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Review of 1952

Railroad Hour · December 29, 1952 · 29 min · 2,002 words

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. Here comes our star-studded show train. Tonight the Association of American Railroads invites you to a review of the year. Some of the outstanding music from the Railroad Hour shows of 1952.

Starring Gordon MacRae, his celebrated guest star at the Warren Show, and the entire company. Acquires under the direction of Norman Lube-Ralph, and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. This special program to sing out the old year and sing in the new is brought to you transcribed by the 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 and now here is our star This has been a happy year a singing year for all of us on the show train

Dorothy Warren sold and the whole railroad hour family are here tonight. To help you remember some of the melodies we've sent across the nation throughout 1952. You know that electric charge that hangs in the air of a theater just before curtain goes up?

That's the feeling we have every week on the railroad hour. To all of us here every Monday night feels like an opening night. Come on everybody, let's show them what we mean. The job that you hope at last will make your future forget your past One week will it ever be right?

About to start you cross your fingers and that was cold-porter music from Kiss Me Kate He brought you the radio premiere of it back when March was making up its mind whether to be a lion or a lamb Back there where 1952 was still in swaddling clothes We signed the wonderful Romberg music from Desert Song. Not long after the first

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