Review of 1953

Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. And here comes our star-studded show train. Tonight, the Association of American Railroads presents a review of the year. Star-angordin Macray and his famous guest from the Metropolitan Opera, Dorothy Kirsten.

Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another memorable musical evening is brought to you transcribed by the American Railroads, The same railroads that bring you the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fewer you burn, and the multitude of other things you use in your daily life.

And now here is our star Gordon McRae! Come on, another good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, sir, it looks as if the old years just about ready to trip on this period and go tumbling down into history.

But here on the railroad, are we sort of hate to see the old fellow go? 1953's been pretty good to all of us, and we wanted to throw him a farewell party. So we've invited Dorothy Kirsten, Carmen Dragon and his orchestra, and Norman Lubav's choir to help us look back over the musical good times we've had in the

year just past. Gordon, is it true that you have a special guest waiting to say hello from New York? Yes, Dorothy. One of the greatest men of the American musical theatre is going to join our New Year's party a little later on. But let's start off with a song we sang on the night of, well, let's see, I think it was a Winfrey

February 9th from Irving Berlin's score of Miss Liberty. And we'll stroll to the here just as if we were taking an old-fashioned walk. Hey, that's the idea. And the first day of the old-fashioned walk could be told if we went for an old-fashioned walk.