JeanShepherdNetcast: Omnivore Shep Playlist

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Omnivore Shep Playlist

16 comments:

ShepFan said...: Nice job! That must have been a lot of work.

FWIW, The 1973-1977 archives are just files I quickly threw in as placeholders. For instance, I'm uploading the 1973 batch right now, and "19730102ReformedShepandNJ.mp3" is being replaced with "1973_01_02_Reformed_Shep_and_NJ.mp3" and 153 other files.

I usually point people to one of the podcast aggregators when they want a simple, non-podcast list of episodes to download. This is better, because you've got all the "future" Brass Figlagee episodes as well!; 7:51 AM
Unknown said...: Howdy, There is still a bunch of clean up I need to do, marking the rest of the LimeLight shows and fixing some of the CSS on the yahoo player. Let me know if anything needs adding or subtracting and I will keep it uptodate.

Thanks for putting all the shows up on Archive.org. Having them all up there is a real boon to being able to do stuff like this.

Keep your knees loose.; 9:44 AM
ShepFan said...: It looks like you have most or all of the main URLs for the archive.org uploads. As you may have noticed, I learned as I went along, and started putting whole years in one spot. So, you should have all the "base" URLS there will even be (like /JeanShepherd1974/) though they'll fill up with shows when the podcast gets to them (the 1974 shows, for example). Be sure to check /JeanShepherdUndated/. It's another placeholder, but eventually it'll have a bunch of files in it.

Here one to add. Other than this one you're good all the way up to 1960, and a quick scan looks good from there:

http://www.archive.org/download/1953_01_24.mp3_1/19530124.mp3

The /JeanShepherd1973/ folder is all stocked up now. Scrape away!

If you want to do a sanity check, just download the podcast's RSS file and check through the URLs. Starting in 1960, I broke the year up into 2 or 3 base URLs, and in 1966 I started doing one base URL per year. I've thought about going back and cleaning it all up (and adding artwork and volume leveling to the older shows) but it would have some untidy side effects. Breaking your Playlist (at least before 1966) would be one of them!

I did just delete one, "1972_09_19_Bad_Taste", which I never put into the podcast feed. It was a subset of "1972_09_19_Bad_Taste_Night_restored".

To answer a question you asked on the BF podcast site, the Shep Archives is on indefinite hiatus. The former proprietor, Charles H., announced it on the Yahoo Shep group. He was tired of people hacking his site and having to rebuild it. An English Shep fan offered to take it over and host it in the UK. I know the men met and data discs changed hands, but the new guy couldn't commit to a timetable. Their plan was to transfer ownership of the shep-archives.com domain as well, so perhaps it will someday come back to its old home.

Putting the shows on archive.org is a big task, but it was an easy decision. Charles was buying about 200G of bandwidth a month for shep-archives. That might be cheap now, but not so much back then. Ourmedia.org offers permanent, free storage of media files, using archive.org as a backend. I had been thinking of creating something that I wanted to have myself: a podcast with a "new" show every day, so I could listen regularly, just like the good old days. When the Jean Shepherd Project went on their hiatus in January 2006 (which continues to this day), I got started.

I'll be out of public-domain files some time in 2009, and after that the podcast will remain online for anyone who wants to stream, download, or use an MP3 player to listen to all the old Shep I could get my hands on. Free!; 2:02 PM
Anonymous said...: What a gem of a website for those of us mature enough to remember Jean Shepherd and the great Long John Nebel too. To hear these interviews in uninterrupted context is terrific.
A tremendous undertaking.This has to be a real labor of love by a real "radiophile".Many thanks.; 5:35 PM
Unknown said...: i'm not sure whether this site is stll active- but anyway, I'm wondering whether the last WOR show is posted somewhere on the 'Net, or even if Shep realized it was his final show. I can't imagine a farewell that would have been adequate, and leaving apparantly wasn't his decision. Dave waltham3@yahoo.com; 7:03 PM
Wondering said...: This seems to be defective - will STOP a playlist:

WOR - 1960_07_02_Living_In_The_Future; 10:05 AM
Wondering said...: This seems to be defective - will STOP a playlist:

WOR - 1960_07_02_Living_In_The_Future; 10:06 AM
twood said...: I've been a Shep fan for many years going back to his early days on WOR. I listen to a "Shep-A-Day" selection every evening.

For the past week, when I open your site, I get an "Unresponsive script" warning which takes a minute to clear after clicking "continue". I am using Firefox 4.0.1.; 8:22 AM
Dave said...: Thank you for these broadcasts...Jean certainly knows how to entertain us...He goes from one theme to another and then ties them all together...Wonderful
Dave St.Germain
CT.; 6:24 PM
Dave said...: Wonderful broadcasts.Thank you for posting.A true entertainer and pioneer in radio...Could listen all night.; 6:26 PM
Wednesday Again said...: thanks Tom for all of this. are there any other shows out there that might be appearing here in the future? thank you again for making available to all this great pleasure.; 6:07 PM
Unknown said...: Great site.
I used to listen to Jean shepherd in the late 60's (66-68) on the late KRAB in Seattle,one of the nations first community radio stations (62 -84). The story goes that one of the people at KRAB was from NYC and knew jean shepherd. Because of this connection he mailed them tapes of some of his favorite show. Among these shows were ones about the "cherry sisters", "green pickle color car paint job", lightning striking people more than once,and others I can't remember now. This is how a boy in Seattle knew anything about Shep.

When KRAB sold their frequency to a commercial station in 1984 and went off the air, the money received went to form the "Jack Straw Foundation" now located near the Univ of Washington in Seattle. I have confirmed that they still have these tapes but have not done anything with them. I assume you would be interested in them and I would be happy to help you obtain and put them onto your archives.

Do you for example know of the show Jean did about the Cherry sisters, a singing act made up of some old maid sisters who thought they were great, but in fact were so bad that they became famous in the mid west, where people would go to shout and boo and throw fruit and vegetables at them through a chicken wire screen, like the scene from the Blues Brothers film with the "good old boys".

My other favorite show was about how Jean bought a used car (of course) that needed a paint job, He proceeds in his usual meandering fashion to tell how he scraped together the money to pay a shop to paint this car before a big date, only to get it at the last minute to see it was painted a horrendous pickle green color. Do you know of this one as well?

let me know if you are interested in getting these tapes.

orcavine@gmail.com; 1:56 PM
snotty webbie said...: While I'm here, perhaps a "Hail Mary" request for a date might find a fellow ShepHead who remembers this one that I have kept in the dusty storeroom of memory lo these 5 decades or so.

Anyone got a clue what night Shep went on about riding bicycles in the slipstream of trailer trucks and getting caught going so fast he (and Flick?) had to keep peddling to the next town??

Or maybe a link to some other forum for us folks that might help me find the answer?

Excelsior. Hey, son c'mon, Loretta Young is starting!!; 9:40 AM
Unknown said...: Shep learned only after his last show that it was to be his final broadcast on WOR. Not unusual in radio.; 9:21 PM
Unknown said...: Sorry it took so long but i have fixed

1960 07 02 Living In The Future

which is now pointing to

http://ia600504.us.archive.org/7/items/JeanShepherdLivingInTheFuture/19600702LivingInTheFuture.mp3

enjoy; 12:42 AM
Unknown said...: You can now get the list in a nice neat and ready to play files.

http://tomwsmf.com/otr/JeanShepherd/OmnivoreShepPlaylist.m3u

Grab this and open it up in your music player of choice that can understand the m3u file structure, which lets face it is just a list of urls:)-.

Enjoy.; 1:20 AM