A Prairie Home Companion - April 11, 1987 (Part 1)

In this segment:
Theme: Hello Love by Hank Snow (at 0:00)
Music: Keep On the Sunny Side by The Carter Family (at 3:05)
Sponsorships & Greetings (at 6:05)
Music: Peach-Pickin' Time Down in Georgia by Jimmy Rodgers (at 8:28)
This is an episode of A Prairie Home Companion which was aired on the Disney Channel on April 11, 1987. During that season Garrison Keillor was preparing to retire, which he did for a short while before reviving the show in 1989. As part of his planned retirement he agreed to air his "last" season on the Disney Channel. Despite the show being revived, it was never broadcast on television again (although recently performances of A Prairie Home Companion have been broadcast to cinemas as part of Garrison Keillor's most recent attempt at retirement) . This episode is only 90 minutes long because the television broadcasts had 30 minutes cut out from them. This is also the only episode I have; it was taped off of a free preview weekend of The Disney Channel (when it was a "premium" network, like HBO). Apologies for the occasional video dropouts, the tape is a bit worn out and my video capture card doesn't tolerate worn tapes very well. Part 1 of 7.

[@MrRadar]

Hi, I just had to remove a comment that was being extremely rude. You don't have to like APHC but if you want to voice your displeasure at it please put on your best polite midwestern passive-aggressive voice when leaving negative feedback and especially do not use swears. Thanks :)

[@SalAcceturra]

If you've got something negative to say about a prairie home companion than my God I question your decency

[@RobMacKendrick]

Also, before you decide to diss my man Garrison, don't forget that we're not all from the Midwest, if you dig.

[@prodigalson6166]

Who's here in 2023 taking a break from blasting people on pubg mobile to take time to listen to an American treasure and one of the best and most wholesome radio shows ever! When I was a boy and for started listening to prairie home companion back in the I could have never imagined it would join the ranks of old-time classic radio shows, which I have also always loved. ✌🏽😁🇺🇸

[@Red_Twizzler]

Ya got that right, fatty! I wonder what Doc Watson really thinks of Garrison’s voice. Haha!

[@RobMacKendrick]

Nobody in the Golden Age of Radio did it any better than these people.

[@tomastanuz575]

Saturday will never be the same on NPR

[@etthealienouttheresomewher1296]

So true, this was Saturday night in rural Iowa!

[@RobMacKendrick]

@@etthealienouttheresomewher1296 Puget Sound country here, and rebroadcast Sunday morning. Working my tail off as a young teacher, exhausted on the weekend, and never missing PHC each week.

[@dlfleming3]

This show and Garrison Keillor are a national treasure!

[@SheepofTheShepherd-nu3lz]

Miss his show Since he retired in 2016 When my dad was still alive, we would listen regular on Saturday night for many years

[@scottspurgeon8212]

This would have been the last episode my grandpa would have listened to. He listened religiously. Then just a couple months later the show ended. Great memories. Thanks for posting.

[@sean55uh]

I love this guy. Never knew who I was listening to on NPR, and I stumbled upon this video. Even when I clicked on it I didn't realize who it was... and I started listening and realized who it was. I listen to him every week.

[@CousinJennie]

Way over here in Australia, I remember loving this show waaaay back - bless you KZbin and MrRadar for bringing back a lovely memory from a time that wasn't always happy. ❤❤

[@thomasromano9321]

Amazing guy, he casually cleans his glasses, and knows every word by memory. Phenomenal mind.

[@aaronwestendorp7352]

By the time of this show he had been singing this song at the top of the show almost 52 weeks a year for 13 years, he knew this song well by this time. He is still amazing though

[@RobMacKendrick]

Radio is awesome. Thanks to Garrison for bringing real radio back so I could know it in my lifetime.

[@thomasromano9321]

True, but when he does his Lake Woebegone monologues and talks about different characters, I've never seen him use notes. I've also seen him live onstage four times. @@aaronwestendorp7352

[@Ar7wen]

I LOVE this, thanks for posting it. I can't seem to find entire shows anywhere, even just for listening too.

[@CSAccetura]

My father would listen to this as we would go on drives every Sunday many years ago. We would be listening from Central Kentucky

[@joannahall5005]

My dad loved this show, I still remember him laughing in the car about "Raw Bits" cereal 😊

[@tonyschram1260]

PHC and Doc Watson, it doesn’t get any better than this 😊😊😊

[@mattmintzell2253]

This is wonderful stuff! And it's great to see the legendary Doc Watson and his talented crew playing such marvelous music!

[@chrisgordon5719]

MEMORIES!!! I recorded and had on Cassette tape almost every complete show from the Spring of 1983 until Garrison moved to Denmark. This is toward the end of shows at The World Theatre. Before he left. When he came back, the show was never the same, but still wonderful. The first time I ever heard an Autoharp finger picked by an expert, Stevie Beck, "The Queen of the Autoharp". When I retired and moved, I had no place for all the tapes. I couldn't give them away. They all went into a dumpster. I wish I still had them. I recorded this show. I never recorded a bad show.

[@achievementhousebw7387]

Wish I had those tapes. There were 2 specific items I would like to hear again. One was about a garden tiller for sale. It was called "The Hun" and The Hun is a-tilla for all your needs. The other was a show where Garrison was golfing through Manhattan or Wall Street or something in NY. They played right through several famous stores and establishments but I was driving and missed most of it. I believe that a lot of the shows are "locked up" by some copyright or other ownership. Would love to hear those from 1974 to 1994. Bruce Williamson [e-mail]

[@c.paulaev-nostrand3911]

this is the great radio that many listened to in the great state of minnesota, too bad that many here have not discovered one of the great radio comedians a sort of wayne gretsky of comedy-music-radio, a real life person whose comedy fits into everyones life,,,,,,,, !

[@annaoneal4709]

I miss this so much every Saturday evening at 5 pm

[@justforever96]

Awesome, the way entertainment use to be, complete with genuine talent, soothing vocals and excellent music. Nice to hear someone play some REAL country music for a change; I'm not really a "country fan", but I really do enjoy the older stuff, back when it actually seemed to represent what it claims to represent, and didn't try to appeal to modern tastes and aesthetics. I also notice he urges the audience to "learn to sing" one of the songs: no-body _sings_ anymore. It's like they think it's a job for professionals only. They bring along a portable radio (or their iPhone, these days), and listen to whatever popular music is trending these days. Nobody sings for themselves. Even if they thought of it, they'd be too embarrassed. Stupid. People used to sing all the time, alone, as families, as groups. My dad tells me how when they went camping when he was a kid, the people from different sites would gather together around a fire and have a "singalong" (no, not karaoke). They mostly knew the words, knew the tune. Singing is fun, and it's too bad it's something that is disappearing among the average person; only people interested in music and who hae taken lessons in singing, etc, seem to bother or dare to sing these days.

[@sandrajurus347]

Wonderful to see what I listened every Sat. How generous of you to do this for us all!

[@poughkeepsiejohn1]

Love Minneapolis-St. Paul. Any town that gave us Bob Dylan, Prince, Husker Du, The Replacements and Garrison Keillor can't be bad.

[@Mpshfromlowell64]

....and MST3K!

[@SenorPescadorJohnson]

god i would love to have all his older shows, unreal thanks so much for this and especially seeing Doc on this show

[@Waterlooplein1]

It's nice to hear the show the way it used to be broadcast. I remember when he started singing "Hello Love" in the intro, I wrote to him asking him to sing the original song. And now I can't even remember what it was.

[@RebekahBrown]

Fun to watch these throw back shows!

[@truthiseverything9511]

I'm thrilled to see this, thank you.

[@gks6022]

Love Doc, this was a great show.

[@cantori2]

The legendary Doc Watson!

[@Dix424USA4]

I'm so excited I had the luck to see this vid and Doc Watson.. What a thrill for me ty so much for posting this wonderful video. It brings me back to radio back in those days so long ago, when radio was real, npr actually.. good music always back then.

[@BrynEnsomhet]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@FangnclawXD]

Oh my goodness a full episode that I can download and listen to while I clean, it IS Christmas! :D THANK YOU for uploading this!

[@the_Giovanni_Jian]

GK truly has truly a radio face, which gives us ugly people something to hope for.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

Loved it....It would be a rough guess, that Garrison Keller and the A Prairie Home Companion show are virtually unknown here in Australia.. Pity, this is both clever and entertaining.... Thanks

[@nbenefiel]

I've been listening to this show for nearly 40 years. I still love it.

[@SuiGenerisAbbie]

He's an icon here in America.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

Leilani Kapoor Thanks.. I became aware of the show through the movie.. the show reminds me of the Goons Show that was made in England some years ago... I love this wacky style of humor... Cheers

[@NickGibbsmusic]

Actually I believe it was (still is??) broadcast on ABC Radio National quite regularly in the 90's. My wonderful old Granny used to listen to it regularly and now I do via the New From Lake Wobegon podcast. Wonderful, life-changing, poetic stuff.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

Nick Gibbs Cool, Nick, I wasn't aware of that..... I'll check out the podcast.. Thanks

[@woopsme]

Holy shit Doc Watson as a guest, nice!

[@loolylooly81]

Simply Brilliant, thank you for posting this. X

[@ronwisman1767]

Wonderful show, have listened to add loved Garrison for many years, only wish I could find someone who handeled Powdered Milk biscuts.

[@amandayong5193]

Who cleans their glasses when presenting a show??? Answer: a guy that's utterly comfortable in his own skin!

[@goob67896]

I read that Disney Channel did 18 of these shows, I just wish I could the rest.

[@frankyramone]

I love Doc Watson. Shoutout to his family.

[@BeckaRogers]

THANK YOU for sharing!!!

[@Tropicalpisces]

This ..was good stuff. ☺️

[@Eralen00]

How long does it take to wipe your glasses clean? Its like he's buffing out a scratch or something

[@starfish53]

I love Hello Love

[@cmprovince]

This is what is called Country Music. The stuff you hear at the "Country Music Awards" is crap.

[@justforever96]

LOL, perfect. Part hip-hop, part rock, part pop, the only "country" think about it is that they add some guitar or fiddle to it. Bullshit. Hardly ever hear any kind of religious references in the lyrics any more either; to scared to offend some atheists, or to seem "uncool" to young people. I'm not religious, in particular, but it seems right to have it in country music.

[@SalAcceturra]

I am on a family members KZbin account so the name is a little misleading. I am a 40 year old man from Central Kentucky and much like Motown music this man's storytelling, singing and voice is something settling to my soul.

[@gracegorman642]

Doc Watson - reminds me of Burl Ives

[@justforever96]

Huh, he does, a bit. Never thought of that. Must both be tenors. Doc is a better musician.

[@ronkasman2328]

There's nobody like Doc Watson.

[@justforever96]

RIP Doc Watson.

[@Nunya_Bidness_53]

Not politically aligned with Keillor, but the show is still uniquely charming.

[@genmama1955]

Well, lookey there, it's Artel Watson, RIP

[@charlesnolan7602]

Garrison is gone to Lake Wobegon! These days whenever I use duct tape I know whenever in doubt- just duct it!

[@ionejohnson5773]

Love thiis, love this!

[@musicbox193]

I never knew this was on Disney

[@jeannetteguerra3139]

Me encanta

[@geraldcarter6398]

I wonder if John Prine ever went on the prairie.

[@alexadams7470]

I don't know what happened in Denmark, but after he came back the shows were never the same. They seemed to get a little darker and less optomistic.

[@Dannys99887]

Wasn't he involved in a sex scandal of some sort with a member of the production staff before he went to Denmark? Seems like he moved there with one of the women involved. But it wasn't long before he was back. Something about obscurity in a foreign country didn't appeal to him perhaps.

[@NP-ux9xg]

He got hooked on meth, started doing burglaries to support his habit, moved into being the top black market dealer of stolen exotic zoo animals, the Danish authorities put him on their top 10 most wanted and hunted him down...real nasty stuff that drove him back to the states and gave his shows a darker feel.

[@justforever96]

Whatever happened to yodelling in country music, anyway? =(

[@dschrum]

That’s Doc Watson, not the Carter Family!!

[@Carlschwamberger1]

Not quite, he worked out outlines and rough scripts, reheaesed some, then worked a lot from memory. Note the simpler show. Those from the 1990s and currently area lot more complex with a lot more people on stage interacting

[@anskat5448]

I just wish he had had more self-controle, now all this wonderful stuff is tainted, such a pitty

[@Alice45894]

The Simpsons brought me here

[@zoofeather]

Powder milk

[@thepollywog1]

talk about one take.

[@paulhammons7077]

I will never like him as a young man.. it's not my hero 😢

[@joecollins850]

The

[@TroubleToby3040]

Well, I'm glad someone said it. It needed said. You're braver than I am.👍👍👍