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

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 :)

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. ✌🏽😁🇺🇸

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

Saturday will never be the same on NPR

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

Garrison gave a showcase to great musicians who were mostly ignored by mainstream media.

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.

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

I miss this so much every Saturday evening at 5 pm

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.

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

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

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

This show and Garrison Keillor are a national treasure!

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

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

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.

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.

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,,,,,,,, !

Fun to watch these throw back shows!

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

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

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

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

Love Doc, this was a great show.

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.

I'm thrilled to see this, thank you.

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.

Holy shit Doc Watson as a guest, nice!

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!

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

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

The legendary Doc Watson!

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

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

Simply Brilliant, thank you for posting this. X

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

This ..was good stuff. ☺️

I love Doc Watson. Shoutout to his family.

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

THANK YOU for sharing!!!

I am on a family members RU-vid 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.

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

I love Hello Love

Love thiis, love this!

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

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

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

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

I never knew this was on Disney

The Simpsons brought me here

I wonder if John Prine ever went on the prairie.

There's nobody like Doc Watson.

Doc Watson - reminds me of Burl Ives

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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.

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

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

talk about one take.

Powder milk

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

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Thank you so much for posting this!