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Last Summary Update: 07-27-2025

What's in the Pop Bottle?
Airdate: Friday - March 21, 1975

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Well, I see a guy a guy out in Virginia has come up with a new invention. . .

Show Description

Teeth marks in a candy bar At a friends house the friend opens a new jar of peanut butter and found someone had scooped some out and put the jar back on the store shelf. Another friend opened a box of raisins and found a cigar butt in it Shep recounts his own story about going out on a date and buying bottles of Coke. His bottle had an inch and a half of dead flies in the bottom of the bottle

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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

Time	Image	Description
•		Freeloading in a New Car

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 16:29	This is WOR New York. . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 16:31	The Trenton Times
• 17:33	Broadway Play	The Ritz
• 18:31	Harper's Magazine
• 19:33	New York Sports & Vacation Show
• 20:34	Women's American ORT
• 35:33	Shopwell Supermarkets
• 36:39	Norwegian America Line
• 37:37	Broadway Play	Good Time Charlie
• 38:12	Madison Square Garden
• 38:43	Herr's
• 39:16	Metropolitan Opera

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 04:15; 35:16	After You've Gone

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 04:37	Al

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
• [ 31:16 ]	Plots / Story Lines		Flys in the soda bottle

Record: 1926 / ID: 19750321W1926

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

	Date	Title
	March 21, 1975 Recno: 1926	What's in the Pop Bottle?	Original Airing

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group E	113Db	Cassette

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19750321W1926	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	07-27-2025	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

Ken Piletic

Notes

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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!

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Max / Schmidco Notes
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Other

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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
Series 100 Group E	113Db	Cassette	0 Running Time: 0	Ken Piletic

Shows Known via Recordings or Lists
(1950 to 1974 Sources 100% Complete - 1975-1977 in process)

4 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

Schmidco

Running Time: 43:37

Recordee:
506 - Ken Piletic

Inventory Name: 1975 03 21_W1926_022-600_Series_100-113Db Whats in the Pop Bottle.mp3
Source description: What's in the Pop Bottle?
Source set: Series 100 Group E
Source ref number: 113Db

Images

David Goldin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 90493. The Jean Shepherd Show. March 21, 1975. WOR, New York. Participating sponsors. A secret about new cars...include a lipstick under the dashboard. The same with peanut butter and raisins. Shep's favorite story about the coke bottle. Jean Shepherd, Jerry Stiller (commercial spokesman), Ann Meara (commercial spokesman). 45:00. Audio Condition: Excellent. Complete.
Source ref number: 90493
Station: WOR

Ken Piletic

Recordee:
506 - Ken Piletic

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Station: WOR

Max Schmid

Running Time: 44:47

Recordee:
506 - Ken Piletic

Timing Reference
Inventory Name: 1975 03 21_W1926_041-506 What's in Pop Bottle.wav
Source filename: 75-03-21 What's in Pop Bottle.wav
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