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9/22/2008 10:45:36 PM |
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Boyce,
Robert
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New York
Shep fan since:
1962
On the Radio |
Comments:
I was given an 8 cd set of Jean's radio shows and the enclosed pamphlet referred to this site. As a kid, I used a surplus oven timer to turn on a reel to reel recorder to tape Jean when I couldn't be home. Sure wish I had kept some of them considering how many broadcast (thousands?) have been lost forever and they were all brilliant and priceless - Thanks for maintaining the site.
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2777 |
9/22/2008 7:14:23 PM |
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Desmond,
William
South Boston, MA,
Massachusetts
Shep fan since:
1976
On the Radio |
Comments:
SOUNDS HEARD OF A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT
I was hospitalized as the result of a gnarly motorcycle
accident. An early Autumn storm was pelting torrents of cold
rain on the draft prone window behind my bed. The meager
lighting of my ward hung the room with gloom. I turned on
my portable radio to catch some news/weather reports. Just
missed them by seconds.
What came on at that moment was this curious 'Theme',
followed by this strangely compelling and yet familiar voice. It took me a minute or two to remember where I had
heard it before. "Good gravy that's Jean Shepard" said I!
I recall him from an outstanding commentary/comedy LP ("Jean
Shepard and Other Foibles") I had heard years before.
"What's up with this", I mused?
It turned out to be part of an all too short run of re-
broadcasts of Shep's WOR radio show. They ran (I believe)
commercial free on WRKO680-AM. The night I tuned in Shep C wove this verbal tapistry of a Halloween scare story
that chimed perfectly with my dreary surroundings and the
howling storm without.
I was hooked, gaffed and landed that very night! One way
or another I was on board then and thereafter for all the
years to come!!!
More (on this) later...
So happy to have found you,
Bill D.
20/September/2008
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2776 |
9/21/2008 9:36:33 PM |
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Triglia,
Billy
Dunedin,
Florida
Shep fan since:
1964
On the Radio |
Comments:
i have been fan a long time ifirst heard him on wor radio i lived in n.j. at time and yes the limelight every saturday night my mom would get me his books for christmas gifts and i read most of his playboy stuff a very funny man
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2775 |
9/21/2008 5:37:34 PM |
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Self,
Herb
ormond beach,
Florida
Shep fan since:
1970
On the Radio |
Comments:
I listened to Jean's radio show on WOR off of the ionosphere on AM radio while living in Virginia. I thought at the time that he was the most original and entertaining story teller that I had ever encountered. He still is.
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2774 |
9/20/2008 11:54:40 PM |
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paraskevas,
mickey
southampton,
New York
Shep fan since:
1971
Read one of his books |
Comments:
Long live shep...
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2772 |
8/7/2008 8:47:28 PM |
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Halloran,
Neil
Altamonte Springs,
Florida
Shep fan since:
1957
On the Radio |
Comments:
I first heard about Shep for my older brother & his friends when I was about 14. Like many others I tried as hard as possible to stay awake and listen on my little radio under my pillow. I only wish I had met him. I couldn't get enough of his TV shows on PBS. Wouldn't it be great to see those shows again.
Great site.
Flick lives.
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2770 |
8/5/2008 7:59:38 PM |
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Weber,
Deb
Suwanee,
Georgia
Shep fan since:
1980
Read one of his books |
Comments:
I have cassette tapes from the 1980's with Wanda Hickey, The Great Gravy Boat and the Red Rider Stories among others. I would love to have CD recordings. I also recorded the Ollie Hopnoodles Haven of Bliss from Public TV back in the 1980's and The Fourth of July and Other Natural Disasters Movies. I wish these would come out on DVD. They were as funny as A Christmas Story. I grew up in Chicago and appreciate the sites and sounds of midwestern living!
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2769 |
7/31/2008 1:41:09 PM |
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Howard,
Brandon "Elvis"
Jonesboro,
Indiana
Shep fan since:
2001
Read one of his books |
Comments:
I would like to travel to Hammond this weekend to see the sites and visit Flick's Tavern. If there's any way posssible, I'd like to interview those who knew Shep for a report that I'm doing for Indiana Business College.
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2768 |
7/25/2008 4:33:51 PM |
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Levitz,
Howie
Williamstown,
Massachusetts
Shep fan since:
1957
On the Radio |
Comments:
His humor may have been a bit over my head at 10 years old, but like Ernie Kovacs and others, the uniqueness was infectuous. Every night the transistor radio was under my pillow and I often made it though Long John Nebel as well. Of course my grades suffered and I am now a bum, but at least I have an MP3 player and can relive those good old days when someone told me a story before I went to sleep. Got pillow?
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2767 |
7/23/2008 12:31:52 PM |
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Dziadzio,
Bob
Saco,
Maine
Shep fan since:
1961
On the Radio |
Comments:
Like others, I found him by randomly searching the dial while in bed. After hearing him for the first time, I was hooked. I was living in Western MA at the time and had to depend on the skip wave from WOR to receive him. He'd fade in and out, but still was fun to listen to. A friend from CT and I traveled down one Sat night to see him at the Limelight. Guess seeing him in person didn't have the same effect as his radio presence. Left for college in the Midwest in '66 and didn't return until he had left the airwaves. Got to see him a few times on PBS and his movies.
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2766 |
7/9/2008 12:13:13 AM |
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Capuano,
Frederick
Old Bridge,
New Jersey
Shep fan since:
1961
On the Radio |
Comments:
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2765 |
7/6/2008 10:47:57 PM |
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Zoltowski Sr.,
Paul
Rio Rancho,
New Mexico
Shep fan since:
1967
On the Radio |
Comments:
Jim, I notice at the Last 50 Guests,no guest mentions the use of thier I-pod. I have a I-pod and belong to I-tunes,if I go to PODCASTS (on I-tunes)I can search Jean Shepherd and there he is!!! The best podcast is "The Brass Figlagee" and it's free. Shep is back I listen to him everyday, I hope this info is helpful to all us fatheads out there!!!!!! Can you print this info? Thanks again,Jim! Paul
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2764 |
7/5/2008 12:26:57 AM |
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Rowe,
George
Tomball,
Texas
Shep fan since:
1965
On the Radio |
Comments:
Listened to Shep as a kid, have books, enjoyed PBS work, and movies.
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2763 |
6/1/2008 8:10:57 PM |
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Sylvester,
Michael
Raleigh,
North Carolina
Shep fan since:
1970
On the Radio |
Comments:
My brother and I use to get stoned and listen to Shep on WOR when we were growing up in North Bergen, N.J. THOSE WERE THE DAYS, MY FRIEND. Probably the best radio ever!
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2762 |
5/24/2008 6:47:05 PM |
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Brodsky,
Wes
Medford,
Massachusetts
Shep fan since:
1964
On the Radio |
Comments:
found site by reference in Bergman's book
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2761 |
5/21/2008 5:22:13 PM |
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DeHuff,
John
Liberty,
New Jersey
Shep fan since:
1967
On the Radio |
Comments:
Loved listening to him at night on the radio. The consummate storyteller. He could weave a tale that would be absolutely mesmerizing. Simply the best.
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2760 |
5/16/2008 3:44:28 PM |
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FLYNN,
ANTHONY
ROCKVILLE CENTRE,
New York
Shep fan since:
1967
On the Radio |
Comments:
Thank you so much for maintaining this site! Most people know Shep as "the guy who narrated 'A CHRISTMAS STORY" (if at all!) You are helping to keep Shep's wit and wisdom alive for another generation. Shep once said, no matter what you do with your life, no matter what, in a thousand years no one will even know you existed......Shep, I wonder......
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2758 |
5/14/2008 4:34:39 PM |
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Aterno,
Tony
Austin,
Texas
Shep fan since:
1965
On the Radio |
Comments:
He was the consummate wordsmith and storyteller. I especially remember a story about a truckload of banana oil that tipped over and gushed down the street. I was rolling over in laughter. Good memories.
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2757 |
4/21/2008 11:31:50 AM |
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Nuba,
Bobby
Hewlett, LI,
New York
Shep fan since:
1963
On the Radio |
Comments:
I was smitten. The smooth yet everyman voice of Shep boomed out of my bedside radio. I was such a nerd at first that I left my radio on WOR all day awakening to Rambling with Gambling. Little did I know that that very program was used for generations as a cow laxative in the early morning dark of the Jersey farms situated within earshot of WOR's Philadelphia beamed signal. Why, in point of fact, WOR was listed as a local station in the philly papers!
After listening to the WOR 15 minutes of news one night, a strange but heady tune poured out of my Chicago made Zenith radio. A voice cut in blasting OR management. From that moment I was HOOKED.
I saw Shep in concert as the DEVIL. The pretty but dumb brunette I took to this (for me) nearly orgasmic event didn't get it. And as it turned out, later that evening, neither did I! Ad Hoc agricula conc, in est spittl Louc!
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2756 |
4/18/2008 3:33:00 PM |
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Morse,
Robert
Indianapolis,
Indiana
Shep fan since:
1967
On the Radio |
Comments:
Before I went to school and eventually settled in Indianapolis, I was a teenager from NJ listening to Shepherd every night on WOR-AM radio. As George Ade wrote, "There are at least two kinds of education." A central part of my "other" education was listening to Shep's accounts of the real world and his discovery of it in the company of Schwartz, Flick, and Bruner. Often, he and his cohorts came away with the short stick, but some unpleasant truth was usually learned along the way.
I saw him at Fairleigh Dickinson ("Fairly ridiculous") in 1968, and in Indy in 1985 and 1988. I still had the ticket stub from the '68 performance. In '88, he signed it for me.
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2754 |
4/14/2008 12:55:38 AM |
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Krieger,
Gary
Ventura,
California
Shep fan since:
1965
On the Radio |
Comments:
Being a kid on Long Island, I could get WOR AM. One night I heard my mom and older brother listening to Shep. I tuned the radio in my room to WOR and listened while in bed. From then until I moved out of home and moved to upstate New York in 1972 I listened. When he came to my college in 1971 it was a great moment to see him and enjoy his great stories.
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2753 |
4/9/2008 1:03:26 AM |
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Krauson,
Stan
Mission Viejo,
California
Shep fan since:
1956
On the Radio |
Comments:
Shep shepherded generations away from "creeping meatballism". Recently I visited the Museum of Radio and TV. To my knowledge, the museums (NY & LA) are the only places where Shep's PBS shows, e.g., Phantom of the Open Hearth and The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters, can be viewed.
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2752 |
4/6/2008 12:04:01 AM |
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Wright,
David
Concord,
Massachusetts
Shep fan since:
1971
On the Radio |
Comments:
Listened to Shep almost exclusively on 'GBH radio during high school for maybe two years. Taped a lot of the shows (air checks, I had a cable that could plug into the output of the FM receiver) and gave the tapes to my English teacher, and I hope some of them found their way into circulation. Big moment, getting "Wanda Hickey" signed at the Harvard Coop. "Here you go, poor Dave Wright" were the words he said to me. Never forget him standing on a chair above us worshiping minions, looking very hip with the sideburns and the big aviator sunglasses, dressed in denim sports coat and black turtleneck. Later he commented how "hip" Boston was!
I confess I became very disinterested in him after high school and life started to hand out hard knocks and disappointments, but I'm cheered by the fact he's still here for me, and all of us, thanks to an invention I'd love to know what he'd think of today, the Internet. Thanks to everyone who makes that possible.
Excelsior!
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2749 |
3/17/2008 10:25:00 AM |
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Knapp,
Jim
Hammond,
Indiana
Shep fan since:
1985
Read one of his books |
Comments:
I still try to associate Hammond locations with story references. Although urban renewal has changed the 'old Hammond' business district to a large degree and most 40's era retail buidings are gone.
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2748 |
3/11/2008 8:59:18 PM |
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MAZZEY, SR.,
GEORGE
STATEN ISLAND,
New York
Shep fan since:
1963
On the Radio |
Comments:
MR. JEAN SHEPHERD WAS THE BEST ON RADIO AND HE WAS GREAT. I ALSO HAVE ALL HIS CD'S AND THAY ARE GREAT.
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2747 |
3/10/2008 12:36:21 PM |
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Naples,
Neil
Woodstock,
Georgia
Shep fan since:
1963
On the Radio |
Comments:
As a gift from my fiance', while on a trip to Florida, I turned on my CD player and after "a pregnant pause" the theme song "Bahn Frei" and the gifted and talented voice of Jean Shepherd wafted from the speakers. I was instantly transported back to my childhood on Long Island, a transistor radio tuned to WOR hidden beneath my pillow, my mother a few steps down the hall believing her wonderful son was studying geography. Oh if she knew ... I was a part of the growing legion of Jean Shepherd devotee's and the terrific stories I would discuss with my boyhood chums the following day. Many a morning I would curse the sleep that had taken me from his story and run to a friend and ask, " How did it end?". Those WERE the good old days. I thank everyone who is involved in keeping Jean Shepherd's legacy alive. Excelsior! You Fathead!... Seltzer Bottle!
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2746 |
3/7/2008 3:35:19 PM |
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Delph,
Donna
Olympia,
Washington
Shep fan since:
1985
Saw One of His Movies |
Comments:
I grew up in Hammond, Indiana -- have many, MANY memories of the town. It has changed so drastically since I lived there, but my friends and I have "gone back in time" and reminisced about many of the old sights, sounds, and pictures from the site. How ironic that our town is now iconic!
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2745 |
3/6/2008 6:55:40 PM |
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Peacock,
Fritz
Lafayette,
Indiana
Shep fan since:
1960
On the Radio |
Comments:
Crazy as it may seem it was Sheps tails of Hammond and stories of the steel mills that helped me decide to leave Trenton State Teachers College in New Jersey, and move to Indiana to attend Purdue. There is nothing like radio, Shep, Long John Nebel for kids today. If he were alive I can imagine the stories he would tell about cell phones, text messaging, and upperclass white kids who arerap wanna-bees.
Oh ya, I'm still here at Purdue almost 45 years later.Thanks Shep!
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2744 |
3/3/2008 5:27:03 PM |
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albright,
william
south bend,
Indiana
Shep fan since:
1966
Read his Playboy short stories |
Comments:
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2743 |
3/2/2008 4:10:20 PM |
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Zuckerman,
Jonathan
Scarsdale,
New York
Shep fan since:
1978
Read his Playboy short stories |
Comments:
I have long been haunted by the memmory of Daphne Bigelow!
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2742 |
2/25/2008 3:23:25 PM |
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Miner,
Glenn
Massapequa,
New York
Shep fan since:
1969
On the Radio |
Comments:
I saw shep at princton u. 1977.There were no restrooms at alexander hall!Shep explained this was why the shrubs were doing so well!I met another fan at the show who claimed to have most of the radio shows on tape!I,m still sick that i lost his number. FLICK LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2740 |
2/24/2008 4:38:13 PM |
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Harper,
Shannon
,
Florida
Shep fan since:
1982
On the Radio |
Comments:
Please note that under your cast of characters in Shep's life you have made an error. Georgette Mosbacher was never married to Randy Shepherd brother to Jean. Randy Shepherd was married to her mother until his death. Mrs Dee Paulsin Shepherd. Please correct your mistakes regarding part of my family tree. Thank you
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2739 |
2/19/2008 5:54:08 PM |
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Bissonette,
Michael
Naugatuck,
Connecticut
Shep fan since:
1952
On the Radio |
Comments:
I'm an overnite employee, delivery driver for a metro.newspaper wholesale distributor, 'discovered WBAI, MASS BACKWARDS..connect the dots...Sheperd's work has been a joyful revelation...I'm awaiting Max's 5 cd set of Sheperd's 'winter tales' from an earlier 'BAI pledge drive...never thought nostalgia would be this exciting!
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2737 |
2/18/2008 11:19:27 PM |
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L,
Howard
Deerfield Beach,
Florida
Shep fan since:
1967
On the Radio |
Comments:
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
he still lives!
started listening to him when I was in the 7th grade.
no one else like him.
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2736 |
2/18/2008 7:56:16 PM |
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Bowker,
Bruce
Bonaire, Neth. Antilles,
Alabama
Shep fan since:
1961
On the Radio |
Comments:
Listened to his radio show every night. Read his books. Miss him. A great man.
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2735 |
2/18/2008 7:24:25 PM |
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Burch,
Linda
Muncie,
Indiana
Shep fan since:
1986
Saw One of His Movies |
Comments:
Jean Shepherd, "A BLESSING TO ALL WHO EXPERENCED HIS HUMOR AND WIT" GONE FOR NOW, BUT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN!
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2717 |
2/10/2008 10:40:59 PM |
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deriesthal,
andy
pompano beach,
Florida
Shep fan since:
1970
On the Radio |
Comments:
I grew up on long island; early in the 1970s I discovered a very entertaining radio show on WOR. Every night I would be caught up in the adventures of jean shepherd & tales of an Indiana childhood. Shep was the king of story telling, he was able to capture our imaginations with his depiction of characters and events Jean Shepherd's voice became my internal monologue
Excelsior, You Fathead
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2686 |
1/31/2008 2:16:52 AM |
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Furstenberg,
Marc
,
New York
Shep fan since:
1961
On the Radio |
Comments:
What about the story about Banana Nose Zeke Bonura stealing home when Shep and the old man went to see the Sox play?
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2682 |
1/27/2008 6:25:11 PM |
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CURRAN,
CHARLIE
OSLO, NORWAY,
New York
Shep fan since:
1968
On the Radio |
Comments:
Oslo Norway where I live is not the Usa.
My big brother turned me on to shep first, the naughtiest thing he ever did, as a kid.
I didnt listen much to shep from the late 70s til now.
Listening to him again I realise how much he has influenced my life and thinking, Ieven had a similar event to his 1976 End of Summer story, but mine happened in denmark.
Thanks to everyone for making Shep available to us all now.
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2678 |
1/23/2008 8:13:51 PM |
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Franco,
Bob
Blaine,
Washington
Shep fan since:
1956
On the Radio |
Comments:
Just found this site. Wonderfull!
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2670 |
1/15/2008 10:56:26 PM |
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Williams,
Johnny
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
Shep fan since:
1969
On the Radio |
Comments:
As a kid I surfed the AM radio band at night much like we surf the net today. In between distant baseball and hockey games, I found Shep on WOR, I was hooked! Thanks to this and other linked websites, he and Flick do live! I wonder what Shep would make of his radio shows being digitalized as podcasts? Creeping meatballism?? Ahhhhhhhhh.......
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2669 |
1/10/2008 12:31:17 PM |
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Drury,
Glenn
Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Shep fan since:
1960
On the Radio |
Comments:
I listened to Shep every night in the early 1960s, then lost track of him when I left NJ for college in 1963. I'm now catching up, thanks to your great website. Thanks for all the effort!
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2668 |
1/7/2008 7:07:35 PM |
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evans,
richard
lakewood,
New Jersey
Shep fan since:
1960
On the Radio |
Comments:
I remember Shep's Channel 13 (PBS) Special when He toured NJ. He wonder "How Many People Out There Had Been Conceived Behind Moving Windsheild Wipers." I would be in tear's While
attempting to negotiate Rte 1&9 on my way to Newark Airport and roaring at the Radio stories being spun via Jean's Comic Genius. He made us Smile. Hell, He made us LAUGH and often.
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2667 |
1/7/2008 3:06:49 PM |
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Perl,
Richie
Forest Hills,
New York
Shep fan since:
1963
On the Radio |
Comments:
This ids fantastic!
IN HOC AGRICULA CONC,
IN ES SPITTLE LAUT!
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2665 |
1/1/2008 9:21:29 PM |
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Gerber,
Warren
New providence,
New Jersey
Shep fan since:
1962
On the Radio |
Comments:
EXCELSIOR! You Fathead! Keep up the great work!
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2664 |
12/31/2007 2:29:48 PM |
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Umstead,
Lori
Rockwood,
Michigan
Shep fan since:
1983
Saw One of His Movies |
Comments:
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2663 |
12/27/2007 8:51:51 PM |
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Bolton,
Rochelle
Puce,
Canada
Shep fan since:
2003
Read one of his books |
Comments:
Hello, I'm afraid you don't have Canada on here so I listed Michigan as my home state, actually I live in Ontario, Canada. I just discovered Jean Shepherd and I'm now on the hunt for his books - can't wait to read them all - I'm listening to one of his recordings as I type "Red Ryder", what a treat and treasure to find online!!
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2662 |
12/27/2007 12:02:56 AM |
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Zoltowski Sr.,
Paul
Rio Rancho,
New Mexico
Shep fan since:
1967
On the Radio |
Comments:
THANKS Jim !!!!!!! WOW, what a great site! I grew up in Bay Ridge,Brooklyn grew up with Shep.I only have 1 cass. tape of the WOR show. It's about a dentist... but the best part is, Shep plays a different version of The Shiek Of Araby!! GREAT STUFF! In this crazy and mixed up world of ours it's nice to have found flicklives.com. #1 in my favorites!!! 2008 is looking up! Thanks again,Paul
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2661 |
12/26/2007 5:55:19 PM |
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Dennis,
Bill
Freehold,
New Jersey
Shep fan since:
1970
On the Radio |
Comments:
It's too bad Jean Shepherd never lived to see his talent and style become appreciated by the world of pop culture in the way that "A Christmas Story" has. I've always felt thankful that someone thought to give him a cameo appearance in the movie, and I never fail to point him out to my kids as the genius who conceived this story and these characters and narrates the film.
The best part about this movie is that it ensures that Jean Shepherd will not be forgotten when we former radio listeners are no longer around.
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2660 |
12/26/2007 3:53:45 PM |
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Brice,
barbara
Mesa. Arizona,
Arizona
Shep fan since:
1950
On the Radio |
Comments:
I lived in Brooklyn. N.Y. and listened to him on WOR when he had a 3 hour program- At that early age I was already a Night Person-would listen to h is voice and maniacal laughter and drank it all in. It was his voice-he could express so much with his voice. My dad thought there was some sinister undercurrents in his stories, but I was a young girl and probably didn't understand half of what he was talking about. It was just his voice-he was a bard-the Homer of the 20th century- and being living in the big prune, I knew the places he takled about when he would weave his stories about New York. It is wonderful that through the blessing of the computer, his voice will not be stilled, and those who loved him will never lose him or his art. Thank you for letting me tell my story about how Gene Sheperd touched my life.
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