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August 4, 1984      Orpheum Theater, St Paul, MN

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Participants

Greg BrownButch Thompson TrioGrant Street String Band Garrison Keillor Vidar Lande. Peter Ostroushko


Songs, tunes, and poems

Am I boring? ( Garrison Keillor )
Hopelessly Devoted to you ( Garrison Keillor )
Stage door canteen (Butch Thompson Trio  )
National anthems of Japan, Netherlands, Germany, and Canada (Butch Thompson Trio  )
Gambling man (Grant Street String Band  )
Greenfields (Grant Street String Band  )
Dear old southern home (Grant Street String Band  )
Feet on the fiddle (Grant Street String Band  )
I cover the waterfront (Grant Street String Band  )
Prairie lullaby (Grant Street String Band  )
Everlasting tune ( Vidar Lande )
The graveyard ( Vidar Lande )
I don't wanna have a nice day ( Greg Brown )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Bertha's Kitty Boutique
Burton Brother's Games for Adults
Chatterbox Cafe
Fearmonger's Shop
Home Defense Hardware
Mondale, Walter
Powdermilk Biscuits
Sidetrack Tap
Tolerude, Daryl


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

The LW Herald Star used filler items on the front page, like pigs swim better than dogs. The Tollerude boys were loading the contestants into the pickup truck but the pig was reluctant. Daryl came home and ended the experiment. When he was 10, GK tried to hypnotize his family by humming and tapping the table leg with his foot. GK made himself King Vincent of Altrusia with the little kids and trained them to obey him. They spoke Altrusian during the ceremony and anyone that snickered was sent to prison. Walter Mondale lacks charisma. He is Norwegian, comes from a small town, and is the son of a Methodist minister. That's three strikes against him. Democrats leaders shouldn't have charisma. GK gave up charisma when he became 11. The study of people will occupy all of your life.


Other mentions/discussions during the show

Old courtship customs. Whippets beat the Avon Bards. Department of Folk Songs: The great historical bum, I won't marry at all, I wish I was single again, Oh chromosome, The fate of youthful sponge


This show was Rebroadcast on 1987-08-01

Notes and References

1984.08.04 Lafayette Journal / Berto notes that these songs were also performed, but doesn't attribute them: "All of the good times" "You are my sunshine" "Time has made a change in me" "Red river valley" / rebroadcast on August 1, 1987.

Archival contributors: Frank Berto


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