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Yukon Poetry - Robert W. Service
Airdate: Friday - January 15, 1965

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Galamafry, exiting galamafry! Man can only take so much. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Mitch Stone - 01-01-2025 ]   
  Shep starts out this show in one of his silly moods, taking up nearly the first ten minutes riffing to "Trouble in Mind", "After You're Gone" and other jazz and blues ditties over honky-tonk piano recordings, even adding a little rare acapella.

This is a winter show. "New Yorkers fear cold weather," Shep says, but "I love it." Shep reads some of his favorite "rotten cold-weather poetry" by Robert W. Service, including all or portions of:

-The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
-The Call of the Wild
-The Cremation of Sam McGee
-The Ballad of the Northern Lights

He also reads "The Frozen Maid" (apparently not Service and uncredited) and another bit of unnamed verse about the glories of drink. 

Shep does not credit Service either, in this particular reading of his work.      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:41	This is WOR in New York

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:43; 19:17	Miller Beer
• 17:38	Limelight - Shep	Shep plugs the following night's Limelight show

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 01:27; 08:48; 15:53 +	Unknown - Piano Blues 5
• 05:57	After You're Gone

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

Rating

None Yet

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Poetry
•	General Topics		Robert W. Service

Record: 311 / ID: 19650115W0311

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

	Date	Title
	January 15, 1965 Recno: 311	Yukon Poetry - Robert W. Service	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	January 29, 2002

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1965 Set 1	104a	Cassette

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19650115W0311	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	01-01-2025	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

Rudy Wirsching

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Replays

Mass Backwards

Replay Date

January 29, 2002

WBAI Golden Age of Radio

NONE

Yesterday USA

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Dustbin of History!

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Max / Schmidco Notes
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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
1965 Set 1	104a	Cassette	0 Running Time: 0

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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

David Goldin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: The Jean Shepherd Show. January 15, 1965. WOR, New York. Participating sponsors. On a cold night in New York, Shep reads the poetry of Robert Service, about the arctic chill of the North. Part of the opening theme has been deleted. Jean Shepherd. 43:45. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
Source ref number: 73830
Station: WOR

FHC / JSP

Running Time: 43:59

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 01 15_W0311_030 R Service WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source filename: 1965 01 15 R Service WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source ref number: 12
Station: WOR

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 1-15-65 104 Yukon Poetry - Robert Service
Station: WOR

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Schmidco

Running Time: 43:09

Recordee:
501 - Rudy Wirsching

Timing Reference
Inventory Name: 1965 01 15_W0311_022-600 Yukon Poetry - Robt Service.mp3
Source description: Yukon Poetry - Robert W. Service
Source set: 1965 Set 1
Source ref number: 104a
Station: WOR

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