Little Nellie Kelly ( )

It's Showtime. It's on a musical that will live long in the hearts of all of us, for it was originated by one of America's best-loved showmen. It's George M. Cohan Week on Showtime, for the great song and dance man wrote the music, the words and the story for our current production.

It's Pretty Nelly Kelly starring Gordon Macrae and Jane Powell. It acquires under the direction of Norman Luboff, the music arranged and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Here now is the first act of Pretty Nelly Kelly.

I'm trying to get your Irish up as the Bronx Romeo, Jerry Conroy. And Janie Powell is looking sharp as a shamrock for the title role of little Nelly Kelly.

Oh, Nelly! Officer Kelly is your daughter home? Oh, hello there, Jerry. Me, bye! Nelly, the boys are here for you again. How many fathers? The usual number, half a hundred or so. Jerry Conroy and the lead.

Ask them to sing a song, until I'm ready. Okay, Nelly. Come on, fellas. fellas. It's the same old song they sing. I love you. The boys are all mad about Nelly. The daughter of Officer Kelly and it's all day long they bring. Flowers are dripping with you And they join in the chorus of Nelly Kelly, I'm Nelly.

The one they are all for. Hundreds of bows, each fellow knows. He treats them, a rich and the fowl she'll fall for. Nobody's ever guessed, and she's never confessed. If there's any part of your boat.

A pally. The daughter of Officer Kelly, I'm telling you're all best off. Well, when you work at a dress shop, you've got to look to death.