*I haven't listened to this yet but it's the great Jean Shepherd, so how can I go wrong?! Bless you for uploading these masterpieces of American Radio Culture! (New Sub here)*
I used to listen to this guy on WOR 710 on the AM side in New York as a kid! I remember the creeping hand of death segment that he used as a ad for his show.
Used to listen to him when I was a kid. Never would have heard The Armenian Jazz Sextet without him. Never would have had a 3" "Go fly a kite, buddy" kite either.
I remember listening to Howard Stern once who crapped all over Jean. What a POS! OMG he could spin a story. I seriously miss radio like this. Fantastic human.
@@JumpingJesus4 I admit that I was introduced to Jean Shepherd by the Christmas Story movie. I didn't know about him in the 70's. I lived in South Jersey, so I didn't hear him on the radio. However, I found these recordings on TH-cam, and I have been listening to them for a number of years now. I'm trying to get caught up on all of these shows that I missed. He is a master story teller.
Around the time of this show, or maybe a few years before, Coke had a promotion related to collecting their bottle caps. There was the logo of an NFL team inside each bottle cap. You had to remove a cork covering from the inside of the bottle cap to see the team logo. My dad worked at a US government facility. He brought me to work with him a few times. He put a magnet on the end of a string, and I fished the bottle caps out of the Coke machines at his work. I completed a certain number of sets of those bottle caps, and I received an official NFL football! It was a real nice football, and I used it for many years.
Ahh, Shep! What a voice! What a storyteller! He told a story spontaneously every weeknight for years and years on WOR in New York! Jean Shepherd once organized a patriotic event called Operation Stomp! Anybody remember it? Hit like if you do!
*I haven't listened to this yet but it's the great Jean Shepherd, so how can I go wrong?! Bless you for uploading these masterpieces of American Radio Culture! (New Sub here)*
I used to listen to this guy on WOR 710 on the AM side in New York as a kid! I remember the creeping hand of death segment that he used as a ad for his show.
Used to listen to him when I was a kid.
Never would have heard The Armenian Jazz Sextet without him.
Never would have had a 3" "Go fly a kite, buddy" kite either.
I remember listening to Howard Stern once who crapped all over Jean. What a POS! OMG he could spin a story. I seriously miss radio like this. Fantastic human.
Kudos to the creator of the lovely little movie "A Christmas Story"!
Oh, you poor, sad people who only know Jean Shepherd from the Christmas Story! He was so much more than that!
@@JumpingJesus4 I admit that I was introduced to Jean Shepherd by the Christmas Story movie. I didn't know about him in the 70's. I lived in South Jersey, so I didn't hear him on the radio. However, I found these recordings on TH-cam, and I have been listening to them for a number of years now. I'm trying to get caught up on all of these shows that I missed. He is a master story teller.
Around the time of this show, or maybe a few years before, Coke had a promotion related to collecting their bottle caps. There was the logo of an NFL team inside each bottle cap. You had to remove a cork covering from the inside of the bottle cap to see the team logo. My dad worked at a US government facility. He brought me to work with him a few times. He put a magnet on the end of a string, and I fished the bottle caps out of the Coke machines at his work. I completed a certain number of sets of those bottle caps, and I received an official NFL football! It was a real nice football, and I used it for many years.
Are there any recordings of Gene Klavan?
Ahh, Shep! What a voice! What a storyteller! He told a story spontaneously every weeknight for years and years on WOR in New York!
Jean Shepherd once organized a patriotic event called Operation Stomp! Anybody remember it?
Hit like if you do!