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Andre Baruch
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 Andrew Sisters. This is Andre Baruch inviting you to listen to the music of the Andrew Sisters, Kurt Massey, Vic Shawn and his orchestra. And in the Nash Culminator green room, tonight's guest is Morton Downey. And here are Kurt Massey and the Ambassadors and the Andrew Sister.
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
And I'm warning you. It's a victorious happy and glorious new strain I feel a song coming along It's a melody full of the laughter of children all after the rain you
Kurt Massey
hear a tuneful story through your love
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
and glory Hallelujah and now that much troubles are gone Let those heavenly drums go on drum and go My feelings
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
are running high I remember my days of solitude when it was folly to dream when my heartbeat was not requiring a great inspiring thing but today my dark heart is breaking Music deep inside
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
me is waking I feel a song
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
coming on and I'm warning you Victorious,
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
happy and glorious new
Kurt Massey
a song coming on It's a melody full of the laughter of children out after the rain
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
Hear a tuneful story ringing through your love and glo. Hallelujah and I that my troubles are gone Let those heavenly drums on drum and cause I feel un.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
Thank you so much, folks.
Vic Shawn
Glad you like the tune. Felt coming on.
Andre Baruch
Oh, it was wonderful, Patty. And what we need is for you and Maxine and Laverne to keep right on coming on. Especially when your tune is that swell song about a gal who fell in love with the whole navy, but settled for one special sailor.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
A girl and a sailor. We're partying. One day she smiled through her teardrop and brush them away. I wish I could stay here Besides that duty is calling and now I must go
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Farewell your bronze healer must leave for a while, dear farewell I'll dear All my love and devotion
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
I
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
will live in your care as deep as the ocean and as true As a prayer when my journey is over, you being I know. Farewell, my sweet darling. Your blond sailor must go.
Andre Baruch
Ah, three girls and just one sailor. You know, kids, I think you did a great job considering the odds.
Vic Shawn
Oh, thank you, Andre and Andrew, just to make you happy, suppose we even up those odds a little. Make it one gal and one guy.
Andre Baruch
Oh, that's a deal, Patty. If you'll be the gal and let me be the boy.
Vic Shawn
Why, Mr. Curt Massey, just what are your intentions?
Andre Baruch
Oh, strictly honorable, Ms. Andrews. Object A duet.
Vic Shawn
Object obtained. Kurt, let's go.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Baby, won't you please come home?
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
Cause you must all alone I have tried and fail Never no more to call your name
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
when you left you
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
broke my heart
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
because that is a
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
sword we'd find Every hour in the
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
day you will hear me say Baby, won't you please come home? Come home Baby, won't you please come home?
Kurt Massey
Baby, won't you please come home? Cause your daddy all alone all alone I have tried in vain Never no
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
more to call your name and when you left you broke mad
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
Because I never thought we part
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Every hour Hour
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
in the day you will hear me say Baby, won't you please come home?
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Come home Baby, won't you please come home.
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Vic Shawn
Right you are. Here it comes, fellas. Gang. And here's a tune that tells you what America's favorite outdoor sport is.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Yes, sir.
Vic Shawn
And it's a game that we need you to play. What we mean is from Pensacola to Pas we're waiting for you guys to come home we're waiting for the train to come in.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Waiting for the train to come in Ah y Waiting for my man to
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
come home
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
I counted every minute of each livelong day Been so melancholy since he went away I've shed a million
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
teardrops or more
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Waiting for the one I adore I'm waiting in the depot by the railroad track Looking for the choo choo train that brings him back I'm waiting for my life to begin Waiting for the train to come in. I'm waiting for the train to come in Come on, baby. Waiting for my man to come home Come on.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
I've counted every minute of the livelong day I've been so melancholy since he went away I've shed a million tears
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
or more Just waiting for the one that I adore I'm waiting in the depot by the railroad track Looking for the choo choo train that brings him back I'm waiting for my train to come in Just waiting around Just a waiting around I'm waiting for my dream Come.
Vic Shawn
In.
Andre Baruch
Every theater in the world, there's a green room. The room where the star waits for those magic words. You're on. On the stage of the Nash Kelvinator musical showroom, there's our own green room. And behind that big green door with a big shiny star waits our special guest tonight, Faith.
Vic Shawn
And he must be talking about the Downey garoon.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Indeed.
Vic Shawn
And it must be they mean himself.
Andre Baruch
Ah, it's the truth that you're talking. Open up that door and let out that wrath of a by Martin Downey.
Morton Downey
Thank you. Thank you one and all. And good evening to you, to Andrew Bobrook. And as for you, the Andrews Colleen's over there.
Andre Baruch
A sweet thought it was, and I
Morton Downey
take it kindly that you painted the room green for me.
Vic Shawn
Oh, it was nothing. And besides, the room is green every week.
Morton Downey
Oh, now that's nice. Nothing but Irishman for guest stars.
Andre Baruch
Wait a minute, Wait a minute. Let's put these tired old brogues away for a while. I won't dispute that Morton Downey is just about the best kamala singer in the world. But that comes later for your green room appearance. Morton, we want to hear the song that all America thinks of when they think of Morton Downey. The one tune. The song that goes with you. Just as emerald goes with the aisle. Ladies and gentlemen, Martin Downey sings Carolina Moore.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
I'm pining for the place I long
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
to see
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
I'm Hoping tonight you go Go to the right window Scatter your light say I'm all right Please do tell her that I'm bl. Lands lonely
Kurt Massey
dreamy Carolina.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Now I'm hoping tonight you go Go to the right window Scatter your light say I'm all right Please do tell her that I'm blue and low Only dreamy Caroline.
Andre Baruch
Ah, yes, that's the song. Martin Downey. Wonderful. And right now I'd like to give you this little bronze model of the Nash Kelvinator Green Room door as a symbol of the Green Room Award. If you will just turn that little knob, Morton, the door will swing open and on that gold plaque is written the reason you were chosen for tonight's presentation for outstanding contribution to the world of entertainment. The Green Room Award is presented to Morton Downey. And the song will always remember him singing Carolina Mole. Thank you very much, Andre. I'm very pleased to have it too.
Vic Shawn
But don't you go too far away, Morton. We want you to lead us all in a bit of an Irish tune a little bit later on.
Morton Downey
Oh, it'll be a pleasure indeed.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
Thanks.
Andre Baruch
And now a definition. A beguine is something which when it begins, everybody is so happy that when it ends. It doesn't end because everybody is so happy because it's a beguin that it begins again and.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
Hey, wait a minute. Wait a minute.
Vic Shawn
Take that upper tone and try it
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
again, will you, Andre?
Andre Baruch
Oh, not a chance. When it add. What it adds up to is a cue for you and the gals to make us happy with that super arrangement by the Andrew Sisters of Begin the Beguine.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Begin, Begin the beginning it brings back the sound of music so tender it brings back a night of tropical splendor it brings back a memory evergreen I'm with you Once more I'm with you under the stars under the stars and down by the shore Orchestra's playing and even the palms seem to be swaying no swaying. When they begin the beginning to live it again this past all endeavor except when that tune clutches my heart and there we are Wiring to love forever and promising never never to fall
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
what
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
moments divine what rapture sering Till clouds
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
came along to disperse the joys we
Vic Shawn
had tasted and now when I hear
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
people cry Missed a chance that was wasted I know but too well I know too well Just what they mean
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Too well what they mean so let
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
them begin Begin the beginning Let the
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
love that was once a fire Remain and ember Let it sleep like the dead when they begin beguine oh, yes Let them Begin the beguine make them play Till the stars that were there before Return above you Till you whisper to me once more Darling, I love you and we suddenly know
Vic Shawn
what heaven
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
we're in when they begin begin, begin
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
begin begin begin begin begin the Begin.
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Kurt Massey
Well, it's a love song that's close to a hundred years old. Oh, really? But it doesn't show its age one little bit. Sounds like a pretty good argument for romance, huh?
Andre Baruch
Yeah, sounds like a pretty good argument for a song. Ladies, gentlemen, and Ladies and gentlemen. Kurt Massey sings Till the end of time.
Kurt Massey
Till the end of time Long as stars are in the blue Long as there's to spring A bird to sing Out a long loving you till the end of time Long as roses bloom in May My love for you will grow deeper with every passing day Till the wells run dry and each mountain disappear I'll be there for you to care for you through laughter and through tears so take my heart in sweet surrender and tenderly say that I
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
the
Kurt Massey
one you love and live for till the end of time. Till the well run dry and each mountain disappear I'll be there for you to care for you to laughter and through tears so take my heart in sweet surrender and tenderly say that I the one you love and live for till the end of.
Andre Baruch
And now, as scheduled, the Downey Andrews Massey Marching and Chowder Society. In a camellia that's rarely a camellia. Now, our expert, Mr. Downey, tells me that a camellia may be roughly defined as a sweetly sung free. For all the sentiment involved. Back to Donegal
Morton Downey
it seems like only yesterday I sailed from County Cork. A wanderer from old Erin Isle I landed in New York. There wasn't a salt agree Treat me ne' er a stranger on your shore. But Irish luck was with me here. And riches came galore. And now that I'm going back again to dear old Emerald Isles. My friends will meet me on the dock and greet me with a smile. Their faces sure I've most forgot I've been so long away. But me mother will introduce them all. And this to me will say.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
Here's your uncle Mike, me boy. And here is your sister Kate. And there's the girl you used to swing down by the garden gate. Shake hands with Uncle Dunno.
Morton Downey
They'll give a party when I get home. They'll come from near and far.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
They'll line the roads for miles and
Morton Downey
miles With Jordan car the spiritual floor. And we'll be gay. We'll fill your hearts with joy. The piper will play an Irish reel
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
To greet the Yankee boy.
Morton Downey
We'll dance and sing the whole night long. Such fun is never seen. The lads will be decked in corduroy and the girls all dressed in green. There'll be thousands there that they never saw. I've been so long away but me mother and introduced them all and this to me.
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
Shake hands with your uncle Mike, me boy. And here is your sister Kate. And there's the girl you used to swing. Down by the garden gate. Shake hands with all your neighbors. And kiss the cuing song. You're as welcome as the fountain mate with dear old Donegal.
Andrew Sisters (Laverne Andrews)
Me, Flanagan, Flanagan, Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McCuffy, Malachi, Mahone, Rafferty Lafferty, Donnelly, Connolly, Julio.
Morton Downey
Only Madonny, Malone, Madigan, Padigan, Lanigan, Flanagan, Bacon, o', Hagan, Olihan, Flynn, Shannon, Manahan, Fogerty, Hogarty, Kelly, O him a go name again.
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
Shake hand with your arm to make me boy. And here's your sister Kate. And there's the girl you used to
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
swing down by the garden gate Shake hands your love and neighbor and kiss
Andrew Sisters (Patty Andrews)
the darling girl you dropped a man the vows and made the dear old darning.
Andre Baruch
Well, everybody, that just about shows off every new model on display in the Nash Kelvinator musical showroom. And before we close up shop, we'd like to thank the Coca Cola Company for Morton Downey's appearance in our showroom. Good night, Morton. Good night, everybody.
Vic Shawn
Good night, folks. See you next Wednesday.
Andre Baruch
From the Andrew Sisters.
Kurt Massey
So long, folks.
Andre Baruch
From Kurt Massey, next Wednesday in the Nash Kelvinator Green Room in the showcase of the showroom, the Mills Brothers.
Andrew Sisters (Maxene Andrews)
And remember, we'll be with you each Wednesday at this time.
Andre Baruch
Nash Builders of Nash Motor Cars,
Kurt Massey
Builders
Andre Baruch
of Kelvinator home Appliances. Nash Kelvinator, makers of Nash Motor Cars, Kelvinator and Leonard Home Appliances, will be looking for you next Wednesday in the NK musical showroom. Starring the Andrew Sisters with Kurt Massey, Vic Shonen, his orchestra and the Ambassadors. And in the Green room, the Mills Brothers. Until then, this is Andre Barouche wishing you good evening.
Morton Downey
This is cbs, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Andre Baruch
K M Hex.
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Podcast: Harold’s Old Time Radio
Date: March 30, 2026
Host: Andre Baruch (with regulars Kurt Massey, Vic Shawn, The Ambassadors)
Guest: Morton Downey
This episode of Harold’s Old Time Radio transports listeners back to the golden age of radio variety shows, with the Andrews Sisters as the stars and Morton Downey as the special guest. The program is a classic musical revue, featuring hit songs of the era, lighthearted banter, and heartwarming tributes to American soldiers and homecomings. Nostalgia, patriotism, and the joy of live performance are woven throughout, creating an uplifting half-hour for fans of old-time radio.
[00:35 – 01:30]
Song: “I Feel a Song Coming On”
[01:30 – 03:34]
[03:55 – 06:06]
[06:06 – 06:38]
[06:38 – 08:27]
[10:16 – 12:53]
[13:06 – 14:02]
[14:07 – 16:59]
[16:59 – 17:32]
[18:07 – 21:01]
[23:28 – 25:09]
[27:01 – 29:00]
[29:18 – 30:36]
Morton Downey’s Irish Wit:
“Oh, now that's nice. Nothing but Irishman for guest stars.”
– Morton Downey [14:02]
On the Power of Music:
“It's a melody full of the laughter of children all after the rain you hear a tuneful story through your love...”
– Patty Andrews [01:30]
Reflections on America’s Soldiers:
“We’re waiting for you guys to come home; we’re waiting for the train to come in.”
– Vic Shawn [10:17]
Heartfelt Award Acceptance:
“Thank you very much, Andre. I'm very pleased to have it too.”
– Morton Downey [17:32]
| Time | Segment | |------|---------| | 01:30–03:34 | “I Feel a Song Coming On” by The Andrews Sisters | | 03:55–06:06 | “A Girl and a Sailor” by The Andrews Sisters | | 06:38–08:27 | “Baby, Won’t You Please Come Home?” by The Andrews Sisters & Kurt Massey | | 10:16–12:53 | “Waiting for the Train to Come In” by The Andrews Sisters | | 14:07–16:59 | “Carolina Moon” by Morton Downey | | 18:07–21:01 | “Begin the Beguine” by The Andrews Sisters | | 23:28–25:09 | “Till the End of Time” by Kurt Massey | | 27:01–29:00 | “Back to Donegal” by The Andrews Sisters & Morton Downey |
For listeners longing for nostalgia, classic standards, and charismatic radio personalities, this Andrews Sisters episode—featuring Morton Downey—offers a delightful immersion. Between sentimental ballads, Irish laughter, and celebratory singalongs, the broadcast captures the heart of mid-century American entertainment, spotlighting the enduring charm of the Golden Age of Radio.