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Andrew Rines
Welcome to the Old Time Radio Westerns. I'm your host Andrew Rines and let's get into this episode. This episode's gonna be Grand Ole Opry Original air dates November 22, 1952. This episode's entitled don't let the stars get in your eyes. We've got Red Foley in the lead role. Hope you enjoy and again, thanks for listening.
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Red Foley
It'S Granville Apricot starring Red Bully. Don't let the stars get in your eyes don't let the moon break your heart Love looms at night in daylight it dies don't let the stars get in your eyes Keep your heart for me for someday I'll return and you know you're the only one I'll ever love Too many night, too many stars Too many moons to change your mind if I'm gone too long don't forget where you belong when the stars come out Remember you are mine Let the stars get in your eyes don't let the moon break your heart Love blooms at night in delighted eyes don't let the stars get in your eyes Keep your heart from me for someday I'll return and you know you're the only one I'll ever love. Too many days, too many night don't let the star get in your eyes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And a great big howdy to all my good friends at Davis. A Grand Old Opry. And a great big howdy right back at you, Red Pulley. From all of us here at the Ryman Auditorium here in Nashville, Tennessee. Folks from all over America are gathered here tonight to see and hear Rod Brassfield, Minnie Pearl, the Foggy River Boys, Spring Bean and the entire gang. And just for some extra icing on the cake, we got us a mighty sweet little gal all the way up out here from California making a return visit by Special request, Ms. Sue Thompson. Yes, Sue will be out here in just a few minutes, but now she and all the rest of us are anxious to hear what all's been doing down in Grinder Switch the past week. So here to tell the news is our best gal, Cousin Minnie Pearl.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Just proud to be here. Well, I got a postcard right here from my Aunt Abigail in Flaherty. She's my maiden aunt and she summers at Niagara Falls, winters at Miami beach and springs at Men's. Well, Aunt Abby said the men in this hotel have been grabbing girls in dark hallways and kissing them. So I had to complain to the manager not one of them tried to kiss me. Well, I've got some More questions in the mail here on the question and answer column in the Grinder Switch Gazette.
Red Foley
Minnie, by the way, how is the question and answer column going down there, huh?
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Well, Red, it's like the feller says, watching the hula Hula dancer. It sure peps up the circulation.
Red Foley
Here.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Red, you read the questions that have come in this week?
Red Foley
All right. Let me see here. Says here the first one, man, it says, dear Minnie, when my boyfriend calls on me, he doesn't want to do anything but sit in the parlor and kiss me from 8 o' clock till 12. Do you think we spend too much time on kissing? And it's signed, puzzled, Dear Puzz.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Them the kind of puzzles I enjoy working on personal. But I always found that kissing is like eating soup with a fork. It takes a long time to get enough.
Red Foley
Here's another one. Here's another one. She says, Dear Minnie says, my husband says I've been putting on too much weight and if I don't reduce, he'll leave me. Didn't he promise to love me for better or for worse? And it signed, Punkins.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Dear Punk, better take it off. He promised to love you for better or for worse, but not through thick and thin.
Red Foley
And wait a minute, that's all I got ready for this time.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Well, I tell you right now, Red, I thank you for helping me. And now for the news from the Switch. Ain't nobody asleep at the Switch. Well, after we all went over to Poker Face Perkins Silver wedding anniversary, he said. Before they was married, he told her he wasn't good enough for her. And for the last 25 years she's been trying to prove it. Well, another interesting event was Nellie Sturm had a birthday party this week. And ain't it awful how old some folks get? I remember when me and Nellie was the same age. Now she's got young un's.
Red Foley
My age.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
I think 22's a nice age, don't you? Especially when you're my age. Brother. Brother was at the party. And ever since the New Year, he's been trying to make a fresh start. Always gets his face slapped. Uncle Nabob was sure having a good time.
Rod Bradfield
Uncle Nabob was.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
He don't never do nothing by halves. Just by fifth. Nellie Stern's niece was there from the city and she had on one of them low neck, low back evening dresses. She sure was a live wire. She sparked with the men, shocked the women and wasn't properly insulated.
Sue Thompson
We had a big.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
We made a big discovery at that party about Mark Graves. He's our local undertaker, he turns out. I'll tell you right now, that March, we found out something about him we didn't know. He's a real good musician. He can play two instruments at the same time.
Red Foley
Really?
Sue Thompson
He does.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Sure enough, out of one side of his mouth he plays the trumpet. And out of the other side of his mouth, he plays the clarinet. Yes, sir. The other night, with the left side of his mouth, he was playing lightly, just a bowl of cherries. And out of the right side of his mouth he played in the shade of the old apple tree. And all the time he's playing, he's blowing the seeds out the middle of his mouth. Brother Sitka had his car out there and got it all banged up. Just this last week he was out driving on the highway and he was driving on the wrong side of the road. And I said, brother, don't you ever see that white line down the highway? That's a guy. You stay on the right side and the people going in the opposite direction stay on the other side of it. And brother was so surprised, he said he always thought that white line was for bicycles. Ain't no flies on brother, not since we got ddt. Well, nowadays, old Brother, he's real smart. He's going to bed and down at the foot of the bed, he's got a turtle tied there. Every night, a snapping turtle tied at the bottom of his bed. I asked him why he put a snapping turtle at the foot of his bed and he just smiled, sort of silly like, and said he always did like a quick bite before going to sleep.
Red Foley
Well, this is the first time we set eyes on tonight's pretty visitor from out West. Every musician on the stage here had this to say about her, unquote. And they wasn't just thinking of vitality either. But this fine recording star sure has more than her share of talent as well as good looks. So let's bring her out here right now. Ms. Sue Hobson. Like Moran's got that to say, too. Well, sue, we're sure glad that you could get back with us and tell us what you've been doing since we saw you last.
Sue Thompson
Well, Red, besides getting married. Oh, why, I've been doing our regular TV show every week, and we do personal appearances and little radio. We do Friday and Saturday night at Riverside Rancho with an NBC show out of the Rancho.
Red Foley
Wait, that's. For a little bitty girl like you, that's a mighty big schedule. You think you have time to sing us a couple of songs?
Sue Thompson
I sure have red and the first one is how many tears make an ocean. How many tears make an ocean Just count the tears I've shed over you and how many hearts have you broken Searching for somebody new how many stars in the sky now that you told me goodbye and how many tears making I sh. Just count the tears I've shed over you. Sat. You told me goodbye how many tears make an ocean? Just count the tears I've shed over you.
Red Foley
I'd rather have Jesus than sit silver or gold I'd rather be his than have riches untold I'd rather have Jesus than houses or lands I'd rather be led by his me pierced hand Than to be the king of vast domain and be held in sin's grip sway I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world affords today. I'd rather have Jesus than millions of laws I'd rather be faithful to his due cause I'd rather have Jesus than worldwide faith I'd rather be true to his holy name Than to be be the king of the vast domain and be held in sin dread SW I'd rather have Jesus than anything this world of today. Well sir, I guess we all like Bright singing the way the Foger river boys sing it. That's why the boys are so popular everywhere they go tonight. The Foger River Boys singing I'll Walk Them golden stairs I'm gonna walk walk them golden stairs Cause I know my Jesus answers all my prayers well I know when he calls me to my home on high I walk them golden stairs When I die When I die when my Jesus says to me well done and all my cares are laid I lay down my sword My battles all are won I walk them golden stairs When I die When I die well well well I'm gonna walk walk them golden stairs Cause I know my Jesus answers all my prayers well I know when he calls me to my home on high I walk them going stairs When I die When I die oh Lord, I walk this notion we think I could find. I walk them golden stairs When I dine When I dine oh Lord, you know I can hardly wait to reach that sweet by and by but now I see the pearly gates I'll walk them golden stairs When I die When I die well well, well I poor more poor walking world I'm. Well I know when he calls me to my home on high I want him going to stand When I die When I die. Ah, that's wonderful, boys. Yes, sir. Well, Jim, glad to see you folks like them. You know Hornwald, Tennessee, is a little town about two hoops and a holler up the road. But they'll tell you that they've got one of the biggest comics in the country as their leading citizen. And the way you folks respond to him, well, we think Hornwall is right. And here he is, our good buddy, Rod Bradfield.
Rod Bradfield
I thank you men behind that, that was pretty good. Howdy, Ms. Foley, Ms. Frank Cheese.
Red Foley
Glad to see you.
Rod Bradfield
Hey, Mr. Ed, did I tell you that I got in a big boxing fight the other night with old Frisbee Frank over in our old barn overnight?
Red Foley
Well, I heard something about that. But look, Buddy, you know you shouldn't fight. You know that, don't you?
Rod Bradfield
Yeah, I know it. Yeah, I felt the same way about Red, but my Uncle Sip was my manager.
Red Foley
Yeah.
Rod Bradfield
And he kept saying to me, rodney, you can beat Frisbee hands down. Beat him hands down?
Red Foley
You could probably whip Grandpa Jones, too.
Rod Bradfield
I probably could, yeah, but I could beat old Frisbee hands down. The only trouble was he wouldn't keep his hands down. Just before the fight started there, Uncle Cyp leans right over close to me and yells right in my ear.
Red Foley
What the yell in your ear?
Rod Bradfield
Well, he says to me, he says, frisbee beats his wife, Rod, he beats his wife, he kicks his kid, he starves his mummy. And that just made me bun it fighting mad.
Red Foley
Boy, I'll bet it did.
Rod Bradfield
Yeah, it's one thing I can't stand somebody yelling in my ear.
Red Foley
All right, look, buddy, look at me in the face here. You know, you look a little puny tonight.
Rod Bradfield
I don't feel so hot. By the way, it ain't so hot tonight.
Red Foley
Why don't you see old Doc, catch him about?
Rod Bradfield
Oh, I done been to see Doc.
Red Foley
Catch him M F And what the hat say?
Rod Bradfield
He said I had hardening of the artillery.
Red Foley
Hardening of the artillery?
Rod Bradfield
That's what he said.
Red Foley
That's silly, Rod.
Rod Bradfield
I know it's silly, cuz I ain't even in the ar. You know something, Ms. Foley? I ain't worried about it at all because I'm sort of puny and chic. I ain't worried about it at all because I come from a family of long livers.
Red Foley
Is that right?
Rod Bradfield
That's right. My dad has got the longest liver in Hornwell. It's a foot and a half long.
Red Foley
Brother, you got the longest liver.
Rod Bradfield
Did I tell you that him, Aunt Sam and Uncle Sip invited me over to their house for supper the other night.
Red Foley
I say, right, how'd it turn out.
Rod Bradfield
Well, it didn't turn out so good because when I got over there, there was poor old ain't SAP stuck in the stove.
Red Foley
Yeah.
Rod Bradfield
Stuck in the stove.
Red Foley
Yeah.
Rod Bradfield
And the stove was on about 450° and there the poor soul was stuck in the stove. Stuck in it.
Red Foley
Is that right? Yeah. What you do?
Rod Bradfield
Well, what could we do? Every 10 minutes we basted her. Ms. Bull, speaking of basting and eating and all that sort of thing and cooking everything, me and my uncle cy come up here the other day and we went down here to a restaurant to get us something to eat. We went in the cafe and this pretty little girl come walking up to us. And I says to her, I said, lady, have you got frog legs? She says, no, I've had rheumatism. That's what makes. But she charged me a dollar and a half to eat there. Charged me a dollar and a half.
Red Foley
Man, that's expensive.
Rod Bradfield
I walked up to that there lady behind the cash register there at the payer. I says, lady, how much stole you? And she says, a dollar and a half. Hadn't had hardly nothing. Yeah. I looked at her, I said, what's that around your neck there, honey? And she says, that's my necklace. Why, what do you think it was? I said, well, I thought maybe it might be your gardener. Everything else is a high.
Red Foley
Well, sir, I can't think of anything better right now than another song by tonight's special guest. Here she is once more, Ms. Sue Thompson. What you going to do for us?
Grainger HVAC Technician
This thing?
Sue Thompson
Well, this one's called you're an angel on the outside, a devil on the inside.
Red Foley
That's a pretty.
Manufacturing Plant Purchasing Manager
Here we go.
Sue Thompson
You're going to lose your baby and A.D. maybe. Cause what you are will soon show through. You're an angel on the outside a devil on the inside. But I'm still in love with you. You've got them all deluded but I'm not included they don't know you like.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
I do.
Sue Thompson
You'Re an angel on the outside the devil on the inside but I'm still in love with you I'm.
Red Foley
Lured to your charms like a magnet.
Sue Thompson
Cat just a little piece of steel I'm caught in your arms like a dragnet but I know your love's not real your love's a ghostly vision it's mostly your decision now that you say we're through. You're an angel on the outside a devil on the inside but I'm still in love with you. I'm lord to your charmed like a magnet capture such a piece of steel? I'm calling you arms like a dragnet? But I know your love's not real? Your love's a ghostly vision? It's mostly your decision now that you say we're through. You're an angel on the outside? The devil on the inside? But I'm still in love with you. But I'm still in love with you.
Red Foley
Well, see, you know, a good song is something the fella never wants to be without. And tonight we have a little blues song here, just that type of the song called Deep Blues. Deep blues are falling around me. Deep blues have shackled and bound me. That too forever will hound me as long as I'm blue. Oh, what'll I do? She's gone, I'm so down the river. Hey. It's the love that I give her. I know she'll haunt me forever. Deep in the blues. Deep blues. This heart inside of me cries out it knows no I'm crying my eyes out. Love's clean, just flickers and dies out? Deep in the blues. Deep blues.
Rod Bradfield
Opry came to you from nashville, tennessee. This is the united states armed forces radio service.
Red Foley
Sam.
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Manufacturing Plant Purchasing Manager
If you're the purchasing manager at a manufacturing plant, you know having a trusted partner makes all the difference. That's why hands down, you count on Grainger for auto reordering. With on time restocks, your team will have the cut resistant gloves they need at the start of their shift and you can end your day knowing they've got safety well in hand. Call 1-800-GRAINGER Click grainger.com or just stop by Grainger for the ones who get it done.
Grainger HVAC Technician
If you're an H Vac technician and a call comes in, Grainger knows that you need a partner that helps you find the right product fast and hassle free.
Cousin Minnie Pearl
Free.
Grainger HVAC Technician
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Red Foley
Foreign.
Andrew Rines
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Red Foley
Do you get it? I got it.
Rod Bradfield
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Old Time Radio Westerns with Andrew Rhynes
Episode: Red Foley "Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes" | Grand Ole Opry (11-22-52)
Date: January 22, 2026
This episode of Old Time Radio Westerns transports listeners to the golden age of country music with a restored 1952 broadcast of the Grand Ole Opry. Headlined by legendary crooner Red Foley, the show features musical performances, down-home comedy sketches, and lively banter from the Ryman Auditorium stage in Nashville. Special guests like Cousin Minnie Pearl, Sue Thompson, Rod Bradfield, and the Foggy River Boys bring classic Americana humor and heartfelt songs, all enhanced by the podcast’s signature audio restoration.
The episode blends warmth, wit, and classic mid-century musical entertainment. There’s a strong sense of nostalgia throughout, with performers engaging directly with the live audience and each other in a tone that’s down-to-earth, jovial, and sincere. The comedic sketches retain their rural charm, while the musical segments spotlight both heartbreak and hope—a reflection of the American country tradition.
This Grand Ole Opry episode (originally aired Nov. 22, 1952) is a delightful showcase of mid-century country music and classic variety show humor, curated with today’s crystal-clear audio restoration. With Red Foley as both performer and congenial host, standout comic interludes from Minnie Pearl and Rod Bradfield, and the melodic talents of Sue Thompson and the Foggy River Boys, listeners are transported to the heart of Nashville’s musical scene, where tender ballads, homespun wisdom, and laughter mingle beneath the Opry stage lights.
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Listeners are treated to laughter, stories, musical nostalgia, and a little slice of American radio history—restored for a new generation.