Field Dispatch
Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-28-25 hour 3
Game Plan
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Speaker 9: Welcome everybody.
Speaker 10: We have entered our number three Newmarrow trace of this
Speaker 10: week's Matt Connorton Unleashed. It is a Saturday, June twenty eight,
Speaker 10: twenty twenty five. We are live from the studios of
Speaker 10: w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester,
Speaker 10: New Hampshire, and of course you can stream the show
Speaker 10: from anywhere, go to Matt connorton dot com slash Live.
Speaker 10: Jenny is here of course at the news table. And
Speaker 10: the song that we just heard that is called to
Speaker 10: the Terrorist. That is such a powerful song. I love
Speaker 10: that song so much. The great Lou Antonucci, who's been
Speaker 10: on the show with us a few times. He is
Speaker 10: here with us now in studio. Hello, Lou, Hey, Matt,
Speaker 10: how you doing good?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 11: Me had chess Mike. I want to make sure we
Speaker 11: can hear you.
Speaker 10: We've got we've got you, uh going into the board
Speaker 10: because you're gonna play live for us, So really looking
Speaker 10: forward to that. Also, I want to know more about
Speaker 10: when you so what what is the name of the
Speaker 10: show with with Harry Chapin the official name of it?
Speaker 1: Official name You me and Harry, You me and Harry.
Speaker 10: And I think the first time I ever heard you
Speaker 10: talk about that was way back the first time you
Speaker 10: were on the show. I think you were you were
Speaker 10: kind of in the early stages of developing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was I think it was three
Speaker 1: years ago.
Speaker 11: Wow, you know, where does the time go?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, So we were just agatting it started
Speaker 1: at that time. But it's been it's been going very well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, I don't I don't
Speaker 1: do a lot of shows. My other schedule of you know,
Speaker 1: playing restaurants and bars throughout New Hampshire keeps me pretty busy.
Speaker 1: But I typically try to do a couple, you know,
Speaker 1: one or two shows of you, me and Harry in
Speaker 1: a month.
Speaker 10: Yeah, let's talk about that more. But I want to
Speaker 10: play this, So you send us this promo that'll kind
Speaker 10: of give people a little bit of a better idea
Speaker 10: of what this is about, and then we'll talk about it.
Speaker 11: So let's listen to this.
Speaker 8: Playing Friday night at the Cup and Door. Then the
Speaker 8: guy who messitch from Harry when one of his fans
Speaker 8: walked across the floor and.
Speaker 1: Me note, And that note, of course, was a fans
Speaker 1: request for Harry's timeless classic taxi. Hello everyone who Antonucci here?
Speaker 1: You know, Harry Chapin was more than just a songwriter,
Speaker 1: a filmmaker, off Broadway player, and even more importantly, a philanthropist.
Speaker 1: He was such a masterful storyteller. His music became a
Speaker 1: mirror to our everyday lives, full of joy, sorrow, triumphs
Speaker 1: and quiet disappointments. Chapin transformed fleeting emotions into permanent memories
Speaker 1: through his songs, captivating audiences with melody and meaning.
Speaker 11: You.
Speaker 1: Me and Harry presents my interpretation of Harry's storytelling, intertwined
Speaker 1: with backstories and little known anecdotes. My one man stage
Speaker 1: performance promises to capture you, the audience from the get
Speaker 1: go and not loosen its grasp until the final note,
Speaker 1: which is usually a note everyone is singing.
Speaker 8: Harry, will La do justice, Harry, will La make you proud?
Speaker 8: Not everybody is looking for your stories song.
Speaker 1: But business one man the crown.
Speaker 8: Could have said, I'm sorry, I haven't played that one.
Speaker 1: And is but something told me to give it a go,
Speaker 1: and overcame my fee. All of the fan favorites are there,
Speaker 1: Cats in the Cradle, Taxi, mister Tanner, and so many more.
Speaker 1: And by the way, the song you're listening to, a
Speaker 1: Message from Harry, is one of my original tunes, inspired
Speaker 1: by one of Harry's more passionate fans. It's the only
Speaker 1: song in the show not written by Harry, and I
Speaker 1: can't wait to play it for you in person, along
Speaker 1: with Harry's many story songs. So I hope to see
Speaker 1: you down the road someday soon when it's just you,
Speaker 1: me and Harry. It's been twenty yard years since I
Speaker 1: sang's words, but I remember ever won.
Speaker 10: Yeah, So, Lou, I think anyone who listens to that
Speaker 10: can tell. Obviously, this is a project that you're very
Speaker 10: passionate about, and I'm curious, so what does And we've
Speaker 10: talked about all this before, obviously, but for newer listeners
Speaker 10: who don't know, or maybe are not familiar with you,
Speaker 10: what is it about Harry Chapin that you love so much?
Speaker 10: And obviously he's a great inspiration to you musically, but
Speaker 10: what is it about him?
Speaker 1: Well? You know, I I guess one of the reasons
Speaker 1: that I'm so passionate about it because I grew up
Speaker 1: on him, as I grew up on Neil Young and
Speaker 1: James Taylor and Croachey. But the thing about Harry was
Speaker 1: he was such a personable entertainer. His shows were a
Speaker 1: lot less about singing and a lot more about connecting
Speaker 1: with the audience. Yeah. And it's it's interesting because as
Speaker 1: I do, as I do these shows, i will after
Speaker 1: we get through with the sound check and everything, and
Speaker 1: the doors open and the people are coming in, I'll
Speaker 1: go around and I'll introduce myself to members of the audience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the really interesting thing is that each member of
Speaker 1: the audience has a Harry story. Yeah, you know, like
Speaker 1: I went to see Harry in nineteen seventy nine, and
Speaker 1: you know, it was my anniversary, and I took my
Speaker 1: wife and they go back and they remember all this
Speaker 1: and his you know, his his stories are so real,
Speaker 1: you know, because they're there are a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of them are about real people and real things
Speaker 1: that have happened. And so I think that's that's the
Speaker 1: thing that I'm most interested in Harry and his music.
Speaker 1: Why I'm so interested and passionate about it because and
Speaker 1: I've noticed that when I write, you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of lean that way really much much more intimate songs
Speaker 1: that make have some kind of connection, there's some kind
Speaker 1: of personal, uh relationship going on or something like that.
Speaker 1: So I think that's it. That's in a nutshell, this
Speaker 1: is safe to assume.
Speaker 11: I mean, you see your kind of your all time
Speaker 11: favorite artist in terms of influence.
Speaker 1: And I think in terms of influence on my music, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think I I have a lot of all time
Speaker 1: favorite artists, you know, the Beatles, Crosby Stills, Nash.
Speaker 11: Sure sure to name a few, but yeah.
Speaker 1: But I think as far as someone that has an
Speaker 1: impact on what I do musically, yeah, definitely without doubt.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we also have some audio of some audience reactions
Speaker 10: to the show, and we should listen to this too
Speaker 10: because this will kind of give it an idea too
Speaker 10: to people of of what to expect and uh and
Speaker 10: of course if you are just joining us, Lou Antonucci
Speaker 10: is here with us in studio and he's going to
Speaker 10: play for us later too, so that will also give
Speaker 10: you an idea obviously. But and we always enjoy that
Speaker 10: when Lou Lou comes in and plays this.
Speaker 1: This by the way, the audio, we did a show
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh and the videographer that was doing video of
Speaker 1: the show would grab people as they were leaving the show. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: just say hey, what did you think?
Speaker 10: Yeah, so these are all very spontaneous just right after
Speaker 10: the show. Yeah, yeah, let's give this a listen here.
Speaker 5: This performance tonight was absolutely amazing. It was way way.
Speaker 12: Better than what I even expected, and what I expected
Speaker 12: was great. Really liked it and we're definitely coming back again.
Speaker 13: Who is totally amazing, had so much fun tonight this
Speaker 13: is what this is as good as it gets.
Speaker 14: Man.
Speaker 2: Lou's show is just great. What a tribute to Harry
Speaker 2: and all his great music. And it was just a wonderful,
Speaker 2: wonderful show.
Speaker 13: Thank you, Lou, Lou, you were great.
Speaker 15: It was wonderful.
Speaker 2: We grew up listening to Harry.
Speaker 7: Chapin and this was a.
Speaker 8: Great Thank you Steamworks for Hoss steam Wu.
Speaker 2: We will be back again.
Speaker 11: Okay, Yeah, oh that's cool. By the way, So where
Speaker 11: was that Steamworks?
Speaker 1: It's a it's a listening room north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Okay,
Speaker 1: in the town called Gibsonia, Pa. And the next the
Speaker 1: last gentleman before the two women at the end, Johnny Vento.
Speaker 1: He runs the place and he was kind enough to
Speaker 1: give his little impression of the show as well. He's
Speaker 1: a pretty well known musician in the Pittsburgh area, Okay,
Speaker 1: and and runs that great listening room. And matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I'm going back there in August for my third straight
Speaker 1: you Me and Harry show, No Kidding at his venue.
Speaker 11: Yeah. Oh, very cool.
Speaker 1: And you might be able to tell from a few
Speaker 1: of the few of the audience members it's it's one
Speaker 1: of those you know, you can bring your own bottle place. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but a lot of fun.
Speaker 11: Yeah, great place. Oh that's excellent.
Speaker 10: By the way, So there's somebody in the chat room
Speaker 10: on YouTube who I'm not going to say who this
Speaker 10: who it is yet because this person had emailed me
Speaker 10: and wanted to call in and surprise you, and it
Speaker 10: relates to the show.
Speaker 11: It relates to you, me and Harry.
Speaker 10: So I'm not gonna say who it is because I
Speaker 10: don't want to ruin the surprise if they call in.
Speaker 10: So hopefully they're still listening, but they are in the
Speaker 10: chat room, so we'll see.
Speaker 11: If they don't call by the end of the show,
Speaker 11: I'll go ahead and say who it is, but I
Speaker 11: don't want to wreck the surprise because I know they
Speaker 11: wanted to surprise you.
Speaker 1: But it's someone you know, as long as it's not
Speaker 1: Harry's lawyer calling me about performance.
Speaker 14: Right.
Speaker 10: Although this may or may not be a hint, but
Speaker 10: this individual posted in the chat room hashtag.
Speaker 11: Went in doubt do something. I don't know if that
Speaker 11: gives it away or not, but.
Speaker 1: I think it might.
Speaker 11: You think it might.
Speaker 1: I think it might, but we'll see.
Speaker 11: We'll see.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we'll see if they call, now, how many of
Speaker 10: these performances have you done?
Speaker 11: How many? How many of this of the show You,
Speaker 11: Me and Harry?
Speaker 1: How I take over the last couple of years, just
Speaker 1: about eight or ten. I've got six more coming up.
Speaker 1: Two in August, coming up, heading back to Pennsylvania. I'm
Speaker 1: doing a week back there. I've got a concert at
Speaker 1: Outdoor Concert in Monroville, Pennsylvania at the Monroval Community Park.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing more than just Harry at that show.
Speaker 1: I'm doing Harry and James Taylor and you. And then
Speaker 1: that weekend I'm back at the Peter J. Daily Cultural
Speaker 1: Center in Brownsville, PA, doing You, Me and Harry. That's
Speaker 1: Friday night, okay, the fifteenth of August. And then the
Speaker 1: sixteenth of August, I'm back at steam Works for an
Speaker 1: eight pm show, So looking forward to that. And then
Speaker 1: as we get into September, got two more shows. I
Speaker 1: go up to up to Maine on September nineteenth at
Speaker 1: Cadenza and that's my third year in a row doing
Speaker 1: the show there. So something must must be working right
Speaker 1: because the venues keep asking me back. And then heading
Speaker 1: down to a new venue, well Fleet Preservation Hall. It's
Speaker 1: on the Cape. It's in well Fleet doing that show
Speaker 1: on the twentieth. So lots of good things happening, but
Speaker 1: you know, I don't again, my schedule now starting in
Speaker 1: June is pretty full. Yeah, you know, playing places like
Speaker 1: Homestead Tavern and Merrimack. I'll be there tonight as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, oh six to nine thirty if you're
Speaker 1: out and about this evening.
Speaker 11: Oh excellent. Yeah, for our live listeners. Yeah, where is
Speaker 11: that again?
Speaker 1: It's in Merrimac, in Merrimack, the Homestead Tavern. Then I'll
Speaker 1: be at actually the Homestead Tavern up in Bristol. Yeah,
Speaker 1: next Saturday. And then you know, you can see my
Speaker 1: schedule at lou Antonucci dot com of all the other
Speaker 1: shows I've got going through July, August and September.
Speaker 11: Excellent. Yeah, no, you stay very busy.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 10: By the way, the individual I was talking about, they're
Speaker 10: asking the phone number. The studio line is six O
Speaker 10: three two five oh six oh seven, six O three
Speaker 10: two five oh six oh seven. So I'll keep an
Speaker 10: eye on the phone line if you want to uh,
Speaker 10: if you want to join us.
Speaker 11: Oh, Maria vanishes in there too, by the way, I
Speaker 11: think she's a fan. Excellent. Excellent.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 11: Now the has the show?
Speaker 10: Has the show changed as you've gone about doing these performances,
Speaker 10: does it change like do you change the set list
Speaker 10: or do you have something kind of locked in or
Speaker 10: do you kind of feel the crowd or.
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's a that's a good question. What I'll
Speaker 1: typically do when I'm I do have an overall set
Speaker 1: list that if I played that whole set list of
Speaker 1: Chapin tunes, it would probably take up about three hours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but with all the backstories that I do, I really
Speaker 1: only use about an hour and a half worth of
Speaker 1: actual song music, Okay. And so what I'll do is
Speaker 1: before the show, I'll walk around, I'll talk to people
Speaker 1: in the audience. I'll find you know, what's your favorite
Speaker 1: chap In tune? Right, yeah, And if it's not in
Speaker 1: that particular set list, I'll replace something with that song.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I did that one night. I know there's
Speaker 1: a song by song by Harry that that's called Corey's Coming,
Speaker 1: which is like a huge favorite of Chapin fans. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: And I typically do it in most of my shows,
Speaker 1: and I didn't have it in this particular set list.
Speaker 1: And as I'm talking to the to the folks. I
Speaker 1: talked to one gentleman and he says, are you going
Speaker 1: to do Corey's Coming tonight?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I didn't have it in the
Speaker 1: set list, but if you'd like to hear it. And
Speaker 1: before I could finish, she said, I named my daughter
Speaker 1: after as I named my daughter Cory, Oh wow, after
Speaker 1: Harry's songs Corey Corey's Coming. So I said, we know what,
Speaker 1: I've got to do it.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I did it, and about a two thirds of
Speaker 1: the now I hadn't played it for a few days.
Speaker 1: Thirds of the way through the song, I forgot the
Speaker 1: third verse. Oh no, you know now Harry would do
Speaker 1: that sometimes.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, but what's interesting is there's so many Chapin fans
Speaker 1: in the audience.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 1: After trying for twenty seconds of the song, playing through
Speaker 1: some instrumental, I finally said, folks, I forgot the verse.
Speaker 1: Does anybody know this verse?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And finally there was someone in the audience that yelled
Speaker 1: out the first couple of lines of the first I
Speaker 1: had it, and then I went through it and everybody
Speaker 1: you know went along with it. But yeah, yeah, so
Speaker 1: I do I do mix it up. It generally it's
Speaker 1: it's the same. There's there's some songs that are always there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then there are others that I'll interchange.
Speaker 11: Okay, okay, So we have somebody on the line, Hello,
Speaker 11: welcome to the show. Hello. Oh, I guess they can't
Speaker 11: hear me, all right, I guess they hung up. I
Speaker 11: know who it is, but they they called and then
Speaker 11: I don't know, they didn't stay on the line.
Speaker 10: But that's interesting that so when you're going around and
Speaker 10: you're talking to everybody before the show, so in a sense,
Speaker 10: they're actually helping shape the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and they don't and they don't even know.
Speaker 10: Because it's funny because as you're going around and you're
Speaker 10: introducing yourself to people and asking them questions like what's
Speaker 10: your favorite Harry Chapin song and things like that, it
Speaker 10: probably never even occurs to them that they're influencing what
Speaker 10: the show is going to be that night, to you know,
Speaker 10: to a small extent, But it does, and that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, well, there, like I said, there's a certain
Speaker 1: certain number of songs that these fans will expect. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're doing a Harry Chapin show and it's not
Speaker 1: you know, the typical songs always are Cats in the
Speaker 1: Cradle and Taxi. Yeah, but songs like Cory's Coming or
Speaker 1: Mister Tanner, you know, songs like that were kind of
Speaker 1: the general audience out there may not be familiar with
Speaker 1: unless sure they would go to Harry Chapin concerts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but these folks, the ones that come to this show,
Speaker 1: they know them.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's it. It makes it, It makes it great.
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of fun.
Speaker 11: Oh, that's awesome. Oh. I was trying to answer the
Speaker 11: phone again, but uh, there's nobody there. God bless them
Speaker 11: for trying. But I don't know.
Speaker 10: It's like they get impatient, I guess and hang up. Yeah, no,
Speaker 10: that's all right. We're gonna try this one more time
Speaker 10: because the phone's ringing. Hello, you're on the air. Hello, Hello, Matt, Yes, welcome,
Speaker 10: you're on the air.
Speaker 14: Well, thank you, Hey, Lou, how you doing, Hi?
Speaker 1: Len? How are you.
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 14: Do you know it's me?
Speaker 1: I know I know your voice. Plus Matt gave me
Speaker 1: a little hint with the hashtag when in dow do something.
Speaker 14: Ah, yes, I didn't mean to be so obvious.
Speaker 11: So who are your lou?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 11: I was asking who are you, Len, but turned down
Speaker 11: your radio please or your computer. We're getting uh, we're
Speaker 11: hearing everything twice.
Speaker 14: Ah, I'm sorry about that upstairs at home, not in
Speaker 14: the studio, so I'm probably let me let me see
Speaker 14: what I can do about killing some sound here? Is
Speaker 14: any better?
Speaker 11: Yeah? Sounds fine, sounds fine?
Speaker 2: So who are you?
Speaker 1: How do you?
Speaker 11: How do you know Lou?
Speaker 14: Well, Lou and I got acquainted because of the Harry
Speaker 14: Chapin fan based community. I was a friend of Harry's
Speaker 14: and I host a monthly uh podcast, I guess you
Speaker 14: could call it called Kick and Chat Live, which is global.
Speaker 14: Oh wow, joined in and lets us with his talents,
Speaker 14: and oh we've been uh, we've become great friends over time.
Speaker 14: And I think what Lou is doing with you, me
Speaker 14: and Harry is just not only a phenomenal show and tribute,
Speaker 14: but it's extremely unique in what goes on with respect
Speaker 14: to Harry's music, memory and his humanitarian legacy.
Speaker 11: Oh well, that's that's quite an endorsement.
Speaker 1: Check us in the mill.
Speaker 14: Well, no, I really don't have to. I really don't
Speaker 14: have to promote Lou all that much. He's very good
Speaker 14: at shameless self promotion.
Speaker 10: Oh my, Well, That's that's what it takes though, right,
Speaker 10: that's important. You know, nobody's gonna do it for you.
Speaker 10: You got to get out there and do it. So
Speaker 10: that's what it takes.
Speaker 14: Absolutely. I just I just figured i'd give Lou a
Speaker 14: little bit of a surprise from down here and one
Speaker 14: of Ore's Argentina and Lou I am streaming this on
Speaker 14: the community page, so everybody's getting it all over the world.
Speaker 11: Fantastic, right, We like that. We like that.
Speaker 14: Nothing wrong with that, huh.
Speaker 11: Not a thing? Not a thing? Well, very good line.
Speaker 11: We appreciate you anything.
Speaker 16: Else, nothing really, just Lou break a leg, and we
Speaker 16: appreciate what you're doing for Harry, for the community, and gosh,
Speaker 16: you know, look, I knew Harry for several years before
Speaker 16: his untimely death, and I was pretty close with him.
Speaker 14: One thing that Lou's show has that no other show has.
Speaker 14: Harry had this incredible ability. And Lou kind of described it,
Speaker 14: whether you were in an intimate setting with Harry or
Speaker 14: a thirty five thousand seat arena stadium amphitheater, you felt
Speaker 14: like you were sitting in your living room with him
Speaker 14: or in his living room. Yeah, and that's the uniqueness
Speaker 14: of Lou's show.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 14: He doesn't try to be Harry, but you feel it. Yeah,
Speaker 14: you just you're just taken back. And it's become generational
Speaker 14: because we now have three generations of people truly enjoying
Speaker 14: Harry's stories and music and Louis, you're just doing a
Speaker 14: great thing, man.
Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, very good.
Speaker 1: Thanks Lynn, very good.
Speaker 11: Well, Lenn, thank you, thank you so much for colling.
Speaker 10: He's all the way from uh all the way from Argentina?
Speaker 11: Is that is that where you.
Speaker 2: Said you are?
Speaker 14: Absolutely wow?
Speaker 10: And and what's the name of your podcast one more time,
Speaker 10: Let's let's give that a quick plug while you're on
Speaker 10: the line.
Speaker 14: It's called Shape and Chat Live and it's generally the
Speaker 14: second night, second Saturday night of every month.
Speaker 4: And you can.
Speaker 14: Find us in Facebook at Harry Shapin Long Live Harry
Speaker 14: Chapin Okay and join the community. We welcome folks all
Speaker 14: the time. And Matt, if you've got an open invitation
Speaker 14: to join us for any of the Japen SAD Live shows.
Speaker 11: Very good, very good, All right, we will check that out,
Speaker 11: all right. Len.
Speaker 10: Well, Hey, it's wonderful to meet you and thank you
Speaker 10: for calling us today.
Speaker 14: My pleasure you guys have a good show, all right.
Speaker 11: Thanks, Thanks Lynn, take care, bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 10: Well that's pretty cool. Huh, it's quite an endorsement. He's
Speaker 10: very enthusiastic about what you're doing.
Speaker 1: He's well, as he said, he was a very good
Speaker 1: friend of Harry's and uh, yeah, and he was a
Speaker 1: DJ for many years. Oh okay, and that's how he
Speaker 1: met Harry. Okay, when he was DJing and Harry was
Speaker 1: doing his DJ stops like in the old days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were promoting. Yeah, and they became friends. And he
Speaker 1: runs this this podcast and this group on Facebook and
Speaker 1: he does have a couple of thousand members all over
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 11: Oh, fantastic.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's excellent. That's excellent. Well, do you want to
Speaker 11: play something for us?
Speaker 1: Sure? Sure, one of the songs I wanted to do
Speaker 1: from the show for you. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I think we have a little clip on this one too.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Martin Tuberty. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll set
Speaker 1: it up a little bit, and then that little clip
Speaker 1: can set it up even further. Yeah. You know, like
Speaker 1: we've talked about, there's a lot of interaction during the show.
Speaker 1: And when I go to introduce Harry's song mister Tanner,
Speaker 1: which is a song about a dry cleaner who also
Speaker 1: sings opera on the side. His name is Martin Turberty,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a Harry Chapin fan favorite. Okay, if
Speaker 1: you've been to Harry Chapin concerts, you know this song.
Speaker 1: And I was doing a show in and I typically
Speaker 1: will be to start this song. They'll say, anybody in
Speaker 1: the audience know who Martin Tuberty is, and someone will
Speaker 1: raise their hand, or maybe not, maybe nobody does. And
Speaker 1: this gentleman in the middle of the audience raises his hand.
Speaker 1: He's like, oh, excited, and I figure he's going to say, yeah,
Speaker 1: Martin Tuberty is really mister Tanner. So I call on
Speaker 1: him and it turns out, well, let's play the clip
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 11: All right, cool, let's play the clip by the.
Speaker 1: Name of Martin Turberty. Does that ring a bell for
Speaker 1: anybody on? Okay, he's our next door neighbor, really lives
Speaker 1: across the street from us, the real Martin Tuberty. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you about it at the break. But I wish
Speaker 1: I knew I would have him come do his part.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna do it without Martin. Ah, but I
Speaker 1: can't believe that you're serious. There's a whole story behind it.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I figured it out. I asked him.
Speaker 1: He confirmed it.
Speaker 17: He did not know that it was him until I
Speaker 17: told him about it, and then ultimately he got in
Speaker 17: touch with Tom and they've actually.
Speaker 1: They've used him in a couple of shows. He's used
Speaker 1: him in some shows. Can you call him? You think
Speaker 1: he could come over and do it with us? Be
Speaker 1: a three and a half hour drive for him? Oh okay,
Speaker 1: all right, you didn't drive three and a half hours
Speaker 1: to kid.
Speaker 2: We did.
Speaker 1: But the other day. Oh okay, thank you for being
Speaker 1: here so much. Okay, anyway, sorry, folks, to a little
Speaker 1: side conversation. So you do know Martin Tbrey. Martini, Martin
Speaker 1: Tberty at the time, the way I understand it, lived
Speaker 1: in Weston, Connecticut, and he had gone twice to New
Speaker 1: York City once in nineteen seventy one nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 1: He was a dry cleaner who on the side sang opera,
Speaker 1: loved opera, and so we went in for his big
Speaker 1: time shot in New York and both times he got
Speaker 1: panned rather unceremoniously by the critics. And so Harry actually
Speaker 1: read the story and he saw it twice in the
Speaker 1: New York Times. And Harry, you changed the name from
Speaker 1: mister Heberty to mister Tanner. He changed the city from
Speaker 1: western Connecticut to Dayton, Ohio, and you get probably one
Speaker 1: of his fans, all time favorites, this little thing called
Speaker 1: mister Tanner.
Speaker 11: That's crazy, though. There was somebody there wow who just wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And it was interesting because Martin lives in Connecticut,
Speaker 1: still does. His show was up in Vermont, and here
Speaker 1: this gentleman was on vacation with his wife up in
Speaker 1: Vermont because he lives down in Connecticut and saw the
Speaker 1: promotion for the show and shape and fans, so he
Speaker 1: had to come to the show.
Speaker 9: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So it was really pretty interesting. That's cool anyway, So
Speaker 1: let me do a little bit mister Tanner. So when Harry,
Speaker 1: when Harry does mister Tanner, his bass player, Big John Wallace,
Speaker 1: would sing this operatic part in the background.
Speaker 11: Oh really yeah, oh wow.
Speaker 1: And so when I do it, obviously there's no opera
Speaker 1: singer to sing along with me. But yeah, so that
Speaker 1: part's not in here. But the rest of the song
Speaker 1: is there. Okay, so mister Tanner all right. Tanner was
Speaker 1: a cleaner from a town in the Midwest, and of
Speaker 1: all the clean and shops around, it made his the best.
Speaker 1: But he also was a baritone. Side while hanging clothes,
Speaker 1: he practiced scales, while pressing tales, sang at local shows.
Speaker 1: His friends and neighbors praise the voice going out from
Speaker 1: his throat, said that he should he use his gift
Speaker 1: instead of cleaning coats. But music was his life. It
Speaker 1: was not his livelihood, and it made him feel so happy,
Speaker 1: made him feel.
Speaker 13: So good, and he sang from his heart, and he
Speaker 13: sang from his soul.
Speaker 1: He didn't not know how well he sang.
Speaker 15: It just made him who.
Speaker 1: His friends kept working on him to try music out
Speaker 1: full time, a big debut and raide reviews, great career
Speaker 1: to climb. Finally they got to him. He would take
Speaker 1: the Flame. Concert agent in New York agreed to have
Speaker 1: him sing, and they are a plane ticket's, phone call's
Speaker 1: money spent to rent the hall. It took most of
Speaker 1: his savings, but he gladly used them all with music
Speaker 1: was his life. It was not as lively ovid, and
Speaker 1: it made him feel so happy and made him feel
Speaker 1: a sucker. And he sang from his heart, and he
Speaker 1: sang from his sword. He did not know how well
Speaker 1: he sang. It just made him whole. The evening came,
Speaker 1: he took the stage space, set in a smile, and
Speaker 1: halffield hall of the critics side watching on the isle.
Speaker 1: But the concert was a bird of him, spatters.
Speaker 4: Of the flaws.
Speaker 18: He did not know how well is sad, only heard
Speaker 18: the flaws.
Speaker 1: But the critics were concise. All it took four lions.
Speaker 1: No one could accuse them of being over kay. Mister
Speaker 1: Martin Tana, baritone of Dayton, Ohio, made his town hall
Speaker 1: debut last night. Became well prepared, but unfortunately his presentation
Speaker 1: was not up to contemporary professional standards. His voice lacked
Speaker 1: the range of tonal color necessary to make it consistently interesting.
Speaker 1: Time consideration of another endeavor might be in order. He
Speaker 1: came home to day and was questioned by his friends,
Speaker 1: smiled and just said nothing. Never signed a can accepted.
Speaker 1: Very late at night, when the shop was dark and closed,
Speaker 1: he signed softly to himself as he sorted.
Speaker 19: Through the clos A music was his life.
Speaker 1: It was not a lively hill and it made him
Speaker 1: feede so happy, made him feed so good.
Speaker 8: And he sang from his heart, sang from him so.
Speaker 1: He did not know how well he sang. It just
Speaker 1: made him.
Speaker 9: Oh, oh, I love that.
Speaker 11: That is so good. That it's so good. If you're
Speaker 11: just joining us.
Speaker 10: Lou Antonucci is here with us live in studio, and
Speaker 10: we've been talking about his show, You Me and Harry,
Speaker 10: and uh, oh, that's you know, it's funny to that song.
Speaker 10: It's like, uh, it's funny but sad at the same time,
Speaker 10: you know, and does that is that? Obviously that's something
Speaker 10: that Harry Chapin was really pretty good at.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, pulling that off.
Speaker 1: You know, because most of Harry's songs they deal with emotion,
Speaker 1: they deal with people, uh in these situations, and which
Speaker 1: is which is why my wife will never go to
Speaker 1: the show because she says all she does, really she
Speaker 1: does his cry at Harry songs. Yeah, but that that
Speaker 1: was Harry. Although he's got his uh you know, he's
Speaker 1: got his songs like thirty thousand pounds of bananas and
Speaker 1: six string orchestra and so you know, during the show
Speaker 1: there there's the mix. Yeah, you know where we do
Speaker 1: the upbeat and some funny songs as well.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well what what It probably depends on the audience, right,
Speaker 10: I would imagine this various from show to show, but
Speaker 10: maybe not. Is there is there any particular song that
Speaker 10: really kind of it gets gets a particularly you know,
Speaker 10: strong reaction from the crowd or.
Speaker 1: Where well there's there's a couple certainly Taxi does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know that's uh, everybody just I mean Taxi typically.
Speaker 1: I know that last show I did in Pittsburgh, everybody
Speaker 1: was they were singing every word yeah, you know, of
Speaker 1: every verse with me for the whole song. Uh and
Speaker 1: uh wow. And I'll do that one in a little bit.
Speaker 1: One of the one of the songs that I think
Speaker 1: everybody really gets into because Harry used to always close
Speaker 1: his show with it, is a song called Circle okay
Speaker 1: uh And you know, I never thought about how pervasive
Speaker 1: this song is until he was doing a show up
Speaker 1: in Laconia. I just my regular plant at Fortello was
Speaker 1: up in Laconia one night and there was a grandmother
Speaker 1: there with her young granddaughter who is probably about six,
Speaker 1: and they came up to me during a break and
Speaker 1: the grandmother said, we just love your music. And I
Speaker 1: looked at the little girl. The little girl, and I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you probably don't know a lot of the songs,
Speaker 1: right because the songs I do are from the seventies
Speaker 1: and eighties and certainly Harry Chapin stuff. And the little
Speaker 1: girl says, oh, no, no, I know Circle. I love
Speaker 1: I love Circle. And I said really, and she goes, yeah.
Speaker 1: We sing it every Sunday at Sunday school.
Speaker 11: Oh wow.
Speaker 1: So it's just so you know, that's the thing about
Speaker 1: Harry and his music. It's still you know, multiple generations,
Speaker 1: it's still you know, very prevalent today. But when we
Speaker 1: do this song, I think I've got a clip. If
Speaker 1: you want to play, I can play this clip. I
Speaker 1: have a circle where what I do is this is
Speaker 1: where I get the audience engaged with singing along, and
Speaker 1: I'll bring up individual members and then hopefully go out
Speaker 1: with everybody singing. Yeah, let's take a listen.
Speaker 11: To let's check this out.
Speaker 6: All right, Okay, Now, Johnny, I want you to show
Speaker 6: him how it's done.
Speaker 1: I've never done this song in my life. You're gonna
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 18: Now Here we go one, two, two, three, go ahead, All.
Speaker 20: My lives a circle, Sunrise and sundown, Who rules through
Speaker 20: the night time till the tea break comes around?
Speaker 6: All my lives a circle.
Speaker 1: But I can't tell you are.
Speaker 6: Season spinning round again?
Speaker 20: These need ruling by Okay?
Speaker 6: Got it? Okay, one more time, folks.
Speaker 1: I want you to build it out now and then
Speaker 1: we'll have a big finish.
Speaker 21: Here we go two.
Speaker 6: Oh wait, she want to sing it. Oh wait, she's
Speaker 6: gonna sing it right. End the mic down there you go? Ready, ready,
Speaker 6: Oh my life circle sunrise and sundown.
Speaker 1: Don't fall asleep.
Speaker 4: The moon rolls through the night time.
Speaker 6: Jesus, the all break comes around moon. All my life's
Speaker 6: a circle.
Speaker 4: But I can't tell you what.
Speaker 19: Jesus spinning around again?
Speaker 11: Us keep rolling?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: Does anybody else want to come up?
Speaker 1: And all right?
Speaker 6: Joe gets your butt up here, Joe.
Speaker 1: Joe happens to be a personal acquaintance of Harriet O
Speaker 1: three one soon one two three?
Speaker 20: Far Oh my life a circle, sunrise, it's a down.
Speaker 3: The moon rolls thooth in night time till the daybreak
Speaker 3: comes around.
Speaker 2: All my life a circle.
Speaker 17: And I can't tell you why season round again?
Speaker 1: The years heap ruling.
Speaker 6: By God, Okay, coax, this is it? Everybody now I
Speaker 6: want to hear you as loud as you can.
Speaker 1: Do you We want Harry to hear you upstairs.
Speaker 21: Here we go one two, one two. All my life
Speaker 21: circne some rise, send some down, moon rolls through the
Speaker 21: night time till the day comes around.
Speaker 2: All my life a circle.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you why.
Speaker 21: Season spinning round again and the year's heap.
Speaker 12: Rolling by Harry, go big finish.
Speaker 6: Thank you so much everybody, It's been so much fun.
Speaker 11: Thank you, you know it. Uh, that's cool.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 11: What strikes me about that too as.
Speaker 10: We're listening to that is, even if you're not a
Speaker 10: Harry Chapin fan, even if you just happen to buy
Speaker 10: a ticket to the show because you're you're looking for
Speaker 10: something to do that night, and you're like, I'll check
Speaker 10: this out, see what it is. That sounds fun, you
Speaker 10: know what I mean?
Speaker 1: You know, and that uh, and that's how we finished
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a great Yeah, that's a
Speaker 11: great way to do it.
Speaker 1: I've had people come up to me, I know, the
Speaker 1: the there's when I play in in Brownsville, PA at
Speaker 1: the Cultural Center. They are the CEO of the Mont
Speaker 1: Valley Academy for the Arts which runs that event. Came
Speaker 1: up to me, and he's a musician. He and I
Speaker 1: know each other from years ago because I lived in
Speaker 1: that area. He came up to me after when I'd
Speaker 1: done the show there and he said, I was never
Speaker 1: really a Harry Chapin fan, but I am now, no kidding.
Speaker 1: That's cool, so that makes it all worthwhile.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, absolutely, you want to do you want to do taxi?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, I want to.
Speaker 11: I want to make sure we don't run out of
Speaker 11: time because this is because you've played this far as
Speaker 11: before and it's really good. All right.
Speaker 1: Just a little note on this one. A lot of
Speaker 1: people we tell the story in the show, a lot
Speaker 1: of people wonder is that a true story? And at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's really not. Harry never
Speaker 1: drove a taxi. I never picked up a fair name, sue. Okay. However,
Speaker 1: he did have a college girlfriend named Kate McIntyre or
Speaker 1: Claire McIntyre, excuse me, and she left New York and
Speaker 1: moved to San Francisco to study and they kind of
Speaker 1: fell up. Part they were dating, you know, quite quite
Speaker 1: a bit. And really this was his song about what
Speaker 1: would happen if the two of them would meet up. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's really the evolution of this song.
Speaker 9: All right.
Speaker 1: It was raining hard, infscibable. Needed one more fair to
Speaker 1: make my name Lady up the head will wave to
Speaker 1: flag me down. She god hid the live Now where
Speaker 1: you're going to? My lady Blue? It's shame you ruin
Speaker 1: your gown in the rain. She just looked out the window,
Speaker 1: said sixteen pox side man something a bow. Who was familiar.
Speaker 1: I could see her. I'd seen her face before. But
Speaker 1: she said, I'm sure you're mistaken. And she didn't say
Speaker 1: anything more. Took a while, but she looked in the mirror.
Speaker 1: Then she glanced at the license for my name. Smile
Speaker 1: seemed to come to her slowly. It was a sad smile,
Speaker 1: just the same, and she said, how are you, Harry?
Speaker 1: I said, how are you soon? Throughly too many miles,
Speaker 1: two little smiles. I still remember you, h Yes, it
Speaker 1: was somewhere in a faery tale. I used to take
Speaker 1: her home in my car. We learned about love in
Speaker 1: the back of a Dodge. The lesson hadn't gone too far.
Speaker 1: She was gonna be an actress. I was gonna learn
Speaker 1: to fly. She took off to find the footlights. I
Speaker 1: took off to find the guy.
Speaker 13: Who life got something insired me to drive a princess blind.
Speaker 1: There's a wild man who isn't hiding in me, illuminating
Speaker 1: my mine.
Speaker 13: I have got something inside me, now what my life's about?
Speaker 1: Becauseide let my outside tied me over to my time. Wrong.
Speaker 1: Baby is so high that she's skying. Yes, she's flying
Speaker 1: free to fall. I'll tell you why. Babies crying because
Speaker 1: she's died.
Speaker 15: Hard we all.
Speaker 14: For.
Speaker 1: There was not much more for us to talk about.
Speaker 1: Whatever we had once was gone. So I turned my
Speaker 1: cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine
Speaker 1: trim logs, and she's said we must get together. But
Speaker 1: I knew we'd never be arranged, and she'd have me
Speaker 1: twenty dollars for two fifty fair. She said, Harry, keep
Speaker 1: the change.
Speaker 18: Well, another man might have been angry, another man might.
Speaker 1: Have been hurt. Another man never would let her go.
Speaker 1: I stashed the bill in my shirt.
Speaker 18: And she walked away in silence. It's strange how you
Speaker 18: never know we both gotten what we'd asked for such
Speaker 18: a long long time ago. She was gonna be an actress.
Speaker 18: I was gonna learn to fly.
Speaker 1: She took off to find her footlights. I took off
Speaker 1: to find the sky. And here she's acting happy inside
Speaker 1: her handsome home. Me, I'm flying in the taxi, taking
Speaker 1: chips and getting still I'll go fly.
Speaker 15: So when I'm stone, Oh.
Speaker 11: My god, that is beautiful, well done, well done. Absolutely.
Speaker 10: If you are just joining us, Lou Antonucci is here
Speaker 10: with us live in studio, and we've been talking about you,
Speaker 10: me and Harry. What's the full it's you, me and Harry.
Speaker 1: Oh you mean har Harry, geez you Me and Harry
Speaker 1: celebrating the music of Harry Chapin.
Speaker 10: Celebrating the music of Harry Chapin. Okay, I want to
Speaker 10: make sure we got the full title in there. And
Speaker 10: now what is an one again that you're doing?
Speaker 1: The next one is outside of Pittsburgh August the fifteenth, okay,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, in Brownsville, pay and then August sixteenth in Gibsonia, PA.
Speaker 1: And then September is Maine, okay, up in Freeport Cadenza,
Speaker 1: and that's the nineteenth. And then the twentieth of September
Speaker 1: is well Fleet Preservation Hall on the Cape.
Speaker 10: Okay, okay, very good, very good. Now where should people
Speaker 10: go online?
Speaker 11: To learn more about the show, if they want to,
Speaker 11: or if they just want to make sure they get
Speaker 11: to one, put it on their calendar, Like where's the
Speaker 11: best place to go?
Speaker 1: Best place to go is you me and Harry. It's
Speaker 1: all just written out the way it sounds. No spaces. Okay,
Speaker 1: you mean Harry dot com?
Speaker 11: Okay, okay.
Speaker 1: They could also go to Leu Antonucci dot com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's more about me than than the show.
Speaker 11: Sure, sure, but you mean.
Speaker 1: Harry dot com. They can they can see the schedule.
Speaker 1: If you go to lou Antonucci dot com, they can
Speaker 1: see my full schedule, which includes those shows as well
Speaker 1: as the local things around here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, excellent, when's your next show? That's not for you
Speaker 10: me and Harry. But we're just doing some of your
Speaker 10: original material.
Speaker 1: Well. I always do a little bit of my original
Speaker 1: material when I play out, like at oh sure, at
Speaker 1: the restaurant. So my next show is tonight?
Speaker 11: Oh you're planning? Oh yeah for our live listeners. Where
Speaker 11: are you gonna be tonight.
Speaker 1: In Merrimac at Homestead Tavern?
Speaker 11: Excellent? Excellent, very good?
Speaker 1: Six to nine thirty.
Speaker 11: Oh you do the full I mean, obviously you take breaks,
Speaker 11: but you do the full three and a half hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I usually I usually go about an hour and
Speaker 1: twenty minutes, take a ten minute break, and then do
Speaker 1: another hour and twenty minutes.
Speaker 11: Nice, Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.
Speaker 1: But those are my I call those shows my background
Speaker 1: music show.
Speaker 11: Yeah right right.
Speaker 1: People don't always always pay attention, you know, but that's fine.
Speaker 1: That's what it is. I will tell you this. Typically
Speaker 1: if usually i'll do tax about halfway through my first set. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if people haven't been listening, they're listening and applauding
Speaker 1: after that one.
Speaker 11: Oh that's really cool. Yeah that's awesome.
Speaker 1: It gets their attention, So that's awesome.
Speaker 11: Well, very very good, Lou, Thank you so much. This
Speaker 11: is always wonderful to have you here.
Speaker 1: Oh I love doing It's a lot of fun. Oh
Speaker 1: you guys are great.
Speaker 11: Oh, thank you, thank you. We try. We're gonna I'm
Speaker 11: thinking in a moment, we've got to.
Speaker 10: Start to wrap up. I was singeing on my play
Speaker 10: one of your studio tracks. I saw their g oh yeah,
Speaker 10: I saw their guns have the right title. Yeah, that's
Speaker 10: a we played that.
Speaker 11: On the show before. I remember, I really liked that
Speaker 11: song a lot. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great sacks by Richard Gardzena on that. Oh okay,
Speaker 1: he used to play with He lives in New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: but used to play with Tower of Power and some
Speaker 1: other big bands. Oh excellent, plays all kind of horns,
Speaker 1: but does some great socks on here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, great, great track. And uh, I want to
Speaker 10: thank everybody who was on the show today. Of course,
Speaker 10: Jersey Calling was amazing, and uh, parietal, I almost for
Speaker 10: out how to say parietal, pariedal eye. They were a
Speaker 10: lot of fun in the first Sarah and Jennie. Of course,
Speaker 10: you got a lot going on.
Speaker 11: You want to plug your website.
Speaker 13: I got a lot of catching up to do on
Speaker 13: the website, but quite a bit on there, all right,
Speaker 13: go check out Chin Coffee dot com, j E N
Speaker 13: N c O f f uy dot com.
Speaker 10: And if you want to know more about me and
Speaker 10: everything that I've got going on, Matt Connorton dot com.
Speaker 10: And uh, we will close out today's show with this.
Speaker 10: Uh this is I saw their guns. This is the
Speaker 10: great Lou Antonucci and Lou once again, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Coold Rainy Night.
Speaker 2: The Street reflects the way thing.
Speaker 1: A te apnessing my unaware of how his life is,
Speaker 1: but a.
Speaker 22: Question now I see him standing in the course.
Speaker 2: Good lights fierce to night.
Speaker 4: Beyond the light, I.
Speaker 2: See the tailor in his.
Speaker 4: I saw that.
Speaker 22: God, I saw them, Gunny.
Speaker 4: I saw them run.
Speaker 2: I saw them running.
Speaker 4: From sid.
Speaker 1: In the sirens right.
Speaker 17: I watched them jery he and.
Speaker 2: The smell of sulfur hung up.
Speaker 1: Midnight, the full of blood, and neath.
Speaker 2: My hafeet.
Speaker 1: The dowds and run. Nowhere to hide.
Speaker 3: No place to go tonights, no.
Speaker 8: Stories to tell.
Speaker 1: I'm living the
Speaker 17: Hell I'm going ride, Oh right,
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