A Prairie Home Companion for March 22, 2008 from American Public Media

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

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

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

Segment 4

1:30:16 The News from Lake Wobegon (Download MP3)

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