The Alka Seltzer Show, transcribed in Hollywood, featuring radio's favorite singing stars Kurt Massey and Martha Tilton, with the music of Country Washington.
It's Alka Seltzer Time, Alka Seltzer Time.
Morning, noon, and night, it's Alka Seltzer Time.
I'm Kurt.
I'm Martha.
And here we go with the Alka Seltzer Show.
Moonlight when shadows fall, moonlight I hear you call.
Love beams through every silvery gleam that's shining, I'm pining.
Moonlight so soft above, June light please find my love.
Tell her that I'm still waiting in the pale moonlight.
I'm waiting in the pale moonlight.
And now we'll just turn that moonlight into a spotlight from Martha Tilton.
Country and the band are at your service, Martha. What'll it be?
I'll take a Latin import, Piel Canela, which we Anglos have renamed U2, U2.
There's a melody that's called Piel Canela, very popular beneath the Cuban moon.
When they sip their substitute for sarsaparilla, how the Cubans love to listen to that tune.
Everybody's dancing to Piel Canela. It's the favorite in the juke at Sloppy Joe's.
It was sung to me beneath a beach umbrella, so I'm qualified to tell you how it goes.
I like to kiss U2, U2, oh how I go for this U2, U2.
Then why not try a kiss or two, a little kiss or two.
You're so very necessary to the future that I have in view.
I like romance, U2, U2. I want to take a chance, U2, U2.
Do you love me? I hope, I hope you do. Because I love U2.
You're so very necessary to the future that I have in view.
I like romance, U2, U2. I want to take a chance, U2, U2.
Do you love me? I hope you do. Because I love U2.
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Well, back to work, Martha. Here we go with the newest item in the novelty department, papaya mama.
Let's go.
Papaya, papaya, papaya, papaya, papaya, papaya mama, pearl of the deep blue sea, tell your papaya, you're coming home with me.
Papaya mama wears a bamboo skirt. She dances barefoot and her feet don't hurt.
We drink papaya by a moonlit shore. And when we kiss, she hollers more, more, more.
Papaya mama, pearl of the deep blue sea, tell your papaya, you're coming home with me.
I came to Cuba for a holiday. Papaya mama took his heart away. Vacation's over and it's time to go. And when they kiss, she hollers no, no, no.
Papaya mama, pearl of the deep blue sea, tell your papaya, you're coming home with me.
My island queen will build a hut for you. The floors and doors will be the best bamboo.
And beneath the loosey and the moon above, we'll sip papaya and we'll love, love, love.
In time, we'll raise a little family to play beneath the new papaya tree.
We'll send my papa fifty cents a guy, cause he'll be a pra papaya, grand papa.
Papaya mama, pearl of the deep blue sea, tell your papaya, you're coming home with me.
Papaya, papaya.
Oh boy, Kurt, are you in wrong with your fiddle fans. You know it's all of a month since you treated them to a violin solo.
That long, Martha? Oh, you're kidding. Well, maybe I should get the old fiddle out and limber it up, huh?
The sooner the better. Let's see if you remember your fine arrangement of Estrellita.
Oh, thank you, Curtis. That was really good listening.
Well, bless you, huh? Thank you.
Next item on the music meeting agenda is a Massey Tilton songwriter salute.
This one, a salute to Johnny Mercer and Company.
And don't forget that and Company. J. Mercer teams up with the top names in the music business and vice versa.
Now, for instance, here's a current hit he wrote in collaboration with Hoagy Carmichael.
Well, I guess it was you all the time. That's why I was blue all the time.
This year, one of the biggest revivals of all time happened to a favorite that was written by Johnny Mercer in cahoots with Gordon Jenkins.
Dear, I thought I'd drop a line. The weather's cool. The folks are fine. I'm in bed each night at nine. P.S. I love you.
This man, Mercer, learned how to pick partners a long time ago.
In 1941, he and Harold Arlen put their heads together and came up with those ever-loving, everlasting blues in the night.
My mama done told me when I was in pigtails My mama done told me, huh
A man's gonna sweet talk and give you the big eye But when the sweet talking's done
A man is a two-faced, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night
Now the rains are falling, hear the trainer calling hoo-wee My mama done told me
Hear the lonesome whistle blowing across the trestle, hoo-wee My mama done told me, a-hoo-wee, a-hoo-wee Oh, clickety-clack's a-echoing back the blues in the night
From Manchester Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe Wherever the four winds blow
I've been in some big towns and I heard me some big talk But there is one thing I know
A woman's a two-faced, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night
My mama was right, there's blues in the night
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Well, that's the end of today's music meeting, friends. Of course, as you know, we have a 15-minute lease on the premises every day, five days a week.
And if you're home tomorrow or driving around in your car at this time, a simple little twist of the wrist will bring us on with more of your favorite popular music. Bye now, till then.
Same time, same station tomorrow.
We'll sing the old song, we'll sing the new, we'll sing the bright songs and maybe we'll sing the blues on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, too. For you, for you, for you.
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Listen tomorrow for the Alka Seltzer Show, starring Kurt Massey and Martha Tilton with the music of Country Washburn and his orchestra.
Today's program is transcribed in Hollywood and this is Fort Pearson speaking.
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