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Folk Tales of the American Road
Airdate: Monday - November 1, 1965

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

I am in this phone booth see. . .

Show Description

Phone booths - getting in touch with mother or friends. Clling Marie - A number on a phone booth catches his interest. After dialing several time and chickening out, he goes through with it. It is answered by someone in the San Francisco Control Tower. "You calling from that phone booth at the Fairmont Hotel - that's six times this week!" Franklin Indiana - Looking for an open garage at 2:15 in the morning. Iona Pearl Bodkin - A neighbor who lived briefly on the block. He and Bruner Jr never looked at her the same way after one day her dress blew up around her neck exposing her black underwear. Folklore of the open road - the phantom rig. Worked on the road riding shotgun in a big Reo truck for about 3 weeks. Driver tells him about driving out of Wheeling Folklore of the sea - talks about myths on the sea amongst navy personel.

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Comments

• 55" show recorded 10/26 for KFRC-FM San Francisco The song Shep sings in the shower - the singing commercial for "Mission Bell Wine"

Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	No Commercials or Commercials Cut

Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	Tiger Rag
•	Spellbound

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Bob Considine

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	People		Bodkin, Iona Pearl
•	General Topics		Kid Stories
•	People		Bruner, Ralf

Record: 450 / ID: 19651101W0450

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	November 1, 1965 Recno: 450	Folk Tales of the American Road	Original Airing

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Set Name	Show #	Media
WOR Master Tape Set	MAST-01	Cassette

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Database Record Status

Database ID #:	19651101W0450	Sponsors up to date:	Yes
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:	Yes	Instruments up to date:	No
Description up to date:	Yes

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Notes

Source: Jim Clavin
[jim] Goldindex has this show mis-dated as 10/16/65
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Schmidco Sets - 1 found

Set Name	Show #	Media	File Name	Source
WOR Master Tape Set	MAST-01	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
	This copy used for summary time references		Inventory File Name coding explained

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David Goldin

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: The Jean Shepherd Show. October 16, 1965. WOR, New York. Participating sponsors. Memories of Franklin, Indiana; looking for a garage at 2:00 A. M. in the dead of winter. The legend of the phantom truck. Jean Shepherd, Dick Cavett (commercial spokesman: Ballantine), Mel Brooks (commercial spokesman: Ballantine). 45:01. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
Source ref number: 79744
Station: WOR

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Running Time: 54:52

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 11 01_W0450_601 Phone Booth.mp3
Station: WOR

Schmidco

Running Time: 52:52

Recordee:
519 - WOR Engineer

Inventory Name: 1965 11 01_W0450_022_600_519 Folk Tales of the American Road.mp3
Source description: Folk Tales of the American Road
Source set: WOR Master Tape Set
Source ref number: MAST-01
Station: WOR

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Running Time: 54:52

Available on Internet

Inventory Name: 1965 11 01_W0450_030 Phone Booth WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source filename: 1965 11 01 Phone Booth WOR Jean Shepherd.mp3
Source ref number: 13
Station: WOR

Gary Hines

NEED A COPY OF THIS RECORDING Source description: 11-1-65 MS01 Folk Tales of the American Road C-163
Station: WOR

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"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