Our Wisconsin songs roundup!

      

YAH HEY

Is a collection of 18 of our songs about Wisconsin, taken from various earlier recordings (see below) with a few newly recorded songs thrown in for good measure.

Go HERE for the lyrics.

THE SONGS

• 01...Sesquicentennial Minute ©2002 Track 1, a short spoken history of Wisconsin, is a new recording.

Tracks 2 thru 12 were recorded live in Madison in 1988 by Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and released as the cassette, FORWARD HEY. Track 7 was written for WPR and the Wisconsin Department of Tourism for a promotional video.

• 02...Pack Up A Picnic (1980)
• 03...Who Put the Si in Siberia (1986)
• 04...Dr. Otto's Rocket Ship (1980)
• 05...Up In Wisconsin (1980)
• 06...Oh Wonderful Madison (1983)
• 07...Forward Hey (1987)
• 08...Squirrelly Valley 2-Step (1980)
• 09...Poniatowski ©1988
• 10...Weyauwega Moon (1988)
• 11...The February March (1986)
• 12...The Biggest Cow (1980)

Tracks 13 and 14 are from the recording HOUSE CONCERT, recorded with a live audience at an afternoon house concert in Madison in the spring of 2000.

• 13...Madison, Wisconsin (2000)
• 14...Thirty Degrees, or Cheese & Beer & Snow (2000)

Track 15 is a new recording of a song written for Wisconsin Public Television and the Wisconsin Historical Society for an episode of their 2001 television series Wisconsin Stories. It is historically accurate, strange though it may be.

• 15...The Limburger Ballad (2001)

Track 16 is taken from the recording SOME KINDA FUNNY, which was released in 1998:

• 16...Have you Heard About the Heat (1996)

Track 17 is about a real person. This is a new recording of the song; an earlier performance is on 1990's COW IMAGINATION:

• 17...Gilda Gray (1989)

Track 18 is from the 1992 CD, WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THAT:

• 18...Pflaum Road (1989)