Railroad Hour · January 25, 1954 · 29 min · 2,823 words
The transcript of “Music in the Air”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast January 25, 1954. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Railroad Hour plays Railroad Hour free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. Car studded show train. Tight the Association of American Railroads presents the romantic success music in the air. Starring Gordon MacRae and his charming guest, Mimi Benzel.
Our choir is on the direction of Norman Luboff and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another memorable musical is brought to you by the American Railroads. The same railroads that bring you the food you eat, The clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and the multitude of other things you use in your daily life.
And now here is our star, Gordon MacRae. Thank you, Marlon Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we have music by Jerome Kern, a story by Oscar Hammerstein II, and Mimi Benzel, looking as pretty as she sounds.
Put them all together, it's music in the air. Sleep a little village of Aiden Dorf is deep in the Bavarian Alps. And that's where I teach school. That's my girlfriend, Siglander. Oh gosh, I'm in love with her.
But I get embarrassed whenever she talks to me. Hello, Carl. How are you? Hello, Siglander. Well, you should have told me you were coming to see me. I'd have been home sooner. Well, I didn't exactly come to see you.
Oh? I came to see your father. Well, if you'd rather see my father. No, Siglindy, you don't understand. I mean... Oh, I always see the wrong thing when I'm close to you. Oh, Carl, don't be bashful.
Tell me what you're trying to say. I hear music when I look at you. A beautiful theme of every tree my ever knew. Brown deep in my heart I hear it I feel it start Then can't I let it fall?
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