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Last Summary Update: 10-08-2026

It's My Material
Airdate: Thursday - October 11, 1962

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(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

Well, the thing that you have to do is to learn technic. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Gary Hines - - ]   
  It's My Material, Saturdays are special, wrote 'Look Charlie' 58 play off Broadway, pet cemetery      
  

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - - ]   
  Being bugged has reached an artform.
All-straight plays and Hitler musical (shades of The Producers!)
Guitr music
Ladies Home Journal reports Saturdays Are Special-Insurance Ad

This is WOR, speaking of Umbrella men.
Guitar continues, more Saturday story

Been on in NY since 1954,on in the East since 1950. I use the air for
my own ends, not to transmit other people's ideas. What I do on the
radio is officially mine, I am working as hard as any writer.
Shep a character in a book, using his actual quotes. Also ripped off
in The New Yorker artoons. Listeners should try to spot Shep's work
ripped off by others.

Famous TV personality gets into Time Mag for best quote, taken
directly from Shep's show a week ago! Night club comic steals Shep's
stuff for Ed Sullivan show.
Night club comics encouraged to repeat best bits, but radio performers
shouldn't repeat anything they have previously said.

Ed: eng or in studio.

A book about men going off to war, taken straight from Shep's show.
You can't copyright what you do on the radio, but you can copyright a
book.

The Alienation problem.

We believe that you can do anything with the right technique.

All machines now have names. Machines develop human traits. (Predicts
AI to som extent)

John Sherwood in The Evening Star. He reads about a pet cemetery, with
better eulogies than the human cemetery next door. A mongrel is not a
mongrel, but a blend!
(some kind of quartet music under all this)

Show just ends with theme, no real close.      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
	This is WOR speaking of friendly umbrella men and uh we'll be here until who knows when in New York I have a suspicion the station is going to be going in the thirty fifth century and there'll be a Gambling.

Commercials (All times approximate)

Not Determined yet

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
07:06	Suite castellana I Fandanguillo
09:26	Suite castellana II Arada
13:32	Suite castellana III Danza
14:43	Capricho Arabe (3)
36:28	Dayung Kihan
37:16	Unknown - Violin classical	1st Cut
40:18	Unknown - Violin classical	2nd Cut

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
01:10	Ed Beaty

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Echo Chamber

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
	Stage Shows		Look Charlie

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		October 11, 1962	It's My Material	Original Airing

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