Music Information - June 5, 1999

Music performed on A Prairie Home Companion, June 5, 1999
Mother Lode Theatre, Butte, Montana

Performers:

Garrison Keillor, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Tom Keith
The Guys All-Star Shoe Band: Richard Dworsky, piano; Andy Stein, fiddle, tenor sax; Pat Donohue, guitar; Greg Hippen, bass; Arnie Kinsella, percussion

Guests:

Stephanie Davis, fiddle, guitar, vocals; with Rick Philipp, drums;
Kelly Rubrecht, guitar, backup vocals
Paul Zarzyski, cowboy poet

TISHOMINGO BLUES (Opening theme)

Garrison Keillor, GASB
w/m: Spencer Williams; new words: Garrison Keillor
( 1917 Joseph W. Stern and Co.; (c) 1989 Garrison Keillor

GOODBYE, ST. PAUL (GOODBYE, OLD PAINT)

Garrison Keillor, AS
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrision Keillor

O WHAT A LUXURY (poem)

Garrison Keillor (read poem)
poem: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1989 Garrison Keillor
pub: We Are Still Married

GOODBYE, ST. PAUL (GOODBYE, OLD PAINT) (reprise)

Garrison Keillor, AS
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrision Keillor

LET THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY

Garrison Keillor, audience, GASB
w: J. Keirn Brennan; m: Ernest R. Ball
(c) 1919 M. Witmark & Sons

"BEEBOPAREEBOP RHUBARB PIE" THEME (SHORT'NIN' BREAD)

Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith, GASB
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) Garrison Keillor

I RIDE AN OLD PAINT

Garrison Keillor, Stephanie Davis, GASB
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrison Keillor

THERE'S A SPRINGTIME FEELIN' IN MY HEART

Stephanie Davis, RP, KR, RD, AS, PD, GH
w/m: Stephanie Davis
(c) EMI/Beartooth Music (BMI)
rec: "I'm Pullin' Through," Recluse Records

WOLVES

Stephanie Davis, KR, GH
w/m: Stephanie Davis
(c) EMI/Beartooth Music (BMI)
rec: "River of No Return," Recluse Records

KETCHUP (THE GOOD YEARS) (in "Ketchup" script)

Rich Dworsky
w: Garrison Keillor; m: Richard Dworsky
(c) 1998 Garrison Keillor, Richard Dworsky

WHY I LIKE BUTTE (poem)

Paul Zarzyski (read poem)
poem: Paul Zarzyski
pub: Blue-Collar Light, Red Wing Press, 1998
rec: "Words Growing Wild," JRP Records 001

THE BUCKING HORSE MOON (poem)

Paul Zarzyski (read poem)
poem: Paul Zarzyski
pub: All This Way for the Short Ride, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996
rec: "Words Growing Wild," JRP Records 001

THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION PIE-EATIN' COWBOY OF THE WEST (poem)

Paul Zarzyski (read poem)
poem: Paul Zarzyski
pub: All This Way for the Short Ride, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996
rec: "Words Growing Wild," JRP Records 001

IT COULD BE WORSE

Pat Donohue, GASB
w/m: Pat Donohue
(c) 1999 Pat Donohue

"WESTERN" THEME ("The Lives of the Cowboys" theme)

The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
m: Pat Donohue, Richard Dworsky, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
(c) 1994

WHOO-PEE TI YI YO (GIT ALONG, LITTLE DOGIES)

Tim Russell
w/m: Traditional

MY SWEET MONTANA CHARDONNAY

Garrison Keillor, PD
w: Garrison Keillor; m: Garrison Keillor, Pat Donohue
(c) 1999 Garrison Keillor, Pat Donohue

HIGH SOCIETY (Intermission)

The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
w/m: Frank Trumbauer, Joseph A. Livingston, Benny Goodman, Walter Melrose, Louis Armstrong, Porter Steele
(c) Edwin H. Morris & Co., Inc.
arr: Andy Stein

WHEN IT'S SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES

Garrison Keillor, GASB (and into "Greetings")
w: Mary Hale Woolsey; m: Robert Sauer, Milt Taggart
(c) 1923 Robert Sauer; (c) 1929 Villa Moret, Inc. (c) Renewed 1951, 1957 Robbins Music Corporation

ALWAYS (under "Greetings")

Andy Stein, Pat Donohue
w/m: Irving Berlin
(c) 1925 Irving Berlin

"BERTHA'S KITTY BOUTIQUE" THEME

Rich Dworsky
m: Prokofiev; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) Garrison Keillor

PRAIRIE LULLABYE

Stephanie Davis, RP, KR, RD, AS, PD, GH
w/m: Stephanie Davis
(c) EMI/Beartooth Music (BMI)
rec: "River of No Return," Recluse Records

TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM (excerpt, in monologue)

Garrison Keillor
w/m: Phil Spector
(c) 1958 Mother Bertha Music

SNAKE HIP DANCE

The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
m: "Fats" Waller, Andy Razaf, Harry Brooks
(c) 1929

WORDS GROWING WILD IN THE WOODS (poem)

Paul Zarzyski (read poem)
poem: Paul Zarzyski
pub: Blue-Collar Light, Red Wing Press, 1998
rec: "Words Growing Wild," JRP Records 001

FOREVER YOUNG (into "Thread the Needle)

Garrison Keillor, GASB
w/m: Bob Dylan
(c) 1973 Ram's Horn Music

THREAD THE NEEDLE (closer)

Stephanie Davis, Kelly Rubrecht, Rick Philipp, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
w/m: Stephanie Davis
(c) EMI/Beartooth Music (BMI)
rec: "River of No Return," Recluse Records

Some other material available by guest artists:
Stephanie Davis (www.stephaniedavis.net)

"River of No Return," Recluse Records
"I'm Pullin' Through," Recluse Records
(Recordings available from Recluse Records, HC 53, Box 47, Columbus, MT 59019.)

Paul Zarzyski

The Makeup of Ice, University of Georgia Press, 1984
Blue-Collar Light, Red Wing Press, 1998
All This Way for the Short Ride, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1996
(A CD recording of sixteen of his poems with musical accompaniment):
"Words Growing Wild," JRP Records 001
(Anthologies that include his work):
Poetry of the American West, Columbia University Press
Maverick Western Verse, Peregrine-Smith
Between Earth & Sky: Poets of the Cowboy West, W.W. Norton