Hello Love

"Hello Love" by Garrison Keillor

"Well, look who's coming through that door,
I think we've met somewhere before.
Hello, love. Hello, love.
Well, where in the world you been so long?
I've missed you so since you've been gone.
Hello, love."
        – Hello Love

The show's theme song changed from "Hello, Love" to "Tishomingo Blues" when PHC "came back" for version 2.0 in 1990. In a statement from the official website:

The show was starting back up in New York, with a big band, and "Hello, Love" is a country song, so I made a list of other possibilities, and it came down to "Tishomingo Blues" and Chuck Berry's "Back in the USA" which I liked but our music director Rob Fisher questioned whether I really wanted to sing "Well O well I feel so good today, we just touched down on an international runway, jet-propelled back to the USA" every Saturday night and he also mentioned the potential copyright problems. "Tishomingo Blues" is public domain and Chuck Berry is not and a person might want to opt for the simpler, less complicated route, so I wrote words for the middle section of "Tishomingo Blues" — "Hear that old piano from down the avenue — I smell the roses, I look around for you" — and I've been singing it to that sweet old someone coming through the door for almost 25 years now.
- Blues-blues-2 PHC/LFH Official Site