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Never Better (Prairie Home Companion)

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by: Garrison Keillor

Release Date April 02, 2007
If you've never heard of Garrison Keillor or Lake Wobegon, well are you in for a treat.
Sit back and put on your head phones and be prepared for people around you to think you're out of your mind when they glance in your direction and hear you laughing.

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A Prairie Home Companion With Garrison Keillor

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by: Garrison Keillor

Release Date November 09, 2004
This is a hilarious album with all the favourite aspects of the Prairie Home Companion show. Garrison Keillor could read the phone book and it would be funny.

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Who's on First: A Collection of Classic Routines

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by: Abbott & Costello

Release Date September 15, 2000
It is OK for the age. The recording leaves a lot to be desired.

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Dusty and Lefty, The Lives of Cowboys

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by: Garrison Keillor

Release Date April 06, 2006
The reviews are mostly negative here. I just got this for my dad, and he says it's good *and* funny. He's an old-school listener though, so for newbies, the Dusty and Lefty you may have seen in Robert Altman's movie are not the Dusty and Lefty of the real radio show. If you're familiar with the radio show, and the 'Lives of Cowboys' skits, you'll more than likely enjoy this CD release. As a side note I'd highly recommend subscribing to Garrison's weekly monologue, 'The News From Lake Wobegon', if you have I-Tunes. It's a free weekly podcast, taken directly from the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts. It's updated about mid-week, and well worth your effort if you can't catch the weekly radio show.

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Driveway Moments, Vol. 2

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by: Various Artists

Release Date August 17, 2004
The reviews are mostly negative here. I just got this for my dad, and he says it's good *and* funny. He's an old-school listener though, so for newbies, the Dusty and Lefty you may have seen in Robert Altman's movie are not the Dusty and Lefty of the real radio show. If you're familiar with the radio show, and the 'Lives of Cowboys' skits, you'll more than likely enjoy this CD release. As a side note I'd highly recommend subscribing to Garrison's weekly monologue, 'The News From Lake Wobegon', if you have I-Tunes. It's a free weekly podcast, taken directly from the Saturday afternoon radio broadcasts. It's updated about mid-week, and well worth your effort if you can't catch the weekly radio show.

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War of the Worlds

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by: Orson Welles & the Mercury Theatre

Release Date June 28, 2005
I always wondered why this radio program caused so much panic back then. So after listening to this, I realized how people could've easily mistaken it for the real thing had they missed the beginning. This is a kind of a radio program that was way ahead of its time in 1938. We're used to it now, we are more jaded and habituated to this type of broadcast. But if you transpose the Mars aliens to terrorist in planes etc.. we could just as easily believe it and create panic now. Orson Wells in incredible!

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The Bickersons/The Bickersons Fight Back

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by: Don Ameche & Frances Langford

Release Date June 10, 2003
As a young girl, my parents introduced me to the comedy of The Bickersons. We've enjoyed the albums for about 40 years now. My teenage daughters love them too. I bought 2 copies of the CD, one for my Dad and one for me. Clean, good, hilarious fun!

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Smithsonian Collection The Best of Old Time Radio Starring Jack Benny

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from: Radio Spirits

Release Date August 17, 1999
This excellent box set - the result of a joint project by Radio Spirits and the Smithsonian - is an essential purchase for admirers of Jack Benny.Entitled "The Best Of Old Time Radio Starring Jack Benny",it covers the full range of Benny's radio days,including not only four of his own shows (dating from the period 1952-1957) but also two lesser known contributions to "radio's otstanding theatre of thrills",the "Suspense" program (the episodes featured are "A Good and Faithful Servant" and "Murder in G-Flat"),and one play for the Lux Radio Theatre ("Seven Keys to Baldpate"),a radio version of "The Horn Blows at Midnight",and one edition each of "The Fred Allen Show" ... Read More:

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The Great American Baseball Box

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by: Various Artists

Release Date October 18, 2005
Only one CD with music, and that is essentially Rhino's "Baseball Greatest Hits." All songs have been previously released on other compilations. Steeerike ONE!

Packaging comes in box that looks like a base. Not very clever. Steerike TWO!

Overpriced!
Steerike THREE!

Fans will appreciate nostalgia evoked from listening to radio play-by-play calls, but THREE CDs are filled with radio calls, interviews, etc. Too much! More songs!

For baseball music, other options include Diamond Cuts (Vol. I through VIII) and "Baseball" documentary soundtrack.

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You'll Never Know

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by: Alice Faye

Release Date July 11, 2000
Alice Faye, while not well known today, was a very very famous singer in the thirties. She made her name on radio in 1933, then transferred to films in 1934 and by 1940, she was the top female box office star in America. While her voice was untrained and natural, she may have been the first white singer to popularise the husky contralto. At the height of her film career, song writers like Irving Berlin and Harry Warren wrote specifically for her and her picture on the cover of sheet music was an almost guarantee of volume sales.

This CD contains all but one of her commercial recordings from 1933 to 1937, plus a few tracks lifted from films from 1939 to 1943, after she stopped recording commercially. Among the latter is Faye's exquisite rendition ... Read More: