Christopher Guest credited as playing...
Alan Barrows
- Mark Shubb: [lost driving around in New York City] Do you have a map?
- Alan Barrows: I - I have a map, but I don't have it in the car.
- Jerry Palter: Oh. Were you planning to study it later, just kind of academically?
- Alan Barrows: They had no hole in the center of the record.
- Jerry Palter: No, you had to provide it yourself. A drawback.
- Alan Barrows: So, the people complained that you'd get this vinyl, of course, in those days, it was kind of up to you to center it and make the actual...
- Mark Shubb: It would teeter crazily on the little spindle.
- Alan Barrows: The hole. And that was, of course, we had no control over that aspect of it, but...
- Jerry Palter: But, they were still good records. It was a good product.
- Mark Shubb: If you punched a hole in them, you'd have a good time.
- Jerry Palter: We go out there, we do the song we're known for, we get it out of the way and then, 'hey, here's the icing on the cake.'
- Alan Barrows: What's the icing?
- Jerry Palter: Well the icing is the rest of the act.
- Mark Shubb: That's the cake.
- Jerry Palter: No, that's the dressing.
- Alan Barrows: I always thought it was "hey nonny no, nanny ninny no" and I'm getting kind of confused with all the nannies and the ninnies.
- Jerry Palter: There's no nanny, just take that out of the equation. It's "hey nonny no, nonny ninny o".
- Mark Shubb: Iron clad rule, Alan. Nonny before ninny.
- Alan Barrows: Well, I don't sing this one anyway.
- Jerry Palter: No, so it's kind of academic.
- Jerry Palter: Things have been going really well. We got some gigs here, working at the casinos. It has been a time of changes, but change is good. Change is life.
- [camera pulls out to reveal Mark Shubb dressed as a woman]
- Mark Shubb: It was like a great big door opening for me... Town Hall... after that concert, I realized I wanted to spend as much of the rest of my life as possible playing folk music with these gentlemen...
- Jerry Palter: Right back atcha.
- Mark Shubb: ...and I wanted to spend all of it as a woman. I came to a realization that I was - and am - a blonde, female folk singer trapped in the body of a bald, male folk singer and I had to LET ME OUT or I WOULD DIE.
- Jerry Palter: When you put it that way, it's almost poetry.
- Alan Barrows: Almost.
- Jerry Palter: [the New Main Street Singers perform 'Wandering' in the background] You swear to God you didn't talk to Menschell about the set?
- Alan Barrows: Why would I talk to him about it?
- Jerry Palter: You didn't tell him what we were opening with, right?
- Alan Barrows: I never talked to him about it at all.
- Jerry Palter: Okay,
- [turns to Mark]
- Jerry Palter: so you were talkin' to that Terry Bohner kid, in his blue sweater...
- Mark Shubb: All I said was, 'Oh my goodness, isn't it warm?' Nothing about the set.
- Jerry Palter: Well, it's gettin' warmer now...
- Mark Shubb: We give the audience a choice. We say, you can enjoy 'a toothpaste commercial', or do you wanna hear folk music?
- Jerry Palter: I think they'll have already brushed their teeth by that time; It's not even germane.
- Alan Barrows: Well, here's the thing, you can't have on a bill, especially on a folk bill, you cannot have two people doing the same song. It doesn't work; they're just gonna be flat-out confused...
- Mark Shubb, Alan Barrows, Jerry Palter, Terry Bohner, Laurie Bohner, Mitch Cohen, Mickey Crabbe: [singing] Oh, a mighty wind's a-blowing, It's kicking up the sand, It's blowing out a message, To every woman, child and man, Yes, a mighty wind's a-blowing, Cross the land and cross the sea, It's blowing peace and freedom, It's blowing equality, Yes, it's blowing peace and freedom, It's blowing you and me!
- Jerry Palter: We don't want people to reach for their remotes here.
- Mark Shubb: It's public television.
- Alan Barrows: They don't have remotes.
- Mark Shubb: Mr. Irving Steinbloom came down and he signed us to Folk Town - which was the label to be on.
- Jerry Palter: Terrific label.
- Alan Barrows: Later on we were kind of moved down the food chain a bit to the Folk Tone label which was a subsidiary.
- Jerry Palter: It was a decent label, they just didn't have the distribution.
- Alan Barrows: They didn't have any distribution.
- Jerry Palter: No distribution at all.
- Mark Shubb: It's just a very retro look.
- Alan Barrows: I'm totally available for the discussion of it. It just - it sounds like you're thinking the image that we had - was a retro image of something that wasn't retro because we weren't retro - because we were then.
- Jerry Palter: Right. It wasn't retro then; but now, to try a retro thing, it might just look kind of...
- Mark Shubb: To do then...
- Jerry Palter: Sad.
- Mark Shubb: To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.