HEY!!! If you're a Jean Shepherd fan....or have insomnia

[PCIntern]

and you know who you are!!!!

http://shepcast.blogspot.com/

Go to the above link...go to the gigadial link on the right side...

(It is a good idea to have Firefox and the "down then all" tool/utility)

You can download almost 1400 shows!!!!

I have a collection of almost all of these and this person managed to get them and some others on a website. I listen to Shep via an mp3 player and rechargeable AAA batteries all night, so if I wake up, he's in the middle of a monologue, and I can either just listen, or start the show from scratch with one easy click on the player. It solved my insomnia issues by allowing me to quietly listen on a single ear bud, not awakening Mrs. Intern who would brain me if I made any noise at 1:45 AM, I almost always fall back to sleep in a matter of minutes or if not, I'm entertained by a genius.

Warning: these shows are addictive and that WOR as a station is/was pretty RW, although in later years, Shep himself calmed down a bit...listening to some of the news broadcasts (which occasionally sneak thru) on WOR though is funny at times...lots of red-baiting and anti-Castro stuff ("The bearded Dictator"). but the shows themselves are gems and he is a one-of-a-kind.

[Mz Pip]

1. Thanks for the link

I will listen to these. I loved the old black and white shows that were made with his narration. The one about the 4th of July was so funny I nearly choke everytime I see it. It's been years. My cousin has a collection of old VHS tapes of the shows. I think they were broadcast on PBS a gasillion years ago.

[Captain Hilts]

13. The one about dating Polish girls was good too. "She introduced you to the priest, don't

you know what that means???"

[oregonjen]

2. Thanks for the link!

I think of my brother when I hear Jean Shepherd. He used to listen to him on the radio.
Love his storytelling! A Christmas Story is one of my family's favorite movies! :hi:

[Captain Hilts]

3. Oh, my...I LOVED his radio show as a kid. Late night, WOR New York...nt

[Po_d Mainiac]

4. Shep, live oysters and a roller coaster CLASSIC! n/t

[Warpy]

5. Jean Shepherd kept me reasonably sane

while I existed in NC, waiting to get out of high school and waiting to squirrel enough money to blow town. In fact, late night AM radio in general kept me sane, or what passed for it.

I remember scandalizing people when I was a kid, buying Playboy because Shep had a story in it.

I think my dad enjoyed the airbrushed naked women.

[winstars]

6. WOW!!!!

I would listen to him every night at like 9pm on WOR in NYC... Sometimes KO reminds me of him a whole lot. Really

[Captain Hilts]

8. I heard him in RI, CT, DC, VA. nt

[grasswire]

22. Keith has definitely taken a lot of Shepherd for his own

The cadence, the writing, the wicked humor. I hear it nearly every night in him.

[PCIntern]

27. KO says, "Keep your knees loose."

That's Shep's...

KO is a cross between Murrow and Shepherd...and a couple others. Joe Pyne?

[GoCubsGo]

30. Monty Python.

Keith is Keith, but yeah, there's definitely the influence of Murrow, Shepherd and Python there. I dare say there's some George Carlin influence, too.

[Captain Hilts]

7. At night, WOR covered a huge portion of the East Coast. nt

[Warpy]

9. Late night was when you also got to hear great blues

and other music that required taste from bored overnight jockeys who played what they liked when the suits were asleep.

It's also how I discovered Garner Ted Armstrong, which I thought was a vicious satire of all the local Baptist preachers and the tent preachers that made the rounds of NC in warmer weather. Imagine my shock when I found out that not only was he dead serious, but that he had enough believers and contributors to keep him in Cadillacs and pinkie rings.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. I used to listen to him too.

IIRC, the show started at 10:00 p.m., Eastern time. The theme song is running in my mind right now. That brings back some memories. I used to do AM radio DXing. Thanks.

[Captain Hilts]

11. Yep. 10pm. And that crazy ass theme song. Like yesterday.

[Captain Hilts]

12. Anyone else here listen to Larry Glick on WBZ?

[bananas]

14. And interviewed by Long John Nebel and Candy Jones

Thanks!

[TNDemo]

15. Know where to find The Fourth of July and Other Great Disasters?

We saw that in the early 1980s and really liked it but I have not been able to find it anywhere.

[silverweb]

16. Woahhhh... my mother would go nuts!

She used to listen to Jean Shepherd all the time. She does not have an ipod and wouldn't know what to do with one if she had it. She does, however, have a good CD player. She hasn't had much to laugh about in recent years and I know she'd love this.

Do you know how to write a podcast to a CD? I'd love to give it to her for Christmas. I'm not even sure, though, that my laptop can write a CD. I know my company desktop can't.

HEY! Maybe she'd even stop listening to Glenn Beck all the time if she has CDs with the old Jean Shepherd shows!

Technical help/advice needed here...!

[Captain Hilts]

17. This came two years too late for my mother who was a real fan. nt

[silverweb]

18. I'm so sorry for your loss.

My mom turned 85 this fall and she's still taking care of my dad, who sometimes knows who she is and sometimes doesn't.

I'd LOVE to send her these shows, but I have to figure out how to get them on CD for her.

[Captain Hilts]

19. Ask on the computer/tech page on DU....That can be very helpful. nt

[silverweb]

20. Excellent idea.

Thanks!

[catzies]

23. That's pretty easy. Get the mp3s and rip them into Windows Media Player

then burn them onto a CD for your mom.

Thanks to Napster back in the day, my mom has her favorite Dr. Demento and I have my Beatles Fan Club Christmas records.

[silverweb]

24. Fantastic.

Now I just have to get some blank CDs and figure out if my laptop can burn them. I honestly don't know. If it can't, I'll just pay someone else to do it.

Thanks for helping this somewhat tech-challenged one! :hi:

[bleever]

21. Thank you thank you!

Awesome.

[RufusTFirefly]

25. Shepherd overlapped at WOR with my heroes, Bob and Ray

Got any recommended Shepherd routines for a seasoned Bob and Ray fan?

[Captain Hilts]

31. Did you listen to Edward and Peguine Fitzgerald? nt

[RufusTFirefly]

33. Nope. I didn't grow up in New York. I'm just a huge Bob and Ray fan.

I know a lot of their material from a lot of different eras, including the WOR one. I know less about the context. They give passing mention to John Gambling and Henry Gladstone, but not Shepherd.

[Berry Cool]

35. You say you didn't grow up in New York. Drat.

Between your professed love of Shepherd and Bob & Ray and your Groucho avatar (were the eyebrows a hint?), I was wondering whether you were Keith Olbermann in disguise. Damn! :-)

[RufusTFirefly]

38. Haha. Sorry to disappoint

I think I may actually know Bob and Ray's routines as well as Keith does though!

[Danascot]

26. I used to love reading his stories

I never knew he had a radio show. Thanks for the tip. I'll check them out.

Wanda Hickey & the Bumpus hounds will crack me up forever!

[PCIntern]

34. He has a great story about that...

he was involved with Ed Fansher(sp?) who founded The village Voice, and one day a guy came up to them at the H&H and thanked them for their work in the Voice and didn't mention the radio show. shep loved that...he really hated the show...

[musette_sf]

39. by "H&H"

I presume you mean the late great Horn & Hardart?

[bedazzled]

28. the bear missed the train - and now he's walkin'

i used to listen on WOR too. he even had
records. anybody remember "the preparation
h man"?

[PCIntern]

29. Decent biography called

"Excelsior, you fathead"

Not great, lotsa holes and obvious errors, but better than nothing...

[bedazzled]

32. i didn't know that he had a biography - they even have it in our library!

thanks so much!

[dysfunctional press]

36. for people who aren't familiar with the name- jean shepherd narrated the movie 'a christmas story'..

which was based on his stories and anecdotes.

[Biker13]

37. Thank You...

For taking the time to share this! You've made my night!