For People Who Care About Pets
Coming up this week on A Prairie Home Companion, a show devoted to our four-legged friends: our pets. We'll hear a few tunes from the trusty Bertha's Kitty Boutique Songbook, including "Cat You'd Better Come Home," "The Haydn Cat," and "The Conscientious Cat." Stephanie Davis sings "Goodnight Little Cowpup," Greg Brown sings "Like a Dog" and — in great French tradition — the Cafe Boeuf now allows dogs. Guy Noir investigates the disappearance of a fish named Kevin, Dusty and Lefty are in the hoosegow for accidentally shooting a pet cocker spaniel, and we'll hear Rossini's little-known seldom-heard "Cat Duet." In Lake Wobegon, Mr. Hoppe gets a new terrier, Loretta, who rides shotgun in his car wearing her seat belt, of course.
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Segment 1
- 00:00:00 - Logo Open
- 00:00:11 - Tishomingo Blues
- 00:00:54 - GK Intro
- 00:02:54 - Guy Noir script
- 00:15:31 - "Cat You Better Come Home," GK and Jearlyn with Shoes
- 00:20:23 - Café Boeuf script
- 00:24:00 - "Give a Dog a Bone," PD and Shoes
- 00:26:59 - Obama Dog script
- 00:30:22 - GK Powdermilk Intro
- 00:30:57 - Powermilk Biscuit Break
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Segment 2
- 00:32:35 - "The Haydn Cat," Dan Dresser
- 00:34:53 - Cowboys script
- 00:45:10 - "Goodnight Little Cowpup," Stephanie Davis
- 00:48:04 - GK Intro Bertha's
- 00:48:31 - GK sings "The Conscientious Cat"
- 00:53:24 - Bertha's script
- 00:55:53 - "Frozen Logger," GK sings with PD
- 00:58:38 - GK Intermission Credits
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Segment 3
- 01:02:43 - GK Welcome Back
- 01:03:13 - Minnesota script
- 01:09:56 - "Like a Dog," Greg Brown
- 01:12:30 - Billy Collins recites "The Revenant"
- 01:14:56 - "Hot Dog," Tom Hazelton
- 01:16:53 - Crispy script
- 01:22:32 - GK Intro
- 01:23:16 - "Into the Garden," Pat Donohue
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Segment 4
- 01:25:20 - The News from Lake Wobegon
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Segment 5
- 01:44:45 - "Blackbird" - Richard Dworsky
- 01:47:05 - Roy's Rent-a-Dog script
- 01:48:06 - "Old Shep," GK sings with The Everly Brothers
- 01:51:13 - GK Cat Intro
- 01:51:34 - "Cat Duet," Suzanne Ohlman and Maria Jette
- 01:54:17 - Bertha's script and Fred Farrell script
- 01:56:35 - GK Credits
- 01:57:30 - "Dance to My Cats," GK
- 01:58:35 - GK Recorded Credits
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