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Talent From Towns Under 2,000

April 8, 1995      Fitzgerald Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Bob Brenny Polka Band Larry CooperGuy's All-Star Shoe Band Garrison Keillor William Munson Yata PeinovichSometimes Eight. Janet Sorenson Andy Stein


Songs, tunes, and poems

Red River Valley Polka (Bob Brenny Polka Band   )
Chicken coop scoop ( Larry Cooper )
Feel this way ( Larry Cooper )
Liszt Hungarian rhapsody #6 ( William Munson )
Scherzo in B minor ( William Munson )
La vie en rose ( Garrison Keillor )
It's all right with me ( Garrison Keillor )
It gets lonely in a small town ( Garrison Keillor )
Wisconsin waltz ( Yata Peinovich )
Calendar girl (Sometimes Eight  )
The Texas Cowboy ( Janet Sorenson )
My Dad Taught Me to Yodel ( Janet Sorenson )
The panic is on ( Andy Stein )
I Want To Be Happy (Guy's All-Star Shoe Band  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie
Bertha's Kitty Boutique
Cafe Boeuf
Guy's Ballet Boots
Halvorson, Tracy
Hedlund, Roger
Pastor Ingqvist
Permacom Perennial Corn
Tolerude, Daryl


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

Roger Hedlund felt lucky to be an independent farmer. A family from the city spooked a herd of deer along the county road. A deer ran into the car and broke its leg. They put it in the trunk to go to the vet. It kicked its way into the car and they ran off the road near Darryl Tolerude's. Darryl shot it with his 22, but it got up and ran away. Ronnie found a silver ring in right field. Was this Babe Ruth's silver ring? Rumor got the value up to $35,000. It was Pastor Ingqvist's napkin ring. He and Judy got into a fight and he got mad and threw the ring away. They were fighting because Val Tolefsen had decided not to give the Pastor a raise. Marv took too much Enderol to calm himself for teaching driver training to Tracy Halvorsen. He woke up with the car in the middle of a field with Tracy crying. He assumed he'd touched her inappropriately. She was really worried about flunking driver-ed. The car was charged by a three-legged deer.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Talent show featuring six different people or groups from 1v.1N towns of less than 2000 for the silver water tower trophy. LC was 3rd. WM was 2nd. JS was 1st. GK grew up in a small town. At age 13 in the junior high talent show, he sang La Vie en Rose. At age 14, he left Anoka for Minneapolis, where he met 82- year old Laura Ingels Wilder, who wrote "Little House on the Prairie" in a bar.


This show was Rebroadcast on 1996-07-13

Related/contemporary press articles

Leader Telegram Apr 7 1995
Star Tribune Apr 7 1995
Winona Daily News Apr 6 1995


Notes and References

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