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July 14, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, another summertime rebroadcast featuring a few shows from Town Hall in New York, April 2005. Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain are with us, as is Vince Giordano. Odetta sings a wonderful World War I-era song called "Rich Man," André Watts plays Ravel, and Renée Fleming recalls her high school musical debut in the "Sound of Music". Meanwhile, in Lake Wobegon, the high school play was cancelled under student protest...
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | APM Logo Open |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:56 | GK Open |
| 00:03:02 | "Happy Feet," Vince Giordano and The Nighthawks
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| 00:05:45 | "Radio" script
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| 00:25:20 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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| 00:26:39 | GK intros Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain
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| 00:28:14 | "Johnny's Tune," Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain
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| 00:32:45 | GK talks more with Phil and Aly
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:34:46 | Jig Set: "Charlie Hunter's Jig," "The Mouse In The Cupboard," "The Rosewood," Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain
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| 00:37:30 | "Guy Noir" script
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| 00:54:42 | GK intros Andre Watts
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| 00:55:47 | "Oiseaux Tristes (Sad Birds)," "Schlaf Los, Frage und Andwort (Sleep Less, Question and Answer)," Andre Watts
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| 01:04:13 | Intermission
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:04:21 | GK Intermission Credits |
| 01:06:18 | NETCUE |
| 01:07:58 | GK intros and talks with Renee Fleming
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| 01:14:10 | "When Did You Leave Heaven," Renee Fleming
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| 01:17:22 | "You've Changed," Renee Fleming
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:21:43 | The News From Lake Wobegon
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:38:01 | "Rock The Babies To Sleep/ Mamou Two-Step," Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain |
| 01:41:15 | "Lives of the Cowboys" script
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| 01:51:11 | "Fritz Electronics" script
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| 01:54:14 | GK talks with Odetta
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| 01:54:57 | "Rich Man," Odetta
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| 01:58:54 | APM Logo |
| 01:58:59 | OUT |
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Photos from the show
Click images to view slideshow. (Photos taken by Melissa Sperl)
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| Garrison chats with pianist André Watts. |
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Soprano Renée Fleming, singing "When Did You Leave Heaven?" |
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| Garrison sings with Renée Fleming. |
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Renée Fleming steps into the part of Renata Flabée, for the Guy Noir script. |
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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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