Andrews Sisters - Guest - Eddie Duchin

Summary

Harold's Old Time Radio

Episode: Andrews Sisters - Guest - Eddie Duchin

Date: March 30, 2026
Podcast Host: Harold's Old Time Radio
Guests: The Andrews Sisters, Kurt Massey, Vic Schoen and his orchestra, Eddie Duchin

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Episode Overview

This vibrant episode of "Harold's Old Time Radio" opens a nostalgic window onto the Golden Age of Radio, recreating the mid-1940s “NK Musical Showroom” sponsored by Nash and Kelvinator—the era’s leading car and home appliance brands. The Andrews Sisters headline, with lively performances and witty banter, joined by pianist and bandleader Eddie Duchin, recently returned from naval service. Listeners experience period-appropriate musical numbers, comedy-sprinkled exchanges, and a celebratory acknowledgment of the Andrews Sisters’ industry recognition—all with the glow of family radio at its heart.

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Key Discussion Points & Musical Highlights

1. Show Introduction and Setting the Scene

• Host Harlow Wilcox (00:34) welcomes listeners:
  “Nash builders of Nash Motor Cars, Kelvinator Builders of Kelvinator Home Appliances. Nash Kelvinator, one of America's great independent companies, welcomes you to the NK Musical Showroom starring the Andrews Sisters...”
• The program’s cast is introduced: the Andrews Sisters, Kurt Massey, Vic Schoen and his orchestra, and special guest Eddie Duchin.

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2. Opening Musical Number: "South American Way"

Performance: The Andrews Sisters (01:27–03:57)

• The sisters open with their classic, energetic harmony in “South American Way,” setting a cheerful, upbeat mood evocative of 1940s radio musical variety.

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3. Friendly Banter and Romantic Ballads

Discussion: Harlow Wilcox, Kurt Massey, Andrews Sisters (04:02–06:56)

• Light, playful repartee about “who markets the moonlight and retails the roses”—a gentle nod to Massey’s romantic ballad prowess.
• Kurt Massey croons:
  “I can’t begin to tell you how much you mean to me. My world would end if ever we were through…” (04:40)
• The Andrews Sisters and Massey duet on love, contrasting lush lyrics with comic asides.

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4. Product Sponsorship Segments (Interwoven, Skipping Ads)

• Wilcox’s interludes enthusiastically tout the Nash 600’s features and new Kelvinator refrigerator innovations, each woven into the show’s variety format without detracting from the music and entertainment.

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5. Novelty Number: "Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet"

Performance: The Andrews Sisters (08:42–11:13)

• A signature Andrews Sisters novelty song, filled with humor and clever wordplay: “There she stood as the people roared, she dove off a diving board—but her bathing suit never got wet!”
• The sisters’ wit shines, playing up the absurd and the innocent with catchy rhythms.

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6. Star Guest Introduction: Eddie Duchin

Segment: Harlow Wilcox & Eddie Duchin (11:13–15:54)

• Duchin lauded as “one of the most popular pianist band leaders who ever set the beat for America’s dancing.” (11:13)
• Returns as a decorated WWII naval officer: “You haven’t heard his piano magic for some time because he left those black and whites for navy blue...” (11:13)
• Eddie Duchin expresses gratitude upon receiving the Nash Kelvinator Green Room Award and reciprocates by announcing,
  “The Andrews Sisters were chosen as the top popular singing unit in the ninth annual Radio Daily Poll...That’s a choice of 1,100 radio editors all over the country, red seal and all.” (15:03)

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7. Seasonal Song: "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!"

Performance: The Andrews Sisters (16:31–18:36)

• A warm, close-harmony version with cheerful banter and playful improvisations:
  “Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, and since we’ve no place to go...let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.”

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8. Comic Duet: "Give Me a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?"

Performance: Kurt Massey & Andrews Sisters (21:38–24:28)

• Massey and Patty stage a flirtatious back-and-forth:
  “Give me a little kiss, will you, huh? What are you gonna miss, will ya, huh?” (22:18)
• Extended comic riff about gifts and romance:
  • “If you really feel you can afford those little things, then give me a little kiss with your heart and I'll give it right back to you.” (23:48)

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9. Ensemble Hit: "It Might As Well Be Spring"

Performance: Kurt Massey, Andrews Sisters (24:48–27:42)

• The team delivers a wistful, dreamy song capturing national mood after the war:
  “I’m as restless as a willow in a windstorm…I haven’t seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wing, but I feel so gay in a melancholy way that it might as well be spring.” (25:22–27:42)

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10. Closing Thoughts and War Relief Appeal

Segment: Harlow Wilcox (28:18–28:59)

• Emotional reminder of the Victory Clothing Collection’s ongoing war relief:
  “That old suit in the closet you’ve forgotten about will be something to remember for a cold kid in Europe. And when you wrap up that suit, how about tucking a note in the pocket? Make it a present that you're glad to give.” (28:18)
• Goodbyes exchanged between Wilcox, Kurt Massey, and the Andrews Sisters, promising next week’s guest, songwriter Hoagy Carmichael.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Kurt Massey, on romantic reticence:
  “I make such pretty speeches whenever we’re apart, but when you’re near, the words I choose refuse to leave my heart…” (05:18)
• Harlow Wilcox, lauding Duchin:
  “You haven’t heard his piano magic for some time because he left those black and whites for navy blue…” (11:13)
• Eddie Duchin, honoring the Andrews Sisters:
  “The Andrews Sisters were chosen as the top popular singing unit in the ninth annual Radio Daily Poll…That’s a choice of 1,100 radio editors all over the country, red seal and all.” (15:03)
• Andrews Sisters, on the pleasures of winter:
  “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow, baby! Let it snow.” (18:31)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:34 – Show introduction by Harlow Wilcox
• 01:27 – "South American Way" – The Andrews Sisters
• 04:40 – Ballad by Kurt Massey, “I Can’t Begin to Tell You”
• 08:42 – Novelty song: "Her Bathing Suit Never Got Wet"
• 11:13 – Eddie Duchin welcomed to the Green Room
• 16:31 – "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!" – The Andrews Sisters
• 21:38 – Comic duet: "Give Me a Little Kiss, Will Ya, Huh?"
• 24:48 – "It Might As Well Be Spring" – Ensemble number
• 28:18 – Victory Clothing Drive appeal
• 29:00 – Farewell and next week’s preview (Hoagy Carmichael)

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Tone & Atmosphere

The episode brims with cheerful camaraderie, sincere moments of gratitude, and comic interplay characteristic of 1940s variety programs. Family-friendly, gentle, and filled with nostalgia, it transports listeners to a living room where the whole family gathers 'round the radio—songs, jokes, and heartfelt messages seamlessly entwined.

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Summary

This episode, with its showcase of instantly recognizable Andrews Sisters harmonies, Eddie Duchin’s honored return, and a variety of beloved standards and playful numbers, is a time capsule of classic American radio. Blending excellent musical performance with charming period humor and moments of reflection, it's a warm invitation to revisit an era of community, resilience, and song.

Transcript

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[Harlow Wilcox]

Nash builders of nash motor cars. Kelvinator Builders of Kelvinator Home Appliances. Nash Kelvinator, one of America's great independent companies, welcomes you to the NK Musical Showroom starring the Andrews Sisters. This is Hannah Wilcox inviting you to listen to the music of the Andrews Sisters, Kurt Massey, Vic Schoen and his orchestra. And in the Nash Calvinator green room, tonight's guest is Eddie Duchin. And here are Kurt Massey and the Ambassadors and the Andrews Sister.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Hi. Hi. Have you ever danced in the tropics in that hazy lazy like kind of crazy like South American way Ay, ay, ay, ay have you ever kissed in the moonlight in the grand and glorious gay notorious South American way the land scheme of love is like a dream of love A Latin stream of love is in their vein they'll buy a duel for you or fight a duel for you or drive a mule for you across the plain Sing hi I, I I There is melody in their music While the God you'll sing it Come on and swing in the South American way. Hi. Have you ever danced in a crappling in that hazy lazy like kind of crazy like South American way have you ever kissed in the moonlight in the grand and glorious gay notorious South American way. The Latin scheme of love Is like a dream of love A Latin stream of love is in the veins in the veins they'll buy a jewel for you how about a duel for you or drive a mule for you across the plain. There is melody in their music While the gauchos sing and come on and swing at the South American way.

[Kurt Massey]

Ah, yes.

[Harlow Wilcox]

And that, Andrew Sisters, is the way. Good neighbors.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Which brings us to the guy who runs the most pleasant department in the Nash neighborhood. Of course, I'm talking about the fell who markets the moonlight and retails the roses. Mr. Kurt. Matthew.

[Kurt Massey]

Matthew.

[Harlow Wilcox]

You have something in the ballad line, Kurt.

[Kurt Massey]

Oh, Precisely why I'm here, Harlo.

[Harlow Wilcox]

Oh, do tell.

[Kurt Massey]

I have a romantic dinner that I think will just fit the occasion.

[Harlow Wilcox]

Okay, Kurt, let's try it on for size. Right.

[Kurt Massey]

I can't begin to tell you how much you mean to me My world would end if ever we go through. I can do how happy I could speak my mind like others do

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

I

[Kurt Massey]

make such pretty speeches whenever you're a part but when you're near the words I choose Refuse to leave my heart so take the sweetest phrases the world has ever known and make believe I said them all to you. I make such pretty speeches whenever we're apart but when you're near the words I choose Refuse to leave my heart so take the sweetest praises the world has ever known and make believe I said em all to you.

[Harlow Wilcox]

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[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Mother, may I go out to swim? Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb. But don't go near the water. Ah, don't ever go near the water. That's very bad.

[Harlow Wilcox]

The Andrew Sisters. Patty, Maxine and Laverne. Introducing a new song. Listen to the girls sing the new novelty. Her bathing suit never got wet.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

By the waters of the Caribbean There's a lovely little Latin queen in a bathing suit. She can be seen strolling down beside the sea. But her bathing suit never got wet. Though she was an admiral's daughter and she was so close to the water. But her bathing suit never got wet. On the COVID of a magazine you could see this little bathing queen she'd be floating on the ocean blue. But the thing you never knew that her bathing suit never got Wet the beauty photographer caught her in front of a canvas of water and her bathing suit never got wet Then one day Imagine her surprise Clouds began to gather in the sky There she stood just like a fright and pop when the heavens opened up but her bathing suit never got wet for there on the sand was a fella and he had the biggest umbrella so her bathing suit never got wet Then a boy whom she had snubbed one day Got revenge and in the sweetest way Turned the hose upon the slattened butte Standing in her b. But the bathing suit never got wet For a while she was weeping and screaming she woke up and found she was dreaming so the basins would never go away Then one broke the golden rule Climbed the ladder of a swimming pool There she stood and as the people roared she dove off a diving board but her bathing suit never got wet and oh, what a lesson it taught her what good is a pool without water? And her bathing suit never got wet.

[Harlow Wilcox]

Big green door with the big shiny star the door that leads to the Nash Kelvinator Green Room where our guest of the evening waits for those two big little words. You're on tonight. We're saying you're on to one of the most popular pianist band leaders who ever set the beat for America's dancing. You haven't heard his piano magic for some time because he left those black and whites for navy blue. Swapped in his bandstand for a grandstand on the deck of one of the first ships in Uncle Sam's invasion fleet.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Horse.

[Harlow Wilcox]

I mean, Lieutenant Commander Eddie Duchin.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Oh, Eddie, I don't have to tell you how glad we are to have you back safe and sound. Our audience just told you that with their applause.

[Kurt Massey]

Yeah, Eddie, you've been away for such a long, long time. They even wrote a song with that in the title.

[Harlow Wilcox]

Well, I don't have to tell you how glad I am to be back, Eddie. We're glad to have you here with us today, tonight. And now it's about time to grab yourself a handful of keys and dazzle us the Duchen way with the songs we all think of when we think of the magic piano fingers of radio. Eddie Duchin. Eddie Dootson. That is Deaf Ops. And as a permanent symbol of your outstanding contribution to the world as a gallant officer to the world of entertainment as one of the finest musicians let me give you this model of the green room door. The Nash Calvinator Green Room Award. Well, thank you very much, Harlow. But I'm not going to say good night. Not until I give the Andrew Sisters, an award. Right back, gals. Come on over here. It's an honor and a pleasure for me to tell you and our radio audience that the Andrews Sisters were chosen as the top popular singing unit in the ninth annual Radio Daily Poll, the all American radio programs for 1945. That's a choice of 1100 radio editors all over the country, red seal and all.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Oh, thank you, Eddie Goodson. Thank you. Thank you so much.

[Kurt Massey]

Well, congratulations, gals. You know, folks, a couple of weeks ago, the Andrew Sisters took a quick gant at the sky and decided to allow that precipitation to descend. Proved their decision and gave them an open order to repeat. So another quick look at the heavens and the girls say let it snow.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Oh, the weather outside is frightful but the fair is so delightful and since we've no place to go it doesn't show signs of stopping and I brought some corn for popping the lights are turned way down low Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow when we finally kiss goodnight How I hate going out in the storm but if you really hold me tight all the way home I'll be one the fire is slowly dying and, my dear, we're still goodbye but as long as you love me so Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. The weather is a bright fold, boy the fire so delightful, boy since we've no place to go Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Eat the sinus poppin boy Brought some corn for poppin for nicer than way down low Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow when we finally kiss good night How I hate going out in the storm but if you really hold me tight all the way home I'll be war all the fire slowly dying Baby, we're still goodbying as long as you love me so Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow Let it snow, baby Let it snow.

[Harlow Wilcox]

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[Kurt Massey]

Nice going, Harlow.

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[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

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[Kurt Massey]

I'm telling you, chilling. There's nothing quite like a song to help a romance along. Last week, what I was discussing in my duet with Patty was just a little fond affection.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

We put our romance on the back of the Calvin Range and let it simmer all week. And looky here, how we have. Come on. We're bringing it right out into the open as follows. A little boy was wild about a

[Kurt Massey]

little girl who found it out she tried to play so hard to get

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

he hasn't even kissed her yet he leads her when she turns him down

[Kurt Massey]

Comes back again and hangs around waiting for 1k

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

while he bleeds like this.

[Kurt Massey]

Give me a little kiss, will you? What are you gonna miss? Will you

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

go show J why do I refus I can't see what I've

[Kurt Massey]

got to lose Give me a little squeeze, will you?

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Huh?

[Kurt Massey]

Why do you want to make me blue?

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

I wouldn't say a word if you were asking for the world but what's

[Kurt Massey]

a little kiss between a fella and his girl? Give Me a little will. Yeah, and I'll give it right back to you.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

You know, Kurt.

[Kurt Massey]

Yes, pal?

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

If I was really that kind of a girl, I could say to you, well, now, look, why don't you give me a little coat, you know, made of sable, mink or maybe even a goat. Once again, a plea. I'm going to make a. Tell me, when do I get that grape? But you know I'm not that kind of a gal.

[Kurt Massey]

Oh, no, not for one minute. But let's stop talking about things economic and discuss things more atomic. I have an aeroplane, a motorboat, some pearls or diamond rings.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

Ah, but honey, if you feel you can afford those little things, then give

[Kurt Massey]

me a little kiss this with your

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

heart and I'll give it right back to you.

[Harlow Wilcox]

Kurt Massey, Vic Schoen, the Ambassadors and the Andrews Sisters. The entire company of our Nash Calvinator musical showroom get together on a new hit that looks as if it's going to be with us for a long, long time. It might as well be spring.

[Kurt Massey]

The things I used to like I don't like anymore I want a lot of other things I've never had before Just like mother says I sit around and moan Pretending I wonderful and knowing I'm a dope.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

I'm as restless as a willow in a windstorm I'm as jumpy as a pulpit on a stream I say that I had spring fever But I know it isn't spring I am starry eyed and vaguely discontented Like a nightmare without a song to sing oh, why do I have spring fever when it isn't Demon Street

[Kurt Massey]

I keep wishing I was somewhere else Walking down a strange new street Hearing words that I have never heard From a girl I've yet to meet

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

I'm as busy as a spider spinning daydreams I'm as giddy as a baby on a swing I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the wind But I feel so gay in a melancholy way that it might as well be spring it might as well be spring. I'm as busy as a spider spinning daydream I'm as giddy as a baby

[Kurt Massey]

on a swim

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

I haven't seen a crocus or a rosebud or a robin on the way

[Kurt Massey]

But I feel so gay in a melancholy way that at night as well be framed in my will be sp.

[Harlow Wilcox]

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[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

See you next Wednesday.

[Harlow Wilcox]

From Kurt Massey.

[Kurt Massey]

So long folks.

[Harlow Wilcox]

And next week in the Nash Galvanator Green room in the showcase of the showroom, we definitely have the Hong Kong kid from to have and have not. The composer of the greatest popular song of all time. I'm talking about the guy who wrote Stardust, Hoagie Carmichael.

[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

We'll be with you each Wednesday at this time.

[Harlow Wilcox]

And builders of Nash Motor Car. Kelvinator, builders of Kelvinator Home Appliances. Nash Calvinator, makers of Nash Motor Cars Calvinator and Leonard Home Appliances will be looking for you next. The NK Musical Showroom starring the Andrews Sisters with Kurt Massey, Vic Schoen and his orchestra and the Ambassadors. And in the Green room, Hoagie King Carmichael. Until then, this is Harlow Wilcox wishing you good evening. Appeared on tonight's program by Federation Mass Music Hall. This is cbs, Columbia Broadcasting System, KNX Los Angeles Columbia Station for Southern California

[Sports Broadcaster]

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[Andrews Sisters / Female Vocalist]

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[Sports Broadcaster]

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[Harlow Wilcox]

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