Those Jean Shepherd CD’s from Radio Again will go to Alan Kaye of Egg Harbor Township, NJ!
Mr. Kaye will receive “The X Random Factor” (“8 complete and unabridged classic radio performances by raconteur Jean Shepherd from the archives of Hartwest Productions.”)
And “Don’t Be A Leaf,” in which the master radio storyteller holds forth 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.”
Kaye will get 12 unabridged recordings of some of Jean Shepherd’s best work. NINE total hours of humor from the man who brought you “A Christmas Story!”
Congratulations to our winner! And THANKS to all who entered!
A reader, Kliph Nesteroff, writes: Jean Shepherd never did stand-up in the traditional sense, but he did do speaking tours in the same vein that Al Capp did. A comedy record of one of these campus talks by Shepherd was released at the end of the 1960s on Mercury Records titled “The DeClassified Jean Shepherd: The People Have a Right to Know.” Added to the record are some strange psychedelic effects at the start in which Shepherd’s voice is looped and echoed to some garage guitar music. Thanks, Kliph! (Kliph Nesteroff is a Vancouver based comedian, poet, and record collector. His publication, “Generation Exploitation,” covering the world of unusual film and forgotten vinyl records has garnered praise from Vancouver to Baltimore and “sheds light on things that nerds, generally, take too seriously.” –Ultra8.ca)