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The National Barn Dance 43-10-02 (x) Tenth Anniversary Show
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The National Barn Dance 43-10-02 (x) Tenth Anniversary Show
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Yes, tonight's party marks the 10th full year since these old cowbells first rang out on the network to welcome all our good friends and neighbors to the old WLS haylocks here in Chicago. Yes, Siri, how many Saturday nights does that make? Let's see. 52 Saturday nights every year for 10 years. 52 times 10. 6. You count them, Pat Buttram. Who, me? Count them? How many fingers do you think I got anyway? Well, I'll tell you. This is our 521st good old barn dance party. Yes, and we can look back over our shoulders and see some mighty happy times. So come on, gang. Let's. Let's look right over our shoulder and tell the folks what we see there. Over our shoulder goes one care over our shoulder goes to care what do we care? Just shout with fear this is our anniversary. Over our shoulders go small care over our shoulders go all fair Sorrow and worry are gone beyond recover cr. Over our shoulder we're glad Was made for romance all through the years of host of all but here's what cheers us most of all. Over the top goes one mortal over the top goes our mortals While we all follow the flag of the free over the top to victory. Victory. Well, say now, these hayloft voices sound even brighter than they did 10 years ago. Yes, and everybody looks brighter. That is, except for. Except for. What are you looking at me for? Never mind, Gaby. I was just thinking that you boys ought to have a good old anniversary tune dreamed up for us. What have you got? Oh, It's. This isn't the chorus, Joe. Yeah, we haven't got the verse figured out yet, so we'll have to start with the chorus, Joe. Oh, well, we might expect something like that tonight, folks. So let's listen to the anniversary antics of Hezzy, Kenny, Frank and Gaby the Hoosier hotshot. This is chorus of the song. Yes, it's a chorus. You're hear say the guy who wrote this song was wrong. He couldn't hear a note. And this here's the verse. It's the verse. Why this is the verse. That's the chorus. But he knew all the rules. He didn't. And that's why he wrote the first verse. Verse, the first verse. Verse. The worst verse. Verse. This is the chorus. Oh, the guy who wrote the lyrics was as crazy as a loon. So there's nothing to the song but the tune. This is the chorus of the song. Yes, yes. Chorus you're hearing now. Make up the words. You make up the words as you go along. Cause no one listens to the lyrics anyhow. Ta la da da. If you want to you can whistle or hum. When you're singing this song to your friends. Just remember this is where the chorus ends. This song was written bit by bit but there's nothing to show where each bit fits. Where each bit fits, where each bit fits. But if you sing a to every note you're bound, you know which fits with which. Which fits, fits, fits which fits with which. Yeah, for two bits. Oh, here and there the writers left a space Take a breath so the singer wouldn't choke to death. This is chorus once again. Da la la la la la. With sealing wax. A rooster, A rooster is different from a hen. Well, have you ever sharpened pencils with an axe? With a file? TRA la la la dumady oh da Dumadi had a sweetie but she. Here's the part that everybody recommends. Just because it's come just where the chorus ends. Hello, Parking. Just remember this is where the chorus ends. Well, we'll take a chorus from you anytime. Who's your hot shots? But come on, Arky, you're next with you know what? You bet your lies, Joe. We'll show the folks that 10 years of square dancing ain't slowed us down a bit. Come on everybody, get your part in here. I'm trying to call it out. Square and silent, here we go. I'm busy right now. My, how time does fly. Why, you know folks, it only seems like yesterday that Alka Seltzer started to Bring you these happy old hayloft parties every Saturday night. Yet actually it was ten years ago tonight. Yes, Joe, but still more remarkable to me is the fact that Alka Seltzer itself is only three years older than the barn dance. By golly, Jack, that's right. It doesn't seem possible that a product could grow as fast in popularity. Well, I know how it happened, Joel. Folks tried Alka Seltzer and they welcomed the kind of relief it offers for headaches, for sour upset stomachs, occasional acid indigestion and morning after misery. And for muscular aches and pains and the dull, achy misery of a cold. They told their friends about it and got them to try it. Thus, Alka Seltzer is one of the most popular drugstore items in America today. Now, if you're one of the few who has yet to experience the fast relief it offers for so many common ills, why don't you give Alka Seltzer a chance to be your friend in need? You can get Alka Seltzer at all drugstores by the 30 and 60 cent size package and also by the glass at the solar pump. That was a square dance and a half, boys and girls. And Arky, you old Arkansas hummingbird. I saw you paying extra special attention to that gal with the big blue eyes. So come on, you might as well tell us about it and the boys will be right with you. Sprinkle me with perfume rare and I'll be on my way Stick some slickum on my hair I may be gone all day I'm riding for a fall Duding up, duding up in my shirt and ties for the gal with the big blue eyes oh, I'm riding for a fall dude up, dude up in my two tone shoes for the gal with the baby blue oh yes, I know She's a dangerous critter I know She's a dangerous creator I know oh, she's a dangerous critter I know But I can't quit her I'm riding for afar Tun up, tun up like a modern wife to the gal with the big blue eyes oh yes, I know, I know She's a treacherous woman I know she's a treacherous woman I know he's a treacherous woman I know I'm riding for a while was fun T up ting up like it was no one to the gal with the big blue eyes oh yes, I know people died of a cook and I know, I know People died of a cook and I know People died of a cook and I know I'm riding for a fall Good up good enough like 1:1 to the gal with a big blue. Some romance AR but then, there have been plenty of romances here in the old haylock for the last 10 years. Yes, sir. 10 years together. Watch this now. Stranger coming in, Joe. Why? Stranger coming in. I see. Well, he's only been going steady with us for a little over three years, and he is a little strange. But we're glad to welcome the Winston County Flash folks, Pat Butram. Well, hello, Jody. Welcome back to the barn dance. Say, that's right, Pat. I have been away for a couple of weeks, haven't I? By the way, haven't you put on some weight while I was gone? No, I just put on my winter underwear. Well, anyway, Pat, tonight we're celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Alka Seltzer National Barn Dance. Yeah. Boy, oh, boy. Say, you know what? I'll never forget the first time you came to the barn dance. It was years ago and you didn't even have any shoes. Time sure has changed. Now it looks like the rest of you ain't gonna have no shoes either. You said it, Pat. There really has been a lot of changes in the last 10 years. You know, I was looking over a newspaper, 10 years old, one headline said, Hitler wants peace. Yeah, well, he sure took the long way around to get it, didn't he? And another story in the same newspaper said the German army and navy had sworn to die for Hitler. Oh, we. Well, he. He's making them keep their word on that part, all right. And another thing, pat, along about 10 years ago, there was a change in rules for plain contract bread. Oh, yeah. I reckon that caused quite a storm, didn't it? Oh, it certainly did. Well, what was the reaction in Winston County? Oh, everybody just kept right on playing checkers. And prices were different, too, Pat. Why, just think, 10 years ago, haircuts were only 35 cents. Now they're 75 cents in a dollar. Yeah, well, you was lucky, Joe. You got all your haircuts when they were still 35 cents. But, Joe, you know, I. I think about myself. I think the biggest change in the past 10 years has been in music. Music? Yeah. The songs is different. Ten years ago, the big song was Silver Haired Daddy. Nowadays everybody's singing Pistol Packing Mama. It's all. Well, Joe. Say, I hate to rush off, but I gotta beat it. We're having a big fall picnic tomorrow. It's a last one this year, and I. I got charge of the tennis tournament. Oh, yes. I'm in that tennis tournament, too. Now, don't forget that. Oh, I won't get. I got the schedule all made out. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You see, the very best players will play in the morning, and then the poorer players, they play in the afternoon. And the worst players will play along towards evening. What time do I play? Here's your flashlight. All right. Barn dance Butrum. Right. Now, friends, we're mighty proud to call on one of our original halo songbirds. And here she is, the belle of the barn dance lulabelle. Out on an Indian reservation far away from civilization where the foot of pale face seldom tries white men with two fish. One summer met an Indian made a hummer. Daughter of the big chiefs, bear the rock white man threw some loving glances, took the maiden to war dances, smoked a pipe of peace of chances living in a teepee made a purr, rode with her on an Indian pony, gave her a diamond ring, a phony. Then he sang these loving words to her. You are my pretty little Indian nepone Come take a chance and marry me. Though daddy is as cheap as my belief to a very merry wedding he'll agree. True, you're a dark Indian made but I'll sunburn to a darker shade. I wear feathers on my head, my cheeks an Indian red. Use of flavored tobacco by teens is a crisis. Tobacco companies use flavors like cotton candy, watermelon ice and cool mint to hook kids like me. They seem harmless, but they aren't. Addiction to nicotine sets us up for a lifetime of health problems. 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Happiest couple that we ever saw Till his dream of love had fade Stephanie looked old and jaded Just about like any other squaw. Soon papooses came in numbers Redskin yells disturb his slumbers White man wonders at his blunders now the feathers droop up on his head Too late now but still he's wishing that he never had gone a fishing or had met this Indian mate and said, you are my pretty little Indianapany Come take a chance and marry me Though daddy is a sheep he's my delete to a very merry way he'd agree True, you're a dark little Indian maid But I'll turn down to a darker shade I'll wear feathers on my head Paint my cheeks an Indian red if you'll only be my neph if you'll only be my nephew I made it. Well, that old time tune was a lot of fun, Lulabelle. But old friends and old songs always get along. Here in the old halo, folks. Just like that little street where old friends meet. So let's welcome that old favorite and the girl with a million friends, Grace Wilson. Homesick, Heartsick Nothing seems real that's how I feel today Hometown my town I hear you call calling me far away it's just a little street where old friends meet I'd love to wander back someday to you it may be old and sort of tumble down but it means a lot to forget in my hometown Although I'm rich or poor I still feel sure I'm welcome As the flowers in May it's just a little street where o and treat you in the same old world earlier in the program, friends, we told you something about the growth of Alka Seltzer's popularity. Now I think you'd like to hear something about the newest member of the Miles family. One a day brand vitamin B complex tablets. Tell them, Jack. You know, friends, we get a lot of genuine satisfaction out of telling you about one a day brand vitamin B complex tablets. Because they're such a fine product and they may do so much for you. If a B complex vitamin deficiency is causing you to feel tired out much of the time, to be nervous and irritable, to have certain digestive upsets, you're just the person who should start now to bolster up your three square meals a day with a single one a day brand vitamin B complex tablet. That single one a day B complex tablet is so rich in these vitamins that it supplies you with your full basic daily requirements of all the B vitamins whose needs have been established. That's Right, folks. And because you take but a single tablet each day, one a day B complex tablets are mighty easy to remember. And that single tablet means economy too, because it just stands to reason that a single one a day tablet would cost you less than lower potency kinds that require you to take three or four tablets or capsules daily. So for real convenience and economy, ask your druggist for one a day brand vitamin B complex tablets. Look for the brand with the best big one on the gray package for that's the one to buy at all drugstores. Well, here's a 10th anniversary tune. Sure enough, folks, the Down Home Rag and those three little sweethearts of Sunbonnet swing the dinning sisters it deaton dot and doton has them right in the bag and the crowd is kind of proud when they can start swinging it beatin dot and doton that's the down home rag down home they've got rhythm and how down home while they're pushing the plow down home they're all do it now do now do now do it now and how they play the tune of the week I think they call call it the chic they tell the neighbors it's new because it took some place he used to learn to play a crew higher up he plays piano and drown Claps his fingers and thumb I thump the people give him a hand because I know there's nothing hotter than a two man band Here we go and I know ho ho, you never heard corn quite like this Rip they weren't a kidding but we are a hope we were getting tired of a deet and dot and tooting so we come to a conclusion with the Bandit tooting. Well, that was real down home harmony Dinning sisters. But say, how about a new tune? You know, something red hot Hillbilly. Oh, pardon me, Mr. Kelly. Mr. Kelly, did we hear you say hillbilly? Yes. Why, plebeian thought, don't you think? Well now if you hooray Hot shots have something better halfway. Why, Joe. Hey, wait till Gaby here gets on his Mona Tle. Here you are, Dave. Thank you, Hezekiah. Ready, gentlemen? Oh, my goodness. Yeah. While dancing at the Plaza Ritz a monstrous thing occurred. The debutante began to chant an aria most absurd. Pray precipitate that pistol, madame. It's vulgar I'll be bound pistol producing Madame deposit that firearm behind that blooming palm. Hey. Going kind of high class on this very to give me. Oh, man, my word, these obnoxious interruptions. I pray that madame please desist you frighten me, by and large she answered, don't fret, it's only loaded with a cover charge. Oh, kindly park that firearm, madame. Don't deport yourself like a silly clown. And in case you don't fully comprehend. Lay that there shooting iron down back in my her. Lay that pistol down. Crystal packing, mama. I'll lay that crystal down. I'll see you every night. I'll woo you every day. I'll be your regular daddy if you put that gun away. Ho. Lay that pistol down, babe. I'll lay that pistol down. Pistol thanking mama. I'll lay that pistol down. You know something? What's that, Gabe? I got on a train in Chicago to go hunting was my aim. The warden met me in Dakota and said, buddy, there's plenty of game. But you'll have to run those pheasants down. Gabe, run them pheasants down. Cause we got no shells to hunt with. So run them pheasant down. I'll bet you gave up with a couple all right. Well, here I am again, folks. I always have my fun since I got this here washboard While they keep me on the run. Well, now, and play that washboard, hesy boy. Play that thing my size and fancy weights and no mistakes. Let's all have some fun. Sahasa. And now, folks, on the old Barn Dance's 10th birthday. We want to thank you, our loyal friends and neighbors who have shared our hayloft parties with us through the years and invite you to join all of us in singing We've come a long way together and in hoping that we still have a long way to go. Greetings to the dearest friends we know Just another way to say we love you so. Yes, another year has gone and here we are still hitching up our wagon Through a storm we come a long way together since our bond and first came on the sea We've weathered all kinds of weather Joy and. And dear through the years in between each room is a brighter tomorrow with hope and prayer to keep our hearts humble We've come a long way together and we still have a long way to go. Friends, the National War Fund campaign begins next Monday, October 4th. The National War Fund is a nation nationwide organization that now takes the place of 17 different different relief agencies and thousands of local welfare organizations. And included are such worthy causes as the uso, United Seamen Service, War Prisoners Aid Committee, as well as the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Community Centers and many other local welfare organizations. Now, with this one big organization, National War Fund, it means that this is the only appeal made and that you and I have only one contribution to make instead of the several you probably have been making in other years. So when your local campaign gets underway, give as much as you possibly can to the National War Fund. Well, folks, next Saturday we're going to broadcast our Alka Seltzer National Barn Dance direct from the US Naval Air Station at Bunker Hill, Indiana, for the personnel of that great Hoosier Navy training station. And we hope you'll all be listening in. So until then, this is Joe Kelly saying good night and good health to you all for Alka Self. This is the National Broadcasting Company. Use of flavored tobacco by teens is a crisis. 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