| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2968.1 | | SQUEKE::WARD | Just pay me in CHOCOLATE | Fri Oct 20 1989 15:16 | 5 |
| It's been awhile since I listened to that program, but I always
loved the commercials. I have the Bertha's Kitty Boutique T-shirt
and am always being told how "cute" it is.
Bernice
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| 2968.2 | | CRUISE::NDC | Nancy Diettrich-Cunniff-I wanted it all | Fri Oct 20 1989 15:24 | 3 |
| I've never even heard of it. When and where would I find this
show?
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| 2968.3 | | ASABET::CUNNIFF | | Sat Oct 21 1989 12:00 | 9 |
| Isn't it on Saturday (or Sunday) afternoons on NPR (national public
radio)?
(I thought I heard something a year or so ago about Garrison Keillor
not doing the show anymore...)
jack
(whos_as_confused_as_nancy!)
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| 2968.4 | | SASE::GRAY | | Mon Oct 23 1989 09:51 | 18 |
| A Prairie Home Companion is a wonderful live-radio show that is
modelled after the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville -- there's lots of
music, storytelling, gentle humor. The host, Garrison Keillor,
"retired" after about 10 years of doing the show, but I understand
that he's going to start doing it again in November. Briefly, Garrison
is a gentle-voiced teller of tales about his mythical home town
of Lake Wobegon, Minnesota. He tells about numerous characters
in this "mythical" town, and listeners get to tune into their lives
once a week (the show is currently doing reruns, Sat. night 6:00(?)
on NPR). He also tells about the numerous businesses
in town, including Bertha's Kitty Boutique, Ralph's Pretty Good
Groceries ("if you can't find it at Ralph's, you can probably get
along without it"); sometimes he talks about Lake Wobegone's Toast
and Jelly Days celebrations, and so on. It's a very sweet show.
Garrison Keillor has also written a couple of best-selling books,
"Lake Wobegone Days" and "Happy to be Here" are two, written much
in the style of his storytelling.
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| 2968.5 | | CRUISE::NDC | Nancy Diettrich-Cunniff-I wanted it all | Mon Oct 23 1989 10:40 | 4 |
| ah - that explains it. "Grand ole opry" as in Country & Western.
We don't "do" Country and Western - tho my sister LOVES it.
Nancy DC who's a Classic Rocker!
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| 2968.6 | | HABS11::MASON | Explaining is not understanding | Mon Oct 23 1989 10:51 | 8 |
| No, no, no, no, no....
Format is what was being referred to. The content is midwestern
homespun (with a Scandinavian flavor, considering where they are).
There are occasional "country" type musical spots, but give it a
try and see for yourself.
Gary
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| 2968.7 | Great Show | HPSTEK::TBOWEN | | Mon Oct 23 1989 10:53 | 16 |
| The show is not specifically country and western, or folk or anything
else. There is a variety of music, though it leans toward folk both
native and European, skits using guests and their own cast, readings
from novels and poems and some of the funniest fictitous ads you've
ever heard. The talks Garrison does about Lake Woebegone have become
classics and most are available on cassette as are a number of items from
a catalog that I still get. Unfortunatly, the shows currently on are
indeed repeats as already mentioned and Garrison himself admitted a
while back that he really didn't know what form the new show, to start
in November, will take. He was sure however that it wouldn't be the
same.
While all the ads for Bertha's Kitty Boutique were worth remembering, my
favorite one is for the heater cats that snuggle up to you on cold
nights to keep you warm. That's what my two Maine Coons do at my house
in Vermont.
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| 2968.8 | please post | DNEAST::FIRTH_CATHY | owl | Mon Oct 23 1989 12:14 | 6 |
| For us (read me) untutored folks .... when the show starts could you
post time, day, and what number the station is (ex:95.7 fm). I used
to only listed to the radio to and from work (1.9 miles), but might
widen my scope for something like this.
Cathy
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| 2968.9 | | HPSTEK::TBOWEN | | Tue Oct 24 1989 08:48 | 4 |
| It's on Saturday nights from 6:00 to 8:00. Just about all National
Public Radio stations carry it, such as WGBH in the Boston area.
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| 2968.10 | | CRUISE::NDC | Nancy Diettrich-Cunniff-I wanted it all | Tue Oct 24 1989 09:23 | 2 |
| Think I'll have to record that. It interfears with Star Trek TNG.
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| 2968.11 | It could be worse | MOSAIC::TARBET | Sama budu zabyvat' | Tue Nov 07 1989 11:16 | 17 |
| As others have pointed out, PHC was a "variety show": there was no
fixed format and about the only constants were that most of the music
was acoustic and Garrison always did a "News from Lake Wobegon" monolog.
He gets bored with what he's doing after awhile. He used to do a
morning radio show on KSJN (the PBS station at St. John's College in
Northfield, easily heard in the Twin Cities) with some of the same
flavor. We found out he was tired of it when one morning he played
"Help Me Rhonda" by the Beach Boys. Over and over and over and over
and over...for the whole two-hour show, drove everyone mad. The next
day he was gone.
Strange guy, *very* talented.
=maggie-who-grew-up-
not-all-that-far-from-
Lake-Wobegon
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