Summer Language Acquisition
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a show for all the summer readers who are able to recline in a patch of shade and read a book the way it was meant to be read: cover to cover, uninterrupted by life's troubles. In this compilation, Anna Karenina meets up with a good Minnesota boy rather than a brooding, horse-racing Russian, Dave Frishberg sings a song about the 1919 World Series, and the Host recites his version of Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Donald Hall chimes in with a reading from F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" - Maria Jette sings Gounoud's "Juliet's Waltz" from his opera "Romeo and Juliet" - and a revisionist version of "Streetcar Named Desire." Plus, The Public Domain Free of Copyright Non-Royalty-Paying Radio Theater presents Hans Christian Anderson's "The Ugly Ducking" - featuring Sue Scott, Tim Russell and Tom Keith. In Lake Wobegon, summertime is the perfect time to read a good book.
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo
- 00:00:11 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:00:53 - GK Intro
- 00:03:16 - "Casey at the Bat" - GK
- 00:09:04 - "Catbird Seat" - Dave Frishberg
- 00:12:49 - Anna Karenina script
- 00:15:39 - "Broom" - The Russian Chamber Chorus of NY
- 00:18:11 - GK Intro Ruth
- 00:18:26 - Ruth Harrison script
- 00:23:59 - GK sings "Owl and Pussycat"
- 00:26:26 - GK Powdermilk Intro
- 00:27:21 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:28:40 - Reading from "The Great Gatsby" - by F. Scott Fitzgerald with GK, Donald Hall, Tobias Wolf, and Eleanor Lanahan (F. Scott's granddaughter)
- 00:39:03 - "If I Could Be With You" - Butch Thompson and Duke Heitger
- 00:41:43 - GK Intro Longfellow
- 00:42:32 - GK recites "The Fire of Driftwood" - by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 00:45:42 - "Crossing the Bar" - Hopeful Gospel Quartet
- 00:49:21 - The Princess and the Pea script
- 00:56:13 - "Juliet's Waltz" - Maria Jette
- 01:00:05 - GK Intermission/"Avalon" - Shoes )
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Segment 3
- 01:04:50 - GK Welcome Back
- 01:07:03 - Ugly Duckling script with strings
- 01:18:55 - GK Reads John Updike
- 01:23:01 - GK Intro Mono
- 01:23:58 - "Summer Evening" - Greg Brown
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Segment 4
- 01:27:27 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:45:48 - GK Williams Intro
- 01:46:45 - "Streetcar Named Desire" re-make script
- 01:50:23 - "Stella's Trip Medley" - Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain
- 01:54:20 - GK Credits
- 01:55:30 - "When I Write the Book" - Nick Lowe
- 01:58:37 - GK Recorded Credits
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