Ivy Austin, Butch Thompson Trio, Coffee Club Orchestra, Demitasse Orchestra, Sir Roland Hanna, Dick Hyman, Garrison Keillor. Richard Muenez, Butch Thompson,
How High The Moon ( Butch Thompson ) Time for the Dancers ( Butch Thompson ) Ain't Misbehavin' ( Butch Thompson ) Lady Be Good ( Butch Thompson ) Dance into the sunshine (Coffee Club Orchestra ) Fascinating rhythm (Coffee Club Orchestra ) Isn't it wonderful? (Coffee Club Orchestra ) You don't know the half of it blues (Coffee Club Orchestra ) I'd rather Charleston (Coffee Club Orchestra ) Fascinating wedding (Coffee Club Orchestra ) He's a devil ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin , Richard Muenez ) I say it's spinach ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin , Richard Muenez ) Nobody knows ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin , Richard Muenez ) He ain't got rhythm ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin , Richard Muenez ) God Bless America ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin , Richard Muenez )
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Fall is the honest time of the year. Students find out how smart they are or aren't. Some are destined to rob liquor stores instead of writing novels. GK learns that he will never learn to speak Danish-properly and be able to live happily in Denmark. Comparing Denmark to New York City. NYC is really strange. Denmark is Wisconsin with a speech defect. Danes believe that God blesses everybody about the same. Visiting Ellis Island. Grandpa and his aunts come over from Glasgow. Grandpa, would you still stand in that long line if you knew how the story would turn out two generations later? Sharon Olds poem, "I go back to May, 1937."
Congress is better comedy than ARC. Deliberates for nine months, fashions an omnibus bill over a weekend in a cloakroom, passes on a voice vote. Public revulsion, yet everybody is re-elected. Election - Airhead Todd Burnett vs Bitch Susan B. Quinn. Spoof on Broadway Local subway. Irving Berlin's old piano. LRT: George Bailey's deregulated S & L goes bankrupt because of lousy real estate investments. Bailed out by the feds. Summary of plays "Lady Be Good" and "Alexander's Ragtime Band."
Archival contributors: Frank Berto