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Review of 1927

Railroad Hour · 1927 · 27 min · 1,647 words

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by transcription. Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad all. And here comes the summer show train. The Association of American Railroads. The same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and all the other things you use in your daily life.

Brings you the railroad summer show train. Starring Gordon Macrae and featuring Lucille Norman with the music of Carmen Dragon and the orchestra, stripped by Jean Holloway, and the choir under the direction of Norman Lubov.

And now here is our star, Gordon McRae. Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, tonight and in the weeks that follow, we're going to ride the summer show train back through time and memory to a year that you lived yesterday.

Tonight's destination is the height of the roaring 20s, 1927. I got it all. 1927 America. A year that you lived yesterday.

Calvin Coolidge was President of the United States. Jimmy Walker was Mayor of New York City. Fascinating ladies wore the him lines of their dresses and down to their hips. And diet discontinually you achieved that boy's figure.

Babe Ruth was King of the Diamond. And Texas Gynan was Queen of the New York Nightclub. That's right Lucille. The times were gay and high-spirited. An brilliant young composer named Vincent humans put that gayness in high-spirits into music.

Remember America? This was the way you felt in 1927. Sing hallelujah, hallelujah, and you'll sing the blues. The blues of Missouia have the darkest mistakes Fights away in the skies of grace But hallelujah, hallelujah Helps to chew your blues away The blues of ice away The blues of ice away

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