Oh good, I am the first to comment. What utter joy and satisfaction listening to Shep talk about the travails of the paperboy life. I used to help my friend with his route--enough to get the feel of what it was all about. So here I am with my eyes shut and a breaking smile taking in these glorious stories from a master story teller. SHEP is the great past-time!
When I was about 14, going to Overbrook High in Philadelphia, I waited all week for big event of the week.....laying in bed listening to Long John Nebble followed by Jean Hepard on WOR radio 90 miles away in New York (Jean Shepard) telling stories about things like "The Great Boston Molasses Flood". etc. etc. Many yeats later (when I was an Advertising Writer in San Francisco, I hited Jean Shepard to do a Voice Over for a radio commercial. When we left the recording studio we passed Turtle Bay Apartments in Murrey Hill New York. He said that was where Ruth Gordan and Katherine Hepburd lived....and about hoe thry would meet for tea in the locked park in the back of the apartments. Basically (my hero) Mr. Shepard couldn't couldn't stop (event when he wasn't being paid for it). He was a full- time living, walking talking, nonstop historical Wikipedia.
I realize there are many misspellings in my "comment" written at 3am yesterday. I guess my old fingers are too fat for these tiny cell phone keys. Sorry. Please don't let that diminish the essence of my comment. Jean Shepard is still the genius I remember.
Greenteablend thanks so much for posting all of these treasures from JS. I want to savor this collection as long as possible rather than binge-watch them. Sometimes his kookieness at the beginning is a lesson in the testing of one's mettle, but if we stick with it, we will be rewarded. Maybe it IS a test, in that if we cannot handle the kookieness, then JS is not for us. This particular session has already hit four Bull's eyes in my life, and i am only halfway through... Paperboy - (i once helped out a neighborhood paperboy/acquaintance when he was on vacation...and i did once have a "Circular" route, and yes, even i have stories about both)...Baseball- i had played Little League and Babe Ruth League, with a few successes, and Work - little bits of satisfaction that only i would appreciate, and cassete tape timing successes that i had forgotten about until i heard this JS session. I might add that i have many 8-track tape "successes" as well ;-).......Side note: do you have access to a JS session about "Sifting the Ashes"? I mentioned this to a woman at work who knows that "drill" and i would love to send her a link. This story also contains NJ references and is a Classic. Thanks again.
Thanks for the kind words. Try going to the Flick Lives website and search for Shep's shows by keyword. I don't remember "sifting the ashes" off hand. www.flicklives.com/index.php?pg=224&XA=0
@@greenteablend - Ha! I found "Sifting the Ashes" on YT! Thanks to your giving me the Feb 1963 date, i was inspired to make a full-circle around the internet which led me back to another poster on YT. i hope you dont mind me posting a link here from another Shep fan: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-In5XMM2NE7w.html edit: LOL!! I see a comment of mine from nine years ago on that person's post😄 How quickly we forget!
Some people can't afford the paper anyone. 2 bucks for a Sunday paper or 6 bucks for the Sunday New York Times, it's crazy. Or even a 1.25 daily. No wonder the people don't buy them anymore.
