Jean Shepherd: Security Blankets Review
Listening to our great leader's selected shows from years ago is very uplifting, and I am collecting all that are available. His candor and often unique point of view is what got me through some difficult teenage and young adult years, and I enjoy hearing his voice whenever I can.
Jean Shepherd: Security Blankets Overview
Radio Again is pleased to present 4 classic radio performances by raconteur Jean Shepherd from the archives of Hartwest Productions.
In Security Blankets , Jean Shepherd expounds on the joy of working in radio, monster movies, the beauty of the kazoo, his quick-change artistry as a theater performer, and on human illusions, foibles, and impenetrable human complexity. What is your security blanket? This is vintage Shepherd -- humorous, serious, witty, clever and silly all in the same show!
Includes liner notes with excerpts from the biography EXCELSIOR, YOU FATHEAD! The Art and Enigma of JEAN SHEPHERD By Eugene B. Bergmann.
The radio programs in this collection, long lost and forgotten, were created in the mid 1960 s by Shepherd for radio and television syndicator Hartwest Productions in the format heard on Shepherd s WOR shows of the day, right down to his familiar Bahn Frei theme music.
4 Audio CDs - Digitally Remastered and Restored. Each program is approximately 44 minutes. Total running time approximately 3 hours.
CD 1 The Best Job In The World
CD 2 Scut
CD 3 Foretelling The Future
CD 4 Security Blankets
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Customer Reviews
Great to hear Shep, even with second-rate material - Mark Lore - Virginia, USA
I've been a Jean Shepherd fan since my high school days in N.J., when he was at his radio prime out of New York City. This collection of Cd's captures his inimitable personality, his infectious laugh and his general sense of the absurd. Unfortunately, it has none of the semi-autobiographical reminiscence that made "A Christmas Story" such a popular favorite and which mark Shepard's most memorable work, at least for me. Perhaps this is only available in the printed form -- check out, for example, "A Fistful of Fig Newtons" A Fistful of Fig Newtons. But even second-rate Shepherd is worth the price! Technically, my only complaint -- which others have made as well -- is that the producers did not insert tracks, so that there's no way to go directly to favorite sections of these 45-minute programs.
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