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Robert Service Poems
Airdate: Thursday - October 10, 1974

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

James M. Barry as a matter of fact, the playwright. . .

Show Description

Shep reads from Robert Service: The Quitter The Skeptic The Atavist The Headliner and the Breadliner

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - - ]   
  The program is preceded by Lester Smith reading the news. Shep reads poems by Robert Service; "The Quitter," "The Skeptic," "The Atavist" and others. Unusually, Shepherd reads the poems to inappropriate music.      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
14:45	This is WOR New York speaking of the atavistic you. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
15:49	Gramercy Park Clothes
16:00	Newsday - L.I. Newspaper
17:03	General Tire
18:03	Alfa Romeo
18:58	JGE Appliances
39:50	TV Guide	Rhoda
40:50	Broadway Play	Scopino

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
06:17	Moonlight On the Ganges
13:07	Humoresque
20:06	Liebestraum

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Jews Harp

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		October 10, 1974	Robert Service Poems	Original Airing

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Set Name	Show #	Media
Series 100 Group A	101Aa	Cassette

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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