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American Radio Company of the Air

October 27, 1990      Lamb's Theater, New York, NY

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Participants

Ivy AustinCoffee Club Orchestra Garrison Keillor. RochesTrue Image


Songs, tunes, and poems

In the good old fashioned Way ( Ivy Austin )
Rolled in one ( Ivy Austin )
Till the clouds roll by ( Ivy Austin )
When it's nesting time in Flatbush ( Ivy Austin )
The Deficit Rag ( Ivy Austin )
Will there be any freight trains in Heaven? ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
Polly Wolly Doodle ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
Oh Susanna ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
I've been working on the Railroad ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
Come softly darling (Roches  )
Speak (Roches  )
Once I loved an outlaw (Roches  )
The Train (Roches  )
My girl (True Image  )
Borrowing a kiss (True Image  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Cafe Boeuf
Harvey's Beauty Milk
National Federation of Associations
Sidetrack Tap
Staten Island Salad Dressing


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

L W compared to NYC in November. Joke: instead of marrying, find a woman you don't like and buy her a house. NYC woman with monster earrings. Eating the perfect rhubarb pie from your aunt who explains how poor it is. NYC bag lady screaming at a lamp post. Pessimistic men in the Sidetrack take a dim view of politicians. Repression of the water carburetor. Lenin shot politicians and abolished elections. 25-year old GK came to NYC to look for a writing job. He took overnight bus to Boston to look for a job. His interviewer walks in as GK was cleaning up in the men's room. He didn't get hired.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Drink three quarts of water per day. Tossing guys in dark suits over a cliff. Revised immigration laws. New inscription beneath the Statue of Liberty, - "Send me your young skilled workers." There They Were: Robert Frost and George Gershwin write a Broadway play. President George Beowolf goes to war. Summary of musical, "Oh Boy." GK hitch hiking to Bozeman, picked up sheep herder, arrives in ghost town, meets Iris in a bar, heads west and becomes a house hobo. Todd Burnett vs Susan B. Quinn. Halloween frights. Dracula, buried alive, being eaten by alligators.


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