Barry Farber Show
Airdate:
Wednesday - October 21, 1981
Radio Guest
Last Update: 10-02-2024
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Show Description
[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - 10-02-2024 ]
Barry Farber Show with Jean Shepherd - Fistful of Fig Newtons Tour
No intro - Shep gives most abstract show as audition - and it worked - they loved it!
Wright Brothers couldn't keep new bike on the ground!
Shep's origins with talk radio.
Music break (theme??) - 4:34
Barry intro - Fistful Fig Newtons
Shep in Who's Who of American Women
Nut jobs they knew.
Short Wave explosion.
WMCA ID 16:02
Reintro - Shep on PBS Playhouse
Great American 4th of July - praise for Matt Dillon & James Broderick
American Rituals - Dish Rag Chain Letter
No greater thrill than hearing an audience laugh at you stuff.
Pinnacle of career - Carnegie Hall
Break & ID 28:05
reintro - Songs Shep sang (gap at 28:43)
GAP - Ham Radio-Nazis.
Timing the end of his radio show. "I am a pro!" Compares himself to Tom Seaver.
Remembering Long John - cuts off in story 37:46
GAP - pickup reintro - Farber remembers Shep in 1956 on WOR.
Working in the mills as a kid - shooting TV show in the Open Hearth
The return of Watts - loser of the neighborhood, turns full-bird colonel.
Creeping Meatballism - John Foster Dulles was a listener - gave the phrase to Eisenhower for a speech!! 48:20
Break & reintro restart 48:25
Shep the Adventurer - Scuba Diving, Headhunter Trip
Fired and goes into hiding in Maine
Bath Mat story - 1:01:01
Back - Candy for Headhunters, JFK Assassination - Shep preempted! He was pissed!
Claims to have "thousands" of tapes!
Farber's first week at WOR - Shep advises him to just be himself and cut loose.
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Airdate History
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