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Search for Tradition / Brand Names
Airdate: Monday - December 30, 1974

WOR Show
Original Airing

Last Update: 04-26-2020

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

There, I told you I would find ya you crumb. And that concludes tonight's salute to the Sominex family. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Pete Delaney - 04-26-2020 ]   
  The Sominex Family
The  Sominex somg  ( Note 1)
Ads on the phone
A Family's Whoopemobile legacy
The Pepsi Generation
Canned Ravioli
ALPO
Search for tradition
Salvation through brand names

A BRAND NAME FAMILY IS A GOOD BET
BRAND NAMES  are our heritage ( Note 2)
The  Need  for a reassuring word
IF you cant believe in Prestone  anti freeze what can you believe in?
UTOPiA ( Note 3)
A Disabled Electra proves Buick's ad wrong
Mary Jane, Tootsie rolls, Butterfingers

>From  Nash to AMC
Famous  company's great FOUNDERS
The DeSoto is gone
Her classmate was one of the TWO GUYS from Harrison
Pepsi jingle better known than the Star Spangled Banner
M-O-T-E
The Wonder Bread of it all
Roll's Royce saved

The clock radio in the Company K  barracks that every day would turn
on at 5:15 AM to the  St.George Hotel jingle.

NOTE 1 - Shep doesn't sing the entire Sominex song which goes:
                 Take Sominex tonight. and sleep. Safe and restful sleep, sleep sleep.

NOTE 2  There is a  video that shows all of the trademarks and logos
mentioned in this great bit at the Facebook IM A FAN OF JEAN SHEPHERD
video page

NOTE 3 - The definition of UTOPIA - an imagined place or state of
things in which everything is perfect.      
      

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - 04-26-2020 ]   
  The "Sominex Family" and other commercials. "If you can't believe in Prestone, what can you believe in?" Industrial icons of Ameria. Listening to the commercial for the Hotel St. George, while in the barracks on alert.      
      

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 15:07	This is WOR friends in New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 11:41	General Tire
• 12:41	New York Magazine
• 1345	Metropolitan Museum of Art
• 33:55	Di Gel
• 34:56	Dell Books
• 35:55	Public Service Announcement (PSA)	Car Warranty Tips

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:19	Wonderama Kids Cheering
• 09:32; 15:40	Finale

Misc

Engineer and Staff in Booth

Instruments Played

Rating


• Herb Squire

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Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

Date	Title
December 30, 1974 Recno: 1811	Search for Tradition / Brand Names Notes:	Original Airing
January 19, 1975 Recno: 6843	Search for Tradition / Brand Names Notes:	WBJC Synd Replay

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Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	January 08, 2020

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Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group C	107Ab	Cassette

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975