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Review of the Gay Nineties

Railroad Hour · June 19, 1950 · 29 min · 1,606 words

The transcript of “Review of the Gay Nineties”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast June 19, 1950. 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 Road Out. And here comes the Summer Show Trains. The Association of American Railroad, the same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the furlough burn, and all the other things you use in your daily life.

Brings you the Railroad Summer Show Trains, starring Gordon MacRae, and featuring Lucille Norman, with the music of Tom and Dragon in the orchestra, stripped by Gene Holloway, of Norman Luebaw. And now here's our star, Gordon MacRae.

Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we're going to ride the summer show train back through time and memory to one of the most beloved eras that America lives yesterday. The Gay Ninety.

The Gay Ninety. The Gay Ninety. And eras that America lives yesterday. I loved my wife by the old young kid. It was the year of the celluloid collar, the band of bicycle, and hoist cars on Broadway.

Lady skirts were well below their modest ankles, and their next lines were well up to their modest fins. The hourglass here was the figure to strive for. And one of the most famous of those figures belonged to the incomparable Lillian Rutko.

If you were a gay young lady back in those days, you may have had her picture on your dresses. Or maybe you had a girl of your own then. And on Sunday afternoon you dressed up in a blazer and white flannels and took her canoeing.

And as she'd drum on her mandolin, you'd sing her a song that went like this. Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my ragtime gal. Send me a kiss, my wine. Baby, my heart, me, honey, you lose me.

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