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WOR AM and FM
Date: 07-30-2005
By: ebruceb
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I'm constntly seeing references to Shep having broadcast "on WOR AM."
The reality is that he broadcast for years on AM and FM until regulations prohibited a station from broadcating the same program on both. THEN he broadcat only on AM. I believe this mistake was originally caused by people who started listening in the mid-60s or later and didn't know about the FM. This is only one of many pieces of misinformation about Shepherd perpetuated by the media, etc. |
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Ritualized Literacy (1966)
Date: 09-25-2005
By: lump516
( Topic#: 47 )
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Just listened to this today--and it made me cringe a bit--I have more than a few books sitting around in my house that I always meant to read, know that I should read--and haven't--which made me drag down that discount volume of The Complete Works of Shakespeare and actually start reading Macbeth.
His observations of Pop Art are largely on target, at least as far as the American end of the school is concerned. But Pop Art was, in fact, the creation of English artists, whose relationship to popular culture was something akin to Shepherd's; sort of a semi-aghast affection. Coming from the drab and pinched culture of post-WWII England, the liked the color and sputter of American stuff, but also knew that it was mental and cultural junk food; fun, but not to indulged in too heavily. I remember an early bit of Pop Art, a collage called Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Special?, full of half-naked starlets, grinning body-builders, bad contempo furniture, and illustrations of various sorts of canned and frozen food. It's tacky and ridiculous, but also energetic and, well, oddly pretty, the way that brigtly-colored ads were in those days. It was also put together with a great eye for composition and color, so that the various elements of the picture sort of bounced off of each other and contributed to the general sense of absurdity.
What happened with Pop Art in The States was that it fell into the hands of people like Andy Warhol, who went into art the way that some people go into accounting--it was a job, it was a way out of a Pennsylvania coal town, and his major ambition was to become rich and famous. This lack of engagement showed in his work, which was chilly and affectless. He was also a very mediocre artist in the technical sense--the pictures he did that were actually paintings, not just photos silk-screened onto canvas and then diddled with a bit, lack strong composition and mastery of the basic techncial tricks of the trade. But Warhol, who was at heart a commercial artist, had a fine sense of playing to transitory trends and tastes and a certain genius for determining which people he should suck up to and how said sucking-up should be accomplished. And so he found a high-end way to play to the American taste for celebrity and cheap melodrama; silk-screen celebrity portraits and a long series of pictures derived from newspaper photos of executions, sucicides, and murders. Present it with a certain sense of smirking irony, and you can give the slobs-with-money audience their cheap thrills without them having to feel guilty about it . . . (by the way, the $4,000 cheeseburger sculpture that Shepherd mentions was done by a fellow named Claes Oldenberg--who later got a much bigger fee for gracing a public square in Philadelphia with a giant clothespin)
I also found Shepherd's skepticism about In Cold Blood rather refreshing as well. Mind you, it's a good book, and Capote is a good minor author, but such writers as Harold Schechter and Ann Rule have done stuff that's just as good and didn't take six years to write (Schechter teaches history at CUNY, and Rule is usually working on several projects at once). Indeed, I'm going to stick my neck out and say that Rule's The Stranger Beside Me is actually a better piece of work than ICB; not only does she do a very fine job of reporting the facts of the murders that Ted Bundy committed and the investigations into those killings, but she turns a fine eye on her own relationship with the man and the never-resolved feelings she has for him--she knows that what he is done is deeply evil, but he is also a friend, and she can never really let go of that fact, any more than she can allow the fact of that friendship to somehow whitewash his character or the deeds that grew out of it. It is her ability to see all of the people involved in this story as human beings that allows her to give the reader a sense of the devastation that Bundy wrought, not only to the victims and their families, but to his own family. And finally himself. I get nice turns of phrase in Capote's book, some flashes of wit and pathos. But only once, when he uses direct quotes from the people who found the Clutter family dead, does the book move beyond competent journalism into the realms of literature and the sort of human truths that literature is best at telling.
Well, enough blathering for now. |
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Roscoes and Diners
Date: 10-17-2005
By: lump516
( Topic#: 58 )
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A real treat for someone who grew up in Cincinnati in the 60's and 70's. In those days, Covington and Newport really were festering and wide-open, at least by reputation. Most of the big restaurants in the area (which were called "supper clubs") were thoroughly mobbed-up and burned to the ground one-by-one when their owners suddenly ran into cash-flow problems and decided to cash in on the insurance money.
The only one that wasn't torched was The Beverly Hills, which was the biggest and most famous of the lot; it burned down because of the sub-standard wiring used in its' construction--right before Memorial Day in 1977. Over 100 people died in the fire. Newport/Covington is a lot more yuppie these days, with the old warehouses on the river turned into cutsey restaurants and theaters and such, and subdivisions full of McMansions and Mega-Churches (because no one who lives in a bloated house will attend a church that seats less than a thousand). Cincinnati is in something of a decline at the moment, and certainly the downtown isn't what it was (the old Shillitoe's department store was made into an apartment building, of all things); but the art museum and the Krohn Conservatory and symphony are still very good--the city has some life left in it. And those beautiful suspension bridges still carry you from one side of the river to the other. |
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It Didn't Start at WOR
Date: 12-07-2005
By: jmosbrook
( Topic#: 79 )
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As a person who discovered Shep in 1952, I am disappointed that very little has been remembered (even in Bergmann's book) about his broadcasts before he went to WOR. Sure, I realize that New Yorkers believe New York is the center of the universe and anything west of Hackensack is somehow only slightly civilized. But, the fact of the matter is that he was doing very much the same sort of broadcast on KYW in Philadelphia and WLW in Cincinnati long before he got to WOR.
I remember going to the Town Room of the Penn Sheraton Hotel at 36th and Chestnut in Philadelphia to see and hear Shep's late night show on KYW (where about a decade later I became the news director). There is a photo at http://phillybp.my100megs.com/jean.jpg. If I am not mistaken, that is my head (the one with the big ears) in the lower center of the photo. So far, I have discovered on the internet recordings of only two pre-WOR broadcasts. Are there any others available? |
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Before WOR
Date: 06-26-2006
By: jmosbrook
( Topic#: 132 )
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I've been checking old newspaper archives in an effort to document Jean Shepherd's radio broadcasts before he became very popular on WOR in New York. He was doing his thing for 7 years before getting to WOR.
Beginning in 1948, he worked at WCKY, WKRC and WSAI, all in Cincinnati. He remained at WSAI until April of 1951. Newspaper radio logs in the Middletown (OH) Journal in February of 1950 indicated he was doing a weekday 5 to 5:30 p.m. program as well as a late night show on WSAI.
On April 4, 1951, he began doing a late-night broadcast on KYW in Philadelphia. The 11:30 p.m. to 1 a.m. broadcast, originating from the Town Room of the Penn Sheraton Hotel, continued until January of 1953.
Beginning in April of 1953, Shepherd did the overnight broadcast on WLW in Cincinnati as well as a Saturday afternoon show that usually ran from 2:30 to 4 p.m. These broadcasts continued until late 1954.
He also did some TV in Cincinnati. In an article in the Hammond (IN) Times on July 26, 1956, he recalled one TV program in Cincinnati, "I built an intricate maze. The show opened with the camera entering the maze and for 25 minutes, while I kept talking, the camera wandered through the maze looking for me, running into dead ends and trying new routes. It never found me."
Shepherd began at WOR radio in New York February 26, 1955. A February 25 article in the Bridgeport Telegram said, "WOR will launch the Jean Shepherd Show on Saturday afternoon, from 4:30 to 6 o'clock. Shepherd, who comes from WLW in Cincinnati, is hailed as 'a unique philosopher who uses jazz and classical music as a background for his mood-setting chatter - a gentleman with a distinct idea - to make people think while he is entertaining them.'"
Beginning January 5, 1956, he began doing the 1 to 5:30 a.m. overnight show on WOR which continued until the end of August of 1956. A WOR listing in February of 1956 also included: "4:00 p.m. - DRIVE EAST: Music and chatter with Jean Shepherd and Tommy Reynolds."
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Solving the mysteries of air dates
Date: 07-31-2006
By: m10bob
( Topic#: 139 )
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Even though most of the available Shep programs have known air dates, there are still many which are just labelled by subject matter, (which may also be decieving as the same program may have 3 or 4 main subjects.)
The Flicklives.com site has an excellent feature in the show database which helps to narrow down the dates by listing important info, like the names of engineers at different times.
Recently, I obtained an "undated" program called merely "Softball", which I was able to determine is the same as a program called "Midwest Softball", which has a known date, so this riddle was solved (for me any way.
Another problem has arisen in that once listening to an undated program, a listener may label a program by which subject he feels is most important.
Case in point:I obtained a program which is called "Baseball Cheat", but after listening to it, and hearing at least 2 other topics in the program, I am fairly convinced it is really a program called "Mysterious car happenings+Auto shootout+Sky rocket, which aired on 5-2-73..(Checking by the engineer is difficult here as Shep addresses his engineer "Tony", and later a gent named "Jerry".
"Tony" was an engineer who worked with Shep in the Sixties and Seventies, (and may have been more than one person)..
"Jerry"?, He too was an engineer and was noted to work on occasion with other engineers, is this he?......
Regarding the "baseball cheating" incident of the labeeled subject, Shep relates an incident he and his dad observed at Commiskey Park in a game between the White Sox and the Yankees, which is mentioned in no other program that I am aware of, so it is an important program. IMHO..
Mr Clavin has an explanation on his site regarding the accuracy (and sometimes inaccuaracies) of certain of the programs subject matter and airdates..I just find it interesting to sift thru the works to look for clues.....[:)]
In Hoc Agricula Conc
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Radio nights
Date: 12-06-2006
By: joewp
( Topic#: 168 )
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I just found this site after searching when my local paper had a story about a guy who sells the leg lamp "Major Award". [url]http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006612060350[/url]
Anyway, I don't know if this is the right place to put this, but I won a Panasonic transistor radio when I was a Cub Scout for selling the second most lightbulbs. It even came with an earphone which I promptly put to use to peruse the AM radio band after my bedtime. It wasn't long until I found this guy talking a lot about "When you're a kid..." and "When I was a kid..." and telling stories that got my attention at the ripe old age of 7 years old, I guess this would be 1963. I have to admit some of the stuff he talked about I didn't quite get, being perhaps a little young, but there were always those stories about being a kid to keep me tuning in. I dare say his Army stories were an early influence on me to not join any military branch!
After a while Shep became like the Uncle you go to to get the real story after your parents had told you the simple explanation to make you go away. He always seemed to tell the truth about how life really worked, and my school experiences were closer to his stories than anything the Leave It To Beaver or Father Knows Best had on, that's for sure.
I also became a mean kazoo player, and drove my parents up the wall with it. [8D]
I was pretty good with the Jew's Harp too, but that wasn't as effective a parental annoyance device. [:D]
Well, that's it. I just wanted to share a little.
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Visiting Shep's Studio
Date: 12-24-2006
By: Tony Russomanno
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I posted some comments a few months ago about my experience as a guest in Shepherd's radio studio in 1974. Eugene Bergmann later emailed to ask if I could remember any other details. I just ran across this, which may fill in some of the blanks. It was written by my old friend, radio consultant Walter Sabo a few days after Shepherd's death and is posted on Walt's site, sabomedia.com.
Tony Russomanno
Sweaty Moments with Jean Shepard.
By: Walter Sabo
Jean Shepard died and I'm mad. I've been mad for three days since I was e-mailed the obit from Jim Cameron. Today I was driving back from a client visit, up the New Jersey Turnpike, thinking about Jean and the radio scan stopped on 99.5, WBAI and there it was. October 19, 1999 Jean was coming out of my radio while driving on the Jersey turnpike. WBAI was playing old airchecks in salute to the master monologist. The first striking fact is the voice. A remarkable voice. It could have been a formal-announcer voice if he had chosen to use it for that. A great top 40 morning man if he had heard the beat. But he used it to tell stories. American stories. Don't tell me the Wonder Years TV show wasn't based on Jean's stories, that the narration wasn't modeled on his voice. His voice was tricky. It could be that of a 20-year-old or a 60-year-old in the same phrase. It was ageless. A strangely non-judgmental voice. But that's not what makes me mad, certainly not. The stories themselves are not remarkable. They are simple stories about simple childhood-college-army adventures. For the bleachers he'd throw in a few radio-dog stories. There are two that I have repeated often One is his vision of hell: "Doing all nights on a country station with no commercials and no news." The other was his vision of the future. The night that the FCC declared that AM and FM stations could no longer simulcast he predicted that "one day all music programming would be on FM and AM would only have talk shows." Yup, that's what he said in 1968. These stories were told during the great unrest of the 60s. And he would express his views on those events through his stories of the past. The result was comfort.
Comfort that in some form, all human events repeat and everyone survives and ultimately it doesn't matter. It wasn't fatalistic, just humble and sweet. Thinking about those stories did not make me mad. But I knew I had to write this column in order to figure out what was so aggravating about his death.
Yes, I met him. In 1974, newsman Tony Russomanno and I were seconds out of college when we got jobs at WXLO (WOR FM). Our studios were on the 2nd floor, Jean's were on the 24th floor, and that's pretty much what you need to know about the AM/FM hierarchy in 1974. Believe me, working in New York City at an FM in 1974 was not a big deal. But Jean was, so we got up our courage one night and went to watch him work on WOR AM. What you've heard is true. No notes. One newspaper clipping. No visible plan. He started talking to us before his show and we talked about radio right until the second he had to turn on his mike. Oh, we tried to act so cool. But we were sweating like, like, radio guys meeting Jean Shepard. We watched him reveal an astonishing 45 minute original monologue. Then the moment the show was over, he went back to his conversation with us--right where we had left off. It was as though the miracle had not taken place. It was effortless to him. We wanted to ask him, "Uh, sir, how did you just do that miracle thing?" But it felt completely inappropriate. He appeared more interested in talking to us. About FM. About what it could be. The form of his show would change. Sometimes he told a 45-minute story. Other times, he conducted elaborate bits, forerunners of "wacky DJ antics" heard today. Once, when the sales weasels complained that no one listened to his show, he sent his audience to bookstores to buy a book. A book that didn't exist. Thousands that week demanded copies of the made-up book. The sales department got the message. He was on WOR for 21 years. Some hours were 100% produced, planed for weeks. Once, only once, I heard him take phone calls. All of it masterful. Big deal radio made to sound easy. So easy. There were two common traits: His opinion on the subject was always clear; Every show had a beginning, middle and end. It wasn't until years later that I discovered how rare and precious those ingredients are. My best friend since kindergarten, the late Dr. Charles Weisman, was the smart one in Columbia High school. He was the first to tell me about Jean. It was Charles and Jean who unknowingly conspired to teach me to love Manhattan. Jean was Greenwich Village, he was a Beat poet, he was the rebel you'd invite to dinner. And he might just come. He might. Well, probably not. No drugs, no booze, just the spirit of the edge of the city. He performed every Saturday live from the Limelight night club in the Village. And if you could get in, you were a cool kid. For those 45 minutes a night all the silent students from Mamaroneck, Morris Plains, Mount Kisco and Maplewood got to be cool kids. His urban bedtime stories let us know that no matter how insane Dad behaved today, you still had a shot at being cool because Jean was. And you were always okay by him. The reason I'm mad is this: Someone, someone who has never heard him is going to ask me what he was like. What was so special? What did he sound like? Anticipating the question makes me mad. Mad because regardless of what I write, what I say, it only reminds me that I don't have skills near worthy of describing his gift. Damn you Shepard. Listener sponsored WBAI FM has fund drives. For seventy five dollars you can become a member of WBAI and receive a three hour recording of Shepard's work. Darn fine gift for your friends in the business. And your friends who like magic. WBAI Radio 120 Wall St. New York City, NY 10005, 212 209 2800. Rest in peace you fathead. Flick lives. |
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Whoopie Pies
Date: 12-12-2007
By: harv
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Does anyone remember a Shep WOR radio show on which he read a letter from a "spy" in New Hampshire who talked about Whoopie Pies? I believe it originally aired on a Friday night sometime during the summer of '66 (probably August). Thanks. |
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Looking for...
Date: 01-23-2008
By: joe@hifisales.com
( Topic#: 280 )
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Here's a challenge I'm having trouble with.
I'm dearly seeking any format (e-text, audio, book) of a story Shep related one evening over WOR. It was about the time one of the guys had purchased a new house from the SEARS/Roebuck catalog.
When it arrived at the freight-train grounds, all the fellows went down together to help off-load the cartons. As they began to open them up (all over the field), it began to rain. And, the rest is...well, you can imagine.
Does anyone know how I might obtain a tape, disc, book, etc. of it?
Thanks,
joe
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Program identification
Date: 01-25-2008
By: m10bob
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In my collection I had a Shep program tentatively marked "1971 Stamps".
I am fairly certain the actual air date was 040271 because early in the program, Shep states "it is Friday", and later he has a commercial for Palisades Park, and sez "it opens this weekend".
According to Wikipedia, the park opened the weekend before Easter, (which fell on the 11th that year.)
Sadly, the park closed that year for good, in September....
In Hoc Agricula Conc
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Programs & Dates
Date: 10-31-2008
By: spiderman
( Topic#: 349 )
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Thanks to Mr. Clavin for creating this great gallimaufry of all things Shepherd. My old man was a listener in the early 70's when I was a "feckless youth" & I remember meeting Mr. Shepherd at a book signing in Toms River around that time (for IGWT, I believe). I've gotten the bug & have begun collecting all shows I can find.
There seem to be some shows listed in the show database (the compendium for making chronological sense of a collection like this) that are duplicates:
* "Baseball Fans" from April 1963 is actually a portion of "Imponderables" dated April 9, 1963
* show dated April 23, 1963 (which should be "Date After Army") is actually "Piano Factory Job" from April 23, 1962
* "The Snooper" (file dated 04_xx_63) seems to actually be "Bugging the Neighborhood" from July 29, 1963
* "Cause & Effect" dated April 1963 is most likely "Cause and Effect" from August 15, 1963
* the very recently posted "Mortal Fear" dated August 27, 1963 is the same show as "Where the Beautiful People Play" from August 28, 1963
As I wade through 1964 & beyond, I'll continue to make notes (with your kind indulgence) - if anyone has comments or corrections, please post them.
Thanks again for this indispensable site! |
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Identifying a certain program
Date: 12-20-2008
By: spiderman
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I recently listened to the two shows dated 04/13/65 titled "1965_04_13_Code_School" (time=40:23) and "1965_04_13_Fred_Allen" (time=20:54). It's obvious that the latter is from 04/13/65 as a portion of " Code School (and meeting Fred Allen)" listed in the database.
What's also obvious is that the former can't be the code school portion of that same show. At 40+ minutes, it's a full show & must be from around the same year as there are more commercials than the 1-2 from earlier years (1964 & before). Further, Shep doesn't talk about code school; the show revolves around radio & TV signals, the use of short-wave and CW.
A search of the database trying to ID certain portions or references (i.e., Joseph Conrad, reaching a CW operator in Murmansk, having Ch. 4 in Cincinnati taken over by a minor-league baseball game from San Antonio for a spell) or ads (Tijuana Smalls, a PSA by Mayor Lindsey about noise pollution, a NIH drug PSA [w/ Rod Serling, of all people!]) has been feckless thus far...
Anyone able to shed light on this will be awarded a brass figlagee with bronze oak leaf palm.
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Finding St. Patrick's Day Shep Show
Date: 12-26-2008
By: Dan Kurt
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Some time in the 1970s while on WOR Shep had a program during which he elaborated on his experiences Celebrating St. Patrick's Day.
Any help in finding that show would be appreciated and the more details the better.
I am a newbie here and need all the help I can get in finding sources for Shep shows. I listened to him from first Western Pennsylvania and then Philadelphia during the 1960s and early 1970s--thank the Lord for WOR's strong signal.
Thanks,
Dan Kurt
Question: what is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery?
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A LONG-BELATED TRIBUTE
Date: 01-06-2009
By: Russ Firestone
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Above all else, Jean Shepherd was about laughter and the love of life. I wish my connection with him made for a funny story. But it's a tribute far too long overdue.
While I was growing up during the 1960s in Long Island, NY, my father (who died when I was ten) was a mean, sometimes violent drunk. He got off work around 8PM and -- depending on if he stopped off for a few drinks, or how many he had -- he'd be home between 9 and 11. Those being schoolnights, I was in bed by 9.
A good night was when he'd come home and merely have a loud argument with my mother. A worse night -- if he was extra-drunk, or my name came up -- would find him opening my bedroom door and slurring curses at me while I pretended to be sleeping. The worst nights were when nothing (including my mother) could stop him from hauling me out of bed and taking his belt to my butt.
Not surprisingly, I was an insomniac by the age of eight. It was better to wait up for whatever was coming than to be snatched out of a dream into a waking nightmare. So, I began sneaking a little 9-volt AM radio under the covers and listening to it through an earpiece, while keeping my other ear peeled for my father. That was how I first stumbled upon Jean Shepherd on WOR, 10:15-11PM, Monday through Friday.
I didn't get all of his humor at that age, of course, although I enjoyed many of the stories he told about himself and his friends as youngsters. But, far more importantly, what I got was this booming, jolly, friendly, male voice -- with the warmest laugh -- in my ear every night. After his show, I'd turn off the radio and, if the house was quiet, I could finally get to sleep... because Jean had told me a bedtime story.
And, every night, I fell asleep wishing (pretending, I think) that Jean Shepherd was my father.
I became a TV writer and producer, and remained a life-long Shep fan. Unfortunately, I had such a big ego early on in my career -- exaggerated, no doubt, by my childhood insecurity -- that I thought it beneath me to write a fan letter to anyone in show business, no matter how much I privately admired them.
Well, I'm now into my fifties, the ego is gone, and I guess I'm doing some "housecleaning". There are a number of artists who have left us in recent years to whom I wish I'd written those fan letters; but there is no error of omission I regret more than not telling Jean, while he was alive, how he helped save MY life.
I don't know if this is the right forum, or the best forum, on which to say these things. I don't know who's out there to read these words. And I'm not religious. But I'm going to address them to Jean, anyway, because I don't know what else to do with them:
Thank you, Shep. Peace. Forever.
Russ Firestone
Orlando, FL
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Old WOR station break
Date: 01-13-2009
By: spiderman
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Does anyone else remember a show (probably from the early 70's) featuring an old WOR station break jingle? I have a memory of hearing it as a kid; Shep also (I believe) spoke with the composer of the jingle on the air on what was a WOR anniversary of some sort.
If anyone has a copy, please let me know!
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Story about Shep Home Alone with Basement Intruder
Date: 02-15-2009
By: stephenephelpsjr
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My apologies if this has been asked and answered; I'm new here, and a search for keywords was not fruitful. I clearly remember Shep telling the story on the air of coming home from school, alone in the house, hearing noises in the basement, taking his father's rifle down stairs, shooting at a figure that loomed out of the darkness, and next morning finding bloody footprints in the snow that led away from the house. I've been downloading podcasts from The Brass Figlagee but haven't found this one. It's entirely possible, of course, that I'm imagining this, or misremembering it, mis-attributing it -- the 60s were a long time ago -- but if it's real, I would love to hear it again. I'd be grateful for any advice on how to find it.
Steve Phelps
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OK, what are the odds?
Date: 03-25-2009
By: SeattleVet
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I was listening to a podcast from the Brass Figlagee - it was the "names" show from 1969. So here we have a show that's 40 years old, from WOR in NYC. I at work in Seattle, listening as Shep read through the list of names and hometowns of people who had sent in a postcard. I'm thinking about skipping the episode, nothing to really hold my interest, but I leave it on - sometimes he does good stuff during the commercials, or there may be something else that I might want to catch.
Then I hear my name, and hometown. Followed by a question, "When's your next book coming out?" Then comes my best friend's name, and his comment, "I fly, too" (we were both in the Civil Air Patrol cadet program back then). I back up the file and listen again. Then I remember -
I'm this kid, see... I now remember that I did send in a card. And here, some 40 years later and a coast away, I'm listening to this show again.
Shep did what, some 40 years or so worth of these radio shows, 5 or 6 nights a week, for one to two hours. And, out of those thousands of shows he did, some relatively small number were recorded and are being put out as podcasts. And here I sit, hearing my name, bringing back a flood of memories of that summer. The summer of the first moon landing; the summer of civil unrest; the summer of political and social awakening for a kid from Westchester County, NY.
And here's that kid from NY all grown up and hearing this all again. What a strange feeling!
What are the odds?
I *am* in shape! Round is a shape. |
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Jazz in 9-12-69 "Looking For Action" Show
Date: 06-18-2009
By: Cossack
( Topic#: 431 )
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Shep uses an incredible piece of jazz throughout this show, which is available at the Brass Figlagee podcast site. Does anyone know the name/artist? Many thanks in advance! |
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Cheap Piano Music
Date: 08-25-2009
By: kerrlockhart
( Topic#: 485 )
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I found a link for a rip of the LP "Honky Tonk Piano" by Knuckles O'Toole (a pseudonym for, I think, Lou Busch). This is the record used for "After You've Gone", "Strolling Through The Park" and few others. The rip can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jdzexcamjeg |
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more shep music
Date: 09-06-2009
By: scharkalvin
( Topic#: 493 )
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I know that Shep sometimes used a cut from Franz Listz's "Les Preludes" on his show. This bit isn't mentioned on the web site. |
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Movie about Rosemary
Date: 12-22-2009
By: cgn37vet
( Topic#: 533 )
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Does anyone know the name of the movie Shep was talking about when he was in the hotel in Germany and the one of the maids (?) told him that this was where it was filmed . |
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What will you prepare for Christmas?
Date: 11-29-2010
By: newton9527
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What will you prepare for Christmas?
Now I am preparing gifts for Christmas, and I participate in a [url= http://www.wholesalegolf118.com/group_buy.php] group purchase [/url] which is very fantastic
, what will you prepare for Christmas?
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What will you prepare for Christmas?
Date: 11-30-2010
By: newton9527
( Topic#: 624 )
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What will you prepare for Christmas?
Now I am preparing gifts for Christmas, and I participate in a [url= http://www.wholesalegolf118.com/group_buy.php] group purchase [/url] which is very fantastic
, what will you prepare for Christmas?
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What will you prepare for Christmas?
Date: 12-01-2010
By: newton9527
( Topic#: 626 )
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What will you prepare for Christmas?
Now I am preparing gifts for Christmas, and I participate in a [url= http://www.wholesalegolf118.com/group_buy.php] group purchase [/url] which is very fantastic
, what will you prepare for Christmas?
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