Jean Shepherd reads: 'A Christmas Story' 1974

[Mike Teacher]

<p>The movie 'A Christmas Story' was brought up on the last R+F show, and Heckler mentioned that it was originally a story written by radio icon Jean Shepherd in his book 'In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash'.</p><p>The story, titled&nbsp;'Duel in the Snow' or 'Red Ryder Nails the Cleaveland Street Kid' first appeared in Playboy December of 1965.</p><p>Shepherd would read it on Christmas Eve on his WOR radio show.</p><p>I have the audio of the 1974 Christmas Eve reading, and since it's Public Domain, I put it up as a download on my My Space page, in two parts, each about 5 MB. Its about 45 mins long total.</p><p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/mikeblackgonogo" target="_blank">Link to Audio Here</a></p><p>=</p><p>For me, and other shep fans and radio-nerds like me, a cool read, he narrated the movie so the voice is familiar,&nbsp;but you hear a very different version of the story. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

Thanks Mike.....I used to listen to Jean every weekday night on WOR at 10:15pm....I was in high school at the time .....man that brought back memories...thanks again and Merry Christmas, Michael!!!

[OGC]

<p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Thanks for the files. I have a crapload of Jean Shepherd show in mp3 format but hadn't been able to dig this out.</font></p><p><font face="comic sans ms,sand" size="2">Just like Reeshy said, it brought back some good memories.</font></p>