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Jean Shepherd: Don't Be a Leaf | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean Shepherd
Publisher: Radio Again
Category: Book
Buy New: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 487810
Format: Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 097708194X
Dewey Decimal Number: 814
EAN: 9780977081943
ASIN: 097708194X
Publication Date: February 15, 2006
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Product Description
Radio Again is pleased to present 4 classic radio performances by raconteur Jean Shepherd from the archives of Hartwest Productions. In Don't Be A Leaf, Jean Shepherd muses on the impact of dirty glasses, shopping for cars with the old man, flyswatters, growing up with the White Sox and the great divide between Southside and Northside baseball fans. Shepherd asks the questions; are you the rider or the ridden? A leaf or a tree? What is the Master Plan Illusion and what is your Master Plan? So friends, sit back and enjoy this collection. Keep smiling, keep your knees loose, and dont give them a sitting target! 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. Includes liner notes with excerpts from EXCELSIOR, YOU FATHEAD! The Art and Enigma of JEAN SHEPHERD by Eugene B. Bergmann. 4 Audio CDs - Digitally remastered and restored. Each program is approximately 44 minutes. Total running time approximately 3 hours. Includes:
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 Flick Lives! December 14, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was in junior high shool in New York during the 60's. Each night I made sure to be in bed by 10:15pm so I could turn on my radio and listen to Jean Shepherd's show. Some shows were better than other's, but I enjoyed them all. If you haven't listened to him before, do so now. It's great to hear about Scutt Farkas, Grover Dill, Flick, Schwartz, The Bumpuses, W.C. Snelgrove and other great characters. They've got to make you laugh.
 Needs a better CD set up November 18, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I like Jean Shepherd when I listen to him. I love to read him. I think Garrsion Keillor does a better job of radio presentation, but definitely took his lead from Shepherd. Shepherd, on the other hand, is the much better writer--light years ahead of Keillor.
What frustrated me most about this CD was that if I had to stop listening at any point in the, I couldn't just select the track where I'd left off and begin from that point. I had to go back to the beginning. It's irritating, and took away from my enjoyment of this. I think using the commercial breaks Shepherd takes in his show would be a natural breaking point, allowing the listener to take up where they left off.
So for the production company that put this together, may I suggest going back and reformatting this entire collection, because I'm betting you did it on all the other Shepherd cds you've made available.
 loathesome October 13, 2007
0 out of 21 found this review helpful
If you love this guy, you can have him. I never liked his "appearances" on NPR's "All Things Considered," although I found THE CHRISTMAS STORY movie mildy amusing. People assured me I had to hear his original shows to understand his genius and all I know now is I'm roughly 50 bucks poorer for the effort. I return to my original impression (from almost 30 years ago) : the man was a witless lacrymose gasbag with an oedipal complex and absolutely nothing original or interesting to say. And he seems to be in love with himself as he jabbers on, chortling at his own "jokes" and generally coming off like a hick town Lenny Bruce wannabe. Boring, irritating and not funny. At least not to me.
flick lives February 21, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
as the master of the radio once put it, the transmision will go on for infinity traveling out into space and you only need the electronics to listen in again and again. we dont have to leave the comfort of the planet to catch his radio shows, a wonderful slice of the good life spitting out of those little coaxial drivers. recommended but from a person who cannot get enough jean shepherd.
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