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Prairie Home Folk Song Show

November 26, 1988      Langford Auditorium, Nashville, TN

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Participants

Chet AtkinsBanden Singers Jethro Burns Johnny Gimble Naomi Judd Wynona Judd Garrison Keillor Kate MacKenzie Peter Ostroushko John Pancake Marcia Pancake Mike Seeger Ray Stevens. The Judds


Songs, tunes, and poems

Babes in the Woods ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Sail Baby Sail ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Sister Had a Baby ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
The Worms Crawl In ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Tell Me Why ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Polly Wolly Doodle ( Garrison Keillor , Kate MacKenzie )
Joes' Got a Head Like a Ping Pong ( Ray Stevens )
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain ( Ray Stevens )
Love to be in Copenhagen ( Garrison Keillor )
The Danube's Not Blue ( Garrison Keillor )
Because I Could Not Stop For Death ( Garrison Keillor )
A boy's best friend is his mother ( Garrison Keillor )
Bye Bye Long Johns ( Chet Atkins )
In the valley of Kentucky ( Chet Atkins )
Springtime in Alaska ( Johnny Gimble )
Someone set the church on fire ( Johnny Gimble )
White polar bears ( Kate MacKenzie )
Whose woods these are ( Garrison Keillor , Ray Stevens )
Go tell Aunt Rhodie ( John Pancake , Marcia Pancake )
The burning of the school (Banden Singers  )
We never stagger (Banden Singers  )
We're the girls of the institute (Banden Singers  )
God save the king (Banden Singers  )
Turkey in the straw ( Mike Seeger )
Skip to my Lou ( Mike Seeger )
Work's all done this fall ( Mike Seeger )
Old Dan Tucker ( Mike Seeger )
Stay a little longer ( Mike Seeger )
Long long nail ( Mike Seeger )
Down in the Valley ( Naomi Judd , Wynona Judd )
Windy and Warm ( Chet Atkins , Peter Ostroushko )
Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues ( Chet Atkins , Peter Ostroushko )
Dance With Me ( Chet Atkins , Peter Ostroushko )
This nearly was mine ( Chet Atkins , Peter Ostroushko )
Deep purple ( Jethro Burns )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Powdermilk Biscuits


Related/contemporary press articles

La Crosse Tribune Nov 19 1988
Tennessean Nov 20 1988
Tennessean Sep 28 1988


Notes and References

PHC collected a large collection of folk songs which were published as "The Prairie Folk Song Book" by John and Marcia Pancake. This program is a collection of these songs presented for Thanksgiving. It was followed by guitar music by Chet Atkins, Jethro Burns and Peter Ostrushko. Broadcast Dec 3 (in dispute)


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