Eddie Cantor - Texaco Town 36-09-27 (02) Radio Station Broadcast

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Harold's Old Time Radio

Episode: Eddie Cantor - Texaco Town 36-09-27 (02) Radio Station Broadcast
Release Date: January 2, 2026
Podcast Theme: Celebrating radio’s Golden Age with classic broadcasts

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Overview

This episode features a 1936 broadcast of Eddie Cantor’s classic radio comedy and variety show, "Texaco Town." Listeners are transported to a fictional town where Eddie Cantor, as “the Mayor,” leads a cast of eccentric townsfolk through humor, musical performances, rapid-fire banter, and satirical riffs on current events. The show exemplifies the comedic style and family entertainment that characterized the golden age of radio.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introduction and Opening Banter

[00:12 – 03:24]

• The program begins with the traditional sponsor’s greeting from the “45,000 dealers who serve you with fire chief gasoline,” welcoming Eddie Cantor as the mayor.
• A flurry of townspeople comedically approach the Mayor with bizarre civic concerns—such as cows scared to be milked ("They're New York Giants ... because they’re afraid of the Yanks!").
• The discussion weaves in economic jokes referencing the European gold standard and American football:

  “France kicked over the gold. That was one down and two to go...” (B, 01:22)

• Eddie breaks into a whimsical “mayoral” song festooned with gags about spinach, politicians, and town affairs.

2. Comic Community Grievances

[03:25 – 05:16]

• Elizabeth Anastasia Vandergraft (a societal matron) demands the playground be turned into a “poodle promenade.”
• Eddie parries her complaints with tongue-in-cheek insults and puns:

  “Be careful somebody doesn’t drop an egg on you.” (B, 04:15)

• The segment escalates into a riotous debate about dogs versus cats, complete with comedic impressions of caterwauling.

3. Texaco Product Jokes & Parody Advertising

[07:02 – 08:08]

• The cast lampoons the process of writing a gasoline advertisement:

  “Technical fire chief is the best gasoline in the world.”
  — “No, you’ve got to tell people why it’s the best gasoline and what it’ll do for them.” (A & B, 07:11–07:15)

• They dramatize reading a real Texaco ad, emphasizing “lightning action” and improved gasoline qualities, in a satirical nod to sponsor obligations.

4. Musical Interlude: Deanna Durbin Performs

[08:10 – 10:52]

• Young singer Deanna Durbin delivers "A Heart That’s Free," astonishing the cast and audience with her operatic voice.
• Eddie and the cast heap praise:

  “Deanna, that's perfectly swell.” (B, 10:52) “I want to tell you, Deanna, it’s grand.” (D, 10:54)

5. Parental Anecdotes & Humorous Family Life

[10:53 – 11:56]

• Cantor shares comedic stories about his five daughters and their shifting interests (“If it wasn't for Gary Cooper and Clark Gable and Robert Taylor, we girls wouldn't have a thing to live for.” (B, 11:45)).
• The show transitions with the running joke of his daughter's growing up "too fast."

6. “Park Your Carcass” Routine – Misunderstandings and Wordplay

[11:57 – 15:19]

• Sidekick “Park Your Carcass” storms in with grievances about newspaper misprints and runs through a sequence of escalating, Abbott & Costello-style misunderstandings.
• The classic comedy bit of serial word confusion:

  “Corona is what the ladies wear in the morning.”
  — “No, no, you mean kimonos!”
  — “No, sir, a kimona is the paper you get when you graduate from school.” (B & C, 13:44–13:55)

• The sequence culminates with Park Your Carcass’ outlandish economic “platform” for prosperity: make everyone eat bananas so slipped peels create jobs, more business, more gas sales:

  “If everybody's gonna eat bananas, then prosperity comes back in bunches.” (C, 14:31)

7. Cantor’s Musical Numbers

[15:20 – 19:31]

• Cantor parodies Spanish music with “I Feel So Spanish Tonight,” poking fun at his own heritage and American misconceptions:

  “My father, he came from Alaska. My mother, she came from Nebraska. Still I feel so Spanish tonight.” (B, 16:38)

• The segment shifts into another popular tune, “Sing, Baby, Sing,” encouraging optimism in tough times:

  “Don’t you know a song a day keeps mean old Mr. Gloom away?” (B, 18:16)

8. Father-Son Dialogue: Bible vs. Adventure Stories

[20:09 – 24:39]

• Eddie and his son Bobby discuss Bobby’s vacation and books. Bobby prefers “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” while Eddie promotes the excitement in the Bible’s stories.
• Eddie draws parallels between biblical tales and popular adventure stories:

  “Did you ever read the chapter about Jonah who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the story? … The Bible is full of stories. Drama, mystery, adventure.” (D, 21:23–21:30)

• The conversation includes a comic observation about prayer as “messages to heaven sent at night to get cheaper rates.”

  “That’s why we send them at night—to get cheaper rates.” (E, 22:40)

9. Gospel Song: “Go Down Moses”

[24:23 – 25:22]

• Bobby and Eddie sing “Go Down Moses,” reinforcing the show’s family-friendly and moralistic heart.

10. Closing Remarks and Farewell Song

[27:23 – 28:47]

• Cantor closes with an appeal to visit local Texaco dealers, thanks the audience, and delivers his sentimental signature:

  “I love to spend each Sunday with you…” (B & D, 27:52–28:47)

• The broadcast ends on a warm, community-focused note.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “The taxpayers kick in for this and kick in for that ... until they kick off. And after they kick off, they’re still in the hole.” (B, 00:59)
• “Be careful somebody doesn’t drop an egg on you.” (B to E, 04:15)
• “I'm going to give you this handkerchief ... You’ve had your nose in everybody else’s business, you might as well put it where it belongs.” (B to E, 03:41)
• "If everybody's gonna eat bananas, then prosperity comes back in bunches." (C, 14:31)
• “Don’t you know a song a day keeps mean old Mr. Gloom away?” (B, 18:16)
• “That’s why we send them at night—to get cheaper rates.” (E, 22:40)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening gags & mayoral banter: [00:12 – 03:24]
• Elizabeth Vandergraft’s grievances & pet humor: [03:25 – 05:16]
• Satirical Texaco ad creation: [07:02 – 08:08]
• Deanna Durbin sings “A Heart That’s Free”: [08:25 – 10:52]
• “Park Your Carcass” wordplay segment: [11:57 – 15:19]
• Cantor sings “I Feel So Spanish Tonight”: [15:20 – 17:53]
• “Sing, Baby, Sing” number: [18:05 – 19:31]
• Father-son Bible and adventure discussion: [20:09 – 24:39]
• "Go Down Moses" duet: [24:23 – 25:22]
• Closing thoughts and farewell: [27:23 – 28:47]

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Tone & Style

The episode is exuberant, fast-paced, and crammed with vaudevillian wordplay. Eddie Cantor’s style blends sentimental warmth with sly, quick-witted repartee, balancing family comedy, topical satire, light musical numbers, and moral stories—a masterclass in Golden Age radio entertainment.

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For First-Time Listeners

This episode is a perfect example of how 1930s radio combined improv-like comedy, musical performance, and gentle moralizing to entertain the whole family. Eddie Cantor’s energy is infectious, his banter still sharp, and the show’s format—complete with recurring characters and topical references—captures an era when Americans gathered around the radio for shared laughs and community.

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Transcript

[A]

Welcome to Texaco town. The 45,000 dealers who serve you with fire chief gasoline and other technical products present in honor the mayor, Henny Caner.

[B]

Hello. Hello, everybody. I represent the citizens committee you prom to help us out. I've got to talk to you right away.

[C]

You can't keep us waiting.

[B]

Now wait a minute. One at a time, please. Mayor, I run the dairy here and I'm having trouble. I've got nine cows and they're afraid let me milk them. They're afraid to let you milk them. What kind of cows are they?

[C]

Jersey.

[B]

Hey, not Jersey Heifers. They're New York Giants. How do you figure that out? Because they're afraid of the Yanks.

[A]

Well, never mind all this fooling, Mayor. Why don't you see that the man gets a milking machine?

[B]

Milking machine? Why, that would cost $3,000. Who's going to pay for it?

[A]

For the taxpayers.

[B]

Let them kick in the taxpayers against a all their lives. The taxpayers kick in for this and kick in for that. In fact, they kick in until they kick off. And after they kick off, they're still in the hole.

[A]

Well, maybe you're right. But after all, we're not as bad off as they are in Europe.

[D]

No? No.

[A]

I read in today's papers where Holland and Switzerland followed France off the gold standard.

[B]

Yes, they're starting their football season right with us.

[A]

Football season?

[B]

Sure. France kicked over the gold. That was one down and two to go. So Holland and Switzerland went into a huddle and decided to make it a triple threat. But they couldn't gain any ground because they had no reserves. And that's why they tried to.

[A]

What has that got to do with this country?

[B]

That's where all Americans fit in. France might try to make another touchdown here. And if we don't guard our end, we'll be thrown for a loss and we'll never get a quarterback. I never expected that I'd be elected the mayor of Texaco town Infant governmental. I'm not sentimental, but the news almost made me break down. So while I'm the one to rejoice, you'll all be ripped. Pay for your choice, boss. When your kids won't finish their whole plate of spinach let them watch one man put it down He's a spinach inhaler Looks like Popeye the Sailor the mayor of Texas when some politicians compared their incisions one man took off his dressing gown they said that the stripper his scar had a zipper. Who's the mayor of Dexigo? Daddy want pat now there's a young blade He's a hound with the ladies each grail on this program has found his kissing and huggin will get him a slugging who? Wallington of Texico that's the time I bowed. Yeah, My young woman haters girls wouldn't cater he swore he would not settle down but he was hooked by a neither and five girls beside her the mayor of Mexico Town. Well, goodbye, folks. Goodbye, folks. If you leave everything to me, you'll be perfectly satisfied.

[E]

I'm not leaving. You're the worst mayor we ever had here. I investigated at the police station and found it run down. I snooped into the Board of Education and that I sneaked around the bus terminal and can't imagine why you permit such a horrible place. What are you going to do about it?

[B]

Madam, I'm going to give you this handkerchief.

[E]

Handkerchief?

[B]

What for? You've had your nose in everybody else's business. You might as well put it where it belongs.

[E]

If you had any sense, you'd take that children's playground and change it into a poodle promenade.

[B]

Poodle promenade? You sure you don't want a perambulator for Pekingese puppies?

[E]

Stop that nonsense. I'm having a lot of trouble with my dog.

[B]

Why bother me? Go out and buy a bigger pair of shoes.

[E]

Maybe you don't realize who you're talking to. My name is Elizabeth Anastasia Vandergraft.

[B]

Okay, Liz.

[F]

Liz.

[E]

I'll have you understand that I'm the toast of society.

[B]

Well, be careful somebody doesn't drop an egg on you.

[E]

Are you or are you not going to do something about the Podo promenade?

[B]

Impossible. Next thing you know, you want a concert hall for cats.

[F]

Cats? Cats.

[E]

I hate those beastly animals.

[B]

You should, with that puss.

[E]

I can't stand that they make such a terrible noise.

[D]

Oh, I think a cat makes a nice noise.

[B]

Didn't you ever hear a love stick cat sitting on a fence serenading his mate like this?

[E]

How can you compare that hideous sound.

[F]

To a Peking knee?

[B]

I'd rather hear.

[F]

Hello, Mr. Allen.

[B]

Oh, tally ho.

[E]

This is much nicer.

[F]

No, no, no, no.

[A]

Jack Renard and the Texaco Orchestra salute the Lucky Strike Program with a special arrangement called your.

[F]

It's.

[B]

Oh, Jimmy. Jimmy. Dr. Cocker just called up and wants a Texaco ad for his newspaper.

[A]

Well, Pete, put on your thinking cap. We've got the right one. I've got it, Jimmy.

[B]

Right across the top. We'll say technical fire chief is the best gasoline in the world.

[A]

No, no, we can't do that, Pete. We know it is and so do lots of other people. But you've got to tell people why it's the best gasoline and what it'll do for them.

[B]

I've got it.

[A]

What's that?

[B]

Why don't you read this Texaco ad.

[C]

From the Saturday Evening Post?

[A]

All right, give it to me. It's a good idea. Listen to this. Lightning action. Today, your gasoline must do its complete power job in 1/100th of a second. Or you don't get full power and mileage as you drive. That calls for lightning action. The quick, complete firing the Texaco fire chief gives you. Still further improved Texaco fire chief is free from lazy, slow burning elements that slow up gasoline action. We take these sluggish elements out of Texaco fire chief by our carefully controlled modern refining processes. You feel the difference as you drive. Your engine steps up, your car steps out.

[B]

That's perfect. Let's step over and hand this ad to park your cart. Ladies and gentlemen, we are now broadcasting from our own station.

[D]

Tex. Last week, little Deanna Durbin sang your bacho. And thousands who heard her refused to believe that this child with the operatic voice is only 13 years old. You can take my word for it. It's true. Deanna's barely 13 and pretty as a picture. Here she is.

[B]

Come out, Deanna, right up to the microphone. That's it, darling. Tonight. Tonight, Deanna's going to sing A heart.

[D]

That'S free from the polar. Play San Francisco.

[F]

With a love and the dance Mine's alive to and fro. To see like the moth to adorn it's dark Mexico Do I sing merrily with a moth and the dam Find some life to and done For I could not but please and the world that I bring and the thing that we sing Is the song of a heart that breath Laughing all the day Chasing it away he might run the day. Mother cat with a heart never knew I knee on the sea like the lark who had gone since the darkness be gone Do I sing merrily with a laugh and the dance finds a life going from But I do not but please. And the word that I dream and the king that I sing Is the song of a.

[B]

Deanna, that's perfectly swell.

[D]

I want to tell you, Deanna, it's grand.

[B]

I don't know, ladies and gentlemen, if.

[D]

You get the same kind of a thrill that I get hearing this little girl sing.

[B]

Honestly, you know, I want to tell you something. I don't blame you. I don't blame. Every time I Hear a singer.

[D]

I want to go home and stab my five girls.

[B]

I don't know what that is. Not. Not that they haven't any talent. My girls are all right. Of course, they don't sing, they don't dance, they don't play musical instruments, but.

[D]

Gosh, do they tear stockings.

[B]

And my little girl, Janet, Deanna, you know her? Little Janet. I want to tell you something. She is getting to be awful.

[C]

Last week, I said.

[B]

I said, janet, why don't you play with your doll?

[D]

She's. Oh, Daddy, those kiddish things. Eight years old, those kiddish things.

[B]

I said, well, play with your other toys.

[D]

She says, oh, I don't know such, you know, babyish stuff.

[B]

I said, all right, take your bicycle. Take your skate. She says, oh, Daddy, I don't get a thrill out of it.

[D]

I said, janet, for a girl 8 years old, you certainly act disgusted with life. She said, well, I'll tell you the truth, Daddy.

[B]

If it wasn't for Gary Cooper and Clark Gable and Robert Taylor, we girls wouldn't have a thing to live for. Hey, there he is. Hello, Jimmy. What's wrong?

[C]

Listen, you better not go out that way.

[B]

Park.

[A]

Your carcass is waiting for you, and he's mad as a hornet.

[B]

Here he is now. Oh, park your carcass. Park your carcass. What's the matter? What? What makes you so excited?

[C]

Why are you printing in the newspaper? What, you gonna beat me up?

[B]

I'm gonna beat you up? Where does it say that?

[C]

Right here. It says, mayor Scranton gonna clean up that creek. Park your carcass, you dumbs.

[B]

That says mayor Cantor to clean out.

[D]

The creek in the park. What's the matter with you?

[B]

What's the matter with you?

[D]

Mark.

[C]

Mark, I thought you didn't have enough room to put your carcass on the paper.

[B]

Mark, you carcass. You know, I never saw it.

[D]

I never saw you so mad.

[C]

Yeah, I'm so mad right now I could kill myself. Where could I find a lawyer?

[B]

Yep, a lawyer. You want to sue somebody, you got this, Mason.

[C]

Look what else is printed in that paper about me.

[B]

What?

[C]

If Patiokakis is elected president, he will ruin the country.

[B]

Which newspaper was that in? Mine.

[C]

Who printed it?

[B]

I did. So you're going to sue yourself for printing those things?

[C]

Yeah, but I. Don't worry.

[B]

You're not worried? No.

[C]

I can't collect. I'm broke.

[B]

Park your carcass. The next time you order a glass of beer, do me a favor. Have the bartender put the head on you.

[C]

Hey, you know, yesterday My dog went into a saloon and he ordered a glass of beer.

[B]

Your dog ordered a glass of beer?

[C]

He walks up to the bartender and he says, woof, woof, woof, woof.

[B]

Why, that's a bark.

[C]

Don't you never hear of bark? Beer. You know, when I go out to speak on my campaign, I'm gonna take that dog with me because he's got a very short tail.

[B]

But what good is a dog with a short tail on campaign?

[C]

He could make some speeches.

[B]

Go away. You can make some. Listen, park your carcass. Now that you're running for president, you might as well know how to go about it. You should start him by going around and kissing all the babies.

[C]

No, that's no good. I kissed one last night.

[B]

What happened?

[C]

Now she's suing me. That baby was 27.

[B]

No, no, no, you don't understand. I mean, for instance, you've got to give all the men coronas.

[C]

You know, that's for women, not for men.

[B]

What's for women? I said coronas. Do you know what coronas are?

[C]

Sure. Coronas is what the ladies wears in the morning.

[B]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You mean. You mean kimonos?

[C]

No, sir. A kimona is the paper you get when you graduate from school.

[B]

No, no, no. That's a diploma.

[C]

You're crazy. That's who you call when the water pipe breaks. Diploma.

[B]

No, no, no. You're thinking of a pa. Plumber.

[C]

Plummer. That's fruit, oranges, peaches, plums and plum.

[B]

No, no, no, no. That's plum.

[E]

Plum.

[C]

Don't tell me. A plum is a fella who won't work.

[B]

No, no, that's a bum. If I won't. Like I'm a bum. I'm a bum. Well, don't holler and nobody will find out. Quiet. What the.

[F]

You.

[B]

What the. You. Look. Half your carcass. In your campaign, you must have a platform that will benefit the people. Tell me about the platter.

[D]

What's yours?

[A]

Bananas?

[D]

Yep.

[B]

What do you mean, bananas?

[C]

Yes, sir. If everybody's gonna eat bananas, then prosperity comes back in bunches. Yep.

[B]

All right. How. How do you figure that out?

[C]

Well, when you're eating a banana, what.

[B]

Do you do with the peel? I throw it away.

[C]

You see, from that, that's a miracle.

[B]

A miracle from throwing away a piece of banana peel?

[A]

I could prove you.

[C]

Somebody slips on that peel, he falls.

[B]

Down and dairies up his pants.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Right away the cleaners get more business, right?

[B]

That's right.

[C]

Now, the cleanest has got to Buy more gasoline.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

So Texaco makes more money.

[B]

That's right.

[C]

Texaco makes more money. They're gonna give you a raise. You get more money, you give me a raise.

[B]

Yes, but I still don't see the miracle.

[C]

Boy, if you give me a raise, that's a miracle.

[B]

Jimmy. Jimmy. Now I'm going to sing a little song from old Mexico.

[A]

Oh, no, not Mexico, Eddie. The Spanish pronunciation is Mexico. Yeah, you make the X sound like an H. You see? Mexico.

[B]

Mexico.

[D]

That's right.

[B]

All right. I'll sing a song from Mexico. And you go out and sell some texo.

[A]

Gosh, you must feel Spanish tonight.

[B]

What a coincidence, Jimmy Wallington. What a coincidence. Why, that's the title of the song that I'm about to sing. Oh, what a sweet melody. Spanish music to me is the thing with a sweet that gets under my skin. Oh, there's a spell over me. And it's easy to see. That a dance of romance is about to begin. Oh, give me a touch of old stain. A rollicky rumba refrain. Cause I feel so Spanish tonight. Just give me a sweet senorita. With a rose in her hair like Marquita. Cause I feel so Spanish tonight. Give me lots of tambourines and a steel guitar and the old guitar. And you'll hear me say Sa cucarachi, you know, Quere caminato. Just give me a block of da Follies. The kind that they had in the Follies. And I'll show you who's real dynamite. If I should start doing the rumba. I'd put Fred Astaire on the bumper. Cause I feel so Spanish tonight. Oh, my father, he came from Alaska. My mother, she came from Nebraska. Till I feel so Spanish tonight. I've never been east of Savannah. In fact, I was raised in Montana. Still I feel so Spanish tonight. I once had to fight a bull. Him, the kid from Spain. He got mad at me. Now I've got a pain in my cucaracha. You know. Quera caminaro. I'm known as a gay caballero. Whenever I wave my sombrero for some girl. It means sweet delight. The sight of a balcony thrills me. I'll climb one tonight if it kills me. Cause I feel so Spanish tonight. All righty. That was fine.

[A]

That was really swell. How would you folks here in Texaco park like to hear Mayor Cantor sing the hit tune from Sing, Baby, Sing? You like it.

[B]

When trouble troubles you. Sing, baby, sing. Do what the bird is do. Sing, baby, sing. When the cold, cold winter Comes and they are all out of crumb Twitiful little babies they ain't eaten but they are Tweet, tweet, tweeting oh, ho, ho don't you know a song a day keeps mean old Mr. Gloom away? Hard lot don't like music with that certain swing I'll swing while you sing Babies sing when troubles trouble you Sing, babies sing do what the birdies do Sing, babies sing when the cold winter comes and they are all out of rum Quite a poor little birdies they ain't eating but they are Tweet, tweet, tweeting Ho, ho, ho don't you know the song a day keeps me no Mr. Groma's way hard luck don't like music with that certain swing now swing.

[F]

It Sing it Sing, baby, sing.

[B]

Oh, Jack. Tell me, Jack. Jack Renaud. Why do you look so sad?

[D]

Wallington keeps kidding me that I'm fat.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

I only weigh 310 pounds.

[B]

Well, but your wife told me you weigh 380.

[D]

All right, 380. What's 70 pounds for a fella like me?

[B]

Not much. A left arm. It's nothing at all.

[D]

You're all right.

[F]

You're all right.

[D]

Oh, you're starting too. Now, listen, Gracie.

[B]

Gracie. Wait a minute, Jack.

[C]

Wait a minute.

[B]

Wait a minute.

[D]

Wait a minute.

[B]

You must be looking at me from the wrong angle.

[D]

No, kid, no kidding, Eddie, I.

[F]

No, wait a minute.

[B]

Later, Jack. Look, I've got to find my son, Bobby.

[D]

Oh, he's over there, Eddie.

[B]

Oh, Bobby.

[F]

Come on.

[B]

Bobby, my boy. How are you?

[F]

Hello, dad.

[B]

Well, how did you like your vacation on Mr. Jones's farm?

[E]

I had a swell time, Daddy. I got stung by a bumblebee.

[B]

You got stung by a bumblebee? And you call that swell?

[E]

You should say it swell. I sat right down on that bumblebee and I wouldn't get up while he was stinging me. Boy, did it hurt.

[B]

Well, why didn't you get up instead.

[D]

Of sitting there in pain?

[E]

Well, I figured I was hurting him as much as he was hurting me.

[B]

Now we walk.

[D]

Were there any children up there for.

[B]

You to play with?

[E]

No, but I had a good time with the animals. Yeah, I played Paul as a leader with them. Whatever the animals did, I did follow.

[B]

The leader with animals. Gee, that must have been fun.

[E]

It was fun until some smart aleck chicken laid a neigh.

[B]

Of course you couldn't tell me. Of course you could.

[D]

Did you have good weather all the time?

[E]

Well, it rained a couple of days and I had a stick in the house. I wouldn't have minded that. But there was nothing to read.

[D]

Well, didn't Mrs. Jones put any books in your room at all?

[E]

Only a Bible. But that's no good when a fellow feels like reading.

[D]

It isn't.

[B]

What?

[D]

Listen, Bobby, no matter what you've ever read, you'll find it written much better in the Bible.

[E]

How can you say that, Daddy? There's nothing in the Bible as exciting as 20,000 leagues under the Sea.

[D]

Oh, no. Did you ever read the chapter about Jonah who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the story? Is that exciting?

[E]

A man was swallowed by a whale and lived?

[D]

Yes, the Bible is full of all those stories. Drama, mystery, adventure and tales about great men like Jonah and Daniel and Joseph.

[E]

Yes, but there's only one popular cock.

[D]

Well, that's nothing. Noah had two of every animal. You know, Bobby, you should read the story of Noah and the Flood. The Lord was angry with the people on earth and he wiped them all out. Except Noah and his family.

[E]

Well, I like books about inventions. I once read how Edison invented the electric light and how Alexandra Bell made the telephone.

[D]

They were marvelous creations, Bobby.

[E]

Sure, nobody in the Bible ever made such wonderful things.

[D]

Listen, son, Edison took four years to make his electric light, and Bell took six years to make the telephone. But remember this, The Lord created the world and everything in it in six days. And he had time to rest on the seventh.

[E]

I did start to read about that, Daddy, but those words are so old fashioned, you know, like prayers.

[D]

Well, prayers aren't old fashioned after all. You know, prayers are only little messages that we send to heaven.

[E]

Oh, now I know why we send them at night.

[D]

Why?

[E]

To get cheaper rates.

[B]

Bobby, Bobby, look.

[D]

You said you couldn't understand the Bible because the words were old fashioned.

[E]

That's right, Daddy.

[D]

Well, let's see if I can make it clear to you. You know, the first people on earth were Adam and Eve, and they had two sons, Cain and Abel. One day, in a fit of anger, Cain killed Abel and he had to run away.

[F]

Gee, then Cain was the first Public enemy number one.

[D]

That's right, Bobby. Anything that happens today has happened before and you can read it in the Bible.

[E]

Anything?

[D]

Yes, anything, Bobby.

[E]

How about the Schmelinger Lewis fight?

[D]

Well, you think the Schmeling Lewis fight was so great?

[E]

Well, Schmellian weighed less than Joe Lewis and still he went in there and beat him.

[D]

Yes, but they were both heavyweights. The Bible tells a story about a lightweight. A lightweight who beat a heavyweight for the championship of the World.

[F]

Really?

[E]

Who was it?

[D]

The lightweight was David. And the heavyweight was Goliath. And David knocked out Goliath with one blow. And there were no motion picture rides then, either.

[E]

It sounds wonderful. I'm gonna quit the book I'm reading and start on the Bible.

[D]

Which book is that, Bobby?

[E]

It's called we and was written by Colonel Lindbergh.

[D]

That's a good book, son.

[E]

It tells how Colonel Lindbergh flew across the ocean all alone and battled the wind and storms for almost 34 hours. Is there anything like that in the Bible, Daddy?

[D]

Well, not exactly, but there's a story in it about a man called Moses who led his people across the desert for 40 years. Not 34 hours, Bobby. 40 years. And believe me, he had more than storms to battle.

[E]

I know about that. That's in the song they taught us. You know, the one I used to sing in the choir.

[D]

Go down, Moses. Do you still remember it, Daddy?

[E]

You can't forget those songs so quickly.

[F]

When Israel was in each other. Let my people go oh, press so hard they could not stand Let my people go. Go down moses.

[B]

Land.

[F]

Go down. To Let my people go. The faithful Lord But Moses said let my people go if not, I'll smite your firstborn death Let my people O Go down, Moses Way down in Egypt. Go. That good Come on out, Bobby. Thank you very much.

[B]

I hope. My friends, I hope you enjoyed being.

[D]

With us in Texaco town. Come again next Sunday. And during the week, drive around. See the man who makes this program possible. Your neighborhood Texaco dealer. Say I sent you. It'll make it kind of nice for me. And remember, I love to spend each.

[B]

As friend to friend. I'm sorry. It's true.

[D]

I'm telling you just how I feel.

[B]

I hope you feel that way, too. Let's make a date for next Sunday night. I'm here for State will be my delight to sing again Drink again the things you want me to I love.

[D]

To spend.

[F]

Each.

[D]

Sunday.

[B]

With you.

[D]

Good night.

[B]

Eddie Cantor in Texico Town will be with you again next Sunday at this same hour. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

[C]

9Pm.

[A]

B u l o v a boulevard.

[D]

Watch time, wabc, new york.