Matt Connarton Unleashed 6-28-25 hour 3

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Speaker 9: Welcome everybody.

Speaker 10: We have entered our number three Newmarrow trace of this week's Matt Connorton Unleashed. It is a Saturday, June twenty eight, twenty twenty five. We are live from the studios of w m n H ninety five point three FM, Inglorious, Manchester, New Hampshire, and of course you can stream the show from anywhere, go to Matt connorton dot com slash Live. Jenny is here of course at the news table. And the song that we just heard that is called to the Terrorist. That is such a powerful song. I love that song so much.

Speaker 10: The great Lou Antonucci, who's been on the show with us a few times. He is here with us now in studio. Hello, Lou, Hey, Matt, how you doing good?

Speaker 1: Good?

Speaker 11: Me had chess Mike. I want to make sure we can hear you.

Speaker 10: We've got we've got you, uh going into the board because you're gonna play live for us, So really looking forward to that. Also, I want to know more about when you so what what is the name of the 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 talk about that was way back the first time you were on the show. I think you were you were kind of in the early stages of developing this.

Speaker 1: Yeah, it was it was I think it was three years ago.

Speaker 11: Wow, you know, where does the time go?

Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, yeah, So we were just agatting it started at that time. But it's been it's been going very well. Yeah, over the last couple of years, I don't I don't do a lot of shows. My other schedule of you know, playing restaurants and bars throughout New Hampshire keeps me pretty busy. But I typically try to do a couple, you know, one or two shows of you, me and Harry in a month.

Speaker 10: Yeah, let's talk about that more. But I want to play this, So you send us this promo that'll kind of give people a little bit of a better idea 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 guy who messitch from Harry when one of his fans walked across the floor and.

Speaker 1: Me note, And that note, of course, was a fans request for Harry's timeless classic taxi. Hello everyone who Antonucci here? You know, Harry Chapin was more than just a songwriter, a filmmaker, off Broadway player, and even more importantly, a philanthropist. He was such a masterful storyteller. His music became a mirror to our everyday lives, full of joy, sorrow, triumphs and quiet disappointments. Chapin transformed fleeting emotions into permanent memories 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 with backstories and little known anecdotes. My one man stage performance promises to capture you, the audience from the get go and not loosen its grasp until the final note, which is usually a note everyone is singing.

Speaker 8: Harry, will La do justice, Harry, will La make you proud? 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, and overcame my fee. All of the fan favorites are there, Cats in the Cradle, Taxi, mister Tanner, and so many more. And by the way, the song you're listening to, a Message from Harry, is one of my original tunes, inspired by one of Harry's more passionate fans. It's the only song in the show not written by Harry, and I can't wait to play it for you in person, along with Harry's many story songs. So I hope to see you down the road someday soon when it's just you, me and Harry.

Speaker 1: It's been twenty yard years since I sang's words, but I remember ever won.

Speaker 10: Yeah, So, Lou, I think anyone who listens to that can tell. Obviously, this is a project that you're very passionate about, and I'm curious, so what does And we've talked about all this before, obviously, but for newer listeners who don't know, or maybe are not familiar with you, what is it about Harry Chapin that you love so much? And obviously he's a great inspiration to you musically, but what is it about him?

Speaker 1: Well? You know, I I guess one of the reasons that I'm so passionate about it because I grew up on him, as I grew up on Neil Young and James Taylor and Croachey. But the thing about Harry was he was such a personable entertainer. His shows were a lot less about singing and a lot more about connecting with the audience. Yeah. And it's it's interesting because as I do, as I do these shows, i will after we get through with the sound check and everything, and the doors open and the people are coming in, I'll go around and I'll introduce myself to members of the audience.

Speaker 1: Yeah, and the really interesting thing is that each member of the audience has a Harry story. Yeah, you know, like I went to see Harry in nineteen seventy nine, and you know, it was my anniversary, and I took my wife and they go back and they remember all this and his you know, his his stories are so real, you know, because they're there are a lot of a lot of them are about real people and real things that have happened. And so I think that's that's the thing that I'm most interested in Harry and his music.

Speaker 1: Why I'm so interested and passionate about it because and I've noticed that when I write, you know, I kind of lean that way really much much more intimate songs that make have some kind of connection, there's some kind of personal, uh relationship going on or something like that. So I think that's it. That's in a nutshell, this is safe to assume.

Speaker 11: I mean, you see your kind of your all time favorite artist in terms of influence.

Speaker 1: And I think in terms of influence on my music, Yes, I think I I have a lot of all time 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 impact on what I do musically, yeah, definitely without doubt.

Speaker 10: Yeah, we also have some audio of some audience reactions to the show, and we should listen to this too because this will kind of give it an idea too to people of of what to expect and uh and of course if you are just joining us, Lou Antonucci is here with us in studio and he's going to play for us later too, so that will also give you an idea obviously. But and we always enjoy that when Lou Lou comes in and plays this.

Speaker 1: This by the way, the audio, we did a show in Pittsburgh and the videographer that was doing video of the show would grab people as they were leaving the show. Okay, okay, just say hey, what did you think?

Speaker 10: Yeah, so these are all very spontaneous just right after 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 was great. Really liked it and we're definitely coming back again.

Speaker 13: Who is totally amazing, had so much fun tonight this 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 and all his great music. And it was just a wonderful, 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 was that Steamworks?

Speaker 1: It's a it's a listening room north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Okay, in the town called Gibsonia, Pa. And the next the last gentleman before the two women at the end, Johnny Vento. He runs the place and he was kind enough to give his little impression of the show as well. He's a pretty well known musician in the Pittsburgh area, Okay, and and runs that great listening room. And matter of fact, I'm going back there in August for my third straight 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 of the few of the audience members it's it's one of those you know, you can bring your own bottle place. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, 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 on YouTube who I'm not going to say who this who it is yet because this person had emailed me and wanted to call in and surprise you, and it 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 don't want to ruin the surprise if they call in. So hopefully they're still listening, but they are in the chat room, so we'll see.

Speaker 11: If they don't call by the end of the show, I'll go ahead and say who it is, but I don't want to wreck the surprise because I know they wanted to surprise you.

Speaker 1: But it's someone you know, as long as it's not Harry's lawyer calling me about performance.

Speaker 14: Right.

Speaker 10: Although this may or may not be a hint, but this individual posted in the chat room hashtag.

Speaker 11: Went in doubt do something. I don't know if that 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 these performances have you done?

Speaker 11: How many? How many of this of the show You, Me and Harry?

Speaker 1: How I take over the last couple of years, just about eight or ten. I've got six more coming up.

Speaker 1: Two in August, coming up, heading back to Pennsylvania. I'm doing a week back there. I've got a concert at Outdoor Concert in Monroville, Pennsylvania at the Monroval Community Park. But I'm doing more than just Harry at that show. I'm doing Harry and James Taylor and you. And then that weekend I'm back at the Peter J. Daily Cultural Center in Brownsville, PA, doing You, Me and Harry. That's Friday night, okay, the fifteenth of August. And then the sixteenth of August, I'm back at steam Works for an eight pm show, So looking forward to that.

Speaker 1: And then as we get into September, got two more shows. I go up to up to Maine on September nineteenth at Cadenza and that's my third year in a row doing the show there. So something must must be working right because the venues keep asking me back. And then heading down to a new venue, well Fleet Preservation Hall. It's on the Cape. It's in well Fleet doing that show on the twentieth. So lots of good things happening, but you know, I don't again, my schedule now starting in June is pretty full. Yeah, you know, playing places like Homestead Tavern and Merrimack.

Speaker 1: I'll be there tonight as a matter of fact, oh six to nine thirty if you're out and about this evening.

Speaker 11: Oh excellent. Yeah, for our live listeners. Yeah, where is that again?

Speaker 1: It's in Merrimac, in Merrimack, the Homestead Tavern. Then I'll be at actually the Homestead Tavern up in Bristol. Yeah, next Saturday. And then you know, you can see my schedule at lou Antonucci dot com of all the other 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 asking the phone number. The studio line is six O three two five oh six oh seven, six O three two five oh six oh seven. So I'll keep an eye on the phone line if you want to uh, if you want to join us.

Speaker 11: Oh, Maria vanishes in there too, by the way, I 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, does it change like do you change the set list or do you have something kind of locked in or do you kind of feel the crowd or.

Speaker 1: Well, that's that's a that's a good question. What I'll typically do when I'm I do have an overall set list that if I played that whole set list of Chapin tunes, it would probably take up about three hours. Yeah, but with all the backstories that I do, I really only use about an hour and a half worth of actual song music, Okay. And so what I'll do is before the show, I'll walk around, I'll talk to people in the audience. I'll find you know, what's your favorite chap In tune? Right, yeah, And if it's not in that particular set list, I'll replace something with that song.

Speaker 1: Oh okay, I did that one night. I know there's a song by song by Harry that that's called Corey's Coming, which is like a huge favorite of Chapin fans. Oh okay, And I typically do it in most of my shows, and I didn't have it in this particular set list. And as I'm talking to the to the folks. I talked to one gentleman and he says, are you going to do Corey's Coming tonight?

Speaker 11: Yeah?

Speaker 1: And I said, well, I didn't have it in the set list, but if you'd like to hear it. And before I could finish, she said, I named my daughter after as I named my daughter Cory, Oh wow, after Harry's songs Corey Corey's Coming. So I said, we know what, I've got to do it.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 1: So I did it, and about a two thirds of the now I hadn't played it for a few days. Thirds of the way through the song, I forgot the third verse. Oh no, you know now Harry would do that sometimes.

Speaker 11: Yeah.

Speaker 1: So, but what's interesting is there's so many Chapin fans in the audience.

Speaker 11: Yeah.

Speaker 1: After trying for twenty seconds of the song, playing through some instrumental, I finally said, folks, I forgot the verse. Does anybody know this verse?

Speaker 11: Yeah?

Speaker 1: And finally there was someone in the audience that yelled out the first couple of lines of the first I had it, and then I went through it and everybody you know went along with it. But yeah, yeah, so I do I do mix it up. It generally it's it's the same. There's there's some songs that are always there. Yeah, but then there are others that I'll interchange.

Speaker 11: Okay, okay, So we have somebody on the line, Hello, welcome to the show. Hello. Oh, I guess they can't hear me, all right, I guess they hung up. I know who it is, but they they called and then 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 you're talking to everybody before the show, so in a sense, 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 introducing yourself to people and asking them questions like what's your favorite Harry Chapin song and things like that, it probably never even occurs to them that they're influencing what the show is going to be that night, to you know, 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 certain number of songs that these fans will expect. Yeah, if you're doing a Harry Chapin show and it's not you know, the typical songs always are Cats in the Cradle and Taxi. Yeah, but songs like Cory's Coming or Mister Tanner, you know, songs like that were kind of the general audience out there may not be familiar with unless sure they would go to Harry Chapin concerts. Yeah, but these folks, the ones that come to this show, they know them.

Speaker 9: Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's it. It makes it, It makes it great. It makes a lot of fun.

Speaker 11: Oh, that's awesome. Oh. I was trying to answer the phone again, but uh, there's nobody there. God bless them for trying. But I don't know.

Speaker 10: It's like they get impatient, I guess and hang up. Yeah, no, that's all right. We're gonna try this one more time because the phone's ringing. Hello, you're on the air. Hello, Hello, Matt, Yes, welcome, 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 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 your radio please or your computer. We're getting uh, we're hearing everything twice.

Speaker 14: Ah, I'm sorry about that upstairs at home, not in the studio, so I'm probably let me let me see what I can do about killing some sound here? Is 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 Chapin fan based community. I was a friend of Harry's and I host a monthly uh podcast, I guess you could call it called Kick and Chat Live, which is global. Oh wow, joined in and lets us with his talents, and oh we've been uh, we've become great friends over time. And I think what Lou is doing with you, me and Harry is just not only a phenomenal show and tribute, but it's extremely unique in what goes on with respect 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 have to promote Lou all that much. He's very good at shameless self promotion.

Speaker 10: Oh my, Well, That's that's what it takes though, right, that's important. You know, nobody's gonna do it for you. You got to get out there and do it. So that's what it takes.

Speaker 14: Absolutely. I just I just figured i'd give Lou a little bit of a surprise from down here and one of Ore's Argentina and Lou I am streaming this on 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. We appreciate you anything.

Speaker 16: Else, nothing really, just Lou break a leg, and we appreciate what you're doing for Harry, for the community, and gosh, you know, look, I knew Harry for several years before his untimely death, and I was pretty close with him.

Speaker 14: One thing that Lou's show has that no other show has. Harry had this incredible ability. And Lou kind of described it, whether you were in an intimate setting with Harry or a thirty five thousand seat arena stadium amphitheater, you felt like you were sitting in your living room with him or in his living room. Yeah, and that's the uniqueness of Lou's show.

Speaker 4: Wow.

Speaker 14: He doesn't try to be Harry, but you feel it. Yeah, you just you're just taken back. And it's become generational because we now have three generations of people truly enjoying Harry's stories and music and Louis, you're just doing a 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, Let's let's give that a quick plug while you're on the line.

Speaker 14: It's called Shape and Chat Live and it's generally the 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 Chapin Okay and join the community. We welcome folks all the time. And Matt, if you've got an open invitation to join us for any of the Japen SAD Live shows.

Speaker 11: Very good, very good, All right, we will check that out, all right. Len.

Speaker 10: Well, Hey, it's wonderful to meet you and thank you 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 very enthusiastic about what you're doing.

Speaker 1: He's well, as he said, he was a very good friend of Harry's and uh, yeah, and he was a DJ for many years. Oh okay, and that's how he met Harry. Okay, when he was DJing and Harry was doing his DJ stops like in the old days. Yeah, we were promoting. Yeah, and they became friends. And he runs this this podcast and this group on Facebook and he does have a couple of thousand members all over 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 play something for us?

Speaker 1: Sure? Sure, one of the songs I wanted to do from the show for you. As a matter of fact, I think we have a little clip on this one too. Let's see here, Martin Tuberty. Oh yeah, yeah, I'll set it up a little bit, and then that little clip can set it up even further. Yeah. You know, like we've talked about, there's a lot of interaction during the show. And when I go to introduce Harry's song mister Tanner, which is a song about a dry cleaner who also sings opera on the side. His name is Martin Turberty, and it's it's a Harry Chapin fan favorite.

Speaker 1: Okay, if you've been to Harry Chapin concerts, you know this song. And I was doing a show in and I typically will be to start this song. They'll say, anybody in the audience know who Martin Tuberty is, and someone will raise their hand, or maybe not, maybe nobody does. And this gentleman in the middle of the audience raises his hand. He's like, oh, excited, and I figure he's going to say, yeah, Martin Tuberty is really mister Tanner. So I call on him and it turns out, well, let's play the clip 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 anybody on? Okay, he's our next door neighbor, really lives across the street from us, the real Martin Tuberty. I'll tell you about it at the break. But I wish I knew I would have him come do his part.

Speaker 1: So we're gonna do it without Martin. Ah, but I 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 told him about it, and then ultimately he got in touch with Tom and they've actually.

Speaker 1: They've used him in a couple of shows. He's used him in some shows. Can you call him? You think he could come over and do it with us? Be a three and a half hour drive for him? Oh okay, all right, you didn't drive three and a half hours to kid.

Speaker 2: We did.

Speaker 1: But the other day. Oh okay, thank you for being here so much. Okay, anyway, sorry, folks, to a little side conversation. So you do know Martin Tbrey. Martini, Martin Tberty at the time, the way I understand it, lived in Weston, Connecticut, and he had gone twice to New York City once in nineteen seventy one nineteen seventy two. He was a dry cleaner who on the side sang opera, loved opera, and so we went in for his big time shot in New York and both times he got panned rather unceremoniously by the critics.

Speaker 1: And so Harry actually read the story and he saw it twice in the New York Times. And Harry, you changed the name from mister Heberty to mister Tanner. He changed the city from western Connecticut to Dayton, Ohio, and you get probably one of his fans, all time favorites, this little thing called 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, still does. His show was up in Vermont, and here this gentleman was on vacation with his wife up in Vermont because he lives down in Connecticut and saw the promotion for the show and shape and fans, so he had to come to the show.

Speaker 9: Oh wow.

Speaker 1: So it was really pretty interesting. That's cool anyway, So let me do a little bit mister Tanner. So when Harry, when Harry does mister Tanner, his bass player, Big John Wallace, 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 singer to sing along with me. But yeah, so that part's not in here. But the rest of the song is there. Okay, so mister Tanner all right. Tanner was a cleaner from a town in the Midwest, and of all the clean and shops around, it made his the best. But he also was a baritone. Side while hanging clothes, he practiced scales, while pressing tales, sang at local shows. His friends and neighbors praise the voice going out from his throat, said that he should he use his gift instead of cleaning coats.

Speaker 1: But music was his life. It was not his livelihood, and it made him feel so happy, made him feel.

Speaker 13: So good, and he sang from his heart, and he 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 full time, a big debut and raide reviews, great career to climb. Finally they got to him. He would take the Flame. Concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing, and they are a plane ticket's, phone call's money spent to rent the hall. It took most of his savings, but he gladly used them all with music was his life. It was not as lively ovid, and it made him feel so happy and made him feel a sucker. And he sang from his heart, and he sang from his sword.

Speaker 1: He did not know how well he sang. It just made him whole. The evening came, he took the stage space, set in a smile, and halffield hall of the critics side watching on the isle. 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 the flaws.

Speaker 1: But the critics were concise. All it took four lions. No one could accuse them of being over kay. Mister Martin Tana, baritone of Dayton, Ohio, made his town hall debut last night. Became well prepared, but unfortunately his presentation was not up to contemporary professional standards. His voice lacked the range of tonal color necessary to make it consistently interesting.

Speaker 1: Time consideration of another endeavor might be in order. He came home to day and was questioned by his friends, smiled and just said nothing. Never signed a can accepted. 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 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 made him.

Speaker 9: Oh, oh, I love that.

Speaker 11: That is so good. That it's so good. If you're just joining us.

Speaker 10: Lou Antonucci is here with us live in studio, and we've been talking about his show, You Me and Harry, and uh, oh, that's you know, it's funny to that song. It's like, uh, it's funny but sad at the same time, you know, and does that is that? Obviously that's something 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, they deal with people, uh in these situations, and which is which is why my wife will never go to the show because she says all she does, really she does his cry at Harry songs. Yeah, but that that was Harry. Although he's got his uh you know, he's got his songs like thirty thousand pounds of bananas and six string orchestra and so you know, during the show there there's the mix. Yeah, you know where we do the upbeat and some funny songs as well.

Speaker 10: Yeah, well what what It probably depends on the audience, right, I would imagine this various from show to show, but maybe not. Is there is there any particular song that really kind of it gets gets a particularly you know, strong reaction from the crowd or.

Speaker 1: Where well there's there's a couple certainly Taxi does. Yeah, you know that's uh, everybody just I mean Taxi typically. I know that last show I did in Pittsburgh, everybody was they were singing every word yeah, you know, of every verse with me for the whole song. Uh and uh wow. And I'll do that one in a little bit. One of the one of the songs that I think everybody really gets into because Harry used to always close his show with it, is a song called Circle okay uh And you know, I never thought about how pervasive this song is until he was doing a show up in Laconia.

Speaker 1: I just my regular plant at Fortello was up in Laconia one night and there was a grandmother there with her young granddaughter who is probably about six, and they came up to me during a break and the grandmother said, we just love your music. And I looked at the little girl. The little girl, and I said, you know, you probably don't know a lot of the songs, right because the songs I do are from the seventies and eighties and certainly Harry Chapin stuff. And the little girl says, oh, no, no, I know Circle.

Speaker 1: I love I love Circle. And I said really, and she goes, yeah. 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 Harry and his music. It's still you know, multiple generations, it's still you know, very prevalent today. But when we do this song, I think I've got a clip. If you want to play, I can play this clip. I have a circle where what I do is this is where I get the audience engaged with singing along, and I'll bring up individual members and then hopefully go out 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 him how it's done.

Speaker 1: I've never done this song in my life. You're gonna 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 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 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 gonna sing it right. End the mic down there you go? Ready, ready, 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 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 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 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 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 circne some rise, send some down, moon rolls through the 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 Harry Chapin fan, even if you just happen to buy a ticket to the show because you're you're looking for something to do that night, and you're like, I'll check this out, see what it is. That sounds fun, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1: You know, and that uh, and that's how we finished the show.

Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a great Yeah, that's a great way to do it.

Speaker 1: I've had people come up to me, I know, the the there's when I play in in Brownsville, PA at the Cultural Center. They are the CEO of the Mont Valley Academy for the Arts which runs that event. Came up to me, and he's a musician. He and I know each other from years ago because I lived in that area. He came up to me after when I'd done the show there and he said, I was never really a Harry Chapin fan, but I am now, no kidding. 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 time because this is because you've played this far as before and it's really good. All right.

Speaker 1: Just a little note on this one. A lot of people we tell the story in the show, a lot of people wonder is that a true story? And at the end of the day, it's really not. Harry never drove a taxi. I never picked up a fair name, sue. Okay. However, he did have a college girlfriend named Kate McIntyre or Claire McIntyre, excuse me, and she left New York and moved to San Francisco to study and they kind of fell up. Part they were dating, you know, quite quite a bit. And really this was his song about what would happen if the two of them would meet up.

Speaker 1: Okay, 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 make my name Lady up the head will wave to flag me down. She god hid the live Now where you're going to? My lady Blue? It's shame you ruin your gown in the rain. She just looked out the window, said sixteen pox side man something a bow. Who was familiar. I could see her. I'd seen her face before. But she said, I'm sure you're mistaken. And she didn't say anything more. Took a while, but she looked in the mirror. Then she glanced at the license for my name.

Speaker 1: Smile seemed to come to her slowly. It was a sad smile, just the same, and she said, how are you, Harry? I said, how are you soon? Throughly too many miles, two little smiles. I still remember you, h Yes, it was somewhere in a faery tale. I used to take her home in my car. We learned about love in the back of a Dodge. The lesson hadn't gone too far.

Speaker 1: She was gonna be an actress. I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights. I 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 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 she's died.

Speaker 15: Hard we all.

Speaker 14: For.

Speaker 1: There was not much more for us to talk about. Whatever we had once was gone. So I turned my cab into the driveway, past the gate and the fine trim logs, and she's said we must get together. But I knew we'd never be arranged, and she'd have me twenty dollars for two fifty fair. She said, Harry, keep 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. I stashed the bill in my shirt.

Speaker 18: And she walked away in silence. It's strange how you never know we both gotten what we'd asked for such a long long time ago. She was gonna be an actress. I was gonna learn to fly.

Speaker 1: She took off to find her footlights. I took off to find the sky. And here she's acting happy inside her handsome home. Me, I'm flying in the taxi, taking 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 with us live in studio, and we've been talking about you, 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 celebrating the music of Harry Chapin.

Speaker 10: Celebrating the music of Harry Chapin. Okay, I want to make sure we got the full title in there. And now what is an one again that you're doing?

Speaker 1: The next one is outside of Pittsburgh August the fifteenth, okay, oh yeah, in Brownsville, pay and then August sixteenth in Gibsonia, PA. And then September is Maine, okay, up in Freeport Cadenza, and that's the nineteenth. And then the twentieth of September is well Fleet Preservation Hall on the Cape.

Speaker 10: Okay, okay, very good, very good. Now where should people go online?

Speaker 11: To learn more about the show, if they want to, or if they just want to make sure they get to one, put it on their calendar, Like where's the best place to go?

Speaker 1: Best place to go is you me and Harry. It's all just written out the way it sounds. No spaces. Okay, you mean Harry dot com?

Speaker 11: Okay, okay.

Speaker 1: They could also go to Leu Antonucci dot com. Yeah, 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. If you go to lou Antonucci dot com, they can see my full schedule, which includes those shows as well as the local things around here.

Speaker 10: Yeah, excellent, when's your next show? That's not for you me and Harry. But we're just doing some of your original material.

Speaker 1: Well. I always do a little bit of my original material when I play out, like at oh sure, at the restaurant. So my next show is tonight?

Speaker 11: Oh you're planning? Oh yeah for our live listeners. Where 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, but you do the full three and a half hours.

Speaker 1: Yeah, I usually I usually go about an hour and twenty minutes, take a ten minute break, and then do another hour and twenty minutes.

Speaker 11: Nice, Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.

Speaker 1: But those are my I call those shows my background music show.

Speaker 11: Yeah right right.

Speaker 1: People don't always always pay attention, you know, but that's fine. That's what it is. I will tell you this. Typically if usually i'll do tax about halfway through my first set. Yeah, and if people haven't been listening, they're listening and applauding 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 is always wonderful to have you here.

Speaker 1: Oh I love doing It's a lot of fun. Oh you guys are great.

Speaker 11: Oh, thank you, thank you. We try. We're gonna I'm thinking in a moment, we've got to.

Speaker 10: Start to wrap up. I was singeing on my play one of your studio tracks. I saw their g oh yeah, I saw their guns have the right title. Yeah, that's a we played that.

Speaker 11: On the show before. I remember, I really liked that song a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 1: Yeah, great sacks by Richard Gardzena on that. Oh okay, he used to play with He lives in New Hampshire, but used to play with Tower of Power and some other big bands. Oh excellent, plays all kind of horns, but does some great socks on here.

Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, great, great track. And uh, I want to thank everybody who was on the show today. Of course, Jersey Calling was amazing, and uh, parietal, I almost for out how to say parietal, pariedal eye. They were a lot of fun in the first Sarah and Jennie. Of course, 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 the website, but quite a bit on there, all right, go check out Chin Coffee dot com, j E N N c O f f uy dot com.

Speaker 10: And if you want to know more about me and everything that I've got going on, Matt Connorton dot com. And uh, we will close out today's show with this. Uh this is I saw their guns. This is the 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, 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.