sample="quota" bates="514564391" isource="rjr" decade="1950" class="ue" date="19390207" RADIO WILLIAM ESTY AND COMPANY INCORPORATED COLOMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM BENNY GOODGOODMAN'SMAN'S CAMEL CARAVAN - PROGRAM NO. 72 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1939 - 9:30-10:00 P.M. HOLCOMBE: Let up and light up a Camel! Smokers find that Camel's costlier tobaccos are soothing to the nerves! (BAND: THEME FADE FOR ANNOUNCEMENT) Here comes the Camel Caravan with Benny Goodman! That means Meeting Times for swing fans of all ages - and Hot Club Members from Coast to Coast! Time to gather round for music by Benny Goodman - words by Johnny Mercer. The first item on our agenda is a word of appreciation to all you Club Members - you smokers who make these weekly meetings possible. You are the final judges of tobacco quality, and you've made Camel the largest-selling cigarette in the world. So, thanks, folks - and let up and light up a Camel! (BAND: THEME UP AND OUT) BENNY: This is your President, Benny Goodman. bidding you welcome to the Camel Hot Club. Tonight our Club Meeting takes place at the State Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. You know, Hartford is the insurance headquarters of the whole country. So we thought it would be a nice policy to see that everyone had a good time. Vice President Johnny Mercer, will sound off with that thirty-minute endowment we dreamed up for tonight? MERCER: Right, Proxy! Whereas and be it known! The parties of the first part, hereinafter referred to as Benny Goodman and/or the world's greatest swing ban, - shall by mutual consent and popular demand present: item, the party of the second part, to wit and vis; your swing Sweetheart, Martha Tilton! Item, the parties of 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th parts... BENNY: Say, this thing's got more parts than a Mechano set! MERCER: Hereinafter referred to as the Goodman Trio and Quartette! BENNY: Item, President Goodman's latest and strongest Pot Hate, The Fluff Box. MERCER: Snapping its hungry jaws for a fifty-cent piece when any of us stumbles on a word or misreads a line. And here comes the first premium on our Good Time Policy for tonight. It's the Goodman Version of that grand old tee-tapper "Swinging Down The Lane." BAND: ("SWINGING DOWN THE LANE") (APPLAUSE) BENNY: Not long ago Johnny Mercer and Walter Donaldson - of whom you may have heard - got together and turned out a new song. I vote we have Martha Tilton sing it for us right now. Will those in favor say "aye." AUDIENCE: AYE! BENNY: Gosh - so that's what it sounds like when four thousand people all agree at once. All right, Martha - suppose you tell the Club Members about Johnny's new song in your own way. (BAND: "GOTTA GET SOME SHUTEYE") (APPLAUSE) HOLCOMBE: Millions of people let up and light up a Camel to ease nerve tension. And those millions include famous people in business and in sports - successful men and women in every walk of life. Let's take, for example, Miss Lolly Sisson, sir hostess, on Transcontinental and Western Air's "Sky Chief." Miss Sisson says: WOMAN'S VOICE: I love flying. I have more than three thousand hours in the air to my credit. It is a strain on the nerves. But I'm careful about resting, and I like to let up and light up a Camel cigarrette. I find Camel soothing to my nerves. HOLCOMBE: Benny Goodman is a national campus favorite. And so are Camel cigarettes. James L. Dixon. Jr., of Colombia University, offers a good explanation of why college men prefer Camels. He says: RADIO WILLIAM ESTY AND COMPANY 4 MAN'S VOICE: I'm going to college and I have to earn my own way. I can't take chances with jittery nerves. A few minutes spent smoking a Camel helps me avoid nerve tension. I get real smoking pleasure when I smoke Camels, and I find Camels are soothing to my nerves. HOLCOMBE: Now -- you may have finished school years ago -- you may not have the slightest ambitions toward flying -- but that doesn't mean that you can't get a lot out of letting up and lighting up a Camel. A whale of a lot of smoking pleasure...and a real help in avoiding ragged, jittery nerves. So....let up and light up a Camel! (QUARTETTE UP AND FADE) MERCER: And now I'll ask the ushers to come down the aisles and make sure that all seats are chained to the floor. I'll man the fire-alarm box myself. Because the Quartette are busting open a special packet of fireworks! That swing skyrocket called "I Found A New Baby." ( QUARTETTE: "I FOUND A NEW BABY") (APPLAUSE) TILTON: (SINGING) Has anyone here seen Johnny - MERCER: Yes Martha? TILTON: Oh, Mr. Mercer - d'you think I could interview you for the Gossip Gasette of the Ladies Auxiliary? MERCER: What - Write an article about me? TILTON: Yes - you see they heard about your invention of the Fluff Box. And they want to know where you got your wonderful financial genius. MERCER: Weel, Marta. Orr-riginally, the Mer-r-rcers hyed fra' Sco'land, TILTON: Hoot, Mon! Did they come over on the Mayflower? MERCER: Aye - Tourist Class. TILTON: But you were born in Georgia. MERCER: Sure 'nuff, honey chile. That's where I acquired my taste for Geo'gia peaches. TILTON: Hush my mouth, Colonel. And where'd you go to school? MERCER: At Woodbury Forrest, Ma'am - in ole Virginia. TILTON: Georgia peaches - then Virginia - and now you're on the radio... BENNY: What are you writing, Martha? TILTON: The title of my article, President Goodman. BENNY: Let's see it. "Johnny Mercer" - a peach-fed Virginia ham!" MERCER: You'll be sorry, Martha. Just for that I'm going to include you in the club rule. Fifty cents for every fluff. Let's hear you read the announcement of the next item. TILTON: President Goodman says certain slow sweet songs should surely sound solid swiftly swung so starts sending "Estrellita." (BAND: "ESTRELLITA") (APPLAUSE) BENNY: Here's another of Johnny Mercer's new tunes - first introduced on this program and fast rising in popularity - "Cuckoo in the Clock." (BAND: CUCKOO IN THE CLOCK" - TILTON VOCAL) APPLAUSE BENNY: Seeing as how we've got a houseful of Connecticut Club Members, here, we thought we'd put them on the air for tonight's music lesson. Vice-President Mercer will soon find out whether they've been paying attention. MERCER: Question Number One: When musical instruments are playing in tune --tell me, Club Members, what do we get? AUDIENCE: Harmony. MERCER: Harmony is right. And when the same instruments are not in tune --what then? AUDIENCE: Discord. MERCER: And when the nerves get out of tune -- when they get tense and strained -- what's the thing to do? AUDIENCE: Let up...and light up a Camel! HOLCOMBE: Yes sir, letting up and lighting up a Camel cigarette is one swell way to ease away nervous tension. A mighty pleasant way, too, for Camels are mild as can be, and full of choice tobacco flavor. Try letting up and lighting up a Camel. It's a grand treat to the taste -- and a real help in avoiding jangled nerves. For Camels are a matchless blend of finer, more expensive tobaccos -- Turkish and Domestic. Smokers find that Camel's costlier tobaccos are soothing to the nerves. (MUSICAL BRIDGE: "SHADE OF THE OLD APPLE TREE") RADIO WILLIAM ESTY AND COMPANY 8 SECOND CHORUS GOODMAN: Oh we always know where to find old jokes When there's some little program to do We go right to Joe Miller To get us a killer Change it around to sound like new MERCER: They never do! BENNY: Folks that listen to the radio stations Sit and whittle until we are through MERCER: 'Stead of getting more mail BENNY: We keep getting more stale By sneakin a little quip or two MERCER: Every Tuesday we go fishin' Our catch lines are all jake BENNY: But we only hook a smile or two The laugh gets away Can't even keep 'em awake MERCER: Oh someday there'll be no more old jokes What a wonderful world it will be BENNY: All the comics that day Will have to work for their pay MERCER: The day that they put old jokes away. BENNY: Now here's the place in the Minutes of our Meeting when the Committee takes up news of the Hot Clubs. MERCER: Yes, Benny - and we have two special items to report this week. Item One: Night here in Hartfod, Connecticut, radio station W.D.R.C. has its own "Strictly Swing" Club. They've just held a popularity poll among the members. And our president, Benny Goodman, was the winner. APPLAUSE RADIO WILLIAM ESTY AND COMPANY 10 MERCER: I'm sure all the members of the Philadelphia branch will want to join President Goodman at the Earle Theatre down there beginning the day after tomorrow. And I'm sure all you members of our other branches everywhere will join up with us again next Tuesday night. Till then, this is Johnny Mercer, the Vagabond Fluffer, saying good luck and so long. (THEME AND FADE) HOLCOMBE: Next Monday night over these same situations, Eddie Cantor's Camel Caravan rolls in. So make it a Monday night date too. Harry Holcombe speaking. ANNOUNCER: Will all the pipe-smokers listening in please raise their right hands? Now, will all of you men who are not Prince Albert smokers please repeat after me -- "I...am...going...to...try...Prince...Albert...That's all we ask, men. Just try Prince Albert to get the next real joy-smoking. There's no other tobacco like Prince Albert, the National Joy Smoke. HOLCOMBE: This is the Columbia...Broadcasting System.