October 13, 2025 • 25 mins
Rocky Fortune was created in 1953 by writer George Lefferts and starring Frank Sinatra in the lead. Rocky Fortune followed the exploits of a marginally employed jack-of-all-trades Rocky Fortune. Though considered a second-rate show even during the 26 weeks it aired, it's a nice boon for Frank Sinatra fans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune. Frank Sinatra, who stars
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as that footloose and frequently unemployed young gentleman Rocky Fortune.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know what it is about me in employment.
We start out together, but sooner or later we reached
the fork in the room. Usually sooner.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You take last week the employment as he sent me
out on a job as an oyster shucker. But somebody
tried to serve me up on a half shell with
a real crazy cocktail sauce blood.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Call me, is this very year? Fifty fathoms clam house?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes? Is there something I can do for you?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's the best offer I've had all day.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We'll have a.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Table in a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Would you care to look at the menu?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What's the menu got that you haven't got?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The a price list?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you'll excuse me, I'm busy now wait anue, don't
get so I work here. I'm no oyster shucker. I'm
Rocky Fortune. You'd better go around to the kitchen, mister Fortune.
Just call me Rocky huh, and I'll call you two
or three times a day. Don't bother. Why not for
one thing, I've got a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Why would we let a little thing like that come
between us.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Maybe because he's standing right behind you.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oops, he isn't exactly standing behind me.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's more like go around.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
This joke is six foot four, two hundred pounds on
the hoof and.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Broad enough to go through the middle of a revolving door.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I can't figure a goriller like this with this girl.
He's a real sweet little girl, like somebody's kid's sisters,
only she's wearing a knit dress. She gotta figure that's
given the warp and the woof a hard time. I
get a glimmer when she introduces me to the bruising
mister Fortune. This is mister Barney.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
He's the manager. All right, Fortune, get back to the kitchen.
I'll give you a place.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No introduction to a bowel of oysters. This way it's Fortune.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, stay away from Irish. Who says so?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I say so, here's your counting shells in the garbage can.
And this is the oyster knife, right, and just so
as we don't misunderstand each other, I'm very serious about Irish,
very serious.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Hey, look out where that knife you wanna stand? Fortune,
I got an inkling. I get to wake shut them moistures.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh it takes me a few minutes to pull the
dough braided iceter knife two inches out of the table
where Big Barney has buried it. About this time, fernand
a way to drifts in the door. Freddy's a little
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whispy guy who looks like a mechanical rabbit.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The greyhounds chase at the darg.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Tack a dozen carries. Though, Hey do.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You rocky fortune? I'm the oyster shucker.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
What happened to Harmon?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Maybe you got washed out.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
With a tide?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hey, pow?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Why do I get something to eat here?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Didn't you get some supper?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
That Barney, no consideration.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Look, I'll fix you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Something and I'll be looking at the menu.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
How about the swordfish?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Huh huh, No to my best friend, I wouldn't recommend
the swordfish. Not tonight, Yes, sir, coming in, excuse.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Me, hey chief, give me two double shirt cocktails, a
cop beat solid lobster gumb ball, a bowl of Boston,
a bawl of Manhattan, and the buck.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
In the lobsters.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well you got out there, rotary luncheon.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No, just mister Abernaki.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I take a peek through the kitchen door, and mister
Abernaki is sitting on two chairs at once, and it
is still lapping over on all sides. Bonnie and fred
Nan are hovering around. I'm like a pair of hummingbirds
trying the neck with a navy blint. I make a
resolution to quit eating French fried potatoes and go back
to on buttoning oysters and remove their overcoats. It's lonely works,
so I strike up a conversation. There's nobody in the
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pantry but me and the oyster, so I got no choice.
You think you've got troubles hm, I'm the one that
ought to get stewed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You don't have to worry what happens if your lady
friend decides to clamb up.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
All you gotta do is just lay there and that's all.
And if you want to make an impression.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Another dame, all you gotta do is whip up a pearl.
A holy smokes, a real live pearl.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's a real live.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Pearl sitting in the middle of that oyster, staring up
at me with this one beautiful beady eye. I'm figuring
I'm calling Little after the Book to place a fin
on the nose of pearl diver in a fifth of
Belmont when I open the next oyster, so help me
another pearl. I haven't had a run a luck like
this since I busted up the floating crap game and
Dockerty's garage.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So I leave the steak out and shoot it all.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Another oyster, another pearl, Come on, baby pop, I needs
a new necklace, one after another, and every little dowling load.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And I'm trembling as I hit number.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Ten, eleven and twelve twelve, great big fat.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Pearls in my hot little hand and all mine.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Just to make sure I stash him away in my
pocket quick. Because Ferdinand, a waiter comes in the door
two does a.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Special oysters for mister Arabinaci.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Buddy boy, I never could see nothing special about no oysters.
It's like eating a clammy handshake.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Get him up and I'll pick 'em up on the
way out. The specials from mister Abernacy come out of
this barrel, and don't shuck him. He likes the movement
at the table. He says it improves the flavor.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, sir sergeants.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Unfortunately Bonnie has forgotten to tell me this, and I've
already separated mister Abernaki's special oysters from their shells. Uh
to me, the difference between a couple of oysters is
something that can only interest another oyster. So I fill
up a plate from the regular bow this it turns
out as a mistake.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The doors.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I hear mister araberakey sounding off like the bullhorn and
a big mum and Fred Maan comes flying back like
a sad What happened?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
What's happened to the special oysters?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Who is responsible for this?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Please? Mister?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What special oyster shipping? Just for me? And what do
I get? Call these oysters? These miserable scrawny Hey brah, what.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Happened to mister Rabernachy's oysters?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You fortune me?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What happened to the specials?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was just a little mistake, a mistake, a mistake.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
With my oysters, Please, mister Rabinacy, what happened?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I opened them first? Nobody told me any different.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You hear that he opened my oysters? All that flavor
gone gone forever? What is this a federal case? Featherheaded idiot?
Now wait a minute, no, can hear.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
You watching you?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Bring?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
You apologize to mister rabbit?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, okay to him, I'll apologize, but you you muscleheaded bum.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Well, your scrowny knucklehead, I had to pry you apt
like a chota clam.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Why don't you put your money where your mouth is,
mister Barney, I'm sure it was an honest mistake.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, why don't you give him another chance? You'll shut
up and keep out of this. Hey, who do you
think you're talking to? You ought to wash your mouth out?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What's soap before you talk to a lady Fortune?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
You're fire?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh no, please, mister Barney, keep out of this.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Take 'em up, pay 'em off.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Iris fishes me a couple of bucks out of the register,
and I can see she's a little sorry for me,
which makes me feel very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Indeed, here you are, mister Fortune. I wish it was more.
Oh well, easy, come, easy go.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I just wish I was staying on though, so I
could see you again.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Took a lot of courage to stand up to Barney
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I still have the oyster knife.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
I wish there was something that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I could do.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
How about foot and steak with me tonight? Huh?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
After all, I just got fired, and I shouldn't be
left alone.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
With a knife.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Well, I suppose it to a right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Meets you when you get off. There's a date, all.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Right, donkey, I'm off at nine.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I figure bounced, ann I'm ahead for the day. Twelve
pearls and a beautiful girl. This is better than the
daily double. It's about eight forty five when I head
out the back door.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's a very cozy neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You could sometimes go as far as a block without
stumbling over a drunk or being mugged for a pair
of clean socks. So I'm not too surprised when an
arm whips on my neck and I cease breathing until
further notice.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
I don't say, well, who can talk? This ain't no
brier pipe sticking in your back?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, okay, hand 'em.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Over anything in particular. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Hand them over the neck. This may make me seem
a little slow, but I haven't got the slightest idea
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The pearls, wise guy, the pearls you got him? Oh man,
didn't your mother of materier. It ain't polite to shortstop.
Now pass them over the mine I found.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Okay, Okay, hand him over over my dead body.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That can be arranged, all right, Wise, guy.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
And I'll give you a quick five to hand him over.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
One here, your kidding it. Two okay, okay, I got
him out here.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Three right here, Hey, they're gun Four Honestly I put
him in his pocket.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
See I said four.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Look, Look there's a hole in it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Look I can wheel my finger through it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
If you don't believe me, look for yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, okay, hole.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Still, I'm ticklish, you're clean, all right? Listen, punk, I'll
give you a chance. You got twelve hours to hand
those pearls over, but I lost them on it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You lost them, you find them.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Remember twelve hours, or we'll fit you for a brand
new satin lined overcoat with silver handles.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And just to show you we ain't kitten.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
About twenty minutes later, the world slows down to a
gentle spiral. Some other bummers told me for thirty eight
cents and change a subway token.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
In my shoes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
My paddle around on the avenue on my bare feet,
and I find Iri was waiting in front of a
drug store, looking like Hurricane Barbara about to hit the
Atlantic coast from Black Island at Kape petteris lucky.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
This is not the kind of a neighborhood where a
girl likes to wait for.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
What's the matter? You're limping?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I stepped on a live cigar bought? Were your barefoot?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Where are we going to.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
A squared ends? Lak? Honey, I'm afraid our dates? Aw?
Why I gottattend a funeral? Who's mine?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It seems to be a difference of opinion about some pearls.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I told the guy I found nobody couldn't see it
my way?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You found some pearls? Yes? Where where? Else? In an oyster?
Twelve of them? He's on twelve pearls and one oyster, No,
no one each and a dozen? How's that for luck?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Nobody's that lucky?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But now I can't find 'em.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I got a hole in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I must have dropped them. Who that's terrible. You're another
half of it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The guy who just slugged me gave me twelve hours
to corp up the pearls or else a particularly nasty elves.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh oh, we then we gotta start looking for them
right now.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Right now, I've gotta look for some shoes. A guy
can get athlete's foot this way. We head back into
the fifty fathoms clamhouse to try to find the pearls.
I'm cutting my bare feet the ribbons on broken clam shelves.
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We go through the sawdust, and the pants were a
spoonful at a time, but we draw a blank.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No pearls. Up to now, I've been thinking I'm just lucky.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But slowly I realize I've been playing with marked oysters.
I figure them pearls must be hot as a tin roof.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
In August, Rocky, what happens if we don't find them?
They might kill you? Yeah? I was thinking that was
a possibility too.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh where else could you drop them?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Is there anything on the floor of a garbage canny empty?
Wait a minute, there.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Was that little boot mister Abernaki's oysters came in.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It was right by this stool.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Maybe the pells dropped in it.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But the barrel's gone too.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Of course they pick it up at night and take
it back to the oyster boat. Can you find out
which boat?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I know? I sign the receipt every day. It's the
It's the Polly be at Peer twenty two.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Rocky. Do you think the pills could still be in
the barrel?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I got a hasty feeling i'd better find out anyway.
If Abernak's oysters came from that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Boat, then so did the Pearls.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Rocky, I'm going with you now, Look, honey, it's gonna
be dangerous, and dock down on that dock you will
be there. I know that's what frightens me. Well, come on,
let's set for Pier twenty two. And if I don't
find the Pearls, well, at least it's a good place
to jump off.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm still barefoot as we head up the water.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Front to Pier twenty two, but I keep gone. I
figure it's like a horse if I pull up lame.
Now I'm as sense to get shot. Pier twenty two
looks like the spot where Henry Hudson dropped his anchor
on the first trip. There's a crap game going on
in the dock off. We wait until somebody makes a
four the hard way and slip through.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
In the confusion. He host the boat us half way
down the pier and we go aboard. Don't tip on
them ropes.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Isn't it the barrel right there?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
That's it, alright, I'll tip it up to the light.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Empty is a pocket before a pay day.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh waky, I wonder where the elephants go to.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Die, lucky mucky.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Listen, yeah, somebody must have broken up the crap game.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
They're coming this way, and what are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That guy who put the arm on me is with him,
you see the guy WITHOU.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Know, Nicky? Come on, we better hide umwhere down the
hatch behind him?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Good chat?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Jump down there nothing this skirt. Ain't it all out
of it?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Here you go? Oh oh dark?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Down here, my god?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Here I come, and I keep cryet baby, and maybe
we'll get out of this thing on one piece. Alright,
let's get go up with me?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I stop the bye?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Did you bring your toothbrush? A tip?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Rsh what for?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I can only think of one thing to say at
this point. What bomvoyer h.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Holly b is definitely not in the Queen Mary class.
It's sort of a cross between on the oversized shoe
box in the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It would probably rock like crazy in.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
A bathtublem By the time went through the narrows and
into the Lower Bay, Iris has turned a tasteful tone
of green, which unfortunately clashes with her purple dress. A Rocky.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
I'm afraid I'm going to die.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, you're not okay, I'm I'm afraid I'm not going
to die.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, somebody will hate I don't care.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
There's a boy horn the boy.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
What what happened was dropping?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Maybe we're here a red light on the side. Come on, hurry?
Uh what is it? Oysters? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I've better boost you up so you can sneak a peek.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You ready, Well, it's a barrel, Rocky.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
They pulled it in with a net. Rocky's got a
a flag on it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Let me down.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I got it now. Just like prohibition, Someone on an
incoming line of dumps the stuff over and this boat
picks it up. Yeah, and delivers it to the fifty
fathoms clamhouse. What a way to sneak in pearls inside
an oyster? And if some jerk opens one by a mistake,
he just thinks he's lucky. Can you imagine a guy
stupid enough to think he'd.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Really find a pearl in an Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You read any good books lately, Rocky.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It's it's a smuggling racket.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Maybe you're even smart. That's right, I could kiss you
(17:08):
I have my eyes closed and my mouth pocket when
the roof falls in and I find myself kissing a
thirty pound flounder, which is part of a load of
fish dumped in on top of us. We're standing up
to the making fresh caught ocean fish in season. I
pick a heling out of my ears and look around
for Iris, and once again I get that funny feeling,
you know, that uning to take her.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Out of all of this.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
A poly bee makes it back to the pair and
blue ribbon time. And when the coast is clear, Iris
and I climb out of the fish and shake.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Off the scales.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I've got a smelt in my pocket and a certain
air about me.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Oh, I can't even stand myself.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I think it's invigorating. Uh, Rocket, you know it's clear
you got the perused by mistake. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Those oysters women for mister Aberaky. They're delivered specially for him.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It must be right, ucky.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
So what do we do now?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Uh, Honey.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
As much as I hate to staving a man at
his meal, mister Rabernakey leaves me no choice.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He eats all day. However, there's a.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Limit to how long a dame can wander Two time
with seaweed and her hair and a strong suspicion that
barnacles have set in.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
M so Irish heads up to apartment to change.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I figure I might as well head over the clamhouse
to do a little digging on my own. It's midnight now,
and Ferdinand's in the kitchen when I get there. Hey,
what happened you jump off the ferry? Never mind listeners.
Aberaki still got his nose in a feedback.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
He's on his demitas demitask. Yes, he has to watch
his weight.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Look Ferdinand about those special oysters. Mister Abernaki never has
him open in the kitchen, right right.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
He's a very particular man. He wants to make sure
all the flavors locked in IW Betty does Ferdinan. This
may come as a shock to you, but something tells
me mister Abernaky is playing pushing the corner where the
United States custom not to mention in the cops from
the country where the stuff was original.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
This stuff, the pearls. I found a dozen of 'em
in his oysters. I can't figure out where they went.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
To though, you lost 'em, Yeah, to a hole in
my pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I was leaning over the corner, right here. Now, they
could have rolled along, but I I didn't find him
on the floor. They should've dropped right down here. Like mm,
who'll put that bowl of soup in the stool? I did?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That's mister Abernaki's oyster stewl. I always leave it there
til he's ready for it.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You do, Yeah, did, mister Arabernaki? You have oysterter tonight?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Sure he has a couple of bulls with each.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Meal for ad man. I gotta make some phone calls
to the cops for a squad con in Belgiue hospital
for a stomach pump.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You mean, mister Aberaki is a smug glass.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Somebody around here is, and he looks like it. I
let the cops nail it down.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, that's too bad, isn't it about Abernaki?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Why he deserves what he's got coming to him.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yes, but I'm afraid you don't. Now, Please put up
your hands, mister Fortune. You see, we wouldn't want the
police around the clam house has to think of his reputation.
But you gun is low, said Bonnie.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Sure, boss, take this gun and keep it covered with pleasures.
Then it's you, and I suppose it is.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Bonnie could Captain Duran arrange a special trip on the Polly.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Be easy.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Uh, we'll have to be careful where we drop you.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
It wouldn't do to spoil the oyster bed, mister Abernaky
wouldn't like it. Couldn't you just maroon me on a
desert a lease, mister fortune, be practical. Now we're going
out through the kitchen door. Bonnie you go first? Sure thing, boys, Bonnie, Bonnie?
What happened?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Probably this? Sure? How's Bonnie? Oh? Out cold? What did
you hit him with a frozen flounder? You knows Ferdinant
all the time?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
The way?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Sure he got to the oysters before, Abernaky. That reminds me,
who are you going call the cops? I got attend
to something.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
M Yeah, Can I help you?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Mister Rabanaki, you had an oyster stoll earlier this evening.
I did, uh, please pass to get them. But I
I don't want to disturb you. But there were a
dozen pearls.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
In that store. Oh, I thought the oysters were somewhat gritty.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Now we've got to get those pearls back wherever they are.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Is that all you've got 'em?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I I suppose I have in the mid section.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
More or less, I'm gonna send for a stomach pump
right away.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Oh, that won't be necessary. I I have them in
my best pocket. If yeah, I've used the pearls.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You mean you didn't need 'em?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Goodness?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
No, I almost lost a feeling on the first one.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, I thought I was just lucky.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
You're sure these pearls belong to you.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm positive, mister Avanaki.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Well, if they're yours, take them by all means. Oh
and the young man, Yeah, ask somebody to bring me
another piece of pie.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Somebody else gets the pie me. I'm in the mood
to relax.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The rover boys are safe in the walk and refrigerator,
The twelve pearls have gone to pauper, and I'm alone
with Iris, who's wearing a final skirt and a little
boy's shirt which never looks like that?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
A no little boy. Well, Rocky, honey, I think maybe
you saved my life. Would you like to claim a
little reward? What kind of reward? A committ mm mm closer.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Oh h maybe I've got something to you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah the pool.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, honey, mm I've got something for you.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, what a property received from you?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
We as customs department.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You you you're a cump.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Good night, Rocky, Good night.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Frank Sinatra as that footloose and fancy free young man
known as Rocky Fortune. Others in the cast included Lynn Allen,
Jack Krushian, Jack Nestle, Lou Marrow, and Winnie Horner.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Andrew C. Love directed Eddie King speaking.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now, here's Frank Sinata to tell you about next week's
transcribe adventure. Did you ever get up in the morning
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and find out you with somebody else? Next week, I
wake up married to a dame.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And I don't even know her name.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I'm living a a maharajah, and I am assured for
a hundred grand double indemnity. Next week, then tune in
again when Frank Sinatra returns as Rocky Fortune. This is
(24:20):
the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Frank Sinatra transcribed as Rocky Fortune. Frank Sinatra, who stars
(00:24):
as that footloose and frequently unemployed young gentleman Rocky Fortune.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I don't know what it is about me in employment.
We start out together, but sooner or later we reached
the fork in the room. Usually sooner.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
You take last week the employment as he sent me
out on a job as an oyster shucker. But somebody
tried to serve me up on a half shell with
a real crazy cocktail sauce blood.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Call me, is this very year? Fifty fathoms clam house?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yes? Is there something I can do for you?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
That's the best offer I've had all day.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
We'll have a.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Table in a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Would you care to look at the menu?
Speaker 2 (01:29):
What's the menu got that you haven't got?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
The a price list?
Speaker 1 (01:32):
If you'll excuse me, I'm busy now wait anue, don't
get so I work here. I'm no oyster shucker. I'm
Rocky Fortune. You'd better go around to the kitchen, mister Fortune.
Just call me Rocky huh, and I'll call you two
or three times a day. Don't bother. Why not for
one thing, I've got a boyfriend.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Why would we let a little thing like that come
between us.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Maybe because he's standing right behind you.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Oops, he isn't exactly standing behind me.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's more like go around.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
This joke is six foot four, two hundred pounds on
the hoof and.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Broad enough to go through the middle of a revolving door.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
And I can't figure a goriller like this with this girl.
He's a real sweet little girl, like somebody's kid's sisters,
only she's wearing a knit dress. She gotta figure that's
given the warp and the woof a hard time. I
get a glimmer when she introduces me to the bruising
mister Fortune. This is mister Barney.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
He's the manager. All right, Fortune, get back to the kitchen.
I'll give you a place.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
No introduction to a bowel of oysters. This way it's Fortune.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, stay away from Irish. Who says so?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I say so, here's your counting shells in the garbage can.
And this is the oyster knife, right, and just so
as we don't misunderstand each other, I'm very serious about Irish,
very serious.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Hey, look out where that knife you wanna stand? Fortune,
I got an inkling. I get to wake shut them moistures.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Oh it takes me a few minutes to pull the
dough braided iceter knife two inches out of the table
where Big Barney has buried it. About this time, fernand
a way to drifts in the door. Freddy's a little
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whispy guy who looks like a mechanical rabbit.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The greyhounds chase at the darg.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Tack a dozen carries. Though, Hey do.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
You rocky fortune? I'm the oyster shucker.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
What happened to Harmon?
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Maybe you got washed out.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
With a tide?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Hey, pow?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Why do I get something to eat here?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Didn't you get some supper?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
No?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
That Barney, no consideration.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Look, I'll fix you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Something and I'll be looking at the menu.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
How about the swordfish?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Huh huh, No to my best friend, I wouldn't recommend
the swordfish. Not tonight, Yes, sir, coming in, excuse.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Me, hey chief, give me two double shirt cocktails, a
cop beat solid lobster gumb ball, a bowl of Boston,
a bawl of Manhattan, and the buck.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
In the lobsters.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Well you got out there, rotary luncheon.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
No, just mister Abernaki.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I take a peek through the kitchen door, and mister
Abernaki is sitting on two chairs at once, and it
is still lapping over on all sides. Bonnie and fred
Nan are hovering around. I'm like a pair of hummingbirds
trying the neck with a navy blint. I make a
resolution to quit eating French fried potatoes and go back
to on buttoning oysters and remove their overcoats. It's lonely works,
so I strike up a conversation. There's nobody in the
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pantry but me and the oyster, so I got no choice.
You think you've got troubles hm, I'm the one that
ought to get stewed.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
You got it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
You don't have to worry what happens if your lady
friend decides to clamb up.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
All you gotta do is just lay there and that's all.
And if you want to make an impression.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Another dame, all you gotta do is whip up a pearl.
A holy smokes, a real live pearl.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
It's a real live.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Pearl sitting in the middle of that oyster, staring up
at me with this one beautiful beady eye. I'm figuring
I'm calling Little after the Book to place a fin
on the nose of pearl diver in a fifth of
Belmont when I open the next oyster, so help me
another pearl. I haven't had a run a luck like
this since I busted up the floating crap game and
Dockerty's garage.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So I leave the steak out and shoot it all.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Another oyster, another pearl, Come on, baby pop, I needs
a new necklace, one after another, and every little dowling load.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And I'm trembling as I hit number.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Ten, eleven and twelve twelve, great big fat.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Pearls in my hot little hand and all mine.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Just to make sure I stash him away in my
pocket quick. Because Ferdinand, a waiter comes in the door
two does a.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Special oysters for mister Arabinaci.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Buddy boy, I never could see nothing special about no oysters.
It's like eating a clammy handshake.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
Get him up and I'll pick 'em up on the
way out. The specials from mister Abernacy come out of
this barrel, and don't shuck him. He likes the movement
at the table. He says it improves the flavor.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, sir sergeants.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
Unfortunately Bonnie has forgotten to tell me this, and I've
already separated mister Abernaki's special oysters from their shells. Uh
to me, the difference between a couple of oysters is
something that can only interest another oyster. So I fill
up a plate from the regular bow this it turns
out as a mistake.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The doors.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I hear mister araberakey sounding off like the bullhorn and
a big mum and Fred Maan comes flying back like
a sad What happened?
Speaker 5 (07:06):
What's happened to the special oysters?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Who is responsible for this?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Please? Mister?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
What special oyster shipping? Just for me? And what do
I get? Call these oysters? These miserable scrawny Hey brah, what.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Happened to mister Rabernachy's oysters?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
You fortune me?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
What happened to the specials?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
It was just a little mistake, a mistake, a mistake.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
With my oysters, Please, mister Rabinacy, what happened?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
I opened them first? Nobody told me any different.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
You hear that he opened my oysters? All that flavor
gone gone forever? What is this a federal case? Featherheaded idiot?
Now wait a minute, no, can hear.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
You watching you?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Bring?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
You apologize to mister rabbit?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Okay, okay to him, I'll apologize, but you you muscleheaded bum.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Well, your scrowny knucklehead, I had to pry you apt
like a chota clam.
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Why don't you put your money where your mouth is,
mister Barney, I'm sure it was an honest mistake.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, why don't you give him another chance? You'll shut
up and keep out of this. Hey, who do you
think you're talking to? You ought to wash your mouth out?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
What's soap before you talk to a lady Fortune?
Speaker 7 (08:08):
You're fire?
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh no, please, mister Barney, keep out of this.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Take 'em up, pay 'em off.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Iris fishes me a couple of bucks out of the register,
and I can see she's a little sorry for me,
which makes me feel very pleasant.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Indeed, here you are, mister Fortune. I wish it was more.
Oh well, easy, come, easy go.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
I just wish I was staying on though, so I
could see you again.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Took a lot of courage to stand up to Barney
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I still have the oyster knife.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
I wish there was something that.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I could do.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
How about foot and steak with me tonight? Huh?
Speaker 1 (08:50):
After all, I just got fired, and I shouldn't be
left alone.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
With a knife.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Well, I suppose it to a right.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Meets you when you get off. There's a date, all.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Right, donkey, I'm off at nine.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I figure bounced, ann I'm ahead for the day. Twelve
pearls and a beautiful girl. This is better than the
daily double. It's about eight forty five when I head
out the back door.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
It's a very cozy neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
You could sometimes go as far as a block without
stumbling over a drunk or being mugged for a pair
of clean socks. So I'm not too surprised when an
arm whips on my neck and I cease breathing until
further notice.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
I don't say, well, who can talk? This ain't no
brier pipe sticking in your back?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Okay, okay, hand 'em.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Over anything in particular. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Hand them over the neck. This may make me seem
a little slow, but I haven't got the slightest idea
what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
The pearls, wise guy, the pearls you got him? Oh man,
didn't your mother of materier. It ain't polite to shortstop.
Now pass them over the mine I found.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Okay, Okay, hand him over over my dead body.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
That can be arranged, all right, Wise, guy.
Speaker 7 (10:05):
And I'll give you a quick five to hand him over.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
One here, your kidding it. Two okay, okay, I got
him out here.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Three right here, Hey, they're gun Four Honestly I put
him in his pocket.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
See I said four.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Look, Look there's a hole in it.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Look I can wheel my finger through it.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
If you don't believe me, look for yourself.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, okay, hole.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Still, I'm ticklish, you're clean, all right? Listen, punk, I'll
give you a chance. You got twelve hours to hand
those pearls over, but I lost them on it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
You lost them, you find them.
Speaker 7 (10:34):
Remember twelve hours, or we'll fit you for a brand
new satin lined overcoat with silver handles.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
And just to show you we ain't kitten.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
About twenty minutes later, the world slows down to a
gentle spiral. Some other bummers told me for thirty eight
cents and change a subway token.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
In my shoes.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
My paddle around on the avenue on my bare feet,
and I find Iri was waiting in front of a
drug store, looking like Hurricane Barbara about to hit the
Atlantic coast from Black Island at Kape petteris lucky.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
This is not the kind of a neighborhood where a
girl likes to wait for.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
What's the matter? You're limping?
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I stepped on a live cigar bought? Were your barefoot?
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Where are we going to.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
A squared ends? Lak? Honey, I'm afraid our dates? Aw?
Why I gottattend a funeral? Who's mine?
Speaker 1 (11:31):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (11:32):
It seems to be a difference of opinion about some pearls.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I told the guy I found nobody couldn't see it
my way?
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You found some pearls? Yes? Where where? Else? In an oyster?
Twelve of them? He's on twelve pearls and one oyster, No,
no one each and a dozen? How's that for luck?
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Nobody's that lucky?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
But now I can't find 'em.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
I got a hole in my pocket.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I must have dropped them. Who that's terrible. You're another
half of it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
The guy who just slugged me gave me twelve hours
to corp up the pearls or else a particularly nasty elves.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Oh oh, we then we gotta start looking for them
right now.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Right now, I've gotta look for some shoes. A guy
can get athlete's foot this way. We head back into
the fifty fathoms clamhouse to try to find the pearls.
I'm cutting my bare feet the ribbons on broken clam shelves.
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We go through the sawdust, and the pants were a
spoonful at a time, but we draw a blank.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No pearls. Up to now, I've been thinking I'm just lucky.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
But slowly I realize I've been playing with marked oysters.
I figure them pearls must be hot as a tin roof.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
In August, Rocky, what happens if we don't find them?
They might kill you? Yeah? I was thinking that was
a possibility too.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Oh where else could you drop them?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Is there anything on the floor of a garbage canny empty?
Wait a minute, there.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Was that little boot mister Abernaki's oysters came in.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
It was right by this stool.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
Maybe the pells dropped in it.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
But the barrel's gone too.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Of course they pick it up at night and take
it back to the oyster boat. Can you find out
which boat?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I know? I sign the receipt every day. It's the
It's the Polly be at Peer twenty two.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Rocky. Do you think the pills could still be in
the barrel?
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well?
Speaker 1 (13:16):
I got a hasty feeling i'd better find out anyway.
If Abernak's oysters came from that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Boat, then so did the Pearls.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Rocky, I'm going with you now, Look, honey, it's gonna
be dangerous, and dock down on that dock you will
be there. I know that's what frightens me. Well, come on,
let's set for Pier twenty two. And if I don't
find the Pearls, well, at least it's a good place
to jump off.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I'm still barefoot as we head up the water.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Front to Pier twenty two, but I keep gone. I
figure it's like a horse if I pull up lame.
Now I'm as sense to get shot. Pier twenty two
looks like the spot where Henry Hudson dropped his anchor
on the first trip. There's a crap game going on
in the dock off. We wait until somebody makes a
four the hard way and slip through.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
In the confusion. He host the boat us half way
down the pier and we go aboard. Don't tip on
them ropes.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Isn't it the barrel right there?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
That's it, alright, I'll tip it up to the light.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Empty is a pocket before a pay day.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Oh waky, I wonder where the elephants go to.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Die, lucky mucky.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Listen, yeah, somebody must have broken up the crap game.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
They're coming this way, and what are we going to do?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
That guy who put the arm on me is with him,
you see the guy WITHOU.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Know, Nicky? Come on, we better hide umwhere down the
hatch behind him?
Speaker 5 (14:36):
Good chat?
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Jump down there nothing this skirt. Ain't it all out
of it?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Here you go? Oh oh dark?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Down here, my god?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Here I come, and I keep cryet baby, and maybe
we'll get out of this thing on one piece. Alright,
let's get go up with me?
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I stop the bye?
Speaker 2 (14:56):
What is it?
Speaker 5 (14:57):
What's happening?
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Did you bring your toothbrush? A tip?
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Rsh what for?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
I can only think of one thing to say at
this point. What bomvoyer h.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Holly b is definitely not in the Queen Mary class.
It's sort of a cross between on the oversized shoe
box in the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
It would probably rock like crazy in.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
A bathtublem By the time went through the narrows and
into the Lower Bay, Iris has turned a tasteful tone
of green, which unfortunately clashes with her purple dress. A Rocky.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
I'm afraid I'm going to die.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
No, you're not okay, I'm I'm afraid I'm not going
to die.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Oh, somebody will hate I don't care.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
There's a boy horn the boy.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
What what happened was dropping?
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Maybe we're here a red light on the side. Come on, hurry?
Uh what is it? Oysters? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
I've better boost you up so you can sneak a peek.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
You ready, Well, it's a barrel, Rocky.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
They pulled it in with a net. Rocky's got a
a flag on it.
Speaker 5 (16:11):
Let me down.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I got it now. Just like prohibition, Someone on an
incoming line of dumps the stuff over and this boat
picks it up. Yeah, and delivers it to the fifty
fathoms clamhouse. What a way to sneak in pearls inside
an oyster? And if some jerk opens one by a mistake,
he just thinks he's lucky. Can you imagine a guy
stupid enough to think he'd.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Really find a pearl in an Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:36):
You read any good books lately, Rocky.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
It's it's a smuggling racket.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Maybe you're even smart. That's right, I could kiss you
(17:08):
I have my eyes closed and my mouth pocket when
the roof falls in and I find myself kissing a
thirty pound flounder, which is part of a load of
fish dumped in on top of us. We're standing up
to the making fresh caught ocean fish in season. I
pick a heling out of my ears and look around
for Iris, and once again I get that funny feeling,
you know, that uning to take her.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Out of all of this.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
A poly bee makes it back to the pair and
blue ribbon time. And when the coast is clear, Iris
and I climb out of the fish and shake.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Off the scales.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I've got a smelt in my pocket and a certain
air about me.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Oh, I can't even stand myself.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I think it's invigorating. Uh, Rocket, you know it's clear
you got the perused by mistake. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Those oysters women for mister Aberaky. They're delivered specially for him.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
It must be right, ucky.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
So what do we do now?
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Uh, Honey.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
As much as I hate to staving a man at
his meal, mister Rabernakey leaves me no choice.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
He eats all day. However, there's a.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Limit to how long a dame can wander Two time
with seaweed and her hair and a strong suspicion that
barnacles have set in.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
M so Irish heads up to apartment to change.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I figure I might as well head over the clamhouse
to do a little digging on my own. It's midnight now,
and Ferdinand's in the kitchen when I get there. Hey,
what happened you jump off the ferry? Never mind listeners.
Aberaki still got his nose in a feedback.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
He's on his demitas demitask. Yes, he has to watch
his weight.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Look Ferdinand about those special oysters. Mister Abernaki never has
him open in the kitchen, right right.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
He's a very particular man. He wants to make sure
all the flavors locked in IW Betty does Ferdinan. This
may come as a shock to you, but something tells
me mister Abernaky is playing pushing the corner where the
United States custom not to mention in the cops from
the country where the stuff was original.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
This stuff, the pearls. I found a dozen of 'em
in his oysters. I can't figure out where they went.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
To though, you lost 'em, Yeah, to a hole in
my pocket.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I was leaning over the corner, right here. Now, they
could have rolled along, but I I didn't find him
on the floor. They should've dropped right down here. Like mm,
who'll put that bowl of soup in the stool? I did?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
That's mister Abernaki's oyster stewl. I always leave it there
til he's ready for it.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
You do, Yeah, did, mister Arabernaki? You have oysterter tonight?
Speaker 5 (19:29):
Sure he has a couple of bulls with each.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Meal for ad man. I gotta make some phone calls
to the cops for a squad con in Belgiue hospital
for a stomach pump.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
You mean, mister Aberaki is a smug glass.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Somebody around here is, and he looks like it. I
let the cops nail it down.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Well, that's too bad, isn't it about Abernaki?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Why he deserves what he's got coming to him.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
Yes, but I'm afraid you don't. Now, Please put up
your hands, mister Fortune. You see, we wouldn't want the
police around the clam house has to think of his reputation.
But you gun is low, said Bonnie.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Sure, boss, take this gun and keep it covered with pleasures.
Then it's you, and I suppose it is.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Bonnie could Captain Duran arrange a special trip on the Polly.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Be easy.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Uh, we'll have to be careful where we drop you.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
It wouldn't do to spoil the oyster bed, mister Abernaky
wouldn't like it. Couldn't you just maroon me on a
desert a lease, mister fortune, be practical. Now we're going
out through the kitchen door. Bonnie you go first? Sure thing, boys, Bonnie, Bonnie?
What happened?
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Probably this? Sure? How's Bonnie? Oh? Out cold? What did
you hit him with a frozen flounder? You knows Ferdinant
all the time?
Speaker 3 (20:43):
The way?
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Sure he got to the oysters before, Abernaky. That reminds me,
who are you going call the cops? I got attend
to something.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
M Yeah, Can I help you?
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Mister Rabanaki, you had an oyster stoll earlier this evening.
I did, uh, please pass to get them. But I
I don't want to disturb you. But there were a
dozen pearls.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
In that store. Oh, I thought the oysters were somewhat gritty.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Now we've got to get those pearls back wherever they are.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Is that all you've got 'em?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I I suppose I have in the mid section.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
More or less, I'm gonna send for a stomach pump
right away.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Oh, that won't be necessary. I I have them in
my best pocket. If yeah, I've used the pearls.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
You mean you didn't need 'em?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Goodness?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
No, I almost lost a feeling on the first one.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
No, I thought I was just lucky.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
You're sure these pearls belong to you.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
I'm positive, mister Avanaki.
Speaker 8 (21:47):
Well, if they're yours, take them by all means. Oh
and the young man, Yeah, ask somebody to bring me
another piece of pie.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Somebody else gets the pie me. I'm in the mood
to relax.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
The rover boys are safe in the walk and refrigerator,
The twelve pearls have gone to pauper, and I'm alone
with Iris, who's wearing a final skirt and a little
boy's shirt which never looks like that?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
A no little boy. Well, Rocky, honey, I think maybe
you saved my life. Would you like to claim a
little reward? What kind of reward? A committ mm mm closer.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Oh h maybe I've got something to you.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Yeah the pool.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, honey, mm I've got something for you.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Yeah, what a property received from you?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
We as customs department.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
You you you're a cump.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Good night, Rocky, Good night.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Frank Sinatra as that footloose and fancy free young man
known as Rocky Fortune. Others in the cast included Lynn Allen,
Jack Krushian, Jack Nestle, Lou Marrow, and Winnie Horner.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Andrew C. Love directed Eddie King speaking.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Now, here's Frank Sinata to tell you about next week's
transcribe adventure. Did you ever get up in the morning
(23:53):
and find out you with somebody else? Next week, I
wake up married to a dame.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
And I don't even know her name.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
I'm living a a maharajah, and I am assured for
a hundred grand double indemnity. Next week, then tune in
again when Frank Sinatra returns as Rocky Fortune. This is
(24:20):
the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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