Favoriting The Wiggle Room: Playlist from October 11, 2022 Favoriting

A different show every week! Rotating DJs include Jon Nelson's "Sheena 'ssembly Required" (Tape Manipulations, Digital Deconstructions and Turntable Creations),
MarkTime (vintage radio airchecks), and Krys O (aka Sister Krys - WFMU alumna 1985-1991, longtime Church of the Subgenius monk. Playing cinematic ephemera, schizoid weirdos, all styles served here). Plus: surprise guests galore. (illustration courtesy of https://www.jimflora.com/)

Tuesday 8 - 9pm (EDT) | On WFMU's Sheena's Jungle Room
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Favoriting October 11, 2022: Jean Shepherd Excelsior!

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Jean Shepherd  WOR New York NY 1/7/1974 Recreation of 1920s WOR   Favoriting
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Jean Shepherd  WOR & WOR-FM New York NY 8/8/1963 Insanity Sessions   Favoriting
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Jean Shepherd  Bob Evans Restaurants radio ad ca. 1980   Favoriting
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Austin Rich:

Good Hello.
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MarkTime:

Whew the playlist is up ... thanks!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 7:57pm
Austin Rich:

I hope the pics are right.
Avatar 🎸 7:58pm
MarkTime:

So far so good. As usual too many non-show distractions
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:59pm
Krys O.:

Howdy!
Avatar 🎸 7:59pm
MarkTime:

Hello!
Avatar 🎸 8:00pm
MarkTime:

Once things settle down I must pledge
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:02pm
Krys O.:

I saw Jean live in the mid-80s at a theater in Millburn, NJ.
Avatar 8:02pm
Mr Fab:

hey Mark! Always look forward to these shows.
  8:04pm
Kat in Chicago:

Yay it’s MarkTime time
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:11pm
Austin Rich:

I feel like Speilberg heard this, and got the idea of that episode of "Amazing Stories" that is, essentially, based on aliens hearing earth broadcasts.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:12pm
Aitch:

Wiggling quietly here
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
WR:

Hi I'm receiving this and feeling very confused. He's telling us to all turn our tape recorders on. Definitely from another time and place.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:13pm
Aitch:

Galaxy Quest
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Austin Rich:

Someone must have turned their tape recorder on in the past... for us to hear it in the future... oh dear... so confusing...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:14pm
Krys O.:

Which came first the tape or the show?
Avatar 🎸 8:15pm
MarkTime:

It's because someone in the WOR audience that night had a tape recorder rolling that we can enjoy this now
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:17pm
Austin Rich:

As a nerd who dreams of what radio was like in the past, Don Joyce's series, "How Radio Was Done," collects a lot of weird old radio air-checks (and radio re-creations), and other stuff that would have appeared on old radio. As you can imagine, everything up to 1960 is covered in only a few episodes... and then he spends almost 20 episodes just covering the 60's. It's pretty in-depth. I've only listened to a few episodes, with any depth.
Avatar 🎸 8:19pm
MarkTime:

@ Austin -- At 3 hours a week for over a year, the Over the Edge "How Radio Was Done" was an amazing series. Oh to have the time to re-listen
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:19pm
Austin Rich:

This is pretty fascinating. There is so little radio from the 20's at all. This is pretty great.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:21pm
Austin Rich:

I'm pretty in-awe of Don's radio work. It's an astounding body of broadcasting, and all by one person. Every episode I've sampled just astonishes me. He really had a vision.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:27pm
WR:

thank you for mentioning Over the Edge "How Radio Was Done".
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:30pm
Kat in Chicago:

I have been listening to random, out-of-order episodes of "How Radio Was Done" in recent months.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:31pm
Krys O.:

I grew up listening to WOR. It was my parents' favorite station.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:32pm
WR:

OTE is new to me. Looking forward to listening. I recently was reading 1937 issues of Broadcasting magazine. Internet archive has all issues online up to 1960 or so.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:33pm
Austin Rich:

I only know stations from the east coast via tape. Being on the West Coast, I only read about a lot of older radio stations. I was certainly enamored with broadcasting, as a thing in general.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:35pm
Krys O.:

Mom and Dad loved the gardening show on WOR hosted by Ralph Snodsmith. His catchphrase was "Read the label."
Avatar 🎸 8:37pm
MarkTime:

Oopsie ... we move on to the 8/8/1963 Jean Shepherd Show, from WOR and WOR-FM New York "Insanity Sessions"
Avatar 🎸 8:39pm
MarkTime:

I rarely heard WOR ... 710 was covered up by 720 WGN in Chicago. I got to hear one of the Gambling sons on a Saturday shift when visiting Manhattan in 1979
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Mr Fab:

wow he actually used the term "mad men."
Avatar 🎸 8:42pm
MarkTime:

In 1963, around the time the TV show "Mad Men" was set
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:42pm
Austin Rich:

I realize way too late that I missed the "track" change.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:45pm
Austin Rich:

I'd be curious to know how many notes he would have when he was about to do a "monologue" like this.
Avatar 🎸 8:48pm
MarkTime:

I can't see doing this with a full script ... maybe an outline, or a few key words?
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:50pm
Austin Rich:

I was thinking an outline, and then "keywords" for lines he wants to nail. But who can say?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:53pm
Krys O.:

It may be a monologue, but it's conversational like a phone call with an entertaining friend.
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Austin Rich:

It has a lot of the same qualities of classic monologues... and some of the same qualities of improvising. Probably both?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:54pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Jean Shepard, the greatest talker that was ever on the radio
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Austin Rich:

Thanks for a great show, Mark! I love this kind of radio.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:55pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

SHITTYFLUTE!
Avatar 8:56pm
Mr Fab:

Aaron: hahaha
Avatar 🎸 8:56pm
MarkTime:

And, Shepherd could go off-track into something else teehee
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Austin Rich:

"Pooey-flute," as Vicki would say.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:57pm
Aitch:

Could talk underwater this bloke.

I do love a Hearty White monologue on the mothership, but his show on in work hours so too hard to follow and be productive.
Upholding the tradition
Avatar Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Krys O.:

Thanks, MarkTime & Austin!
Avatar 🎸 8:59pm
MarkTime:

You're welcome, Austin and Krys, and thanks Austin
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 8:59pm
Kat in Chicago:

That hour went fast!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Krys O.:

Mid-Valley Mutations is thisaway: wfmu.org...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 9:01pm
Aaron in Minneapolis:

Krys. O, if Mr. Fab would let me fill in for one of the wiggles, I could replay my smashmouth show here
Avatar 🎸 9:01pm
MarkTime:

And then we fly into the night, and into Austin's show
Avatar 9:01pm
Mr Fab:

Great stuff, thx Mark!
Avatar 🎸 9:02pm
MarkTime:

You're welcome!
Avatar 🎸 Swag For Life Member 9:02pm
WR:

Yes, it went so fast! Thank you! Mark! For the curated recordings, not for making the hour go so fast, getting worried about a lack of time left.
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