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September 16, 2006
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, our final summer repeat!! A compilation featuring two shows, one to be recorded this week in Chicago from the Gary Comer Youth Center. Gary Comer is the founder of Land's End, a longtime friend to APHC, and one of our nation's great philanthropists. Featured on that show will be gospel singer Jearlyn Steele, award winning pianist Reginald Robinson, world music journeymen Radio Maqam, Chicago community builders The South Shore Drill Team, and our own Rich Dworksy and Fred Newman. The second show is one we did in Chicago in 2002 from the Auditorium Theater, featuring the great American author, historian, and broadcaster Studs Terkel, legendary jazz figure Franz Jackson, and the hero of the modern harmonica, Howard Levy. Join us this Saturday for a very special Chicago windstorm of a show. We promise you'll be blown away.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues, opening credits |
| 00:03:20 | GK talks about Gary Comer, how he was our benefactor in 1993, |
| 00:04:38 | Philanthropist script |
| 00:07:20 | GK talks with Jearlyn Steele, intros the Gary Comer Youth Center voices |
| 00:08:28 | "Lean On Me" - Jearlyn Steele, Richard Dworsky, and the Gary Comer Youth Center Voices |
| 00:12:06 | "Oh, Happy Day" - the Gary Comer Youth Center Voices |
| 00:15:15 | Gary Comer SFX script |
| 00:30:57 | GK introduces the South Shore Drill Team |
| 00:33:40 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:35:05 | "Got My Mojo Workin'" - Howard Levy and Shoe Band |
| 00:37:25 | GK talks about Chicago, convention speeches |
| 00:42:05 | "On The Sunny Side of the Street" - Franz Jackson and Shoe Band |
| 00:46:10 | GK intros Studs Terkel, Cooking With Studs |
| 00:51:10 | Catchup script |
| 00:53:52 | GK talks more about Chicago, famous sites, Chicago Auditorium Theater |
| 00:54:55 | "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" - Franz Jackson and Shoe Band |
| 00:58:28 | Intermission- After You've Gone |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:03:25 | GK introduces Radio Maquam |
| 01:08:02 | End of the World script |
| 01:14:30 | GK introduces Reginald Robinson |
| 01:16:30 | "Maple Leaf Rag" - Reginald Robinson |
| 01:19:19 | GK talks with Reginald Robinson |
| 01:21:16 | "So Deeply" - Reginald Robinson |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:25:25 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:41:39 | Radio Maquam |
| 01:46:15 | GK talks about Franz Jackson |
| 01:46:38 | "Lulu's Back in Town" - Franz Jackson and Shoes |
| 01:50:17 | Jearlyn and GK talk about the Staples singers |
| 01:51:30 | "I'll Take You There" - Jearlyn Steele, Richard Dworsky, Christopher Johnson, and Gary Comer Youth Center Voices |
| 01:55:17 | Credits |
| 01:56:33 | "Lean on Me" - Jearlyn Steele, Gary Comer Youth Center Voices |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Russ Ringsak)
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| Jearlyn Steele and the Gary Comer Youth Center's Center Voices |
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GK takes his microphone out into the audience |
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| The impressive South Shore Drill Team |
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The "Hulky" shadow of Fred Newman |
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| Reginald Robinson talks about tickling the ivories with GK |
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Our sound engineers Thomas Scheuzger and Sam Hudson |
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