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Vote For The Tiger and Raising Worms
Airdate: Wednesday - June 19, 1968

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

Last Update: 06-19-2024

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
singing. . . And now for the next fotry-five minutes. . .
Show Description
"45 minutes to unwind" Voting for the Esso tiger Randy in the Air Force stationed in Burma. One night a tiger gets into the transmitter shack. Letters form listeners re. voting for the tiger Driving along route 206 stops by a stand where a kid is selling worms. He asks the kid how he gets the worms. "By digging them stupid" Shep tells about how at the age of 10 he developed a method for raising worms using an old Ford spark coil.
Comments
• [Commercials cut]
WOR ID
Time Station ID (All times approximate)
• 18:35 Speaking of in bad tiger, this is WOR right here in the heart of the big mire and the big swamp of AM radio. Boy, they talk about television being a wasteland - Holy Smokes!
Commercials (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
No Commercials or Commercials Cut
Music (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
• 15:57 St Louis Blues
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
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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used
Time Category Date Title Comments
General Topics Worms
General Topics Kid Stories
General Topics New Jersey
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May 22,1968
1968 Newspaper Ad

    
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
June 19, 1968
Recno: 833
Vote For The Tiger and Raising Worms Original Airing
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June 19, 2024

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Set Name Show # Media
1968 Audio CD Set
CD 1b
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