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Last Summary Update: 04-26-2020

Search for Tradition / Brand Names
Airdate: Monday - December 30, 1974

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

There, I told you I would find ya you crumb. And that concludes tonight's salute to the Sominex family. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Pete Delaney - 04-08-2020 ]   
  The Sominex Family
The  Sominex somg  ( Note 1)
Ads on the phone
A Family's Whoopemobile legacy
The Pepsi Generation
Canned Ravioli
ALPO
Search for tradition
Salvation through brand names

A BRAND NAME FAMILY IS A GOOD BET
BRAND NAMES  are our heritage ( Note 2)
The  Need  for a reassuring word
IF you cant believe in Prestone  anti freeze what can you believe in?
UTOPiA ( Note 3)
A Disabled Electra proves Buick's ad wrong
Mary Jane, Tootsie rolls, Butterfingers

>From  Nash to AMC
Famous  company's great FOUNDERS
The DeSoto is gone
Her classmate was one of the TWO GUYS from Harrison
Pepsi jingle better known than the Star Spangled Banner
M-O-T-E
The Wonder Bread of it all
Roll's Royce saved

The clock radio in the Company K  barracks that every day would turn
on at 5:15 AM to the  St.George Hotel jingle.

NOTE 1 - Shep doesn't sing the entire Sominex song which goes:
                 Take Sominex tonight. and sleep. Safe and restful sleep, sleep sleep.

NOTE 2  There is a  video that shows all of the trademarks and logos
mentioned in this great bit at the Facebook IM A FAN OF JEAN SHEPHERD
video page

NOTE 3 - The definition of UTOPIA - an imagined place or state of
things in which everything is perfect.      
  

[ Courtesy: David Goldin - - ]   
  The "Sominex Family" and other commercials. "If you can't believe in Prestone, what can you believe in?" Industrial icons of Ameria. Listening to the commercial for the Hotel St. George, while in the barracks on alert.      
  

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
15:07	This is WOR friends in New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
11:41	General Tire
12:41	New York Magazine
1345	Metropolitan Museum of Art
33:55	Di Gel
34:56	Dell Books
35:55	Public Service Announcement (PSA)	Car Warranty Tips

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
02:19	Wonderama Kids Cheering