Red Ryder Story
Airdate:
Thursday - December 25, 1969
WOR Show WOR Rerun
First Line After Theme Ends
I'm going to get right to it today. . .
Show Description
Notes large volume of listener requests over past year to read the Red Ryder BB Gun story (4 or 5 hundred)
Story background relating two men in an Indiana bar at Christmastime who had known each other since childhood but had taken separate paths - one had remained in Indiana as a bartender while the other had since become an effete New Yorker ("Do you remember that particular Christmas?"...)
Notes background music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as being identified with Christmas
Notes that the the Red Ryder story had originally appeared in Playboy magazine a few years back, and later in In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash
Reading of "DUEL IN THE SNOW or RED RYDER NAILS THE CLEVELAND STREET KID".
Notes
This show was repeated on 12-25-72 with different commercials
WOR ID
Speaking of Christmas largess is old Santa Claus on 710 WOR here in New York City [11:45]
