Dearest Enemy

Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. Here comes our star studded show train. Tonight the Association of American Railroads presents a distinguished musical hit by Rogers and Hart, Dearest enemy starring Gordon MacRae and his guest lovely Eileen Farrell.

Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another great musical success is brought to you 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, Gordon Hackray! Thank you, Marvin Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Say, I'll bet you'll never thought of New York City as a battlefield, unless you happen to be fighting your way out of the subway during a rush hour.

But tonight we're going to tell you in music about the days when bullets were really whizzing up and down Good Old Manhattan Island. Eileen Farrell will be singing the role of Betsy while I put on the Crimson Coat and the White Bandle-ir of Sir John Copeland, Captain in the colonial army of his Royal Majesty King

George III. And so Curtin's going up on Rogers and Hart's dearest enemy. But in 1776 it was treason to be a Yankee doodle.

And our regiments of British redcoats were getting ready to teach George Wharton in a lesson, and make the Yankees pay the taxes on their teeth. We British had a plan, a very clever plan. And the rebels in New York City were mightily worried by the British gunboats anchored in the Hudson River.