WLS Barn Dance 42-08-22 (0) First Song - Roll out the Barrell

Summary

Podcast Summary: Harold's Old Time Radio – "WLS Barn Dance 42-08-22 (0) First Song - Roll out the Barrell"

Release Date: April 19, 2025
Host: Harold's Old Time Radio
Episode Title: WLS Barn Dance 42-08-22 (0) First Song - Roll out the Barrel

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Introduction

In this lively episode of Harold's Old Time Radio, listeners are transported back to the Golden Age of Radio with a vibrant rendition of the WLS Barn Dance broadcasted from the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in Milwaukee. The host, Joe, sets the stage by welcoming listeners and establishing the festive atmosphere of the fair.

[00:38] Joe: "Hello, hello, hello, everybody everywhere. How's Mother and Dad and the whole family? Well, say, just listen to that music. The stirring notes of On Wisconsin welcome us tonight as the Alka Seltzer National Barn Dance comes to you direct from the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in good old Milwaukee on the shores of Lake Michigan."

Musical Performance by Billy Murray

The evening kicks off with a performance by Billy Murray, a celebrated pioneer of American popular music. Murray entertains the audience with a patriotic medley featuring classics like "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "You're a Grand Old Flag."

[03:24] Billy Murray: "I'm the kid that's all the candy I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy... You're a grand old flag. You're a high flying flag."

The performance is seamlessly interspersed with commentary from Kenny and Pat, who add humor and context to Murray's nostalgic tunes.

Hoosier Hot Dog McBurn Performs "Meet Me Tonight in the Cowshed"

Following Murray's spirited performance, the spotlight shifts to Kenny, Frank, and Gaby from the Hoosier Hot Dog McBurn, who deliver a quaint and catchy number titled "Meet Me Tonight in the Cowshed." Their harmonious vocals and playful lyrics capture the rustic charm of barn dance traditions.

[06:13] Kenny: "Meet me tonight in the cowshed after the cows come home."

[07:23] Kenny: "Meet me tonight in the cowshed after the cows come home. You know, Betsy reminds me of you, Gabe."

The trio's performance is both endearing and entertaining, showcasing their tight-knit chemistry and musical prowess.

Conversation about the Wisconsin State Fair

Intertwined with the musical interludes are engaging dialogues between Joe and Frank. They discuss their experiences at the Wisconsin State Fair, sharing anecdotes and humorous exchanges about local attractions.

[08:13] Joe: "Yes, sir. Well, if today Hoosier hot jobs, we'll all be seeing you down by the cowshed."

[09:03] Frank: "Yeah, he couldn't find his mama. And he was crying. And I give him some candy... He said, sonny, I know where your mama is. He said, so do I, and shut up."

The conversation takes a light-hearted turn as they recount tales of horse races and local festivities, providing listeners with a glimpse into the community spirit of the fair.

Barn Dance with Lulibel and Scotty

The episode features a delightful barn dance performance by Lulibel and Scotty. Their duet infuses the show with lively yodeling and toe-tapping rhythms, celebrating rural life and love.

[11:46] Kenny: "I met her on a mountain trail beside the Lonesome Pine and she yodeled to the silvery moon above."

[12:08] Gaby: "And you'll never make your yodel lady blue."

Their harmonious interplay and spirited vocals resonate with the timeless appeal of barn dance music, enhancing the nostalgic ambiance of the show.

Eddie Peabody’s Banjo Performance

Adding to the evening's musical repertoire is Eddie Peabody, the Barn Dance ambassador from Banjo Land. His skilled banjo strumming and captivating performance of "Lo Lolita" bring a touch of bluegrass flair to the broadcast.

[13:43] Frank: "He's right here, ready and rare, Joe."

[14:17] Eddie Peabody: "The sailors greet her with that old navy yell. For she is the darling of the battle fleet..."

Peabody’s energetic rendition of "Lo Lolita" infuses the show with lively melodies and rhythmic complexity, showcasing his mastery of the banjo.

Humorous Anecdotes and Light-Hearted Banter

Throughout the episode, Joe engages in humorous exchanges with his co-hosts, Pat, Frank, and Kenny, adding levity and charm to the broadcast. From playful teasing about wireless headlines to amusing stories about lost children at the fair, the camaraderie among the hosts creates an inviting and warm atmosphere for listeners.

[10:46] Joe: "Well, that wasn't bad. Luke deserves a lot of credit to come from last and cross the finish line. Fourth?"

[11:09] Frank: "Yeah."

Their witty banter and relatable stories enhance the listener's connection to the show's community-focused theme.

Conclusion

Wrapping up a vibrant evening of music, stories, and laughter, Harold's Old Time Radio's episode of the WLS Barn Dance offers a rich tapestry of the Golden Age of Radio. From Billy Murray's patriotic tunes to the Hoosier Hot Dog McBurn's charming performances and Eddie Peabody's expert banjo playing, the episode encapsulates the essence of traditional radio entertainment. The engaging dialogues and heartfelt performances ensure that both longtime fans and new listeners alike are thoroughly entertained.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps:

• [00:38] Joe: "Roll out that barrel of fun, boys and girls. But remember to make it a Milwaukee barrel."

• [05:14] Billy Murray: "You're a Yankee Doodle do or die. A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam born on the 4th of July."

• [09:03] Frank: "He said, sonny, I know where your mama is. He said, so do I, and shut up."

• [12:12] Gaby: "And you'll never make your yodel lady blue."

• [13:43] Frank: "He's right here, ready and rare, Joe."

This episode is a nostalgic journey through classic radio entertainment, perfect for listeners seeking the warmth and simplicity of bygone radio broadcasts.

Transcript

[Joe]

Alka Seltzer for headaches, Alka Seltzer for acid indigestion. Alka Seltzer for summer cold.

[Pat]

Ask your druggist for Alka Seltzer.

[Joe]

Hello, hello, hello, everybody everywhere. How's Mother and Dad and the whole family? Well, say, just listen to that music. The stirring notes of On Wisconsin welcome us tonight as the Alka Seltzer National Barn Dance comes to you direct from the Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in good old Milwaukee on the shores of Lake Michigan. Yes, folks, thousands of friends and neighbors are gathered here to help celebrate. So let's do it right. Roll out that barrel of fun, Bo, boys and girls. But remember to make it a Milwaukee barrel.

[Kenny]

Or the game.

[Pat]

Say, listen, mister, how's the world treating you these days? Is that job of yours keeping you pretty busy? Well, if this has been an unusually hard week for you, I'll just bet that you're sitting in your favorite easy chair for the radio right now, relaxing and taking life easy. Well, rest is what you need, all right. But if, in addition to being tired, your muscles are stiff and sore, or if you're feeling headachy and upset, the thing you ought to do is fix your yourself a glass of sparkling, refreshing Alka Seltzer. Alka Seltzer is easy to fix and pleasant to take. And the soothing relief it offers is sure enough grand and glorious. So try it tonight or whenever a hard day's work leaves you feeling stiff and sore, headache and upset, and see how much better Alka Seltzer can help you feel. If you haven't any Alka Seltzer handy, get some from your nearest druggist.

[Joe]

Oh, boy. Say, that was a real Wisconsin warmer upper. Boys and girls. I'll tell you, we're not holding out a thing tonight, folks. And to prove it, here's our celebrated guest of the evening, that famous pioneer of popular American songs and phonograph records, the one and only Billy Murray.

[Billy Murray]

I'm the kid that's all the candy I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy I'm glad I am I'm a real life Yankee Doodle Made my name and fame and boodle just like Mr. Doodle did by riding on a pony I love to listen to the Dixie Spain I long to see the girl I left behind me that ain't a Josh She's a Yankee by gosh Anything about a Yankee that's a phony I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy A Yankee Doodle do or die A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam born on the 4th of July. I've got a Yankee Doodle sweetheart. She's my Yankee Doodle joy. Yankee Doodle came to London just to ride the pole. I am a Yankee Doodle boy. For it is merry, merry, plain as any name can be. But with propriety society will say Mary. For it was merry Mary long before the passions came. And there is something there that sounds so square. It's a grand old name. You're a grand old flag. You're a high flying flag.

[Kenny]

Forever and deeply brave.

[Billy Murray]

You're the emblem of the land I love.

[Joe]

The home of.

[Billy Murray]

Every heart beats through under red, white and blue.

[Joe]

Where there's never a boast of brag.

[Kenny]

But good old acquaintance and fame are done.

[Billy Murray]

Keep your eye on the grand old.

[Kenny]

F.

[Joe]

Thanks, Billy Murray, for that grand medley of George M. Cohan favorites. You see, we've nothing but the very cream of the crop tonight, folks. For Wisconsin and America's Dairyland. Which reminds me, we all have a date right now at the cowshed. And who with? You guessed it, folks. Hesse. Kenny, Frank and Gaby the Hoosier Hot Dog McBurn.

[Kenny]

Are you ready, Hessy?

[Joe]

Okay, Top.

[Kenny]

Meet me tonight in the cowshed after the cows come home. Though it is only a cow shed.

[Joe]

It'S just like home sweet home.

[Kenny]

When Betsy and Sally and Mary say move. That means they are lonesome and moing for you. Meet tonight in the cowshed after the cow's from home. Come on, Frankie. O me, O me. My time, your time. Oh, we don't need the moonlight to.

[Frank]

Sing love three friends a kiss in the cowshed. Boys, we're three of a lame.

[Kenny]

Meet me tonight in the cowshed after the cows come home. You know, Betsy reminds me of you, Gabe. When she sighs, she's got that same vacant look in her eye. Meet me tonight in the cow shed after the cows come home. That's kind of cheesy, wasn't it?

[Joe]

Yes, sir. Well, if today Hoosier hot jobs, we'll all be seeing you down by the cowshed. Folks from the Wisconsin Dells and folks from. Yes, and even that big butter and eggman from Alabama, the Winston County Flash Pat, but.

[Frank]

Well, hello, Jody. Having a big time at the Wisconsin State Fair?

[Joe]

Oh, say, pet, I'm having a wonderful time. And you seem to be enjoying the cotton candy here at the fair.

[Frank]

Yeah, Joe, but cotton candy ain't what it used to be.

[Billy Murray]

No, no.

[Frank]

With all the priorities, everything is substitutes and synthetic nowadays. And this cotton candy sure tastes like it is made out of rayon.

[Joe]

Rayon? I give some to a little Boy.

[Frank]

There's a little boy here that was lost.

[Joe]

Oh, that's a shame.

[Frank]

Yeah, he couldn't find his mama. And he was crying. And I give him some candy. And other people was giving him nickels to stop him from crying. So after watching for about two hours, I walked back up to the little boy. I said, sonny, I know where your mama is. He said, so do I, and shut up.

[Joe]

Well, Pat, tell me, what did you enjoy the most at the state fair today?

[Frank]

Oh, everything's been fine. But I especially got my enjoys out of them hors races.

[Joe]

The horse races?

[Frank]

Yeah. You know, where they hitch half a buggy behind the horse and he pulls out around the tractor.

[Joe]

Oh, Sulky.

[Frank]

What's that? Sulky? No, they all seem very happy.

[Joe]

Now, listen, the races. The races are called sulky races.

[Frank]

Oh, I see what you mean. Well, I sure like them races. You know, Joe, at our fair down in Winston County.

[Joe]

Oh. Oh, yes. Yep. Here we go again.

[Frank]

Well, I'm telling you, Joe, we have some good races at our fair. Paul entered a horse of ours down one of them races. There's a horse called Luke.

[Joe]

Horse called Luke?

[Pat]

Yeah.

[Frank]

Paul called a horse Luke cause he wasn't so hot. But we entered Luke in the saucy race at the county fair. And, well, sir, as we went onto the track to start the race, old Luke run smack dab into a telephone pole alongside the track there.

[Joe]

Ran into a pole?

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Well, was the horse blind?

[Frank]

No, he's just reckless. Didn't give a darn. Well, we got ready for the race. Luke's sort of a funny horse. You know, he starts a race from a kneeling position. Kneeling position. And we got ready for the start. A gun was fired and Luke went up prancing down the track on three legs.

[Joe]

On three legs? Well, what was he doing with the fourth one?

[Frank]

He was sort of feeling his way along. Well, Joe, to make a long story short, Luke started out last in that race and he ended up fourth.

[Joe]

Fourth?

[Frank]

Yeah.

[Joe]

Hey, that wasn't bad. Luke deserves a lot of credit to come from last and cross the finish line. Fourth? How many other horses were there in the race?

[Frank]

2.

[Kenny]

2?

[Joe]

2 besides Lou. Well, then who finished third?

[Frank]

I did. I got tired of riding and walked on ahead.

[Joe]

All right, Butter and Egg Butam. But hold your horses now, for I feel a harmonious double yodel coming on. I knew it. Yes, sir, and who is it but the Barn Dance and her best beau, Lulibel and Scotty.

[Kenny]

I met her on a mountain trail Beside the Lonesome Pine and she Yodeled to the silvery moon above. I wanted them in there to say sweet thing, won't you be mine?

[Gaby]

But he said, oh, yodel lady, I'm in love.

[Kenny]

You're my little yodel lonely lady.

[Gaby]

And I like the way you yodel a too.

[Kenny]

You will always be my little yodel.

[Gaby]

And you'll never make your yodel lady blue.

[Kenny]

Up in the mountains we'll build a shack and may you yodel till the cows come back. You're my little yodel old. And I'll always be your yodel lady too.

[Joe]

She doesn't sing or whistle and she.

[Frank]

Doesn'T ride the range.

[Kenny]

But there's no hillbilly odles like this.

[Gaby]

Me o li lole.

[Joe]

She doesn't have.

[Kenny]

To round me up to make feel so strange.

[Gaby]

All I did was yodelad just like this.

[Kenny]

You're my little yodel lonely lady.

[Gaby]

And I like the way you yodel a too.

[Kenny]

You will always be my little yodel lady.

[Gaby]

And you'll never make your yodel lady blue.

[Kenny]

Up in the mountains we'll build a shack and make a yodel till the cow come back. You're my little yodel old. And I'll always be your.

[Joe]

Plain and fancy yodeling u bella Scotty. Say Arky. Yes, sir. How about the barn dance ambassador from banjo land?

[Frank]

He's right here, ready and rare, Joe.

[Joe]

Well, I know he'll get a great big Wisconsin welcome. Here he is, folks. All ready to swing out with Dinah, that scintillating strummer of the silver strings. Eddie Peabody. The Bando Camp.

[Kenny]

It's.

[Joe]

Thank you very much, folks. Yes, sir. It's real fun to be here again for the Wisconsin State Fair and to have the opportunity of strumming away on the old ban. Here's the tune I hope you'll enjoy. It's with a little Navy flavor to it, too. Folks. It's low, low liter. And here we go. Glenwell. Now Lo Lolita. The sailors greet her with that old navy yell. For she is the darling of the battle fleet. Gay and charming neur leader's army. That's Lo Lo, Lo Lolita. They try to meet her a W o l. Now the navy will be welcomed. Yes, when this war is won by Lo Lo, Lo Lolita.