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Last Summary Update: 11-23-2025

Working Thanksgiving
Airdate: Thursday - November 23, 1961

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

You notice this place is like a tomb. . .
Opening of show is missing - these are first words of the available recording.

Show Description

Radio keeps flubbing along - Shep talks about having to work the holidays on radio and one that he listened to for 3 hours one night in Chicago - Who was it?.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 18:14	Oh, speking of love, this is WOR AM and FM New York. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 18:19	TV Guide	Cut
• 18:22	Winston Cigarettes
• 18:47	Esquire Magazine
• 19:38	WOR Christmas Fund

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 27:13	Banjoreno
• 33:42	You Can't Get Lovin' Where There Ain't Any Love
• 36:00	Leyenda

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 28:48	Ed

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		November 23, 1961	Working Thanksgiving	Original Airing

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
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