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Larry Miller Show

Ode To The Boy Tenor

Larry Miller Show

Jeff Fox

Larry, Booze, Home, Comedy, Prarie, Jean, Garrison, Keillor, Shepherd, Improv, Drunk, Miller, Companion, Hangovers, Guffman

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2013

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Larry has another "time well spent" moment with one of his sons, having the time of his life doing something small. Plus, we have an ode the the boy tenor, then Larry reads "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll. And we hear possibly the shaggiest of shaggy dog jokes that has ever been read on this show. Quote Of The Week: "Honey, good idea." Producer: Colonel Jeff Fox Audio Engineer: Dr. Chris Laxamana

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0:00.0

This is Corolla Digital.

0:06.0

From level five city. From Level 5 City in Glendale, it's this week with Larry Miller. And the Good evening Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. America and everyone who really likes cheap meals. Hi folks and welcome back to this week with Larry Miller I'm Larry Miller

0:49.5

but in a way aren't we all and they did it again that band that orchestra makes me

0:56.1

smile every week at the start of the show and I treasure that I don't report it to you if that's the right word just because I'm proud of it but I'm so glad it's like seeing a sunrise and I did this morning before I got the kids up to go to school and I saw

1:16.0

that sunrise and I thought you know that is just beautiful and that's the way I feel

1:21.7

about that music they get better every week of course that's the way I feel about that music. They get better every week of course.

1:24.4

That's the Spencer Phelps Orchestra and the Cookie Inglove Dancers

1:30.9

featuring Boytenor Justin Labor asking the musical question,

1:36.0

Why is the boy tenor always featured when he never actually sings?

1:41.0

Well, you know what Justin? The Colonel and I felt that was a really sharp question.

1:50.0

Why is the boy tenor always featured when he never actually sings?

1:55.9

And it reminded me, I think I've probably mentioned this once or twice over the months and the years now.

2:04.6

Doing that, I just love saying Boy Tenner

2:08.0

because, and I love starting the show that way

2:11.2

because it's the orchestra and then the dancers featuring boy tenor when I was

2:15.2

a kid I heard that phrase the boy tenor featuring boy tenor so and so I didn't

2:20.8

know what it was as a kid I still don't know as an adult. I have no idea

2:24.8

but that phrase seemed like such a show business phrase from 1910, 1920,

2:31.8

30, 40 those years. The Boyton, featuring Boy 10 or so and so.

2:36.7

And so Colonel Jeff and I, just before going on the air, as we were still doing our prep work for the show we looked up on the

2:47.2

internet on Google I guess we looked up the phrase boy tenor and you know what it it had a couple of things that were interesting first of all it had tenor boy

3:00.7

The boy who was a tenor boy, and I'm reading you what they had in there, it says,

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