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Good evening. The makers of theNew Rinso bring you the Amos and Andy
Show with their guest tonight, theMetro Goldwyn Mayer star currently appearing in Heavenly
Body, Miss Spring Byington. AndrewH. Brown rarely has anything to look
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forward to. However, this happensto be one of those occasions when he
can hardly wait for the day toarrive. His nephew, Jimmy, a
member of the Armed Forces, iscoming to New York to spend his furlough
with his uncle Andy. At themoment, the proud uncle is in his
office reading Jimmy's letter to Andy.Listen to this part of the letther Amos.
Yeah, go ahead, and hesay here and so I will a
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arrive in New York sometime Thanksgiving morningand will come right to your players.
I sure will be happy to seeyou, Uncle Andy. Give my regards
to your friend Amos, your loveand nephew Jimmy. Oh that's great,
he's coming up to New York forThanksgiving. Oh yeah, that's nice.
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Then. Yeah, and look herehe done sent me his picture here in
his uniform. Oh let me seethat boy. He's certainly good looking.
All right, show is everybody say, look exactly like me. Tell me
this is you gonna give your nephewa nice Thanksgiving dinner? Well, now
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that's exactly what I want to talkto you about, huh. I was
pretty proud of that boy, Amos. Oh, I know you is then,
and I look here. You see, I live in one room and
I ain't got no stove or nothing. I ain't got nowhere of cooking,
no big Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah,I know, and I kind of hate
the ash of this, but goahead. Well I was wondering. I
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was wondering if you would put onthe dinner at your place, I'd buy
the turkey and pay for everything.You see, Amos is just on kind
of my nephew. I'm kind ofproud of him, and I want to
do it right. Oh sure,and the show will do it. Oh,
that show is naze thee Amos.I really appreciate that, and I
know Jimmy will too. Yeah,I'm gonna write him and tell him that
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we're gonna have a big Thanksgiving dinnerfor him with turkey and everything. I
was just thinking. And Thanksgiving Dayis a week from yesterday, and I
hear that turkey is pretty scarce.Oh, I'll get one all right,
amos, don't worry. The Kingfishsay that he's gonna take me over to
see his butcher. I thought theKingfish and his butcher wasn't speaking to each
other. Well, they wasn't,but the Kingfish made up with him at
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the beginning of the turkey season.Well, now all you gotta do,
Andy is get the turkey and meand Ruby will take care of everything else.
Oh that's great, put it there, son, Well, hello over
there, boys, How is helloout? That King Peachy just talking about
you? Who he was? Huh? Speaking of the loving Kingfish. By
the way, did you see thepicture of Andy's nephew Jimmy. Yeah,
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look here here, just right here. He looks pretty good, don't they.
He's my nephew on my mama,on Poppa's side. Yeah, nice
picture here. He's a private already. Huh uh. You know King See
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and his nephew is coming up herefor Thanksgiving days. Yeah, and I
want to get a turkey for him. Kingfish, I want you to take
me over to your butcher like yousaid you would. Oh, anytime at
all, brother, And yeah,I'll go with you now, Okay,
that's good. By the way,do you know anything about how to pick
out good turkey? Kingfish? Yeah, sure I do, brother, And
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whenever I picked out a turkey Ialways kind of feels around the legs there.
That's important, says huh. Oh. Yeah. You take an athlete
now, when he runs and exercisesand all that stuff, he gets hard
and tough. So the idea inpicking out a turkey is the get one
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that has done led a lazy light. Well, kingfish, I got just
one turkey. Let yeah, letus take a look at it. Carl
is for my friend here, misterBrown. Uh, he got a nephew
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coming home from the army on Thanksgivingand he wants to get a nice tender
bird. Yeah. How much dothat turkey way that you have got there,
mister? About fourteen pounds? Let'ssit right up there and left hook,
last one left? Boy? Thatlook good? All right? Uh
put it down here on the counter. Calls who are examined there, sure
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will Yeah yeah, so uh,now let me see here how I want
to feel around his legs here.M Uh, this tech has done a
lot of running, didn't he.That's prime turkey and the only one I
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got left. You're lucky to getit. Yeah, I think I'll take
it, King Fish. Oh,now wait a minute, and they keep
you big mo shut wait just aminute enough unless rush into the thing or
let me feel the turkey's wings here, m h done a lot of flying
too? Did the call tell youthe truth? King Fish? I don't
know. I just met the birdthree days ago. Well, I'm gonna
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take it, King fan. Willyou please wait a minute. I just
trying to help you here. Turnthe turkey up on the other side.
What do you call? Yeah,you know where? And I don't like
the shape with this turkey's back.Look here, Kingfish, we ain't buying,
but it's figure. Yeah, butall them things come excuse me a
second, boys, I want togo out in front and raised on and
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though all right, pul listen,Kingfish, come on down here and it
so we can talk. Guy,I don't want this other butcher down the
other end of here. Well,Kingfish, why can't I buy that turkey?
Now? Look and it do whateveryou want to do. It's your
money. I just try to helpyou. I try to give you the
benefit of my long turk experiences.It's a good turkey though anything. Yeah,
here's a good turkey in it,but I like to check and double
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checkers seem to make sure. Well, if we listen, if you think
the turkey is all right, whyas we hammer an horn round here?
Listen. And it's just like whena fella is figuring on marrying some gal.
She might look nice and pretty andlook good in clothes and all that
stuff. At the same time,you want to get a look in a
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mouse to make sure that you ain'tgonn run into fifty one hundred dollars worth.
Gent word, and we just wantto make sure that we getting a
good turkey too. Well, I'mgonna buy it, Kingfish, Okay then,
and I don't think you can gowrong. Uh, say Carl,
I'll take that turkey all right,I'll put it on the scale. Hey
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wait a minute, hey, Joe, what did you do with that turkey?
Was right here? Well, Ijust shold you that man going out
the door there, Well, Kingfish, what would you charge to stop heaping
me? What? I'm sorry youboys, mister chaired of that turkey,
But I guess Joe didn't know youwas thinking about buying it. Come on
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and we'll go to a good butchershop. Listen, Carl. If this
is the way that you want totreat the old customer that has paid up
to last July, it's okay withme. All right, gentlemen, we
haven't had a turkey in here inten days. We got a mailing list
a mile long. No turkeys,huh, not a chance. We don't
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expect any more turkeys until after thefirst of the year, and maybe not
then. Turkeys you kidding? Yeah, Henry just ain't a turkey for sealing
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in the whole town. Yes,I know. Missus Van Porter was saying
at breakfast this morning that the turkeysituation is cute, But I didn't know
it was cute as that. Yeah, well, I could have got one,
but this part time genius here thekingfish happy so much. I didn't
get it. The sittman the sourceof that remark. I'm gonna dis ignore
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the whole thing. Please, boys, please, let's not have no fights.
After all, we as all civilizedjetmens, you know. Oh,
come in, come in, Hello, hello Lighting. I thought i'd find
you fellas over here at Miss Ander'soffice, a miss and this letter come
for you over at the lodge hall, and I thought it might be something
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reportant Oh, thank you lightning.Well it's from Jimmy. Oh it is
huh what do we saying? Yes, but he's in it. Say here,
dear uncle lad there. I don'thave time to write much, but
there is a buddy of mine hereat camp who lives too far away to
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go home and visit his folks forThanksgiving. I took the liberty of asking
him to come up to New Yorkwith me and have Thanksgiving turkey dinner with
us. I hope this will beokay with you, your love a nephew,
Jimmy, Well, fellas, Ireally got to get a turkey someplace.
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I ain't gonna let them too boysnow, yes, sounds like the
count on turkey already. Gee end, I wish I know how to help
you. I wonder if there wouldbe anything in getting a couple of chickens
and tell your nephew that the turkeysis running small this year. Well,
another thing, I'd have to tellthem that the turkey this year tastes like
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chickens too, I guess you wouldsay, boys, I just had a
thought here, Oh what was that, Henry? But Andy, I wonder
if there's any chance of you gettingthe priority on the turkey. Uh,
priory. Yes, I know thatthe army has done took a lot of
turkeys this year, which is thatit should be. But it just occurred
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to me that as long as youwas getting the turkey for your nephew and
his friend who was in the army, you might be able to get a
priority. Say, yeah, that'sworth trying. Where would I go?
Well, I know that there's aspecial priority board downtown that handles the unusual
things like that. I has hadoccasion to go there myself. Ask for
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a Miss spring Byington. Come on, Kingfish, we are going down there
right now. Did you wish tosee me? Uh? Is you Miss
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spring Bynson? That's right? CanI help you? Oh? Yeah,
tell miss Byrington the whole story,and yeah, I'll start at the beginning.
The reason we come down to therational boge here is on coind of
my nephew. You see, he'sin the army and he's coming home for
Thanksgiving. Oh isn't that nice?I was just thinking my husband this morning.
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I was Harry, he's our nephewwas coming home Thanksgiving. He's in
the camp in the Middle West.But if he can't be, it can't
be that's right. Now. WhatI want to explain for you, on
the other hand's in it. That'smy sister's son. He's stationed in Georgia
or lovely boy. He looks alot like my sister elaying. Yeah,
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that's good, all right, goahead and tell him us Bindon what you
want to tell her. Yeah,I'll begin at the begin You see,
my nephew is in the army andhe's coming home for Thanksgiving. Oh really,
isn't that nice? Huh? Iknow how happy you must be.
You know I have a nephew too, Yes, we know. He lives
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in the Middle West and he can'tget home for Thanksgiving. Oh you know
him. Oh, And to startat the beginning again, Well, this
nephew and his buddy is coming homefor Thanksgiving, and I want to give
him a big oh yeah, andwe want you to help us if you
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can. Why, of course Iwill. Now I suggest that the first
thing you do is to get aturkey. That's what we want to see
you about. You see, weain't got no turkey. Really, you
want to hurry up and get onetomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I understand they're getting
scarce. Oh yeah, we hearthe same rumor. Yeah, excuse me,
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miss Biendon, But we can getpriorities here, can't we. Oh?
Yes, indeed, that's what we'rehere for. Well, now we're
getting somewhere. What kind of apriority was it you wanted tires or extra
gasoline? And do you think weare too far from the beginning to go
back there again? Well we cantry going back there once more. You
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see, my nephew is in thearmy and tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day? Oh
really, are you going to havea turkey dinner for him? Well not
at the rate we're going, ladyh You see, like I said before,
that's what we come in to seeyou about. We can't get one
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in the whole city, miss Binden. And you see, this dinner is
for a couple of soldiers, andthat's why we're trying to get a priority
from the government on it. Yousee, we got all the trimmings,
but the trouble is we ain't gotnothing to trim a priority on a turkey.
Yes, it's the only chance ofgetting one. We done scarred the
whole town. And I promise youthat I won't eat none of the turkey
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myself. I might dip my breadin the gravy. But that's all.
This is the first request we've hadlike this. I'd like to help.
I'll tell you what i'll do.I'll call up regional headquarters and see what
they say about it. Oh,yeah, we'd appreciate it as you would.
You might fill out this application blankin the meantime, just in case.
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Okay, name, I guess i'dbetter put aim at Jones' name.
I'm an addressed down too, becausethat's where we won't have m that'll be
fine, Regional headquarters. Oh,Dorothy, it's a spring. Hello spring.
I called you last night. Youweren't home, a little stay out
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jamem and I went over to thatmilinary class. I'm making the most stunning
hat you ever saw. Oh,you're made me so jealous. I need
a hat so badly for my newcode. What kind of you making,
Dorothy? Oh, it's top anidea on my own. It's an off
the face turb Oh that should begorgeous. No, especially with your hair.
Oh? Anything else? Noon?No, except that I'm going off
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to Clara Sunday afternoon. You're going, well, I don't know whether Frank's
going to play golf or not,but I'll be talking to you before that.
Goodbye. You're fine. If there'sanything that annoyed me, it's some
woman calling me when I'm busy andyou're talking about nothing. Now where were
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we? Oh? You call her? I called her? Yeah, you
was gonna ask her if there wassome way that we could get a priority
on a turkey. Well, howdo you like that she hung up without
telling me? You didn't ask her? I didn't. I suppose it's my
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fault. But it's just that thatgirl talks so incessantly and rambles on what
Now? Hello, Spring, thisis Dorothy again. You didn't tell me
what you call me a fault?Oh, I'm glad you called back.
Dorothy. Listen, can we giveout a priority order for a turkey?
Why not? That I know of? At least I've never heard of it.
Well, if anybody would know aboutit, it would be you.
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I've never heard of it since Icame here. Well that's all I want
to know. Thanks, Dorothy.Bye. I'm awfully sorry, but there
just is no such thing. Yeah, well thanks anyway, most buyden,
We show a pieceless what you tryto do for us. Now, I
guess the boys would just have toget along without gasoline, you know what
I mean? Without a turkey?Goodbye? No luck at the rating board,
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huh fellas, no amas, nothing, And we even went to six
more busher shops and still couldn't getnothing. Yes, amos, I was
gonna tell you. I know theway around Harlem here, and I know
all the roofs. But I tellyou, I just vout to give up
the things. Uh say, Iwas just wondering, is there any place
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where we could get a wild turkey? Maybe? Oh? And there ain't
no wild turkeys around here? Whatare you talking about? You know them?
Uh pilgrims got all of them,they did. Huh sure they did.
Well tell me this, uh douse, you know a pilgrim that we
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could call up? Oh and thatwas years and years ago. And uh
say, oh, by the way, did you see that letter on your
death there that come for you?Oh? No, hey, look at
here, there's another letter from Jimmy. Oh dear, oh, say,
maybe his friend ain't coming. Andif Jimmy comes up here alone, I
can take him out to dinner.Yeah, go ahead and read it dinner.
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And yeah, dear uncle Lamb,there, Uh what do you say?
And he's bringing three more fellas.And at what time did Jimmy say
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that him and his friends would gethere. Well, he say sometime around
noon, So I guess they won'tbe here for a hour or maybe a
hour and a half yet. Uhuh is it anything else you need?
Ruby, I'll go down to thestore and get it. No, Andy,
I think we have everything, andI think it's going to be a
pretty nice dinner too. Yeah.Well I bought everything I can think of.
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I know you did, Andy,and I'm going to fix everything just
as good as I know how.Oh yeah, there ain't no question about
that. Ruby. I know thatyou was a wonderful cook, but there
ain't nobody that can make Frankfurt totake life. Turkey. Oh but I
think that the boys will enjoy thatdinner. Yeah, well, wait a
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minute, that can't be Jimmy.It's too early. It might be for
me. I get it, amos. Is there a ye mister Brown here?
Yes? Yes, won't you comein? Andy? There's a lady
to see you. Hello, misterBrown? Oh hello there? Hello?
Uh? Well, uh you youwas the lady from the raction boat agent.
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That's right, And I have aturkey for you here, or a
turkey for me. Yes, yousee, we ordered our own turkey about
a month ago, and this morningsome friends if I dropped in and gave
us a turkey from their farm,and I want you to have it.
Well, gee, I couldn't,and unfortunately I had this address you know
that you put on the priority blank. Remember well, happy Thanksgiving. Well,
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I don't know how to thank youof I wouldn't take the thing for
myself, but on account of mynephew, and there's soldier friends coming,
it'll show make it nice for them. How much to know? Are you
for it? You don't owe meanything. It didn't cost me anything.
I'm not in the turkey business.Oh well, this s was nice of
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you, lady. Yes, sheis wonderful. All go on. Well,
I've got to run along now andstart cooking my own dinner. Goodbye
again, good bye? That shewas sweet of that lady. Yeah,
now I'll really be able to givehim a Thanksgiving to Oh boy, am
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I happit? That turkey shore looksgood? Don't look at the mm boy.
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That turkey shows smell good too.Yeah, tell me this ruby,
When is you gonna take it outof dublin? Oh? It's got about
an hour to go yet. Ihope the boys get here on time.
Yeah, look at it there?He must just look at that thing.
Yeah, that's upright in Yeah,look at look at right there? See
how kind of browning up on thebreast there? Look at that? Yeah,
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look at that it is getting brownin it. Oh, boy,
wouldn't that turkey be proud if hecan see himself right now? I just
got a basted little more here.Yeah, look at that greevy going over
that breast. M m M.I wonder why they don't make perfume out
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of that stuff, you know,amos I? Oh, oh that must
be them now now remember dude,just like we said, okay, come
on now, Ruby, come on. Yeah. And and just when I
put my hand on the do nob, we start to think you ready happy?
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Oh, I've got a special deliveryletter for mister Brown for for me.
Yeah, sign right there, Yes, at the lodge hall they told
me were over here. Uh,thank you? Okay, mm? What's
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the matter? Andy? You youlook sad? What is it? Andy?
Yeah? Well I has sad names, but I was proud too.
Uh what do it say in It'sfrom Jimmy yoh huh. We'll not be
able to come to New York neitherwell the other boys. We are leaving
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for a port of embarkation. Bythe time you get this, we will
no doubt be on our way overseas. Love Jimmy Hum, you can really
be proud of that boy, Andy. Yeah, God bless him. I
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sure hope he has a fifth trip. How many guests did you invite over
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here for the Turkey dinner? Andseven of them? Who are did you
invite? I don't know their names? Just seven boys from the USO join
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us again next week at this sametime for the Amos and Andy Show,
at which time Amos and Andy willhave as their guest the fine Picture character
actor mister Donald. Our program isshort waved to our armed forces overseas,
wherever they may be. This isHarlow Wilcox speaking for all of us and
thanking the charming MGM star Miss SpringByington for appearing with us tonight. One
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more thing before we say good night, a reminder that you ladies personally can
save the lives of many of ourfighting men without budging a step out of
your kitchens. Just remember the waist, fats and greases you can save will
be made into ammunition and precious selfwith drugs. But no matter how much
you save, those waist fats andgreases won't do anyone a bit of good
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until you sell them to your dealer. So don't let them hang round the
kitchen. Once you fill the can, take it right to your meat dealer.
The need is so urgent that withinthree weeks the waist fats and greases
you turn in are at the munition'splant. Put them into any kind of
tin can save those waist fats.Thank you, and good night. This
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is the National Broadcasting Company.
Good evening. The makers of theNew Rinso bring you the Amos and Andy
Show with their guest tonight, theMetro Goldwyn Mayer star currently appearing in Heavenly
Body, Miss Spring Byington. AndrewH. Brown rarely has anything to look
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forward to. However, this happensto be one of those occasions when he
can hardly wait for the day toarrive. His nephew, Jimmy, a
member of the Armed Forces, iscoming to New York to spend his furlough
with his uncle Andy. At themoment, the proud uncle is in his
office reading Jimmy's letter to Andy.Listen to this part of the letther Amos.
Yeah, go ahead, and hesay here and so I will a
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arrive in New York sometime Thanksgiving morningand will come right to your players.
I sure will be happy to seeyou, Uncle Andy. Give my regards
to your friend Amos, your loveand nephew Jimmy. Oh that's great,
he's coming up to New York forThanksgiving. Oh yeah, that's nice.
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Then. Yeah, and look herehe done sent me his picture here in
his uniform. Oh let me seethat boy. He's certainly good looking.
All right, show is everybody say, look exactly like me. Tell me
this is you gonna give your nephewa nice Thanksgiving dinner? Well, now
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that's exactly what I want to talkto you about, huh. I was
pretty proud of that boy, Amos. Oh, I know you is then,
and I look here. You see, I live in one room and
I ain't got no stove or nothing. I ain't got nowhere of cooking,
no big Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah,I know, and I kind of hate
the ash of this, but goahead. Well I was wondering. I
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was wondering if you would put onthe dinner at your place, I'd buy
the turkey and pay for everything.You see, Amos is just on kind
of my nephew. I'm kind ofproud of him, and I want to
do it right. Oh sure,and the show will do it. Oh,
that show is naze thee Amos.I really appreciate that, and I
know Jimmy will too. Yeah,I'm gonna write him and tell him that
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we're gonna have a big Thanksgiving dinnerfor him with turkey and everything. I
was just thinking. And Thanksgiving Dayis a week from yesterday, and I
hear that turkey is pretty scarce.Oh, I'll get one all right,
amos, don't worry. The Kingfishsay that he's gonna take me over to
see his butcher. I thought theKingfish and his butcher wasn't speaking to each
other. Well, they wasn't,but the Kingfish made up with him at
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the beginning of the turkey season.Well, now all you gotta do,
Andy is get the turkey and meand Ruby will take care of everything else.
Oh that's great, put it there, son, Well, hello over
there, boys, How is helloout? That King Peachy just talking about
you? Who he was? Huh? Speaking of the loving Kingfish. By
the way, did you see thepicture of Andy's nephew Jimmy. Yeah,
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look here here, just right here. He looks pretty good, don't they.
He's my nephew on my mama,on Poppa's side. Yeah, nice
picture here. He's a private already. Huh uh. You know King See
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and his nephew is coming up herefor Thanksgiving days. Yeah, and I
want to get a turkey for him. Kingfish, I want you to take
me over to your butcher like yousaid you would. Oh, anytime at
all, brother, And yeah,I'll go with you now, Okay,
that's good. By the way,do you know anything about how to pick
out good turkey? Kingfish? Yeah, sure I do, brother, And
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whenever I picked out a turkey Ialways kind of feels around the legs there.
That's important, says huh. Oh. Yeah. You take an athlete
now, when he runs and exercisesand all that stuff, he gets hard
and tough. So the idea inpicking out a turkey is the get one
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that has done led a lazy light. Well, kingfish, I got just
one turkey. Let yeah, letus take a look at it. Carl
is for my friend here, misterBrown. Uh, he got a nephew
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coming home from the army on Thanksgivingand he wants to get a nice tender
bird. Yeah. How much dothat turkey way that you have got there,
mister? About fourteen pounds? Let'ssit right up there and left hook,
last one left? Boy? Thatlook good? All right? Uh
put it down here on the counter. Calls who are examined there, sure
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will Yeah yeah, so uh,now let me see here how I want
to feel around his legs here.M Uh, this tech has done a
lot of running, didn't he.That's prime turkey and the only one I
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got left. You're lucky to getit. Yeah, I think I'll take
it, King Fish. Oh,now wait a minute, and they keep
you big mo shut wait just aminute enough unless rush into the thing or
let me feel the turkey's wings here, m h done a lot of flying
too? Did the call tell youthe truth? King Fish? I don't
know. I just met the birdthree days ago. Well, I'm gonna
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take it, King fan. Willyou please wait a minute. I just
trying to help you here. Turnthe turkey up on the other side.
What do you call? Yeah,you know where? And I don't like
the shape with this turkey's back.Look here, Kingfish, we ain't buying,
but it's figure. Yeah, butall them things come excuse me a
second, boys, I want togo out in front and raised on and
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though all right, pul listen,Kingfish, come on down here and it
so we can talk. Guy,I don't want this other butcher down the
other end of here. Well,Kingfish, why can't I buy that turkey?
Now? Look and it do whateveryou want to do. It's your
money. I just try to helpyou. I try to give you the
benefit of my long turk experiences.It's a good turkey though anything. Yeah,
here's a good turkey in it,but I like to check and double
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checkers seem to make sure. Well, if we listen, if you think
the turkey is all right, whyas we hammer an horn round here?
Listen. And it's just like whena fella is figuring on marrying some gal.
She might look nice and pretty andlook good in clothes and all that
stuff. At the same time,you want to get a look in a
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mouse to make sure that you ain'tgonn run into fifty one hundred dollars worth.
Gent word, and we just wantto make sure that we getting a
good turkey too. Well, I'mgonna buy it, Kingfish, Okay then,
and I don't think you can gowrong. Uh, say Carl,
I'll take that turkey all right,I'll put it on the scale. Hey
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wait a minute, hey, Joe, what did you do with that turkey?
Was right here? Well, Ijust shold you that man going out
the door there, Well, Kingfish, what would you charge to stop heaping
me? What? I'm sorry youboys, mister chaired of that turkey,
But I guess Joe didn't know youwas thinking about buying it. Come on
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and we'll go to a good butchershop. Listen, Carl. If this
is the way that you want totreat the old customer that has paid up
to last July, it's okay withme. All right, gentlemen, we
haven't had a turkey in here inten days. We got a mailing list
a mile long. No turkeys,huh, not a chance. We don't
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expect any more turkeys until after thefirst of the year, and maybe not
then. Turkeys you kidding? Yeah, Henry just ain't a turkey for sealing
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in the whole town. Yes,I know. Missus Van Porter was saying
at breakfast this morning that the turkeysituation is cute, But I didn't know
it was cute as that. Yeah, well, I could have got one,
but this part time genius here thekingfish happy so much. I didn't
get it. The sittman the sourceof that remark. I'm gonna dis ignore
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the whole thing. Please, boys, please, let's not have no fights.
After all, we as all civilizedjetmens, you know. Oh,
come in, come in, Hello, hello Lighting. I thought i'd find
you fellas over here at Miss Ander'soffice, a miss and this letter come
for you over at the lodge hall, and I thought it might be something
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reportant Oh, thank you lightning.Well it's from Jimmy. Oh it is
huh what do we saying? Yes, but he's in it. Say here,
dear uncle lad there. I don'thave time to write much, but
there is a buddy of mine hereat camp who lives too far away to
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go home and visit his folks forThanksgiving. I took the liberty of asking
him to come up to New Yorkwith me and have Thanksgiving turkey dinner with
us. I hope this will beokay with you, your love a nephew,
Jimmy, Well, fellas, Ireally got to get a turkey someplace.
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I ain't gonna let them too boysnow, yes, sounds like the
count on turkey already. Gee end, I wish I know how to help
you. I wonder if there wouldbe anything in getting a couple of chickens
and tell your nephew that the turkeysis running small this year. Well,
another thing, I'd have to tellthem that the turkey this year tastes like
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chickens too, I guess you wouldsay, boys, I just had a
thought here, Oh what was that, Henry? But Andy, I wonder
if there's any chance of you gettingthe priority on the turkey. Uh,
priory. Yes, I know thatthe army has done took a lot of
turkeys this year, which is thatit should be. But it just occurred
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to me that as long as youwas getting the turkey for your nephew and
his friend who was in the army, you might be able to get a
priority. Say, yeah, that'sworth trying. Where would I go?
Well, I know that there's aspecial priority board downtown that handles the unusual
things like that. I has hadoccasion to go there myself. Ask for
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a Miss spring Byington. Come on, Kingfish, we are going down there
right now. Did you wish tosee me? Uh? Is you Miss
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spring Bynson? That's right? CanI help you? Oh? Yeah,
tell miss Byrington the whole story,and yeah, I'll start at the beginning.
The reason we come down to therational boge here is on coind of
my nephew. You see, he'sin the army and he's coming home for
Thanksgiving. Oh isn't that nice?I was just thinking my husband this morning.
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I was Harry, he's our nephewwas coming home Thanksgiving. He's in
the camp in the Middle West.But if he can't be, it can't
be that's right. Now. WhatI want to explain for you, on
the other hand's in it. That'smy sister's son. He's stationed in Georgia
or lovely boy. He looks alot like my sister elaying. Yeah,
(12:20):
that's good, all right, goahead and tell him us Bindon what you
want to tell her. Yeah,I'll begin at the begin You see,
my nephew is in the army andhe's coming home for Thanksgiving. Oh really,
isn't that nice? Huh? Iknow how happy you must be.
You know I have a nephew too, Yes, we know. He lives
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in the Middle West and he can'tget home for Thanksgiving. Oh you know
him. Oh, And to startat the beginning again, Well, this
nephew and his buddy is coming homefor Thanksgiving, and I want to give
him a big oh yeah, andwe want you to help us if you
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can. Why, of course Iwill. Now I suggest that the first
thing you do is to get aturkey. That's what we want to see
you about. You see, weain't got no turkey. Really, you
want to hurry up and get onetomorrow's Thanksgiving, and I understand they're getting
scarce. Oh yeah, we hearthe same rumor. Yeah, excuse me,
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miss Biendon, But we can getpriorities here, can't we. Oh?
Yes, indeed, that's what we'rehere for. Well, now we're
getting somewhere. What kind of apriority was it you wanted tires or extra
gasoline? And do you think weare too far from the beginning to go
back there again? Well we cantry going back there once more. You
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see, my nephew is in thearmy and tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day? Oh
really, are you going to havea turkey dinner for him? Well not
at the rate we're going, ladyh You see, like I said before,
that's what we come in to seeyou about. We can't get one
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in the whole city, miss Binden. And you see, this dinner is
for a couple of soldiers, andthat's why we're trying to get a priority
from the government on it. Yousee, we got all the trimmings,
but the trouble is we ain't gotnothing to trim a priority on a turkey.
Yes, it's the only chance ofgetting one. We done scarred the
whole town. And I promise youthat I won't eat none of the turkey
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myself. I might dip my breadin the gravy. But that's all.
This is the first request we've hadlike this. I'd like to help.
I'll tell you what i'll do.I'll call up regional headquarters and see what
they say about it. Oh,yeah, we'd appreciate it as you would.
You might fill out this application blankin the meantime, just in case.
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Okay, name, I guess i'dbetter put aim at Jones' name.
I'm an addressed down too, becausethat's where we won't have m that'll be
fine, Regional headquarters. Oh,Dorothy, it's a spring. Hello spring.
I called you last night. Youweren't home, a little stay out
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jamem and I went over to thatmilinary class. I'm making the most stunning
hat you ever saw. Oh,you're made me so jealous. I need
a hat so badly for my newcode. What kind of you making,
Dorothy? Oh, it's top anidea on my own. It's an off
the face turb Oh that should begorgeous. No, especially with your hair.
Oh? Anything else? Noon?No, except that I'm going off
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to Clara Sunday afternoon. You're going, well, I don't know whether Frank's
going to play golf or not,but I'll be talking to you before that.
Goodbye. You're fine. If there'sanything that annoyed me, it's some
woman calling me when I'm busy andyou're talking about nothing. Now where were
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we? Oh? You call her? I called her? Yeah, you
was gonna ask her if there wassome way that we could get a priority
on a turkey. Well, howdo you like that she hung up without
telling me? You didn't ask her? I didn't. I suppose it's my
(16:17):
fault. But it's just that thatgirl talks so incessantly and rambles on what
Now? Hello, Spring, thisis Dorothy again. You didn't tell me
what you call me a fault?Oh, I'm glad you called back.
Dorothy. Listen, can we giveout a priority order for a turkey?
Why not? That I know of? At least I've never heard of it.
Well, if anybody would know aboutit, it would be you.
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I've never heard of it since Icame here. Well that's all I want
to know. Thanks, Dorothy.Bye. I'm awfully sorry, but there
just is no such thing. Yeah, well thanks anyway, most buyden,
We show a pieceless what you tryto do for us. Now, I
guess the boys would just have toget along without gasoline, you know what
I mean? Without a turkey?Goodbye? No luck at the rating board,
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huh fellas, no amas, nothing, And we even went to six
more busher shops and still couldn't getnothing. Yes, amos, I was
gonna tell you. I know theway around Harlem here, and I know
all the roofs. But I tellyou, I just vout to give up
the things. Uh say, Iwas just wondering, is there any place
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where we could get a wild turkey? Maybe? Oh? And there ain't
no wild turkeys around here? Whatare you talking about? You know them?
Uh pilgrims got all of them,they did. Huh sure they did.
Well tell me this, uh douse, you know a pilgrim that we
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could call up? Oh and thatwas years and years ago. And uh
say, oh, by the way, did you see that letter on your
death there that come for you?Oh? No, hey, look at
here, there's another letter from Jimmy. Oh dear, oh, say,
maybe his friend ain't coming. Andif Jimmy comes up here alone, I
can take him out to dinner.Yeah, go ahead and read it dinner.
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And yeah, dear uncle Lamb,there, Uh what do you say?
And he's bringing three more fellas.And at what time did Jimmy say
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that him and his friends would gethere. Well, he say sometime around
noon, So I guess they won'tbe here for a hour or maybe a
hour and a half yet. Uhuh is it anything else you need?
Ruby, I'll go down to thestore and get it. No, Andy,
I think we have everything, andI think it's going to be a
pretty nice dinner too. Yeah.Well I bought everything I can think of.
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I know you did, Andy,and I'm going to fix everything just
as good as I know how.Oh yeah, there ain't no question about
that. Ruby. I know thatyou was a wonderful cook, but there
ain't nobody that can make Frankfurt totake life. Turkey. Oh but I
think that the boys will enjoy thatdinner. Yeah, well, wait a
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minute, that can't be Jimmy.It's too early. It might be for
me. I get it, amos. Is there a ye mister Brown here?
Yes? Yes, won't you comein? Andy? There's a lady
to see you. Hello, misterBrown? Oh hello there? Hello?
Uh? Well, uh you youwas the lady from the raction boat agent.
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That's right, And I have aturkey for you here, or a
turkey for me. Yes, yousee, we ordered our own turkey about
a month ago, and this morningsome friends if I dropped in and gave
us a turkey from their farm,and I want you to have it.
Well, gee, I couldn't,and unfortunately I had this address you know
that you put on the priority blank. Remember well, happy Thanksgiving. Well,
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I don't know how to thank youof I wouldn't take the thing for
myself, but on account of mynephew, and there's soldier friends coming,
it'll show make it nice for them. How much to know? Are you
for it? You don't owe meanything. It didn't cost me anything.
I'm not in the turkey business.Oh well, this s was nice of
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you, lady. Yes, sheis wonderful. All go on. Well,
I've got to run along now andstart cooking my own dinner. Goodbye
again, good bye? That shewas sweet of that lady. Yeah,
now I'll really be able to givehim a Thanksgiving to Oh boy, am
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I happit? That turkey shore looksgood? Don't look at the mm boy.
(21:22):
That turkey shows smell good too.Yeah, tell me this ruby,
When is you gonna take it outof dublin? Oh? It's got about
an hour to go yet. Ihope the boys get here on time.
Yeah, look at it there?He must just look at that thing.
Yeah, that's upright in Yeah,look at look at right there? See
how kind of browning up on thebreast there? Look at that? Yeah,
(21:44):
look at that it is getting brownin it. Oh, boy,
wouldn't that turkey be proud if hecan see himself right now? I just
got a basted little more here.Yeah, look at that greevy going over
that breast. M m M.I wonder why they don't make perfume out
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of that stuff, you know,amos I? Oh, oh that must
be them now now remember dude,just like we said, okay, come
on now, Ruby, come on. Yeah. And and just when I
put my hand on the do nob, we start to think you ready happy?
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Oh, I've got a special deliveryletter for mister Brown for for me.
Yeah, sign right there, Yes, at the lodge hall they told
me were over here. Uh,thank you? Okay, mm? What's
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the matter? Andy? You youlook sad? What is it? Andy?
Yeah? Well I has sad names, but I was proud too.
Uh what do it say in It'sfrom Jimmy yoh huh. We'll not be
able to come to New York neitherwell the other boys. We are leaving
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for a port of embarkation. Bythe time you get this, we will
no doubt be on our way overseas. Love Jimmy Hum, you can really
be proud of that boy, Andy. Yeah, God bless him. I
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sure hope he has a fifth trip. How many guests did you invite over
(24:04):
here for the Turkey dinner? Andseven of them? Who are did you
invite? I don't know their names? Just seven boys from the USO join
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us again next week at this sametime for the Amos and Andy Show,
at which time Amos and Andy willhave as their guest the fine Picture character
actor mister Donald. Our program isshort waved to our armed forces overseas,
wherever they may be. This isHarlow Wilcox speaking for all of us and
thanking the charming MGM star Miss SpringByington for appearing with us tonight. One
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more thing before we say good night, a reminder that you ladies personally can
save the lives of many of ourfighting men without budging a step out of
your kitchens. Just remember the waist, fats and greases you can save will
be made into ammunition and precious selfwith drugs. But no matter how much
you save, those waist fats andgreases won't do anyone a bit of good
(25:34):
until you sell them to your dealer. So don't let them hang round the
kitchen. Once you fill the can, take it right to your meat dealer.
The need is so urgent that withinthree weeks the waist fats and greases
you turn in are at the munition'splant. Put them into any kind of
tin can save those waist fats.Thank you, and good night. This
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is the National Broadcasting Company.
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