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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.)


Other mentions/discussions during the show

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.


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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