Jean Shepherd Strikes Again!

[@shannonlinville6192]

Shep’s the Best... Excelsior ! Fans 4-Ever.

[@kevinwiegers1680]

Jean Shepard in St. Louis - this is fantastic! Driving in traffic...fishing downtown in the Mississippi...canned applause - pure genius!

[@kevinanderson7613]

What a weird show! Jean Shepherd was great! What were reviews like at the time, did they make multiple episodes? I think you'd have to understand Jean to get this show, I bet there were some confused viewers.

[@c.a.g.3130]

Boy, I must say, Shep is da bomb on every level. The guy could send me into reverie listening to him at night on WOR 710 but, seriously, the guy really had a face for radio. That VOICE was magic, but the spell required your mind, your imagination. TV sucked the life out of it. Even "A Christmas Story" is captivating because, and only because, we hear but never SEE Shep (except his one little cameo as the cranky parent at the head of the line waiting for Santa: "The line STARTS here; it ENDS there!") I would soooo much prefer to just be intoxicated by his mellifluous voice and dream of what visage accompanied it than to have it all delivered on a platter, spoon fed, tv-style. Barry Farber the same: heavenly pipes that, on audio alone, brought bliss (Barry did have a folksy mug to go with it, but it wasn't required to get the effect).

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

Wow, what a captivating analysis of a pure, brilliant man. Thank you.

[@c.a.g.3130]

@@rudolphguarnacci197 My pleasure!

[@Peter-pv8xx]

Shep was great in any medium he did, I never heard of this show, but how many out there ever saw a show he did for WNJN public tv in NJ called Shepherds pie?

[@MrAwesomedude808]

I will aways know him as the voice of part of my childhood-the man who voiced father in Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress.

[@Undercoverelevator212-s2n]

Of course! Because you're a Carousel of Progress fanboy!

[@jpmerrick8886]

Genius

[@Pittie21]

Audio is not working

[@RWildekrav66]

Flick LIVES …….EXCELSIOR !!!

[@shawnwhitehead3062]

Google once again proves it doesn't care anything about the people they allegedly serve where's the clean audio you're supposedly computer Corporation and you can't figure out how to put car audio out there

[@philmfan]

Are commenters actually boo-hooing that Shepherd isn't pretty and his radio show is better? Yeah, he's a storyteller and therefore the stories when told 100% vocally are richer, better. Obvious much, crybabies? This is a specialized product, a little extra content, not an attempt to make a classic. Learn to understand things in proper perspective. Some of these people sound insulted, personally injured that this even exists. Weird.

[@carolm3468]

no volume!

[@hornet6969]

NO AUDIO...VOLUME IS EXTREMELY LOW...UNINTELLIGIBLE

[@doctorvoiceover6582]

please fix the sound. listening in mono is impossible

[@Jeff_AA8HF]

Yes. The channels are opposite polarity. Easily fixed. If the channel doesn't have the tools to do it I volunteer to fix it for them.

[@Moosekarloff1]

Shepherd should have stuck to radio. He has no on-camera appeal, and his delivery is not suited to TV. A great humorist, undoubtedly, but out of his depth as a visual presenter.

[@oneworldobservatoryexplore6702]

+Moosekarloff1 True

[@russphilly]

+One World Observatory Explorer ..you are so right,,,I use to listen to him for years...from WOR in New York...but this...not good

[@muziktrkr]

I think this was just a special, because he had movies on PBS he was able to do "Jean Shepherd's America" on PBS as a miniseries. He was never as good as he was on the radio, even his live shows in front of an audience didn't have the same impact. He would have had success in podcasting. Thankfully the radio shows have been uploaded so people can enjoy them.

[@MrAwesomedude808]

He did do the latest version of the carousel of Progress!

[@georgei3401]

muziktrkr I in

[@jpmerrick8886]

Genius