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Summary

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

WOR Show
Original Airing

First 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.
Notes
[Commercials cut]
WOR ID
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)
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Music (All times approximate)
None Listed
Needs to be ID'd
ragtime - St Louis Blues?
Engineer and Staff in Booth
Not Determined
Summary/Rating Credit
By: Jim Clavin
Date: -
Rating: Not Rated
Instruments Played
Jews Harp
Related Plots and Story Lines Used
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
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