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Lou Inherits Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars

Abbott and Costello · January 21, 1948 · 28 min · 4,200 words

The transcript of “Lou Inherits Eight Hundred Thousand Dollars”, an episode of Abbott and Costello first broadcast January 21, 1948. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Abbott and Costello plays Abbott and Costello free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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What time is it? It's time for the Evan Costello Show. We're on the air for ABC here in Hollywood. Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go with the Evan Costello Show. Yes, it's the Evan Costello Show.

Producing transcribed in Hollywood tonight for you. Listening place here with Susan Miller and the music of Matty Malley. Hold on to your chairs, folks. Here they are for Evan and Luke Costello. Hey, where have you been?

Oh, Evan, hang on a bar. So take. I've delivered candy store in town. You win it. There are no bars and candy stores. All Nick Candy Barks? What the hell Nick was talking about tonight?

Oh, follow me! Oh, follow me! Oh, follow me! And follow you! Be quiet, have it? No, no, no, no, no, no, no! My teacher says when I'm finished I'm my senior teacher says I'll be in alternately, tolling, mutting, and frankston after all rolling to one.

You will? I'll be a loaf of shortening bread with curly hair wearing bobby socks. How can you be a singer? There's no music in your family. Oh, no. For your information my uncle might make a fortune with the Bell song.

song whether you're singing with a metropolitan opera? No, good humor man on Route 66. You know, you know, to be a good singer. To be a good singer you've got to sing with pear shaped tone. Pear shaped tone? Yes. The tone must come out of your mouth in the shape of a pear. Which end first? I'm talking about pear shaped tone.

Do you sing with pear shaped tone? I don't know about pear shaped tones, have it? But when I sing apple blossom time it comes out from salad. No. I had to find another saying in public in your life.

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