Flicklives.com

2880

11/18/2009 9:14:52 PM

Cortizas Jr., Tony
Cambridge (formerly of Bridgewater, NJ),
Massachusetts

Shep fan since: 1965
On the Radio

Comments:
I grew up in New Jersey in the '60s and listened to JS when I got my 1st transitor radio, in the mid-'60s. I think I stopped listening once I hit highschool ('67) and got more interested in music (great year, '67). I remember liking the Limelight shows best, probably I was a little too young to appreciate the sometimes more philosophical weekday shows. I got and read In God We trust when it came out and saw him live twice at local NJ highschool performances. My memory is that his live performances were great. I moved to Boston in "69, but by then had forgotten JS and didn't realize he could be heard here.

Now I collect his shows from the web (1,600+) and listen to them incessantly. I am amazed that he could do a show every night.

2879

11/16/2009 12:17:03 PM

Rosen, Jeff
Cranbury,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1962
On the Radio

Comments:
Shep, Lord Buckley, Bucky Fuller and Brother Blue - the preeminent 20th century artists of the spoken word. How I miss them.

2878

10/30/2009 7:50:12 PM

Cooper, Joe
Brooklyn,
New York

Shep fan since: 1960
On the Radio

Comments:

2877

9/11/2009 9:59:19 PM

KARAS, JOSEPH A
new brunswick,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1972
On the Radio

Comments:

2876

8/22/2009 7:48:17 PM

CLARK, JIM
CAPE CANAVERAL,
Florida

Shep fan since: 1970
Read his Playboy short stories

Comments:

2874

8/13/2009 3:32:07 AM

Stevens, John J
Warren,
Rhode Island

Shep fan since: 1971
Saw his TV show

Comments:
I found my dad, Hank Stevens, watching Jean on PBS (Public TV) out of Boston, MA. I'm not sure if it was Great American Dream Machine or Jean Shepherd's America. Shep's America was a weekly father and son ritual. He introduced me to lots of the old greats. In fact, he read short stories from Shep, Goldstein, and many other contributors to Playboy to us as we were teenagers sitting around a campfire out in the yard. He had us in stitches on that old stuff. I've never stopped watching or listening to Jean. I have read three of his most noted books. Great for some "thinkin' about it" and some good input from a completely different direction! LOL
The man. rightfully so, lives on in the hearts of millions.
John
Age 54

2873

8/10/2009 5:50:53 PM

Hager, Marilyn
Birchwood,
Wisconsin

Shep fan since: 1956
On the Radio

Comments:
Have enjoyed Jean's music for over 40 years, saw her in Hayward WI at the LCO Casino with Stonewall Jackson, what a show they put on.

2872

7/31/2009 2:34:17 PM

Goldman, Hank
Riverdale,
New York

Shep fan since: 1960
On the Radio

Comments:
Shep Lives!!!!

2871

7/19/2009 6:28:01 AM

Brigham, Mike
NEWPORT NEWS,
Virginia

Shep fan since: 1962
On the Radio

Comments:
I used to sneak my 9 transistor radio under my pillow on Saturday night to listen to Shep whsn I was 10 years old. I loved his show and had to laugh into the pillow to keep from being discovered by my Mom. I was up "much to late for a 10 year old" ( What my Mom said ).

2870

7/4/2009 7:35:40 PM

Talbot, John
Madison,
Wisconsin

Shep fan since: 1964
On the Radio

Comments:
I used to go to sleep every night when I was kid listening to him on WOR. I especially liked it when he talked about HAM radio. To this day I still practice Ham radio. The best story was his prom date which ended badly with the turkey problem.

2868

6/29/2009 3:30:25 PM

Lundt, Chuck
Madison,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1956
On the Radio

Comments:
If I remember correctly Flick died in WWII.

Is this assumption correct?

(Actually it was Schwartz that died in WWII according to Shep in his book "In God We Trust...")

2867

6/20/2009 8:17:30 PM

Kalish, Alan
Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania

Shep fan since: 1964
On the Radio

Comments:
I met Jean Shepherd at two different book signings in Plainfield, NJ. I also saw him in concert at Princeton University, at Red Bank, at Clinton, at NCE (since changed to NJIT), and at Carnagie Hall.

I provided Max Schmid and two other Shep archives with almost 200 shows recorded between 1970 and 1974. These were recordings that I first made while in high school, on cassettes. Over time I had to move the recordings onto reel-to-reel as the cassettes began to seize up. When the reel-to-reel recordings began to fail (30+ years after my original recording dates), I transferred the shows to a digital format.

When I was in college I nearly lost the whole collection when I was transporting the collection between school and home. My car's tailpipe rotted off and the floor of my trunk got very hot. About half of the cassettes had deformed. I ended up buying new cassettes with housings that were held together with screws, and then I transferred the tape from the melted housings into the new housings.

2866

6/12/2009 10:26:21 PM

*******, Curt
Grand Rapids,
Michigan

Shep fan since: 1990
Saw One of His Movies

Comments:

2865

6/11/2009 8:05:03 AM

RENFRO K4OF, BOB
,
North Carolina

Shep fan since: 1946
On the Radio

Comments:
MY FAVORITE MOVIE AND BOOKS

CHRISTMAS STORY AND IN GOD WE TRUST, ALL OTHERS

PAY CASH.

2861

6/2/2009 5:40:25 PM

mazzey sr, george
staten island,
New York

Shep fan since: 1968
On the Radio

Comments:
this site is just great and i love old time radio and i collect old radio shows. i have been a radio fan for 66 years now and i love it and radio is better then tv.

2860

5/31/2009 11:31:33 AM

Tanner, Sara (Foster)
Raleigh,
North Carolina

Shep fan since: 1957
On the Radio

Comments:
As a young girl growing up in Poughkeepsie NY, I listened with my mother on one of those huge old time floor radios that had an orchard of tubes in the back. In the 60's we listened every night he was on as he spun tales of life and humor that had us laughing at ourselves and others. He captured life as it was, and made fun of it as well. He has always been a great treasure in my heart and I will never forget what he gave me. I am so pleased to have found this site.

2859

5/20/2009 9:20:15 PM

Manning, Mark
Menomonie,
Wisconsin

Shep fan since: 1959
On the Radio

Comments:
spent many, many an hour (or more on saturday) listening to shep. Had the opportnity to tslk with him on the air. I spoke to connecting my brother to an antenna to pick up his signal in JERSEY. My younger brother called in suggesting cereal names of mummy-os one night. If you have an mp3 of these contact ASAP. Saw him in New Brunswick, Sommerville, Metuchen among other places when he got into doing appearances. His (unread) 4th of July show my favorite. Also liked the gravy boat riots as well. Flick Lives

2858

5/16/2009 12:16:31 AM

Waymond (actor,writer), Walt
Chicago,
Illinois

Shep fan since: 1992
Read one of his books

Comments:
I am working on a script for a new film,not a sequel to A Christmas Story or Summer Story, but entirely different and would also like to do a show based on SHep's stories, email me at mvpwaymond@sbcglobal.net if anybody is interested.

2857

5/11/2009 8:57:05 AM

russell, s
medford,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1980
Saw One of His Movies

Comments:
does anyone know if the decoder pin was around in the l930's and what it may have looked like?

2856

5/9/2009 1:45:27 AM

Bochner, Steve
New York,
New York

Shep fan since: 1964
On the Radio

Comments:
beautifully done - - thank you for the work this must have taken - and takes!

2855

5/4/2009 8:32:47 PM

Van Lieu, Dirck
Nantucket,
Massachusetts

Shep fan since: 1959
On the Radio

Comments:
Sons of the Whiskey Rebellion guitarist Wiley Sabo was my barber. I was just looking at a picture that appeared in the local paper, one where Wiley is giving me a "Beatle Haircut". It was 1963...

2854

4/26/2009 11:29:02 PM

Miller, Joel
Boston,
Massachusetts

Shep fan since: 1958
On the Radio

Comments:

2853

4/23/2009 9:54:31 PM

Litwin, David
Larkspur,
California

Shep fan since: 1956
On the Radio

Comments:
You're doing a terrific job with this site... Shep was a godsend, very important to me all thru jr high & high school. Saved my sanity, you might even say.

2846

4/22/2009 12:38:39 AM

Miller, Martin D.
Sun City,
Arizona

Shep fan since: 1965
Read his Playboy short stories

Comments:
This is a Wonderful Find. Lots of info for a Shep Fan. I have some Information reguarding other appearances of Shep in print.

2845

4/16/2009 12:18:03 AM

Colomba, Ken
Warwick,
New York

Shep fan since: 1967
On the Radio

Comments:
Hi Jim!

Came across your site and great job! It brings back many memories. A tribute to one of America's great story tells Sheppard ranks up there with Will Rodgers & Sammual Clemmons! It is a shame that during my many moves I lost the show tickets with his autograph.

2844

4/6/2009 2:31:19 PM

Duda, Tony
New Port Richey,
Florida

Shep fan since: 1968
On the Radio

Comments:
I grew up in New Jersey. I loved lying in bed at night listening to Shep on WOR radio while a kid. Later, when I attended Rutgers, Shep did a live show on campus at The Ledge circa 1975 and I went and loved every minute. My funniest recollection is when he said Indiana was miles and miles of farmland surrounding a basketball court. I went with a girl who never heard of him and didn't get a lot of his stories about his childhood. But I did and consider this night one of the best entertainment events of my life.

2843

4/3/2009 10:44:06 AM

Fasciano, Charlie
Hasbrouck Heights,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1969
On the Radio

Comments:
Truth is always more humerous than fiction, and Jean Dhepard was the greatest humorist of the 20th century.

2842

3/31/2009 9:48:04 PM

Pierrehumbert, Ken
Carty,
North Carolina

Shep fan since: 1966
On the Radio

Comments:
It is great to keep Shep's work a memory alive.

I remember listening late at night as a kid with an earplug and a 6-transistor radion strapped to my bed post.

I recently started listening to the old shows from various in my car and on an Mp3 player and his material is as topical as ever.

Flick Lives!!

2841

3/31/2009 5:40:47 PM

Jennings, Bob
Waterford,
Connecticut

Shep fan since: 1966
On the Radio

Comments:

2840

3/30/2009 3:25:54 PM

stalin, joe
petrograd,
Utah

Shep fan since: 1956
On the Radio

Comments:
He is funny guy. I want him. Go find now. -Uncle Joe

2839

3/30/2009 3:05:09 PM

shaffer, john
rochester,
New York

Shep fan since: 1966
Read his Playboy short stories

Comments:
-You got the idea that maybe YOU weren't the only one dealing with all the various angsts' of childhood,adolescence&adulthood.A very interesting guy&way up there on the hip curve. I can only imagine what it must've been like to tune him in on WOR back in the day.A subversive hipster before it was cool. I've read&learned a fair bit about him over the last few years(thank you, google)- & it still doesn't make him a bad guy. I'm sure he was an enormously complex character in life. Must have been a ton of fun to be around. Much moreso than his literary/public personna. Seems he got through his pain&made a living by telling a hell of a good story.
I'm going to miss his observations on all things mundane&poignant& the more I explore the nuances about all things Shep, the more I get it. The world could use a few more guys like Shep.... He's like your favorite Uncle or Big 1st cousin who tells it to you like it is when no one else is listening... If you listen & pay attention maybe you can bounce off some,or maybe remember some of the hard knuckles of life.

To Shep

Not to worry.
In 4000 years
they will build the pyramids again
like it was a Big Idea.
Such a Concept.

Nobody reads
nobody thinks
nobody cares.
You did
you tried.

Good Job.

LOVE

2838

3/24/2009 12:29:55 AM

fogel, richard
chino,
California

Shep fan since: 1965
On the Radio

Comments:
used to listen with my dad. i am buying his books for my dads birthday april 15th.

2837

3/23/2009 3:43:03 PM

McCormick, Michael
Howell,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1971
On the Radio

Comments:
Dad turned me on to him when I was young. I made sure I didn't order Rusty Nails before my prom!

2836

3/9/2009 7:33:11 PM

Thomas, John
Mahtomedi,
Minnesota

Shep fan since: 1965
On the Radio

Comments:

2835

3/9/2009 3:37:41 AM

JACKson, Mike
Newton Centre,
Oklahoma

Shep fan since: 1967
On the Radio

Comments:

2834

3/5/2009 9:49:21 PM

mustacchio, marc
west orange,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1998
On the Radio

Comments:
I am a devoted fan of Max Schmid's WBAI "Mass Backwards" show and listen to the Jean Shepard shows Tuesday mornings from 5:15AM-6AM. I started in 1998. I am too young to remember Shep when he was on WOR orginally and am greatful to max for his efforts to bring Shep back to the airwaves.

2833

3/3/2009 6:23:05 AM

Libin, Arthur
Portland,
Oregon

Shep fan since: 1962
On the Radio

Comments:
I listened to Jean Shepherd on WOR (710 on your AM dial, 98.6 on your FM dial, an RKO general station)in New York, NY. He had a radio show at 9 or 9:15 pm, every night. I think I first discovered him in 9-th grade. There was one other kid, Marc Feinberg, who also listened and we would talk over the show the next day. In those days, the state of the art for AM radios was your basic 6-tube AC/DC supehet radio. The radio would have an orange glow and heat up the plastic case of the radio - so you would always have this smell of baking bakelite. It was very friendly - the radio was like a fireplace with Jean Shepherd telling a story aorund the dire. Afterwards, at midnight was Long John Nebel - which is a story and a half all by itself. Serious, hardcore lunatic radio - people teleporting through their radio to a UFO base in the North Pole and such. Getting back to Jean Shepherd, I was one of two or three faithful listeners when he was doing his daily evening show in the early-mid 60's on WOR. I also made his show, once, at the Village Gate. "A Christmas Story" is just the tip of the iceberg and by no means represents his best or most typical work. He was very influential on my thinking as a ninth and tenth grader. I suppose I could say a lot more - but I just wanted to "sign the guest book" and relate how I came in contact with his radio show.

2832

2/26/2009 2:51:03 PM

B, Mark
Cranbury,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1964
On the Radio

Comments:
EXCELSIOR!

2831

2/25/2009 8:19:04 AM

jackson, MIKe
Newton Centre,
Oklahoma

Shep fan since: 1967
On the Radio

Comments:

2830

2/14/2009 6:17:03 PM

Masterson, Dawn
Budd Lake,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1979
Saw One of His Movies

Comments:
I call my chocolate lab the bumpus hound, because he is a beast! i got a leg lamp for my father, and my mother refused to let him put it out in the livingroom, so he kept it in his workshop until she passed away. then he put it in the front window, but the bulb kept burning out! i think there's a short in the lamp, but he says my mother's mad.

2829

1/27/2009 12:08:37 PM

Cooke, Warren
Chesapeake,
Virginia

Shep fan since: 1960
On the Radio

Comments:
Many a night I remember listening to Shep....the Theme just blew me away to hear it again......he was the ultimate story
teller, and I enjoyed the reruns just as good as the originals.
Oh, to hear those steel mill stories again, and the drive up to the old transmitter tower at high speed through the marsh.

Is Jim Clavin the son of a Clavin who was on Wash, DC TV late night on the very early days of TV. When my station went off the air at night in Balamer, I could pick up Channel 7 WTOP[?] and watch and listen to a real jem of a show "Gene was the Clavenest"
Warren Cooke

2828

1/19/2009 6:12:37 PM

Peluso, Jim
Florham Park,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1965
On the Radio

Comments:
I remember listening in bed and a small leap of excitement would occur when the theme music would come on and the opposite when Shep was ending the show talking over the theme. There were times I laughed out loud and times when I wanted to scream "stop playing the damn Kazoo!" But he was always entertaining. My favorites were when he talked about working in the steel mill.

The theme music takes me right back to those nights

2827

1/16/2009 8:53:04 AM

Salerno, Chris
Dallas,
Texas

Shep fan since: 1967
On the Radio

Comments:
Looking back sometimes I think I imagined it all, and the details get fuzzy. But the MP3 file brought it all back. Thanks for validating my memories. I discovered the Saturday night broadcasts from the Limelight, and I was so disappointed that it was not there when I returned to the scene of the crime in 2002. His memory lives on. Flick lives.

2826

1/15/2009 12:50:52 AM

Harr, John
Minneapolis,
Minnesota

Shep fan since: 1960
On the Radio

Comments:
My most prized possession as a boy was my cigarette pack sized Sony radio I received as a gift around 1960. A then ten year old I found Shep through an accident of the air waves. Hooked, I would tuck my radio under my pillow and carefully adjust the volume to ensure no one would be aware of my late night listening addiction and spent most my youth listening clandestinely to Shep. I never shared this with my sisters or parents but gained true and profound insights from Shep and was delighted to have this wonderful adult friend in my life. I am delighted that the shows have been preserved and will listen again. My 11 year old daughter and 12 year old son delight in Shep's Christmas Story. With some encouragement I imagine they may fall asleep to Shep a la ipod. Not quite the same level of excitement as their parent will know... but Shep's timeless tales no doubt will delight them. J. Harr (previously of Fair Haven, NJ)

2825

1/5/2009 1:30:43 PM

horton, carolyn
midlothian,
Virginia

Shep fan since: 2003
Saw One of His Movies

Comments:
I have seen "The Christmas Story" many times, and loved it--but never noted the identity of the author until a chance remark by a fellow guest at a barbeque whilst visiting my daughter in Sunnyvale, California. I've since read "In God We Trust" as well as "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories" and plan on reading whatever else of his I can find. I grew up in the 40's and 50's, and all stories hit home!

2824

1/3/2009 12:33:45 PM

Petak, Reed
Princeton Junction,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1965
On the Radio

Comments:
Transistor radio under the pillow....Mom and Dad thought I was asleep. Thanks!

2823

1/3/2009 12:31:51 PM

Petak, Reed
Princeton Junction,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1965
On the Radio

Comments:
Thanks!

2822

1/2/2009 5:49:32 PM

Bergenstein, Richard
Mount Airy,
Maryland

Shep fan since: 1952
On the Radio

Comments:
I started by driving to the top of hills in Pittsburgh and listened via a station in Philadelphia. I even attended a live broadcast from a hotel in Philly. From there he went to Cincinnati Ohio and then to WOR 710 AM. At least that’s what I think I remember

I had an old Hallicrafter and long line antenna aimed to pick him up.

I love listening to the old shows and can remember some almost word for word. The Great Gravy Boat Riot is my favorite.

2821

1/2/2009 1:59:28 PM

Dudas, Janice
Linden,
New Jersey

Shep fan since: 1962
On the Radio

Comments:
AH! That voice, that spontaneous creativity, brings back such memories. Discovered Jean while driving back from the Jersey shore w/my boyfriend in his '60 Chevy Impala. Shep was one of a kind, never to be forgoten by those who experienced his genius. Flick, give us more!!

2819

1/1/2009 8:40:41 PM

Prieur, Rick
Sharon Hill,
Pennsylvania

Shep fan since: 1967
Read his Playboy short stories

Comments:
After reading some of the short stories by Shep I was telling my Old Man about. He told me that he used to stay up nights listining to Shep on WOR, New York. As I look back now and realize that was the only thing I can remember that me and the old man ever agreed on was our love of Shep.
At 63 years old now I miss them both, but this past Christmas I watched " A Christmas Story" a couple of times with my kids and grand-kids and in some ways I felt they were here with us again. Thanks for the great site.
The first movie of Sheps I remember seeing was "The Great American Fourth of July" on PBS. Is there any way to get a copy of it?
Rick Prieur