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The World A-Go-Go
Airdate: Wednesday - February 23, 1966

WOR Show
Original Airing

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(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

Day by day and everyway. . .

Show Description

[ Courtesy: Max Schmid - - ]   
  Shep Feb 23, 1966 WED "The World A-Go-Go" (Ballad of Silent Shep)
96.8 SC

Eins zwei vier

(over Flight of the Bumblebee) Day by day in every way I grow rottener

H L Mencken to F Scott Fitzgerald - you are missing out

music: Ian Whitcomb "You turn me on"

music: A new revival is sweeping this country  "The A-go-go Revival"

chicks in gold cages - hullabaloo - only in LA, now creeping east.

Funeral Parlors in Long Island, cemetary ad.

music (kettle drum, chimes, flutes-Galaxy 2?): Hell is a crematorium for lost souls. Send to "I don't want to go to hell"

Shep driving, sees faded blue 47 Ford going 90, passes him. Guy stops and is painting on a rock in the cornfield "Jesus Saves"

Speaking of those with ancient fears... this is WOR-AM & FM, today's Babylon. 11:27 (after SC)

Cmml - NY Times, Miller HL Beer  17:24 (13:30 after SC)

Get's angry phone call - hackles are rising

Cmml: Ludens Cough Drops, Rover (Industrial Design Mag Jan 66)16:40, Wohlmuth ?

Black Bart poem (silent Shep) (tape f**ked up in here)

Bob in studio

TV commercial-plastic ball, 2 kids in it, floating in the sky - for protection!

Og & Charlie

Signs of the times

Fast end

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:37	Speaking of those with ancient fears, this is WOR AM and FM New York, today's Babylon. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:47	New York Times
• 15:49	Miller Beer
• 17:21	Luden's Cough Drops
• 18:28	Rover 2000
• 20:03	Wohlmuth

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 00:45	Flight of the Bumble Bee
• 03:22	You Turn Me On
• 06:01	Drums A-Go-Go
• 08:10; 13:16	Galaxy 2
• 22:32	High Noon
• 32:03	Ballet Mecanique
• 40:32		Unknown romantic - Rustle of spring?

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 40:15	Bob Considine

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo
Echo Chamber

Related Plots / Story Lines and Other References Used

Time	Category	Date	Title	Comments
• [ 21:11 ]	Live Shows		St Peter's College

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		February 23, 1966	The World A-Go-Go	Original Airing

More Ways To Hear or Buy It

Show	Replay Date
Dustbin of History	February 26, 2025

The Best Source for Quality Jean Shepherd Audio

Found in the following set(s)

Set Name	Show #	Media
1966 Set 2	190a	Cassette
1966 Shows Volume 2	MP366-2	MP3

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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