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American Dream Sales Pitch - Hellbound Train
Airdate: Tuesday - November 2, 1965

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

Hello there, I see a little note here. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Ken Applegate - - ]   
  Graffiti GOD is dead, signed Nietzsche - Nietzsche is dead, signed GOD
Note from a spy in the Metropolitan Opera House men's room 
Humble Pie with a Cardboard Crust
Insistent Salesmen
The Texas Cowboy Poem
Why we have a cynical culture
Non-conformism standardized a la USA
The human as a machine      
  

Comments

• Rudolf Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972. A strong leader, he took complete responsibility for running the company.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
14:03	Speaking of Suburbanites - this is WOR AM and FM New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
14:30	Ballantine Beer
15:49	Elecktra Records
17:45	Rover 2000
19:44	Movie Promotion	The Face of Fu Man Chu
21:05	Electronic Workshop	KLH

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
03:10; 04:05; 07:16	Unknown - Banjo Music 02
08:18; 12:23	Steam Locomotives And Some Diesel Locomotives	This is entire side of album - eng apparantly dropped needle somewhere towards end
09:29	Ballet Mecanique
28:26	You Turn Me On
30:58	Sally Go Round the Roses
33:20	Drums A-Go-Go

Needs to be ID'd

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		November 2, 1965	American Dream Sales Pitch - Hellbound Train	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Mass Backwards	November 09, 2004
Mass Backwards	October 02, 2007
YesterdayUSA	September 27, 2008

The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1965 Set 6	164a	Cassette

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