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Old 78s Show

April 2, 1983      Studio D , St Paul, MN

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Participants

[undocumented]


Songs, tunes, and poems

[undocumented]


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Chatterbox Cafe
Sauna Side Beer for Couch Potatoes


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

No news, just records being played: "Hello love" -Hank Snow. "Dad's old mule" - Charles and Effie Tyas. "Balling the jack" - Chicago Footwarmers. "This world is not my home" - The Two Gospel Keys. "Mellow blues" "Tell em about me" -Jimmy Yancey. "I want to be a real cowboy girl" "Cowgirl's dream" - Girls of the Golden West. "Ethan" - Jimmy Riddle. "Joe Louis strut" - Memphis Minnie. "Saving Saturday night for you" - Cliff Carlisle. "Quadrille " - Uncle Dave Makin. "Et la ball" - Billy and Bebe Pearce. "At the ball" -Avalon Boys. "Don't put off salvation too long" (1930) - Southland Ladie's Quartet. "Farther on" "Working on a building" "The schoolhouse on the hill" - The Carter Family. "Jazz" (1926) "Grandpa's spells" (1923) - Jelly Roll Morton. "Cowboy song in Swedish" "The state fair" "No setting sun" - Ernest Everson - Slim Jim. "Yodel" "Doodad in her hair"(l933) "First whippoorwill song" "Old Dan Tucker" - Dezurick Sisters. "The drunkard's sorrow waltz" "The family waltz" "Cajun fiddle" - The Balfa Brothers - Jimmy and Asher. (The last half hour is missing so the following records were announced but are not on this tape: Sam and Kirk McGee. The Boswell Sisters. Dixie Dew Drops. Cliff and Tommy Carlisle. Preservation Hall Jazz Band.)


Additional information, mentions, etc.

GK remembers listening to Slim Jim radio on a big Zenith floor model radio. The Dezurick sisters. The story of the early radio stars. They were often family groups.


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Notes and References

This show is an exception to our 'archival rule'. It was not broadcast live- it was pre-recorded - and was simply Garrison playing old records.

Archival contributors: Frank Berto


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