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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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


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:

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

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  2. Anonymous10:59 AM

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

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  3. 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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