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  • 12/6/2014
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00:00Don't bring us down to old Broadway, you got a cloud on Broadway, good trouble's ever on the way.
00:10Wait, wait, hold that song.
00:12Ah, that was a grand song, Broadway Melody, you remember it.
00:15But now we're ready with the new and greater Broadway Melody.
00:19So new in fact that it's a year ahead.
00:22So off with the old, on with the new.
00:25You have it Frances Langford, take it away.
00:28You are my lucky star, I saw you from afar.
00:39Hey lucky star, they're at Idol of the Airways, that riotous rage of radio, Jack Benny.
00:45Jack Benny coming to you with the latest stories, new jokes, and wise cracks.
00:51And here is the outstanding screen sensation of the decade.
00:54A personality who brings more talent to the motion picture world than any newcomer in ten years.
00:59Singing and dancing her way to fame into your heart, the lovely Eleanor Powell.
01:04The best looking and most gifted of the new leading men.
01:07The boy who is rapidly speeding to stardom, Robert Taylor.
01:12And comedy before the grandest clowns you ever met.
01:16Dizzy, delirious, Buddy and Vilma Ebsen.
01:25June Knight, more beautiful than ever, she dances divinely with Nick Long Jr.
01:38Una Merkel, Sid Silvers, Frances Langford, Robert Wildhat.
01:45Well, for instance, there's the light and thin, or blonde type of snore.
01:54Hey Bert, who do you think is going to have a baby?
01:56Who?
01:57My mother.
01:58Listen Snoop, from now on, nobody is going to have any more babies.
02:00Well, you can't stop my mother from having a baby.
02:02I can stop her from having it in my column.
02:04Will you wear it for me?
02:16Don't worry, the minute I hear people calling you a rat, I'll raise your salary.
02:20All right, I'll be so big a rat you can put a saddle on me.
02:33Madame Albertina Rush, genius of the ballet, surpasses her loveliest creations with the spectacular fantasy in A Garden of Dreams.
02:42Here they are, the men who write the songs the world sings.
02:47These are Herb Brown and Arthur Freed.
02:49They have created lilting melodies, haunting harmonies.
02:52Listen.
02:57Broadway wisdom, it's got me.
03:00Broadway wisdom, it's got me.
03:04I've got a feeling you're fooling me.
03:07I've got a feeling it's all a frame.
03:10I've got a feeling it's all a frame.
03:13You've got to sing before breakfast, croon a tune and rejoice.
03:18Before you use that coffee pot, use your voice.
03:22You've opened heaven's portal, give honor for this poor mortal.
03:27You are my lucky star.
03:36I've got a feeling you're fooling me.
03:39I've got a feeling it's all a frame.
03:43Broadway wisdom, it's got me.
03:49Everybody dance.
03:54Broadway wisdom, it's got me.
04:00Everybody dance.
04:06Broadway wisdom, it's got me.
04:11Everybody dance.

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