August 5, 2023 -- Classic Rebroadcast

[dwarnold]

Back in 2005, we asked listeners to submit their favorite bits and pieces from LIVE A Prairie Home Companions shows and received thousands of comments about many of their favorite broadcast moments. This Listener’s Choice special originally aired on August 6, 2005 and gathers together many of those moments along with a listener memories or comments to accompany the pieces. We had a wonderful time reading and hearing your stories and putting together a Listener’s Choice show all about them.

Many fans’ favorites were included such as The Whippets Rag, Raw Bits, Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery, Six Minute Macbeth, Guy Noir, some fine music and 3 classic News from Lake Wobegon stories. Join us on Saturday night right here as we listen and chat about things!

www.prairiehome.org/shows/57303.html

[dwarnold]

August 6, 2005

Segment 1
00:00:00 Logo
00:00:12 Tishomingo Blues (Piano solo, Richard Dworsky)
00:00:24 GK Intro
00:02:24 Susan Black, Henderson, NV
00:03:31 "Hello Young Lovers" - Marni Nixon
00:05:20 GK Talk about Kristen Patty, Kingman, KS
00:06:01 "Summertime" - GK and audience
00:06:59 "Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery" Jingle
00:07:46 Kristen Larson, Bellingham, WA
00:08:16 "Raw Bits" with Greg Brown and Butch Thompson
00:09:32 "The Whippets Rag" from The Family Radio
00:10:54 "Ajua!" from The Family Radio
00:11:35 "Green Green Rocky Road" - Dave Van Ronk

Segment 2
00:14:14 GK Talk about Secilia Marino, Bozeman, MT
00:14:47 Guy Noir excerpt 1
00:15:45 Guy Noir excerpt 2
00:16:39 Guy Noir excerpt 3
00:17:10 "Guy Noir Theme" - Prudence Johnson and The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band from The Adventures of Guy Noir: Radio Private Eye
00:17:35 GK talks about Renee Fleming in Guy Noir
00:18:19 Guy Noir with Renee Fleming and Emmanuel Ax
00:31:18 "Over The Waterfall" - Stevie Beck, autoharp
00:32:47 GK talks about Chet Atkins
00:33:39 Chet Atkins Tribute with Pat Donohue

Segment 3
00:39:07 GK Talk about Ray Ruppert, Roland Park, KS
00:39:42 The Lives of the Cowboys
00:50:27 "I Want to be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" - Katey Bellville
00:52:12 GK Talk about Allan West, Tokyo, Japan
00:52:52 "America The Beautiful" - Mark O'Connor
00:54:57 "I Ain't Got Nobody" - Vince Giordano, Lou Green with The Butch Thompson Trio
00:55:06 Intermission

Segment 4
00:58:32 GK talks about Joan Barber, Spokane, WA
00:59:46 "Showers of Blessings" - GK and Lynne Petersen
01:03:21 GK talks about Arthur Atarain, New Orleans, LA
01:03:43 "Abraham, Martin and John" - Emmylou Harris, Buddy and Judy Miller and Greg Hippen
01:06:43 GK talks about Eli Hernandez, Omaha, NE
01:08:24 "I Know Where I'm Going" - Prudence Johnson, GK and Shoe Band

Segment 5
01:10:06 GK talks about Alaska monologue, Karyn Aubertot, Paris, France (Mark O'Connor, underscore)
01:12:48 GK talks about Tomato Butt monologue
01:13:04 "Tomato Butt" monologue excerpt from News from Lake Wobegon
01:26:37 "Living Flag" monologue from News from Lake Wobegon
01:28:41 "Bruno, The Fishing Dog" monologue excerpts from Gospel Birds with music by Chet Atkins

Segment 6
01:37:53 GK talks about Cheryl Moore, Montgomery, TX
01:38:44 "Teelin Bay Waltz" - Peter Ostroushko and Shoe Band
01:41:14 GK talks about Kerry Brookman, Fort Collins, CO
01:41:48 "Norman Olson" - Maria Jette
01:46:36 GK talks about Susan Kimball, Cedar Falls, IA
01:46:58 Six Minute Macbeth
01:57:45 Credits
01:58:54 "Tweedle-Dee" - Shoe Band

[jspnrvr]

Dayum, what a buffet!

[dwarnold]

Listeners’ Choice from August 2005
Featuring Marni Nixon, Emmylou Harris, Greg Brown and Renée Fleming


Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon was dubbed by Time magazine as the “Ghostess with the Mostest,” a compliment to the famous invisible voice. Actresses who don’t sing are as common in musicals as actors who don’t fight in action films, and the female singing voice you hear in West Side Story, My Fair Lady, An Affair to Remember, Mulan, and The King and I is Marni Nixon’s. She dubbed for Deborah Kerr, Natalie Wood, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno; she did a voice in The Secret Garden for child actress Margaret O’Brien, and she did the angel voices heard by Ingrid Bergman in Joan of Arc. On her own, she released albums that include Marni Nixon Sings Gershwin and Marni Nixon Sings Classic Kern, and she appeared as a cabaret and musical comedy performer, opera diva, stage actress, recitalist, symphony guest artist in both classical and pops repertoire, and recording artist. Marni Nixon passed away in 2016.


Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris’s albums are mainstays in any music fan’s collection: Wrecking Ball, Luxury Liner, Roses in the Snow, The Ballad of Sally Rose, Trio, Red Dirt Girl. The list goes on and on. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and raised in North Carolina and Virginia, Harris began playing the guitar at 16 and eventually left college to pursue a career in music. In the early 1970s, she moved to Los Angeles and joined forces with Gram Parsons, with whom she made two albums. After Parsons’ death in 1973, Harris made her major label debut, Pieces of the Sky. Now, after more than 50 years of performing and countless awards, including 14 Grammy Awards plus induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Emmylou maintains a widespread and loyal following, whether she’s singing folk, country, pop or traditional tunes. On this broadcast, she joined Mark Knopfler to share several songs from their duet album.


Greg Brown
Greg Brown was raised in southeastern Iowa, with a banjo-playing grandfather, a poet grandmother, an English teacher mother who played guitar, and a Pentecostal preacher father. The environment, combined with abundant talent, produced one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the past half-century. Said a Boston Globe music critic, “Brown is to this country what Richard Thompson is to Britain: its most essential modern troubadour.” Greg’s dozens of recordings may just prove the point.


Renée Fleming
While studying at the State University of New York, Renée Fleming sang with a jazz trio and was discovered by jazz legend Illinois Jacquet, who invited her to tour with his band. Renée went to graduate school instead, where she focused on classical music at the Eastman School of Music and The Juilliard School. Fleming’s professional break came in 1988 when she was invited to sing the role of the Contessa in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with the Houston Grand Opera, and in 1989 she made her New York City debut in La Bohème. She sang in London’s Covent Garden and returned to New York in 1991 to make her Metropolitan Opera debut. Since then, the Grammy Award winner, who is recognized as a risk-taker in her field, has created many roles for the operatic stage and has premiered many songs written for her. She has performed in the world’s most distinguished venues with today’s foremost orchestras and conductors and recorded numerous award-winning discs.

[dwarnold]

And here we go!

[doctork]

Ok here I am all tuned in, while I'm eating a late lunch.

[dwarnold]

Aug 5, 2023 17:02:03 GMT -5 doctork said:

Ok here I am all tuned in, while I'm eating a late lunch.

I have pork ribs in the oven.. baked beans on the stove.. waiting a bit before the salads

[dwarnold]

Dave Van Ronk

David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American folk music revival and New York City's Greenwich Village scene in the 1960s, he was nicknamed the "Mayor of MacDougal Street".[1]

Van Ronk's work ranged from old English ballads to blues, gospel, rock, New Orleans jazz, and swing. He was also known for performing instrumental ragtime guitar music, especially his transcription of "St. Louis Tickle" and Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag". Van Ronk was a widely admired avuncular figure in "the Village", presiding over the coffeehouse folk culture and acting as a friend to many up-and-coming artists by inspiring, assisting, and promoting them. Folk performers he befriended include Jim and Jean, Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Patrick Sky, Phil Ochs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, and Joni Mitchell. Dylan recorded Van Ronk's arrangement of the traditional song "House of the Rising Sun" on his first album, which the Animals would later cover and would become a chart-topping rock single in 1964,[2] helping inaugurate the folk-rock movement.[3]

Van Ronk received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in December 1997.

[doctork]

We had pork ribs from Dream Dinners last week - they are all ready-to-cook straight from the store so quite good. Otherwise I don't really care for ribs because Howard cooks them "his own special way" which is a sloppy mess, not tasty at all in my opinion.

The fried chicken salad sandwiches I made last night turned out really great. I cheated a bit buying KFC fried chicken, chopping that up for the salad, and since I had to go to Whole Foods anyway for the Momofuku Hot Honey Chili Crunch for tomorrow night's pork chops, I bought wonderful brioche rolls there and they made really good sandwiches - I had one last night and now I'm eating another as "leftovers" which is not a hardship. Howard put some of the Chili Crunch on his chicken salad sandwich and really loves that - the fried chicken salad + the spice Chili Crunch. Since I avoid spicy food, Howard was very surprised that I could actually purchase a good spicy product. Well, it came highly recommended...

I always liked Dave Van Ronk, saw him fairly often since he was part of that "Village Scene" that I was fortunate to be part of back in the day. I didn't realize it then, now I do.

[dwarnold]

These stories from fans are a great treat I think.

[doctork]

Of course I'm prone to stories anyway so I enjoy them. Plus the "Greetings," I really like those too.

[doctork]

We never had that many tomatoes, so I do not recall any such tomato retaliation, though I'd have delighted in splatting my brother.

[dwarnold]

Aug 5, 2023 18:24:27 GMT -5 doctork said:

We never had that many tomatoes, so I do not recall any such tomato retaliation, though I'd have delighted in splatting my brother.

Yes I have never had too many tomatoes.

[dwarnold]

I am tempted to do a search for his program in Juneau to listen to the longest News ever!

[dwarnold]

I found some info about that show... July 12, 1986 ...

This show is remembered as the "Just Say Goodnight" show. GK got caught up in his "News From Lake Wobegon" monologue and almost ran out of time. Stagehand Steve Koeln came on stage with a note, "Three minutes to end of show," and then another "90 Seconds," and finally he handed GK a slip of paper that said, "Say Goodnight."

[doctork]

I was just thinking "This is a long monologue." While chopping a shallot and some mint for the dinner.

And I love "Bruno the Fishing Dog" but I'd forgotten it. I still remember Peter Ostruszko though.

[doctork]

This is definitely better than anything "MacBeth" that I learned in high school or college, though actually I do not remember studying Shakespeare in school. I had American Lit two years in a row in high school (change of schools), and in college only "Western Civ" which IIRC focused on Greece and Rome, maybe the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Europe.

[dwarnold]

I wonder if "Regicide" is used much these days?? I can think of some other ...cides that might save America.

[dwarnold]

My wife realized she knew this show so I looked and sure enough, it was the Classic Rebroadcast from last August when we were already in North Carolina! We listened as we had dinner on the deck outside in the cool mountain air. She enjoyed it then and tonight.

Hope your evening goes well!!

[doctork]

I confess to having similar "cide" thoughts myself.

Have a good week DW.