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Nacio Herb Brown Salute

Railroad Hour · September 19, 1949 · 24 min · 2,243 words

The transcript of “Nacio Herb Brown Salute”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast September 19, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). All Mixed Up plays Railroad Hour free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The Zig-fell girl. Khan brought the lyric to Brown somewhat apologetically. Make sure this is a dummy lyric just to give you something to work by. Alright Gus, thanks a lot. As soon as you have the melody you want I'll rewrite it.

You stepped out of a dream. Gus, I think this is a wonderful lyric just the way it is. I wouldn't change a word of it. And so Gus Khan left the lyric just as it was.

And just as it was, so did it appear in Zig-fell girl. And so did you sing it in the ears that follow him. Remember? You step out of a tree, but you wonder for me what you seem.

Could there be eyes like yours? Could there be lips like yours? Could there be smiles like yours? Honest and truly kept out of a cloud I want to take you from the crowd And I have you to myself alone And apart, both have a dream

To wonder if you see Could there be eyes like yours? Could there be lips like yours? Could there be smiles like yours? Honest and stepped out of a clog, I want to take you away, away from the crowd, and have you, my son and the pog.

Back in those early days when the talkies were cutting their first teeth on celluloid, Nacio Her Brown and Arthur Freed met in Remick's music store and started writing together. Irving Thalberg heard of them and called them out to Metricle and Mayer about doing a score for the first Broadway melody picture.

They met with Thalberg at 10 in the morning. By 11, they were back at their piano, picking out songs they had already written, songs they thought would fit the needs of the picture, and doing a little revising here and there, by one o'clock, they were back with a complete score for the picture under their arms.

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