Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Jean Shepherd Tonight: "The Great Ice Cream War of Hammond"

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Another performance of Jean Shepherd's "theme song," Eduard Strauss's Bahn frei! (Clear Track) polka, by the Royal Philharmononic under Peter Guth, quicker and more rambunctious than the lovely Boskovsky-Vienna Phil one we heard last night:






TOMORROW in JEAN SHEPHERD TONIGHT: Another of his radio monologues


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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3 Comments:

At 6:44 AM, Anonymous Mr. Capoeira Sydney said...

What a neat post! Looking forward for more post from you. Thank you for sharing!

 
At 10:59 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ken, the video here is The Attic again. I want to hear about the ice cream war!

 
At 6:04 PM, Blogger KenInNY said...

Oh no, sorry! I just discovered this. Darn, I could swear I actually tested that link.

Oh well, I've inserted the ice-cream war clip, and will repost it along with Thursday's installment.

Abashedly,
Ken

 

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