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10th Anniversary Show

July 7, 1984      Orpheum Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Steve Barnett Greg Brown Garrison KeillorLieberman Fogel & BayNight O' Rest Motel OrchestraStoney Lonesome. Vern Sutton Butch Thompson


Songs, tunes, and poems

World Theater song ( Garrison Keillor )
Song of the Exiles ( Garrison Keillor )
Nest in the west ( Garrison Keillor )
The 23rd psalm ( Garrison Keillor )
Ring the bells for public radio ( Vern Sutton )
Put your arms around me honey ( Vern Sutton )
You Made Me Love You ( Vern Sutton )
Abba dabba honeymoon ( Vern Sutton )
Poor Butterfly ( Vern Sutton )
Silver threads among the gold ( Vern Sutton )
Desert song ( Vern Sutton )
The cascades ( Steve Barnett )
One Hundred years from today (Lieberman Fogel & Bay  )
What a fine thing you have done ( Greg Brown )
Long long trail ( Greg Brown )
All of the good times (Stoney Lonesome  )
You are my sunshine (Stoney Lonesome  )
Time has made a change in me (Stoney Lonesome  )
Red river valley (Stoney Lonesome  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Ajua! Hot Sauce
Art's Bait and Night of Rest Motel
Bertha's Kitty Boutique
Chatterbox Cafe
Home Defense Hardware
Minnesota Fruit Council
Mr. Pickle Restaurants
Powdermilk Biscuits
Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery
Sidetrack Tap
Skoglund's Five and Dime
Whippets


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

The LW Town Council voted a resolution commending PHC. They aren't that crazy about OK's essays. Merle wanted to send a delegation to the 10th anniversary broadcast. V announcers asked when PHC was going on TV. No polite answer. PHC is an anachronism in the TV age.TV coverage of the LW living flag display. Success has its price, like winning the pie-eating contest. The LW Whippets are 7-2 and in 2nd place in the Old Sod Shanty League. They have never been more worried. GK has been very lucky. He remembers when he was unemployed in New York and he saw a beautiful woman walking towards him. To impress her, he put a dime in a parking meter next to a Cadillac convertible. She said "Thank you" "as she got in and drove away. The audience is the beautiful woman and PHC is the Cadillac.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

OK's bad taste were gifts from other friends. Themes from .old radio shows. Happy birthday to E. B. White. Songs from the golden age of the St. Paul theater district.


This show was Rebroadcast on

1987-06-20
1989-07-01


Related/contemporary press articles

Austin American Statesman Jul 9 1984
Lincoln Star Jul 5 1984
Park City Daily News Jun 10 1984
Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 6 1984
Star Tribune Jul 1 1984
St Louis Post Dispatch Jul 10 1984
Auburn Journal Jul 10 1984
Bangor Daily News Jul 7 1984
Bismarck Tribune Jul 6 1984
Daily News Jul 7 1984
Daily Press Jul 6 1984
Indianapolis News Jul 7 1984
Winona Daily News Jul 8 1984


Notes and References

Rebroadcast July 1, 1989

Archival contributors: musicbrainz / Frank Berto


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