{"id":2105,"date":"2016-05-08T09:56:38","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2016-05-08T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T09:56:38","slug":"the-long-john-nebel-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/?p=2105","title":{"rendered":"The Long John Nebel Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Long John Nebel Collection<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For your listening pleasure here then is a fella who as far back as the mid 1950s was doing radio in ways that were not surpassed until decades down the road. <\/p>\n<p>He was an early pioneer of what we might now call talk radio. In new territory he  let all topics  on the air, allowed the guest to go on for hours about their passions and on occasion would simply leave the studio  and let the guests take over. <\/p>\n<p>He quickly become the show that took on the topics most people  of that time hardly heard on the airwaves. UFOs, government cover ups, psychic telepathy as well as skeptics to put all claims to the flame. <\/p>\n<p>Jackie Gleason was on one night talking about his brush with UFOs, authors Lester Del Rey and Arthur C Clarke would show up to  be the skeptics voice, Jean Shepherd would  drop by to spin more yarns and over several shows Otis T Carr planned, built and tested his flying saucer. Spoiler, not so much flying was to be had. <\/p>\n<p>Long John would not only cover hoaxes, pranksters and various charlatans he would often dive right in with  his own creations.  One show of note gets to the bottoms of the famous I Libertine book publishing hoax.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a whirl, I pushed a cleaned up set up onto <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\">archive.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf<\/p>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att\">\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-title\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomwsmf\/status\/729243244647710720\" target=\"_blank\">The self described.. on Twitter: &#8220;Long John Nebel  made great radio (50&#8217;s-70&#8217;s) on a plethora of topics. #otr #radio #ufo   &#8220;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-img\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomwsmf\/status\/729243244647710720\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/0Q8Z9w4YPtyRmU73oMgMefbZ0COV1KSIojdEcXNUAIdUkTqCEIUHGq933iKnX6TDabP1MMngO6zqaDoHdKRo=w506-h910\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-att-txt\">\n<p>Long John Nebel made great radio (50&#8217;s-70&#8217;s) on a plethora of topics. #otr #radio #ufo https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheLongJohnNebelCollection \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Embedded image. 2:35 AM &#8211; 8 May 2016. Reply to @tomwsmf \u00c2\u00b7 Home \u00c2\u00b7 Sign up \u00c2\u00b7 Log in \u00c2\u00b7 Search \u00c2\u00b7 About. More like this; Less like this &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"g-crossposting-backlink\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TomHiggins\/posts\/4NEjjPNKeJF\" target=\"_blank\">This was posted on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Long John Nebel Collection For your listening pleasure here then is a fella who as far back as the mid 1950s was doing radio in ways that were not surpassed until decades down the road. He was an early pioneer of what we might now call talk radio. In new territory he let all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomwsmf.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}