Roy Rogers hosts a casual party at his ranch, joined by Patricia Friday, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, and Perry Bakken with the Ranch Orchestra. Strange voices keep appearing around the ranch, and the group is puzzled about who is speaking. The mystery is explained when radio actress Sarah Berner is introduced as the evening's guest and reveals she is an impressionist. She performs imitations of familiar comedians and characters, and the program mixes these with songs, dance music, and a tire-service commercial. The Roy Rogers Show, a Goodyear-sponsored program, aired on January 23, 1945.
Characters: Roy Rogers, Patricia Friday, Bob Nolan, Perry Bakken, Sarah Berner, Vern Smith
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The program is re-broadcast by the Armed Forces radio service to our fighting man overseas. Goodyear presents The Roy Rogers Show. The greatest name in rubber, Goodyear, invite you to meet America's greatest Western star, Roy Rogers.
There's nothing like the morning feeling places to do. When you're going where the state is to be heard. The cows are in the meadow and they give me the mood. As I go singing down the road My little dog is tagging right along at my heels He's so happy that he's hopping like a toad
His little tail is wagging cause he knows how I feel As I go singing down the road The sun is grand, my face is tan And I'm so carefree and gay I feel just like a school kid for a day And when my day is over, there's a girl onto me You see, but that's another episode
My heart and I are stacking up our dreams kind of me As I go, singing down the road He is over, there's a girl onto me You see, but that's another episode.
My heart and I are stacking up our dreams, times of need, as I go singing. Howdy folks and thanks for dropping in on our Goodyear party here at the Ranch.
We're all going to do our best to show you a real fine time. Guess you already know some of the folks here, Little Pat Friday from next door, Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers, and Perry Bakken and the Ranch Orchestra.
So tonight we have another special guest that you'll meet a little later on I kind of want to keep gives me right because something a hello Patricia having a good time for wonderful time but I'm very curious about how boy sharken where those funny pants like boy Roger did you hear that yeah but it
seemed like I did hey right what's going on around this ranch what do you mean Bob well I keep hearing voices and the people they belong to lean here oh Oh George, George, have you seen Roy Rogers' horse, trigger?
He has a cute little nose. I'll begin to feel just like Swan's soap. Now see, who said that? I don't believe it. Well, there's no sort of you like soap. Right, Rogers? You're up to something.
Now what kind of a trick is this? Well, I don't know what you mean by trick, Patricia. I've got nothing up in my sleeves and nothing in my pockets. Hey, what I want to know is who said that stuff that was set a second ago by somebody that said that stuff.
Who done it? Which way'd they go? They went that... That's a sign! Well, I guess it is sort of puzzling, isn't it, Perry? Maybe we'll solve the mystery a little later on though. In the meantime, let's you and Pat and I step back in the crowd while deuce-breaking starts the pioneers off with these base fiddle on a tune called Semeron Roll on.
Well, thank you, pioneers. That was really swell.
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How about it? Well I think it could be arranged right. I wish my daddy was here to listen to Miss Friday's sing. He told me he had a near from music but he was 15.
I blew in both his ears last night and they didn't play in notes. Where did that come from? Oh don't let it worry you Pat. Let's have your song huh? Folks, Miss Pat Friday's singing, Sway Ride and Zula.
That up for Santa makes worse say. To the house and meet George. That's my husband.
I'm second thought you're all for cute Miss Friday. Let's just you and I have ones together. Roy, I think we'd better have an explanation. Yeah, I guess so, Pat. Folks, these mighty familiar voices you've been hearing have been coming from the young lady who's our spatial guest here at the ranch tonight.
She's a very popular radio actress down around Hollywood and one of the clearest imitators of famous people you ever heard. I like you all to meet her. Folks, Miss Sarah Burner. Thank you very much.
Sarah, we'd sort of like to know how you learn to imitate people's voices the way you do. Well, I guess I just picked it up little by little. When I was a child, I can remember I collected quite a few spankings for imitating people who came to our house to visit. It probably
started with just plain meanness. You know, I'm pretty sure that our guest here at the ranch tonight would love to hear you do some more of your imitations. How about it, huh? Alright Roy, suppose we put baby Snooks, Gracie Allen and Judy Kenova in the living room together.
We might hear a conversation like this. Gracie, I have a daddy. Do you have a daddy? Oh, I have cross nugs. George is my daddy. Oh, I don't go gettin' the kid all mixed up, Gracey, George is your husband.
A miskin' over, George is my suga daddy, as well as my husband. Don't you understand? Does it get paid for over time? I think that's real romantic. My auntie and my uncle got married. It was so sweet.
Daddy said when auntie and uncle, it was your real garden romance. He was a deadbeat and she was an old tomato. Well, I know a thing or two about romance. Before a girl gets married, he thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
After she's married, she goes through his pockets. And then there's always the youngsters. Up in the hills one day, a feller came across a little kid playing in the mud and he says, little feller, how come you're such a blame dirty?
And the little kid says, on waiting for the big part of next week. Once a year the squar takes all the kids on the train down to the city to go swimming in the river. The feller says, that's still going to explain how you got so dirty. And the little kid replied, last year I missed the train.
Well gee, that was swell, Mr. Burner, and thanks a lot. See them tumbling now. The tumbling tumbleweeds set the scene for another page in the great story of the West. The guests at the old ranch house gather around as Roy Rogers tells of a corner of this great western land.
Drop into one of the easy chairs yourself and listen as our host brings you the color of the West. Some of the brightest pages in the story of the West come from up in the northern states.
The cow hands in the cattle of the West have roamed over a lot of territory but some of the finest of all the riders have come from up in the hills of Old Wyoming. Up there in the purple shadows of the Rockies are men and women who have had a lot to do with
the growth of our land out here. They wear their hats a little different than the folks down in Texas way. They say rodeo up there while a lot of the folks down along the border say rodeo.
But those Wyoming riders sit just as straight in the saddle as the cow hands who follow the trails of a desert. One day soon, maybe we can all travel around this old west again. Then we can drop in on our friends up there in Wyoming and tell them we think they've got a mighty fine state.
In the meantime though, we'll just have to say it with a song. So here are Bob Nolan and the sons of the pioneers, the sing in the hills of old Wyoming. Look at some of these cowboy.
Say Gracie, I mean Snooks, I mean, guys with Sarah Burner doing all her imitations here tonight, I don't know who I'm talking to. rally doesn't matter i really a thousand now she's got me thinking i'm talking to kathleen heppern rally could be talking to happen happen couldn't you know i i guess so
and if you were talking to kathleen she would say all mister roger i'd love to hear you sing a song rally i want well sir i don't know whether she would or not i don't uh... i don't know what mister heppern thinks of my singing well it's not worried about her then roy
i'd like to hear you sing a song for us and i'm sure everyone else is a party would like it to well now you sound like Sarah burner again and if you'd like a song Sarah I'd be glad to sing it well the cowboy is singing the great hit he introduced to the country and Hollywood canteen it's don't fence me in
while cap willy looking mighty pale was standing by the sheriff's side and when that sheriff said I'm sending you to jail while cap raises hadn't cried oh give Give me land lots of land under stories, skies above Don't fence me in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in
Let me be by myself in the evening breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever, but I ask you please Don't face me in Just turn me loose, let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western sky On my kayaks, let me wander over yonder Till I see the mountains rise
I want a ride to the ridge Where the west amissive And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't dance me in Just turn me loose and let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western sky On my highest let me wander over yonder
Till I see the mountains rise I wanna ride to the ridge where the west commences And gaze at the moon till I lose my senses I can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences Don't fence me in all that I can say is Come on, Trigger!
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You know that the far brothers play the hottest fiddle and guitar around these western parts but probably you never heard them do any of their real old-fashioned dance music. Well right now they're going to give us an old tune called Honey Suckle Shottish.
And I know you're going to like it because they really do a swell job. So Hugh and Carl, take over with you. What is it Perry? Oh Roy, you know they're having another dance in town this week and I was wondering if you
know. Perry, you asked me that last week and the answer is still no. You can't borrow a trigger to go to the dance. But Roy trigger such a beautiful horse and I sure like to take it. I can't help it Perry Trigger told me didn't want to go with you Well did he say why he sure did he says when you dance your step on his feet
Roy let me write trigger justice once well all right But you've got to use your own saddle what for? Because when you sit in my saddle your hip pockets would be where the stirrup sort of beam Say pray why don't you start polishing up your dance and boots while the sons of the pioneers
nice singing another song for the folks. Here's Roy Rogers with Bob Nolan and the sons of the pioneers singing Trail Hurdon Cowboy. Gee Lee Hey. Hurdon Cowboy. Hop on your pony singing home. Gee Lee Hey.
McRiden Now boy will make Santa Tony singing home. Gee Lee Hey. Every day Santa does we know the travel, but we'll make the boss pay for all this battle drive Here they old.
Trail, herd, and cowboy, there goes another singing party. Here they a, mow the dog, he's through and the stage of sunshine. When this drive is over, we'll take a fun time, all at one time.
Make me a happy, trail, herd, and cowboy singing party. Folks, that sort of shuts the door on another good year party out here at the old ranch. Next week at the same time, we hope you'll all be coming up the driveway or another party.
Because we'll sure be waiting with a big welcome. All of the gang will be here, Bob Nolan and the son of the pioneers, Miss Pat Friday, Pray-Barkin and the Ranch Orchestra. So till then this is Roy Rogers saying, for the whole gang, Good-bye, good luck, good-bye, the good lord, take a liking to you.
Don't forget, smiles are made out of the sunshine, And the frown from a rainy day. You'll be more than a smile. Just turn on the sun and watch how fast your cares and worries starting to run.
Don't forget smiles on the east out of the sunshine. Roy Rogers and Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneer appears through the courtesy of Republic Pictures. This is Burn Smith saying good night for good years, the greatest name in rubber, and reminding you that more people ride on good year tires than on any other kind.
Meet with us next Tuesday, same time, same station. When Goodyear will bring you another Get Together at the Ranch with Roy Rogers, the King of the Cowboy. This is mutual.