Benson City Story | All Star Western Theatre (01-12-47)

Summary

Old Time Radio Westerns – Benson City Story | All Star Western Theatre (01-12-47)

Host: Andrew Rhynes
Episode Date: October 20, 2025 (original drama aired January 12, 1947)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, host Andrew Rhynes presents a digitally restored broadcast of the "All Star Western Theatre," featuring the Riders of the Purple Sage in the radio drama "Benson City Story." The episode whisks listeners to the bustling frontier town of Benson City, a place where family ties, fortune, and suspicion collide. The story follows Todd Benson, the wayward nephew of the town’s founder, as he finds himself embroiled in a murder mystery that threatens to see him hanged. The Riders of the Purple Sage, playing themselves, arrive just in time to stir up justice—and a few musical numbers.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Introduction to the Show & Restoration (05:16)

• Cottonseed Clark introduces the All Star Western Theatre and the Riders of the Purple Sage. The show blends music, sponsor messages, and a classic Western tale.

2. Setting the Scene: Benson City & Main Characters (06:55)

• Narration introduces the prosperous and tightly controlled Benson City, run by Dave Benson for over forty years.
• Todd Benson is painted as a ne’er-do-well nephew, always scheming to get money from his wealthy uncle.

3. The Arrival & Escapades of the Riders (08:12)

• Riders of the Purple Sage—Dean, Floyd, and others—roll into Benson City after leaving Rocktown due to a brawl, bringing their easy charm and troublemaking tendencies.
• Quick stop at the barber for a comically detailed scene involving the infamous Empress Agnes cologne and local gossip.

4. Saloon Shenanigans & Card Game (10:50)

• Characters move to the saloon, seeking a drink and getting entangled in a poker game with Todd Benson and the slick cardsharp Pharaoh Lang.
• The Riders note Pharaoh and his partner’s suspicious gambling, hinting at foul play.

5. The Poker Game Turns Sour (13:30)

• Todd, believing in his luck (and his uncle's money), loses heavily to Pharaoh Lang in an increasingly tense card game.
• Pharaoh insists on Todd’s IOUs, threatening consequences if unpaid.

6. Barroom Brawl & Jailhouse Blues (15:44)

• A fight erupts following accusations of cheating. The Riders and Todd end up in jail, commiserating about their misfortunes and Todd’s mounting troubles with his uncle.

7. Murder in Benson City (19:42)

• The plot thickens: Todd is accused of murdering his uncle, Dave Benson. Evidence seems damning, especially the lingering scent of Empress Agnes cologne at the murder scene.
• Cottonseed Clark (as Narrator): “It’s that cologne water I use. They claim they could smell it all over the room... And I’m the only person who uses this stuff!” (20:52)

8. The Smell of Suspicion & Detectives at Work (22:30)

• The Riders, now part-time sleuths, ponder how the cologne could be present if Todd wasn’t in the room. Suspicion turns to Pharaoh Lang.
• Comedic yet pivotal interview with the barber, Teeny Cotter, about the cologne's rarity and someone sneaking a dose.

9. Unraveling the Mystery (26:10)

• With the sheriff’s help, the Riders confront Pharaoh. Their ruse with cologne scent and clever questioning exposes inconsistencies in Pharaoh’s story.
• The key clue: Pharaoh reveals knowledge only the murderer would know—Dave Benson was "strangled," a detail never made public.

Memorable Moment:

• Sheriff (to Pharaoh): “Outside of me and my deputies and the stranger here, no one knew how old Dave Benson died. Tell me, how’d you know he was strangled to death, Pharaoh?” (29:38)

10. Justice Served & Ride into the Sunset (30:10)

• Pharaoh is unmasked as the real killer and arrested. Todd is cleared of all charges.
• The Riders share a lighthearted farewell, debating whether to stay in “peaceful” Benson City or ride on to their next adventure.

Memorable Banter:

• Dean: “We are heroes.”
• Floyd: “Ah, things are a little too peaceful. The town’s dead from the bottom up…” (31:26)

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Musical Highlights

• "Deep within My Heart (San Antonio)" (Performed at 05:40):
  The Riders open the show with a classic Western ballad.
• "Have I Told You Lately That I Love You" (07:50):
  Heartfelt performance blending seamlessly into the drama.
• "I Was Wrong" (32:50):
  Emotional tune following the story’s resolution.
• "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Instrumental Novelty) (34:20):
  Upbeat, comedic instrumental showcasing the band’s musical prowess.
• "Twilight on the Trail" (35:10):
  An evocative closing ballad, paying tribute to the serene side of cowboy life.

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Barber Teeny Cotter on exclusive cologne brand:
  “You know, you’re the only man in town with a bottle of cloney water.” (08:52)
• Comic confusion at the bar:
  “I not know how to make a drink called H2O.”
  “He wants a glass of water, friend. A glass of water. But he asked professor to make him a H2HO.” (09:44)
• Rider’s suspicion about the card game:
  “From the looks of those fellers he’s playing cards with, he’s gonna lose it first and inherit it later on.” (12:18)
• Pharaoh’s slip-up:
  “...no one knew how old Dave Benson died. Tell me, how’d you know he was strangled to death, Pharaoh?” (29:38)

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Key Timestamps (Approximate)

• [05:16] Opening introduction, Riders' first song
• [06:55] Introduction to Benson City & main characters
• [08:12] Barbershop scene with Teeny Cotter and Todd Benson
• [10:50] Riders enter the saloon, begin to observe con game
• [13:30] Poker game escalates; Todd loses everything
• [15:44] Barroom brawl and jailhouse scene
• [19:42] Todd is accused of murder
• [22:30] Investigation begins – clue about the cologne
• [26:10] Pharaoh exposed by his own words
• [32:50] Musical resolution and Riders’ farewell
• [35:10] Final song, “Twilight on the Trail”

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Tone and Style

• The episode maintains the jovial, wisecracking tone of classic Western radio dramas.
• Music interludes provide moments of reflection and entertainment.
• Dialogue is playful, with plenty of period slang (“cotton picking mind,” “local weed”), and the narrative is brisk and witty.
• The Riders of the Purple Sage bring both authenticity and comic relief throughout.

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In Summary

"Benson City Story" is a lively blend of Western intrigue, classic music, and sharp humor. The plot is driven by colorful characters—a conniving nephew, a slippery gambler, and the ever-charming Riders—set against a backdrop of old-time Americana. The digitally restored audio does justice to the original performances, delivering a vintage gem with modern clarity. For fans of mystery, music, and the mythic West, this episode is an enjoyable immersion into radio’s golden age.

Transcript

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Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and before we get into this episode, I wanted to do a little PSA and remind you that I put out multiple shows a week of Old Time Radio Westerns. You can check them out by going to otrwesterns.com or looking up OTR Westerns on your podcast application of choice. We're releasing over 10 episodes a week so far, about a hundred a month, so definitely want you to check that out again otrwesterns.com and check it out. I also wanted to invite you to check out my sister podcast site otnetcast and that's N E T C A S t so O T E N E T C A s t netcast otnetcast.com we're currently releasing mystery genre shows and this is shows like the Shadow Escape, Suspense and the Whistler and we have plans on bringing other shows to the network for you guys to listen to. So it's my non western old time radio channel that I can kind of do other genres that not only I like, but hopefully you would like too. You can check us out by going to otnetcast.com or searching t N E T C A S T on your podcast app of choice. Now let's get into this episode. This episode is going to be All Star Western Theater Original Air date is January 12, 1947. The title is Benson City Story.

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The Bakers of Weber's Bread present your All Star Western Theater. From Hollywood comes your All Star Western fit scouring America's great Western Singers, Boy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage. In Music and Song and a Story of the West. My name is Cottonseed Clark, and here are the riders of the purple sage Deep within my heart lies a melody A song of old san and tone where in dreams I live with a memory Beneath the stars all alone it was there I found Beside the Alamo Enchantment Strange as the boo up above Moon that pass that only she would know still hears my broken song of love Moon all your splendor Only my heart fall back My rose gold of san and tone Lips so sweet and tender like petals far in a farm Sweet Once again of my love My own mother Empty words I know still live in my heart all alone all that moonlit pass by the Alamo and rose My rose of fan and thorn Rose of fan and fall in the days when the west was wild and the vast range country was unfenced, there was more to ranching than riding and roping and shooting. The cowpunchers had to know how to take care of the herd. They spent a great deal of time keeping the cattle from stampeding and getting into quicksand or running off a cliff. It took skill and experience to fatten and deliver a great herd to market. Just to take skill and experience to bake good bread like Weber's today. And Weber's bread is good bread. It's well mixed and well baked. It has a firm, even texture, golden brown crust, and a distinctive flavor all its own. When you serve Weber's bread at your table, you can be sure that the entire family will enjoy its extra quality. Buy a loaf of Weber's bread next time you go shopping. You'll see it in the familiar blue gingham wrapper, and you'll like it. Well, here they are, folks. And here it is, the writers of the Purple Sage on another of today's grand western heart songs, which they have helped to make so popular throughout the country on majestic records. Have I told you lately that I love you Have I told you lately that I love you? You Could I tell you once again Somehow have I said with all my heart and soul How I adore you well, darling, I'm telling you now My world would end Without a memory of you I'm no good without you anyhow oh, have I told you lately that I love you My darling, I'm feeling you now have I told you ladies that I love you when the stars are shining Shine have I told you why the nights are long when you're not with me oh darling, I'm sorry my world would end without a memory of you. I'm no good without you anyhow. Oh, have I told you lately that I love you? My darling, I'm telling you now, Satan. The prosperous western cattle town of Benson City is what you might call a one man town. Dave Benson sees to that. And it's been that way for the 40 some odd years since he first set foot on the strip of wasteland that is now the thriving little city bearing his name. About the only mark on Dave Benson's honesty and integrity is his wayward nephew, Todd Benson, who spent so much time figuring out ways to extract money from his uncle that he has very little or no time for usefulness. With such a situation on hand, as unimportant as it may seem, the fools we visit in Benson City for a spell and see what transpires when the writers of the Purple Sage wander into town. There's no particular reason why Benson City is the recipient of their wanderings. Unless it's because things got a little too hot for them in Rocktown, 50 miles back down the road. Say, this ain't a bad looking little town. Yeah, it looks all right. Well, I don't see nothing special about it. Rocktown included me and gtd. I sent us a duck for the sheriff. Oh, we didn't do nothing. Ah, we just started a little old fight with the barkeeping that saloons all. Yeah, and when everybody got through choosing sides, it looked more like the battle of Bull Run. Well, you wasn't doing so bad yourself, Dean. Well, what'd you expect me to do? Stand by and see you guys get massacred? Yeah, let's pull up here. Here's the barber job and I need to shave. Oh, there's a saloon. I sure need a drink or water. Yes sir. I'll see you guys in a few minutes. And I think you can keep out of trouble in there too. You're a fine one to be a sulphur. Thank you. Let me own. Just have a tea, friend. We'll get to you in a minute. That's all right. No hurry. You better trim my hair around the temples. A little closer. Keymate. Todd mean to please you know find new issue of Kappa's Weekly over there, friend. Not quite. How's old Dave getting all these days? Yeah, pretty good I reckon. So busy counting his money he don't have much time for coming into town. Well, he's got plenty of it to count. And it'll all the earth someday, won't it? Car and I'm beginning to have my dad does. He's getting healthier every day. Don't give up hope, Todd. Yeah, that'll do it. Now tell me, is that all you want? Haven't you forgotten something? By George, yeah. Yes, your special bot left Clooney water for the hair. Yeah, that's right. You know, you're the only man in town with an bottle of cloney water. Town? That's right. I like to smell different than other men. Well, well, this particular brand has one of the most unusual stinks ever smelled. Yes. There. There you are, Todd. All finished. That would be set by parents or cool French. Yes. I'll see you next week, teenage. All right, Todd. Bye. Now, friend, what bit you? I reckon a shave will do. Yes sir, just that feed right here and teenage Cotter will have you shaved before you touch that. Well, you might take it a little slower since you're going to use a razor. Just figure. Say, what is that loud smelling stuff you put on that fella? Oh, that's Empress Agnes Clooney. Water for him. They can't serve you with that sickle of odor, friend. Keep it as good as the Todd Benton. Some of the best customers. Now I have a special smelling tonic here that. Oh no, no, no, no thanks. Todd rather smell just like a deuce. Yes, well, Todd likes to make exclusive. He's in line to inherit all old Dave Nick's money someday. Dave's his uncle. Rich as Jay Gould Dave is. But he ain't going to die any. But I not know how to make a drink called H2O. Now ain't that a fine come off a barkeeper don't know how to mix an H2O. I never hear of such a drink. Oh, come on Al, tell him what you want. Quit picking on him. He wants a glass of water, friend. A glass of water. But he asked professor to make him a H2HO. Well, that what a glass of water is, H2O. My name is Lopez. Well, what's that got to do with. With what? Well, you got me there. Now look, Lopez, water and H2O are one and the same. Now do I get to drink? Which you want? Well, I got myself into this so I reckon I'll take water. Well, why do you not say so? We not have any water. Well, let's take care of that. Say, what's that smell? That's what me. Boy, you're brave to admit it. Strangers. Look, friend, I don't like your attitude and I don't like your smell. All right, Floy. All right, take it easy. Yeah, he don't mean nothing by friend. Very well, I'll accept his apology. Good day to you. Now, who do you reckon he is? Well, it ain't none of our business who he is. Well, I see that you two ain't in any trouble yet. Well, it ain't his fault that he ain't. Then let's stir up a little. Yeah, that's real. You're always looking for trouble. Why don't you guys try and be a little bit peaceful for King? Say, there's a card game going on. Let's play for a while. That's a good idea. Yeah, and try to keep your nose out of the game when you're not one of the players. Oh, Dean, you're old fashioned. Oh, well, maybe I am. But I'll live longer that way. That is if you two don't get me killed in the meantime. Hey, there's that feller that thinks the pretty setting in on the game. Yeah, I ran across him over at the barbershop. Named Todd Benson. He's gonna inherit a lot of money or something. Well, from the looks of those fellers he's playing cards with, he's gonna lose it first and inherit it later on. Yeah, let's get a load of this. Okay. All right, Cod, there's a hundred dollars worth of chips. Make it 200, Pharaoh. I'm out to take you men tonight. You sure you can pay off if you lose? Oh, I got a couple of hundred on me. Besides, ain't my IOU any good. If you promise to talk your uncle out of it. Yeah, don't worry about me, Pharaoh. I'll make my debts good one way or the other. Then deal a card. Well, that cleans me out of chips. Harold, let me have another stack. You start writing your name on a piece of paper. Sure, sure. Come over here, man. All right. You got to see what I see. Sure. That payroll guy and his partner are really trimming this message on her but good. Yeah, they're as crooked as a barrel of snake. Well, is that any of our business? Could be. Let's watch the game a while longer, see what happens. It's still none of our business. Oh, Dean, you're working on old Mac too. Eat this. All right, Todd, I'll bet you $50. Well, that lets me out. I'll call you and raise you 100. Call and raise you 100. I haven't got that much money. All right, Todd, I'll tell you what I'll do. You can play as Much behind as you like. And I'll take your IOU for it. Well, in that case, here's where I get even. Yeah, I'll call you 100 and raise you 500. Yeah, you're playing pretty steep poker, ain't you, Todd? I'll get the money from my uncle in a couple of days. That is, if I lose, then see if you can get another 500. Cause I'm raising you that much. Wait, wait. I reckon this has gone high enough. I'll call with four nines and take the money. Sorry, Todd. I was lucky enough to fill a straight flush. Now look here, Pharaoh, you dealt them card. Careful with your talk, Todd. Now start write me an IOU for a grand total of sixteen fifty dollars. Well, all right. But you give me a few days, won't you? Now let's assert you got till Monday morning. If it was me, I would never pay you. Hey, now you keep out of this. Well, stranger, it don't happen to be you. And if it was, you're paid just like he's gonna. Not when you make a straight price dealing from the bottom of the deck. Now look here, Pharaoh, if that's the way. Shut up, Todd. All right, boys, gather around. We're gonna have a little fun throwing a stranger out of here. There's two strangers, pardner. That's a lie. There's three. All right, boys. Now see what you got us into? Yeah, jail. Yeah, with steel bars. Yeah. Well, let's see if we can get a little sleep. I feel like I've been run through a sausage grinder. Boy, somebody really let me have one on the chin. It's swelling up something awful. Yeah, always getting us in trouble. Oh, quit griping, Dean. That won't get us out of this can. Yeah, if you'd listened to me, we wouldn't have been here at all. Well, this ain't no time to argue. I'm going to hit the hay. Hay? What you call hay is a dozen boards with an old dirty bed she threw over. Well, let's hit the boards. Hey. Hey, Sheriff. Sheriff, let us out of here. Well, they at least ought to bring you something to eat. It's getting close to noon and there ain't been nobody around this place. Well, we've been here. And from the look of things, we ain't about to go nowhere. You know, it is kind of funny that sheriff ain't showed up all morning. Oh, here comes somebody now. Can you see who it is? No, my eyes can't see around the curb in this cell. All Right, but I'm going to have to lock you up. Sounds pretty stirred up about this. But I'm telling you, Sheriff, I didn't do it. I know the circumstance. Her again, Hitad. It's Todd Benson. Wonder what he's into? Jail. Oh, he's bringing him back here. Ain't to have to do this, Todd. I know the law is a law. Got some company for us, Sheriff? Well, boys, we meet again. Well, what they got you in here for? I'll keep informed of development. All right, Sheriff. But I tell you again, I didn't do it. Honest I didn't. You sound like he was in for murder, Benson. Yeah, that's what they call calling it. I'm accused of killing my uncle last night. But boys, I didn't do it. Well, don't you have an alibi? Yeah, but I can't prove my alibi. Well, I haven't seen my uncle since yesterday morning. Well, what makes them figure you're guilty of killing him? Oh, it's that cologne water I use. They claim they could smell it all over the room. Well, it has got a potent smell all right. And I'm the only person around here that uses this stuff. But I had not been in my uncle's room, not even in the house, believe me. Well then how did the smell of that colony water get there? Oh, I can't figure it out to save me. But I got an idea I knew one who might have a reason for doing it. Who? Pharaoh Lang, the man I was gambling with last night. Well, why do you want to kill your uncle? Well, last night, after the fight had cleared away and the sheriff had taken you boys in, Pharaoh followed me out in the front of the school faro. I'll do the best I can, honest I would. The bestest cash on the barrel head. And if it don't deliver, I'm going to your uncle myself. No, no, don't do that, Terrell. I'm in line to inherit his money and that'll ruin everything. Let me handle it, please, will you? And don't forget, it's my money or else. Oh, I'll get it. So I know where old Uncle Dave keeps a lot of cash and I know how to get it. What do you mean you know where he keeps some money? Yeah, he has several thousand dollars he keeps hidden the fireplace mat. Just leave it to me. He should have done it. I know it. But I can't prove it, boys. The evidence points to me. When I told him I hadn't been near Uncle Dave's Womb. Naturally. The smell of the cologne water made me out a liar. Hey, sheriff, let me out of here. Have you lost your cotton picking mine? Here, here, here. What's going on in here? I gotta get out of here, Sheriff. Now, ain't that too bad? I guess you want out so as you can go tear up a another saloon, huh? Honest, Sheriff, I'm serious. You don't say. All right, how much is my fine? $30 a piece or you stay put for 30 days. Okay, slow. You and Dean start digging for gold. I got $15. In the meantime, what happens to us? Well, that's up to the sheriff. Come on, let me have 10 bucks a piece. I'm getting out of here. 10 bucks a piece. Hey, that makes $35. Yeah, I know how. Do you stranger need another teenage cut machine? Not. Not today. Teenage. I want some information. Well, I'm the biggest gossip in town. What's Natalia, tell me this. Have you sold anybody any of that colony water besides Todd Benson? Emperor Sagna? Not a drop. Keep it exclusive for toddler. But now that he's in jail for killing his uncle, I reckon I'll put it up for public consumption. Do you like little for Sal? Oh, not for me. Where do you keep the bottle? Never touched the stuff. Bad from Eliza. No, no, no. I'm talking about the bottle of colony water. Oh, oh, the Empress. Well, keep her right here in this drawer. Well, now, what he know about Band? I know it's gone. It sure is that. Well, why, you know, here it is way back in the back control. Can you tell if any of it's gone? Can't be too sure. Does look a little emptier than it's supposed to be. Look, keen age. How long will the smell of this stuff last? Couldn't last more than an hour at the most. And it cost 15 cents a bottle. Of course, that's confidential. Well, I won't tell the so. Thank you. Now, if I sprinkle some of this junk in a room and closed all of the windows, then how long would it last? Case like that, it'd smell for a whole day. Now, here is a notary you might like better. My own mixture. Evening in Benson City, I call it. Oh, no, no, not today, Keeney. And just in case you'd like to know, someone sneaked in here last night and stole about 2 cents worth of your Empress Agnes. Now that ain't right for anyone who to do a thing like that. So that's what happened, Sheriff. Somebody entered that barber shop during the night, stole that colony Water went to Benson's, killed him and then sprinkled Todd's colony all over the place. That sounds reasonable enough. But how can you prove it? Go with me and let's have a talk with Pharaoh. Don't reckon or do any harm. Come on, let's go. Who is it? It's Sheriff Martin, Pharaoh. Just a minute, Sheriff. Now you remember what to do, Sheriff. Yeah, sure I know. Oh, hello Sheriff. What can I. Oh, so you got the stranger with you. Thought you had him in jail. That's right, Pharaoh. Except I'm using him for a witness while I'm rounding up information on Todd Benson. Sure, come in. Come in. Like this, Pharaoh. It looks mighty bad for Todd. And I'm sorry to hear that, Sheriff. I didn't have nothing. Again, Todd. And I hate that it was the money he owed me that drove him to robbery and murder. Yeah, yeah, that's too bad. Say, there's a mighty sweet smell in this room, Sheriff. Yeah, I don't smell nothing. More than likely some special heraconic you use, Pharaoh. When a solace can find in a room with it, he can't smell it himself. What do you mean? That's the same smell that we use as evidence against Todd. I thought he was the only fellow in town would use that stuff. You guys must be loco. I don't smell nothing. Well, I told you why you couldn't smell his Pharaoh. Now look, just a minute. You must have got some of it on your clothes, Farum. What are you driving at, Sheriff? Oh, just got to thinking. If everybody has got some of that sweet smelling colony water and we ain't got no case against Todd Benson, it could have been anybody. It could even have been you. Are you trying to accuse me of strangling old man Benson? Yeah, it wasn't a second ago, but I am now. Now don't make a move towards your gun. Your can is too far, Sheriff. Just far enough to hang you, Pharaoh. Huh? Outside of me and my deputies and the stranger here, no one knew how old Dave Benson died. Tell me, how'd you know he was strangled to death, Pharaoh? Well, I just figured that he wouldn't. You figured you'd tend the whole thing on Todd Benson. You won't get by with this. And that's for you, stranger. All right, come on, Pharaoh. You're going to change places with Todd Benson. But what are we leaving Vincent City for? We are heroes. Ah, things are a little too peaceful. The town's dead from the bottom up. I'll tell you what, Dean, you stay and me and Floyd ride on. Right, Floyd? Yeah, I'm with you. Well, suits me. I'm peaceful loving man myself. You guys act like you've been eating local weed. Well, good luck to you, Dean. Yeah, we'll ride back through someday and visit with you and the wife and all the kids. I ain't even married. No, but you will be if you settle in Benson City. Well, maybe I was a little hasty. Guess I'll try to while long with you fellas. That's what I thought. Let's make tracks out of here. Drifting along. Sing in a song the riders of the purple stage, folks. And here they come again, riding in to sing another of your favorite western songs. I was wrong men sing I was wrong there when I left you I was wrong to turn you down. Never dreamed how much I'd miss you till my head started spinning round and round. Oh, I was wrong to go away please believe me when I say I found out and I've been gone. You were right, little darling I was wrong Oh, I was wrong go away Please believe me when I say I found out since I've been gone. You were right, little darling I was wrong. Boy willing and the boys would kind of like to liven things up a bit with another of their special instrumental novelties featuring Johnny Paul on fiddle, Bud Seaford on accordion and Hank Caldwell's bass. Here is what happens to Sweet Georgia Brown. The Texas longhorns were a nervous breed of cattle, and the cowpunchers had to guard against startling a herd bedded down for the night. That's why a cowboy would sing a low, quiet song or ballad when he was on night duty. It soothed the cattle and let them know his presence was familiar and friendly. Nighthawks, as these cowboys were called, originated and developed many of the the songs you hear on this program. The bakers of Weber's Bread enjoy recreating the atmosphere of the old west on the All Star Western Theater. Just as they take pride in supplying your community with the finest bread. And Weber's Bread really is good bread for breakfast, lunch or dinner. You'll find that your entire family will like the firm, even texture and distinctive flavor of the bread in the blue gingham wrapper. So buy Weber's Bread when you go shopping. Men of the west from out of the west with a real song of the west from trail of the Lonesome Pine, the riders of the purple sage sing one of the grandest songs of the west ever written. Twilight on the trail. When it's twilight on the trail and I judge alone the world is like a dream and the ripple of the sleep is my soul when it's wild on the thrill and I rest once more My feeling is the sky and the grass on which I lie is my soul Never ever have a nickel in my D Never ever have a debt to pay Till I understand what real contentment means Yes, I was born that way when it's twilight on the cliff and my voice is underneath the lonesome birds on the hill when it's quiet. Corey Williams speaking for Al and Jimmy and myself and all of the writers of the Purple Stage. It's been mighty nice visiting with you and we'll all look forward to the same pleasure next week at this same time from Hollywood. 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