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Footsteps echo on the empty street
Got a quiet rhythm in my own heartbeat Every step I take I'm learning who I am Writing my own story with a steady hand Nothing left to lose, nothing left to hide I just close my eyes and let the
wind decide
the song.
Letting losses
part.
Don is coming.
sacrifice for every soul who paid the price america we proudly sing
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grand design, freedom's life forever closed, guiding every child to know that hope is stronger than our fears and brighter with the passing years.
She called to say Hawaii.
She called to say Hawaii.
She called to say Hawaii.
That's why she did call.
Oh, no.
Two, eight, three, one.
Oh, what did Mrs. Sip, boy?
What did Mrs. Sip?
What did Mrs. Sip, boy?
Through her pretty lips.
She sipped the Minnesota.
She sipped the Minnesota.
Does she sit the Minnesota?
That's what she does sit.
Oh, where has Zora gone, boy?
Where has Zora gone?
If you want Alaska, Alaska where she's gone.
She went to pay her taxes.
She went to pay her taxes.
She went to pay her taxes.
That's where she has gone.
too bad that I can saw boy and so did Tennessee it made for for a die boy it made for for a die you see she died in misery boy she died in misery
the song begins I hear a host of violins or can it only be my lonely heart that sings a holiday for strings because your love has found me through the night a love song fills the air I hear it everywhere so sweetly telling me I'm yours completely breezeside
When you are close to me, there's music never heard such...
The music of the stars.
1945.
There are songs about Montana and New York and Indiana, but the song the nation patiently awaits is the song I now will bring you as I clear my throat and sing you a love song to the whole United States.
I love you.
Minnesota, Oklahoma, West Virginia, California, Georgia, Texas, Maine.
Mississippi, Washington, South Carolina, Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, Iowa,
Nevada,
Kansas, Arizona, Colorado, Michigan.
Coming in kinetic.
He is a flat
What are you doing?
I'm just saluting our fighting men.
Hi there.
Peace.
Expanica you're leading.
I'm going to get home to my
son.
Uh, man, if there was anything at all I could do for
you
today.
Do
it.
Do anything.
I can get you a hotel room.
What?
Excuse me.
Can you excuse us for a second?
Can I see you for a second, please?
Excuse us.
Help me.
Couldn't help it here, and you got a little bit of a dilemma there.
We got a crisis ourselves.
Allow me to introduce myself.
Gus Polinsky.
All right.
Polka King of the Midwest.
Did the Kenosha kickers?
No.
That's okay.
I thought you might have recognized.
Anyways, I had a few hits a few years ago.
That's why I, you know, just polka, polka, polka.
Polka, polka, polka.
No.
Twin Lakes Polka.
Damavuji Polka.
AKA Kiss Me Polka.
Polka Twist.
Well, these are songs.
Yeah.
Yeah, we... some fairly big hits for us, you know, in the early 70s, you know.
Yeah, we sold about 623 copies of that.
In Chicago?
No, Sheboygan.
Very big in Sheboygan.
They loved it, you know.
I'm sorry, did you say you could help me?
Anyway, I'm dead and rain-wind on here.
Our flight was canceled.
So we gotta drive, so, uh... See the guy in the yellow jacket over there?
By the budget sign, he's gonna rent us a nice big, uh, van.
And we're gonna drive to Milwaukee.
Now, I heard you had some problems here, uh...
Getting to Chicago?
To see your kid or something?
Uh, my son, he... We left and he... He's there.
Oh, jeez.
If you have to get to Chicago, we can gladly drive you.
It's on the way to Milwaukee.
You'd give me a
ride?
Sure we will.
Why not?
You know, you gotta get home and see your kid.
A ride to Chicago?
Sure.
Yeah, it's Christmas time.
Thank you.
Oh, thank you.
You don't mind going with some polka-bums?
No, I'd
love to.
I still see your apron by the kitchen light Coffee on the stove every Sunday night You'd hum those little songs while the rain came down Made a tie
Softest summer wind Gentle just the same
There's an empty chair where you used to sit.
music of
Toy dog is covered with dust, but sturdy and stanchy stands.
And the little toy soldier is red with rust and his musket molds in his hands.
Time was when the little toy dog was new
and the soldier
The search for more money.
Hold it.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
It's me, Mel Brooks.
I have a major announcement.
Spaceballs 2.
The search for more money is not going to be the title of this movie.
Why not?
Because after all these years, I found the money.
There it is, the money.
It was in my basement.
People say, Mel, Mel, where is the new Spaceballs?
When are you going to make the new Spaceballs?
When are you going to make the new one?
Well, we did it.
And the title is Spaceballs, the new one.
It's just like the old one, but it's newer.
That's why it's called the new one.
There you have it.
I'll see you at the movies.
And may the Schwartz be with you.
theme John Morris right there for Spaceballs.
Lus Baxter wrote this in 1961.
For Vincent Price, Master of the World.
Years before man believed he could fly, Jules Verne
wrote about a ship like this.
ship like this.
And
this is our control center, the very heart of the Albatross.
We have now reached a speed of 203 miles an hour, quite literally a ship of the sky.
Vincent Price perfectly cast as the idealist who pictures himself master of the world.
His unwilling guests are Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, David Frankham.
Four people terrorized into desperate action.
Sentenced to terrifying punishment.
I am a man unto myself, Mr. Prudent, who has declared war against war.
That is the purpose for which this ship was built.
and watch Rover decimate the entire world.
And what else can we do, Mr. Struck?
Destroy the Albatross.
And ourselves with it?
Moment by moment, you cross over new horizons with Master of the World.
London ahead, sir.
Are the leaflets ready for dropping?
Les Baxter wrote so much music that he was never credited for, really, that's Master of the World, 1961.
American international pictures, kind of a takeoff on the success of Walt Disney's 1954, The Nautilus, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
This song is quite personal to me, and I think it is to you.
I'd like to take just a minute or two to tell you why it's a personal song to me.
It should be to you.
It's a song about this great, big, wonderful, imperfect country.
We live in it.
I say imperfect because if it were perfect, it wouldn't be any fun trying to fix it.
Trying to make it work better.
Trying to make sure that everybody gets a fair shake, and then some.
My country is personal to me because my father, who wasn't born here, rest his soul.
He made sure that I was born here.
And he used to tell me when I was a kid that America was a land of dreams and a dream land.
Well, I don't know if our country fulfilled all of his dreams while he was alive, but tonight with all of us together for this hour, it sure fulfills my dreams.
In the country, and all of you watching tonight, here's a song about a place we call home.
Probably the greatest nation ever to be put on a surf.
What is America?
A certain word, democracy.
What is...
The grocer and the butcher and the people that I meet.
The children in the playground.
the little town or village
where my
about me, the big things and the small, the little corner new stand, or the house a mile
tall,
the wedding and the churchyard.
The pavement of the city or a garden all in bloom.
The church, the school, the clubhouse, the million lights I see.
1974, Madison Square Garden.
Francis Albert Sinatra.
He wowed the Paramount back in 42.
Did you know?
No, I didn't either.
27-year-old Frank with that floppy bow tie, went up to the theater and the announcer said, oh, the announcer was Benny Goodman, said, and now Frank Sinatra and all the screams from the packed house.
Well, you see, the press agent there, George Evans, had been auditioning young ladies to scream loud.
They got five bucks.
It's a lot of money when they minimum wage 30 cents an hour.
And that's the beginning of a legend.
The music of the stars.
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And we'll be back till high noon.
Right here on the Civic Media Radio Network.
This is the music of the stars.
This is Les Baxter.
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