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Good morning, everybody.
Father's Day on the Music of the Stars.
Well, not just here, but I got this stuff.
Like Ozzie and Harriet.
Who plays Ozzie and Harriet?
You know that story?
Ozzie Nelson was a band leader and a darn good one.
And his chief singer, well, his only singer, was Harriet.
And they wound up...
The music of the stars beyond El Nune, Central Time.
I'm your host, Lou Organi.
Thanks for being here.
Here's Ozzie Nelson.
You know, Dave, sometimes parents like us are a little reluctant to let you guys go.
So if we seem to hang on to you, you've just got to be a little understanding about us.
See, we want you to grow up and get along without us, and yet we hate to lose our little boys.
Seems like yesterday when I'd go into your bedroom at night,
two little toe-headed guys that'd be sleeping there.
I'd go over and kiss you goodnight.
Now I have to shake hands.
Yeah, I know what you mean, Pop.
Well, you better not keep the others waiting, dear.
Okay.
And thanks again, Mom.
Good night, dear.
Good night, Dad.
You wouldn't dare.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Father's Day, ladies and gentlemen.
That's the day when Pop looks over his presence and finds out how much his family loves him.
Then the first of the month comes around, he finds out again, right to the penny.
Father's Day is a big mystery to my family.
I've been in radio and television so long.
My kids don't call me Dad.
They think of me as their sponsor.
No, that's true.
But I've been traveling so much, it makes it tough for my kids to give me a Father's Day present.
They just send the gifts to United Airlines with a note that reads, the next time Daddy lands, hand him this.
This morning, my son Tony asked me why we observe Father's Day.
I said, don't you know who brings home the bacon around here?
He said, no, Pop, but we sure know who lays the eggs.
Dolores usually spends a dollar for my present, so this year I hinted at a velvet smoking jacket.
She said, don't be silly.
You don't smoke velvet.
Well, that's the nice thing about living in California, you know, if someone does give you a velvet smoke and jacket, you can have velvet pants made to go with it and wear it as a suit.
That is, if you don't object to people saying, how are you today, Mr. Crosby?
Crosby's kids always remember Father's Day.
Last year, they gave Bing the Bank of America.
They didn't know he'd already owned it.
Yes, sir, the word father brings back a lot of memories to me.
And there were times when I couldn't sit on those memories.
Father taught me that if you do something wrong, life can be painful.
At the same time, I learned that the wood shed can be drafty.
Once when my dad was teaching me a lesson out in the wood shed, the hairbrush slipped and hit me in the nose.
The rest is history.
And again this year, all over America, fathers will get more ties than any other gift.
Isn't that something?
Dad works hard all year and on Father's Day, he still gets it in the neck.
Of course, I have four kids and do pretty well myself.
On Father's Day, my kids reach into their piggy banks and give me back all the IOUs I put in since last Father's Day.
And Delores never forgets me on Father's Day either.
Last year, she gave me a check.
All I had to do was sign it.
But I do get gifts for my kids.
A few years ago, they gave me a book, How to Play Winning Golf.
The next year, they gave me a book, How to Improve Your Golf.
Last year, they gave me a book, Don't Let Bad Golf Discourage You.
And I just found out what they're giving me this year.
It's called, How to Cheat at Scrabble.
Here's Ozzy Harry.
1935.
Never see my name in lights or climb to social heights.
I'm just an ordinary human with an extraordinary love for you Anything I say or do you wouldn't call original or witty But the things I say to you those simple and meaning are right from the heart
I'll never headline in the papers A dreamer I may be Darling, can't you see?
I'm just an ordinary human With an extraordinary love for you
This is the story of a famous comic named Eddie Foy, whose sole aim in life was to remain single.
He wound up with a family of seven kids, which would give you an idea how bad his aim was.
He took the whole gang with him in the show business, five boys, two girls, and a goat.
The goat was the only one who could carry a tune.
By sheer weight of numbers, they reached the palace on Broadway, and this was the way the act opened when it first played there in 1913.
Washington loves the father of his country.
There's many of the fathers we could name.
There's Father Nickerbach, who got us out of Hock.
They ought to put it in the Hall of Fame.
Let's say a few kind words for Whistler's father.
Music of the stars Ozzy Nelson 1935 with the Texas jump You want a good father's day movie there are there are many out there actually, but let me let me recommend my favorite the fighting Sullivan's 1945 and one of my favorite actors of all times and I get a hunch I'm not alone on that Thomas Mitchell the fighting Sullivan's With an unforgettable
ending
Which of you is the father?
Me, me, I am.
Is my wife all right?
It's a fine seven-pound boy, Mr. Sullivan, and your wife came through it beautifully.
Oh.
Oh, gee.
The
Vagabonds.
And maybe a hot dog or two I'll say giddy up, giddy up, giddy up Pony boy riding up and down Say giddy up, giddy up, giddy up Pony all around the town I'm gonna, gonna go on a pony ride I'm gonna, gonna think I'm out west I'm gonna, gonna go
Cause I love the
ponies the best.
Everyone's waiting.
Tomorrow's the day.
The carnival's coming at last.
All kinds of goodies and all kinds of rides.
And fun when you look in the big-looking glass.
What's the matter now, son?
Took you on the ferris wheel, the airplane rides.
Why'd you got such a long face?
I'm trying to do the best I can.
Where do you want to go now?
If you like that, don't you?
I'll tell you what we'll do.
I'll get you another hot dog that really ought to get you sick, and maybe I'll let you go on a pony ride once
more.
Here's a scene from The Fighting Sullivan's.
It's based on truth, 1944.
Ward Bond is the first to speak.
Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, I'm afraid I'm bringing you very bad news.
Did something happen?
Quiet.
Quiet, Jen.
You see, the way these things are done ordinarily, you'd get a...
A telegram right from the Navy Department, but... Which one?
Is it Al?
All five.
All five.
The Navy Department deeply regrets to inform you that your sons, Albert, Francis, George, Joseph, and Madison, some of them, were killed in action in the South Pacific.
I saw a peaceful old valley With a carpet of corn on the floor And I heard a voice within me whisper This is worth fighting for I saw a little old cabin
This is worth fighting for.
When I heard that voice within me thunder This is worth fighting for
My father's
hands would build my dreams from wood and stone and sky He showed me how small things grow He taught me how to try My father's hands would lift me high When I was small and scared He showed me how to stand
And I can see him in the morning light And hear him in the rain His quiet strength still guides my way I feel it every day Imagine hands that never let go That hold you through the years Imagine life
it dries a thousand tears my father's hands are with me now they're with me everywhere my father's hands would mend the breaks and patch what I had torn he showed me how to make amends to heal to be
Father's Day songs are rocky.
Watched to know that I love my baby and my baby loves me.
A short time ago, we went out together to a place called Far Out, Upper Limbo.
The rhythm was there.
Something special was in the air.
I reached over and held my baby's hand.
She gave me a little squeeze.
I knew we were in the same key.
Everything's beginning to sway in a quiet, cool, warm way.
My baby didn't say anything.
Just looked at me.
With that special look my baby has, I look back.
With that special look I get.
When my baby looks at me with that special look she gets, I couldn't help myself.
It was love for sure.
I picked my baby up, danced over to the stage, and I told the leader, leader, this is my baby.
He just said, crazy.
My baby gave him a special look like she does.
He could see my baby had eyes to sway, so he adjusted the mic and simply sat in his complicated way of chorus.
And my baby shy, so I gave it the first try.
Waiter,
two glasses of warm milk please.
Nobody gave me a mansion till they saw me.
With you paid me a bit of attention till they saw me.
With you suddenly strange people walked up to me pretending they knew.
Bring me to introduce you.
Who's that bunch of personality?
I'm presenting her right now.
Baby, take a bow.
Where'd you find that lovely candy-o?
I'm presenting her right now.
Baby, take a bow.
You're a standout.
She's cute.
She's sweet.
She's wild.
She's grand.
Who's the future Mr. Standing Wave?
Just a minute, ladies.
I'm presenting.
All right, girl.
Baby, take a bite.
Michael McCoy.
little girl to heaven hold a precious gem is what you
are
your mommy is bright and shining star you're the spirit of Christmas the star
Your sugar, your spice.
precious gem is what you are your mommy's bride and shining star you're the spirit of Christmas the star
For mommy and me, you're...
The star on the tree You're the Easter Bunny For mommy and me You're sugar
Michael Buble.
Here's Neil Sadaka.
1974 with a pericomo cover.
So many of you have asked about my two children back in New York City.
I have two wonderful children and I'm not the kind of daddy that usually brings along a photograph or a snapshot.
But this year I took special effort to bring one with me so I can show you.
I seem to have left it backstage.
Could you bring out the snapshot of the children, won't you?
That's Dara Felice, seven years old, and Mark Charles is four.
When you're the father of boys How you were
Till the t-
When she's a plain little girl, how you worry But when she's a beautiful thing You do more than that
When she's out
And I
Neil Sedaka.
1974, Perry had the hit.
Performing live in Sydney, Australia.
Tomorrow is Father's Day, so naturally our thoughts turn to them and to the well-being of family life in America.
Families have always stood at the center of our society, preserving good and worthy traditions from our past, entrusting those traditions to our children our greatest hope for the future.
Family life has changed much down through the years.
The days when we could expect to live in only one home and hold only one job are probably gone forever.
Perhaps we will not go back to the old family ways.
But I think we can and should preserve family values.
Values of faith, honesty, responsibility, tolerance, kindness, and love.
And we'll keep on trying to do better, trying to create a better life for those who follow.
This hasn't been easy to do in the last decade.
It's become more difficult to raise children than it once was.
For example, the dependency exemption on your income tax.
The money you can deduct for raising a child or caring for an elderly relative was $600 in the late 40s.
That's been increased to $1,000 now.
But if that deduction had been indexed to keep pace with inflation, today you would be deducting more than $3,000 for every one of your children.
Housing became harder to afford, and the cost of private education also became too expensive for millions of middle-income families.
By 1980, American families felt the full shock of runaway taxes, inflation, record interest rates,
and soaring prices for housing, education, food, and other necessities of life.
They saw the golden promise of the American dream disappearing behind storm clouds of economic misery.
Liberals urged huge government subsidies, paying parents for expenses they used to handle themselves.
But big government, becoming big brother, pushing parents aside, interfering with one parental responsibility after another, is no solution.
It only makes bad situations worse, raising prices and taxes for everyone.
We came to Washington with a better idea.
Help working parents to better provide for themselves and their children by enabling them to keep more of their earnings and help them by making government do its job so the terrifying specter of runaway price increases never returns.
Our tax rate reductions have helped parents, reducing the tax bill that would have been owed by a typical family by over $900 a year.
And we've helped parents by reducing the inflation rate by nearly two-thirds since 1980, and by creating more than six million new jobs.
which we build our lives.
We are most dependent on the family.
The family is that most important foundation.
And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation.
They are teachers and coaches, they're mentors and they're role models.
They are examples of success and the men who constantly
push us toward success.
But if we're honest with ourselves, we'll admit that too many fathers are also missing.
Too many fathers are MIA.
You're worried.
You're worried.
Night and day.
When she's a plain little girl, are you worried?
But when she's a beautiful thing You do more than that You pray Boys come round when they wanna date Girls stay home and wait When she's out you sit up all night
With her first baby toy You trusted But worried Cause you were Once a boy
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