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Last Summary Update: 03-26-2025

Selling Seeds
Airdate: Saturday - March 22, 1969

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Oh, yes, the first Saturday of Spring. . .

Show Description

The "Moose Patrol" Knot Tying Miss Ogalthorp - Teacher at Morton School 'he 'Indian Walk' Mr Morton and Miss Ogalthorpe had a thing going. . . Clean-up week

So far there is no Description for this show

News Articles Read by Shep During Show

Shep would often read articles he recently read or were sent in by fans

Time	Image	Description
•		Scouts take over Headquarters

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 21:58	That reminds me this is WOR New York, this is an official station, we don't mess around with that greasy kid's stuff. . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	No Commercials or Commercials Cut

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 15:25	Cake Walking Babies

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Jews Harp

Rating

None Yet

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 19:57 ]	People		Stryker, Lawrence	Top Patrol Leader
• [ 20:23 ]	People		Gordon, Mr.	Scoutmaster
• [ 24:43 ]	People		Ogalthorpe, Miss
• [ 41:35 ]	People		Shields, Miss	Organizes Clean up week

Record: 7539 / ID: 19690322W7539

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	March 22, 1969 Recno: 7539	Selling Seeds	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	March 26, 2025

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19690322W7539	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:	02-24-2024	Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	03-26-2025	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	Yes
Music up to date:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	Yes
Description up to date:	Yes

Known Recordees

Dictaphone

Notes

Dating Notes

Notes

Time: 01:45 Source: Jim Clavin

"It's Saturday - first Saturday of spring"

General Notes

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Technical Notes

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Research Notes

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Max / Schmidco

Max's super secret page of shows never played and not on internet - maybe. . .

Max / Schmidco Notes
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Replays

Mass Backwards

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WBAI Golden Age of Radio

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Yesterday USA

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Dustbin of History!

Replay Date

March 26, 2025

Max / Schmidco Notes
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Other

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Schmidco Sets - 0 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
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Shows Known via Recordings or Lists
(1950 to 1974 Sources 100% Complete - 1975-1977 in process)

3 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
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

Source Name	Information
Dictaphone Recordee: 512 - Dictaphone	NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Station: WOR
Max Schmid Running Time: 52:06 Recordee: 512 - Dictaphone	Inventory Name: 1969 03 22_W7539_041-512 Selling Seeds.mp3 Source filename: 69-03-22 SAT - Selling Seeds.mp3 Station: WOR
Dustbin of History Running Time: 56:04 Recordee: 512 - Dictaphone	Inventory Name: 1969 03 22_W7539_552-512_D2025-03-26 Selling Seeds.mp3 Station: WBAI

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
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