New Year’s Special, Show 1 | Grand Ole Opry (12-31-50)

Summary

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Old Time Radio Westerns: New Year’s Special, Show 1 | Grand Ole Opry (12-31-50)

Host: Andrew Rhynes
Release Date: September 11, 2025
Original Broadcast: December 31, 1950
Theme: Digitally restored, classic Grand Ole Opry New Year’s Eve broadcast — a lively, music-filled celebration echoing the warmth, humor, and musical virtuosity of America’s golden age radio.

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Episode Overview

This episode transports listeners to New Year’s Eve 1950 at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C., capturing the spirit and camaraderie of the Grand Ole Opry’s live special. Legends like Red Foley, Rod Brasfield, The Jordanaires, Grandpa Jones, and Minnie Pearl deliver a mix of rousing music, country humor, and heartfelt tributes, especially aimed at US armed service members tuning in worldwide.

“Our hearts are with them all, isn’t it, huh? Yes siree…” — Red Foley [05:32]

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Key Discussion Points & Highlights

1. Opening & Setting the Mood

• Host Andrew Rhynes (03:02) introduces the special, noting restoration quality and the historic value of the broadcast.
• Red Foley greets the crowd, establishing the event’s dual purpose: joyous celebration and providing comfort to servicemen far from home.

2. Warm Welcome & Military Tribute

• Red Foley acknowledges US soldiers:
  “…the Armed Forces Radio Service all over the country is going to carry our little broadcast tonight. So we don’t want the boys over there who are having a little rough luck right now to think we’re having too big a time. But our hearts are with them all, isn’t it, huh?” [05:32]
• The audience is included as part of this supportive community.

3. Classic Country Comedy: Rod Brasfield

• Rod Brasfield delivers signature downhome humor: stories about traveling by train, mishaps in sleeping berths, and a childhood memory of being “expelled early.”
  “There wasn’t room enough to cuss a cat without getting hair in your mouth.” [06:57]
  “Now you may think this is the end. Well, it is.” – finishing his musical parody [14:46]
• The crowd responds warmly to Brasfield’s comic rambling and musical send-off.

4. The Jordanaires’ Musical Showpieces

• The celebrated quartet, recently relocated from Missouri, perform stirring gospel numbers:
  • “Lead Me to that Rock” [17:01]
    “Why don’t you lead me to that rock that is higher than I…” [17:16]
  • “I Want To Dig a Little Deeper in the Storehouse of His Love” [22:19]
• Bob Hubbard offers comic banter, referencing presidential pride and making announcements:
  “Next week, right here in this auditorium, following Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, will be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.” [16:39]
• The crowd’s enthusiastic applause underlines the group’s popularity.
  • “What a wonderful crowd we have. No kidding. A large crowd.” [19:21]

5. Special Guest: Grandpa Jones

• Grandpa Jones returns for a surprise appearance, delighting both audience and fellow performers.
• Performs high-energy, old-time banjo songs:
  • “Son, Get Up and Light the Lamp” [25:33]
  • A comical folk medley about his uncle’s misadventures.
• Shares a graveside story:
  “He looked out and says, ‘well, here it is — Resurrection. And I’m the first one up.’” [28:18]

6. Minnie Pearl’s Entrée & Humor

• Introduced as the “Princess of Grinder Switch,” Minnie Pearl leans into self-deprecating humor and rural romance:
  “Truer words was never spoke through falser teeth, I think.” [32:13]
  “They say kitchen spread germs. I sure have spent a healthy evening.” [33:12]
• Relates country dating tales, family anecdotes, and a song about jealousy:
  • “Jealous Hearted Me” [36:27]
• Engages in a comedic back-and-forth with “Rodney” (Red Foley) about playing hide-and-seek, kissing, and comic miscommunication.
  “Let’s play games.” — Minnie
  “No, we ain’t got nobody to find us…” — Rod/Red Foley [40:03]
  “I don’t want nobody to find us.” — Minnie

7. Variety Songs Medley & Musical Celebration

• Red Foley leads a rapid-fire medley of 1950’s hits, blending country, boogie, and gospel:
  • “Sugarfoot Rag”
  • “Somebody’s Crying Over Me”
  • “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” [46:27]
• Classic Opry on-stage camaraderie shines as all the cast join for “Mama Don’t Allow…”

8. Wrap-up & Countdown to Midnight

• The show closes with anticipation of midnight in Nashville — “five minutes to go here.”
  • “We’re going to celebrate our new year so you folks have all had yours about 55 minutes ago.” [52:47]
• Performers are thanked, and the stage is set for the next half of the special.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Red Foley:
  “We sometimes refer to him as the Clark Gable of the kitchen table.” [05:48] (on Rod Brasfield)
• Rod Brasfield:
  “I love to get high, but not that high. Just wait till after 12 o’clock and see what happens.” [06:53]
• Grandpa Jones:
  “…the population never changes. Every time a baby’s born, somebody leaves town.” [12:46]
• Minnie Pearl:
  “My feller says to me, he says, Minnie Pearl, what would you do if you was to get off up there at Washington on New Year’s Eve and run up on a bunch of them handsome Washington fellers that’d just kiss you at the drop of a hat? What would you do? I said, I reckon I’d be all time of dropping my hat.” [33:50]

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Quick-Reference Timestamps

| Time | Segment / Highlight | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------| | 03:02 | Show welcome and broadcast dedication | | 05:32 | Tribute to armed forces | | 06:35 | Rod Brasfield comedy routine | | 17:01 | Jordanaires perform “Lead Me to that Rock” | | 22:19 | Jordanaires: “I Want To Dig a Little Deeper…” | | 25:29 | Surprise: Grandpa Jones enters | | 26:43 | Grandpa Jones’ song “Son, Get Up and Light the Lamp” | | 32:04 | Minnie Pearl’s introduction and act | | 36:27 | Minnie Pearl: “Jealous Hearted Me” | | 38:00 | Minnie & Rodney (Red Foley) funny back-and-forth | | 43:46 | Red Foley: Medley of 1950 hits | | 46:27 | “Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy” | | 49:01 | “Mama Don’t Allow…” group jam | | 52:47 | Countdown to Nashville New Year |

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Episode Tone and Style

The tone is warm, colloquial, and filled with lively rural humor, audience laughter, and Southern hospitality — echoing the original Opry broadcasts. The banter is quick and affectionate, with each performer’s personality shining through.

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Summary

This New Year’s Opry special is a joyous, music-rich time capsule of 1950’s Americana featuring grand performances, irrepressible comedy, and heartfelt recognition of America’s servicemen. The blend of restored audio and iconic personalities creates an authentic, immersive experience for fans of classic radio and country music, while the natural flow and high spirits make it entertaining even for newcomers.

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Transcript

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[Chorus/Singers]

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[Andrew Rines]

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[Connie B. Gay]

Yes sir.

[Red Foley]

From the National Guard Armory, it's Vandal.

[Connie B. Gay]

Opry Time, Washington, D.C. and here's the.

[Red Foley]

Star of our show, Red Pulley.

[Connie B. Gay]

Thank you, Connie. Thank you. Ah, great Day of the Morning.

[Grandpa Jones]

We'll see.

[Connie B. Gay]

I get these microphones set around here so we can get up to em. Hey, what a crowd. Her eyes were blue her hair was all burned her smile was like an angel dear she was her daddy's only daughter on the Tennessee border One night I took a ride just across the line I picked her up in a pickup truck and she broke this heart of mine her mother said no, she's my only daughter but we got married on the Tennessee border Hey, let's go, everybody. The roses were blooming on the border the moon was shining from above I fell in love the night I saw her on the Tennessee border One night I took a ride just across the line I picked her up in a pickup truck and she broke this heart of mine her mother said no, she's my only daughter but we got married on the Tennessee border well said. Thanks a lot. Thank you very much. And Mr. Connie BK tells me that this broadcast is going to be played. Are going to be broadcast rather to the boys in our armed services. And the Armed Forces Radio Service all over the country is going to carry our little broadcast tonight. So we don't want the boys over there who are having a little rough luck right now to think we're having too big a time. But our hearts are with them all, isn't it, huh? Yes siree, you vertical. I know that I shouldn't spend very much time out here talking about the various people that we have on the Grand Ole Opry every Saturday night. But here's a young man that you can't say too many things about. That is nice things. A boy that we think is one of the most wonderful, just plain old everyday country boys, farm raised and hand spanked, as the saying goes. One of the funniest boys we think in this great land of ours. We sometimes refer to him as the Clark Gable of the kitchen table. But we like to think of him as just plain old everyday Rod Brassfield.

[Red Foley]

Thank you. Thank you, Miss Foley. Thank you, Miss Foley. Hi, Shorty.

[Bob Hubbard]

Stop that.

[Red Foley]

Thank you, Miss Foley. For them kind words, blind is a bath. Thank you, men. Much obliged for the kind music. Hi, de friend. Glad to see you all tonight. I'm glad to be here. Wished I'd have been here sooner. Would have. But I had to rock a baby. I run out of rocks. Hope everybody's having a good time. I didn't get to come down here with Mr. Foley and the rest of them. When they come, they all flew over here in our airplane. I don't fly much. I love to get high, but not that high. Just wait till after 12 o' clock and see what happens. Yes, sir. I had to come down here at the Washington on the train. I went down to buy my ticket at the depot and I asked a feller. I say, all right, buddy. I don't know whether to talk to this and that and. Or that and so I'll just talk to all. Talk to Mrs. Lively. Little devil, ain't it to be? Salita. Glad to know you, Mike. Stay with us, Shorty. I had to come to Washington on a train and I bought my ticket. I went up to the depot and a feller behind the cage there. I told him where I wanted to come to and he says, well, do you want a Pullman? And I says, yeah, I guess I do. I guess so. To tell you the truth, I didn't know what he was talking about. I didn't want him to find out I was doing. So I just bought it. I got on train there and it turned me over to a dark complected feller there named Mr. Porter. Well, sure. Mr. Porter took me down through the train and I come to find out I bought me a little stall up there on the side of the train. I was supposed to sleep in. A little pallet made on a shelf up there. Wasn't room enough to cuss a cat without getting higher in your mouth. He called it a birth. Birth? That's what he called it, a birth. I had a berth on the train there. It all the way from Nashville here. It was very small, very small. And it had a ladder going up to it. And I clomb up this ladder to get in my berth. And there was two young ladies laying there in my bed. I looked at them. I didn't say nothing. They didn't say nothing neither. I guess we talked that way for two or three or four minutes, sir. Finally I told him. I said, what'd you say, boy? All right, I'm doing the best I can, buddy. I finally told him. I said, girls, you're going to have to get out of there. That there's my bed. One of them looked up at me and says, well, we're in here now. What are you going to do about it, Shorty? I says, well, one of you is going to have to get out of there. That's all they told. Well, I finally got him out of there and I got up in that place trying to get my britches off so I could go to bed. I swear I've got new shoes in the North. I Got up in there wrestling with my britches, trying to get them all so I could go to bed. And the first thing I know, I had my neck rammed out the window about that fur, and some fool hung a mail sack on it before I could get it back. Well, sir, we got up to. We got way up the line there. I don't remember where it was. Somewhere up here in Virginia where they have horse races. Anyway. Had to lay over there about four hours, and I had a lot of time to kill there. Four hours to kill. Now I went out to the racetrack. I went. Y' all excuse me, friends, for scratching, but I'm the only one that knows where I'm itching. I went out to the racetrack. I don't care much where I itched, either. I went out to the racetrack there, and I was standing up there at the thing there, and the horses was getting ready to run, and there's prancing back and forth. And I noticed an awful pretty young lady sitting right close to me there, and she kept tugging at her clothes and pulling at her clothes and pulling at her clothes. After a while, she turned around to me and said, mister, have you got a safety pin? I says, no, ma'. Am. I sorry. Just about that time, feller up in that booth shot a gun and hollered, they're off. She fainted. I stood around there for an hour and a half, and I never did find out what is the matter. That coal. But while I was standing there. While I was standing there, there's an old boy from my hometown walked up to me. Old boy, my hometown walked up to me. I didn't hardly recognize him when I seen him. Old boy named Bill Morgan. He's from my hometown, Hornwald, where I come from. It's a little town down in Tennessee down there. Very small town. In fact, it's very small, and the population never changes. Every time a baby's born, somebody leaves town. This old boy walked up to me, and me and him got to talking about when we was kids in school together there at home. I never will forget one time, me and him and another old boy, Troy Dobbs, his name. We was sitting in the schoolhouse and our teacher was writing up on the blackboard with a piece of chalk. And all of a sudden Bill sitting there, said, teacher, you've got a run in your stocking just above your knee. She says, you get your books, boy, and get out of here and go home. You're expelled. He got his books and went home just like that. In a few minutes, she Was writing again on the blackboard. Troy sitting there said, teacher, I see your garter. She said, now you get your books and go home, too. He got his books and went home just like that. About that time, she dropped her chalk and reached over to pick it up. I just picked up my books and went on home. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very kindly for listening to my mess here. Got so much your in store for you. I'm going to get away from here with the help of these boys. I'm going to do something I hardly ever do. My tonsils going to backfire and slap the taste out of my mouth. I'm going to sing Here it is, a little song entitled. I'll never forget the day that bumblebee backed up to me and pushed. Be kind to your web footed friends. A duck may be somebody's mother Be kind to your friends in the swamp or they lived in the gosh durn dump. Now you may think this is the end. Well, it is.

[Chorus/Singers]

Thank you.

[Connie B. Gay]

Thanks a lot to your friends and neighbors. Have a friend of ours here from Missouri makes his home here permanently. We'd like you to meet him. The Jordan A. The Jordan A Boys, come out here. Yes, sir.

[Red Foley]

Welcome.

[Bob Hubbard]

Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Jordonairs Quartet from the Grand Ole Opry. But originally we are from Missouri, as Red Foley said, and we're very proud to say that we are, knowing that we've got a friend of ours up here in the state capitol. I mean, in the national capital, rather President of the United States. We're going to get right into our first number, and we hope that you'll enjoy what we have to offer tonight. I'm going to adjust the microphone just a little bit here and. Something you wanted to say, Bob?

[Bob Hubbard (Announcer)]

Yes, I was supposed to make this announcement.

[Bob Hubbard]

Oh, yes. All right, go ahead.

[Bob Hubbard (Announcer)]

Next week, right here in this auditorium, following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

[Bob Hubbard]

I thought that was an important announcement. You know, I. Well, we're going to get right into the first number. It's entitled Lead Me to that Rock.

[Red Foley]

Why don't you lead me to that.

[Chorus/Singers]

Rock that is higher than life Lead me to that rock Lead me to that rock why don't you lead me to that rock that is higher than mine? Thou has been a shelter for me well, when you go down to yonder Hold a search among the sheep My brother Thou has been a shelter for me where you find him there's a wife in cold and lo, he loves to te My, thou has Been a shelter for me why don't you lead me to that rock that is higher than mine? Lead me to that rock Lead me to that rock why don't you bring me to that rock that is higher than mine? Though it spirit is shelter only wide O, leave it to the bed that's higher than 9 leave it to the. To the rug that's higher than 9 leave it to the rock to the rock that's higher than I Thou has been a shelter for me why don't you repeat that?

[Red Foley]

To the rock that's higher than I.

[Chorus/Singers]

Hit me to that.

[Red Foley]

Tis the likeness higher than I be to that. Tis like this higher than I Thou.

[Chorus/Singers]

Has been a shelter for me. Why don't you leave me that till the right. That's higher than night Leave it to that. Tis the darkness higher than I.

[Bob Hubbard (Announcer)]

Thou.

[Chorus/Singers]

Hast been a shelter.

[Bob Hubbard]

You know, it's wonderful to be here and receive such a fine reception. I'm telling you, this is a wonderful group of people. What a large crowd we have here tonight at this big armory here in Washington, D.C. and don't you agree to that, Bob? What a wonderful crowd we have. No kidding. A large crowd.

[Bob Hubbard (Announcer)]

Wonderful crowd. This place reminds me. I went to school and this reminds.

[Red Foley]

Me of the auditorium. You went to school? The auditorium? We had.

[Bob Hubbard (Announcer)]

Yeah, I went to a country school, and we had an auditorium, something like this. You know, I visited one of the schools here in Washington last week, and they study about different things than they do. Back when I went to school, they were studying about the freedom train. You know what the freedom train is? That's a train that runs from Washington to Reno. You know, one day when I was in school, a teacher says, bob, who shot Abraham Lincoln?

[Red Foley]

Says, I didn't do it.

[Bob Hubbard (Announcer)]

She didn't like that. For some reason, she said, I want you to go home and get your dad and bring him up to school. Well, I went home and I got dad and I brought him up to school. She says, Mr. Hubbard, I asked your boy just the other day who shot Abraham Lincoln. He says, I didn't do it. Now, what kind of an answer is that? My dad looked at her for a minute and he says, my boy's an honest boy. He says, he didn't do it.

[Grandpa Jones]

He didn't do it.

[Bob Hubbard]

Bob, come here just a minute. Maybe you can help me out with something. Maybe you can do it right. There's a wireless message coming in right now over the wireless, and we want you to get it down. If you got a pencil and paper, hurry up and Get a pencil and paper and we'll write this message down. Because it might be a very important message for everybody that's here tonight and want everybody to hear it. You ready? Here we go. Here it comes now. Ready? Let's get that down. All of it. Okay, here comes some more already. Here we go. Write it down. Get that down. All the message. All right, now, it might be an important message for everybody here tonight, Bob. Be sure and read it back. Right. You ready to read it back now? All right, read it back. Last Saturday night, we everybody on the Prince Albert Grandel offering sang the number that they felt was the best seller in records for the past year. For the year of 1950. Well, we specialize in spirituals, the Jordanaires. And so we'd like to sing one of our spirituals that we think was our best seller for the last year. And it's one that we really like to sing. We use five voices, and it's called I Want To Dig a Little Deeper in the Storehouse of His Love.

[Chorus/Singers]

I want to dig a little deeper in his love Dig a little deeper in his love I want to dig a little deeper in his storehouse of his love of his love well, I want to dig a little deeper in his love I want to dig a little deeper in his love I want to dig a little deeper in the storehouse of his love.

[Red Foley]

Well, I want.

[Chorus/Singers]

To dig a little deeper Dig a.

[Red Foley]

Little deeper.

[Chorus/Singers]

Dig a little deeper in the storehouse of his love I live where I wanna walk a little more like Jesus would wanna talk a little more like a Christian should Dig a little deeper in the storehouse of his love of his love well, I wanna.

[Red Foley]

Dig a.

[Chorus/Singers]

Dig a little deeper in the storehouse of his love of his love.

[Red Foley]

Dig a little deeper Dig a little deeper Dig a little deeper in.

[Chorus/Singers]

The storehouse of his love of his love Dig a little deeper in the storehouse of his love of his love.

[Minnie Pearl]

Thank you.

[Connie B. Gay]

Well, Sir, I think Mr. Connie B. Gaye had been announcing all week that we were going to have a surprise guest here tonight for you kind people. And, of course, this is real surprise to us, too. We didn't know he was going to be here because he used. Oh, now, wait a minute. Who is that? A spy out in the audience. Anyway, he used to be down at the old. The Grand Ole Opry with us and was down there a couple of years. We enjoyed him a lot. He's a great, great guy. He came here to entertain you folks around Washington, D.C. with Mr. Connie B. Gay and now he's moved on up to Richmond, Virginia. But I'm sure that all you folks around Washington here are acquainted with the one and only Grandpa Jones. Yes.

[Grandpa Jones]

Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much.

[Red Foley]

Over.

[Grandpa Jones]

Proud to be down here with you. And I'm not going to take up too much time, but I'm going to start over by singing a little old tune that I've sung for y' all a lot of times. Called Son, get up and light the lamp. I think I knock one of your ma's eyeballs. There it is. It's my horse. Up to my hat buckle My banjo to my back Buckle broke and the banjo flew Satan got the buckle and the banjo too Uncle E got the crimson Gone on, gone on, gone on uncle, he's got green and gone on and left us a looking up dream what kind of stiffen do the angels wear? Slipping and a sliding on the golden star golden slippers and a silver socks Drop them nickels in the missionary box uncle, he's got the groonin Gone on, gone on no, no, no. Khal e's got and gone on and left us looking up a tree.

[Red Foley]

Ol.

[Grandpa Jones]

Uncle Leaf was a good old soul Washed his face in a butter bowl Bumped his head on a mantelpiece and fell right back in a bucket of grease uncle, he got killed and gone on, gone on, gone on until he's gone Shot soon and gone on Left a sniffin up tree Hitched my horse up to my hack buckle My banjo to my back Buckle broke and the banjo flew Satan got the buckle and the banjo too uncle, he's got kingdom Gone on, gone on, gone on uncle, he's got spoon and gone on and left us looking up a tree When Ephraim told this world goodbye he went to heaven to his home on High told St. Peter to make room. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you. I. I'll never forget where I learned that tune. I learned that from an uncle of mine that used to go to a lot of dances. They used to have dances around everywhere. And my uncle would go and he'd get a little too much to drink, you know, just like we might do tonight. Well, I remember one evening he went.

[Red Foley]

To one of them.

[Grandpa Jones]

They had a big dance, you know. And my uncle went and he got a little too much to drink. And he always walked home through the field. He'd cut through the field. Well, he cut through a little graveyard that night. And he was walking along, you know. And they had just dug a fresh grave there that day. And he couldn't see very well, you know, he couldn't have seen if it had been daylight. And he was walking along and he fell in that grave. Well, he couldn't get out. So he just laid down and slept there all night. Well, the next morning he got up a little bit groggy eyed, you know. He got up and looked out and says, well, here it is. Resurrection. And I'm the first one up. Thank you so much, Red. It's awful nice being down here with y' all taking up your time this.

[Connie B. Gay]

Well, how about that surprise? That's wonderful, huh? Old grandpa coming back over here. And I want you to know seriously that he was as much a surprise.

[Grandpa Jones]

To us as he is to most.

[Connie B. Gay]

Of you folks out there.

[Grandpa Jones]

Just want to be anywhere. Good to have you here, buddy. Thank you very much, Fred.

[Connie B. Gay]

Thank you so much.

[Grandpa Jones]

All right, we're going to take care of a request down here. Somebody. All right, all right, here we go. I'm glad you said that, cuz I'm in the right tune for it. Help. Help. Speaking Fanny.

[Minnie Pearl]

Every night at.

[Grandpa Jones]

Loud Grandma had a yeller hen. We set her, as you know. We set her on three buzzard eggs. And she hatched out one old crow here Adler rattler from the barn here at the. Help. Help. Help. Get him. Grandma had a. I mean grandpa had a muley cow. She was muley when she was born. It took a jaybird 40 year to fly from horn to horn Hell out of the hoof health here out of the hill. Stone rattle up on the barn here out of the hill. I find them Blue ridge Mountains there 47 mile round. Think I'll get me a Sage Jackson cut these mountains down here at the Tough Tough here at Lake Hill from the bar here at la.

[Connie B. Gay]

The one and only Grandpa Joe Doug. Got to come out here all by himself and just entertain the heck out of you. Well, sir, we wouldn't want to run off and leave you folks here without seeing a young lady that has sort of become more or less a permanent fixture around the Grand Ole Opry. And of course, when we say young lady and it has anything to do with Grand Ole Opry, you can only think of one girl and that's the. The Princess of Grinder Switch. Yes, sir, Cousin Minnie Pearl.

[Minnie Pearl]

How do? I'm just proud to be here. Well, sir, I sure am proud that I could come back up. Thank you. I'm proud I could. Thank you. I love to have my picture took. I hope someday I'll get one that'll make me not look like a monkey. The last ones I had looked just like a monkey. But the feller said he had to preserve the likeness. I'd like to tell y' all I'm proud to get to come back to Washington. I like not got to make. My feller didn't much want me to come up here. He said, you'll get up there and one of them fellas will run off with you. I wish they would. Truer words was never spoke through falser teeth, I think. No, I was coming in out there in front tonight and there was two nice looking fellers standing there. And one of them stands said to the oven when he seen me, he said, ain't that the ugliest girl you ever seen? Oven said, yes, she's ugly, but she may be a pretty good old girl. You know, beauty's only skin deep. Oven said, well, let's skin her. I just come on in. I'm used to having folks pay me compliments everywhere I go. I didn't care no. Before I left home, my fellow come over to see me. And we're setting on the double set team. Just me by him and him by me. We got a clock and our front room makes me smart. It ticks slow every time. My fellow comes over there to keep me company. Sound like that old clock saying, take your time, take it. Time ought to get run down right fast. Ticking little clock goes. Get together, get together, get together. My feller, My feller says to me, he says, minnie Pearl, right there's. My name's Minnie Pearl. That is why I call me that. I reckon. He says, minnie Pearl, what would you do if you was to get off up there at Washington on New Year's Eve and run up on a bunch of them handsome Washington fellers that'd just kiss you at the drop of a hat? What would you do? I said, I reckon I'd be all time of dropping my hat. But I ain't had no trouble yet, though I'm still hoping. They say kitchen spread germs. I sure have spent a healthy evening. Before I got ready to come up here. I asked Mammy what was to say. I didn't know what to say. I ain't never been around much. Then that time I went to town. Leaned over to tie my shoe and got caught in a revolving door. I made 300 round trips in that thing before I could get up. She says, whatever you do, don't mention nothing about the weather. Cause men ain't looking for information. I said, well, what are they looking fer? She said, I don't know, child, but whatever it is, you ain't got it. Well, sir, I tell you, seeing all these fellers, these servicemen here, I sure do love to see them, too. I'll tell you, my cousin Elmer, he's been over in the South Pacific and he's telling me about girls over there that dance them hula, hula, hula, hula dances. He got engaged to one of them girls, she wiggled out of him and I said, well, how do them girls dance the hula dances? And he says, that ain't hard to do. He says, all you do to dance the hula dances, you just tie a bunch of hay around your waist and a bunch of oats around your neck and then just rotate the croppers. Well, sir, though I wish I'd have brung my brother with me. I wanted y' all to see him this New Year's. He looks awful. Well, we've cut his hair off. Now you can see his eyes. He's got the friendliest eyes there all the time looking at one another. Has to lay on his back and look downstairs. Every time he cries, tears roll down his back. He looks a whole lot better than he did last year long about hog killing. Time he fell off and got so thin we had to starch his underwear to hold him up. Well, I've got to sing now. Steve's had some fellers come up here and give me a charge. Please. I'd like to rip off here with a few sweet spasms of comfort and joy. I'd like to sing out there and call jealous hearted meat fellers in about the gear d. Let her flicker flowers you. Whoo. I'll tell you right now. You reckon when they took out my tonsils, they took my vocal cords out, too. You reckon so? I ain't been singing as well ever since. You can have my coffee, you can have my tea, but just you let my beller be. I'm telling you, jealous hearted me. I'm just as jealous as I can be. Now I've got a man and a bulldog too. My man don't bite my bulldog too. I'm jealous so hard at me. I'm just jealous. Thank you. Thank you. Rodney. Rodney. Yeah, what's the matter with your Rodney? What you hide?

[Red Foley]

Hi, Miss Minnie.

[Minnie Pearl]

What's the trouble? What you shooting that gun fer?

[Red Foley]

Well, I'm a cowboy. I've gone western. Have you just gone cowboy crazy, have you? Yes, sir. I'm with a rodeo.

[Minnie Pearl]

Are you?

[Red Foley]

Yep.

[Minnie Pearl]

What they got in the rodeo, Rodney?

[Red Foley]

Oh, we've got stir ropers, tie hoggers and Tie ropers and stir hoggers.

[Minnie Pearl]

You got any.

[Grandpa Jones]

Blind?

[Minnie Pearl]

Have you got any. Have you got any Indians in the show?

[Red Foley]

Got one of the funniest old Indian minutes you ever seen your life.

[Minnie Pearl]

What does he do? What does an Indian do?

[Red Foley]

That fool is always running around, running around trying to build a fire in his toupee.

[Minnie Pearl]

In his toupee?

[Red Foley]

Yeah.

[Minnie Pearl]

No Rodney, you don't mean toupee, you mean TP you see, toupee is a wig.

[Red Foley]

Well, that's why he's doing it. He wants to keep his wig warm.

[Minnie Pearl]

Rodney, did you have some pictures you was gonna show me? Minnie. Yeah.

[Red Foley]

There's a picture of my daddy standing in front of a saloon up there in Kentucky.

[Minnie Pearl]

Well Riley, I can't see you. I don't see your uncle. I see. Is it your daddy?

[Red Foley]

It's my daddy.

[Minnie Pearl]

Well he. I don't.

[Red Foley]

Poor the old ugly thing.

[Minnie Pearl]

Well, I see the saloon but I don't see you. Pappy.

[Red Foley]

Has he gone back in there again?

[Minnie Pearl]

What's that other.

[Red Foley]

I'm gonna have to take care of him. I'll be with you at 2:30.

[Minnie Pearl]

Wait a minute. What's that other one?

[Red Foley]

That is a picture of me when I was a baby.

[Minnie Pearl]

Well, Rodney, you was a bald headed little baby, wasn't you?

[Red Foley]

Oh, here Minnie.

[Minnie Pearl]

Rodney lets you and me play hide and seek.

[Red Foley]

Yeah. Let's play games.

[Minnie Pearl]

Let's play games. Let's play games.

[Red Foley]

Play hide and seek?

[Minnie Pearl]

Yes.

[Red Foley]

Oh, Flitter tail. No.

[Minnie Pearl]

Why not?

[Red Foley]

No. We ain't got nobody to find us.

[Minnie Pearl]

I don't want nobody to find us. Why ain't you going to find us? I ain't going to do it. Why not? Why not, Rodney?

[Red Foley]

Well, after all it's just a kids game.

[Minnie Pearl]

Not the way I play it. Minnie. Yeah? Sit down here.

[Red Foley]

I want to talk to you. I'm gonna make love to you. Hi Shorty. Hi Ernie. Ernie. Shorty. Minnie, I'm gonna make love to you. You don't mind, do you?

[Minnie Pearl]

What you gotta do first?

[Red Foley]

Well now look. Give me a little kiss. That's sort of many.

[Minnie Pearl]

If you ain't got nothing to do.

[Red Foley]

For the next few minutes just sorry to pluck her up and give me a little kiss.

[Minnie Pearl]

No.

[Red Foley]

Oh, Flitter, come on.

[Minnie Pearl]

No.

[Red Foley]

Well, you old stingy thing. I'm just a yearning freak.

[Minnie Pearl]

No.

[Red Foley]

Oh, give me a little kiss down short.

[Minnie Pearl]

Well, turn around.

[Red Foley]

That makes me sick.

[Minnie Pearl]

Now turn. Turn around and don't you look. Now don't you look.

[Red Foley]

Turn around.

[Minnie Pearl]

Don't Look. Now, don't you look, Norman.

[Red Foley]

You hit me and I'm going to slap the cold cush out of you. Now, I'm telling you now, Minnie, what.

[Minnie Pearl]

Are you going to do? Minnie. Minnie, what?

[Red Foley]

You stop that mini shopper. Hey, Minnie, come back here.

[Minnie Pearl]

Fool.

[Red Foley]

You done lost part of you.

[Connie B. Gay]

Oh, my, my, my, my. Well, too Rod Bendy's going to be back out here in a little. In a little while. Right now, Mr. Carnegie Gay said that I better earn my supper out here. So we thought, inasmuch as we haven't got too much time and this is the very tail end of 1950, that we just put together a whole lot of numbers here and just sing a little dab of them. Of the numbers that's been mighty good to us through the year 1950. And thanks to you folks for making them that way. Some of our recordings that you folks have accepted and we hope maybe that you'll recognize one of your favorites. Here we go. Going to get out the sycamore. Shine out my shoes. From eating my baby in jellyfill. I bet my bundle on its way back neck came home winter with a plenty of swag. One foot, two foot slew foot rag Swing your honey to the sugar foot rag Dig a little cheek then a zig and somebody's crying.

[Chorus/Singers]

Somewhere.

[Connie B. Gay]

Somebody's heart is blue. Somebody's crying over me somewhere and she knows I'm crying too. In the heart of Dixie and Alabama There's a place we love called Birmingham. Everybody starts rocking and shuffling their feet When a bass starts playing that solid beat. Now if I stand and jump into it, the music starts rocking. Nobody's blue A funny little rhythm with a solid sound Sound A boogie and a jumper called upon and unbound.

[Red Foley]

O.

[Minnie Pearl]

Every.

[Connie B. Gay]

Step of the week, my darling. We'll walk along some.

[Red Foley]

Every.

[Chorus/Singers]

Step.

[Grandpa Jones]

Of.

[Connie B. Gay]

The way, my darling we'll let true love be our guide. Hey, Rock Famous one five in my crooked letter, crooked letter I Crooked letter, crooked letter I Up back, I'm back I Mississippi Flowing down to New Orleans down the river Flowing down to New Orleans Me. Have you ever passed the corner of four grand where the ball rhythm has a shoe shine stand? People gather round and they clap their hands. He's a great big bundle of joy. He pops a boogie woogie rag A chattanoogie shoe shine boy chop just to shine one shoe. He makes the oldest kind of leather look like new. You feel as though you want to dance when he gets through. He's a great big bundle of joy. He pipes a Bookie woogie rag Chattanooga shoe shine boy Night's a wondered fat the rag don't tear the wheat he makes it pop Just listen to him fan the air with his hoppity hibbity hippity hoppity hoppity hippity hoppity's up for business when the clock strikes nine he likes to get em early when they're feeling fine Everybody gets a little rise and shine With a great big bundle of joy he finds a book Chattanooga shoe shine boy Here goes now listen to him.

[Red Foley]

Listen that it goes.

[Minnie Pearl]

Now.

[Connie B. Gay]

It's a wonder that the rag don't care the way he makes it pop Just listen to him in the air Here goes He opens up a business when the clock strikes nine he likes to get them early when they're feeling fine Everybody gets a little rise and shine with the great big farm blue joy he pops a boogie woogie rag the Chattanoogie shoe shine boy Want to go once more the Chattanooga shoe shine.

[Red Foley]

Thank you.

[Connie B. Gay]

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, sir, it's been a lot of fun being here with you. We're going to be back a little later on with another little bit of a show here. And so you folks, you haven't got anywhere else to go. Stay around, will you? Now Mama don't allow that hot music played around here to hear my voice. Mama don't allow that hot music play around here. They're going to play it anyhow they say it now Now Mama don't allow that hot guitar played around here boy. Mama don't allow that hot guitar in here. Now he don't care what your mama don't and I going to play his hot guitar anyhow. That's Brady Mark. Let's give him a nice hand for all this.

[Minnie Pearl]

Hey, look at that boy.

[Red Foley]

Yeah.

[Connie B. Gay]

Now Mama don't allow that face plate right here. Mama don't allow that dog house clean in here.

[Red Foley]

Now we don't care what Mama don't lie one lady's cat out.

[Connie B. Gay]

Hey, that's Ernie Newton. Let's give Ernie Newton a nice big hand. Now Mama don't allow that steel get tired. Mama don't allow that steel guitar in here. Well he don't care what your mama don't allow. He's going to play a steel guitar anyhow. Little 19 year old boy Billy Robinson right here.

[Red Foley]

Singing in here.

[Grandpa Jones]

Oh please no.

[Red Foley]

Well we don't care what's mom and all we're going to sing anyhow. Here we go.

[Chorus/Singers]

In the skies the bright stars glittered on the bank of pale blue and sh Party I will see in Nelly H Now, Mama Norano.

[Connie B. Gay]

Dancing done right here. Mom and Orlando dancing done right here. Well, they don't care what your mama don't allow. They going to do the dance anyhow. Rod and Minnie, hi.

[Minnie Pearl]

Yay.

[Red Foley]

Come on out. Let's give them a great big hand. Let's give him a nice hand. And they're going to start things up here. Oh, here's Red.

[Connie B. Gay]

Some of the folks celebrate the new year, you know, in Nashville, Tennessee. We got five minutes to go here.

[Red Foley]

So in five minutes, we're going to celebrate our new year. So you folks have all had yours.

[Connie B. Gay]

About 55 minutes ago. So in about. In about six minutes here.

[Red Foley]

Well, then, we're going to celebrate our new year up here on.

[Andrew Rines]

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