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Santa Claus, Army
Airdate: Thursday - December 21, 1972

WOR Show

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Oh, listen, it's time once again to take the bull by the horns. . .

Show Description

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Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	House of Chan
•	WOR Christmas Fund

Music (All times approximate)

Not Determined yet

Needs to be ID'd

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	George

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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Rating

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Record: 1428 / ID: 19721221W1428

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

	Date	Title
	December 21, 1972 Recno: 1428	Santa Claus, Army

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	December 19, 2006

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19721221W1428	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	None	Station ID up to date:	No
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	No
Music up to date:	No	Instruments up to date:	No
Description up to date:	No

Known Recordees

Alan Kalish

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Dating Notes

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Notes

Source: Max Schmid
[max] Santa Claus, Army - actually about kids current games as seen in commercials - Down the Drain, Bug Out, etc; Remembering Games received as gifts, but the show comes to a clunking halt with an unrelated (filler?) and too-long version of the Army "Oblique" story.
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Max / Schmidco

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

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Replay Date

December 19, 2006

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Dustbin of History!

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Max / Schmidco Notes
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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)

6 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

FHC / JSP

Running Time: 48:08

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1972 12 21_W1428_030 Santa Claus - Army.mp3
Source filename: 1972_12_21_Xmas_Army.mp3
Station: WOR

Max - Everything Sets

Running Time: 48:09

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1972 12 21_W1428_601 Xmas Army.mp3
Source filename: 1972_12_21_Xmas_Army.mp3
Source set: Everything Set 20
Station: WOR

Alan Kalish

Running Time: 46:39

Recordee:
55 - Alan Kalish

Inventory Name: 1972 12 21_W1428_041-055-081A - 12-21-72.mp3
Source filename: Shep 081A.mp3
Source description: SANTA CLAUS, ARMY
Source ref number: 81A
Station: WOR

Images

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Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1972 12 21_W1428_500 - M2006-12-19_Santa_Claus.mp3
Station: WOR

Comments: Mass Backwards recording

Brass Figlagee - Archive.org

Running Time: 48:09

Inventory Name: 1972 12 21_W1428_995 Xmas Army.mp3
Source filename: 1972_12_21_Xmas_Army.mp3
Station: WOR

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 12-21-72 FH Jews Harp, Santa Claus
Station: WOR

Comments: Not sure which of the 12/21 shows this is - both shows are different and Gary has combined the two titles

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