BeauSoleil
February 14, 2009
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, we'll welcome the Grammy™ Award winning Cajun institution known as BeauSoleil with Michael Doucet, and prolific world jazz
trombonist and composer, Roswell Rudd. We'll also have singer and erstwhile Wailin' Jenny, Heather Masse, and opera legend Vern Sutton. And, since it'll be Valentine's Day, we're going to read the winners from our Valentine's Day Poem and Song Contest too. Also with us,
The Royal Academy of Radio Acting: Mark Benninghofen, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon. It's all live, this week from the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St.
Paul.
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We need a few good local musicians/musical groups when we bring the show to Appleton, Wisconsin on March 28th. If you're interested, send a few tracks of your best
material. All submissions need to be received by 5 p.m. (CT) on Monday, March 9th.
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For the next three Saturdays — February 7, 14 and 21 — our winter run continues from the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. This season's final Twin Cities-area show is on March 21, when we cross the river and take the stage of the historic State Theatre in
Minneapolis. Stay tuned.
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Post to the Host:
Hello. In your recent show, GK said that Buddy Holly was alive and living in New York. All bio's say that he is no longer with us and passed away in the p*** crash. Please inform me of the correct truth.
Thank you,
Thad
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I am sticking to my story, Thad, no matter what the biographers say. They have been wrong before. I ran into Buddy Holly in New York in December and didn't recognize him at first because he doesn't have those big black hornrims anymore — he had Lasik surgery and doesn't
need glasses — and he's put on some weight since 1959. He's 72 and in good shape for the shape he's in and retired from his pastorate two years ago. After the p*** crash, he went back to the Church of Christ and went to Abilene Christian and got his degree and he's been pastor of Manhattan
Church of Christ, a little church on W. 12th Street. Church of Christ is a pretty tiny minority in New York City, so he goes unnoticed — anybody who was a Buddy Holly fan is still in mourning for him, and members of the Church of Christ tended not to be rocknrollers, so he's as anonymous as
can be, and he goes by the name of the Rev. Charles Holley which is spelled with an E, and so his secret is safe. He was sorry about the guy who died in the crash.
A guitarist named Elwyn Baker who was a dead-ringer for Buddy and when Buddy got the offer to go on tour in the Midwest in the dead of winter, he said "No way" and called up Elwyn and they agreed on a 50-50 split, and that's the truth. Elwyn was also Church of Christ and he was going to be a
minister and he wanted a last fling as a rocknroll star and that's how he died. Doing what he wanted to do. And Buddy was shocked to read his own obituary in the papers, of course, and he was going to tell people that he was still alive but he was embarrassed about the dishonesty of sending a
stand-in and then he was sort of amazed at what a commotion his death caused and teenagers weeping and making pilgrimages to the crash site and so on, and then as he thought about it, his death to him seemed like a sign from heaven that he should give his life to the Lord, which he's done. And he
doesn't sing these songs anymore.
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Q: Why did the landlord go to the Psychiatrist?
A: Because he had an apartment complex
This joke was sent in by Sam Q., of Knoxville, TN. Thanks Sam!
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Be alive while you can
(02/10/2009)
Listened to the show Saturday and it was not bad. It was a welcome lift for me, I'll tell you, especially with those Buddy Holly songs, and "Do You Know You Are My Sunshine?" I was singing along with that one, and the kids were wondering how the heck I knew the words...
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(02/04/2009)
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(02/03/2009)
Ten a.m. A phone call from my daughter's school, and instantly the father's mind goes to Dark Foreboding, but no — this is her teacher calling to say that the child scored 96 on the spelling test...
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This independent feature-length documentary film by Peter Rosen goes behind the scenes at A Prairie Home Companion, and inside the imagination of the man who
created it.
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