Birth of the Blues

into Hollywood's greatest stars in Hollywood's greatest motion pictures on the air. Your local Buick dealer brings you transcribed the Screen Guild player. Tonight it's Bing Crosby, Dineshore and Phil Harris. In Paramount's great musical, The Birth of the Blues, brought to you by your local Buick dealer who invites you to the world premiere of the new 1951 Buick this Saturday, January 20th.

only two days to go to see the new 51 Buick at your nearest Buick dealers. Our story tonight is dedicated to those ragtime pioneers in the deep south who played the first hot licks and warmed up the music of an entire nation. Those first brave souls who took American music out of the rut and put it in the groove.

The Springgill players bring you the birth of the blues, starring Phil Harris in the The role of Memphis, Dinah Shaw as Betty Lou, and Mr. Music himself, being Crosby in the part of Jeff Lemmer.

Time is nineteen-five. The century is young. The century is young, but its music is as stodgy and the stuffy as ever. Only here and there a strident note is heard. and wowed and block us and uncontained.

A new kind of music, young and hero. You can hear it in Memphis and New Orleans, down along the levees where the colored folks hung out. Jeff Lambert heard it, and it changed his whole life.

Changed a lot of other things too. But, well, I guess he can tell you about that himself. Yes, yes, yes, indeed. Many the time I heard that tune. Way down there, New Orleans. The only time I ever heard it come on right you, so is I'm a levy down on Lower Basin Street.