OK, I'm ready if you're ready, fellow victims. . .
Show Description
[ Courtesy: Eric Mathews - 03-23-2009 ]
A thousand years from now "they" will call our century the Time of the Great Itch, possibly also the Time of the Transcendent Show Biz Outlook. Things now are produced instead of just happening.
Shep tells of walking past a construction site & hearing a bad loudspeaker playing a recording of the construction efforts narrated by Tony Curtis, June Havacare (?) and Cary Grant - "the voices of spring".
Shep mentions a trade journal report in which a couple of "big networks" were "teed off" with the "space agency" over the low production values of a recent Atlas rocket launch. He then becomes a network official making a presentation to the space agency, illustrating the difference between their poorly produced launch (guys fooling with dials, loud "7 db over zero" hum during countdown) and how their production would turn the country on its collective ear. They'll portray the astronaut as "a veritable Charlton Heston of reality", Richard Burton will do the countdown and James Mason will narrate re-entry – all produced by Otto Preminger & 20th Century Fox.
Shep goes onto a story of being summoned to meet Otto von Kornfeld (Preminger?), a "great man" who has fully produced his own life.
Hidden camera commercials as the most sickening type (new Socko soap with 5-pronged action & the new Socko Dynamo 8 with Super Dyno Whoopee Drive)
Shep ends by portraying an ad agency guy on the phone telling C.G. that Mr. Brundage says to get the copy points in the “real people” commercials & that real people do say such things as "New improved Super Dyno Five Point Drive" – his wife said it the other day!
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Speaking of mishmashes, this is WOR, New York
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Source: Eric "Spiderman" Matthews
Notes from Eric Matthews:
Incomplete theme
File length = 44:46
Show must be from late July or August - Shep references the "second astronaut" as well as "Mercury Control". This would make the show dated after Gus Grissom's flight in Liberty Bell 7 July 21, 1961. The Palisades Park commercial means the show must be from before Labor Day.
Anyone with info on the free concerts at Palisades Park may be able to narrow down the date; besides the 30-cent admission, the ad mentions the Crystals appearing on Saturday and Ruby and the Romantics on Sunday
[Jim] Also "On Dangerous Ground" this 39431776Wed ( poss 6/5/63?) 9pm on The Big Preview WOR-TV Comments: 0
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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
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Inventory Name: 1963 08 dd_W3943_030 Production WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3 Source filename: 1963 08 xx Production WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3 Source ref number: 11 Station: WOR
