Nighttimes Variety; 1091; New Prairie Ramblers, Pap John, George Leighton; SD-Base

Night times is made possible in part by a grab for the northwest area foundation. This is not the times variety with Barber leaving out thank you. Meaning I want to welcome once again to night times variety. With us tonight Papa John Cole stead who calls his music fun jazz and a happy blues and also with us back by popular demand is vocalist George Leighton. And we would like to begin the evening with some bluegrass music from our area's finest string band. The new prairie Ramblers formed about a year and a half ago and is composed of four outstanding musicians with the years of experience required to master a repertoire of music from bluegrass to Irish to gospel and country swing. Tonight I'll be giving you a

taste of that diversity with two songs off their new album. Ladies and gentlemen along with guest artist Butch Thompson please welcome the new prairie Ramblers. The 30s here set up our friend's home. And she won her into China. I was at all shy just to. Die. You know. Is there anything. In the state.

With a video of a place in Gary's in your mind saying don't mind my changing my mind about me not wanting to be with us. It. Felt like to me

that thing we eat. We. Change our mind a. Little. Just to see. Three thousand. Grandmothers will be back a little later on. Papa John Cole's dad has been part of the Minneapolis music scene since the 60s when people like Leo Kottke Bonnie Raitt Kerner Ray and

Glover and Bob. Delia and could Michelle get the toothpicks played westbank coffeehouses He has since gained a reputation as a top notch performer at festivals concerts clubs and colleges throughout the United States. Papa John is a musician a storyteller and a humorist who says he plays only to make people feel good. Ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome along with which Thompson You're beginning to look awfully familiar butch. Thank you thank you. Thank you. You know I just love to watch those old movies on television late at night and sometimes on Sunday afternoons. And how do you like watches old movies. Something really great about watching them and I want to do a little takeoff on one of those as sort of a section out of a Busby Berkeley type movie the kind done during the 1980s with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland there were those great old flicks. Well we're going to do it this is a story where the children that young kids the teenagers are sitting down at a soda fountain someone are all sitting around dejected you know on set

around saying oh if we could only find some way of raising some money because they needed money for a special occasion you see and they're sitting around and nobody could think of any way and they don't have any jobs and finally someone leaps up and says See we can put on a shoal. And everyone else jumps up and starts throwing in ideas and one says My dad has a barn we can use that to put the play on and someone else's Hey my mom has costumes up in the attic and some of them my dad's a printer we can print up the programs and why they're just gone and everything's going to be great and someone says oh but we don't have a star for the show. Every last you know on so they're just sitting around there saying oh are we going to get for a start just at that point is in walks Mickey Rooney right Mickey Rooney watches it and says Leno comes and says Hi gang you know hey I've just heard this great new hit song and they say Oh Mickey. Want to sing it for us all be so great and so they sit down and says All right I'll sing if you'll sing it with me you know and so he takes a napkin and he writes on the napkin with the lipstick he gets from one of the girls he writes all the words on this napkin just the words. He goes over the piano and he sits down a pianist is in

front of you play some piano right. So what we have played a piano. So he goes over and sits on the piano and Freddie's real dumb looking looks at him and he starts playing and all of a sudden he's just playing this incredible piano all reading those words written on the napkin. He just playing away there and all of a sudden you hear 100 40 piece orchestra all coming out of Freddie's piano because there's not one of the musician in the entire place. Well we're going to do that I'm going to play the part of the hero of this movie and play the part Mickey Rooney would have played and any one of you that would like to can be Judy Garland of course and who is my yes my star with me and I'm going to I'm going to go off and re-enter like Mickey Rooney coming into this club and I want you to play the part of the teenagers in the club. OK I'll get your parts. OK. Say you know I just heard this great new hit song. You'd like me to sing. Okay I'll sing it if you'll sing it with me all right. It goes exactly like this.

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bang bang bang bang with one more time. Banks about a bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang with a gun. Done for now. If you're feeling low down and you need a show not to give you the lowdown. She's a dancer. I didn't see a damn thing to do with my life. But I. Thought A. Lot of you know my mother just love songs by George George might not like to do just a little bit of one here. My dear mother on tumbling Wisconsin goes like this. I've gotten rid of. I've got to use it for anything more. Five days in green pasture. I've got my gal or anything Mona. Oh man I don't mind him.

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bang bang put it on top of it you'll be getting it. Put a little bit a spin on the shoe bomber you dumb but you wouldn't treat for $40. Donna you do. Thank you. Already do you guys look silly. Oh you look great Papa John will be back later on incidentally. Papa John calls dad is doing a concert this Thursday at the World Theater in St. Paul to a special concert and along with Papa John will also be Utah Phillips. So it should be a good concert. George Leighton is a singer and an actor who has appeared as a featured soloist with major symphony orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and Europe. That's already you can see it here with us tonight to do another song.

We got a lot of phone calls and a lot of letters when he was on our show in January and so he is indeed back by popular demand along with Chris Drobny ON P.A. we are going to do a duet once again. This is a Fats Waller tune called a handful of keys. Right.

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Like you where you. Are right now and you're just going to take off and come back. Along with Chris once again please welcome George Wright. On the day. You might as well.

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you must. Know. That it. Can. Also walk talk to your lawyer. Oh yes now. George Wayne will be appearing this spring at New York City with Beverly and Chris Rock Me is going to

be the piano player for the cricket Theatre's production are side by side by Sondheim also this spring. Right now I'd like to bring back a new prairie Ramblers. Are you all ready guys. All right. This is called fiddle man and welcome once again the new prairie Ramblers. He.

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a tune for my latest album called Going Home. And this is a song composed by you Utah Phillips the golden voice of the Great Southwest. And I'm very proud to say I'll be doing a concert with Bruce Phillips Bruce's real name. Most people call him Utah because he's from Utah a strike on Utah. And we're doing a concert special concert at the World Theater downtown St. Paul this coming Thursday March 19th. It's a special concert because it's being put on by. An organization of performers. It's the first time in a long time that since 1900 formers have done anything to help themselves it goes like this. Give me a train with an all night bar. Wherever I go we can't be too far come only to rock me to sleep in a Pullman car. I'm going to ride those trains again. I got the black smoke rolling from the stack. The moment. I mean clear the track. I'm going to show my guitar up there. I'm going to those trains

come on sing with me give me a train with that wherever I go it can beat you by loaning me this name in a home and I'm going to train a brand new set of trains but a subsidy a no substitute for brains. They really want to see those old trains roll a little heart I mean. Take all these old and put back the cold I was all right it was raining again. Wouldn't you give me a train with that. But wherever. I go we. Can. Take you. By. Me to sleep. You know. Oh man. I'm going. To show. You.

And. Take away the. Order he's taken on the dinner. Like. That was a good old time. Now it looks like I'm gonna run out of run at least I'm bankrupt. Yes give me a train. Where. You know. I'm gonna. If you're actually part of our studio audience please write back on Friday 16 40 Kummel Atlanta St. Paul Minnesota 5 5 1 0 8 0 6 4 6 4 6 1 run for your Financial Times is made possible in part by a grant

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