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Elba All the Yellow Program starring JackBenny with Mary Livingston and Phil Harris and
his orchestra, The Orchest Trophens theprogram with Alabama Barbecue from the twenty seventh
edition of the Cotton Club Parade.And now, ladies and gentlemen, we
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bring you that leftover ghost from Halloween. Jack, Betty, Hello again.
You're scared, pol Well did youlook all in today? I'll bet you
had the time of your life lastnight running around scaring people. Do I
imagine you're a little rascal out Halloween? Well, Jack, I did ring
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some doorbells, wrapped on a fewwindows, and see a couple of times
I had to run like the Dickens. Yeah, I knew you were up
to no good. But tell me, Don, did you uh? Did
you push over a thing? Why? No, Jack? Not in years?
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That's right, times have changed.That's what I like about you,
Don. You're still a kid atheart. Yes, sir, Well what
did you do for excitement last night? Oh? I had a lot of
fun. I took my violin andevery time I came to an open window,
I played love and Bloom you did? Yeah, A couple of times
I had to run like the Dickens. And after that I went to a
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masquerade party at Phil Harris's house.You know, one of those parties where
everybody comes in different disguises. Youknow, how did you dress? Jack?
Oh? I didn't bother much.I just stuck forty candles on my
head and went as a birthday cakebuddy. I didn't I didn't see you
there? Done? Why I wasthere? Jack? You were sure?
I sat on a plate all evenwith a lot of sliced bananas around me.
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Oh you were that dish of jello? Oh certainly? Well? Hello
Jack? Well they didn't you recognizeme at the party? No? Mary,
I didn't know you were there.How are you disguised? Well?
I had on a big red hatwith a long yellow saves pan button shoe,
and I had a brown fur piecearound my neck, a parents all
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on one hand and a bookcase inthe other. Mary, what were you
supposed to be a rummig tale?Oh? Say, Jack? You certainly
looked funny with old candles on yourhead last night. Oh you were you
there? To Kenny? I didn'tsee you? Sure I was there?
I got the first prize? Oh, no kidding? You did? What
was it? Have they let himwash the dishes. Congratulations, Kenny,
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say Jack, not changing the subject, But come here met, will you?
What is it? Have you evervoted? Voted? Oh? Sure,
Kenny? Why? Well, look, I'm going to vote next Tuesday
for the first time, and there'sonly one thing that kind of bothered me.
Well what is it? Kennyell'll beglad to help you out? You
know, Well, I ain't knowwhere I'm supposed to go everything, but
well, but but why what's botheredyou? Well? When you get in
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that booth and you pull a curtainaround you, do you have to take
a shower? Oh, Kenna,slightly formal? See that guy doesn't knowing
not to come in out of therain. He does too. Don't be
too short, I won't same area. Who are you going to vote for?
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Incidental? Oh? I don't know. I like Garry Cooper. Jerry
Coop. Well he isn't running forpresident. I don't care. I like
him anyway. Oh Jack, Bythe way, what have you decided to
do tonight? Is it going tobe the Minstrel Show or Romeo and Julia?
Why? The Minstrel Show? Ofcourse, I told you all about
it last week, and it's kindof long. Too down. I think
we ought to get things started.Okay, look Mary, Marry straightened things
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out and put the chairs in asemicircle. You know, I don't know
how. We'll put them in acircle and then take half away and you
don don get all those jokes outof them, off balls and pass out
the burned cord. Kenny, youknow you're going to be an end man?
Are you ready for the minsical show? Ama, I have n't washed
my faith all week? He didn'twash his neck either. Quiet Phil,
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play something until we get set well, yes, right over, and I'll
look Marry pass out the tambourine.Then let's get into the spirit of this.
And don be sure and put yourwig on straight and then have station
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when a Lady, When a Ladymeets a gentleman downstyles introduced by Phil Harrison
his orchestra. And now, ladiesand gentlemen, we present for your entertainment
Dot Bennie's world renownedmenttro The scene openson the main street of that friving metropolis
sponge Cake, Missouri, Time,July first, nineteen hundred and six.
Take it away, boy, yourfolks will have to clear the streets the
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press to coming this is this willbook. Keep your little boy on the
Sidephale here, Elmer, say rightto your mother. I want to feel
a pride. Howdy, folks,howdy, this is Doc Benny's Minstrel's back
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in your hometown. Glad to seeso many bright and smiling faces here the
great Us. Howdy Doc Horday,constabulee. Well, the old town looks
mighty good. I notice you gotsome new salesmen sitting on the porch of
the mansion house. They knew wejust dusted them all in here. Yes,
ma'am, man singing sweeter than ever? How about Don Wilson, he's
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with us and jellower than ever,I mean, jolly are than never?
Where's Mary Levington? None your business? Hey, Doc Junny Green William No,
they're Johnny's with the fred Astaire Minstrelsthis year and doing right well.
Got a new end man this season, another than Phill shovel along, Harold
right, Oh, follow the paradehost the Simpson's Oprey House. Remember the
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show's dogs. Promptly at two thirtyWe now take you to Simpson's Offrey House,
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where Doc Penny's Minstrels are about tobegin and let me see your tickets.
Please see two and four, firsttwo on the aisle. Thank you,
Canny popcorn on crack a Jack,a prising, every package, Jello
pose, chipture yellow here none genuine, will out some bank red letters on
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my practice. A ticket please Seatstwo, four, six, eight,
ten and twelve right this way,missus deones. Pardon me, sir,
you can't bring your horse in here. We're gonna take it through all right,
Seat one and stall two. Yeaman Hey popcorn, crack a jack
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Hey, oats and water ticket please, ladies, aunt kentle man, your
attamption. Please, for a fewmoments before the show begins, I have
here a selection of the latest songhits to the day. Two. They're
all the whislims in the shade ofthe old apple tree. They meet sweet
Sighter on a bicycle built for twoonly, a burden of gilded cage down
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by the old mill stream, andis is a mugga? Ain't you here?
You are? Sir? All Ime the songs folks takes me out
to the ballgame, wakeless unchines Nelly, and they're hanging father at sunrise.
That's the new swing tool. Anwiler hot folks have you got sweet still
had her, but she got away? Any other tall last chance before the
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curtain goes up. Overture, overturethe docs Billy minstrolls, Bang bang bang.
You hear the camel gring, theold pine gang. We'll show you
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the rag wang wang singing thing.Me gentlemen, be seated, well,
well, well, well, well, mister Harris, and mister in Alagata,
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how are you feeling? The CDwell turned the words of the port.
I sently, well, let's good. And you, mister Baker,
I'll see you five most insignificus cowslast something? And how are you feeling,
Miss Livingson? Yes, I'm gladto hear it. Oh, mister
Benny. Yes, mister Wilson,why don't yes be harmma feeling? He
patient, Brother Wilson, I wascoming to you well when you get here,
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I wish to convey that I'm feelingmentally and physically superfluent. But what
makes you so happy, mister Wilson? I got a right to be.
I got a wife and a cigarettelighter, and he's both working well.
Well, mister Danny, mister Danny, mind if I ask you riddle,
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don't over right? I had Misslivingson what's the difference between you and a
jack ass? We don't need ananswer to that one. I don't know
what is the difference? Yeah,ass? Where the collar? Well?
So do I wear a collar?Well? Then I guess he's no different.
Oh, mister Benny, Yeah,you tell me a difference. Weeen
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that pretty girl in the jackass?No, mister Baker, I can man.
You show must make some funny days. I don't get personal, mister
Baker. I don't get personal.Samus den lock. As long as everybody's
asking riddle as I got one,that will man. All Right, mister
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Harris, let's hear it. Whydid I call my guy special delivery stamp?
I don't know. Why do youcall your girl special delivery stamps?
Because she had stuck on something inportant? Well, I guess he's talking
about me. Why, Miss LivingsAnd I didn't know that you and mister
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Harris were strolling in the garden ofRomance. Man, we not only strolls
there, we hesitate. Why youdon't tell me? Yes, sir,
and you know what mister Harris toldme last night, But Joe live gal,
I'm blushing. Last night he toldme I was the eighth wonder of
the world. And what did youtell him? I told him, I've
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been and I catch you with autitevenand now, ladies and gentlemen, our
silver voice tenor tenor sweet stuff,Baker say for us with a sovereign dance,
his transition of that ever popular ballad, Can't you hear me call him?
Carolize, I'm missing in the morningwhen old Bob boy gives his call
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tal Caroline, I'm mister epond huntWendy even in shadows fall Caroline can lone,
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I'm mister Ndamin love on the river. Shall Oh? Can't you hear
me? Callin? By long?Came? Sh hear me Collin, Caroline.
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It's not hard to call and longhall, I'm mister Calumine. Who
is that? I could kiss?Car Hey know you snow for the under
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the shine, Caroline, Carol Line, changer him my lips, him tanker
him my locker and him fallen,Carol La La, Hey know you snow
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for the under shine? Ter Linecherll line can jo him on lips the
same, can shim can johim mepall chair. That was very good,
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mister Baker, excellent, Thank yousir. Yes, sir, that was
rendered with feeling sweetness and tenderness,parden lagging. Why, mister Harris,
I noticed that you and mister Bakerhave been quarreling quite a bit of late.
What have you got against him?Nothing except this honor, disloyal and
uncou that's all. Oh, come, now, there's a time where talk
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after I vice over my house fordinner. Who cares? Don't youmember that
night? Fat chicken ice tous?You remember, man? I recognize you.
Why, mister Harris, that's abull alligation. You mean to tell
me? You don't mean to tellme that mister Baker has been stealing your
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chicken. Not only dad, he'sbeen taking him home and executing him.
Well, I am surprised. Why, mister Baker. Don't you know what
the good book says, ow shoutnot steal, Yeah, and also good
books say it all shout not kill. Yes, and also good books say
it if shout not cover thy neighbor'schickens? Said, why I'm not cover
thy neighbor's chickens. I didn't coverthem. I just took him out of
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the way. There was, headmitted, mister Harra, Yes, I
and the next time I catch youround my hand house, I'm gonna settle
one question that folk have been discussingfor a long time. What's that candid
dead? See control yourself, misterHarrah. I'm on filling though full of
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bump. Shot that the next timeyou take the bath, you think right
to the box. Who's gonna takeit back? If I ever catch you
leaning over the river you is,boy boy, I'm gonna run you so
fast your vest pocket on the dipthing. Anytime you do, I'm gonna
knock that bump right off your head. I ain't got no bump on my
head. Well, I'm gonna putone day and then knock it horse.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen, this man isa bacon. You lay a hand on
my boyfriend, and twelve months inthe day you will be dead. Just
one year, my missus, livingstuff. Don't you worn on it?
I'll knock that kind of thing ofsoul, old hugh thing, baby,
miss man, Watch out boy,watch out boys one, two three.
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I'll be on top of you onfive six and you'll be right off again.
Boy, please, you get thisup now. I'm gonna walk them
down, but you watch man themoff. Who means, are you gonna
get back the baker? Please rememberwhat the good book says, love thy
neighbor, I don't left next doorto that much mouth? Is that what
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the good book says, Miss Bennie. Yes, mister Wildon, Well you
know what the cookbook says. Whynext to polk chop, jello and the
most delicious deserted the world head itcomes in dick, scrumptious clavers, strawberry,
raspberry, cherry, orange, lemonand lime. Am I right,
bread, yall, and our ladiesand gentlemen, yours truly, Doc Benny
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will render that touching little Alison titledAsleep in the Deep, assisted by the
Mississippi poor Us professor the bell greatthing in the only power rem coming adlift
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to the wall, warning it brunkTaylor, be wam sailor be wam stangor
is near. Beware be well manyramos a sleeplity swam. And now,
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ladies and gentlemen, as you allknow, every minstrel joe has an astrophe,
and ours will be no exception.Tonight we are going to offer Mary
come here minutes. Remember last Sundayour sponsors holdist we couldn't do go on,
Juliet, but I know way wecan do it tonight in disguises,
so he'll never just say leave itto me. Ladies and gentlemen, Tonight
we are going to present our versionof the greatest love story of all time
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entitled Boy Meet Girl on a Balcony. We now take you to the balcony
of the home of Juliet Johnson inChattanooga, Italy. Parts us row me
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and Julie. Well sweet uh andoh how that roll he could love?
Catch on? Folks? Yeah,ba and Julie. Julie who dad calling
me? Oh Julie, dat youRomeo? It ain't Hamler. I can't
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see you down there, Romeo,Romeo? Where for inju Romeo? Yeah?
I is gah right lo Yon falconYou'll get to you on that rider.
Son, come right up here,fourth sou Honey, I'll be there
fourth suit ya go. I'll beright there, Sugar. Just a minute
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there, Rommy, get thee downfrom that ladder. Huh jump don I'm
as send him to my lady friend, Juliet. Move over, local,
this is the express coming through.I wait a minute, Son, If
you want to get up there,you'll be your old ladder. I ain't
no cop down. I'm a lover. Who is you anyway? Do you
ever have anthony and clear Patra?Yes, sir, Well, when you
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subtract clear Patra, what you gotleft is me man. You in the
wrong plan. Get off that last. Don't mess around with me, Romeo.
Remember flowers don't care who they lay. I understand, past friends,
kazous Hey, Romeo, Romeo,you coming up here or you ain't be
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patient? Woman keeps like clocun yougo flow. But sure that means yeah,
you get off that letder. That'smy daln your gal. Yes,
sir, you just tell Julie theMACI here Mac who Macbeth? Well,
I'm rolling you. I'm going upthat ladder. You climb or not you
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climb? Daddy's de greenson. Yousee this your razor? Yes, the
well dad amdienser a better hide theaway n. I'm gonna take my razor
and shave you double clothes. Youdo and you gonna play loven blue one
a harp. You mean that,yes, sir? Well, past friends,
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he gassed row on row me on. What is it canty? Now
I'm caught in traffic, honey,there ain't no ladder. This is my
highway. Wait here comes Julie Jack. I'll be right up there with Joannie.
A pardon me, brother, butyou're standing directly in my path.
Who is you? Our fellow?Our fellow? Who our fellow? Jello?
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Oh? Then you as the merchante vented? Yeah, that I'll
step aside. Man. I waita minute, Sun, it's gonna find
enough. His parade is gonna cometo a hawk bronther. I'm warning you.
I'm just gonna ask you once moreto let me pass. And if
you say no, the next manyou talk to is gonna be Saint Peter.
Does you know Saint Peter Pussing?Only? No, but I sends
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him a lot of business. Well, if that's the King's past friend,
y're gonna what is this anyway?Hey, Julie? What wicked thou?
Romeo? Gotta be that you isunfaithful to me? I ain't unsafeful,
honey, I'm just popular. Well, I only know one thing. I'm
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the man who started at the bottomof the ladder and steed there. I
don't know what I'll do. I'llsmash this ladder so nobody else will go
there. I see somebody else getup on that balcony, out of my
way. Half fine, Hey Julie, Julie, Hells coming up here?
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He gonna get up. I don'tbroken letter, I don't need no letter.
I'm gonna climb right up that wall. You with man who is you
are? Then Hans friend on thehinder rapidize Phil rap do die. This
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aimed the last. This is thelast number of the fifth programs in the
New Jello series. And we'll bewith you again next Sunday night at the
same time when we are going topresent our version of twentieth century Fox's popular
picture Girls Dormitory. We Tackle Anything, Remember, folks, next Sunday night,
Oh Jack, can I do thepot? Play Simon? Who that's
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funny? I never can think ofher last name. Good night, folks,
oh un film the night is jongUjiderhul is from Hilla, Rose and
Pasamoniana. This program of Somebody overthe Red Network from the NBC studio owners
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of Hollywood. This is the NationalBroadcasting Company