1964-1968 Im in HS...central new jersey. 9 volt transistor radio up to my ear EVERY night...under my pillow... WOR. Spent my allowance on batteries. Biggest fan.
I’m another Jersey Boy. I used to listen to Shep after the NY Ranger games on WOR. My dad introduced me to him. Shep was all about radio he was a ham operator. You can’t be a ham operator without the gift of gab.
I recall on his show Shepherd doing 10 - 15 minutes about a sponsor on his show and it was as entertaining as the rest of the show. Long live General Tires.
@@jhubes73 My next door neighbor's mother worked for General Tires and she had no idea who Shepard was. I told her you are missing great entertainment.
In 1974 I was a student at Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, Shep came as a guest speaker one night, afterward I walked alone with him out to his car asking questions. Today there's still talk and a big mystery if Shep's childhood friends Flick, Schwartz and others were real or made up. I asked him about his friends believing they were real, he burst my bubble and said "No, they're made up. I created characters of people who most people likely knew in their own lives." He then drove off in a little broken down car like Columbo, it may have been a Rambler convertible. I believe he was living in NYC at the time. Shep had a talent for making everyday things seem interesting. I was a faithful listener to he radio show at 10PM on WOR-NY when I should have instead been doing my homework. Once a year for about ten years he'd come to Princeton University, it would be a sold out show.
Omigod!!! With all due respect to the others actors featured here, getting Jerry Seinfeld to talk on camera about Jean Shepherd is looong overdue and doing a great service to humanity! You may notice that when ‘A Christmas Story’ first came out it was panned by critics because it was ‘a movie about nothing’...! Now if you can also dig up the lost ‘Ralphie Saves Flash Gordon’ footage all will be complete! ;)
Shep was a special guy. I still miss him and always hoped I could know him personally. I met him once when we arranged for him to appear at a City College function. After he spoke to the crowd he asked for questions. I asked him who he admired and he answered that he know a lot of people who I didn't know but the next morning on his Saturday radio show, he described that the previous night at City College, some kid asked him who had the most influence on his life and his answer then was "probably Laurel and Hardy". I got my answer and even more about how to find life interesting and enjoyable from my many hours of listening to him. He was the same in the car as he was on the air. I once wrote him a letter suggesting he have himself frozen using cryonics as I was planning for myself but never received an answer. At least we have UA-cam memories of him. Excelsior you fathead for sure.
I first heard Shep as a fourth grader in 1969 on WOR on Long Island . When I told my mom about my discovery the next day she told me that my dad listened to him all the time. And I later found out my grandfather listened to him as well. And I started listening to him whenever I could on my little portable radio. I got my best friend hooked on him and continued hearing him nightly until WOR cancelled his show in 1977. I also read all his books and articles in my dad’s copies of Car & Driver. And the PBS movies. And, of course “A Christmas Story.” Only met him once at a book signing for “Ferrari in the Bedroom” at Alexander’s.
There is something in the timing of the evolution of art, technology, and society. Shep was part of a unique generation. The last to universally read, they ushered in radio and television, as well as air travel. Understand also the effects of the psychological shift taking place because of propaganda pioneered by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays, being broadcast over new electronic medium.
From my own experience, Shep and Bill Moyers were the best observers and explainers of how modern mans media does business and, by extension, what it does to people. I learned more about this from both of them than anyone else.
Good to see this is a project but constantly switching from one voice to another so that you have to reach back and remember what the last part was to put it together, was a REALLY stupid idea. I listened religiously to WOR 10:15 to 11 as a kid, then at some point WOR shifted him an hour later and he came on at 11:15. That was too late for my curfew, so I snuck a little transistor radio into my pillow and still kept up. I don't think I ever got caught.
I discovered Jean “ Shep” in the late 1950’s as a teen in high school. I traveled to the village in NYC and subscribed to the “Village Voice”. I was HIP man. Jean took me on a mental magic carpet ride as I layer alone on my bunk during the hot Summer nights. He was my radio hero , I was a HAM Operator too in our coal bin in my moms cellar. Jean made me think and taught me how to write my events and feelings. His Army life paralleled mine during Nam. His HAM experiences encouraged me to be me. I never knew satire. I am that story teller today in my 80’s having published only one book , but printed many of my stories in the valley Gazette. However Electronics was my life not literature , acting or broadcasting although I was the station engineer for WJJZ 1469 on the radio dial. The JJX towers and transmitter were anchored to the sand on an island in the middle of the Delaware River. Early in life I also worked in a US steel mill on that same river. I lasted one week and ran back to the teaching classroom at RCA for FCC License Test Taking Examinations . What a ride. Thanks Jean!
I noticed how he would attract the counter-culture folks at his gigs at the Limelight in the Village and how they would be so attuned to stories of his life in the Army. It seems counterintuitive, but they seemed to love it. And nobody got away with anything no matter how raucous the crowd; he would put them in their place in fairly gentle ways but his voice could be booming. He was fond of yelling "At Ease!" at a disruptive audience member followed up with the most off-the-wall, "If you listen closely you can hear his pimples mating." and other similar jocosity.
I remember as a ten year old, listening to Gene Shepherd when I was at sleep away camp. The show didn't go on until 11pm, and I stayed up to listen to it.
"I was a kid see.." Where have these guys been ? People bought Playboy for the stories . Shep was the one who wrote them(Duel in the Snow " was one of them Flick Lives😊
1964-1968 Im in HS...central new jersey. 9 volt transistor radio up to my ear EVERY night...under my pillow... WOR. Spent my allowance on batteries. Biggest fan.
Same thing here - Northern NJ, 1963-1966.
I’m another Jersey Boy. I used to listen to Shep after the NY Ranger games on WOR. My dad introduced me to him. Shep was all about radio he was a ham operator. You can’t be a ham operator without the gift of gab.
@@MultiPetercool Yup - licensed since 1968 (KQ4Y). I always loved radio and its mystery. You never knew what you'd get when you tuned around the dial.
I recall on his show Shepherd doing 10 - 15 minutes about a sponsor on his show and it was as entertaining as the rest of the show. Long live General Tires.
Some day youll own,
Some day youll oo-wn,
Sooner or later youll own General...a bum bum
@@jhubes73 My next door neighbor's mother worked for General Tires and she had no idea who Shepard was. I told her you are missing great entertainment.
How about this old gem? (Also heard on WOR due Shep’s show)
You got a good thing going
When you light up a Kent
Light up a Kent
Light up a Kent
In 1974 I was a student at Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ, Shep came as a guest speaker one night, afterward I walked alone with him out to his car asking questions. Today there's still talk and a big mystery if Shep's childhood friends Flick, Schwartz and others were real or made up. I asked him about his friends believing they were real, he burst my bubble and said "No, they're made up. I created characters of people who most people likely knew in their own lives." He then drove off in a little broken down car like Columbo, it may have been a Rambler convertible. I believe he was living in NYC at the time. Shep had a talent for making everyday things seem interesting. I was a faithful listener to he radio show at 10PM on WOR-NY when I should have instead been doing my homework. Once a year for about ten years he'd come to Princeton University, it would be a sold out show.
Hope this sees the light of day, lots of great guests on board
this is the year!
Omigod!!! With all due respect to the others actors featured here, getting Jerry Seinfeld to talk on camera about Jean Shepherd is looong overdue and doing a great service to humanity! You may notice that when ‘A Christmas Story’ first came out it was panned by critics because it was ‘a movie about nothing’...! Now if you can also dig up the lost ‘Ralphie Saves Flash Gordon’ footage all will be complete! ;)
Shep was a special guy. I still miss him and always hoped I could know him personally. I met him once when we arranged for him to appear at a City College function. After he spoke to the crowd he asked for questions. I asked him who he admired and he answered that he know a lot of people who I didn't know but the next morning on his Saturday radio show, he described that the previous night at City College, some kid asked him who had the most influence on his life and his answer then was "probably Laurel and Hardy". I got my answer and even more about how to find life interesting and enjoyable from my many hours of listening to him. He was the same in the car as he was on the air. I once wrote him a letter suggesting he have himself frozen using cryonics as I was planning for myself but never received an answer. At least we have UA-cam memories of him. Excelsior you fathead for sure.
Jean LOVED HAM RADIO. Jerry should pay for an AMSAT satellite in Jean's memory. Jean was on the ham satellites in the 1970's.
I first heard Shep as a fourth grader in 1969 on WOR on Long Island . When I told my mom about my discovery the next day she told me that my dad listened to him all the time. And I later found out my grandfather listened to him as well. And I started listening to him whenever I could on my little portable radio. I got my best friend hooked on him and continued hearing him nightly until WOR cancelled his show in 1977. I also read all his books and articles in my dad’s copies of Car & Driver. And the PBS movies. And, of course “A Christmas Story.” Only met him once at a book signing for “Ferrari in the Bedroom” at Alexander’s.
There is something in the timing of the evolution of art, technology, and society. Shep was part of a unique generation. The last to universally read, they ushered in radio and television, as well as air travel. Understand also the effects of the psychological shift taking place because of propaganda pioneered by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays, being broadcast over new electronic medium.
Communism is for fruits
From my own experience, Shep and Bill Moyers were the best observers and explainers of how modern mans media does business and, by extension, what it does to people. I learned more about this from both of them than anyone else.
Good to see this is a project but constantly switching from one voice to another so that you have to reach back and remember what the last part was to put it together, was a REALLY stupid idea.
I listened religiously to WOR 10:15 to 11 as a kid, then at some point WOR shifted him an hour later and he came on at 11:15. That was too late for my curfew, so I snuck a little transistor radio into my pillow and still kept up. I don't think I ever got caught.
You were not the only one 🙂
I discovered Jean “ Shep” in the late 1950’s as a teen in high school. I traveled to the village in NYC and subscribed to the “Village Voice”. I was HIP man. Jean took me on a mental magic carpet ride as I layer alone on my bunk during the hot Summer nights. He was my radio hero , I was a HAM Operator too in our coal bin in my moms cellar. Jean made me think and taught me how to write my events and feelings. His Army life paralleled mine during Nam. His HAM experiences encouraged me to be me. I never knew satire. I am that story teller today in my 80’s having published only one book , but printed many of my stories in the valley Gazette. However Electronics was my life not literature , acting or broadcasting although I was the station engineer for WJJZ 1469 on the radio dial. The JJX towers and transmitter were anchored to the sand on an island in the middle of the Delaware River. Early in life I also worked in a US steel mill on that same river. I lasted one week and ran back to the teaching classroom at RCA for FCC License Test Taking Examinations . What a ride. Thanks Jean!
I noticed how he would attract the counter-culture folks at his gigs at the Limelight in the Village and how they would be so attuned to stories of his life in the Army. It seems counterintuitive, but they seemed to love it. And nobody got away with anything no matter how raucous the crowd; he would put them in their place in fairly gentle ways but his voice could be booming. He was fond of yelling "At Ease!" at a disruptive audience member followed up with the most off-the-wall, "If you listen closely you can hear his pimples mating." and other similar jocosity.
Actually I think it was on sanibel island 🙂
I remember as a ten year old, listening to Gene Shepherd when I was at sleep away camp. The show didn't go on until 11pm, and I stayed up to listen to it.
Excelsior!
James Broderick was wonderful as the Old Man!
"I was a kid see.."
Where have these guys been ?
People bought Playboy for the stories .
Shep was the one who wrote them(Duel in the Snow " was one of them
Flick Lives😊
This may be a good video however the volume of the background music makes it too difficult to understand the dialog.
Can't wait, Nick!
The editing pace of this video is amateuristic and very trying on one’s patience. Please!!! Shep would not approve. Excelsior, you - -!
-- Fathead! Totally agree, it's like trying to follow a scrambled egg. No brass figligee with bronze oak leaf palm for this editor.
Nothing like him, except maybe Long john Bebel, maybe.
Long John Nebel; I think you meant. He came on after the midnight news, WOR. He did interviews with people, a whole different thing.
@@dudleydw I was at YMCA camp with Candy Jones' son Chris
Does the actual documentary flip rapidly between all these interviews? I hate this
no ....doc is much different. it is edited this way to keep the freeloaders away :) Excelsior!
@@JeanParkerShepherd thanks!
Shepherd had children. I almost wish I did not know this. From what I have read, he denied their existence. That is quite a character stain. So cruel.
73 OM dit dit
Mathew Broderick killed two people
it's called an accident, cultist.