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October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Silken Rags Transcript

October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Kent Gustavson: Hello and welcome back to Sound Authors Radio. The tagline of the radio is Sound Authors, where authors sound off, but my background is in both publishing and music. Sound Authors could also be people that are authors of sound. So, each fourth segment of the show will be a featured musician.

This week, it’s my honor, in the first show to have my good friend Peter Winkler as a guest and his wife Dorothea Cook. They have an incredible group called “Silken Rags.” Peter is an incredible composer and the group they have together is a classical as well as a folk and actually, they make beautiful music together.

So, hello to you both.

Peter Winkler: Hi.

Dorothea Cook: Hi, Kent.

Kent: Give me a little background. Tell me how it all started?

Peter: How did it start? Well, so we go back to when we met at a music camp in the Pacific Northwest?

Kent: Absolutely.

Peter: That was in 1987 and we were both faculty at a camp for musical amateurs and…

Dorothea: Adults.

Peter: Adults, for musical adults, and we hit if off immediately. DD started playing “Ain’t Misbehaving” as I remember on the violin and I thought, “This is a girl after my own heart” because for years I’ve been mixing it up between classical and popular music, and here was somebody who had the very same taste. Not too long after that, we got married and almost immediately, we started playing together.

Dorothea: Actually, that very first meeting, Kent, we were… the faculty was being introduced. Then, we were all supposed to get up and play a little selection. Most of the faculty members got up and played something very traditional and classical and I had just come off a cruise ship. I’ve been on a cruise ship with an accordion notes, traveling the Caribbean. So, I was really not into classical music mode at all.

So, I passed out cookies. I said, “I can’t play unless people are eating.” So, I passed out some animal crackers and then I went into “Ain’t Misbehaving, ” and between the food and “Ain’t Misbehaving”, I think we found our match there.

Kent: [laughing]

Dorothea: We’ve been eating and playing music ever since.

Peter: You won them over. It’s never been the same.

Dorothea: It’s never been the same. No.

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Eddie Munster Transcript

October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent Gustavson: Hello and welcome! It’s a beautiful, rainy day out here in New York and this is the very first broadcast of Sound Authors. This will be a show featuring authors from the guy next door to famous Hollywood actors.

Speaking about Hollywood, I’ve got my first guest here on the line.

Butch Patrick: You said famous. You said famous people.

Dr. Gustavson: Famous, famous people.

Eddie Munster: That includes me, I guess.

Dr. Gustavson: It does indeed. This is the great, small, green boy of Munsters legend, Eddie Munster, or Butch Patrick. A good friend of mine. How are you doing today, Butch?

Butch Patrick: I’m fine and congratulations on your first broadcast.

Dr. Gustavson: Thank you very much. Is Helen also on the line?

Helen Darras: Yes, I am.

Butch Patrick: Oh! Oh, she is!

Dr. Gustavson: Well, this is a great honor. Only in the last week or so, is that right? Your book has come out?

Butch: That’s about right. What do you think, Helen, the author?

Helen Darras: It’s been about nine days, yes. It’s wonderful.

Dr. Gustavson: Miss Helen Darras is the author of a brand new book called, “Eddie Munster, aka Butch Patrick”. It has had great reviews. It has been released in New York City and is starting to make its way around the country. How is it going with that?

Helen: Perfect for the Halloween season to kick everything off for all things Halloween. Yes. It’s been going good. Butch and I’ve been traveling a great deal. We’ve from New Jersey to Las Vegas, to Los Angeles and now we’re back in New York. Butch is actually docking on a boat, right now, as we speak in Connecticut on his way up to New Hampshire.

Dr. Gustavson: What I would like to know, at the very beginning, is what are the big secrets in this book that everybody has got to know? What can we find in this book?

Butch: You can find a Chevy Mustang.

[laughter]

Dr. Gustavson: A Chevy Mustang?

Helen: That’s right. That is one of the many cars that Butch has owned. There is a typographical error about a Chevy Mustang. So there’s a secret. Most people don’t know that Chevy actually made Mustangs, but no, that’s not true.

Butch: In the book, you can find lots of stuff. Everybody thought that I was Eddie Munster, and of course I was. But, I had a life outside that. Many, many lives outside that and Helen captured all of the interesting things that I did in and out of the business.

I think it makes for interesting reading. I never considered myself as a television icon or movie star, but I do consider myself a very lucky guy who hung around drag racing vehicles and major league baseball stadiums and a lot of interesting people. Helen has captured that in a most accurate and articulate way.

Helen: Thank you Boss. We are primarily focusing, with this book, on just his first 25 years in Hollywood, so it only takes it up to the late 70’s. It showcases everything from Butch being an original cast member on General Hospital to all of his other many television shows and commercials.

While he is most popularly know for being Eddie Munster, he was also on many of the great 60’s TV shows; My Favorite Martian; Rawhide; I Dream of Genie; Gun Smoke; Bonanza.

Dr. Gustavson: Wow!

Helen: It is almost easier to mention which shows he wasn’t on rather than which ones he was.

Dr. Gustavson: When did the great Hollywood career start for you Butch?

Butch: Oh gosh. I was about seven‑years‑old in 1960.

Dr. Gustavson: Seven‑years‑old and how old are you now?

Butch: I’m 54.

Dr. Gustavson: Tell me about back at the very beginning, how did you get your start?

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