Maria
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Al
that's Jack
Benny Polly
Bergen Milton
burrow Ray bter George
Burns hi I'm red
buttons good evening I'm Sid Ceda Marge
Champion G Champion s
Shere van furn B
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Crosby Jimmy the Randy Leo D Roi Ronda
Fleming Benny
Goodman Edy
Gourmet Bob
Hope Lena
horn Betty
Hutton Danny
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K Franky Lane Shirley
mlan Tony
Martin David
Kim
Noak Gregory peek Walter pigeon Dick
Powell Jane
Powell I'm Martha Ray Jimmy
Rogers Jane
Russell hi my name is Dick Shawn dinos
Shore Joe
Stafford Jimmy
storm Gil
storm Danny Thomas
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presented by the us all in association
with the entertainment
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industry the
used
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by nice C be flat for
s boom
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and hey
oh
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you
out Miss Ronda Fleming
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on this Christmas Day to all you boys
around the world this song I sing to
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you
world I searched for you I
TR when hope was
gone to keep
I
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knew
it
in in New York or gay per or even
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no I have found my
world in you
Mr pow Mr pigeon Mr pigeon Mr Po Mr pow
Mr
pigeon isn't she a how Mr Po she over
dig just a smid Mr pigon now di now
water this is no time to FL that's give
this and a good girl ready to appear
with the news of the year is your
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uncle oh
thank thank
you thank you I haven't heard so much
Applause since I announced I was
quitting it is a great
pleasure a good crowd here today really
wonderful I come out look at at audience
and tell whether you're going to be good
or bad good
night I want to tell you how happy I am
this gentleman your head is shining
right my
eyes for a minute I thought you were
sitting upside down but it is
really great
it's I'm only kidding you haven't got a
bald head you just shave too high that's
the
only I like to put my finger in your ear
and go bowling I'm very
glad uh ladies and gentlemen to be part
of this of this very very wonderful show
and I was only is this your wife well
what are you going to do the
uh sorry we all have to go sometime it
is really a great pleasure though ladies
and gentlemen to look around the
audience here tonight and to be part of
this very very wonderful and you're
going to ruin that fur coat what is that
a mink you have on you think so wait
till the wind changes
don't very pretty you get it to keep you
warm and quiet it is really a
uh come on boys laugh it up in the
van heck I laugh when you play I'm very
uh very glad though
it is really a great thrill to entertain
all you boys the armed forces and I want
I love that hat on that lady what is
this I like the feather that looks like
the feather that signed the Declaration
of
Independence and the guy with you looks
like the guy that signed it I'm
very oh Burl you got some funny lines
but they're all in your face I want to
tell
you it is a great it is a great pleasure
uh gentlemen and you boys that are
watching the show and ladies I should
should say it's a great pleasure to be
part of this industry's gift to you guys
in service of course I know this is not
the gift that you wanted but how many
ways can you divide a need
eor how many
ways is this audience out of the Yellow
Pages or
something I'm I'm happy that I'm part of
this Armed Force program I really mean
that because my whole family knows about
this army stuff my six my sister married
a second Lieutenant the first one got
away and uh my brother Jack he's in the
Air Force he got his wings yesterday
next week he gets the rest of the
chicken and I want
to my
brother what do the rest of you think of
it I want to tell you
this my my brother my brother Frank he's
he was a brigadier general now I get
that wrong he was generally in the brick
that's course you've often heard me
speak about my brother Frank I kid him a
lot and it's true I um I have a brother
Frank ever since he was old enough the
work
hasn't my father used to say to him
Frank learn some kind of a trade so at
least we'll know what kind of work
you're out
of he's got a good job now he's a
lifeguard in the car wash but this uh oh
wait a minute I just got to to music
will you Paul I just got to tell you you
want to drive a guy crazy want to drive
a guy nut send him a wire and say ignore
first telegram he'll flip
He he'll flip
oh we have before we continue with this
hilarious monologue we
have we have a celebrity in our audience
here tonight especially for you guys in
service overseas that he doesn't know
I'm going to call on him I like him to
stand up and take a bow the folks here
in the studio I know they'd be very
happy to see him and like can stand them
take a bow the former middleweight
champion of the world sitting over there
let's give him a big hand Comm and basil
let's give
I'm sorry I thought it was him I'm
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a I'm sorry pardon me
Madam what' you say General I'm
sick I'm not well I really am I'm sick I
got to go back to my psychiatrist I went
to a psychiatrist 3 months ago told him
everything I know now he's doing my act
at the shaper
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CH he ain't doing so good with it either
I'll
I I should have listened to my father
and become a sex maniac but this
uh I was G but I couldn't pass the
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physical well enough enough telling
jokes I don't want to tell anymore cuz
you only
laugh thank you and goodbye thank
Miss Dina
Shaw man before this program is over you
will have heard Christmas greetings in
every possible form the most important
part of it is that you know we all mean
it very sincerely since you're not here
I guess this will have to be the next
best thing we have a song for you too um
Paul
ready the way
your way
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te all
that no no they can't take that away
from me the way your smile just
be the way they
are the way you heart my
dreams no no they can't take that
away we
may again
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thead still I'll always always keep the
me of
the way
you the
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way the way you changed my
life no no they can't take that away
from me
no they can't take that
away no matter what they
say they can't take that
away from me
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this is Mr Po balison this is he's my
man and she's my message so we speak as
one individual very merried Christmas we
wish bringing you for the dance of this
hour no less than the champions my
a
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la
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and now for you guys it is is a great
deal of pleasure that I present to you a
little lady that just won uh the Academy
Award for best supporting actress in her
very fabulous role in cyanara and she
was opposite red buttons in that uh
picture and uh she's really a great
great Entertainer you'll hear her sing
here she is the very fabulous mioshi
Yumi I wish you oh Merry
Christmas and here is the song for
you the things I used to like I don't
like
anymore I want a lot of other things I
never had
before like
mother
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I
pretending I am wonderful
and
KN I'm
adore I'm as Restless as a Willow in a
wind I'm
as AET on a
stre I say that I have spring fever
when
it I'm a St I'm vely
discontented like a
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night oh why should I have spring
fever when it is
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I
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keep
iwhere walk
a that
I a man
to
me I'm asy as a
spinning day
dream I'm as gy as a baby on
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a oh
Ro on the we
but I Fe her so
gay in a
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melon that it might as well
bee it
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might
well be
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[Applause]
and now the first American to win a
contest in Russia the first pianist to
get a hero's welcome on his return a New
York ticker tap parade here are the
fabulous fingers of van kurn
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Miss Betty
Hutton hi fellas and the mar of marus to
you and boy have we got something real
crazy cooked up for
you oh how does it
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go let's turn the time
backend that your
back a generation or so the
1920s
1930
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performers great great
show and what a show it was fellas the
most wonderful show in all the world of
course I know you're a little young
remember the Roaring 20s but that was
the most glamorous era of show business
so we'd like to give you our version
tonight of the song and the dance man of
the Roaring 20s
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take that
wonderful must
bead that all
americ go toed
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the
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street the L
of the hip and the valley
of
Runway the rumble of the subway Tren
rattle of the
taxi stel to
W be on your
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way Bab
cuddle and feel
BL you got a
smile my honey dear while a kiss kiss
away all of
your or else I shall be
melan to
n
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Danny
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Thomas thank you thanks for the sad
music fall and hello every everybody
wherever you are it's a privilege to
participate in this show and happy
holiday to you all they asked me to do
one of the sketches that's kind of
identified with me and I'm very very
happy to do it this one in particular I
learned from my father-in-law my
father-in-law is
Italian and uh you've heard of broken
English my father-in-law speaks diced
English you never heard a dialect like
my father was my real name is Amos
Jacobs he calls me am a
jack that give you an idea and this is
this this sketch that I do is typical of
my father-in-law same kind of fellow
wears his hat like my father-in-law my
father-in-law wears his hat exactly as
it comes out of the box just like
that and his trousers he's the most
comfortable dresser in the world that's
my
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father
now my father law is calling a county
building on a telephone wants to speak
to the registar of birth certificates
because he had a little problem with
these people a couple of years before
this date his wife presented him with a
bouncing baby boy and highly elated he
named the child Tom he said going to
have a Yankee name of Tom Tom well when
he received the birth certificate
naturally the inscription read Thomas t
h o m he didn't understand abbreviations
he didn't like it at all but time is a
great healer and he got over it but now
two years later Again by the grace of
the deity his wife present him with the
baby boy but this baby is not going to
be named until my father-in-law can
speak to the wise guy in charge of the
bir he tries to get him on the phone and
it sounds something like this he says
hello hello
operation hello
operation hello operation open up your
house hello
operation Operation again cir couple
another you ain't
and another one
too stupid no one two another one
too you know the two you got on the top
put the same kind on the
B
hello Georg your Montgomery furniture
who's asking for Georg M Dum
Furniture I got him in the house put up
you I said put up
you
you how I going to get operation if you
not put up the
you jiggle You On hook I'm going jiggle
mine a couple of
time
H what number I got call get a circle
two a couple
another couple of hor I don't call you a
horse I
said and another one good and please
make it quick I'm a hot in the
boot I'm a hot in the boot the T the
boot just
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H I got you
H hey I want you make a talk
you got push him up I'm in the
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boots I to
you to
me who me who you Big
M hey couple years ago my wife have a
little bino say name of Tommy you put it
down th this one is the name of Jack I
don't want to have
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Miss Jane
power I only wish I could be with you to
wish you a very merry Christmas on this
most unusual
day it's the most unusual day
like throwing my
worries as an old
native it's un
day there's
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un R most unusual
day there are people meeting people
there
is
everywhere
people
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people
[Music]
iure away well there's only one thing to
say
it's
[Music]
just one thing to say
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him no right P David Nan I said nen
hello now that introductions have been
given we introduce to you a real cool
crew way are real gone where did they
go Mr Benny Goodman on with the show I'm
very happy to participate in this
Christmas show and now I'd like to
introduce the boys in my quintet first
rust Freeman at the piano Leroy vinegar
at the base
violin uh Frankie cap at the drums and
Barney kessle at the guitar
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n
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w
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n
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Miss Dale
stor here's my Christmas present for you
and I do hope it fits because I'd hate
to have you have to send it
back I love you
I love
you
come
down come
down from your
eyes
to let
love come into your
heart don't love
yourself in an
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I
don't us so far
apart I love
you I love
you are you too far above me
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come
down from
your
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to you'll
find true
love
it it's
cold so
cold in your eyes
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and
warm so warm in
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my I love
you I love
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you are you too far above me to
Cal
down come
down
your you
find true
love
it
it's your eyes reach
and
warm so warm in my eyes
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deck
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sea ladies and
gentlemen for I'm the president of the
American rock and roll Association by
United States One Nation indivisible
Liberty and peanuts for all
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and I'm the president H my name is
Freddy
funky I'm here with my family the funky
family I'm here to
defend rock and
roll and I got a message for all you
parents from us rock and rolla
kids get out of the
country leave us alone everybody been
rapping us lately newspaper putting us
down like we some kind of sickness or
something we know what they're
saying we got people reading it to
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us everybody rapping rock and
roll everybody poking
fun people make fun of us they want know
how come we're like we
are and we don't mind what they say
about us but they go too far when they
attack
Elvis I mean how are you luy to sit up
here attack Your
Leader lawren
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wel everybody rapping rock and
roll my name is Freddy
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funky ever F to make fun us cuz we talk
funny and dress funny we don't talk and
dress
funny you talk talk and dress
fun we wear black leather jackets
motorcycle caps dkeries and high boots
like this we look like any typical red
blooded American
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degenerate and we talk funny we are
emotional kids we are Rebels Without a
Cause Rebels Without a Cause quick
temper electricity going right through
our bodies
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all the parents say the Elvis is bad for
the teenagers I talk to the teenagers
they say Liberace is bad for the
[Music]
parents I leave it up to you you got
kids you want me to talk like that hello
everybody oh would you rather have them
get up in the morning and say
Daddy I'll say send them kids off to
school high With a Purpose with a high
purpose
my name is Freddy
funky cops don't dig us at all you know
that you take the other day I was doing
about 30 m hour see mind my own business
I love a motorbike I get behind that
motorcycle I get a feeling aart I'm just
driving along see seeing a lot of all my
little chicks hi honey just moving
see singing my song L I'm love
again I love good music I tell you
and this copy pulls me over I'm only
doing 30 see he says budy I'm going tell
you once you get that motorcycle out of
that theater Lobby I'm going put you in
[Music]
jail Miss hello Merry Christmas here's
my Christmas present to you
[Music]
anything oh I
do you
again make you mine
again me
[Music]
how anything
oh I
do to it up to
you just tell me what to
do I'll do it
now I never
knew I never knew
that I could
any I miss
you so say the
word
ohling the
word and I'll come running
home back to your loving
arms right here and
now I never
knew I never
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knew that I could miss
anyone as as I miss
you so say the word
oh darling say the
word and I come R
home back to youring
arm right here and
now just tell me
how oh I do
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anything anything
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anything didn't know that David N not
again Gregory s man I don't believe that
I can add a thing cuz it's Christmas
worth of bang when it's B
Crosby I don't suppose uh this
background here today this Beverly Hills
background with the palms and the green
grass and this kind of monkey business
is exactly wintry or
christmy but the piece of material that
I have in mind the song I'd like to sing
seems to me to be so Timeless and so
Universal that I'm hopeful we can get
away with
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it
dreaming of a
white Christmas
just like the
ones I used to
know where
thee
listen and
children
listen
to SL Bell in
sow
dreaming of
a
Christmas with every
Christmas card
I may your day
be
Mery and
bright and may
all your
Christmas be
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wi
Dre the
[Music]
Christmas with every
Christmas card
iise may your
[Music]
days be
merry and
bright and may all all
your
Christmas
[Music]
be hope
thank you very
much thank you very very much I just
want to say it's a pleasure to be here
on this khaki spectacular and to you
fellas out there at outposts all over
the world I bring you greetings from the
folks back home I'd bring you greetings
from Ike but that's how you got there in
the first
place no if I could I'd send each and
every one you fellas exactly what you
want most for Christmas but those Wiggly
ones are hard to package you know I've
been working all day you know this is a
great idea though making over 750 films
of this show and dropping them at
Outpost all over the world I'm used to
this sort of thing I've been dropped by
more sponsors than
that I've had more sponsors than Linda
Christian but I think this
uh I think the Uso is wonderful I really
do it's done more for the servicemen
than the Gabor sisters have have for the
civilians and I know you I know you'll
all enjoy the great performers on this
show I had the Jolly experience of
arriving late at rehearsal today after
all the jokes have been
told oh it's
like it's like getting to the punch bowl
after Dean
Martin now here at home it's going to be
a great year on television so much time
has been sold this year the network may
take in more money than the repair men
in fact the network the network is so
crowded for time this season the NBC
Chimes will be heard on CBS
and you'll be seeing a whole new crop of
westerns this year there's gunfighter
gun Justice gun shooter gun twirler gun
Grabber and a
um had a low budget series called water
water pistol spritzer that's a very
fine now I'm looking forward to NBC's
new Western call the gay cavaliero other
cowboys wear high heel boots this one
carries the
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purse that's all I have they have
nothing but Western today I don't
understand all these Westerns on
television they keep shooting Indians
but all they bury are
comedians now things have sure changed
since I started touring touring Army
Camps today we have a push button Army
everything's done with buttons except
girls that still takes a three-day
pass whereas a big part of our new Armed
Force budget will go for the development
of a clean atomic bomb that's what they
want a clean bomb one of these days you
may not be alive but at least you be
sanitary
actually we have nothing to fear I
happen to know that within 10c warning
our army can launch a missile that will
completely wipe out our Air
Force no we have land to land missiles
land to air missiles air to air missiles
water to air missiles and anti-missile
missiles this whole program is called
duck remember the good old days when all
you had to worry about up there was
pigeons you remember that anyway we're
working we're working on all kinds of
satellites the moon Ike wants to send up
a satellite with a man in it but
Governor Fus won't
go you
know you know with Washington putting
all our money into the missile program
money is pretty tight for the other
branches of the service the economy wave
is getting pretty serious and it must be
serious because they made ik turn in his
old army
shoes remember those bills billboards
with Uncle Sam going like this now it's
like
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this and you should have seen this
year's Army Navy game when the
midshipman threw their hats into the air
they all had strings on
them instead of gold posts they used
tall
lieutenants and the Army mule was
missing so was the Navy goat and the hot
dogs had a funny
taste now it's real tough in the Navy I
know one Admiral who had to go on a
shake down cruise in his own
bathtub I know this adal I wish you did
I uh and the uh of course the Air Force
has been seriously affected they have to
let go all generals under 25 and they're
not flying um they're not they're not
flying the new Jets they're using the
exhaust to cook with now that's how
rough it is four years ago of course I
was at Tuli Greenland 3 years ago Alaska
last year okanawa Japan and Korea
there's nothing like seeing the world
while we still have one I always say
but it's comforting to know that while
we're all here celebrating Christmas at
home that somewhere out on a lonely
Frontier Elvis is defending
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us
I'm no I'm not
done I'm not knocking him he's the only
GI I've met that can stand at attention
and Go On Maneuvers at the same
time can't you just see Elvis on guard
Duty yelling halt who goes there friend
or Square
oh Elvis is doing fine in the Army he'll
give him a fair shake and they tell me
that uh already he's cost the Army a
fortune he's already worn out four
uniforms from the
inside and talking about singers it was
nice of Bing to show up for this show I
thought after all he's been resting you
know he just produced a spectacular of
his
own our scientists are studying that now
Now isn't that wonderful though at his
age
huh what a victory for jarol isn't it
[Music]
gr Miss Anna Maria
aletti hello warmest holiday greetings
and now for me to you this song
[Music]
I got the a string sitting on the rainow
got the string around my
fing what a world what a life I'm in
love I got the s that I sing I can make
the rain any I move my
luck me can't you see I'm in
love
beautiful as I hold i' be a and if I
should ever go
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
oh
[Music]
Ray
Boulder
[Music]
forward
H right should
up right
he left
he about four five
years about peace
about all this for the
day first
[Music]
sir would you repeat the
[Music]
orders yes sir I will I'll clean them
out right after this
drill first
[Music]
Mar
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back
[Music]
hey
[Music]
and now boys for your singing pleasure
it is with a great deal of Honor that I
present one of the hottest singers that
we have in the country today the
fabulous the one and only miss Edie
Gourmet hi everybody and a very Merry
Christmas I certainly do hope that you
like my
song for ages and ages The Poets and
sages of Love wondrous love always
sing but ask any
L and you'll
soon the heartaches that romance can
bring what good is the scheming the
planning the dreaming that comes with
each new love
affair the love that you cherish
so often may
perish and leave you with
castles in
[Music]
air when you're
alone who cares
for when you're
alone that magic moonlight
at break of
dawn there is no
[Music]
sun what lonely
hours those evening Shadows
braing what lonely are
with memories
lingering can't mean
anything when
[Music]
your
lonely crazy
Shadows what lonely
with
M
like can't me
[Music]
anything Love Has Gone
[Music]
when your has
[Applause]
gone how do you doing Mr P glad to see
you miss sh call me S call me dick call
A
B we were only fooling and to help us
ring the there's some Ring Ding and
singing starting with Jimmy R Frankie
Lane and my prony Tony
[Music]
Martin there are
songs that make us
happy there are
songs that make us clue be sure Jimmy
but the thing to do with songs is sing
them
yeah and we'd like to hear a song from
only you froma after to
you there
no
Tomorrow When Love is
new now is
forever When Love is
true so kiss me
and hold me
tight There's No
Tomorrow there's just
tonight
you oh so
from
the so kiss
me
and
M There's No
Tomorrow there's Jo
[Music]
how about you yeah all right sing one of
those Young
songs oh oh I'm falling in love again
uhoh
[Music]
[Applause]
uhoh well is time
of time
of how many call money that was when I
was younger made my mind to be careful
made my mind to
be I was all right until Saturday night
I'm in a g with the golden
hair oh I'm falling in love
[Music]
never in aund never in a thousand never
in a million
years well the end my now it's over
glad ring daddy
Rock got me a wife she's the light of my
life a kiss a good morning I say
oh oh I'm falling in love
again I saw the H C again in in thousand
in a million years never in in a
thousand in a Million
[Music]
yeah sing a nice song all
right to spend one
night in
[Music]
our
and with
you that's my
desire to me
W
Cafe
and break of
day
that's we SI a little glass of
wine and I'll gaze into your eyes
I'll feel theou of
youring on
my to hear
you
just
time
Sherry I love you so
you're my
Des Miss Martha Ray hi I'd like to wish
you a very very Merry Christmas and
here's my small little
offering here I go again here those
again I'm all again taking
oh here I ride again about to that again
I'm sry
again I car were I never but now that
[Music]
and
I again
I'm taking a
CH and here I
am up never would but now i' that game
up Fall
Again fall again I'm going to give my
all again taking a CH I'm taking a
CH
I'm hi Ken how are you I'm fine what's
new bought a hat not that come on and
hurry up you
two I hope these costumes aren't to
revealing I'm exhausted from all this
peeling the next ACT is nothing you can
shake off what is it what else a take
[Music]
off a take off showing why bille di an
old song and dance act taken for a ride
but nothing could be sillier the faces
are familiar but they call themselves
golden
[Music]
and oh here the
wh honey don't
cry
going Shin way up in the
B heart
[Music]
every
[Music]
around 1 2 1 2 3
[Music]
is for the million things she gave
me ohans only that she's growing
old she is for the tears were shed to
save
me ches for her heart of pest gold
[Music]
is for her eyes with love like
shining R means right and right you'll
always
[Music]
be put them all together they spell
mother a words that means the
world
[Music]
to just what is wrong with the girl of
today is a problem this world has to
face they blame it on this and they
blame it on that but they don't seem to
get any place ah isn't the lipstick the
cocktails the Jazz that causes the girly
to fall it's the mother who says if
you're not home at 10: then you don't
have to come home at all
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many a girl on Broadway tonight would
have and could have been good and each
one of them is a living mistake of a
parent who
misunderstood so make a pal of your
daughter tell her what's what and don't
hide that book on the
shelf or the girls who are wise to the
ways of the world that make it tough on
guys like myself
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oh
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thank you very very much fellas my
partners Jimmy Stewart George Burns and
I want to wish you all a very very Merry
Christmas Merry Christmas fellas Merry
Christmas
and now here's a very very big tweat
boys a little lady that's been a
sensation here in the states especially
for her recent portrayal of Helen Morgan
and the Helen Morgan story on television
The Fabulous the Great Entertaining Miss
Polly
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Bergen whether it's rain or shine where
you are right now he is wishing you a
very very merry Chistmas
and just
remember I'm going to love
you nobody's
You Come Rain or Come
Shine high as a mountain and deep as a
river Come Rain or Come Shine
I guess when you met
me it
was just one of those
things
but don't never
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me
me and
you you're going to love me like
nobody's
me
rain
shine Happy
Together unhappy
together and
what
be
GL we here oh we're out of the
M but
I with
you with
you
on
May
up we in oh we're out of
my
but
you with
you
come oh
Louie Armstrong and Danny
K uh
fellas since this is a special show and
since uh Mr a and myself are going to
make a picture starting in about a week
we'd like to do a song for you that has
been identified with Mr Armstrong for a
long long time and we'd like to do a
little special treatment of one of his
old old favorites called when the saints
come marching in are you ready pops
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oh oh when the
saint When the
Saints Go
Marching watching
in When the Saints Go watching
in I want to be
in that
number when the
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sing
in going to play on the day that the
Saints Go Maring
in
manes the greatest from the oldest to
the latest going to play in the b in the
Big B
how
about
andan how about that great old master
that great old master was of G and the
most with all he head Symphonies and
operas and all that
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jazz oh of of course in his hotat yeah
his that's that
yeah yeah put this on the list when the
go
Mar
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when
I
be
you an ofx you jack oh very often Jack
Jack Jack I you Jack
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baby
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w w
w
i and
and now from all of us to all of you a
favorite Christmas
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Carol
[Laughter]
night night
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mother and
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childly
and
sleep in heav
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SLE there men and women of the Armed
Forces is a very special Christmas
present for you
only if you enjoyed it as much as we did
it's one of the most successful films
ever
produced we know there is no place like
home at Christmas time
how however we hope the Sight and Sound
of all these familiar American
entertainers serve to bring Stateside a
little closer in keeping with the
traditional Spirit of the
holidays the songs dances skits and
sketches and the messages from leaders
of your faiths and from your
commanderin-chief
all express to you in one way or another
the wishes of the American people for
your Christmas season
the show was filmed especially for
members of the Armed Forces and their
families stationed overseas at this time
it was made possible by the combined
efforts of our entertainment industry
performers unions Talent Representatives
television networks and the
Uso it is a pleasure for me as Secretary
of Defense to say thank you to all those
who were in any way responsible for this
special production and to extend my
personal Merry Christmas
to all of you for whom the film was made
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and
you
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where they
you
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