Great Train of Memory - "Riding the Rods"
Airdate:
Friday - November 12, 1965
WOR Show Original Airing
First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
For example we have a note here from Reading Pa. . . Opening of show is missing - these are first words of the available recording.
Show Description
Reading Pennsylvania Reverend will give a message on the 23rd Psalm called "The Testimony of the Sheep"
A Gospel ventriloquist will preside at the 2 services of a local church.
In Torrington Connecticut, the world's largest Kazoo band, 5,000 strong, plays their rendition of "Let's Go To Church"
Strippers - Randy tells him about strip club in Japan where they Ava Maria behind the stripper. Shep recalls a strip club where the stripper played the Queen of England.
Playing the devil on stage, Any vague fugitive feeling you've ever had, you can count on it that someone has already carried it out.
Shep talks about his desk which is covered with so many papers and his boss comes into Shep's office and claims to have seen cockroaches crawling out from the piles of papers.
Fake blood - it's not ketchup. Once in a play where George Segal played a major league catcher and Shep was third baseman who slid home crashing into the plate, they used fake blood and Shep was amazed that after the performance a group of kids asked him "How do you remember all those lines?". No mention of all the fake blood he was wearing.
Poetry - Shep is given a poem to learn by Friday by Miss Robinette in school. "I tear her tatered Ensign down, long may it wave on high…" He procrastinated until Thursday night to learn it and then went into a panic. He couldn't remember the lines. His mother worked with him for four hours, pounding it into him. Then she woke him at 6am and made him say it again. Finally in class, after sweating it out, his turn comes and he gets up in front of the class and recites it - it's over! And he made it!
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News Articles Read by Shep During Show
Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans
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Testimony of a Sheep
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World's Largest Kazoo Band
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• 13:42
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Max / Schmidco Notes
Notes
Open clipped
Replays
Mass Backwards
Replay Date
November 12, 2002
WBAI Golden Age of Radio
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Yesterday USA
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Dustbin of History!
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Max / Schmidco Notes
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Schmidco Sets - 1 found
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1965 Set 6
165b
Cassette
0
Running Time: 0
Shows Known via Recordings or Lists (1950 to 1974 Sources 100% Complete - 1975-1977 in process)
5 Known copies from various Sources and Lists (Up to date)
Recordee
1 Shortened Theme: 55 seconds 2 Audibly Dated: By recordee or other 3 Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines 4 Syndicated Intro:Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
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Schmidco
Running Time: 42:00
Recordee: 501 - Rudy Wirsching
Timing Reference Inventory Name: 1965 11 12_W0455_022-600_1965_Set_6-165b Great Train of Memory.mp3 Source set: 1965 Set 6 Source ref number: 165b Station: WOR
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David Goldin
NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDINGSource description: The Jean Shepherd Show. November 12, 1965. WOR, New York. Participating sponsors. A strange striptease in Japan. Memorizing a poem: "Aye, tear her tattered ensign down." The date is subject to correction, the program opening has been deleted. Jean Shepherd. 43:16. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete. Source ref number: 79749 Station: WOR
A. Fratelli
Recordee: 523 - A. Fratelli
NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDINGSource description: Train Recording Source ref number: 50 Station: WOR
Gary Hines
NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDINGSource description: 11-12.65 165 Riding the Rod Open clipped Station: WOR
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Mass Backwards
Running Time: 45:47
Available on Internet
Inventory Name: 1965 11 12_W0455_500_M2002-11-12 Great Train of Memory.mp3 Station: WBAI Comments: Mass Backwards recording
