Starter of this subject: louie johnson
Last post in this subject: 10/17/1999
Messages in this subject: 4
| louie johnson | 10/17/1999 4 replies |
| Of course, it would happen eventually, but it still shocks. I listened to Shepherd religiously for about 12 years beginning in 1966 when I was in high school. More than any other person in my life the humor and attitudes that govern my life to this day. I saw him perform live 3 times and chatted briefly with him and Leigh Brown before one performance. He was a masterful storyteller and a good man. We will miss you, Shepherd. Excelsior, you fathead! "Louie" Johnson |
| Bob Flood | 12/3/1999 3 replies |
| How sad to lose a story teller that could speak from the heart and touch both your heart and funnybone at the same time. My family and I love to watch two movies during the holiday season. The first is "Its a Wonderful Life" and the second is "The Christmas Story". Both look at life in wonderful ways and I think teaches us that the greatest gift of life is life... I bet George Bailey wanted a Red Ryder BB gun too! Even if he could put his eyes out with it! |
| Jim Stokes | 7/28/2000 2 replies |
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I got in the habit of listening to Jean Shepherd while I was i stationed in the army in New York City. He was a great favorite of we draftees stationed at Fort Jay, Governor's Island, in the early 60's. I recall his experiences in the army. "A big deal was to go to the PX for a Mars Bar," he' d say. We would let go with some of Shep's phrases to the aggravation of the active army types.
I may get around to writing about my experiences in NYC while in the army. Certainly no MASH or CATCH 22 type scenarios. But adventures after all. Jim Stokes |
| Nate Williams | 7/28/2000 1 replies |
| Jean Shepard was also a licensed amateur radio operator with call letters K2ORS. Besides the great humor he displayed over WOR about his beloved Chicago White Sox and growing up in Indiana he wrote some great ditties about amateur radio in the ham journals. The world needs more people who can laugh at themselves. I'll always remember Ralphie, the Annie decoder and "D-R-I-N-K M-O-R-E O-V-A-L-T-I-N-E" You'll shoot your eye out kid - ho ho ho |
| Don Stoffel | 12/14/2000 0 replies |
| My first encounter with JS was a very late night (all-night) show over WLW, Cincinatti, back in the 50's. I happened on it by chance while "surfing" one night, and was intrigued. He often referred to his Army rank as a T-5 (Technician, 5th Grade) and had been posted to a radar unit. His monologues took on a stream-of-consciousness flavor. I then began to see his stories periodically (no pun) in Playboy magazine, and from there, got ahold of several of his books ("In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash," "The World of George Ade," etc.) Though I was 5 years younger than JS, his recounting his childhood and adolescent misadventures hit home; I was raised in a small town about 170 miles from Hammond (his "Hohman, Indiana") and experienced the same soot-stained snow, etc., from the local railroad yards. I was a great fan of his PBS-TV series, "Jean Shepherd's America." He was one of a kind; |