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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 12:12:34 GMT -5
Happy Christmas Eve, Eve everyone. I'll be hoping to say hi if anyone hangs out this evening! Tonights show originally aired December 23, 2000. A Prairie Home Companion welcomes Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, singer Ann Hampton Callaway, actors Alice Playten, Linda Lavin, and Howard McGillin, and Robin & Linda Williams. Plus, Bill McLaughlin and Peter Schickele square off to determine who can write the most unusual piece of holiday music. Highlights include talk of Christmas and holiday traditions, “My Winter’s Coat” from Alice Playten, “The Secret of Life” from Linda Lavin, a “Christmas Love Song” from Ann Hampton Callaway, a new take on the classic poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas, a Tom Keith-aided version of ‘Twelve Days of Christmas,” plus Marvin and Mavis Smiley share favorites from “Mountain Merry Christmas,” Duct Tape, Powdermilk, and the latest News from Lake Wobegon. www.prairiehome.org/shows/57843.html |
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 12:13:06 GMT -5
December 23, 2000
00:00 Logo
00:12 Tishomingo
02:33 GK Talk About Holidays
04:26 Cotton Club Stomp - Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
07:08 Applause, GK Back Announce
07:32 The Song that Jack Sang
13:53 Applause, GK Talk to Music Man Quartet
16:10 Lida Rose - Hawkeye Four
17:46 Applause, GK Back Announce
18:20 Drawing for Winners of Minnesota Trip
20:49 GK Talk with Alice Playten
22:28 My Winter Coat - Alice Playten
26:12 Applause, GK Back Announce, Talk About Neglected Instruments
27:07 Duct Tape
31:15 Applause, GK Talk with Linda Lavin
34:32 The Secret of Life - Linda Lavin
38:02 Applause, GK Back Announce
38:23 Powdermilk Biscuit Break
40:18 Marvin and Mavis Smiley
42:53 Used Psychotherapy
44:35 Applause, GK Introduces the Nighthawks
44:58 Shake That Thing - Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
48:02 Applause, GK Back Announce, Introduce Ann Hampton Callaway
50:13 Christmas Love Song - Ann Hampton Callaway
54:08 Applause, GK Back Announce
54:46 'Twas the Night Before Christmas" Segment
1:00:16 Applause, GK Introduce Howard McGillin
1:03:11 God Bless Us Everyone - Howard McGillin
1:06:43 Applause, GK Back Announce
1:07:25 Five Pennies - Intermission
1:11:11 Welcome Back to the Second Half, Compose-Off Segment
1:14:50 Coventry Carol for Neglected Instruments
1:18:53 Applause, GK Back Announce
1:19:45 Twelve Days of Christmas
1:22:22 Applause, GK Talks to Bill McGlaughlin and Peter Schickele
1:25:30 Two and A Half Variations on "In Dulci Jubilo" by P.D.Q. Bach
1:28:39 Applause, GK Back Announce, Intro Robin and Linda
1:31:15 Ood Toy Trains - Robin and Linda Williams
1:33:42 Applause, GK Back Announce
1:33:57 Monologue
1:53:32 Applause, GK Thanks Guests, End Credits
1:55:07 Silent Night
1:58:23 Okay Baby - Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 12:14:39 GMT -5
About tonight's guests.
Vince Giordano grew up on Long Island listening to old 78s on his grandmother’s Victrola. He joined the musicians’ union at 14, playing a number of instruments. After high school, he joined the Navy and played in a big band that toured South America playing jazz, rock ’n’ roll, and music indigenous to the countries they visited. He later formed his own band, The Nighthawks, which continues to perform at Birdland and other venues. Also a big-band historian and collector, Giordano has more than 30,000 scores in his collection, most of which were found on cross-country trips spent poking around in musicians’ basements.
Peter Schickele is a composer, musician, author, and satirist. He is widely recognized as one of the most versatile artists in the field of music. He was born in Ames, Iowa, and brought up in Washington, D.C., and Fargo, North Dakota. By the time he graduated from Swarthmore, he had already composed and conducted four orchestral works, a great deal of chamber music, and some songs. He went on to study composition at the Juilliard School of Music. As a composer, Peter’s commissions are numerous and varied — including works for the Saint Louis Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Audubon String Quartet, the Minnesota Orchestral Association, and many other such organizations. And as a satirist, he is well known as perpetrator of the oeuvre of the now-classic P.D.Q. Bach.
“Individually their voices can melt cheese, and in duet they can do all-purpose welding,” Garrison Keillor has said of Robin and Linda Williams. Singing the music they love, be it bluegrass, folk, old-time, or acoustic country, these two have carved out a more than five-decade career that has taken them from Carnegie Hall to the Hollywood Bowl. They first appeared on A Prairie Home Companion in 1975, the same year they recorded their first album. In 2021, they self-released Better Day A-Coming, featuring their newest classic “Old Lovers Waltz.”
In addition to her performances on A Prairie Home Companion, Alice Playten appeared on Broadway in Gypsy; Oliver; Hello, Dolly!; George M; Henry Sweet Henry (Theatre World Award, Tony nomination); Rumors; and Spoils of War (Drama Desk nomination). Numerous Off-Broadway credits include her two Obie Award-winning performances as Mick Jagger in Lemmings and Mamie Eisenhower in First Ladies Suite. She voiced cartoons, sang at the Met, and had a recurring role on TV’s Frasier. Alice passed away in 2011.
Linda Lavin was born in Portland, Maine, and was educated at the College of William and Mary. She has appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including: The Diary of Anne Frank (Tony nomination, Best Supporting Actress), The Sisters Rosensweig, Gypsy, and Broadway Bound (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Helen Hayes Awards, Best Actress), among others. On television, she was the female lead on the weekly series Alice. She has recorded countless albums and appeared at Carnegie Hall and Rainbow & Stars. She established the Linda Lavin Arts Foundation in Wilmington, NC, to foster the arts in education and started an after-school theater program for inner-city girls.
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 14:33:18 GMT -5
I think I will be here, though if Spencer arrives during the show we might go do some family dining experience. He and his sister were here earlier in the week for a quick lunch on their way to a short ski vacation at Whistler. Spencer will be here several days before he heads back east.
Most of these rebroadcast shows seem very old to me as I didn’t become a regular listener until I began planning for the 2006 APHC cruise. The first 30 years of the show, I was kind of intermittent, “if I happened to be in the car and listening to the radio” APHC fan. Chris Thile took over in what 2016 or 2017? I like him and think he was a good talented choice, but face it, no one “replaces” GK. The ratings supported that opinion, especially with the MeToo episode.
But here we are still, decades later! Kudos to us!
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 18:01:14 GMT -5
Here we go!
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 18:07:53 GMT -5
thanks for the link DW. Now just let me struggle with connecting to the show.
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 18:09:45 GMT -5
Hey lookee here, got the show link up, running and audible with only a single click!! I am thus 8 or 9 minutes late but I am not ready to attempt synching the time just yet.
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 18:14:12 GMT -5
Hey looked here, got the show link up, running and audible with only a single click!! I am thus 8 or 9 minutes late but I am not ready to attempt synching the time just yet. Well congrats on the success~ Glad you have family in town for Christmas. My daughter made it in from South Korea on time last night. Her whole family was there with signs to welcome her back. She is not a plane sleeper so had not had sleep for over 24 hours and looked OK but was eager to get back "home" and then to bed! |
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 18:26:48 GMT -5
That’s wonderful. I do feel her pain about the lack of sleep as I too cannot sleep on the plane. The one time I fell asleep, another passenger had a drop attack and hit his head hard enough to bring the co-pilot right out, and the flight attendant to immediately summon medical help. I have never been able to sleep on a plane ever since!
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 18:29:31 GMT -5
How long is your daughter staying DW? I know that Korea is 16 hours times difference from us on the Left Coast (our daughter taught in Korea for 2 years so we learned all about it), but for east coast she must arrive almost the same time she left, only a different day.
I takes the body a while to get it figured out.
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 18:34:02 GMT -5
How long is your daughter staying DW? I know that Korea is 16 hours times difference from us on the Left Coast (our daughter taught in Korea for 2 years so we learned all about it), but for east coast she must arrive almost the same time she left, only a different day. I takes the body a while to get it figured out. 14 hours different now.. she flew direct to DFW had a couple of hour layover and then a short two or so hour to TLH. So she had to work Friday and catch a 7:35 PM flight.. which meant she was well past 24 hours of no sleep. She doesn't seem to be able to sleep on planes. She goes back Jan 5th/ |
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 18:49:08 GMT -5
She’ll have time to recover during her visit then, only to repeat the process when she returns to Korea. Fortunately it’s easier traveling west than east.
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 18:56:33 GMT -5
So do you have a big meal planned for Christmas Day? We are invited to the sister-in-law's house for Christmas lunch... so not much cooking for us
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 19:20:41 GMT -5
Not really since it will be Spencer, Howard and I. I bought a bone-in fresh turkey breast to roast because the one I did a month or so ago was a big hit with Howard. Such a success I bought another, but that day there were only frozen boneless turkey breasts. There was hardly skin, couldn’t put any ingredients both under and on top of the skin to keep it juicy and tasty, so it didn’t turn out nearly as well as the bone-in, though the leftover turkey sandwiches were pretty good.
I’ll try again with the fresh bone-in version and in fact was contemplating turkey dinner for Christmas Eve, then turkey sandwiches for Christmas Day it self. Or maybe turkey tetrazzini. I’m still pondering. And I should probably get one of those fabulous Shari’s pies!
Since everyone went all out for the wedding back east in late September, and we’ve been busy with medical stuff since we got back from the wedding, this year Christmas has been de-emphasized. The tree and Christmas are up but I haven’t really gotten specific presents. Spencer’s birthday is late November and he got a very nice present for that - a perennial problem for birthdays around Christmas. What to get for gifts? And the tendency is to combine them into one gift, perhaps more generous than two individual gifts would have been.
It’s thus been easier this year, minimal Christmas shopping and expenditure. I rather like that.
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 19:26:16 GMT -5
I can’t remember if I posted this here: one really fun thing we did a couple of weeks ago. I took Gen and Diedra to see the stage play of “White Christmas” and it was wonderful, well worth the trip to Seattle. I’d considered going again and seeing it a second time it was so good.
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 19:28:48 GMT -5
So do you have a big meal planned for Christmas Day? We are invited to the sister-in-law's house for Christmas lunch... so not much cooking for us What are you planning besides the lunch? Your cooking always sounds delicious.. When I cook its usually very pedestrian. Oh well, maybe I should try and up it a notch if I’m not going to be employed - may have more spare time. Or not much spare time, at least that’s been the case so far. |
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 19:31:00 GMT -5
Whenever I hear “The 12 Days of Christmas” I always remember the Hawaiian version which is much more fun:
5 BIG FAT PIGS!!
4 Flower Leis
3 Dried Squid
2 Coconuts
1 Mynah Bird in One Papaya Tree
(I don’t remember them all the way to 12)
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 19:33:25 GMT -5
I did a big dinner today and we had a friend over who lives by himself (73 year old widower). So we will have leftover turkey and trimmings available for a while. We all are listening to the show and just now having homemade pecan pie with whipped topping and champagne. Come Monday after lunch it will be Christmas presents with the grandkids and my Korean daughter!
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 19:36:56 GMT -5
I felt the need to look them up
12 television
11 missionary
10 can of beer
9 pound of poi
8 ukulele
7 shrimp a swimming
6 hula lesson
5 Big Fat Pigs
4 flower lei
3 dried squid
2 coconut and
1 mynah bird in one papaya tree
When we lived in Hawaii there was a papaya tree right outside my window. I could pick one by reaching out the window.
I loved living in Hawaii, dunno why i never moved back there.
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 19:43:55 GMT -5
I did a big dinner today and we had a friend over who lives by himself (73 year old widower). So we will have leftover turkey and trimmings available for a while. We all are listening to the show and just now having homemade pecan pie with whipped topping and champagne. Come Monday after lunch it will be Christmas presents with the grandkids and my Korean daughter! Sounds great! I like thin slices of canned cranberry jelly on my turkey sandwich, maybe stuffing instead of potato chips on the side. Champagne! Great idea, we don’t dink much at all so I didn’t even think of it. Pretty sure they have it at the grocery store. I wanted to buy some cooking sherry a couple months ago, asked the wine attendant there and he took me to the correct section, made inquiries about what I was cooking. I received a discourse on the various forms of sherry and the concept that even if I wouldn’t be drinking it, I shouldn’t choose some lesser quality than I would drink. Who’d a thunk it? Wine connoisseur right there in the grocery store. |
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 19:45:10 GMT -5
I did a big dinner today and we had a friend over who lives by himself (73 year old widower). So we will have leftover turkey and trimmings available for a while. We all are listening to the show and just now having homemade pecan pie with whipped topping and champagne. Come Monday after lunch it will be Christmas presents with the grandkids and my Korean daughter! Sounds great! I like thin slices of canned cranberry jelly on my turkey sandwich, maybe stuffing instead of potato chips on the side. Champagne! Great idea, we don’t dink much at all so I didn’t even think of it. Pretty sure they have it at the grocery store. I wanted to buy some cooking sherry a couple months ago, asked the wine attendant there and he took me to the correct section, made inquiries about what I was cooking. I received a discourse on the various forms of sherry and the concept that even if I wouldn’t be drinking it, I shouldn’t choose some lesser quality than I would drink. Who’d a thunk it? Wine connoisseur right there in the grocery store. Unknown experience to me to have champagne with pecan pie but it actually was a good pairing. |
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 20:01:35 GMT -5
I felt the need to look them up 12 television 11 missionary 10 can of beer 9 pound of poi 8 ukulele 7 shrimp a swimming 6 hula lesson 5 Big Fat Pigs 4 flower lei 3 dried squid 2 coconut and 1 mynah bird in one papaya tree When we lived in Hawaii there was a papaya tree right outside my window. I could pick one by reaching out the window. I loved living in Hawaii, dunno why i never moved back there. Like so much about the past, I bet Hawaii has changed so much, you would not enjoy it nearly as much! Great song.. |
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Post by dwarnold on Dec 23, 2023 20:02:54 GMT -5
Hope you have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy your week!
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Post by doctork on Dec 23, 2023 20:05:43 GMT -5
If I ever moved back to Hawaii I’d probably have to live on one of the outer islands. Oahu is almost unrecognizable now.
Merry Christmas to you and your family DW!!
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