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August 16, 2008
This week on A Prairie Home Companion it's a special summertime compilation show about radio, with Studs Terkel, Bob Edwards, and Meryl Streep. Also with us, The Royal Academy of Radio Actors: Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith, and Fred Newman, the Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, the Powdermilk Biscuit Band, and we'll hear the story of how Garrison got started in radio at the University of Minnesota.
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Segment 1
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| 00:00:00 | APHC Logo Open |
| 00:00:11 | Tishomingo Blues |
| 00:00:55 | GK Open |
| 00:04:23 | "Royal Radio," the cast of The Royal Radio Gals musical |
| 00:06:11 | Linda Wertheimer script (Rillirillibad) |
| 00:11:48 | "How'd You Do What You Do," Tommy Mischke and his band |
| 00:14:56 | Radio script w/Meryl Streep |
| 00:33:29 | GK Powdermilk Intro |
| 00:34:00 | Powdermilk Biscuit Break |
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Segment 2
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| 00:35:23 | "Mr. Soundman," Pat Donohue and Shoes |
| 00:37:57 | SFX script (Radio Violence) |
| 00:47:23 | "It's Only Radio," GK, Pat Donohue and Shoes |
| 00:52:48 | Cooking with Studs script |
| 00:58:57 | GK Intermission Credits, over "Somebody Stole My Gal," Shoes |
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Segment 3
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| 01:04:12 | GK Welcome back into Bob Elliot/Wally Ballou script |
| 01:08:41 | GK Intro "I've Been Working on the Radio" |
| 01:09:13 | "I've Been Working on the Radio," GK and Shoes |
| 01:12:07 | Radio script w/Bob Edwards |
| 01:23:12 | GK Bobbie Ann Mason and Mono Intro |
| 01:23:29 | Bobbie Ann Mason reads from "Clear Springs" |
| 01:28:44 | "Family Radio," GK and Shoes |
| 01:32:30 | Ira Gress script |
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Segment 4
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| 01:33:50 | News From Lake Wobegon (Download MP3) |
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Segment 5
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| 01:54:55 | GK Credits |
| 01:56:12 | "Turn Your Radio On," Original Powdermilk Biscuit Band (1974) |
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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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