UP AND DOWN THE RIVER
Pert' Near Sandstone
This week on A Prairie Home Companion we're back in St. Paul at the Fitzgerald Theater, with hard-driving string band Pert' Near Sandstone, Rich Dworsky and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The Royal Academy of Radio Acting; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith. Join us this week, before the snow flies.
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Garrison leads the audience in singing "So Long"
Garrison recites Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven."
Young guys play a little old-time swing music; Pert' Near Sandstone.
String Quartet: Katja Linfield, Jonathan Magness, Michael Sutton and Matthew Young.
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:13 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:02:50 - GK talks abou the weather, All Saints Day
- 00:03:57 - "Love's Old Sweet Song" - GK, audience, band and strings
- 00:07:00 - GK talks about Studs Terkel, "So Long..."
- 00:13:47 - "Don't Go Todd" - GK/ band (watch video)
- 00:16:52 - SQ script
- 00:24:12 - "Too Much" - Pat Donohue and band
- 00:26:44 - Horror script
- 00:34:27 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:35:40 - GK intros Pert' Near Sandstone
- 00:37:03 - "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" - Pert' Near Sandstone
- 00:40:36 - GK talks to Pert' Near Sandstone
- 00:41:34 - "Needle and Thread" - Pert' Near Sandstone
- 00:46:00 - Bertha's Kitty Boutique
- 00:47:00 - Ghost script
- 00:52:10 - "The Raven" - GK and strings
- 01:01:50 - Intermission (I've Just Seen A Face)
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Segment 3
- 01:05:11 - Greetings
- 01:08:35 - Annie's engagement announcement, "I Will" - GK, band, strings, audience
- 01:11:16 - Nuclear script (with strings)
- 01:21:44 - "Come Come Ye Saints"/"When the Saints Go Marching In" - GK/ strings
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Segment 4
- 01:26:51 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:42:28 - "You Haunt Me" - Pat Donohue and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
- 01:45:22 - Guy Noir script
- 01:50:30 - "Wild Bill Jones" - Pert' Near Sandstone (watch video)
- 01:54:27 - Coffee
- 01:55:12 - Credits, So Long reprise
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