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September 8, 2007
This week on A Prairie Home Companion: As we prepare the hay bales, the outdoor stage, and the mountains of meatloaf for next week's season opener and street dance at the Fitzgerald Theater, we bring you a special back-to-school rebroadcast compilation. With fight songs, pep bands, and Latin lessons, we cheer the return to academic life. Bob Dorough sings "3 is a Magic Number," Kate MacKenzie sings the old Carter Family song "Schoolhouse on the Hill," and at Lake Wobegon High School, Ms. Lewis retires from teaching English after 55 years. It's all about school this week, so please remember your number two pencils and spiral bound notebooks. There will be a quiz.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | Logo |
| 00:00:12 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:56 | GK Intro
| | 00:05:12 | Donald Hall reads excerpt from "The Old Life" |
| 00:08:03 | "Schoolhouse on the Hill" - GK, Kate MacKenzie, Pat Donohue, Stevie Beck |
| 00:11:01 | GK Intro Purdue Varsity Glee Club |
| 00:12:16 | Glee Club sings the Ambien ingredient list, names from the Lafayette phonebook, and "Stout-Hearted Men" (with new lyrics) |
| 00:18:19 | The Fred Newman School of Audio Realism script |
| 00:24:13 | "College Blues" - Pat Donohue with The Guy’s All-Star Shoe Band |
| 00:26:59 | GK Intro Powdermilk |
| 00:28:10 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break with VocalEssence Fight Songs |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:33:44 | Prof. Robert Sonkowsky reads from "Cicero" |
| 00:38:07 | "University Stomp" - Andy Stein and Shoes |
| 00:41:30 | Guy Noir script (Term Paper Scam) |
| 00:54:11 | GK Intermission Credits/ Intermission |
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| Segment 3 |
| 00:58:39 | GK Welcome Back |
| 00:59:50 | "3 Is a Magic Number" - Bob Dorough and Shoes |
| 01:04:20 | The Lives of the Cowboys script |
| 01:15:20 | Marvin and Mavis Smiley sing the University of Virginia fight song |
| 01:17:57 | GK Intro Vince Lombardi Madrigal |
| 01:18:57 | "Vince Lombardi Madrigal" - Bemidji Chamber Singers |
| 01:20:35 | English Majors script |
| 01:22:35 | GK Intro Young script |
| 01:23:45 | Young script |
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| Segment 4 |
| 01:34:31 | The News From Lake Wobegon |
| 01:53:15 | "Lake Wobegon School Hymn" - GK and Shoes |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:56:38 | GK Credits |
| 01:57:59 | "Wipe Out" - Red Line Swingers a.k.a. Bemidji Hockey Pep Band |
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Russ Ringsak and Robin Williams |
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| I hear that old piano... |
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GK speaks with Becky Schlegel |
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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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