Couldn't agree more. Used to listen to Shep when growing up in the 60s and 70s and it's great to hear these old broadcasts again. Except for baseball and documentaries, I rarely watch TV anymore. See it as pretty much a waste of time.
I discovered Shep late one night while twisting the AM radio dial searching for Jocko, The Ace From Outer Space in 1958 and got hooked and recommended the show to some friends
I don't care that the sound fades in and out, or that there are imperfections in the tape. I just listened to this with my phone next to my ear, like the AM radioes we all listened on, real low like I used to listen to Jean over 50 years ago, and I was completely engulfed by the entire show. The blintzes, straws. And now I have a burning desire for milk.
Flick Lives, Excelsior You Fathead! Boy does this bring back memories... Every night at 10:15 listening through a little transistor radio hidden under my pillow savoring his stories. Sometimes I’d fall asleep halfway through and wake up a couple of hours later with Barry Farber talking but most nights he kept my attention until that wonderful theme song ended the show. A supurb storyteller over the air or through his writings in Playboy and books.
Back in those days i would listen to Lindsay Nelson, Bob Murphy And Ralph Kiner (WOR voices of the Mets) with an Orion pocket transistor my grandfather gave me one birthday. Then afterwards i would marvel that, late in the evening, if meteorological conditions were right, i could pick up WBT, Wheeling, West Virginia (i was in central Jersey). It was one of those "searching for WBT" nights that i came across some guy with a great storytelling voice, and he and his buddies while exploring, came across some sort of electrical generating device and each one took turns shocking each other, and (jokingly of course) said they built up such an immunity over a period of time that they could handle a 110v wall socket shock like it was nothing. My father would laughingly relate another of Shep's stories about getting his car painted at a discount paint shop (Jerseyites probably could figure out which one) and when he went to pick up the car, he said that wasn't his car because it wasn't Baja Green, but Goat Vomit green.
He has the most wonderful reading voice...he was, of course, also an accomplished author. His story about a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas and his seldom seen Secret Flight of the Blue Assed Buzzard are classics.
We will never know who threw the blintzes out the window. Was it John Windgate? Barry Farber? Maybe a newsguy like Henry Gladstone ("The Commodore") or Lester Smith. (Harry Hennessey just seemed like too much of a gentleman to let anyone get to him, especially over rotten blintzes.) Maybe it was a sports announcer, say, Stan Lomax or Don Criqui. We'll never know.
I would gladly shut off cable and put a radio in the living room if this caliber of entertainment still existed
Couldn't agree more. Used to listen to Shep when growing up in the 60s and 70s and it's great to hear these old broadcasts again. Except for baseball and documentaries, I rarely watch TV anymore. See it as pretty much a waste of time.
I would just shut off cable but my wife watches it.
I haven't owned a TV in over 20 years...
SAME!!! ❤️
I discovered Shep late one night while twisting the AM radio dial searching for Jocko, The Ace From Outer Space in 1958 and got hooked and recommended the show to some friends
I don't care that the sound fades in and out, or that there are imperfections in the tape. I just listened to this with my phone next to my ear, like the AM radioes we all listened on, real low like I used to listen to Jean over 50 years ago, and I was completely engulfed by the entire show. The blintzes, straws. And now I have a burning desire for milk.
Amazing.. thank you for sharing 💖🥰
Shep is wonderful!!! 📻
Love😊
Shep’s the Best !!
Living Vicariously Through the Time capsules,
Of WOR AM -FM NYC Thanx ...
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" Good Evening Slobs..Hello all you Losers!" Classic Shep intro😂
Flick Lives, Excelsior You Fathead! Boy does this bring back memories... Every night at 10:15 listening through a little transistor radio hidden under my pillow savoring his stories. Sometimes I’d fall asleep halfway through and wake up a couple of hours later with Barry Farber talking but most nights he kept my attention until that wonderful theme song ended the show. A supurb storyteller over the air or through his writings in Playboy and books.
Back in those days i would listen to Lindsay Nelson, Bob Murphy And Ralph Kiner (WOR voices of the Mets) with an Orion pocket transistor my grandfather gave me one birthday. Then afterwards i would marvel that, late in the evening, if meteorological conditions were right, i could pick up WBT, Wheeling, West Virginia (i was in central Jersey). It was one of those "searching for WBT" nights that i came across some guy with a great storytelling voice, and he and his buddies while exploring, came across some sort of electrical generating device and each one took turns shocking each other, and (jokingly of course) said they built up such an immunity over a period of time that they could handle a 110v wall socket shock like it was nothing. My father would laughingly relate another of Shep's stories about getting his car painted at a discount paint shop (Jerseyites probably could figure out which one) and when he went to pick up the car, he said that wasn't his car because it wasn't Baja Green, but Goat Vomit green.
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He has the most wonderful reading voice...he was, of course, also an accomplished author. His story about a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas and his seldom seen Secret Flight of the Blue Assed Buzzard are classics.
I guess you could say there was a Blintz Blitz!😊
We will never know who threw the blintzes out the window. Was it John Windgate? Barry Farber? Maybe a newsguy like Henry Gladstone ("The Commodore") or Lester Smith. (Harry Hennessey just seemed like too much of a gentleman to let anyone get to him, especially over rotten blintzes.) Maybe it was a sports announcer, say, Stan Lomax or Don Criqui. We'll never know.
Sheep pioneer talk radio rush owes a lot to shep both masters of managed extemporizing
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