Jean Shepherd - An Ode to Rotten Poetry 1967/05/01

This show is dedicated to really rotten poetry, consider this your warning.
Shep reads "The Dog's Cold Nose" by Arthur Guiterman
Starts at: 2:05
Jean tells us what he is doing this week.
Starts at: 4:26
Jean reads "The Spelling Bee At Angels" by Francis Bret Harte
Starts at: 4:46
Commerical Break:
- Gavin Gold Crest Antenna (Jean makes a very dramatic go of this commercial): 13:07
Jean reads to us one of his favorite bad poems, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service
Starts at: 15:35
"Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Starts at: 23:38
Jean compares himself to Orson Welles
Starts at: 25:33
Shep recalls a story where Goody Ace tells a story about Groucho Marx
Starts at: 27:03
An excerpt from the Icelandic Saga about The North Wind
Starts at: 28:51
"The Embarrassing episode of Little Miss Muffet" by Guy Wetmore Carryl
Starts at: 34:40
"The Flattered Lightning Bug" by Donald Marquis
Starts at: 39:23
As a kid, Jean heard a radio advertisement to learn the piano in seven days.
Story Starts: 41:25
[Audio is public domain, Photo © by Roy Schatt]