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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, with our fingers crossed, we present on
behalf of the makers of Volume Cool Cigarette, the special
Hollywood edition of the Tommy Dotsy Amateur Swing Contest. We
have here five amateur musicians east. In turn, we'll play
a chorus with Tommy and the band and the applause.
Meitter will record the response each one gets from the audience.
And our prize was seventy five US stots of the winner.
(00:26):
From here out at each man for himself.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Has there anything to add before we start?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Tummy?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
This whole time, you see it everybody, and we'll see
what happens.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Who's first?
Speaker 5 (00:41):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
The first contestant is a young man named Richard Powell.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Lad's the Cornett? Have you have? You got a nickname?
Speaker 6 (00:50):
Some people call me Dick.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Dick Powell. That's a nice name.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
Now tell me, Dick, what's your regular job.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I do picture work. I see photography. That's very interesting.
Speaker 6 (01:04):
Yes, well it is once you get the hang of it.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Dick, how long have you been playing corn net?
Speaker 5 (01:12):
I don't like the way you said that, but I've
been playing about twelve years.
Speaker 6 (01:16):
Of course, on the side, I do picture work.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes, I know, yes, you Are you working now?
Speaker 7 (01:22):
I tell you working now?
Speaker 5 (01:23):
Oh well, yeah, yes, I walked the floor night.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
It's the girl you know.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
On the side.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
I do picture work.
Speaker 7 (01:34):
Yeah, we went over that dick. Now, don't see nervous?
Tell me you you having a job playing cornet?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Now? Have you? No?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
No, I'm kind of waiting to get word any day now, Well,
don't worry, kids, something will turn up.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
I'll say this, You're one of the best stress layoffs
I've ever met.
Speaker 6 (01:53):
I don't want to want to hear you cats, But
if you don't get me a play into sooner, I
think my lipple pucker.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Out and probably will. Anyway, I heard Himley Fonder a
couple of weeks ago. Yeah, if you if you win
the seventy five dollars, what are you going to do
with it?
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I think I'll get an airplane fly to Ireland.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Well, before you take off, when do you want to play?
Speaker 8 (02:15):
Well, I'm gonna whip hop for a little course of ida.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
You've got to take his four bars on the till.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
And where we go?
Speaker 4 (02:22):
All right?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I hope it hits. That's well, he's got a sight.
Speaker 8 (02:49):
Just to look good to me.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
John before.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Thank you, Thank you, said you're dick to the next contestant.
Speaker 7 (03:30):
Here it comes friends.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
The next contestant is a young man who plays the clarinet.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
His name is Ken Murray. Ken, Ken, What do you do?
I used to work in Hollywood hotel you did? What?
Were you? A bell hop? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Bell hop in a troubled on nightclubs.
Speaker 7 (03:49):
And so you played clarinet.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Whatever, whatever gave you.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
The idea of playing the clara bell. I'm glad you've
asked me.
Speaker 8 (03:58):
That's to it, because I'm in dying. I tell you
that six weeks ago I mailed in the coupons. Other
fellows left me in the social background.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I was a wallflower.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
Girls avoided me. I had always thought myself musically dumb,
still the ass that it was easy. So I mailed
in the coupon sent for the true tonge Hawaiian steal guitar,
and this is what I got. After a couple of lessons,
I was playing the easier tunes, and now after six lessons,
I'm popularity about the life of every part.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Only last night I was at a party when I
picked the planet out of the case.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
They all began to last.
Speaker 8 (04:36):
When I sat down at the piano. They gave me
the merry haha.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
And when I danced with her, she turned the head away.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
I played.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
I played my own.
Speaker 8 (04:47):
Kentucky home, my old Kentucky home. I played, and the
fellow side the cry, and I walked aways a guys.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Of the U Kentucky, he said, no musician.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
But tonight, ladies and gentlemen, you.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Know I've almost I asked you how you started to play? Now?
Speaker 7 (05:00):
Ain't going to swing up with now a killer killer?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
No?
Speaker 8 (05:02):
I thought something of the Bennett. So tonight I would
like to give my impression, mister fitz Christ. We're playing
three o'clock in the morning on the violin.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
I'll play it on the clarinet.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
All right, man, that's fine, ken, But first I'd like
to hear you play a little bit.
Speaker 8 (05:14):
Oh you want to know what kind of instrument? Hey, well,
I want to make a little apology. This is what
is known as a Joan Crawford clarinet.
Speaker 9 (05:19):
No tone, all.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I clept that in the night. All right.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Those other comedians are the.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Mouth ruling over that.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
I played.
Speaker 8 (05:39):
But before that, I'd like to play Home, Sweet Home
for you.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Tell me how you like Tommy right Home, Sweet Home.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Boy. That's terrible.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
Well, I got a terrible home three o'clock in the morning,
lady said, gentlemen, as firt scythe if you please.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Pay it once more, not in the mood.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
I don't want the matter.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I couldn't get.
Speaker 6 (06:24):
Take plessures to help me.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
That's all I got.
Speaker 8 (06:26):
Out, ladies and gentlemen. I regret to make this statement,
(06:48):
but even in such a beautiful studios we have here,
with a large musical organization like Tommy Dorothy and the
Connecticut Yankees, there's bound to be a little professional jealous.
Six lessons is all I've had while others studies. He is, man,
(07:17):
That's not my fault. That's the fourth leason.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
I lost the mail. I couldn't help that. What a
spot for a ripe tomato?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
Write it?
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Ten Murray.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
You know, folks, it's interesting to note sense not only
is Ten Murray a comedian, but he plays funny too.
The next contestant is a young lady.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
A young lady who plays the canons tells me her
name is The name is.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Raw, Is that right? Shirley Rock, Chilly Rock. So you'll
have to speak a little louder.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Do you go to school, Shirley, I used to go
to your c l that's too loud. Tell me what's
what's your favorite pet time? Oh wait, let's go back.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Why did you?
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Why did you leave?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You see la?
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Huh?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Well, you see, they.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
Wouldn't let me play the piano for the sea.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Really well, why was that, Shirley?
Speaker 8 (08:29):
Well, I think it's alfe silly, but they caught me
swinging on trees.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Tell me what's what's your favorite pet time?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Oh? I I can make movies, you do well.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It's I have one of those small hole movie cameras myself, and.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
I love them.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
We make full length pictures all the time.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
You do well. I just can't get my camera to
work like that.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
I don't I have to put on Well, we just
take our stuff the way we are, you know. But
tell me, do you have stories with titles and everything?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (09:00):
The prison saw I'm that's playing right now in two
weeks I shot.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Thanks for the memory, Thanks the pause.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That was a beautiful song.
Speaker 7 (09:07):
In the big broadcast, there was a girl sanging.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
What was her name?
Speaker 8 (09:11):
Well, I don't like I'll get.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It, Shirley. I can see you right in front of me,
and I can't think of her name. Look, Paul, this
is Shirley Ross and she's saying thanks for the memory
and the big broadcast. No tell me, don't you. Hey palace,
look at me. I'm talking to a real picket stile.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Hey palace, look at me. I'm ticket.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Don't mind, I'm Shirley. He's studying to be one of
the dead end kids.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
What are you gonna play, Shirley, Well, I'm gonna spry.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Thanks for the memory.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
If you're for the est, I dude, thank you, Chary Lord.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now the next contestant is a young man who is
a violinist.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Tried to be a violinist and time.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Fine's very hard to get.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
In the professional class. If I could have your attention,
what is your name?
Speaker 9 (11:24):
My name is Jack Benny.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Oh, well, tell me what do you do besides play
the violin.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
I'm in the movies.
Speaker 9 (11:33):
Oh, you're a movie I'm a lover. You you want
to make something O?
Speaker 1 (11:42):
No, no, no, I'm just I'm just asking questions that
are we try to make everybody feel at ease.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
And tell me this.
Speaker 9 (11:51):
You hang out of a wind upside down?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Uh tell me Jack, you play violin?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
You're a movie actor and a lover what else do
you do?
Speaker 7 (12:04):
What's it to you, big boy?
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Well, good night, I'm there.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Tell me tell me how did you happen to take
up the city?
Speaker 9 (12:14):
Well, I know, I just lay in there and I.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Just took it up the good thing.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
It wasn't a je had some joke.
Speaker 9 (12:23):
Yeah, you're a live in my program. I can tell
you were kind of a joke that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Tell me what would you what would you like to
play on the farm?
Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yes, guess anything, just anything at all.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, what are you FoST like to hear the baby?
Speaker 9 (12:47):
My honey's love an arm?
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That's what.
Speaker 6 (12:53):
I wasn't definitely gonna hurt the bea wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Through them?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Right?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
It is the beautiful? Thank you, Thank you with Jack.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Tenny the the next contestant. The next contestant is a
young man who plays the drums.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
What is your name? Thing? Being Crosby, being crounchy, I
see thing. What's your regular job? Why?
Speaker 5 (14:26):
I do a little light work around the delmar racetras.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Oh is that much of a job. Thing?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
What's only part time work?
Speaker 7 (14:33):
Tommy?
Speaker 5 (14:34):
It's from two to five every afternoon except Sunday.
Speaker 7 (14:37):
Tell me then, have you ever been on the radio before?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, I was on the radio last Thursday night. Really,
what did you do play the drums? Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:44):
I just talked and sang and pooled around.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
You know, it's nice. Tell me have you you gonna
be our next Thursday?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Well, no, it's not next Thursday.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
They got twenty have you have you?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Have you got any hobbies being?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Oh, yes, I settle salad, dressing on the sign.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Well, it's the kind of a mixed up life, working
a race back, self, sound, addressing and play. Well, after all,
it takes all kinds and seeing how long have you
been playing?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
About fifteen years? I think I can say with impunity
that I aspired to be an exponent of percussion instruments
assisting of a hollow cylinder with the skin of some
domestic animals draped gingerly over the ends, not struck with
sticks to admit a sound a kin to the roll
of the surf may have, or perhaps even the gentle
tin gine adulation that Harold's the approach of the.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Service of nature.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Don't you remember, my, my, how you talked.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
For a moment I thought I was the craft years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh what are you gonna swing on the drums? Things?
Speaker 5 (15:45):
I don't know what you boys are going to play,
but I want to play honeysuckle roll Oh you've got
to hit an hour.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Thank you, thank you, big bag.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Well, there you have the ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
By the Hollywood most promising mus victims. Now while the
leaders of the applause, we decide to find that's the
winner of the fighters.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That will play together. Let him in, boys, let him
and he's an awful nice fellow.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Sick stop pushing after a hasty conference.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I think they're going to play. When you and I
were young, Maggie's here.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
It is a history making jam session with Vick Powell,
Ken Murray, Kelly Ross, Jack.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Dunny and bing courses. Are they set? Tommy?
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Well, then you beat off the rhythm, Dick, you play
the league? You know you're kind of beat up the
piano and where we go? Well, thanks Tommy, Yes, things
(18:27):
tell me that Man's musicians Junior is herek Gare What
does he want? He wants that award back?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
All right?
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Both, what is the applause me to say?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Who's the winner?
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Well?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I had know how to tell you this, but they
couldn't get a reading the appause me that haven't moved
from what will we do.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Well, it looks like we'll have to split it up
five ways.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Let's see by way, let's see it. I know that
comes about fifteen dollars a thief you need, all right, so.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
That's that's the social security.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Well it's not scale.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And then again it's not ten.
Speaker 9 (18:59):
I guess do take two dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
And go home. Say, I don't know who what Tommy?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
We got an idea. What we're gonna lie to them?
Speaker 5 (19:13):
Think you tell Tommy, Well, we don't think we should
get any of the prize money, Tommy, So we're gonna
let you have it for giving us the whole to
practice in mighty wide of the Okay, b I don't.
Speaker 8 (19:22):
Know what we'll do.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
We'll turn it over to the community chef and thank.
Speaker 9 (19:26):
The Manion all of you for coming on.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
Thank you, tom.
Speaker 7 (19:37):
Tommy, don't see in the coin said you're raised it
if I know that, you know
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Boobo