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March 22, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll bring you a special compilation show just for kids. Spring Break has befallen many homes, and left parents with disgruntled, bored and increasingly rowdy children. Our solution? Make them sit down and listen to the radio, tie their shoelaces together if necessary. There will be all sorts of sound-effects: car chases, toilets flushing, big birds of prey, and despite the numerous complaints we received from listeners after the Joke Show, a foray or two into flatulence. We've got a classic princess segment with Kate MacKenzie and Maria Jette in pink taffeta, and a chicken segment with Geoff Muldaur's "Chicken Song." Plus, Inga Swearingen's "Hush Little Baby," and Randy Newman sings a song from "Toy Story". It's a show, not for easily offended adults who relish their outrage, but for the free-thinking kids, who can still find joy in unexpected places, and know how to take a joke.
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| Segment 1 |
| 00:00:00 | APHC Logo Open |
| 00:00:12 | "Tishomingo Blues" |
| 00:00:55 | GK Open |
| 00:03:41 | "Sushi Song," Pat Donohue and Shoes |
| 00:06:14 | SFX script (Sound-Effects Man's Children) |
| 00:10:33 | "Don't Pick Your Nose," GK and Shoes |
| 00:13:26 | Old Time Radio script |
| 00:21:23 | "Everybody Is Somebody," Taj Mahal |
| 00:25:21 | GK Powdermilk Intro |
| 00:25:54 | Powdermilk Break |
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| Segment 2 |
| 00:27:06 | "When She Loved Me" from "Toy Story 2," Maria Jette |
| 00:30:34 | Princess script |
| 00:42:35 | "Cinderella Song," GK and Kate MacKenzie with Shoes |
| 00:47:16 | GK intro toy segment |
| 00:47:58 | "Toy Symphony" (Excerpt) by Leopold Mozart, The Fly Creek Philharmonic |
| 00:50:41 | Trevor and Gretel script |
| 00:59:07 | "You've Got a Friend in Me" from "Toy Story," Randy Newman |
| 01:01:00 | GK Intermission Credits, plus "Stone's Rag" Intermission tune |
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| Segment 3 |
| 01:05:16 | GK Welcome Back |
| 01:05:43 | Lived in a Shoe script |
| 01:19:25 | "Chicken Song," Geoff Muldaur |
| 01:21:48 | Cowboys script (Chicken Chokers) |
| 01:27:35 | GK Mono Intro |
| 01:28:27 | "Lullaby of Cheese," Mollie O'Brien |
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| Segment 4 |
| 1:30:16 | The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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| Segment 5 |
| 01:46:07 | "Hush Little Baby," Inga Swearingen |
| 01:49:19 | Arlo Guthrie talks, recites "Mooses Come Walkin'" poem |
| 01:52:28 | "Oklahoma Hills," Arlo Guthrie |
| 01:55:00 | GK Closing Credits |
| 01:56:23 | "O Happy Day," The Gary Comer Youth Choir |
| 01:58:28 | GK Recorded Credits
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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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