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American Radio Company of the Air

October 27, 1990      Lamb's Theater, New York, NY

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Participants

Ivy AustinCoffee Club Orchestra Garrison Keillor. RochesTrue Image


Songs, tunes, and poems

In the good old fashioned Way ( Ivy Austin )
Rolled in one ( Ivy Austin )
Till the clouds roll by ( Ivy Austin )
When it's nesting time in Flatbush ( Ivy Austin )
The Deficit Rag ( Ivy Austin )
Will there be any freight trains in Heaven? ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
Polly Wolly Doodle ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
Oh Susanna ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
I've been working on the Railroad ( Garrison Keillor , Ivy Austin )
Come softly darling (Roches  )
Speak (Roches  )
Once I loved an outlaw (Roches  )
The Train (Roches  )
My girl (True Image  )
Borrowing a kiss (True Image  )


Sketches, Sponsors, People, Places

Cafe Boeuf
Harvey's Beauty Milk
National Federation of Associations
Sidetrack Tap
Staten Island Salad Dressing


'The News from Lake Wobegon'

L W compared to NYC in November. Joke: instead of marrying, find a woman you don't like and buy her a house. NYC woman with monster earrings. Eating the perfect rhubarb pie from your aunt who explains how poor it is. NYC bag lady screaming at a lamp post. Pessimistic men in the Sidetrack take a dim view of politicians. Repression of the water carburetor. Lenin shot politicians and abolished elections. 25-year old GK came to NYC to look for a writing job. He took overnight bus to Boston to look for a job. His interviewer walks in as GK was cleaning up in the men's room. He didn't get hired.


Additional information, mentions, etc.

Drink three quarts of water per day. Tossing guys in dark suits over a cliff. Revised immigration laws. New inscription beneath the Statue of Liberty, - "Send me your young skilled workers." There They Were: Robert Frost and George Gershwin write a Broadway play. President George Beowolf goes to war. Summary of musical, "Oh Boy." GK hitch hiking to Bozeman, picked up sheep herder, arrives in ghost town, meets Iris in a bar, heads west and becomes a house hobo. Todd Burnett vs Susan B. Quinn. Halloween frights. Dracula, buried alive, being eaten by alligators.


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