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Last Summary Update: 01-01-2025

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

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

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

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Mitch Stone - - ]   
  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 (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 (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
01:27; 08:48; 15:53 +	Unknown - Piano Blues 5