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DEATH BY NOSTALGIA

Program 06-10-08-B

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You remember the good old days, dont you? The music was better. The food was better. Cars were better. I mean, everything was better really. Now, everything's all fancy and everyone's in a big rush. But not back then. . . Those were the days, weren't they? In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, Nostalgia. . . maybe until you're sick to death of it.

SEGMENT 1:

Sharon Jones is a black woman in her late 40s who fronts a band called the Dap-Kings. She tells Steve Paulson they make a kind of music that sounds like 60s Funk and even still record onto vinyl to get the sound they want. And of course, we hear lots of their music.

SEGMENT 2:

Photographer William Christenberry takes pictures of simple buildings in forgotten corners of his home place of Hale County, Alabama, year after year to document how they change over time. He tells Anne Strainchamps about some of his favorites and why he does what he does. His book of photographs is called simply "William Christenberry."

The-BBQ-inn 1964	The-BBQ-inn 1971
The-BBQ-inn 1989	The-BBQ-inn 1991
William Christenberry/Aperture Foundation

Also, Richard Halpern is the author of "Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence." He talks with Jim Fleming about the sexual sub-text in Norman Rockwell's work and says that people have always had a variety of reactions to it.

SEGMENT 3:

Hannah Palin lives in Seattle and works as a film archivist. Her mother is retired and lives in Washington, D.C. This piece about their relationship was provided to TTBOOK by the public radio website transom.org. Also, novelist Jane Hamilton is the author of "When Madeline Was Young." She talks with Steve Paulson about the role of nostalgia in literary fiction

CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 06-10-08-B.

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Books:

William Christenberry, Texts by Elizabeth Broun, Walter Hopps, Andy Grundberg, and Howard N. Fox. Aperture Foundation Press.
Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young (Doubleday)
Richard Halpren, Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence (University of Chicago Press)

Websites:

• William Christenberry's personal website:
  http://www.christenberryonline.com
• William Christenberry at the Aperture Foundation:
  http://www.aperture.org/store/books-detail-w.aspx?ID=490
• Jane Hamilton's website:
  http://www.randomhouse.com/features/janehamilton
• The Norman Rockwell Museum:
  http://www.nrm.org
• Norman Rockwell's official website:
  http://www.normanrockwell.com
• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings:
  http://www.daptonerecords.com/pages/stable_sharon.html

• For more public radio stories like Hannah Palin's "The Day My Mother's Head Exploded":
  http://www.transom.org

Music:

• Reveille's "Coney Island Baby" on 2005 International Barbershop Quartet. Naked Voice Records.
• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' "Casella Walk" and "Introduction" and "What Have You Done For Me Lately?" and "The Dap Dip" on Dap-Dippin' With. . .
  Daptone Records.
• Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings' "This Land is Your Land" and "You're Gonna Get It" on Naturally. Daptone Records.
• Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli's "Tears" on The Quintette of the Hot Club of France. GNP Records.
• Johnny Hamp Orchestra's "If I Had a Picture of You" on Music Box Intermission Music. Music Box Theatre.
• The Boswell Sisters' "This Is the Missus" on Music Box Intermission Music. Music Box Theatre.
• Barry Manilow's "Mandy" on Barry Manilow II. Artista Records.
• Musical Works used in Hannah Palin's piece "The Day My Mother's Head Exploded"
• Hank Williams' "Hey Good Lookin'" on Mercury Records.
  B52's "Good Stuff" on Time Warner Records.
  Don Great's "Donna Reed Theme" on Yinseltown Music.
  Ry Cooder "Houston in Two Seconds" on Warner Brother Records.
  Ry Cooder "East St. Louis" on Warner Brother Records.

Distribution dates:

week of 10/08/2006 - hour 2

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