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Last Summary Update: 06-14-2025

Memory - Work Ethics - Light Brigade - Andy Capp
Airdate: April 3, 1972

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

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Show Description

Andy Capp Fan Shep describes one of the cartoon strips A play by Elmer Rice (Shep calls him Andy Rice) called the adding machine. Shep reads "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - 06-14-2025 ]   
  Shep reads, "The Charge Of The Light Brigade," in honor of all those who work in offices. Andy Capp as a philosopher...what his name really means. How soon we forget!      
  

Comments

• There is a promo for the Carlton Theater Red Bank, NJ show. That was on Friday, 7 April. Shep also says during this show that it's "the beginning of the week". According to the database, the only date unaccounted for at the beginning of that week is - 3 April.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 15:10	This is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 15:22	Shep Promo - Live Appearance	Carlton Theater - Red Bank
• 17:13	Book Find Club
• 19:00	TAP Airlines - Portugal

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 07:44	Gesang Der Junglinge / Song Of The Youths
• 15:22	Unknown - William Tell Overture	For Carlton Theater Ad

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 18:43	Herb Squire

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

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Rating

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Record: 1283 / ID: 19720403W1283

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

Date	Title
April 3, 1972 Recno: 1283	Memory - Work Ethics - Light Brigade - Andy Capp	Original Airing
February 6, 1974 Recno: 8483	Memory - Work Ethics - Light Brigade - Andy Capp	Original Airing
January 21, 1975 Recno: 1832	Memory - Work Ethics - Light Brigade - Andy Capp	Original Airing
March 21, 1975 Recno: 6885	Memory - Work Ethics - Light Brigade - Andy Capp	WBJC Synd Replay

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19720403W1283	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	06-14-2025	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

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Notes

Source: Eric "Spiderman" Matthews
[spiderman] The show from 3 April 1972 (a Monday) can, I believe, be positively identified. It is "Memory" (from April 1972) - there is a promo for the Carlton Theater Red Bank, NJ show. That was on Friday, 7 April. Shep also says during this show that it's "the beginning of the week". According to the database, the only date unaccounted for at the beginning of that week is - ta-da! - 3 April.
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	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
FHC / JSP Running Time: 44:31 Available on Internet	Inventory Name: 1972 04 03_W1283_030 Memory WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3 Source filename: 1972 04 xx Memory WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3 Source ref number: 8H Station: WOR
Brass Figlagee - Archive.org Running Time: 44:31 Available on Internet	Inventory Name: 1972 04 03_W1283_995 Memory.mp3 Source filename: 1972_04_xx_Memory.mp3 Station: WOR
Max - Everything Sets Running Time: 44:31 Available on Internet	Inventory Name: 1972 04 03_W1283_601 Memory.mp3 Source filename: 1972_04_xx_Memory.mp3 Source set: Everything Set Vol 18 Station: WOR

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975