Matt Connarton Unleashed: Lou Antonucci "You, Me, and Harry"

0:00 Speaker 1: Welcome everybody. We have entered our number three numerow 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 in Glorious 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.

0:26 Speaker 1: I love that song so much. 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? Good Me and chess Mike. I want to make sure we can hear you. We've got you going into the board because you're gonna play live for us, so really looking forward to that. Also, want to know more about when you So what is it the name of the show with Harry Chapin, the official.

0:53 Speaker 2: Name of it, official name You Me and Harry.

0:56 Speaker 1: You me and Harry, 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.

1:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was I think it was three years ago.

1:12 Speaker 1: Wow, you know, where does the time go?

1:15 Speaker 3: Yeah?

1:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so we were just again 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 New Hampshire keeps me pretty busy. But I I typically try to do a couple, you know, one or two shows of you, me and Harry in a month.

1:39 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about that more. But I want to play this. So you sent us this promo that will kind of give people a little bit of a better idea of what this is about, and then we'll talk about it. So let's listen to this.

1:57 Speaker 2: Friday.

1:57 Speaker 4: And then the guy who sits from Harry, when one of his fans walked across the floor, had in me note.

2:11 Speaker 2: 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 playwright, 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.

2:47 Speaker 4: You.

2:47 Speaker 2: 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, Harry will do justice, Harry will make you pray. Not everybody's looking for you stories song, but business. One man in the crowd could have said, I'm sorry, I haven't played that wm is, but something told me to give it a go and overkeen my feet.

3:41 Speaker 2: 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. You've been twenty on. He is science words, but I remember ever Wane.

4:25 Speaker 1: 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?

4:46 Speaker 4: Well?

4:46 Speaker 2: 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. 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.

5:35 Speaker 2: And the really interesting thing is that each member of the audience has a Harry story, 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 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, things that have happened. And so I think that's the that's the thing that I'm most interested in Harry and his music.

6:07 Speaker 2: Why am 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.

6:17 Speaker 1: Really much much more.

6:19 Speaker 2: Intimate songs that make have some kind of connection, there's some kind of personal relationship going on or something like that. So I think that's it. That's in a nutshell, this.

6:31 Speaker 1: Is safe to assume. I mean, you see your kind of your all time favorite artists in terms of influence.

6:38 Speaker 2: And I think in terms of influence on my music. Yes, I think I have a lot of all time favorite artists, you know, the Beatles, Crosby, Steells, Nash, sure to name a few, but but I think as far as someone that has an impact on what I do musically, yeah, definitely, without doubt.

7:01 Speaker 1: 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 what to expect. And 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'll also give you an idea obviously. But and we always enjoy that when Luke Lou comes in and plays this this clip.

7:25 Speaker 2: By the way, the audio we did the show in Pittsburgh, and the videographer that was doing video of the show would grab people as they were leaving the show.

7:34 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, just say hey, what did you think? Yeah, so these are all very spontaneous just right after the show. Yeah, yeah, let's let's give this a listen here. This performance tonight was absolutely amazing. It was way way.

7:51 Speaker 5: Better than what I even expected, and what I expected was great.

7:56 Speaker 6: Really liked it and we're definitely coming back again.

8:00 Speaker 1: Who is totally amazing. Had so much fun tonight.

8:05 Speaker 4: This this is what this is as good as it gets.

8:09 Speaker 3: Man, Lou show is just great.

8:11 Speaker 2: What a tribute to Harry and all his great music.

8:14 Speaker 1: And it was just a wonderful, wonderful show. Thank you, Lou, Lou, you were great.

8:19 Speaker 7: It was wonderful.

8:21 Speaker 8: We grew up listening to Harry Chapin and this was a great night.

8:25 Speaker 7: Thank you Steamworks for hosting Lou.

8:29 Speaker 3: We will be back again.

8:30 Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, that's cool. By the way, So where was that Steamworks?

8:38 Speaker 2: It's a it's a listening room north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Okay, in a 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 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. Oh no kidding at his venue.

9:13 Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, very cool.

9:14 Speaker 2: 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. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, but a lot of fun.

9:25 Speaker 1: Yeah, great place. Oh that's excellent. By the way, So there's somebody in the chat room on YouTube who uh. 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. It relates to you, Me and Harry. 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 they're still listening, but they are in the chat room, so we'll see. 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.

9:57 Speaker 1: But it's it's someone you know.

10:00 Speaker 2: Long as it's not Harry's lawyer calling me about performance.

10:03 Speaker 4: Right.

10:06 Speaker 1: Although this may or may not be a hint, but this individual posted in the chat room hashtag went in doubt do something. I don't know if that gives it away or not.

10:15 Speaker 3: I think it might.

10:16 Speaker 1: You think it might.

10:17 Speaker 2: I think it might. But we'll see.

10:18 Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah, we'll see if they call. Now, how many of these performances have you done? How many? How many of this of this show? You?

10:25 Speaker 3: Me and Harry?

10:26 Speaker 2: How I take over the last couple of years? Just about eight or ten?

10:30 Speaker 1: Ok?

10:30 Speaker 2: I've got six more coming up? Yeah, two in August coming up, heading back to Pennsylvania. Yeah, I've got a I'm doing a week back there. I've got a concert at Outdoor Concert in Monroville, Pennsylvania. Okay, 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 week and 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, and then as we get into September, got two more shows.

11:20 Speaker 2: 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, you know, playing places like Homestead Tavern and Merrimack.

12:00 Speaker 2: I'll be there tonight as a matter of fact, Oh six to nine thirty if you're out and about this evening.

12:05 Speaker 1: Oh excellent. Yeah for for our live listeners. Yeah, where is that again?

12:08 Speaker 2: Uh it's in Merrimac, in Merrimack, Homestead Tavern. Then I'll be actually the Homestead Tavern up in Bristol, Yeah, next Saturday. And then you know, you can see my schedule at uh lou Antonucci dot com. Yeah, of all the other shows I've got going through July, August and September.

12:26 Speaker 1: Excellent. Yeah, no, you stay very busy. Oh, 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. Oh, Miriam vanishes in there too, by the way, I think she's a fan. Excellent, excellent, great. Now the has the show? 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.

12:59 Speaker 2: Well, that's 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 Chapin tune?

13:28 Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?

13:29 Speaker 2: And if it's not in that particular set list, I'll replace something with that song. Oh okay, I did that one night. I know there's a song by song by Harry that that's called Cory'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? And I said, well, I didn't have it in the set list, but if you'd like to hear it.

14:06 Speaker 2: And before I could finish, she said, I named my daughter after as I named my daughter Corey, Oh wow, after Harry's songs Corey's Coming. So I said, we know what, I've got to do it. Yeah, So I did it, and about a two thirds of the way now I hadn't played it for a few days. Two thirds of the way through the song, I forgot the third verse. Oh no, you know now Harry would do that sometimes. So but what's interesting is there's so many Chapin fans in the audience. After trying for twenty seconds of this song playing through some instrumental I finally said, folks, I forgot the verse.

14:49 Speaker 2: Does anybody know this verse? And finally there was someone in the audience that yelled out the first couple of lines of the verse. 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.

15:12 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So we have somebody on the line, Hello, welcome to the show. Hello. Oh, I guess they can't hear me. Hello, all right, I guess they hung up. I I know who it is, but they they called, and then I don't know, they didn't stay on the line. 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. Yeah, yeah, and they don't and they don't even know. 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.

16:00 Speaker 2: 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.

16:33 Speaker 3: Yeah.

16:34 Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's it. It makes it, It makes it great. It makes a lot of fun.

16:37 Speaker 1: 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. 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 ran. Hello, You're on the air.

16:56 Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Matt.

16:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, welcome. You're on the air.

17:03 Speaker 6: Well, thank you, Hey, Lou, how you doing?

17:06 Speaker 3: Hi? Len?

17:07 Speaker 2: How are you?

17:09 Speaker 6: How do you know it's me?

17:12 Speaker 2: I know I know your voice. Plus Matt gave me a little hint with the hashtag when indw do something.

17:19 Speaker 6: Ah, yes, I didn't mean to be so obvious.

17:23 Speaker 1: So who are you Lenn? No, I was asking, who are you? Lenin? But turn down your radio? Please? Are your computer? We're getting uh, we're hearing everything twice.

17:38 Speaker 6: Ah, I'm sorry about that. I'm 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?

17:48 Speaker 1: Yeah? Sounds fine? Sounds fine? So who are you, Lend?

17:51 Speaker 3: How do you?

17:51 Speaker 1: How do you know? Lou?

17:54 Speaker 6: Well? Lou and I got acquainted because of the Harry Chapin based community. I was a friend of Harry's and I host a monthly uh podcast, I guess you could call it called Cake and Chat Live, which is global. Oh. We 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.

18:46 Speaker 1: Oh well, that's that's quite an endorsements in the mouth.

18:54 Speaker 6: Well, no, I really don't have to. I really don't have to promote Lou all that much. He's a very good shameless self promotion.

19:03 Speaker 1: 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.

19:12 Speaker 6: Absolutely. I just I just figured i'd give Lou a little bit of a surprise from down here in Jue ofs Thattre's Argentina and Lou I am streaming this on on the community page, so everybody's getting it all over the world.

19:27 Speaker 1: Fantastic, right, We like that. We like that.

19:31 Speaker 6: Nothing wrong with that, huh.

19:32 Speaker 1: Not a thing? Not a thing? Well, very good line. We appreciate you any any anything.

19:38 Speaker 6: Else, nothing really, just Lou break a leg and we appreciate what you're doing for 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. One thing that Lou's show has that no other show has. Harry had this incredible ability and Lou kind of described it. But 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.

20:24 Speaker 6: And that's the uniqueness of Lou's show.

20:29 Speaker 3: Wow.

20:29 Speaker 6: He doesn't try to be Harry, but you feel it. Yeah, 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 LOUI, you're just doing a great thing man.

20:53 Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, very good.

20:55 Speaker 2: Thanks Lynn, very good.

20:57 Speaker 1: Well, Lenn, thank you, thank you so much for colling. She's all the away from uh all the way from Argentina. Is that where you said you are absolutely wow? 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.

21:09 Speaker 6: It's called Shaping Chat Live, Okay, and it's generally the second night, second Saturday night of every month, and you can find us in Facebook at Harry Chapin. Long live Harry Chapin and join the community. We welcome folks all the time. And Matta, you've got an open invitation to join us for any of the Chapen sat Live shows.

21:39 Speaker 1: Very good, very good, All right, we will check that out, all right.

21:43 Speaker 4: Land.

21:43 Speaker 1: Well, hey, it's wonderful to meet you, and thank you for calling us today.

21:47 Speaker 6: My pleasure. You guys have a good show, all right.

21:49 Speaker 1: Thanks, Thanks Lynn, take care bye bye bye bye. Well that's pretty cool. Huh, it's quite an endorsement. He's very enthusiastic about what you're doing.

21:58 Speaker 2: He's uh, well, he said he was a very good friend of Harry's and yeah, and he was a DJ for many years. Oh okay, and that's how he met Harry. Okay, when he was DJ in and Harry was doing his DJ stops like in the old days when 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 thousand members all over the world.

22:26 Speaker 1: Oh fantastic.

22:27 Speaker 2: So it's it's a lot of fun.

22:29 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's excellent. That's excellent. Well, do you want to play something for us?

22:32 Speaker 2: 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 Tuberty and it's a Harry Chapin fan favorite.

23:17 Speaker 2: If you've been to Harry Chapin concerts, you know this song. And I was doing a show in Vermont and I typically will be to start this song. I'll say, anybody in the audience know who Martin Tuberty is, and someone will raised 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 you will see what happens, right, cool, let's play the clip by the name of Martin.

24:00 Speaker 2: Does that ring a bell for anybody out? Okay, he's our next door neighbor.

24:07 Speaker 9: Really, it lives across the street from us, the real, the real Martin Skruberty.

24:10 Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it at the break.

24:12 Speaker 2: But I wish I knew I would have him come do his part, So we're gonna do it without Martin. Ah, but I can't believe that you're serious.

24:24 Speaker 9: There's a whole story behind it. But yeah, I figured it out. I asked him, he confirmed it. 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.

24:36 Speaker 2: They've used him in a couple of shows, used him in some shows. Can you call him? You think he could come over and do it with us?

24:42 Speaker 9: Be a three and a half hour drive for him?

24:44 Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, you didn't drive three and a half hours too. We did. But the other day, Oh okay, thank you for being here so much. Okay, anyway, sorry, folks to a little side conversation. So you you do know Martinbery, Martin Martin Herberty. At the time, the way I understand it. Lived in western 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 he went in for his big time shot in New York and both times he got panned rather unceremoniously by the critics.

25:33 Speaker 2: 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 Turberty to mister Tanner. It changed the city from western Connecticut to Dayton, Ohio, and you get probably one of his fans all time favorites, thing called mister Tanner.

26:02 Speaker 1: That's crazy.

26:02 Speaker 5: Though.

26:02 Speaker 1: There was somebody there wow who just wow.

26:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, And it was It was interesting because Martin lives in 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 chap and fans, so he had to come to the show.

26:25 Speaker 6: Wow.

26:25 Speaker 2: 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.

26:40 Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, oh wow.

26:42 Speaker 2: And so when I do it, obviously there's no opera singer to sing along with me. But so that part's not in here, but the rest of the song is there. Okay, So mister Tanner all right.

27:02 Speaker 3: Channel was cleaner.

27:04 Speaker 2: From the town in the Midwest, and of all the clean and shots around, it.

27:09 Speaker 3: Made his the best.

27:11 Speaker 2: But he also was a baritone. Side while hanging clothes, he practiced scales, while pressing tales, sang at local shows. His friends and neighbors praised the voice going out from his throat, said that he should he use his gift instead of cleaning coats. The music was his life, It was not his livelihood. It had made him feel so happy, made him feel so good, and he sang from his heart, and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang. It just made him who. His friends kept working on him to try music out full time, a big debut and raid reviews, great career to climb.

28:19 Speaker 2: Finally they got to him he would take the flame. A concert agent in New York agreed to have him sing, and they are up plane, ticket's phone calls. Money is 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 desively head and it made him feel so happy and made him feel the sucker. And he sang from his heart, and he sang from his sword. He did not know how well he said. It just made him whole. The evening came. He took the stage space set in a smile, and the Halffield haul.

29:25 Speaker 2: The critics side watching on the aisle, But the concert was a bird of him in spite of resolve the flause. He did not know how well he sang, only heard the flaws. But the critics were concise.

29:45 Speaker 3: All it took four lions.

29:47 Speaker 2: No one could accuse them of being over kind. Mister Martin, baritone of Dayton, Ohio, made his town hall debut last night. He 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. Full time consideration of another endeavor might be in order. He came home to Dayton and was questioned by his friends, smiled and just said nothing, never signicated.

30:53 Speaker 3: Accept it.

30:55 Speaker 2: Very late at night, when the shop was dark and clothed,

31:05 Speaker 2: he sang softly to himself as he sorted through the clos to music was his life, it was not his livelihood, and it made him feel so happy, made him feel so good. And he signed from his heart, sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang. It just made him whole.

32:04 Speaker 3: Oh I love that. That is so good. That was awesome that.

32:07 Speaker 1: It's so good. If you're just joining us. Lou Antonucci is here with us alive in studio and we've been talking about his show You Me and Harry, and uhh 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 is that is that? Obviously that's something that Harry Chapin was really pretty good at. Yeah, you know, pulling that off.

32:29 Speaker 2: Yeah, 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 Chain song.

32:46 Speaker 4: Wow.

32:46 Speaker 1: Yeah, but that that was Harry.

32:49 Speaker 2: Although he's got his uh you know, he's got his songs like thirty thousand pounds of bananas, uh 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.

33:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, well what what It probably depends on the audience, right, I would imagine this various from show to show, but maybe not is is there is there any particular song that really kind of it gets gets a particularly you know, strong reaction from the crowd or where.

33:20 Speaker 2: 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.

33:40 Speaker 3: Uh and uh.

33:41 Speaker 2: 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's doing a show up in Laconia. I just my regular planet 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.

34:18 Speaker 2: And I looked at the little girl, the little girl, and I said, you know, you probably don't know a lot of these 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. I love I love Circle. And I said really, and she goes, yeah, we sing it every Sunday at Sunday School.

34:41 Speaker 1: Oh wow.

34:42 Speaker 2: 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 I 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.

35:09 Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take a listen, let's check this out.

35:13 Speaker 3: All right?

35:14 Speaker 2: Okay, now, Johnny, I want you to show him how it's done.

35:18 Speaker 1: I've never done this song in my life.

35:20 Speaker 3: You're gonna do it now.

35:22 Speaker 2: Here we go one two, one two three, Go ahead.

35:26 Speaker 10: All my lives a circle, sunrise and sundown, roll through the night time to the day. Break comes around. All my lives a circle, but I has hell.

35:46 Speaker 3: You are.

35:48 Speaker 2: Season spinning round again?

35:52 Speaker 1: These in need ruling by.

35:56 Speaker 6: Go don.

36:01 Speaker 2: Okay, one more time, folks. I want you to build it out now and then we'll have a big finish.

36:05 Speaker 3: Here we go, chee.

36:08 Speaker 2: Oh wait, she want to sing it?

36:10 Speaker 3: Oh wait, she's gonna sing it right in the mic.

36:14 Speaker 2: Down there you go, ready ready?

36:18 Speaker 5: Oh oh my lives circle, suns, sundown, don't fall asleep, rose through the nighttime, Jess, the all great comes a riding.

36:32 Speaker 1: Oh my lives a circle, But I can't let.

36:36 Speaker 3: Me tell you what.

36:39 Speaker 1: Jesus speeding around again? Yeas keep rolling? Hey you.

36:52 Speaker 4: All right?

36:52 Speaker 2: Does anybody else want to come up?

36:54 Speaker 3: And you all right?

36:54 Speaker 8: Joe gets your BT up here, Joe, Joe happens to be a personal acquaintance of Harriet den.

37:06 Speaker 2: Go one soon, one two three farm.

37:10 Speaker 1: All my lines a circle, sunrise, it's a down.

37:17 Speaker 11: The moon rose smooth a nighttime till the daybreak comes around.

37:24 Speaker 2: All my lines a.

37:26 Speaker 11: Circle, and I can't tell you why season dream run again. The year's ruling.

37:37 Speaker 3: By the jod.

37:43 Speaker 2: Okay, folks, this is it, everybody now, I want to hear you as loud as you can do you we want Harry to hear you upstairs. Here we go one two one joke. All my lives a circle sunrise and some dawn.

38:02 Speaker 3: The moon rolls.

38:03 Speaker 2: Through the night time till the day comes around. All my life, sistercle I can't tell you are season spinning round again? And the year's keeping by.

38:23 Speaker 1: Here we go, big finish and the.

38:26 Speaker 8: Key.

38:38 Speaker 2: Thank you so much, good body, it's been so much fun.

38:42 Speaker 3: Thank you.

38:49 Speaker 1: You know what? Uh, that's cool. You know what strikes me about that too as 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 looking for something to do that night, You're like, I'll check this out. See what it is. That sounds fun, you know what I mean?

39:03 Speaker 2: You know, and that uh, and that's how we finished the show.

39:06 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's a that's a great Yeah, that's a great way to do it.

39:09 Speaker 2: I've had people come up to me, I know, the the when I play in in Brownsville, PA at the Cultural Center there. 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.

39:40 Speaker 3: But I am now, No kidding.

39:42 Speaker 2: That's cool, so that makes it all worthwhile.

39:44 Speaker 1: Absolutely, absolutely, you want to do uh, you want to do taxi? Yeah?

39:48 Speaker 2: Sure, I want to.

39:49 Speaker 1: 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.

39:56 Speaker 2: 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 apart. 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.

40:33 Speaker 2: So that's really the evolution.

40:35 Speaker 3: Of this song.

40:42 Speaker 2: It was raining hard in for school. Needed one more fair to make my name. Lady up ahead, will wave to flag me down?

40:53 Speaker 3: She got him.

40:59 Speaker 2: Now where you go in to my lady Blue? It's shame you ruin your gown in the rain. She just looked out the window, said sixteen park side n something about who was familiar. I could swear 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. 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?

42:06 Speaker 2: Through the too many miles two little smiles.

42:10 Speaker 3: I still remember you.

42:29 Speaker 2: Yes, it was somewhere in a faery tale. I used to take her home in my car. We learned a bottle all in the back of the dodge. The lesson hadn't gone too far. She was going to be an actress.

42:52 Speaker 3: I was going to learn to fly.

42:56 Speaker 2: She took off to find the footlights.

43:00 Speaker 3: I took golf to find this guy.

43:10 Speaker 2: I got something insided me to drive a princess bling. There's a wild man whoizard hiding in me, illuminating my mind.

43:28 Speaker 2: I have got something inside me. Now what my life's about? Deciding lim my outside tied me over till my time wrong.

44:00 Speaker 6: This a.

44:02 Speaker 2: That she's skying, Yes, she's flying free to fall. I'll tell you why. Babies crying because she's died hard. We all,

44:41 Speaker 2: but there was not much more for us to talk about. Whatever we had once is gone. So it turned my cab into the driveway past the gate and the fine trim lives. And she's said we must get together, but I knew we'd never be raged. And she'd hand me twenty dollars for two fifty fair. She said, Harry, keep the change. Well, another man might have been angry another man might have been heard.

45:25 Speaker 3: Another man never would.

45:27 Speaker 2: Have let her go. I stashed the bill in my shirt,

45:35 Speaker 2: and she walked toway silence. It's strange how you never know. We both gotten what we'd asked for such a long,

45:51 Speaker 2: long time ago. She was going to be an actress. I was going to learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights. I took off to find the sky.

46:16 Speaker 2: And here she's acting happy inside her handsome home. Me I'm flying in a taxi, taking tips and getting stilled.

46:35 Speaker 3: I'll go fly. So when i'm stone, Oh.

46:58 Speaker 1: My god, that is beautiful. Just go adow. Thank you, well done, thanks, well done. Absolutely, 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.

47:13 Speaker 2: Oh, you me and har Harry. Jeez, you Me and Harry celebrating the music of Harry Chapin, celebrating the music of Harry Chapin. Okay, I want to make sure we got the full title in there. And now when is the next one again that you're doing? The next one is outside of Pittsburgh, August the fifteenth, okay, oh yeah, in Brownsville, PA. Yeah, 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.

47:51 Speaker 1: Okay, okay, very good, very good. Now where should people go online 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?

48:03 Speaker 2: Best place to go.

48:04 Speaker 3: Is you me and Harry.

48:06 Speaker 2: It's all just written out the way it sounds. No spaces, Okay, you mean Harry dot com?

48:11 Speaker 1: Okay, okay.

48:12 Speaker 2: They could also go to Leu Antonucci dot com. Yeah, but that's more about me than than the show. Sure, sure, but you mean 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.

48:31 Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, when's your next show? That's uh, that's not for you me and Harry, but we're just doing some of your original material.

48:41 Speaker 2: Well, I always do a little bit of my original material when I play out like at the Oh sure, at the restaurant.

48:46 Speaker 1: So my next show is tonight, Oh you're planning? Oh yeah for our live listeners. Where are you gonna be tonight.

48:51 Speaker 2: At uh in Merrimack at Homestead Tavern?

48:54 Speaker 1: Excellent?

48:55 Speaker 2: Excellent, very good, six to nine thirty.

48:57 Speaker 1: Oh I hurt. You do the full I mean obviously you take, but you do the full three and a half hours.

49:01 Speaker 4: Yeah.

49:02 Speaker 2: I usually I usually go about an hour and twenty minutes, take a ten minute break, and then do another hour and twenty minutes.

49:07 Speaker 1: Nice. Yeah, yeah, excellent, excellent.

49:10 Speaker 2: But those are by I call those shows my background music show.

49:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, right right.

49:16 Speaker 2: People don't always always pay attention, you know, but that's fine. That's that's what it is. I will tell you this. Typically, if usually I'll do taxi about halfway through my first set. Yeah, and if people haven't been listening, they're listening and applauding after that.

49:32 Speaker 1: Oh that's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome.

49:35 Speaker 2: It gets their attention.

49:36 Speaker 1: So that's awesome. Well, very very good, Lou, Thank you so much. This is always wonderful to have you here.

49:41 Speaker 3: Oh.

49:42 Speaker 2: I love doing It's a lot of fun. Oh, you guys are great.

49:44 Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, thank you. We try. We're gonna I'm thinking in a moment, we've got to 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 on the show before. I remember, I really liked that song a lot. Yeah.

50:00 Speaker 2: 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, oh and some other big bands. Oh excellent, plays all kind of horns, but does some great socks on here.

50:13 Speaker 1: 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, parietal eye. They were a lot of fun in the first hour. And Jenny, of course you got a lot going on. You want to plug your website.

50:28 Speaker 7: I got a lot of.

50:28 Speaker 1: Catching up to do on the website. But there's quite a bit on there all right. Check out Chincoffee dot com, j E N N C O F f U I dot com. 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.

51:24 Speaker 7: Colden, rainy night, the street reflects the way, feel a tearpness in my unaware of how his life is but a question. Now I see him standing in the cour.

52:04 Speaker 12: In lights fierce the night. Beyond the light, I see the sail in his eye.

52:21 Speaker 2: I saw their guards.

52:25 Speaker 3: I saw them, Gunny. I saw them run. I saw the running from said in the siren's right.

52:55 Speaker 2: I watched them, Cary Hey, the.

53:04 Speaker 7: Smell of sulfur, hung up midnight, the full of blood inneat laughing. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to.

53:25 Speaker 2: Hide, no place to go tonight, no stories to sell. I'm living the hell a bulling ride.

53:41 Speaker 3: Oh right,