Post to the Host
Host Garrison Keillor answers your questions about life, love, writing, authors, and of course, A Prairie Home Companion.
Hello Dolly?
February 14, 2008 | 4 Comments
GK.
Every evening, i get into the peace of my car and drive for two hours and listen for the Praire Home Companion. I think you once hinted that, maybe, Dolly Parton would be on the show. I just don't wanna miss anything.
James O.
Oklahoma City
We've been angling to get Dolly on the show ever since forever. Chet Atkins was a big admirer of hers and we tried to get her through him, and Stevie Beck the Queen of the Autoharp, who is a Dolly fan, tried, and someday we will welcome her to the show. She can sing anything she wants to sing and I'll write her a part in a Guy Noir script. We'll even give her a dressing room with a mirror and little light bulbs around it.
4 Comments
Leave a comment
|
Previous Post: |
Next Post: |
Post to the Host Archive
- Intro to Storytelling
- Birds of a feather
- Poetry 101
- Shave and a Haircut...
- One of Us
- Slow Down and Look Around
- Home Again
- Content and its Discontents
- The Dales
- GENERATION NEXT
- THE FOUNDATION FOR GREAT SUCCESS
- WE ALL SCREAM FOR ICE CREAM
- NOTHING BEATS BROWSING
- Lake Wobegon Screenplay
- English Majors
- No Time for Rhyme?
- Sheko Hariir
- Fair is Fair
- Absorb Your Surroundings
- Sitting Around the Campfire
- Overshadowed and Choked Out
- Lake Wobegon Factbook
- Just Good Manners
- Lake Wobegon Census
- A Sobering Sight
- Strange Interference
- Flannery O'Connor
- An Artistic Move
- It Wasn't Bad
- Regional Child-Rearing
- No News is Bad News
- Earl Sanderson, Eagle Scout
- F-Stop Ftizgerald
- Please Advise
- Get Sauk Centre Centered
- Did You Hear the One About...?
- He Should Pay It, Not You
- Goose V. Gray Duck
- Deals in Stereotypes
- Not Fade Away
- Jeepers Creepers, Where'd Ya Get Those Peepers?
- The Old Man Would Be Tickled Pink
- John Updike, 1932 - 2009
- Try to Do Things Right
- The Ice Storm
- The Department of Folk Song
- Having Fun with Mr. Bush
- The Inauguration
- Maybe Tap Dance
- US Airways Flight 1549
- The Religious Life
- The Future of Radio
- Fragile, In Other Words
- Time to Go Forward
- Troubles You Don't Need
- The Old Scout
- The English Major, Of Course
- The Lake Wobegon Songbook
- A Cure for the Hiccups
- Sweetness Trumps Correctness
- I've Heard about this -- Cat Juggling!
- Antarctic Home Companion?
- Paging Mildred Glick
- The Not-So-Mysterious Origins of Guy Noir
- Best Anti-PHC rant of 2008
- Unpleasant People
- Heroic Parenthood
- Nothing Like It
- How About Lively?
- The Bramble and the Rose
- You Deserve No Less
- Walt is Out There
- Back in the Stacks
- Observations from The Great Gatsby
- Which Means What it Means
Complete Post to the Host Archive
Connie Bos | February 15, 2008 9:56 PM
Hello Garrison. Dolly Parton, not unattractive, as older females go.
William Carpenter | February 17, 2008 6:06 AM
Garrison, I just wanted you to know how much I enjoyed last night's show (2/16). So much talent and so well presented. And a wonderful tribute to a school that obviously deserves it. You've made my week for, what is it, 35 years now give or take, with a few intermissions. On Saturday nights I fix a nice dinner at home so I can listen while cooking, eating and cleaning up. Last night it was Chicken Tetrazzini, and it came out great. Something about fine performances begetting fine performances. Keep up your fantastic work. And come to Central Florida sometime. We'd love to see you again.
Bill C.
Winter Springs, FL
Jeff | February 17, 2008 10:50 AM
I second that! Dolly Parton is the most wonderful entertainer, she just sparkles. One idea - she's written hundreds of songs... perhaps she could talk about the stories behind a song, then play the song. Or introduce new songs she's written.
Jerry Meir | February 17, 2008 3:05 PM
Mr.Keillor,
I was born and raised in Wisconsin. During high school, an English teacher often quoted a poem that was very meaningful to me. I would like to know if you've ever heard of it, and might know the title and author? It began;
"Oh gift a gee, oh gift a geeus,
to see ourselves as eithers see us."
My wife and I have greatly enjoyed your sharing the gifts GOD has given you, with us and millions of other "GK/PHC" fans these years. We realize that it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort preparing for your weekly broadcast. We thank you and appreciate you.
Jerry and Marilyn
CA