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Last Summary Update: 12-10-2024

Robert Service - Cremation of Sam McGee
Airdate: Friday - December 17, 1965

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Oh boy, oh boy, am I . . .

Show Description

New Haven - some 10 and 11 year old kids set a bulldozer in gear down the street. After climbing over a Cadillac, it goes halfway into a variety store. This leads to a discussion about loose canons, rolling pianos and kid story about the time he was working at the steel mill and a freight car got out of control and crashed through a warehouse door. 'The railroad hods the steel mill together like a skeleton hold the body together. Shep talks about 'style'. Most people have a certain style which seperates them from the rest. Writers have style which makes them recognizable after reading only a few lines. Robert Service - Shep reads "The Cremation of Sam McGee"

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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
•		Kid's start Bulldozer

Comments

• No Limelight show on Christmas - there will be a studio show (Pre-recorded? Rerun?)

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 15:58	which reminds me this is WOR AM and FM New Yorkee. . .

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 16:02	Miller Beer
• 17:03	Movie Promotion	"Viva Maria" - United Artists
• 18:24	Coty Perfume - Imprevu
• 19:34	Limelight - Shep	No broadcast on Chrismas Night
• 21:42	Rover 2000

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 07:12:30:18	Unknown - "Draggin Blues"	Blues - Piano Music
• 35:35	Ballet Mecanique

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

Rating

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 07:03 ]	Plots / Story Lines		Steel Mill
• [ 30:20 ]	General Topics		Robert W. Service

Record: 474 / ID: 19651217W0474

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

	Date	Title
	December 17, 1965 Recno: 474	Robert Service - Cremation of Sam McGee	Original Airing

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1965 Set 7	173a	Cassette

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General Info

Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19651217W0474	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	12-10-2024	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

A. Fratelli

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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
1965 Set 7	173a	Cassette	0 Running Time: 0

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7 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

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David Goldin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: The Jean Shepherd Show. December 17, 1965. WOR, New York. Participating sponsors. A bulldozer run amok. A rolling freight car in the steel mill. Shepherd reads a "sneaky" Christmas poem, "The Cremation Of Sam McGee." Part of the clsoing theme has been deleted. Jean Shepherd. 45:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
Source ref number: 79113
Station: WOR

A. Fratelli

Recordee:
523 - A. Fratelli

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: General Conversation - (Very Good)
Source ref number: 46
Station: WOR

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 12-17-65 173 Cremation of Sam McGee
Station: WOR

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FHC / JSP

Running Time: 43:39

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 12 17_W0474_030 Robert Service WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source filename: 1965 12 17 Robert Service WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source ref number: 13
Station: WOR

Max - Everything Sets

Running Time: 43:39

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 12 17_W0474_601 Robert Service.mp3
Source filename: 1965_12_17_Robert_Service.mp3
Source set: Everything Set Vol 09
Station: WOR

Brass Figlagee - Archive.org

Running Time: 43:39

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 12 17_W0474_995 Robert Service.mp3
Source filename: 1965_12_17_Robert_Service.mp3
Station: WOR

Schmidco

Running Time: 44:03

Recordee:
501 - Rudy Wirsching

Inventory Name: 1965 12 17_W0474_022-600_1965_Set_7-173a Robert Service.mp3
Source set: 1965 Set 7
Source ref number: 173a
Station: WOR

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"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