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National Guard Show 47-05-07 1st Dimes for Invasion, Treasury Dept.
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National Guard Show 47-05-07 1st Dimes for Invasion, Treasury Dept.
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Paul Whiteman
Race the rudders. Raise the sails. Race the sails. Captain, an unidentified ship is approaching. Over. Roger. Wait. Is that an enterprise sales solution? Reach sales professionals, not professional sailors. With LinkedIn ads, you can target the right people by industry, job title and more. We'll even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign. Get started today at LinkedIn.com results, terms and conditions apply. This is Paul Whiteman. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to National Guard Assembly. National Guard Assembly. I love a parade attempting a beat I love every beat I hear of a drum the National Guard of the United States, in cooperation with the American Broadcasting Company, presents Paul Whiteman, his orchestra and chorus in National Guard assembly with Mindy Carson and Johnny Thompson. Your host, Paul Whiteman. Thank you, friends. Thank you. And good evening to you all. Well, the whole gang is set to bring you more music and song and a stirring bit of drama about the National Guard 31st Dixie Division. You know we're saluting Alabama tonight. And right now we want to say howdy to all those good people. So blow that whiff and ring the bell and hang on to your seats because the chorus and orchestra are heading south. In fact, they're Alabama bound. I'm al a family mom There'll be no heebies he be swinging round Became the meanest biggest man on earth All I'm worth who puts my sleeping and up the birds can feel it you found I know that we're going to cover ground and then I'm honored to the world without Here I go I have a family sa now we're in Birmingham riding Alabama what's that, Bill? Louisville. We've had that before. I'm just a lucky house to have someone to put my arms around that's why I'm counting for the world to love Here I go way down south with fears of trashing all around and now, friends, Johnny Thompson wants to remind you that next Sunday is Mother's Day. Son of anything special on your mind and heart about Mother's Day Day? I'm thinking of a mighty fine song, Paul, that everybody all over the world knows and loves. It's called Songs My Mother Taught Me and sounds very appropriate, Johnny, and I'm sure we all want to hear it. Songs my mother taught me in the days long me where the spirit now I teach my children teach me are flowing hope they flow my memory you the tears are flowing RA in searching around for our now and then number I open up my old scrapbook turn back the leaves and stop smack dab at the year 1926 I think many of you good people still remember when the red, red robin comes about bob, bobbing along. And Here is our 1926 version, which features the gruesome twosome. All right, boys, you can come out of weaving and a bobbin. The red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbing along There'll be no more stopping when he starts robbing his old sweet song Wake up, wake up, you sleepy head get up, get up, get out of it. Cheer up, cheer up the sun is red Love laughing Me happy I was awful blue Now I'm walking through fields of flowers Brain may glisten but still I listen for Rs and Rs I'm just a kid again doing what I did Again singing a song Dooleydoop. When the red, red robin comes bob, bob, bobbing along Bob. Ah, yes, sir. The boys really burnt that up. It looked like toasted robin. But anyway, that same little robin is still bob, bobbing along today and just listen. Do you hear what the band is playing? Is it Dixie or is it Marching Through Georgia? The fact is, it's both. You see, at the outbreak of World War II, the 31st Dixie Division was composed of men from four Deep south states. Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana. But when it went into battle, there were just as many Yankee lads as Southerners. In unity, there is strength. And strength was what they needed when the 31st blasted the Japs from the islands of New guinea and on up the Pacific to Mindanao. But the north and south cooperation extended even further after the war. Steve, the Southern boy, married the Northern girl who was the sister of Phil, his buddy from Pennsylvania. Today they're all together, enjoying a typical meal on Steve's farm. More chicken, Phil? Okay, I'll try. Hey, what are you people trying to do, fatten me up for some kind of a slaughter? Well, as a matter of fact. Well, you tell him, Sarah. Come on, out with it. Well, we don't want you to go back to Pennsylvania. We want you to stay here with us on the farm. What is it? Say I got a job at home. Oh, a job. What's wrong with that? Nothing's wrong, but we need you here, Phil. We need help. I didn't count on saying, Golly, I hadn't thought of it. Well, it's not just a hard hand to need, Phil. It's a partner. Besides, life here on the farm will be good for you. Good for me? Why, Steve, I'm no more busted up than you are. Who said anything about being busted up? I'm not talking about the war. That's done and buried. Or is it? Yep. Like Harry Har. Well, I said I'm not talking about the war. On account of me, you mean. Who is this Harry Har? He was a buddy of ours on Mindanao. What? What happened? No, tell me about it, Phil. Well, it seems like it happened yesterday. When the 31st landed on Mindanao, we expected to fight it out in the open country. Some open country. We couldn't find half the Japs. They were hidden in the grass as high as your neck and in the deep forest. Why, some of the Japs were even under the forest. Yeah, no kidding. They actually fortified themselves under great big trees. Well, for seven days of fighting a gang of us, we're really having it pretty tough. Trying to smoke them out, Taking rope. Yeah, there's no smoking them out. Hey, Steve, you used to hunt rabbits. How'd they do it in Alabama? You trying to be funny again, Harry? Don't bite my head off, will you? Bad enough when you start your college career at Heritage University, you're opening the door to something big. To a world of new experiences, to personal growth and academic discovery, to friendships that will last your entire life and the future you've always dreamed of. You're opening the door to your best life. And the best part is, it won't stop here. Heritage University. Operation Best Life. Learn more at Heritage. Edu. BestLife. You lose your sense of humor here, you're a dead duck. Okay, should we turn on the radio for a little morale builder? Seven days. We tried everything from bayonets to a mortar, and those gaps just won't come out. We're stuck here. Unless you got a better idea, Harry? Yeah. Let's go home. Check. Now, look, there are five of us here. If you two men fire the bazooka, Dave and Sid and I'll rush them with bayonets. Hey, the man ain't kidding. Okay, I'll take the front end of the gas pipe. Steve, you load. Wait. Let's fix our bayonet. All right. You ready, Harry? Whatever you are. Well, see you and Dixie, fellas. Oh, tasty. I got a bead on the tree. Here goes. Hey, don't let the smoke clear. Come on, all of it. Come on, guys, let him have it now. Come on, get out there. They're coming out. Look at him. Look at him come out, will you? Hey, watch that Jap. He's throwing a grenade. Get back. No, no, it's too late. Harry, don't. Harry, look what that Yankee's doing. Leave it alone, Harry. He threw himself on the Grenade. Don't. Harry. Harry. So that was Harry Har. Coral. Harry R. Har of Holidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Yeah. They gave him the Medal of Honor for us. For us. Four men out of the Dixie Division, 31st Infantry. You knew Harry Hart, didn't you, Phil? I thought I knew him. He came from my hometown, but I guess I didn't. Yeah, it's kind of hard to know a guy Yankee at that if he's always kidding around. Yeah, we know him now. I'll help with the dishes. You know, Steve, I wouldn't mind seeing those guys from the 31st again. Well, you. You know you can, don't you, Phil? They're right here. Here? Sure. The 31st is being reactivated in the new National Guard, and our old outfit's a part of it. Nothing could bust up a combination like this. No, nothing could bust up a combination like that. Not only in Alabama, but in every state of the Union, old buddies are getting together in armories of the new National Guard. And there's more to these meetings than good fellowship alone. For these men are forming a mighty volunteer force for America's home defense, ready to protect their families, their neighbors, their state and nation in any emergency. Side by side with the regular army, the National Guard is helping guard the peace. And now we turn to our instrumental side as the orchestra features a novelty number with a special accent on the strings, the reeds and the muted brass in our own arrangement of the Bead. Well, let's get buzzing, boys. Let's sa. You know, friends, when you come right down to it, every day should be Mother's Day. There are lots of other anniversaries in her life which she recalls with quite a citizen's nostalgia. A wedding anniversary, for instance. Well, we want to revive some memories for the moms listening in with a song from the picture the Jolson Story. Mindy Carson sings the anniversary song. O house we dance on the night we were wed we vow our true love Though a word wasn't said the world wasn't There were stars in the sky except for the few that were there in your eyes There as I held you Angels were singing A hymn to your charms to heart Gently breathing Wondering low My darling, I love you so into blossoming dawn the sun shone anew but the dance lingered on could we but relive that sweet moment the BLE find that our love is unaltered by time D. Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz have been famous for a long time for the beautiful songs they've written. One of their most melodic and certainly One of their most popular contributions was Dancing in the Dark, which even today holds a firm grip on the affections of music lovers everywhere. We present it to you now in our own special arrangements. The dark and the good. We're walking in the wonder of why we. We can make a new day together. Something with you. All white men will return in just a moment. The men of the new National Guard are building a broad experience that's of greatest importance to you and your community. They're getting regular army training, expert technical instruction in all phases of modern defense so that a danger should threaten. Your local National Guard will be ready. All thinking people have seen the need for this well trained force of citizen volunteers. Businessmen particularly are encouraging the National Guard program. In fact, many are granting guardsmen in their employ two full weeks off for summer field training without sacrifice of income or vacation time. A fine patriotic gesture, but more than that, it's the expression of serious minded Americans who realize that America must remain strong. And now here's Paul Weitman. Before we dismiss National Guard assembly for tonight, friends, we want to extend our greetings and congratulations to the little town of Tuscola, Illinois. On May 5, Company 123rd infantry of the 44th Division was federally recognized with a complement of 125 men. Considering there are only 2,800 people in the whole town, that's a record to be proud of and we salute them. Next week, along with our regular program of music and song, there'll be an interesting and dramatic tribute to the new National Guards Division in Texas. The men who wore the T patch of the famous 36. We hope you'll all be in your regular seats when Wednesday night rolls around to lend an ear to the goings on. And until then, this is Paul Whiteman saying good night. National Guard assembly with Paul Whiteman is presented at the same time each week by the National Guard of the United States in cooperation with the American Broadcasting Company and is produced and directed by Melville Ruik. This is Alan Hewitt speaking. This program is broadcast to overseas forces through the facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service and came to you from New York. Now here's a special program note. Bing Crosby, Al Jolson and Irving Berlin are all together on tonight's Bing Crosby Show. Be sure to listen, you'll enjoy it. This is abc, the American Broadcasting Company.