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Mother's Day Show / Australia #1 - Shep in Australia
Airdate: Saturday - May 8, 1965

Limelight Show
Original Airing

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First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

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Show Description

It's the day before mother's day and Shep talks about calling home to mom. After talking about how no one in the city talks to one another, he side tracks to making phone calls in a phone booth - like calling the weather, just to have someone talk to you. He then tells about finding phone numbers written on the phone booth wall and his experience in dialing one of them - a girl named Marie. After several self-aborted attemps he finally lets it ring and a guy answers. "Marie ain't here - are you calling from that phone booth at the H&H? (Horn and Hardart) In the second hour Shep talks about his recent trip to Australia. He read 7 books on Australia before leaving. Talking about how the people adapt to their environments, he pokes fun at Secaucus, New Jersey, saying those people have adapted by having skinny nose. (Due to all the pig farms that once existed there.) He decribes the flight to Australia and the countires he encountered along the way. At the airport he observes that all the souveniers in the gift shop were mostly made in Brooklyn. Between Darwin and Sidney he explains there are vast areas of desert where no man has ever set foot. He describes the kangaroos running freely around Sidney and the sharks swimming shoulder to shoulder just off shore. Sundays in Australia, the entire continent is turned off. He talks about the holidays there, the food they eat and a visit he made to a private home.

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Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	Travel	April 18, 1965	Australia

Record: 357 / ID: 19650508L0357

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	Date	Title
	May 8, 1965 Recno: 357	Mother's Day Show / Australia #1 - Shep in Australia	Original Airing

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Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	May 06, 2003

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Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
Limelight 1	LL-03	Cassette

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Database ID #:	19650508L0357	Sponsors up to date:	No
Record Created:		Sources up to date:	Yes
Last Update:	None	Station ID up to date:	No
Show Redated From: See Dating Notes		Engineers up to date:	No
Music up to date:	No	Instruments up to date:	No
Description up to date:	Yes

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May 06, 2003

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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
Limelight 1	LL-03	Cassette	0 Running Time: 0

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	Recordee			¹ Shortened Theme: 55 seconds ² Audibly Dated: By recordee or other ³ Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines ⁴ Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
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David Goldin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: The Jean Shepherd Show. May 8, 1965. WOR, New York. Sustaining. The program originates from "The Limelight," New York City. Mother's Day in Greenwich Village, living on the air shaft. Dialing that girl's phone number, written on the phone booth wall. Descriptions of his recent trip to Australia. Jean Shepherd. 1:44:31. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
Source ref number: 70986
Station: WOR

FHC / JSP

Running Time: 1:49:35

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 05 08_L0357_030 LL Australia - Phonebooth Marie.mp3
Source filename: 1965 05 08 1 Phonebooth Marie LL Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source description: 1965 05 08 2 Australia LL Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source ref number: 2g, 12
Station: WOR

Max - Everything Sets

Running Time: 1:49:35

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 05 08_L0357_601 LL Australia - Phonebooth Marie.mp3
Source filename: 1965_05_08_Phonebooth_Marie_1st_Hr.mp3
Source description: 1965_05_08_Australia aka Mother's Day_2nd_Hr.mp3
Source set: Everything Set Vol 08
Station: WOR

Schmidco

Running Time: 1:46:27

Inventory Name: 1965 05 08_L0357_022-600_Limelight_Set_1-LL-03 Mothers Day - Australia.mp3
Source set: Limelight 1
Source ref number: LL-03
Station: WOR

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Running Time: 1:49:35

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 05 08_L0357_995 LL Australia - Phonebooth Marie.mp3
Source filename: 1965_05_08_Phonebooth_Marie_1st_Hr.mp3
Source description: 1965_05_08_Australia_2nd_Hr.mp3
Station: WOR

Mass Backwards

Running Time: 1:06:39

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 05 08_L0357_500_M2003-05-06_LL_mothers_day.mp3
Station: WBAI

Comments: Mass Backwards recording - 2nd hour following a short piece from Shepherd's Clinton concert.

"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975