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