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March 17, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're live from the Town Hall in New York City. With special guests, jazzman Bob Dorough, bluegrass specialist Jen Larson, and tenor Vern Sutton. Sitting in with the Shoe Band, we've got tubist Dave Bargeron and fiddler John Niemann. And in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day, we'll expect everyone to sing along with some great traditional Irish songs (bring a hanky) and you'll hear the hilarious story of Danny, the tenor whose voice went flatter than week-old green beer. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Acting, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and the News from Lake Wobegon. It's all new this week on A Prairie Home Companion, live from West 43rd Street.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:13 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:02:40 | GK talks about the snow in New York, riding the subway, Bush leaving office in a year- what is he going to do? St. Patrick's Day |
| 00:06:44 | "Sheebeg and Sheemore" - Pat Donohue |
| 00:08:30 | F Train script |
| 00:11:28 | "Lucky 13" - Shoe Band |
| 00:14:22 | GK intros Jen Larson |
| 00:15:33 | "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing" - GK, Jen Larson and band |
| 00:19:00 | IM script |
| 00:23:35 | GK introduces KT Sullivan |
| 00:24:56 | "Dreaming" - KT Sullivan and Tedd Firth |
| 00:28:45 | GK talks to KT |
| 00:29:54 | "Come Back To Erin" / "I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen" / "Kathleen Mavourneen" - KT Sullivan |
| 00:34:29 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break / "Sweet Georgia Brown" |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:37:12 | GK talks with Dave Bargeron |
| 00:37:36 | Guy Noir script |
| 00:54:47 | "Satan's Jewel Crown" - GK, Jen Larson, band |
| 00:59:36 | Intermission/"It's A Sin To Tell A Lie" |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:04:07 | Greetings |
| 01:07:49 | "Irish Blues" - Pat Donohue |
| 01:11:00 | GK intros Bob Dorough |
| 01:11:53 | "Ole Buttermilk Sky" - Bob Dorough and Shoe Band |
| 01:14:04 | "Memphis in June" - Bob Dorough and Shoe Band |
| 01:18:36 | Rhubarb script |
| 01:25:20 | GK talks with KT Sullivan and Vern Sutton |
| 01:26:23 | "All The Things You Are" - Vern Sutton and KT Sullivan with Tedd Firth |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:29:13 | News From Lake Wobegon |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:46:44 | "Baltimore Oriole" - Bob Dorough |
| 01:51:24 | Talent Show Announcement |
| 01:52:09 | Catchup script |
| 01:56:00 | Credits into "While We're Young" - GK, Bob Dorough, KT Sullivan, band |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Kevan Olesen)
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Dave Bargeron joins the Shoe Band this week |
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| Our fearless music director, Rich Dworsky |
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Jen Larson with "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing" |
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| KT Sullivan sings about "Dreaming" |
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Vern Sutton as Danny O'Danny |
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On July 4th, help us celebrate the 35th Anniversary of A Prairie Home Companion and the Fourth of July with a free live nationally broadcast show from Avon, MN.
From Garrison Keillor:
“When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare’s Sonnet No. 29, ‘When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state’ for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.”
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Robin & Linda Williams are among the most popular guest performers of A Prairie Home Companion (they also appeared in the movie, have performed as part of the The Hopeful Gospel Quartet, and made appearances as Marvin & Mavis Smiley). This CD features some of the duo's best harmonies from the show. Among the 12 tracks are familiar fan favorites, including "For Better or Worse", "Visions of Mother and Dad", "Tied Down, Home Free" and the title track. A collection that is muy bueno!
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