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May 2, 1987      World Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Bob and Ray Richard Dworsky Garrison Keillor Tom Keith Kate MacKenzie Bobby McFerrin Glenn Ohrlin.


Songs, tunes, and poems

When I was seventeen ( Garrison Keillor )
Come and sit by my side ( Garrison Keillor )
The horse wrangler ( Glenn Ohrlin )
Powder river ( Glenn Ohrlin )
Cancion mestica ( Glenn Ohrlin )
Oola ( Bobby McFerrin )
Drive away ( Bobby McFerrin )
Over the Rainbow ( Bobby McFerrin )
The Wizard of Oz ( Bobby McFerrin )
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ( Bobby McFerrin )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Association of Serious People
Bertha's Kitty Boutique
Duck's Back Tux Spray
Einbinder's First Class Flypaper
Fearmonger's Shop
Powdermilk Biscuits
Scotty's Cough Syrup for Dogs


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

The show will end in the middle of June and it is harder and harder to tell LW stories. GK feels a pressure to try to make sense of the people in LW. He sat down and made charts of the families in LW. The best stories are when GK just drops in. The opening line avoids all of the problems of writer's first line. It really was a quiet week in LW and it rained all day. The farmers sat in LW and told old stories. The joke about the dog that would go to the tavern and fetch cigarettes. The story of the four singing Swensen sisters, who won the Winter Talent Contest. They went to Hollywood to make a movie, "Minnesota Moon." The movie was a disaster and ended their careers. Don't think that you are better than anyone else. GK remembers a school trip to the State Capital. Being introduced to the Governor by the wrong first name. GK memorized poems to get away from LW. GK recites a Walt Whitman poem.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Beautiful spring day after a rain storm. Bob & Ray Skits: Controlling inflation in a paper clip factory. Lucky phone call to anywhere program. Serious people. Radio soap opera. The Komodo dragon. Poem by GO, 'The Wrangler". Radio Theater: Buster is left by the tracks. The gang arrives at Phantom Gulch. Buster is launched in the NPR space rocket. Upcoming programs on Public Radio


Notes and References

Archival contributors: musicbrainz, Ken Kuhl


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