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Working Thanksgiving
Airdate: Thursday - November 23, 1961

WOR Show
Original Airing

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Last Update: 11-23-2025

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

You notice this place is like a tomb. . .
Opening of show is missing - these are first words of the available recording.

Show Description

Radio keeps flubbing along - Shep talks about having to work the holidays on radio and one that he listened to for 3 hours one night in Chicago - Who was it?.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 18:14	Oh, speking of love, this is WOR AM and FM New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 18:19	TV Guide	Cut
• 18:22	Winston Cigarettes
• 18:47	Esquire Magazine
• 19:38	WOR Christmas Fund

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 27:13	Banjoreno
• 33:42	You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any Love
• 36:00	Leyenda

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 28:48	Ed

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

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

	Date	Title
	November 23, 1961 Recno: 3818	Working Thanksgiving	Original Airing

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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