Review of 1935

Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. 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.

It brings you the Railroad Summer Show Train, transcribed, starring Gordon MacRae and featuring Lucille Norman with the music of Carmen Dragon and the Orchestra, stripped by Gene Holloway and the fire under the direction of Norman Luber.

And now here is our star, Gordon MacRae! Thank you, Marvin Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we ride the summer show train back through time and memory to another year that you lived yesterday.

1935! So we can stroll beside the wall! 1935, the era of initials, the NRA, the WPA, the CCC, the TVA, the AAA. A-A-A-A.

People were talking about them, and about the new hacks that looked like baskets turned upside down. And people were talking about G-men, and highly salassian Ethiopia. And they were talking about a new kind of rhythm.

Hey, listen to that boy, play. What do you call that kind of music? What do they call it, man? They call it swing. Out Hollywood way, they made a picture called Gold Diggers of 1935.

And for that picture, a pair of distinguished gentlemen named Al Duven and Harry Warren wrote a song that caught the Academy Award for that year. The lullaby of Broadway. Come on along and listen to the lullaby of Broadway.

It's a hippie ray and valley whose a lullaby of Broadway. The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis, the daffes, who entertain, and and loads and maxis, when a Broadway baby says goodnight, it's early in the morning, that babies don't sleep tight, until the dawn, goodnight baby, Good night, good man's on his way