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How to Make Money on Commercial Radio
Airdate: Saturday - August 22, 1964

WOR Show
Original Airing

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Show Description

Used magazines, whoopie cushions, angry red signs that say "We are connected with no other chisler on this block!" Honky-Tonk - "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" The playwright not being able to write unless in the hustle and bustle of the city. Someone else writes Shep a note of frustration. He spent 20 years wanting to live in New Hampshire and now that he's there, he can't stand it. He's going out of his skull and breaking out in pimples. How does he tell his wife and kids that his lifelong dream turned out to be a lead zeppelin? Shep talks about selling and the time that Rick from the station bought 144 Plastic Roy Acuff Juke Box Banks to be sold over the radio. Shep is given the job of pitching them and after going on and on about how you should have one, proving that real good selling provides entertainment and they wind up get 17,923 orders. Within 6 weeks Rick is ruined. He has unions, tax men, men with violin cases all chasing after him. Rick is now living in Canada.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
•	Speaking of saltless - this is WOR

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
•	Movie Promotion	"Lily" from MGM

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	Take Me Out to the Ballgame
•	In The Good Old Summertime (2)

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	Tony Galano

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo

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Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
•	General Topics		Radio Stations

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

	Date	Title
	August 22, 1964 Recno: 276	How to Make Money on Commercial Radio	Original Airing

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The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1964 MP3 Set 3	MP364-3	MP3
1964 Set 3	93a	Cassette

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975