Jean Shepherd Tonight: Part 1 of "Ham Radio"
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One more performance of Jean Shepherd's theme music, Eduard Strauss's Bahn frei! (Clear Track) polka, by the Czechoslovak Radio (CSR) Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava) under Ondrej Lenard:AND NOW PART 1 OF "HAM RADIO"
TOMORROW in JEAN SHEPHERD TONIGHT: Part 2 of "Ham Radio"
THURBER TONIGHT (including BENCHLEY, WILL CUPPY, WOLCOTT GIBBS, RING LARDNER, BOB AND RAY, E. B. WHITE, and JEAN SHEPHERD TONIGHT): Check out the series to date
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Labels: Eduard Strauss, Jean Shepherd
posted by KenInNY @ 9:00 PM
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More memories. Though I found Shepherd ultimately repetitive, I loved listening to him in small bursts over WOR, back in the late 1960s, when he was on around 10 PM. Had great personality, and was a fantastic writer. Glad to see you're bringing him back. But then, you have exquisite taste in humor, judging by the fact that I've agreed with everything you've posted.
You raise an interesting point, Barry, about the repetitiveness. Shep was, after all, filling an hour of radio time five nights a week for the run of his show(s), and of course while he had listeners who had been with him through many campaigns, he also had the right to assume that most of his listeners hadn't heard all of his talk. And of course even in the repetitions there were infinite variations -- I think of the comedy equivalent of the oral traditions of the ancient bards.
Next week we're going to take a look at Shep on the printed page. As I mentioned already, his tale-telling seems to have translated surprisingly well to print, and I think it's because he had been telling versions of these stories for so long that they had already taken on a fair amount of structure.
Oh yes, thanks for the kind words about the series.
Cheers,
Ken
Hi, Ken. Thanks for posting these two parts. I never really got to hear Jean Shepherd, since I grew up in Detroit.
Are you a ham radio operator? I've had my ticket since 1971. I just started a website to collect ham radio stories like this one - HamRadioStoryProject.Com. If you have a ham radio story to tell, please feel free to register and share your story with us.
73, <--ham radio talk for "best regards"
Dan KB6NU
Hi, Dan!
No, sorry to disappoint you but I know nothing about ham radio. For me that's one of the wonders of Jean Shepherd's story-telling art: making me care about the way he cares about something I don't know anything about. I'm perfectly happy, then, to grant him his unexpected final triumph in the story.
Thanks for commenting.
Cheers,
Ken
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