Kate Smith Show - Grand ol Opry 1952

the Reynolds Metals Company one of America's great producers of aluminum Reynolds aluminum vital for the defense of the nation in the air on land and sea and for so many of your own peacetime needs in your home on the farm in almost every phase of your daily life the Reynolds Metals Company pioneers of progress through aluminum presents the first half of the Kate Smith evening hour [Music] now here is your host and producer Ted Collins welcome to the Kate Smith evening hour you know we have such a big show for you tonight the control room here is about the only spot that they could find for me it is quite a show - I'll guarantee you you're going to see your main street Music Hall that features the stars of WS Em's grand ole opry that's quite a group in itself and your old friends a fella now but it back again tonight you're also going to see Gloria Gilbert and you know this is quite a place to see a show from really this as a matter of fact you see a half-a-dozen shows from here with all the screams and the dials and push buttons and the what nuts now in one of those screens you can see Kate on stage and she's all ready to sing a song for you the title of it is your old cave for TV so let's get in on a shower [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're okay for TV and okay with my song [Applause] [Applause] [Music] with me [Music] predict y'all [Music] I'll ever again [Music] [Applause] with me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] very much thank you so much folks now you know early every Saturday night from nearly every state in our Union folks Jam Ryman Stadium and auditorium down in Nashville Tennessee to see the Grand Ole Opry millions of others listen to the festivities of this grand program on the radio this has been going on now for about 27 years and some of the stars of the show are so popular that they're going to be entertaining this summer here in New York City on the roof of the very famous hotel Astin this evening we brought Tennessee right up to Broadway here is your main street music hall featuring stars of WS M's Grand Ole Opry led by Roy Acuff in their first Network television appearance let's all join in the fun come on let's go [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank You Franz I'm Roy Acuff from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville Tennessee and those were the Cedar Hills square dancers from down in Tennessee speaking of Grand Ole Opry why everybody expects some picking and singing well that's what we're gonna do for you here tonight so we will start off with a little bit of hillbilly fever [Music] me now it's on me Robin Cassidy around when you walk up to a jukebox and you sniffing it clear you can bet your bottom dollar when the record starts is that you know [Music] I spent down in Tennessee in mrs. Lorrimer he was voting sir [Music] but but is round when you don't know your fence come and he go to see your doctor and he says we've got enough but when he looks into that tent and tells you brother I've got news here's a pic naman sweet daddy hear me [Music] I stopped in Tanana we've got a shine and not her [Music] [Music] beavers go and [Applause] oh very nice and now they're altimeter fun let's not get excited out here William I want to take just a minute to introduce you to the folks friends and neighbors this is Jill Carter gave you the croup June well I was over there at picking and sang in front of songs you boys over there Phil then when it was around on mr. pouring down rain and I got so Punk to the bone I did and I'll go without trying to get in out of the rain and I took around and going at each other not at all no - no no June June not a walkover a foxhole all maneuvers they have foxhole not will hold well like I said see I took the round go era and a jug Anila hole you jumped in the foxhole not the hole well a fox might have done the thing but they sure dear let's forget foolishness and you introduce mama Maybelle and all your into our family with you huh alright I like to nanana need a mother lay down acceptable sang a little song lazy [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] No [Music] [Music] oh that's penny thank you neighbors and now let's go back and have some good old Tennessee square dancing start the music [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Rinku partner thank you wait a minute you he's having a hard time out there wasn't his house let them be hugs it's gonna be a lot of us men down in Tennessee Eric Hogg's about our women but a strong I've got a partner here at the very partner for you have you hired him Hank William go right [Applause] June honey I got a song I wrote just specially for you I'm saying just for you what is it it's called hey good look you got cooking Oh baby don't you think baby I got a hot rod for dat a $2.00 pill and I know the spot right over the hill fast soda pop and the dancers free so if you wanna have fun come along with me you gotta cook it I love cooking something up [Music] got pretty [Music] instead it I'm saving all your time of me [Applause] [Music] instead it company I'm gonna jump over the fence if I p15 a good sense till it's government your name why'd you got cooking [Music] [Applause] that's not nice you know what the grand ole opry we have all different kind of entertainments we can go in for a lot of fun as well as some of our sad numbers so we've got a fella back here it complains a lot too he's all the time is saying I'm going back to the wagon these shoes are killing me oh I sure am glad to be back on a grand ole opry where it's safe and sound I went up to New York City for the Kate Smith show and I'm telling you they got the wildest automobile drivers in that town ever I've seen if the fact I'm taxicab drivers in Times Square was all driving like they was in a hurry for their accident to happen and get it over with one day I started across the street down there they please pull hard alright hillbilly get back and watch my lights I got back and watched his lights for about a half hour they no different any other lights I ever I said hey when do I go across he said go on the green I said how come you got lines on his feet he said that's your safety zone hey I got it figured out now if you get hit outside the line in Times Square it don't count this they miss you outside the line on one corner they get three more shots at you at the next stop while I was in New York I was standing out in front of the Astra hotel that's where I stayed out in front of the Astra hotel I had a lot of contracts for a television and radio I had them all my hip pocket standing out there was back from the curb just minding my own business and don't you know one of them speed demons come along and clip me right on my contract and what I hit that curb I busted my contract then that smart aleck driving that car studies it after winning hotter you better watch out I raised up by the gutter I said what's the matter you coming back a guy hit me I didn't mind him enrolling me in the gutter but it just burned me up when he pulled out his knife and cut another notch on the steering wheel yeah his wife with him she give him a nut she said why did you do what I told you said why'd you tell me she said I told you to give that man the ride away he said all no I thought you said get him right away in New York's it's like any other time that you've ever been in I'm there it's wild it's Saturday is the big day there in Times Square it's Saturday they don't even blow the horn at you they're scared you'll get away evening and you want to be over there there's this one way you got to be born over there and in New York everybody's talking about women drivers just like everyplace else that's all women driver women I didn't see nothing wrong with him they was knocking down just as many as the men were I got over them two story buses you know gonna take a ride of paper fare lift around no seats and I said hey no seats he said go upstairs there's plenty of seats up there and I went upstairs in about two minutes I was back I said give him a money back I'm getting off of here he said you mean to tell me they know seats up there I said yeah plenty seats no driver the bright lights of New York is alright to see but I'm going back to the wagon these shoes are killing me I'll get out oh well that was the Duke of Paducah and we have a lot of fun at the Opry as you can see and we go in sometime for just plain noise making and when we go in for noise making we always call for a pap and his jug band they're gonna do a little number called he's too old to cut the mustard anymore [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] when our young had an automobile I screwed myself I don't know the wheel you fat girl off with a stick I always say you make me sick [Music] [Music] [Applause] very kind and now then I would like for all of you boys together back around and the Carter Family and all of you back there and let's sing on an old camp meeting song one that Hank Williams wrote I saw the life I [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I want away Melissa laughs you and my dears a period in Jesus pain [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] I was wondering straight the street is hidden arrows away now I have prayed it wrong all right [Music] [Music] [Applause] random neighbors we've certainly enjoyed playing for you wonderful folks all of you Ernest begin at your home thanks for letting us come in Randall offer entertainment and thanks to Kate Smith and Penn College for the invitation tonight neighbors [Applause] Charlie tremendously it was wonderful having having all you folks here with us they know most of us can only get a vacation once a year isn't that true well one wonderful spot that I'd like to recommend is Jamaica in the West Indies and tonight you're going to see Jamaica with an added attraction here's a lot a young lady planning her vacation to Jamaica in the West Indies only a few hours from the United States a beautiful tropic Island rising from the blue Caribbean Sea Jamaica golden beaches under the warm inviting Sun and above the cool freshness of the mountains where waterfalls sparkle their happy way down but Jamaica is not only an isle of scenery Jamaica is an isle of people happy people proud of Jamaica glad to live there and tourists glad to be there enjoying all kinds of sports playing in the Sun or on the water yes Jamaica is a perfect vacation spot but Jamaica now is doubly important important to the whole free world because here has been discovered bauxite the ore from which aluminium is made Rennels aluminum for the Reynolds Metals Company has been foremost in developing Jamaican bauxite first through Reynolds research to process this special type of or then with efficient new ways to mine these surface deposits huge cylindrical bins to stockpile the or rotating kills to dry it and make it ready for the overhead conveyors that carry the or right to the loading dock Reynolds owned deepwater dock in the harbor of orchha Rios from where a special self unloading ship will take the are over the short route to the USA to Corpus Christi Texas and the giant new plants that will expand Reynolds aluminum capacity by an additional 160 million pounds a year more aluminum for the nation's defense and more aluminum for all your needs from the vacation land of Jamaica and the Reynolds Metals Company pioneers of progress through aluminum [Music] [Music] it's no [Music] when we do some I think it's ready [Music] but it [Music] laughs you [Music] if your [Music] [Music] they saw mmm sunshine a high each so laughs your head [Music] if your [Music] and your peeps any song remember behind each bloody let your head Oh [Applause] like Scott wasn't ladies and gentlemen just a few minutes ago the Reynolds metal company told you about developing large deposits of bauxite aluminum ore on the island of Jamaica and the West Indies well now Reader's Digest has a story about this sunny vacation spot its colorful past and it's bright future in agriculture cattle raising and now in the mining of bauxite it's called put and take in Jamaica and believe me is a very fascinating article so make sure that you read it ain't you you'll find it the April issue of Reader's Digest and it's now on your newsstands and now I suppose that you do realize that we have a second half coming up there's gonna be a great in the second half because Ethel and Albert will be there and Kate will have some more songs for you so don't go away just stay with us and we'll be right with you this first half of the Kate Smith evening hour is brought to you by the makers of Reynolds aluminum the Reynolds Metals Company listen to the big show every Sunday on NBC radio brought to you by Reynolds aluminum [Music] the Kate Smith evening hour presented by new Wonder sudsing Babel [Music] goal sink smart the guy who makes your sink look dull and dingy he's being swept away by new Babel world sudsy as cleanser yes new babo outside any other cleanser wider no sink smog with bear Oh [Music] tonight the Kate Smith evening hour is presenting your Main Street Music Hall featuring stars of WS M's grand ole opry Ethel and Albert and Gloria Gilbert and here's the star of the show and your hostess the first play T of television and radio Kate Smith [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] wonderful it marvelous that you should say [Music] paradise is what I love [Music] [Applause] my life though glamorous you can't blame me for feeling ever wonderful it marvelous that should care all right [Music] father [Music] paradigm [Music] you can't blame me [Music] [Applause] thank you very very much now folks I guess I don't have to tell any of you what it's like to have a toothache no one likes to have one I know that but there are people who would rather endure the pain of the toothache the world's worst toothache and to get up courage enough to go to the dentist let's see what happens to Ethel and Albert when Albert finds himself in a spot just like that as usual peg lynch has written the scene expertly and she and Alan Bunce play it superbly suppose we go over now to 4:44 Edgecomb Road sandy harbour and visit Ethel [Music] [Music] [Music] oh I hurt you get up honey you didn't come back to the motor then I'm sorry honey I just couldn't sleep that's all no no you know you you go on back to bed see oh you've got a toothache no I have now adjusted a little twinjets oh I'm an appointment with a dentist two weeks to go didn't you keep it hello do you you go on back to bed will you honey Albert Albert didn't we didn't you order this I had a business appointment and I couldn't get away not look it's all right now stop worrying well yeah I got teeth like iron you haven't got teeth like iron you've got teeth like everybody else and we all have to go to the dentist regularly home I don't know why you get so mad at me when I talk about the dentist for heaven's sakes we lose our teeth quick enough without taking unnecessary chances all right all right all right all right you want to be toothless before you not I just want to talk about it I just want to talk about it anymore that's all right and don't say ball right like that I I just want to talk about I in the metaphors benefactor right I don't think it's my tooth anyhow I think it's a nerve in my cheek here when I get the hot water bottle for the nerve in your cheek I'm bad I don't know why you're scared to go to the dentist I'm not scared to go to the dentist he says what what what is there to be scared of that's kids I mean it's just a nuisance that's all scared I mean I'm a busy man I go to the dentist if I had time I I mean if I find me for to which I certainly don't I mean after all nothing to be scared of nothing to the dentist you just here dear oh yeah oh thank you no no thank you hurt pretty badly oh maybe a five lie down yes all right through there oh no don't don't pat me like that honey Oh maybe if I he sat up maybe if I walked around a little bit oh no idea oh I think it felt better sitting down I you know I don't think it is my tooth I think I just thought maybe I just caught cold in this cheek maybe it uh maybe oh well I suppose we all reach that stage where we begin to fall to pieces you're not falling to pieces well I haven't said much but you know I haven't really been feeling up to par lately well for heaven's sakes you're dead tired we stay up all night long practically to watch television you've been getting about five and six hours sleep and you need a Thomas Edison got along on four hours but you're not Thomas Edison besides he napped all day long well I don't know I just feel as though I was sort of crumbling well you're not crumbling no I'm not getting any younger adults are getting any younger for heaven's sakes we even get older we die well I I don't know I just feel as if life was passing me by I haven't done the things I thought by this time I'd have a better job one that I like better I don't know I just keep thinking of all the things that I wanted to get for you and oh honey I'm a very happy woman oh I don't care about the dishwasher for heaven's sakes don't like thinking about the dishwasher huh no I don't know I just thinking about all the things I wanted to do with my life now I realized that I'm never gonna do them that's wrong what did you want to do now millions of st. all that all the books I wanted to read all the places I wanted to travel to and I always wanted to be an archaeologist and go digging in ruins for prehistoric animals and fossils things I always wanted to fly a plane and well you take messages out at the airport dear oh yeah but I mean I don't know I always wanted to go to the South Col no no why I just always wanted to go there well we could take separate vacations this year dear if you know anybody that's going I don't know anybody that's going well what would you do down there I don't know maybe I are puno whale uh-huh well it's fun for you dear so I know his life is just slipping by and I'm wasting it pretty soon I'll be too old when I get too old I won't even dare to try to get a better job so was this stuck here sandy Harbor for the rest of our lives same old house but I think the house will look better dare we have a new carpet for the stairs and I spoke to mrs. garrison about her dog and she has promised that he won't knock over the garbage can anymore it's true the garbage all over the yard Oh Ethel if anything should happen I'm not I want you to know you you you've been a wonderful wife Oh Albert well I'm you're mine my will and everything is in good order in the safety deposit box oh honey now the doorman and I think that's the light I'd want you to marry again Oh for here I got you to marry no I mean I I really I want that understood I would I would want you to marry again not right all right all right on God promise you don't have to promise you happen to meet somebody that's alright I bail haha you got somebody already in mind dying you've got a cavity in your - well are you honest and here you are in the middle of civilization you can go to a dentist and be relieved of your pain instead you want to leave me and go romping off to the South Pole to harpoon a whale and what would you do down at the South Pole if you had a toothache and no dentist for thousands of miles I pulled out myself with a pair of pliers you take a sliver out of your finger guard go on go on that's right quarrel with me pick a fight Here I am practically dying an agony now all right all right I admit it it is just my truth oh just now no one I'll go to the dance don't call it call it now dear the middle of the night well call him up the first thing in the morning would you decide how early was my darling yes is it terribly [Music] Oh operator give me locus two six eight seven four please yes dr. Paul Z this is Ethel Arbuckle did I wake you oh good well Albert has had a terrible night he's just been an agony yes I think it's the same back to yes well I hate to ask you but you suppose you could possibly go to your office a little early you don't take him before your regular appointment oh that's wonderful of you quarter to nine I see that's fine hi honey how are you fine fine for boy then a beautiful day huh look honey I don't think I'll have time for breakfast I'll just grab a cup of coffee on my way downtown I gotta be there on 8:30 no dear no quarter to nine quarter to nine no no darling 8:30 he's coming in from Chicago Oh where's Carmichael one of our biggest clients I'm talking about the dentist Dennis what dentist about you to think what to thing what all bad honey all that it feels fine Hey look I wouldn't possibly have time to go to the dentist in Everett Albert I've gotta meet Carmichael honey why don't you go and get it over with done because it feels fine and that's why I think it really wasn't my tooth to talk I think was a nerve Albert wants to speak to us tomorrow maybe George speaks French take a kick hello that's corset hi-yah oh look dr. Ford I'm terribly sorry I'm tied up all day today I'm afraid I wouldn't have him lunch hour oh I wouldn't want you to work during what twelve-thirty well Yara all right dr. faucet YUM well that's very kind of you yeah thank you very much I'll be there and I'd dear in the years to come you'll think I am going to change my will and leave everything to the Garrett's and dog [Music] you know for months now I've been getting such very nice letters from you people out there about all new brand new bamboo some women say that they just loved new babbles cool clean fresh fragrance others say that new Babu is kinder than ever to the hands but everybody agrees those wonderful Power Packs certain brand new Babu sweep away sink smog in seconds and leave your sink brighter whiter than any other cleanser yes sink smog that dull gray dingy FilmOn sinks now here's what causes sink smog if you looked under a magnifying glass you would see that even the finest porcelain has millions of tiny pits and that's where you find great smog I'm the guy who makes you sink look dull and dingy I gather up grease food particles I fill up the porcelain pits and give ladies terrible fish she's gonna try and get rid of me with an ordinary cleanser ha ha ha ha ordinary cleansers can't clean me away when they don't get down here where I stay riders riders yes babbles power-packed suds work down into those porcelain bits sweep away sinks smog in seconds bab-oh cleans your sink brighter whiter than any other cleanser in the world such a clean fragrance - that's why so many many many my brighter wider don't seem small with their [Music] now now there's a view of the show that you never expected to see digit you may not know it but you are right above the stage now Miz your long as you're there why not imagine that you're a piece of scenery you know go even higher just keep on going up that's the idea you've got five or six more stories to go so just keep right on going up Esther sets the curtains the pipes all the lights and so forth until you get a real bird's-eye view of the stage things look pretty small bump there I guess don't they well out the height doesn't make you dizzy we have a young lady here who certainly will do the trick she's Gloria Gilbert Gilbert does some amazing spins and turns on her toes so why don't you get a good look at those toes get a real good look at those toes I guarantee you'll get dizzy here is Gloria guilty [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] say if you ever noticed how mothers always seem to be complaining about all of the junk that they youngster stuff into their pockets you know things like Hopalong Cassidy but knees worms maybe first upset today old wad of chewing gum maybe a few dead frogs but what about mom ourself is she really any better now honestly did you ever take a good look into a woman's pocketbook I'd like to try a sample experiment this evening I wonder if there is a woman here in the audience or kind of really or will you bring her in please I just like to try to prove a point this is mrs. Harriet Johnson from Baltimore make yourself at home thank you many things in your purse then oh just a few the usual hodson is really would you mind if I reveal the contents or our audience here would you take a chance all right I'm sure is everything I mean I just want to see if I can prove a point here today now really now let's see what we have here oh well the comb what happened here a little bit well compact every woman's friend everyone's friend [Music] well I can't figure this you know you must have had a real hard life 52 insurance [Music] are you on your way to someplace way opening shot yeah very much well I heard you call get the tickets I haven't a dime what else have you got here anything oh I mean you're not gonna really quick I gotta get home well of course naturally Friday will be coming up private life oh no not wait oh oh you don't mean to tell me how'd you look baby right with you all the time you know that wonderful well what else have we got Oh bottle of milk now what are you doing with the bottle now well that is a pop of miss Thomas but it belongs to my three months old British accent well congrats a date congratulation isn't it that way it looks to me like you've got everything in this first but two three months old baby [Laughter] for Cinderella she couldn't go to the ball until she cleaned the sink now Cinderella had a tumbler to have no babo made it rough but she worked harder than a dog but she couldn't get rid of all sinks too bad she could only wish she had miners and then appeared a berry we will make that sink smog disappear yes babos power-packed suds sweeps away sink smog in seconds no more drudgery its battle for me my pride a fighter no sink smog with babo last week we took you outside to a street corner here in New York but it was a little bit damp and cold out there so tonight we have moved the street corner inside of theater it's a lot more comfortable to see me now this is the sort of a corner that you will find all over America few stores a house of two and a little park where people can enjoy life a little bit now if this was a corner around Broadway you would find people talking about the forthcoming revival of a great musical show the title of it is of the I see and if you look around this particular corner you will find Kate and some of the music from the show so suppose we just take a look [Music] be I think baby come along with our brain you're my moon there's a lull I'm nodding all because of you ah me [Applause] Hey maybe guiding star and inspiration worthy of mighty nation I think our love [Music] [Music] Soren inspiration worthy of me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I think [Music] colliding your mind [Music] because of you [Music] [Applause] [Music] Katya thanks for being with us then grande being with all of you folks and we'll be back at the same time next Wednesday until then God bless you all and good night folks [Music] [Applause] great this portion of the cake Smith evening hour will be brought to you by North you don't know what you're missing if you don't see north [Music] tune in next week when the Kate Smith evening hour will be brought to you by the makers of Reynolds aluminum the Reynolds Metals Company and Nord over most of these same stations

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Views: 18,546

Rating: 4.9836063 out of 5

Keywords: Americana, Grand Ole Opry

Id: WfDfOin8CFM

Length: 59min 8sec (3548 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 31 2019