Osgood’s 30th Anniversary Poem

Viewers Are Also Invited To Share Their Favorite Memories

(CBS)  To mark Sunday Morning’s 30th anniversary, host Charles Osgood created a special “Thank You” poem for viewers.

An author as well as a TV and radio commentator, Osgood has several trademarks, including delivering many of his commentaries in verse. Other trademarks are his ever-present bow-tie and his taste for whimsy.

And he is asking those loyal viewers to think back over the years and come up with their favorite memories of Sunday Morning shows. If you have a memory to share, please tell us about it in the comments box below.

And now, here is Osgood’s rhyme:

It's hard to believe, though it is true we know,

That this broadcast began thirty years ago

Week after week and year and year,

Through good times and bad, Sunday Morning's been here.



And from the beginning we've tried to be true

To Charles Kuralt's promise: "Here starts something new."

And we try to remember in all that we do

That we're not the host here. The real host is you.



We're guests in your home, and it's your space we share

And we truly appreciate just being there

And getting together each week as we do

Sunday Morning would not be the same ... without you.

[kemptonkid]

I'd like the name of the number Charles Osgood uses on his Sunday Morning show.

[mrskitcat]

I wanted you all to know that there is nothing like the sunday morning show. I never miss it. It has great Information, facts that are fun, and things that are just good stuff! I would love if yall will put all the suns in a book. there awesome.. thanks for this thirty years, looking forward to the next.

[mrskitcat]

I wanted you all to know that there is nothing like the sunday morning show. I never miss it. It has great Information, facts that are fun, and things that are just good stuff! I would love if yall will put all the suns in a book. there awesome.. thanks for this thirty years, looking forward to the next.

[th4everck]

I view this morning''s program as a huge illustration of opportunity lost. And so much more. I eagerly anticipated a broadcast comprised of those personalities and STORIES that first sparked my interest in 1979, from the incomparable Charles Kuralt, John Leonard and the myriad of other folks that made Sunday Morning a delightful fixture in my life. Instead, CBS has seen better to air paens to Hugh Hefner and Penelope Cruz. Are you kidding me? Or more to the point, the contempt for those of us who truly cherish this program''s history is not thinly veiled: it''s brutally apparent.

[amyk1255]

Congratulations and thank you! It was just about thirty years ago while watching this program that I, at the rioe old age of 23,decided that if I was to have a life of purpose; a life of travel and discovery and wonder, I''d better get myself into college. 30 years late, I have a terminal degree, I am executive director of a training institute for psychotherapy, and have missed very few Sunday mornings - though now I can RECORD them and watch later in the day. You theme song always reminds me of the Road WELL Travelled...

[amyk1255]

Congratulations and thank you! It was just about thirty years ago while watching this program that I, at the rioe old age of 23,decided that if I was to have a life of purpose; a life of travel and discovery and wonder, I''d better get myself into college. 30 years late, I have a terminal degree, I am executive director of a training institute for psychotherapy, and have missed very few Sunday mornings - though now I can RECORD them and watch later in the day. You theme song always reminds me of the Road WELL Travelled...

[ally_03]

Nice rhyme, Charlie!