Shorty Petterstein has been played on NTS shows including Algorythms w/ Nelly Chevaillier, with Guitar For Sale first played on 22 June 2023.

Shorty Petterstein was an alter ego of Henry Jacobs, used for the 1958 album "The Wide, Weird World of Shorty Petterstein".

Henry Sandy Jacobs (October 9, 1924 – September 25, 2015) was an American sound artist and humorist. Jacobs was born in Chicago, Illinois. After a tour in the Air Corps —during which time he acquired some broadcast experience— he graduation from the University of Chicago, he then moved to Mexico City. There, around 1950, he appeared on Mexican radio station XEW and…