Roy Rogers 45-05-08 Porter Hall Villain

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Harold's Old Time Radio

Episode: Roy Rogers 45-05-08 Porter Hall Villain

Release Date: August 21, 2025
Featured Guest: Porter Hall

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Overview

This episode is a delightful rebroadcast from the golden era of radio, featuring the Roy Rogers Show as presented by Goodyear and the Armed Forces Radio Service during WWII. With a humorous and nostalgic tone, host Roy Rogers and a cast including Bob Nolan, The Sons of the Pioneers, Pat Friday, The Farr Brothers, and guest star Porter Hall guide the audience through an hour of western music, comedic banter, and tall tales. The highlight is a comedic sketch starring Porter Hall, famed for playing villains, recast here as a misunderstood "hero". The group also spins a yarn about Pecos Bill, the legendary cowboy of folklore.

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Key Discussion Points & Segments

1. Warm Welcome & Introductions

[03:21 - 04:45]

• Roy Rogers and the cast greet the audience and introduce special guest Porter Hall, joking about his villainous reputation in films.
  • Notable Quote:
    • Porter Hall: "Well, I'm so misunderstood, Roy. To everyone who's ever seen my pictures, I'm a no good low down unprincipled crook. Now, honest, Roy, you know I'm not that way at all… much." [03:57]
    • Roy Rogers: "When Porter Hall is playing the part as a villain, it isn't the actor they're hissing, you can believe me." [04:28]

2. Porter Hall the Villain as the Hero

[04:35 - 05:04]

• In a twist, Roy offers Porter Hall the lead and heroic role in the evening's "amazing legendary story", stepping back from the spotlight himself.
  • Porter Hall: "That's what I call really being a hero. Giving a whole story to a screen bad man." [04:45]

3. Western Music & Comic Relief

Throughout - e.g. [02:00-03:21] [05:08-06:10]

• Several live performances, including “Locket in My Pocket,” “Ragtime Porter Hall” (dedicated to Porter), “Close as Pages in a Book” (Pat Friday), a burro song, and “Skies Are Bluer in Oklahoma.”
• Music is interwoven with lighthearted jokes and audience banter, capturing the era’s communal spirit.

4. Salutes and Wartime Messages

[06:10 - 07:06]

• A “toast” is given to Goodyear’s workers and those overseas, acknowledging the WWII context (Victory in Europe).
  • Notable Quote:
    • “A toast to the 24,783 of its men and women in the armed forces. Well done. To those in Europe, it's good luck. To those in the Pacific… and to the hundred thousand Goodyear employees at home who with their war work have contributed and are continuing to contribute to final victory.” [06:24 - 06:47]

5. Playful Villainy—The Deed Sketch

[09:33 - 10:25]

• A classic melodrama spoof: Porter “schemes” to obtain Pat’s ranch deed, only to be comically foiled when the paper is revealed to be a song.
  • Memorable Exchange:
    • Porter Hall: “Now I have you in my power.” [10:09]
    • Roy Rogers: “Doggone you, Porter Hall. Unhand that girl and give her back that deed.” [10:13]
    • Pat Friday: "Aw, shucks, Roy. That isn’t the deed to my ranch. It's just a song I'm going to sing tonight." [10:17]
    • Porter Hall: "Curses. Foiled again." [10:21]

6. The Legend of Pecos Bill

[17:32 - 28:36]

• Segment Begins: [17:32]
• Roy spins a tall tale about Pecos Bill, claimed ("not exaggerating?") to be the greatest cowboy ever known—a parody of American folklore:
  • Pecos Bill, raised by coyotes, brands cattle barehanded, and invents the six-gun.
  • Absurd adventures: wrestling bears, conversations with talking horses and snakes, riding a cyclone, creating Death Valley by falling from the sky.
  • Side characters (including Porter Hall) play up the comedy and playfulness of the legend.
  • Highlight Quotes:
    • Roy Rogers: "The six gun was definitely invented by Pecos Bill." [17:56]
    • Pecos Bill (Porter Hall): "I ain't no human being. I'm a regular natural born coyote. Don't I live with them varmints? Don't I talk to them? Don't I howl like them? Ain't I got fleas?" [19:50]
    • Stranger: "Now looky here, button. That ain't no proof you're a varmint. Why, sakes alive, ain't a human being in these parts that don't howl and ain't got fleas." [20:02]
    • Roy Rogers: "Where Bill landed, he weighed so much and fell so far that he knocked the Earth 150ft below sea level. Folks called the place where he landed Death Valley, 'cause they figured he'd never survive such a bump." [28:03]

7. Western Tall Tales—Breaking the Myth

[25:49 - 26:55]

• Pat questions the logic of animals talking to Pecos Bill.
  • Roy delivers the classic radio humor, referencing Bill’s coyote upbringing and using folksy lingo to smooth any narrative contradictions.
    • Roy: "He had more trouble talking straight Texan than he did chewing the rag with them varmints." [25:55]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Porter Hall on Being Misunderstood:
  "To everyone who's ever seen my pictures, I'm a no good low down on Principal Crook. Now, honest, Roy, you know I'm not that way at all… much." [03:57]

• Roy Hands the Hero Role to Porter:
  "And just to prove that you're the star and the hero, I'm not even going to play in it." [04:35]

• Classic Melodrama Reversal:
  Pat Friday: "It's just a song I'm going to sing tonight."
  Porter Hall: "Curses. Foiled again." [10:17-10:21]

• On Tall Tales & Texas Exaggeration:
  Roy Rogers: "As a matter of fact, he's the man who taught broncos to buck, who invented the six-shooter and considered the lariat one of his unimportant inventions." [17:32]

• Pecos Bill's Origin:
  Roy Rogers: "They say he was born in Texas. And he was quite a baby. Weighed 73 pounds and stood more than 4 feet tall... So Bill wound up living and playing with the coyotes." [18:10]

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Important Timestamps

• Introduction & Guest Welcome: [03:21 - 04:45]
• "Ragtime Porter Hall" Song Dedication: [05:04 - 06:10]
• Goodyear Employees Toast (Wartime Salute): [06:10 - 07:06]
• Pat, Porter, and Roy’s Deed Sketch: [09:33 - 10:25]
• "Close as Pages in a Book" (Pat Friday): [10:25 - 12:12]
• Song about the Burro: [12:44 - 15:36]
• "Don’t Blame It All On Me" (Roy Rogers Solo): [15:36 - 16:43]
• Legend of Pecos Bill (tall tale section): [17:32 - 28:36]
• Final Song, "Skies Are Bluer in Oklahoma": [28:36 - 30:20]
• Wrap-Up & Farewell: [30:20 - 30:49]

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Tone and Style

• Warm, humorous, and quintessentially American in its blend of music, tall tales, and tongue-in-cheek banter.
• The cast plays up archetypes and folklore, often breaking the fourth wall to wink at the audience.
• Patriotism is interwoven with entertainment, reflecting the WWII context (e.g., nods to Victory in Europe, salutes to workers and soldiers).

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For New Listeners

This episode is a time capsule of 1940s radio: a mix of lively music, family-friendly comedy, and Western legend, featuring—at its heart—a self-aware, affectionate ribbing of both the cowboy myth and its favorite movie villain. Newcomers will find it both entertaining and historically illuminating, brimming with classic Western charm, humor, and musical performances.

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Transcript

[A]

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[B]

Following transcribed program is rebroadcast by the Armed Forces Radio Service to our fighting men overseas. Goodyear presents the Roy Rogers Show. Friends, tonight as usual, Goodyear brings you Roy Rogers. But because of the great news we've all been hearing, we want you to know that we will interrupt this program instantly for any late news flashes. Meanwhile, you'll hear Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, Pat Friday, the Farr Brothers, Perry Botkins Orchestra. Goodyear's guest tonight, motion picture villain Porter Hall. And now, the greatest name in Rubber Goodyear invites you to meet America's greatest Western star, Roy Roger.

[C]

I've got a locket in my pocket A plain golden locket Got a locket in my pocket Right next to my heart I've got a picture in this locket the locket in my pocket Got a picture in this locket with which I'll never part the face in the picture is beautiful to see and the girl that the face belongs to she belongs to me I've got a locket in my pocket My sweetheart's in that locket Got my sweetheart in my pocket Right next to my heart the face in the picture is beautiful to see and the girl that the face belongs to she belongs to me I've got a locket in my pocket My sweetheart's in that locket Got my sweetheart in my pocket Right next to my heart Right next to my heart.

[D]

Howdy folks.

[E]

And welcome from me and the gang to tonight's good year. Get together. We've rounded up a few new and some old songs for the occasion and and one of the West's most amazing legendary stories. But right now it's time for you to meet our guest for this evening, one of the swellest actors who ever foreclosed a mortgage on poor little Nell. Mr. Porter Hall.

[B]

Hi, Porter.

[C]

Roy. Roy.

[D]

Roy, that's a nice welcome after you asked me to come over to your get together.

[E]

Well, shucks, don't mind the folks, Porter. They've seen you as a villain in so many pictures that they just can't keep from booing at you.

[D]

Well, I'm so misunderstood, Roy. To everyone who's ever seen me pictures, I'm a no good low down on Principal Crook. Now, honest, Roy, you know I'm not that way at all much.

[E]

Porter, I'm surprised at you. Why, I think I'd much rather play your part than my own, the heavy in the picture. Oh, well, he always gets his own way and. And you get most of the close ups, you know, where you sneer and twirl your mustache and make everyone in the audience hiss at you.

[D]

Well, that's a real trouble, Roy. I never know if they're hissing the character or the actor playing the part.

[E]

Well, when Porter hall is playing the part as a villain, it isn't the actor there hissing, you can believe me.

[D]

But just to give you a break.

[E]

Porter, we've got a sketch for you to play in tonight about one of the West's most amazing characters. And just to prove that you're the star and the hero, I'm not even going to play in it. How's that?

[D]

Well, that's what I call really being a hero. Giving a whole story to a screen bad man. But what are you going to do, Roy?

[E]

Well, first of all, Porter, I'm going to keep an eye on you and make sure you don't forget yourself and steal the ranch. Then I'm going to just sort of keep the get together Mo. Like now when I call on the sons of the pioneers to dedicate a.

[C]

Song to you he always sings wagging.

[E]

Music to the cattle as he swings back and forward in a saddle on a horse dancing, painting gate.

[C]

That is such a funny meter to.

[B]

The roar of his a beat or.

[C]

How to run when you hear the fella's gun because the western folks all know He's a high polluting, scooting, shooting son of a gun From Arizona Right down, Cowboy Joe. Out in Arizona where the Batmen are.

[D]

The only thing to guide you is.

[C]

An evening star the roughest, toughest man by far was ragtime Porter hall he always sings ragging music to the cattle at the swing back and forward in.

[E]

The saddle On a horse better sink.

[C]

To pay the gated end of such a funny meter to the roar of his feet and how they run when they hear the fellows come across the rest of the folks all know He's a high polluting shooting, shooting son of a gun Arizona right time Porter Brydem Porter Ragtime Porter.

[B]

Today, when congratulations are being offered all over the world to the millions who worked and fought for victory in Europe, Goodyear would also like to propose a toast.

[D]

A toast of its own.

[B]

And to its own. A toast to the 24, 783 of its men and women in the armed forces. It's well done. To those in Europe, it's good luck.

[E]

To those in the Pacific.

[B]

And here's a toast too. To the hundred thousand Goodyear employees at.

[E]

Home who with their war work have.

[B]

Contributed and are continuing to contribute to final victory. To them, good work. And let's keep punching hard till the Japs get theirs.

[E]

It's the Far brothers, Curious fiddle and galloping guitar in Cajun stone.

[F]

Sam, it's.

[G]

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[H]

Oh, boy. Gee, Ray, I'm sorry I'm late. If I missed much.

[E]

Well, hello there, Pat Friday. You have missed a couple of good songs, but you're in plenty of time for the story Porter hall and I are going to tell tonight.

[H]

Porter Hall? Do I know him? Are you my uncle?

[F]

Every.

[D]

Yes, every Friday. I. I am now fabulously wealthy, and I intend to buy you the finest ranch in the woods.

[H]

Oh, but. But I already have a ranch.

[D]

Oh, you have? As if I didn't know. But you deserve a much bigger one. Now, if you would just give me that piece of paper you're holding, which I assume to be the deed to your present property.

[H]

Here you are, sir.

[E]

Aha.

[D]

My proud beauty. Now I have you in my power.

[E]

Doggone you, Porter Hall. Unhand that girl and give her back that deed.

[H]

Aw, shucks, Roy. That Isn't the deed to my ranch. It's just a song I'm going to sing tonight.

[D]

Curses. Foiled again.

[E]

Not exactly, Porter. Because if Pat'll forgive you and sing the song right now, you'll get the treat of your life. Folks, Ms. Pat Friday singing Close as pages in a book.

[F]

We'Ll be close.

[C]

As pages in a book.

[F]

My love and I so close we could share a single look. Share every fight so close that before I hear your laugh My laugh breaks free. When a tear starts to appear My eyes grow misty true. Our dreams won't come tumbling to the ground. We'll hold them fast, darling, as the strongest book is bound. We're bound to learn. My life is your life. And while I see in my heart.

[C]

Those as pages in a book.

[F]

Never.

[C]

See them tumbling down.

[E]

You know you hear a lot about a cowman's pony. But there's another little animal I guess the west would never have been made without him. You find him packing loads twice their own weight. Where grubby prospectors work tirelessly in the desert sands. You'll find them high up in the mountains where a less sure footed animal will plunge his rider 5,000ft down a sheer drop. Maybe their voices aren't as musical as a cowhand song. As he sings and quiets he's heard. But I've yet to see the true westerner who didn't cuss them and love them. The gentle sure footed little braying burro.

[C]

We are wonders of the wasteland. My love, dear broken down horse and.

[E]

Me.

[C]

Always traveling, going nowhere. Across the plains and over the hills go we. When I was young I used to.

[E]

Be.

[C]

A high pollutant shooting son of a gun. Up in Wyoming I loved a girl, she loved my pal. So I packed my bag and saddled my nag. And then I took a Roman. Now we're only on only three old. Without a friend we trail along endless three old wonders of the way plan. My love feared you, my broken down horse and me.

[B]

Now it's Roy Rogers, the king of the cowboys in a new western ballad. Don't blame it all on me.

[C]

If our love should fade like a cold winter's day don't blame it all on me. Their true love has might have known Friends will say don't blame it all on me. There was a time, dear, when we were so gay. I heard you say I love only you. Someday with the dawn all our love may be gone. But don't blame it all on me. For after all, dear, I too have a heart have it now don't break it apart Someday our romance may break up just by chance but don't blame it all on me.

[G]

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[D]

Say, Roy, you've got both.

[B]

Pat and me busting with curiosity about the yarn you and Porter hall are going to tell.

[D]

What's so different about it?

[H]

Come on, Roy, don't just stand there with that twinkle in your eye.

[E]

Well, kids, tonight's story is about the greatest cowboy who ever rode a Bronx, shot a six gun or roped a steer. As a matter of fact, he's the man who taught broncos to buck, who invented the six shooter and considered the lariat one of his unimportant inventions.

[H]

Oh, no. Wait a minute, Roy.

[D]

Now you wait a minute, miss. Don't accuse Roy here of exaggerating.

[B]

But, Roy, anybody knows the six gun was invented by Samuel Colt.

[E]

That, Vern, is just a rumor. The six gun was definitely invented by Pecos Bill.

[H]

Pecos Bill? Never heard of him.

[D]

Female tenderfoot, die.

[B]

But who was Pecos Bill?

[C]

Roy?

[B]

He sounds as fantastic as this hall character here.

[E]

He's much more so, Verne. Pecos Bill is the most fantastic character the imaginations of thousands of cowboys ever dreamed up. And if you'll all just make yourselves comfortable, Porter hall and I will tell you plenty about him. Now, I'm not saying that Pecos Bill is dead even today. To be honest, I don't know if Bill was ever born. They say he was born in Texas. And he was quite a baby. Weighed 73 pounds and stood more than 4ft tall. He got lost out on the prairie one day and didn't have anybody to play with. So Bill wound up living and playing with the coyotes. Well, just about Bill's ninth birthday, a cowboy who'd wandered off the trail came upon Bill just as the big kid was having a morning exercise.

[F]

Hey there, son. What you doing? Playing carnation. Don't you use your eyes? Can't you see a rattling hold on. That ain't fair. One younger like you get only two bears let up on them. Crazy.

[D]

Well, well, I don't like be picking on somebody who ain't my own size. But, Chucks, there ain't more than two bears left around these parts. Guess a blade too rough. Most of them die of a busted neck.

[F]

Well, what entire place you doing out here in these hills anyhow? Running around shameless like that without no stitch of clothes on your body?

[D]

Clothes? Don't you know us coyotes don't wear no clothes?

[F]

You've been chewing loco weed, youngsters. You ain't no coyote. You're a human being.

[D]

I ain't no human being. I'm a regular natural born coyote. Don't I live with them varmints? Don't I talk to them? Don't I howl like them? Ain't I got fleas?

[F]

Now looky here, button. That ain't no proof you're a varmint. Why, sakes alive, ain't a human being in these parts that don't howl and ain't got fleas.

[D]

Well, don't you call me no human being.

[F]

Well. Well, that's what you are. Look, ain't every varmint you ever see got a tail, now, ain't they?

[D]

Why, sure. All varmints got tails. That's natural.

[F]

Down too.

[C]

It is.

[F]

Then if you're. You're a varmint, where's your tail?

[E]

Well, I.

[D]

To lighten it, you're right. I ain't got no tail.

[F]

Course you ain't. So you see, son, you're not a vomit at all. You're a human being.

[D]

I don't want to be no human being.

[C]

I don't want to be no human being.

[F]

Now looky here, fella. You is a human being. And it's my duty as another human being to take you back to civilization.

[E]

Well, that's just about the time that Texas started to make its place in the world. Just when Pecos Bill was dragged back to civilization, what with eating regular, Bill started to grow. And inside of a year, Bill was more than 8ft tall and weighed better than a half a ton. But Bill was lazy and hated to work.

[H]

But, Roy, what. What kind of work did Pecos Bill do?

[E]

Almost any kind of ranching, pat roping, branding and. Well, you know, when he'd do the branding, he'd do it with his bare hands. He'd just grab a yearling, tuck it under his arm and. And stuff his ears up so he wouldn't hear the cat's bawl. You know, Bill Was kind of a soft hearted cuss.

[H]

You mean he wasn't tough, Roy? He wasn't a bad man.

[E]

A bad man, Pat? Pecos Bill was so bad that he killed off everybody in his part of Texas that had enough spunk to stand up to him. Then he got so tired of the peace and quiet that he. He finally started heading west. Well, he finally run out into the run into an old fella and stopped his horse.

[D]

Party stranger. Say, can you direct me to some place where I might find myself a real man? You know the kind what takes a real joy in a killing. Well, just keep heading up this canyon about 200 miles and you'll find him right enough. He has, sir. He sure will. Oh, thanks, old timer. Pecos Bill is much obliged to you. Did you say Pepe P. Picas, Bill? Yes, sir, ya did. Pecos Bill's my name. Upper and daisies. I gotta get out of here.

[E]

Get it there.

[D]

If he was really in a hurry. I wonder what took the old goat so long.

[H]

All right, for goodness sakes, don't stop there. What did Pegasville do? Did he go.

[F]

Did he go the 200 miles up the canyon?

[E]

Well, yes and no, Pat. You see, old Bill turned his horse and started. But after riding only about 20 miles, a doggone horse stubbed his toe on a cottonwood tree and busted his leg. Well, all Bill could do was follow the coat of the west. He covered his eyes with one hand and pulled out his rifle, which he used as a pistol. Aimed it at the poor horse's head and with tears running down his cheeks.

[D]

Goodbye old Page. Someday we'll meet again, you and me, over on the other side of the great horizon.

[E]

But before Bill could squeeze the trigger, the horse looked up. And with tears streaming from his big brown eyes, he said.

[D]

Now wait a minute, Bill. You ain't gonna shoot me just cause.

[E]

Three of my four legs is busted, are you?

[D]

Well, I reckon I was. But if you got any last words, you ain't. You know I ain't one of them.

[E]

Them regular, undersized, scrawny little horses. Just leave me alone for a bit and I'll get well.

[D]

Well, doggone if I don't believe you. Well, I'm gonna take the saddle off you and leave you here. Then I'll leg it up to where that bunch of tough hombres are. And when you feel well enough in about 20 or 30 minutes, just cut up and join me. Well, I hadn't gone two mile further, saddle over one arm, when I spotted a little rattlesnake no more than 18ft long. So I put down the saddle and I reached out and I grabbed the sneakin sidewinder. And after cuffing him good fashion a few times, the snake told me he'd give up. So I coiled the little fella like a lariat, stuck him on my saddle horn and I started on up the canyon.

[E]

Attaboy, Bill. Tell him the rest of the story.

[D]

Start and stop me, you movie cowboy, you. Well, a little piece further up the road, a catamount jump there.

[H]

A what?

[E]

A catamount.

[C]

A mountain lion.

[D]

Don't you know nothing? Anyway, he knocked me to the ground and that made me sore me up like that.

[F]

Take that. Take that.

[D]

No, no. Quit, Bill, quit.

[H]

Can't you take a joke?

[D]

Oh, so it was a joke, was it? Yeah, but didn't turn out so well, Bill. Honest. I'm the sorriest catamount out of captivity. Well, at least you're the dumbest catamount I ever seen. Just for that, I'm a throwing this saddle on your stupid back and riding you up the canyon.

[E]

No.

[D]

Yeah, using this rattlesnake for a whip. Now get over there, Gorn. Oh, let's get started. Else will now break you in two and only eat the best piece.

[E]

Well, as soon as Bill got the saddle.

[H]

Hey, just a minute, Roy. That's a fib. How come the horse and the catamount actually talked to Pecos Bill? And Bill answered them?

[E]

Well, heavens to Betsy, Pat. Wasn't the lad brought up with coyotes? Why, shucks, he had more trouble talking straight Texan than he did chewing the rag with them varmints. What happened then, Bill?

[D]

Well, I read into the camp where all them hard bitten owl hoots was sitting around eating chow. So I hauled up my catamount and I walked over to the cook parts and I looked in. What's this, Bean? Nothing but six quarts left. Well, I'll start on those. Well, ain't so bad, but they make me thirsty. Give me that coffee pot. Look out, stranger. That pot is a bar.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Now someone hand me that porcupine to wipe my mouth on and we get down to business. What is your business, partner? Who's boss of this gang? That's what I want to know. Who's boss around here, stranger? I was, but you be.

[H]

And did anyone ever hear of Pecos Bill after that, Roy?

[E]

Why, sure, Pat. A few years later, someone bet him he couldn't ride a cyclone. Well, Pecos Bill was the kind of a fellow no one could dare. So he Went back to Kansas, waited for a twister and. And when one came along, why, he.

[B]

Climbed aboard and was he killed, Roy? I mean, did the cyclone throw him?

[E]

Throw a legendary character like that? Why, not at all, Vern. By the time that twister crossed Colorado, he had it as tame as a lamb. But then he got a little bit overconfident, you know, he rolled himself a cigarette and when he couldn't find any matches, he reached up and grabbed a piece of fork at lightning.

[H]

Oh, I see, Roy. And the lightning electrocuted him?

[E]

Shucks, no, Pat. But it tickled him and got him to laughing so much he didn't look where he was going. So he slipped off the cyclone and dropped 97 miles to Earth.

[B]

Oh, Roy, that doesn't seem possible.

[E]

But it happened, Vern. And where Bill landed, he weighed so much and fell so far that he knocked the Earth 150ft below sea level. Folks called the place where he landed Death Valley. Cause they figured he'd never survive such a bump. Fact is, I was surprised as you were when Pecos Bill walked in here, Ton.

[B]

It's the whole Goodyear gang led by Roy Rogers, the king of the cowboys in Skies Are Bluer.

[C]

Skies are bluer in Oklahoma Oklahoma Where My Heart lies Songs are newer in Oklahoma, Oklahoma as the cross that's where.

[F]

The yellow corn is brighter and cartons whiter than snow Just listen to the.

[C]

Weed a swayin' it sounds like it's sayin hello Bells are ringin' and voice a singin' Oil is gushin and the folks are rushin out to Oklahoma, USA I know we're in Oklahoma, Oklahoma where my heart rides in Oklahoma Oklahoma has a coal mine that's where the yellow corn is brighter and cotton's whiter than snow Just listen to the weed a swaying it sounds like it's saying hello Bells are ringing and voices singing well.

[E]

It looks as if our time for tonight is like the water in a stream in the middle of the summer. Summer, it's all run out. But we've got more time again next week and we'd like you all to be back sitting with us at our Goodyear get together. We have some songs and music and a little chatter western style. And a rip roaring story about the old days that should please everybody. So till next Tuesday, this is Roy Rogers thanking Porter hall for appearing with us tonight and saying for the whole.

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Gang, goodbye, good luck and may the.

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Good Lord take a liking to you.

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Don't forget smiles are made out of the sunshine and the frown.

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Now this.

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Is Vern Smith saying good night for Goodyear, the greatest name in rubber. If you like the songs and stories of the west, don't miss tuning in. Next Tuesday, same station you're tuned to now, Same time of the day on your clock, when Goodyear will bring you another get together with Bob Nolan and the sons of the Pioneers, Pat Friday, the Farr Brothers, Barry Botkin and his orchestra, and starring the king of the Cowboys, Roy Rogers.

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The Roy Rogers program was transcribed. This is VE Day. Don't forget to buy another box. A war half won is a job half done. This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.