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Witch Doctor Calls
Rerun Date: Friday - January 30, 1976

WOR Show
Syndicated Replay

(Syndicated Release)

(Redated from: 1976 02 03)

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

I like that, got us off to a good start . . .

Show Description

Shep spend this show playing various chants from a recording of one of the most powerful witch doctors in Africa. He explains the function of the witch doctor within his tribe and describes the meaning behind the various chants, and the expected results.

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WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:25	None cut from 14:25 min mark on 1972 show

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 01:14	Village Voice
• 01:46	Theragran
• 02:36	General Tire
• 03:36	European Health Spa
• 04:37	Olin's Rent a Car
• 04:54	Winter Garden Theatre	Pacific Overtures
• 05:24	D'Agostino
• 14:25	Morosco Theatre	Norman Conquest
• 14:57	Mailgram
• 15:58	Carefree Travel
• 17:00	John Barleycorn Pub
• 18:07	Americana Hotel

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	Unknown Music	Witch Doctor Chants

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 39:33	Jerry Lambert
• 00:59	Tony Galano

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Witch Doctors

Record: 2132 / ID: 19760130W2132

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

Date	Title
January 19, 1971 Recno: 1071	Witch Doctors and Rituals Notes: Last 35 min	Original Airing
January 28, 1972 Recno: 3000	Witch Doctor	WOR Rerun
January 30, 1976 Recno: 2132	Witch Doctor Calls	Syndicated Replay

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19760130W2132	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	None	Station ID up to date:	Yes
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes	1976 02 03	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: Jim Clavin
Not the same as the 4/6/66 Curses show [Jim] Did the 1-30-76 Witch Doctor Chants tape have a bunch of bad sections? Throughout the show the audio cuts in and out. [Max] Yes, there were many missing segments - I downloaded the FHC copy, converted to .wav and matched the level, and meticulously cut in the missing parts. Either you got the bad original, or going from MP3 to wav to MP3 doesn't work out too well. I'll have to check that out. Don't know if you remember, but were the drop-outs only in commercials? I have actually prepared two versions of this Meyers series. I made the MP3 files from the masters, so that's why you got the bad copy. The corrected version has been cut down for CD release, with the bad commercials removed. I'm rather surprised I didn't save an uncut copy of the repaired show - very unlike me not to. My intention was (and still is) to cut out enough commercials from these shows to get two shows on a CD. Since there is so much duplication of commercials, and they are in no way Shep-related, I thought it would be a better value to continue to offer two shows per medium, whether CD or cassette. That's why I annotated all of these shows in detail, focusing on the commercials, so that when I did the editing, at least one example of every commercial would stay in the set. The same damn John Barleycorn ad is on practically every show, even plugging a New Year's Eve party for a week or two into the new year! Since so many of these shows are reruns to begin with, and the commercials added in for 1976, I really don't think this is taking too much liberty with the material. If I haven't already sent you those notes, I can, but bear in mind, it was more of a commercial log for me than going into great detail on the content of the shows. Not sure if there's enough detail for an actual show summary, but maybe, if it saves you any time.
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Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
1976 Shows	MP3-6	MP3	0 Running Time: 0

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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

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Max Schmid

Running Time: 45:41

Timing Reference ¹Shortened Theme
Inventory Name: 1976 01 30_W2132_041 Witch Doctor Calls.mp3
Source filename: 1976 01 30 Witch Doctor Calls.mp3
Station: WOR

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 1-30-74 RR-31 Witch Doctors and Spells
Station: WOR

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