PHCArchive

   A PHC Archive

A free, unofficial, crowd-sourced archive. It's a... Prairie Home Companion companion.

4th Annual Farewell Performance (4:45pm Broadcast)

June 16, 1990      University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium, Iowa City, IA

    see all shows from: 1990 | University of Iowa Hancher Auditorium | Iowa City | IA

Participants

Greg Brown Richard Dworsky Garrison Keillor Tom Keith Kate MacKenzie Dave Moore Peter Ostroushko Jean Redpath Dan Rowles


Songs, tunes, and poems

Open up your heart ( Dave Moore )
God moves on the water ( Dave Moore )
Why Iowa? ( Garrison Keillor )
Powdermilk ( Garrison Keillor )
Prairie lullaby ( Garrison Keillor )
Iowa Waltz ( Greg Brown )
If I had known ( Greg Brown )
All day rain ( Greg Brown )
Lord plant my feet on higher ground ( Kate MacKenzie )
Eriskay love note ( Kate MacKenzie )
Love is had by grieving ( Kate MacKenzie )
Leaving the land ( Kate MacKenzie )
Ukrainian folk song ( Peter Ostroushko )
Tico tico ( Peter Ostroushko )
Hallelujah, I'm ready to go ( Kate MacKenzie )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Bertha's Kitty Boutique
Bob's Bank
Krebsbach, Florian
Ostroushko Cream Horse Radish
Powdermilk Biscuits
Scotty's Cough Syrup for Dogs


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

NBFs are waiting for hotter weather to wash their sheets. Siamese twins move to England so that the other one could drive. The mayoral election last week. Eloises's house is a swamp and her four kids are mad at her. Florian Krepsbach got into a fight at the Sidetrack over nasty remarks about Eloise. The committee met in Arlene Bunsen's living room waiting for the results. Eloise went out the back door and she heard the woman whoop it up. She had won. Her polite speech did not say, "Throw the bastards out. Eloise is going to get the LW keys from Bud, fire Viola, and shape up the volunteer fire department.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Iowa is farm state and a center of shyness. Iowans are modest, decent, and humorous. Reach for Tomorrow. Barbara eats the last desert of her life. Dutch, Norwegians and Germans immigrated to Iowa. Buster the Show Dog: They are living in Dijon France. Father Finian is assigned to a St. Mel's, a silent Trappist monastery in Dubuque. Pass through Iowa Customs and settled in at the monastery. Timmy leaves and they find him in Iowa City writing poems. Sheila meets Rick, a silent, quiet chiropractor. The story of Cargill.


Related/contemporary press articles

Daily News Jun 19 1990


Notes and References

Archival contributors: Frank Berto


Do you have a copyright claim?