Newitt, Margaret
Hopewell, New Jersey |
Joined: September 10, 2000 |
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Shep fan since: 1960
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 219
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Newitt, John N
Westwood, New Jersey |
Joined: June 13, 2002 |
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Shep fan since: 1959
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 773
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Newitt, Maggie
Hopewell, New Jersey |
Joined: July 01, 2006 |
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Shep fan since: 1958
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1684
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Comments:
I gleefully discovered 2 new CD sets in B&N the other day . (Don't be a Leaf and the X Random Factor) I couldn't believe after all this time, since the audio tape set of Shepherds Pie (I wore out 2 sets)... there would be New Shep stuff! As I listened to the first CD I browsed thru the insert. This website was mentioned on the 1st page...
WOWIE! A dream come true...I can sit down at the computer anytime I need a Jean Shepherd fix and WHAM! it's
1959 on Washington Square again (where my brother and I grew up).
We're curled up in our respective beds (I'm 13 he's 15)listening to Shep talk about bein' out on the lake with his Old Man catchin'crappies. I remember that broadcast before it was a part of a written down, stuctured, short story.As we listened, I could feel the fetid air, smell the oil floating on the water, and hear the Guys in the other boats out there in the dark! It was brilliant! I wonder how many other kids began to form thier sense of humor, thier vocabularies, the rhythm of thier speech, and their appreciation of the magic of words..layin in our beds... out there listening to Shep. Thank You for this site...There's not a lot of things that bring me such joy these days.
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Newman, Neil
Long Island, New York |
Joined: August 23, 2002 |
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Shep fan since: 1964
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 776
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Newman, Howard
Chicago, Illinois |
Joined: December 31, 2004 |
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Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1420
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Comments:
Like so many other fans I discovered Shep as an adolescent. His power seemed to be, in hindsight, the abilty to create a sense of true intimacy between us kids and this hip adult who was giving us the true scoop on how life worked, without expecting anything from us. He was the very essence of radio as a "hot" media that truly envolved and engaged the listener. Who even attempts to create the level of personal communciation that Jean Shepherd achieved for decades?
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Newton, Newton
Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
Joined: September 03, 2001 |
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Shep fan since: 2001
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 670
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Ng, Kuo Yen
San Antonio, Texas |
Joined: April 29, 2004 |
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Shep fan since: 1950
Discovered Shep:
Read one of his books
Guest No: 858
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Comments:
When the earth was young, I happened to buy "In God We Trust...", probably because of the religious reference.I'm sorry that I never heard, or knew of, Jean Shepherd's radio programs. San Antonio is hicksville, the sticks, we were the last to get sliced bread. On my crystal set, I'd regale myself with One Man's Family and Henry Aldrich and Stella Dallas. "The Christmas Story" came. It was one of few "perfect" movies, where the beginning, the middle and the end were all perfect, no weak spots, the characters were real to me. That includes Music Man with Robert Preston, A River Runs Through It, Maltese Falcon (Sidney Greenstreet's granddaughter lives here in San Antonio), African Queen. Then computers were invented by Al Gore and I discovered that Jean Shepherd was no longer with us. Archy and Mehitabel came in there somewhere. Just discovered your fine site this morning and will spend more time later checking it out. It's lunch time and I'm going to indulge in a chopped barbecue in a bun.
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Niblick, Laurie
Mount Arlington, New Jersey |
Joined: June 15, 2000 |
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Shep fan since: 1959
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 118
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Nichols, Paul
New York, New York |
Joined: April 29, 2003 |
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Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 957
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Comments:
Memories of Shepherd while gowing up include listening on a small transistor radio under the pillow, camping out in the backyard on a Saturday night and listening to the Limelight show and having the neighbors come over because they thought there was a party going on in the tent.
Once while attending a Catholic high school here the entire junior class used to listen to Shep. "Flick Lives" would appear scrawled on the blackboards, bulletin boards, etc. until one day when a teacher found what he thought was an obscene word on the board...a hasty Shep fan sort of combined the LI in "Flick" and it looked like a "U". The entire class received detention!
Little did Shep know that the internet would evolve when he first coined the phrase "Flick Lives", but look at how it has united Shep fans everywhere!!! Fantastich!
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Nichols, Jim
Charlotte, North Carolina |
Joined: January 01, 2006 |
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Shep fan since: 1980
Discovered Shep:
Saw his TV show
Guest No: 1591
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Comments:
I sure wish Jean could have seen his White Sox win the World Series. Sure miss his humor and wit.
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Nickel, Al
Pullman, Washington |
Joined: November 09, 2005 |
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Shep fan since: 1984
Discovered Shep:
Saw One of His Movies
Guest No: 1546
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Comments:
The first time I saw A Christmas Story as a kid I was hooked. As I grew I sought Jean’s work in Playboy on the radio and in his books. My birthday is in October and for the last 10+ years starting on my birthday I watch or listen to A Christmas Story daily (sometimes two or three times) until Christmas. Then I refuse to watch or listen to it until my birthday returns again. I have burned through 4 VHS tapes and 3 DVDs. I estimate I have seen the movie 996 times and still counting. From the roar for the lion to the end of the credits is very close to 90min and I use the movie as a timer form time to time. Many people do not understand why I would watch a movie so many times. If I have to explain it, then they don’t get it and never will. Hope you enjoy. “Flick? Flick who?”
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Nickerson, Ray
Jersey City, New Jersey |
Joined: August 16, 2001 |
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Shep fan since: 1960
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 662
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Nigro, Frank
Redondo Beach, California |
Joined: February 25, 2001 |
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Shep fan since: 1978
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 466
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Nirenberg, Walter
Rancho Santa Margarita, California |
Joined: October 16, 2003 |
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Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1071
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Comments:
Jim,
I LOVE YOUR WEBSITE!!! We grew up in Brooklyn in the 50's and 60's. My older brother was a Ham Radio nut and listening to Shep on WOR was a requirement in our house (right up there with watching Marx Bros. movies). Whenever I hear his theme song I can't wait for the "Ahhh" at the end (and I miss it if it's not there).
I must have read "In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash" a thousand times. I have a special love for "Wilbur Duckworth and the Magic Baton" since I played trombone in my High School band. Playing a brass instrument outside on those cold New York winter days was an experience not to be missed.
His use of metaphor was legendary. There's a description of an open-hearth worker who could bend red-hot steel in his bare hands. And whenever I look back on the dating disasters of my feckless youth, Shep is there to put it all into perspective.
I remember one show where he made three lists each containing ten corporate sounding words like "Amalgamated" and "Executive". He would then make a three digit number and look up the corresponding words. The three word phrases would then go into a business letter which amazingly enough, sounded pretty good.
Thanks again Jim!
Walter Nirenberg
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Nitkin, Don
Londonderry, Vermont |
Joined: December 30, 2002 |
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Shep fan since: 1955
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 782
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Nitkin, Donald
Londonderry, Vermont |
Joined: March 06, 2003 |
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Shep fan since: 1959
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 904
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Comments:
I loved Shep from the very beginning. I ran down and bought the first four tickets sold when he came to The University of Pennsylvania one year. I got to meet him there. I read everything he wrote in Playboy. Recently, I obtained the CD's from link on this site's home page. I now listen almost every night to his broadcasts. "A Christmas Story" is required viewing every year at my house.
He was truly one of a kind!
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Nodine, Harry
Los Angeles, California |
Joined: March 25, 2003 |
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Shep fan since: 1970
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 926
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Comments:
There was the wheel... and then there is Jean Shepherd.
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Nolan, Rob
Washington, New Jersey |
Joined: December 23, 2000 |
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Shep fan since: 1965
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 359
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Norris, Don
Las Vegas, Nevada |
Joined: April 18, 2006 |
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Shep fan since: 1960
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1657
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Comments:
Surely I am not the only one who remembers Shep writing for Mad Magazine back in the late fifties or early sixties? Before he was finally on the radio in Boston, I was a nightly devotee, being able to pick him up on WOR at night because many of the local stations near the same frequency signed off early in those days. I was hooked (then again those were days when people actually listened to the radio at night, especially students).
After his short stories in Playboy and then the books later in the sixties, I got a lot of my friends listening to him. Later, I introduced my kids when they were old enough to appreciate him.
I was actually living in Cleveland when Christmas Story was being filmed and I saw him at Higbee's one day.
I miss him and still talk about him often. Of course I watch Christmas Story at least two or three times every Christmas. Even my wife has grudginly leaarned to appreciate Shep. i plan to introduce him to my grandchildren when they get just a bit older.
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Notaro, Rosemarie
Orlando, Florida |
Joined: February 26, 2005 |
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Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1441
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Comments:
I was a fan of Jean's since my preteen years. I listened to him regularly and was enchanted by his story telling. When I was 18 I went regularly to the Limelight and got his autographed copy of "In God We Trust All Other pay Cash".
When he left WOR was the last time I listened to him and had not kept up with other of his turns in his career.
In 2000 I learned he had died in Florida not far from where I live and maybe I'll go and leave flowers (but I think he was cremated).
He was a big influence in my life and I will always be grateful to him.
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novalany, steve
rahway, New Jersey |
Joined: March 31, 2004 |
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Shep fan since: 1960
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1242
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Comments:
It was because of the original napster that I first got the idea to search for Jean Shephers radio show recordings. The original Napster was a great place to find obscure recordings that would never be offered for sale by the conglomerates
What A great site this is, and what a tribute to Jean Shepherd, the man that I most associate with the radio as I was growing up in the 60's.
I loved Shep and saw a number of his live shows also.
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Nowakowski, Frank
Cascade, Montana |
Joined: November 10, 2000 |
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Shep fan since: 1961
Discovered Shep:
Guest No: 287
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Nuba, Bobby
Hewlett, LI, New York |
Joined: April 21, 2008 |
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Shep fan since: 1963
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 2757
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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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Nulman, Bob
Wayne, New Jersey |
Joined: December 29, 2005 |
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Shep fan since: 1958
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 1582
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Comments:
In 1958, I discovered Shep on WOR from my bedside radio in Fall River, MA. From the first show, I was hooked!
In the mid-80s, when I was the mayor of Clinton, NJ, I got to go to dinner twice with Jean. The dinners were just prior to his concert appearances at the Clinton Historical Museum.
He was charmingly sour and loved to come across as the benign curmudgeon. Interestingly, he didn't like to talk about his radio days and seemed to downplay the WOR stuff as ethereal ephemera that no longer existed and was no longer relevant. His concerts were pure genius.
I can still remember him on WOR playing his cranium by knocking his knuckles on his head and forming noted with his mouth as he accompanied a record. I proudly learned his technique.
There will never be another Jean Shepherd! I miss him.
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nunez, joseph
bangor, Maine |
Joined: December 24, 2007 |
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Shep fan since: 1961
Discovered Shep:
On the Radio
Guest No: 2652
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Comments:
as a kid i'd listen to him with a transitor radio under my pillow.
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