Railroad Hour · March 2, 1953 · 29 min · 2,663 words
The transcript of “Rose of Algeria”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast March 2, 1953. 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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Transcribe. Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. And here comes our star studded show train. Tonight, the Association of American Railroads presents Victor Herbert's stirring musical success, Rolls of Algeria. Starring Gordon MacRae and his two singing guests for this evening, Lucille Norman and Jane Stewart Smith. Our fire is out of the direction of Norman Luboff,
and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragett. Yes, tonight another memorable musical evening is recreated for 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 MacRae! Thank you, Mama Miller. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight's story takes us across the troubled sands of North Africa, where Victor Herbert has set to music the glitter of moonlight and the tower of the minaret the endless stretches of the Sahara the minaret grows in the western blue twilight in barakish or the marketplace
Stealing the throng below Clear there the wheres in On a hard person who wears the blade of my Simitak King Staunce has the steel of the shield that I wear Here's my love, oh gulnet Here's the love that I give the gulnet
And when my sword on the case My shield, swift is out of wings May they death to me, babe Would I possibly see goodness? The feist in the car keys Staunce at the steel of the silverware If my love won't go there I'll love that I give to you, babe When my sword on the enemy shrinks
When it's my shield, swift is out of sea, babe They death to me, babe You're a traitor, Captain De Lone. Who calls me traitor?
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