blackhawk games together, and this was the announcer, Lloyd Pettit, the greatest... thanks for the blast from the past!
He was great! I remember listening to the BlackHawks on the radio every game during the late 60's and 70's. Lloyd Pettit was one of the great broadcasters of all time. Note- He also did the Chicago Cub games in the 60's.
my god i am crying like a lil kid,,my brother loved to listen to these guys when we was kids,,we were only 10 or so,, this was such a thrill hearing real hockey,,
I cried when I heard about the death of Lloyd Pettit, on Veteran's Day, 2003, a little more than a month before the tragic death of Keith Magnuson... I would go to Chicago Stadium, with my transistor radio, and listen to Lloyd Pettit, while I watched the action on the ice. I remember listening to Pettit's play-by-play, Lou Boudreau's color analysis and not Harvey Wittenburg, but, Red Mottlow, as the public address announcer... I was at the game where Keith Magnuson, in an attempt to stop an eventual St. Louis Blues goal, pinned goalie Gerry Desjardins' left arm against the left post, fracturing it in two places. The play happened so fast, I didn't realize what had happened. This took place in March 1971. Desjardins was never the same. The Hawks brought up a rookie named Gilles Meloche, to backup Tony Esposito... Lloyd Pettit, who was one-of-a-kind, was elected to the hockey hall of fame, in 1986.
+Ed Morris Ed, I use to listen to the broadcast on my AM radio underneath the covers at night when I was suppose to be in asleep. It would become white noise until you heard the croad begin to roar and the..."a shot and a goal!!" Lloyd's voice was pure magic.
@ Ed Morris, which was the public address announcer from the Stadium in 60s that really sounded like a ROBOT? I'd have to hear him again to refresh my memory, but at the time it was very profound to me. I also had some early 80s playoff games against Oilers on VHS from the Stadium but lost them over the years. Remember how Hawks dominated most games at home in the 1st 5 mins of the game? THey'd come out like Gangbusters to start the game! The home crowd really was the 7th man on the ice for them!
A shot and a goal and the Stanley Cup competition. The two greatest lines ever uttered by an announcer. Lloyd Pettit's voice exploded. A lot of people don't know he was a Cubs' announcer.
The kids on our street all played ice and street hockey, and when any of us scored, we all imitated Lloyd Pettit! Those were some great times... spent lots of nights listening to him with my tiny transistor radio pressed against my ear. Man goodness, was Chicago Stadium loud or what? WOW!
Thank you so much, I was 'nt born yet, but now it's easy to imagen beeing there. And part dedicated to the MPH line, Pit Martin was my fathers older brother. Thank you..
I sat behind Lloyd and Bob Elson at center ice for several years. They were on a platform attached to the first balcony and we were in the front row. Lloyd would call the game and then pass the mic to Bob for analysis. Lloyd would often talk to us between periods but Bob was a very private guy. I'll post again with a story of how Lloyd broke up at the beginning of a game and was laughing so hard he couldn't continue. Such great memories of an unbelievable announcer.
l will never forget only being able to hear the second and third periods. of Hawk home games and loved hearing Lloyd belt out A SHOT AND A GOAL! or describe a fight punch for punch.Mike McDonough Hawk fan since 61
A big nite in my home as a child was family nite watching the Blackhawks with the golden voice of Lloyd petite. We lived and died with them. We knew the names of all of the players on the original 6. True hockey
I was in Hawaii that year, and missed the playoffs. I did check the box scores every day though! That summer Hull came out to Vancouver to honor my dad for Ford sales. I missed that too, but saw the photos after.
That was a Great Era of Blackhawks Hockey despite the Canadiens being the roadblock to the Cup. Three Hall of Famers! Five of you include Glenn Hall and Pierre Pilote before 1968 and even Phil Esposito.
Great to hear the wonderful Lloyd Petit again. I was listening to him, it seems like yesterday. I'd love to hear again what what my father called 'that marvelous redundancy', Lloyd announcing "...both teams are back at full and equal strength!" There are so many memories in this collection, including Lloyd Petit's call of Bobby Hull's record-breaking 51st Goal, and, surprise, Cub announcer Lou Boudreau's interview of Hull right after he scored.
Lloyd Pettit: Best hockey play-by-play man of all time because his voice captured the speed and excitement of the game perfectly and better than any other ever!! No one will ever have a more exciting signature call than Lloyd's classic "A shot and a goal!" Long Live Lloyd!
As loud as it gets in the United Center today, the old Stadium was louder. That wooden concave ceiling concentrated the sound back down, it's was like yelling with a fishbowl over your head. The air would explode as the roar rose up from a Hawks score, until it seemed the whole place was shaking. As nice as the amenities are at the United Center, I still miss that old barn, lots of great times.
The thing I remember about the blackhawk games were that the first period was never broadcast. The radio program came on at 8:15. It was always a disappointment when Lloyd would say that the Hawks were behind.
Oh wow. Thank you very much for this addition. He was my idol as a broadcaster and a primary reason why In went into that business for more than 30 years. I tremember so many nights listening on WMAQ 670. May he rest, with our thanks and gratitude.
I was a teenager in the 70's and all the Hawk home games were on the radio then. Nobody did hockey games like Lloyd Pettit, he had you on the edge of your seat the whole game. This tape brings back a lot of memories, and I would like to thank you very much. Another great announcer of that time was Dan Kelly of the St. Louis Blues, hockey of the 60's and early 70's to me were the most exciting. 'A shot and a GOAL' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched Hull, Mikita, Vasko, etc. a couple of times at the Stadium in 1961, and watched WGN's broadcasts of some of the 'Hawks away games. Petit made it amazingly fun! Thank you so much for sharing his golden tones and enthusiasm. His call of any goal was electric!
Bob, I have goosebumps listening to this. No greater announcer in the history of sports broadcasting than Lloyd Pettit. Thank you for preserving these precious memories and thank you for sharing them with us. One more word. WOW!
@Staszu13 I believe Stu Nahan did the weekend games of the 1967 and 1968 Finals for CBS. Dan Kelly became the voice of the St. Louis Blues for CBS-owned KMOX Radio in St. Louis in the 1968/69 season (I think he also did games of the St. Louis Football Cardinals for them at the time), and since he already was on the network payroll, he replaced Nahan. Had the Blackhawks been on CBS-owned WBBM Radio, Lloyd Pettit would've gotten the job.
Lloyd Pettit was simply the best hockey broadcaster ever. Nobody else was close.
grew up in Chicago 50s-60s and found out about hockey listening to Lloyd Petit on the radio, his famous saying.."A Shot and A Goal". and remember him saying when the old Chicago Stadium was full, "their hanging from the rafters". after i got out of the service in '67 we had seats up in the 2nd balcony, 2nd row. and there actually were people(workers) walking up on the catwalks above the ice... RIP Robert Marvin Hull
Lloyd Pettit was the best hockey announcer of time. Knew the game, listened to him on the Radio. He brought the game alive..
My fondest memory of Lloyd Petitt was his call of Pit Martin’s hat trick versus the Montreal Canadians at the Chicago Stadium in the 1973 Stanley Cup finals! I was listening to the game on radio and remembered my dad calling me from a pay phone just after Pit Martin scored the third goal. Thank you so much for sharing these recording broadcasts of Lloyd Pettit! I also love hearing the great old pipe organ and the monotone voice of Harvey Wittenberg saying something like this: “Blackhawk Goal, scored by number 21 Stan Mikita! His 21st of the season at 16:36 of the second period! Love this so much!
I was born in 1968. We moved to Streamwood when I was 4. That was 1972. Same year my uncle took me to my first hockey game and the first time I was helping my Dad turn the antenna so we could get da Hawks game on channel 44
Lloyd was the GREATEST
Pat Foley I think modeled himself after Lloyd
Pat Foley and Dale Tallon! Yeah! How bout that?!
Pat and Eddie!
I’ll bleed black and red until I’m cold and dead
I went out and bought me Hockey Games because of the excitement ar Blackhawks games at home we never saw way back then at Old Chicago Stadium. Great announcer he and Jim West
Listened from Buffalo as a kid.Pure hockey excitment with Lloyd and his great calls.
Does anybody remember the game on TV in which Pettit said, "A shot and a goal, a shot and a save, a shot and a goal!"? The next day, the neighborhood kids were playing our daily after-school hockey game, we realized that we had all heard it and had a good laugh. I don't remember the specific game - sometime in the late '60s-early '70s.
Could remember exactly when I was listening on WGN radio in bed. At 15 years old at the time. I would say the most exciting hockey announcer I have ever listened to. Great time growing up.
II used to be glued to the radio as a kid listening to Loyd. What an announcer he was!
What fabulous voice, golden age of the riotous Chicago Stadium.
AH this is so much fun to listen to Lloyd Pettit. He would do Cubs games with Jack Brickhouse when I was a kid he never did sound the same calling baseball but his hockey calls are classic
I drove my Dad nuts draining the batteries of my radio falling asleep listening to the Blackhawks. Loyd Pettit was the best.
Yes he was
Yeah, I did that too. I put my small transistor radio under my pillow with the volume up just loud enough so I had to push my ear into the pillow.
those cub games with lloyd and lou boudreau were 10 levels over what we have on the radio now
Lloyd Pettit was probably the first voice I ever heard on the radio. It still gives me chills.
"and a Goal" I remember those words so well from my childhood / teen!
I Covered Blackhawks Hockey for a Chicago radio station (WTAQ) from 1981-85. I was able to broadcast my Sunday Night program (SportsJournal) live from the Chicago Stadium prior to the Blackhawks games. I was honored to be on the night they retired Bobny Hull's #9 and featured an interview with Bobby taped the day before.
Lloyd Pettit was THE VOICE of the Hawks and was, in my opinion, the greatest ice hockey announcer of all time. He painted a word picture that was immaculate, accurate, and exciting. Frankly, letting one's mind become actively engaged in the game abd allowing THE VOICE to frame the game was ll one needed.
I bet he's looking down now and mighty happy the Hawks are #1 again!
I am a Blues fan in Texas, my intro to hockey was kmox the sports voice of St Louis in 67 or 68. In those days in my hometown you couldn't see any hockey on tv. It was several years before I could see what I was falling in love with
on the radio. I got books in school you could order from your teacher and one of my first was Hockey Stars of 1967-1968. That was also I think my first paperback. Of course the Blues had the great Dan Kelly. However on a few occasions I happened to run across Chicago Blues broadcasts on Chicago radio, when kmox wouldn't come in. Even though I never knew who the broadcaster was, I always could recall hearing a shot and goal. Like it was yesterday. Thanks for the video. I can finally put a name to the voice. Was he your broadcaster when the Hawks won any cups? It's a shame Dan never saw the Blues win it all.
Game 7 in 1971 was the heartbreaker. I'll never forget it!
+Jillian Goloubow It wasn't on TV...it was blacked out. You had to go to a bar with a large antenna or up to Wisconsin since it was on network TV.
That was the worst! I was 9 years old and absolutely certain they were going to win when they went up 2-0. My brother and I were inconsolable.
I was 7 years old and with my dad at this game. Henri Richard went around Keith Magnuson and lifted it over Tony O right in front of me seated behind the Hawk net. Heartbreak.
I still remember when Bobby Hull hit the post in the 2nd Period when the Hawks led 2-1...
@@misterbb Actually, Bobby Hull hit the crossbar, behind Ken Dryden when the Hawks were up 2-0.
Thanks . I barely remember beginning to follow the Blackhawks in 71 and than they became terrible after 74 or 75. So I turned them off until Savard arrived.
Lloyd Pettit is right up there with Dan Kelly. He could make this life long Blues fan a Blackhawk fan if only for a few hours a night. And when they aren’t playing the Blues.
Lloyd Pettit's play by play of Chicago Blackhawk games of the late 60s and 70s provided the soundtrack to my youth. He was a class act and a gifted announcer. RIP
Game seven 1971 I was watching the game in a theater downtown Chicago, after the game I was a total wreck
Lloyd= the greatest broadcaster. I'm 57, grew up in Chicago and listened to the games on my new transistor radio.
I know how you feel. I grew up in New York listening to Marv Albert on the radio, I remember listening to the Ranger Blackhawk triple overtime game in 1971 when Stan Mikita hit the post with an open net and Pete Stemkowski scored the game winner at the beginning of the third overtime period!
Bobby Hull slap shot and A Goal
Two of my fondest memories of a misspent youth in Chicago: Phil Georgeff calling the races at Arlington Park and Lloyd Pettit calling the Blackhawks at the Stadium or on the road. They turned the events they described into magical experiences. My sincerest thanks to both of you gentlemen; I miss you both.
Great to hear "Good Kid" Lou Boudreau chiming in too. I forgot he also worked Hawks broadcast.
Good ol Lloyd. Emmy award winner.. I recall the scooter line.. Mohns. Mikita, Warrem... and many a day at the old Stadium.. Tony the Cop out side.. a good pal.. always took care of parking for us back in the day..
Would appreciate if you had more.. to upload.. I looked on my old reel to reel tapes.. we did that off the radio.. but most are all gone.. had a few Franklin McCormacks left from the Meister Brau Showcase.. my fav beer back then
No one did it better, no one. He put you right there at ringside. “Shot & a goal!”
No other hockey play by play announcer on radio could enable the listener to envision what was happening on the ice the way Lloyd Pettit could. He was the best by far.
Although many hockey announcers would say "He shoots, he scores", Lloyd Pettit's famous "Shot and a goal" followed by the Chicago Stadium crowd roars, was truly music to Blackhawk fans.
Foster Hewitt coined "He shoots, he scores", way back before the 50s, and before TV! He is a LEGEND up here in Canada. Leafs owner Harold Ballard scrapped the gondola that Hewitt did the games from at Maple Leaf Gardens! That should have been saved in a museum! Ballard wasn't too popular for that!
The crowd were so tuned in they beat Mr Pettit to the punch as well. Just the best. I remember laying in bed listening to the entire 71 game 7, tough
The best hockey announcer ever. Period. He made the game come alive, even on the radio.
Let's not forget another great voice that brought Chicago hockey to life on the radio: public address announcer Harvey Wittenberg.
I grew up with Lloyd doing the games on both radio and WGN TV. I remember when Hamms beer was the sponsor. I too remember the heartbreak of the '71 Cup in game 7..I still can't believe Lemaire's shot beat Tony-O...Pat Foley was a great choice to replace Lloyd Pettit. I'm so glad he came back after what old man Bill Wirtz did to him...things are so good now, but this is nice to listen to and remember the good old days of Blackhawks hockey..."A shot...AND A GOAL!"
If Lloyd Pettit were around the doing the Blackhawks on radio in the 2010 Finals, his call of the series would have ended with "A Shot, A Goal, AND A CUP!!!!".
The "original six" NHL teams each had a legendary play-by-play broadcaster: Pettit in Chicago, Foster Hewitt in Toronto, Danny Gallivan in Montreal, Bud Lynch in Detroit, Fred Cusick in Boston, and Marty Glickman in New York (Rangers).
My childhood.. thank you for this..
I believe WGN Channel 9 did have originally show Chicago Blackhawks home games, until the early seventies.
OMG! I remember that voice like it was yesterday. This brings back so many memories!!
Boy some of those great names on this tape,brings back some very good times in my life.How I wish I could go back in time.I saw most of these players at the Chicago Stadium.
Billy Reay was a great coach! I was a young black kid growing up in Gary when your grand dad coached the Hawks. The first professional sports franchise I followed. What a great group of guys. I still have a post card that Bobby Hull took the time to write me in response to my fan mail. And Tony O. Those guys gave me such happiness.
If Billy Reay had been a great coach the Blackhawks would have won two more Stanley Cups while Bobby Hull played there. There is no way they should have lost game 7 in 1971 while leading by two goals going into the third period at home.
@@deanschulze3129game 7 was tied 2-2 going into the 3rd period.
I watched the Hawks in 1973 on Channel 9 while living in Holland Michigan. A roof antenna with a rotor along with good celestial conditions where necessary. At times I couldn't see the puck because of all o the snow, but could always hear BP. Anyone under the age of 30 doesn't understand a word of this.
I always figured some day if I died and went to heaven, I could turn on my transistor radio and listen to Lloyd doing the play-by-play of a Chicago Blackhawks game. So thanks for taking the time to put this together and letting me spend 10 minutes in heaven! And thanks Lloyd, you were The Best!
Well stated, Karabetter! Great childhood memories.
Great stuff! Yes, also from my childhood listening to Lloyd Pettit and the Blackhawks. Well before there was even a NBA team in Chicago!
Wow does this bring back memories!
@stucknda60s same here, i was only 8 when the Hawks last won cup so don't remember it real well, but this was sweet, washed away the memories of cming up short in 71,73 and 92
there's a shot and a goal!
I think I once heard somewhere that during the 1970's, not only were Chicago Blackhawks home games blacked out from local TV, but that only ten or so regular season away games were televised.
To make matters worse, the games were supposedly shown on a tape delay at 10 P.M. Central time!
No WGN Tv broadcast road games and almost all of them for so many years.
When I little I was living in Denver in the 60's and 70'sand at night I used to pick up WMAQ radio to hear Blackhawks games.
The Blackhawks really need to erect a Statue of Petit and Pat Foley, their Two NHL Hockey Hall of Fame Announcers at the United Center announcing.
My brother and I were at the ols madhouse for th 50 goal game. I can still see the Bruins shking Bobby's hand. Lloyd was absolutely the best, and is yet to be matched. These are great memories. And 2010 may bring another Cup. I hope.
Brilliant radio broadcasts.
Lloyd was the best announcer in all my 67 years! He put the thrill in the sport. Loved that guy! I'll never forget!
Wow please post complete games of u can!!
Back here today...listening after another great Cup win! We still need to avenge the 1971 finals - next!
Lloyd Pettit was our ESPN.
Greatest sports announcer ever. Can't even think of who would come in second place to Lloyd. Loved it when he began speaking at a 100 mph. Many thanks for some wonderful memories!!
Wonderful memories. Thank you.
EVERY YOUNG CHICAGO KID REMEMBERS LLYOD. HE DID THE LEAD OFF MAN CUB PREGAME SHOW.. NOW YOU KNOW ALL OF THIS IS GREAT NHL HISTORY.. "A SHOT AND A GOAL"! AND REMBER THERE WERE A LOT OF HIGHLIGHTS BECAUSE THE RADIO COVERAGE DID NOT START UNTIL AFTER THE FIRST PERIOD OF PLAY!!
Man, thanks so much for posting this. For some reason, I recalled “a shot and a goal” today; I tried looking up Lloyd Pettit on CZcams, and there you were... my mom & dad & 3 sisters used to watch Blackhawk games together, and this was the announcer, Lloyd Pettit, the greatest... thanks for the blast from the past!
He was great! I remember listening to the BlackHawks on the radio every game during the late 60's and 70's. Lloyd Pettit was one of the great broadcasters of all time. Note- He also did the Chicago Cub games in the 60's.
Those where the days. Loved Hull and Mikita !!!! ATG's
Plus Lloyd was the man .....he was in a class by himself !
The noise at 1:43 is wild. You don’t hear that in modern barns.
I'm with all of you. This trip down memory lane was awesome. Thank you for this gift.
my god i am crying like a lil kid,,my brother loved to listen to these guys when we was kids,,we were only 10 or so,, this was such a thrill hearing real hockey,,
Even better than "shot and a goal" was "shot, save, rebound and a goal" Best radio play by play in Chicago history, imo
I remember Loyd doing the sports news on channel 9.He could paint a video
I grew up playing in Chicago and a lifelong Hawks fan. Mr. Reay was a lot like my grandfather too lol. Loved him as a kid, along with Papa Bear Halas.
I cried when I heard about the death of Lloyd Pettit, on Veteran's Day, 2003, a little more than a month before the tragic death of Keith Magnuson... I would go to Chicago Stadium, with my transistor radio, and listen to Lloyd Pettit, while I watched the action on the ice. I remember listening to Pettit's play-by-play, Lou Boudreau's color analysis and not Harvey Wittenburg, but, Red Mottlow, as the public address announcer... I was at the game where Keith Magnuson, in an attempt to stop an eventual St. Louis Blues goal, pinned goalie Gerry Desjardins' left arm against the left post, fracturing it in two places. The play happened so fast, I didn't realize what had happened. This took place in March 1971. Desjardins was never the same. The Hawks brought up a rookie named Gilles Meloche, to backup Tony Esposito... Lloyd Pettit, who was one-of-a-kind, was elected to the hockey hall of fame, in 1986.
+Ed Morris Ed, I use to listen to the broadcast on my AM radio underneath the covers at night when I was suppose to be in asleep. It would become white noise until you heard the croad begin to roar and the..."a shot and a goal!!" Lloyd's voice was pure magic.
Thank you for this! My brother and I still talk about Lloyd from time to time. "A shot and a GOOOOOOOOOAAALLLLLL!
@ Ed Morris, which was the public address announcer from the Stadium in 60s that really sounded like a ROBOT? I'd have to hear him again to refresh my memory, but at the time it was very profound to me. I also had some early 80s playoff games against Oilers on VHS from the Stadium but lost them over the years. Remember how Hawks dominated most games at home in the 1st 5 mins of the game? THey'd come out like Gangbusters to start the game! The home crowd really was the 7th man on the ice for them!
A shot and a goal and the Stanley Cup competition. The two greatest lines ever uttered by an announcer. Lloyd Pettit's voice exploded. A lot of people don't know he was a Cubs' announcer.
@@russhook6595 I believe it was Harvey Wittenburg.
GREAAATTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lloyd Pettit, yes indeed, the greatest announcer of all time.
Pettit was the man who got me interested not only in hockey but in the Blackhawks
The kids on our street all played ice and street hockey, and when any of us scored, we all imitated Lloyd Pettit! Those were some great times... spent lots of nights listening to him with my tiny transistor radio pressed against my ear. Man goodness, was Chicago Stadium loud or what? WOW!
Thank you so much, I was 'nt born yet, but now it's easy to imagen beeing there. And part dedicated to the MPH line, Pit Martin was my fathers older brother. Thank you..
I sat behind Lloyd and Bob Elson at center ice for several years. They were on a platform attached to the first balcony and we were in the front row. Lloyd would call the game and then pass the mic to Bob for analysis. Lloyd would often talk to us between periods but Bob was a very private guy. I'll post again with a story of how Lloyd broke up at the beginning of a game and was laughing so hard he couldn't continue. Such great memories of an unbelievable announcer.
l will never forget only being able to hear the second and third periods. of Hawk home games and loved hearing Lloyd belt out A SHOT AND A GOAL! or describe a fight punch for punch.Mike McDonough Hawk fan since 61
OUTSTANDING!!!
A big nite in my home as a child was family nite watching the Blackhawks with the golden voice of Lloyd petite. We lived and died with them. We knew the names of all of the players on the original 6. True hockey
Is this THE Derek Sanderson? Just curious.
Lloyd Pettit and Danny Gallivan (Montreal) were the gold standard.
Simply put... My voice talent idol that encouraged me to pursue broadcasting as a career!!!!
I heard the call of that 500th goal! What a memory! Strange that LOU BOUDREAU was color commentator on that call.
1971 - Worst time I can remember...... Thanks to the New Hawks for bringing great hockey back to Chicago.
I was in Hawaii that year, and missed the playoffs. I did check the box scores every day though! That summer Hull came out to Vancouver to honor my dad for Ford sales. I missed that too, but saw the photos after.
That was a Great Era of Blackhawks Hockey despite the Canadiens being the roadblock to the Cup. Three Hall of Famers! Five of you include Glenn Hall and Pierre Pilote before 1968 and even Phil Esposito.
my grandfather coached the hawks.....Billy Reay... Miss him dearly, wish he would have been hear to see the hawks win in 10.
bruce theplumber Your grandfather was a tremendous coach and true gentlemen. His hats were classic.
He was, him and Pit and Keith
Don't forget 13 and 15
Great to hear the wonderful Lloyd Petit again. I was listening to him, it seems like yesterday. I'd love to hear again what what my father called 'that marvelous redundancy', Lloyd announcing "...both teams are back at full and equal strength!" There are so many memories in this collection, including Lloyd Petit's call of Bobby Hull's record-breaking 51st Goal, and, surprise, Cub announcer Lou Boudreau's interview of Hull right after he scored.
Lloyd Pettit: Best hockey play-by-play man of all time because his voice captured the speed and excitement of the game perfectly and better than any other ever!! No one will ever have a more exciting signature call than Lloyd's classic "A shot and a goal!" Long Live Lloyd!
My god the old Chicago stadium sounds LOUD on these broadcasts.
Never to be repeated, the 1960's Hawks in the riot of the Stadium.
I heard that players like Phil Esposito and Maurice Richard said that because of the crowd at the Stadium, the Hawks automatically had a 1 goal lead.
As loud as it gets in the United Center today, the old Stadium was louder. That wooden concave ceiling concentrated the sound back down, it's was like yelling with a fishbowl over your head. The air would explode as the roar rose up from a Hawks score, until it seemed the whole place was shaking.
As nice as the amenities are at the United Center, I still miss that old barn, lots of great times.
No artificial noise pumped in like today
@@zxccxz164 Except the organ.
Lloyd Pettit, the greatest play-by-play announcer in hockey history... and Harvey Wittenberg, the greatest public address announcer...
This is beautiful, thank you! Memories flooding back of going to bed with my transistor radio listening to Lloyd Petit's call in the 70s.
The thing I remember about the blackhawk games were that the first period was never broadcast. The radio program came on at 8:15. It was always a disappointment when Lloyd would say that the Hawks were behind.
Bobby Hull's 500th goal February 21, 1970 Blackhawks 4 Rangers 2
Oh wow. Thank you very much for this addition. He was my idol as a broadcaster and a primary reason why In went into that business for more than 30 years. I tremember so many nights listening on WMAQ 670. May he rest, with our thanks and gratitude.
I LOVED when Lloyd Pettit would go from a hockey game into a boxing match mode when a fight broke out! I've never heard anybody do it better.
I was a teenager in the 70's and all the Hawk home games were on the radio then. Nobody did hockey games like Lloyd Pettit, he had you on the edge of your seat the whole game. This tape brings back a lot of memories, and I would like to thank you very much. Another great announcer of that time was Dan Kelly of the St. Louis Blues, hockey of the 60's and early 70's to me were the most exciting. 'A shot and a GOAL' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I watched Hull, Mikita, Vasko, etc. a couple of times at the Stadium in 1961, and watched WGN's broadcasts of some of the 'Hawks away games. Petit made it amazingly fun! Thank you so much for sharing his golden tones and enthusiasm. His call of any goal was electric!
Oh yeah, I could listen to Lloyd until I drop dead.
Who called the Hawks before Lloyd, circa 1961,1962 absolute radio heaven.
@@stevenelief6784 Wikipedia says Lloyd did color commentary with Johnny Gottselig for a couple of years before taking over the play by play in '63.
Great announcer. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again...they just don’t make em like that anymore.
OMG, I grew up with these guys and absolutely LOVE this stuff. Pat Foley is great, but oh to hear Lloyd call a game again...
Bob, I have goosebumps listening to this. No greater announcer in the history of sports broadcasting than Lloyd Pettit. Thank you for preserving these precious memories and thank you for sharing them with us. One more word. WOW!
WOW !! WHAT MEMORIES !! Thank you so much !!
@Staszu13 I believe Stu Nahan did the weekend games of the 1967 and 1968 Finals for CBS.
Dan Kelly became the voice of the St. Louis Blues for CBS-owned KMOX Radio in St. Louis in the 1968/69 season (I think he also did games of the St. Louis Football Cardinals for them at the time), and since he already was on the network payroll, he replaced Nahan.
Had the Blackhawks been on CBS-owned WBBM Radio, Lloyd Pettit would've gotten the job.
Truly the greatest. Best hours of my life listening to Lloyd call the games for my Blackhawks.
An awesome trip back to my childhood. I remember Dad and I listening to every game we could. They don't make announcers like that anymore.
Thanks for an awesome capsulation of the greatest hockey announcer of all time.