# Fibber McGee and Molly - Fmm Disposing Of The Old Phonograph Records \[episode 1096\] Broadcast 2/13/1955

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## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: It's time for Fibber McGhee and Molly. Sundays through Thursdays,
[0:12] Speaker 1: NBC brings you Fibber McGee and Molly transcribe. The show
[0:15] Speaker 1: is written by Phil Leslie and Ralph Goodman and directed
[0:18] Speaker 1: by Max Huddle. Well, let's see what's troubling the mcgeeese
[0:27] Speaker 1: tonight before we get into our story.
[0:30] Speaker 2: Gone your aunt Sarah? Anyhow? How tunket does she expect
[0:33] Speaker 2: anyone to read this postcard?
[0:34] Speaker 3: Look at it?
[0:35] Speaker 2: What's it say?
[0:36] Speaker 4: It says, tell me Gee to talk Modified three Heavenly Days.
[0:39] Speaker 4: What does that mean?
[0:40] Speaker 5: Oh?
[0:41] Speaker 2: I know. We'll trust your Aunt Sarah to know a
[0:43] Speaker 2: goodbye when she sees it. The Modified three is a
[0:46] Speaker 2: prudential life insurance plan that's low cost from start to finish. Well,
[0:49] Speaker 2: don't let me dangle, McGee tell me facts. Okay, Now,
[0:52] Speaker 2: just imagine you're the head of a happy household. Yes,
[0:55] Speaker 2: you got a nice little family, and you're determined to
[0:57] Speaker 2: make sure if anything happens to you, they'll be taken
[1:00] Speaker 2: care of. But you also want life insurance protection that
[1:02] Speaker 2: you can afford a really low cost plan.
[1:05] Speaker 4: So I call my prudential agent. He shows me the
[1:08] Speaker 4: Modified three.
[1:09] Speaker 2: And you like it on account because the premium you
[1:12] Speaker 2: pay for the first three years is actually fifteen percent
[1:14] Speaker 2: lower than in later years. But then in those later years,
[1:18] Speaker 2: the prudential pays you annual dividends, and you can use
[1:20] Speaker 2: these dividends to reduce the increased premium.
[1:23] Speaker 4: So, folks, your prudential agent will tell you what you
[1:26] Speaker 4: want to know about this low cost modified three plan.
[1:29] Speaker 4: Just call him today.
[1:40] Speaker 1: Missus McGee, busy with her chores upstairs, suddenly realizes that
[1:44] Speaker 1: for the last twenty minutes she hasn't heard a sound
[1:47] Speaker 1: from her husband downstairs. Taking a housewifely shot in the dark,
[1:51] Speaker 1: she goes to the head of the steps and calls McGee.
[1:53] Speaker 4: Calls that refrigerator and get out of the kitchen. You'll
[1:56] Speaker 4: spoil your lunch.
[1:57] Speaker 2: What are you talking about, Molly. I'm right here in
[2:00] Speaker 2: the living room.
[2:01] Speaker 4: Oh well, you were so quiet. I just naturally suppose.
[2:05] Speaker 2: I'm reading the paper money. Hey, come here, listen to this.
[2:08] Speaker 3: What is it?
[2:09] Speaker 2: Come closer. I can't read it out loud?
[2:12] Speaker 4: Why not?
[2:12] Speaker 2: Well, it's in a column here marked personal. That's a joke,
[2:18] Speaker 2: says old phonograph records wanted. We'll pay highest prices.
[2:22] Speaker 4: Is that all what's so interesting.
[2:24] Speaker 2: About see kittle, here's a chance at last to clean
[2:26] Speaker 2: out that big box of old records we got sitting
[2:28] Speaker 2: in the attic. Up to now, it hasn't been worth
[2:30] Speaker 2: lifting to throw them out. But if this guy is
[2:32] Speaker 2: willing to pay money for him, I don't.
[2:34] Speaker 4: I'll certainly be glad to get rid of those things. Finally,
[2:37] Speaker 4: do you think they're worth anything?
[2:38] Speaker 3: Not to me?
[2:39] Speaker 2: They or not. But it says here the guy pays
[2:40] Speaker 2: highest prices. Whatever that is. Gee, the must be at
[2:44] Speaker 2: least one hundred and fifty records up there. Even if
[2:46] Speaker 2: we only get a dime apiece, that that's fifty dollars,
[2:48] Speaker 2: how much? Well, forty and thirty five? Keep trying, Well,
[2:53] Speaker 2: what's the difference. It's it's still going to be a windfall.
[2:55] Speaker 2: Even if it's just a breeze. Those little records are
[2:58] Speaker 2: not doing Furler care.
[2:59] Speaker 3: Johnny at home, See.
[3:01] Speaker 2: Old timer, just a guy. I need to give me
[3:02] Speaker 2: a hand. We're in the living room, old timer.
[3:04] Speaker 3: Come on in, boy, come on in, come.
[3:05] Speaker 4: In, said the spider to the fly.
[3:07] Speaker 2: We'll bring him downstairs and dust them off. You call
[3:09] Speaker 2: the guy with you, Molly. His numbers in the ad.
[3:12] Speaker 2: What guy Johnny, I'll tell you about it on the
[3:14] Speaker 2: way upstairs. We're gonna move Caruso Columbo and calling on
[3:17] Speaker 2: the telephone downstairs out of our attic. Careful, the old timer. Careful,
[3:30] Speaker 2: The stairs are right behind you.
[3:32] Speaker 3: Sure heavy. I got her though, Keep it.
[3:35] Speaker 6: Coming easy now, easy, watch you're in. Thanks for the warning, son,
[3:39] Speaker 6: that's my tenderest part, niggee.
[3:42] Speaker 4: I talked to the man on the phone, mister Rafferty.
[3:44] Speaker 2: His name is good and I'll watch it around the
[3:46] Speaker 2: landing though. You gotta turn it.
[3:48] Speaker 4: He said he'd be over in an hour.
[3:50] Speaker 6: A little more to your left, okay, hell turner, not
[3:53] Speaker 6: to you're.
[3:53] Speaker 2: Right the left, the left?
[3:58] Speaker 4: Dear, why a man?
[4:00] Speaker 6: Johnny's fault, daughter, here's fault, very stupid, My fault me.
[4:03] Speaker 3: I kept telling you to turn left. Very foolish.
[4:05] Speaker 6: Are you anybody's lived here as long as you should
[4:08] Speaker 6: ought to know? I don't know right from the left.
[4:09] Speaker 3: You should have pointed.
[4:10] Speaker 4: Never mind, I'll get a broom and come in. Well hello,
[4:15] Speaker 4: doctor gamble.
[4:16] Speaker 3: Hi, kids are just passing by a holy smoke. What
[4:19] Speaker 3: a mess?
[4:20] Speaker 4: Just par for the course.
[4:21] Speaker 6: Doctor Johnny misdirected me. Doctor, he made me drop him.
[4:24] Speaker 2: Come on, tank tummy. Peel off your overcoat and help
[4:27] Speaker 2: us pick him up, will you? That is the busted one.
[4:29] Speaker 3: Well, you got some mighty nice pieces there, my boy?
[4:32] Speaker 3: What are you doing starting a trend short playing records?
[4:36] Speaker 2: Oh? Cut it out, needle noodle. There's a guy coming
[4:39] Speaker 2: over here after a while to buy these records. You're
[4:40] Speaker 2: gonna help us pick them up or not?
[4:42] Speaker 6: Okay, I'll start with these over here and pick out
[4:44] Speaker 6: the unbroken ones.
[4:46] Speaker 3: Hey, where'd you get this one out of the attic?
[4:49] Speaker 6: Doctor?
[4:49] Speaker 3: We got them all out of here with I haven't
[4:51] Speaker 3: heard this record since What is it?
[4:53] Speaker 4: Doctor?
[4:54] Speaker 3: It's an old old bing Crosbie.
[4:57] Speaker 2: Oh what are you doing with the record player? Fats?
[5:00] Speaker 4: Oh?
[5:01] Speaker 2: Now, look, we got work to do. We have no
[5:02] Speaker 2: time to lett.
[5:03] Speaker 3: You kids, but synonimo, let's take a break for his
[5:12] Speaker 3: listeners everywhere I go. Oh, let's see what else you got?
[5:16] Speaker 3: Oh No, Helen Kine singing forty O dough and look
[5:20] Speaker 3: at here George m Cohen vocal, Goodbye Ma, goodbye Pa,
[5:24] Speaker 3: goodbye mule with the old.
[5:25] Speaker 2: He Whore's see what a big bad help he's will
[5:29] Speaker 2: to be? Come on, don't cut out the reminiscent. Let's
[5:31] Speaker 2: get to work. We'll never get done if you've got
[5:33] Speaker 2: to listen every day.
[5:34] Speaker 1: Record there's more fun with the McGee Shortley. Here's a
[5:48] Speaker 1: tip to women, to the young or looking forward to
[5:51] Speaker 1: a lifetime career, and of the middle age looking towards security.
[5:55] Speaker 1: Right now, throughout this country, there is a desperate need
[5:58] Speaker 1: for more nurses to serve in hospitals and private duty,
[6:01] Speaker 1: in teaching and research, in the veterans administration, and the
[6:04] Speaker 1: armed forces. For the young woman who is a high
[6:07] Speaker 1: school graduate or college student, professional nursing offers many compensations.
[6:11] Speaker 1: You work with doctors, graduate nurses, and other skilled people
[6:15] Speaker 1: in a team relationship, and you can become a registered
[6:18] Speaker 1: nurse after completion of a three year program. Older persons
[6:22] Speaker 1: up to fifty five will find many advantages to be
[6:24] Speaker 1: gained from enrolling as a student in practical nursing. Although
[6:28] Speaker 1: there are more nurses active today than ever before, the
[6:31] Speaker 1: ever increasing needs for nursing service have created a demand
[6:34] Speaker 1: for still more. As a result, countless opportunities are open
[6:38] Speaker 1: to women wanting a career and security. For further information
[6:41] Speaker 1: inquired at your nearest school of nursing or hospital.
[6:54] Speaker 2: Play that part again. That last part yeah, doctor play it.
[6:57] Speaker 3: Hey, that's a hum danger kids if that man's on
[6:59] Speaker 3: his way home. But don't you think we better stack
[7:01] Speaker 3: the good ones and get going.
[7:02] Speaker 2: We'll get to it. Go on, drop the needle again,
[7:04] Speaker 2: just on that last part.
[7:06] Speaker 3: Okay, look out, kids, here she comes again.
[7:11] Speaker 2: But crazy, They just don't write sentimental songs like that anymore.
[7:43] Speaker 2: You don't get you right here.
[7:47] Speaker 4: Oh goodness when you look for iphon, look at this one,
[7:50] Speaker 4: will you? It's our song, McGee's and mine. Remember this one.
[7:55] Speaker 2: Darny, I see, Oh I should say, I do.
[7:59] Speaker 4: Min He's the night we sit out on the porch
[8:00] Speaker 4: and he'd sing it to me in the moonlight. Remember
[8:04] Speaker 4: McGee in the old porch swing.
[8:06] Speaker 2: Yeah, megaphone in one hand and an oil can in
[8:09] Speaker 2: the other, trying to drown off the squeaks in the
[8:10] Speaker 2: swing as I could be heard.
[8:13] Speaker 4: But it was a losing battle. As soon as the
[8:15] Speaker 4: squeaks died down, McGee could be heard. The dogs started holling.
[8:18] Speaker 2: Oh I wasn't that bad. My friends told me I
[8:20] Speaker 2: used to sound just like Harry Richmond.
[8:21] Speaker 3: You sure it wasn't Harry Carey?
[8:24] Speaker 4: Oh?
[8:24] Speaker 2: Yeah, well I'll have you guys know that back in
[8:26] Speaker 2: the twenties when I was in vaudeville with an old
[8:28] Speaker 2: friend of mine by the name of Fred Nittany.
[8:30] Speaker 4: Yeah, we know, Dearie. Now put the record on. Okay,
[8:33] Speaker 4: listen to this, doctor. I think this is one of
[8:36] Speaker 4: the prettiest love songs ever written. Go ahead, play at McGee.
[8:41] Speaker 4: Listen now, Oh McGhee, that's not the one.
[8:49] Speaker 2: That'll teach you to make fun of my voice.
[8:51] Speaker 4: Oh knock cut it down. Okay, let me play the
[8:55] Speaker 4: right one. Now, everybody be quiet, love you sweeter than
[9:03] Speaker 4: the roll, sweet lovely, Come here, McGee, sit here by me.
[9:17] Speaker 4: Isn't that just beautiful?
[9:33] Speaker 3: Well? There we are.
[9:35] Speaker 2: Yeah, and got them all stacked, Molly, all set for
[9:37] Speaker 2: the big record. Sake good.
[9:38] Speaker 3: We still got twenty eight left, daughter that we didn't break.
[9:40] Speaker 4: Well, I guess we're lucky to Oh here's our man.
[9:44] Speaker 4: I'll let him in.
[9:45] Speaker 2: We ought to get at least fifteen bucks out of this.
[9:48] Speaker 4: How do you do, sir? Come right in?
[9:50] Speaker 5: Thank you.
[9:51] Speaker 6: I'm mister Rafferty.
[9:52] Speaker 4: Well, I'm glad to see you. I'm missus McGee and
[9:55] Speaker 4: this is my husband.
[9:56] Speaker 2: Sorry, mister Rafferty.
[9:57] Speaker 4: Oh not too well.
[10:00] Speaker 6: I thought i'd start a record collection as a hobby.
[10:02] Speaker 6: But it's pretty discouraging.
[10:04] Speaker 2: Discouraging, how do you mean?
[10:06] Speaker 1: Well?
[10:06] Speaker 6: I get lots of calls, but every time I get
[10:09] Speaker 6: to someone's house, they've changed their mind and don't want
[10:12] Speaker 6: to part with them.
[10:13] Speaker 2: Well, you won't have that trouble here. You can have
[10:15] Speaker 2: this lot right here, twenty five beautiful rare old records,
[10:19] Speaker 2: as soon as we settle the price, right, Molly.
[10:21] Speaker 4: Right, except, of course Russ Colombo singing our song sweet
[10:25] Speaker 4: and Lovely.
[10:26] Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right. We don't want to partner with
[10:27] Speaker 2: that one renting. But there's still twenty four all good
[10:30] Speaker 2: old record.
[10:31] Speaker 6: Wait a minute, Giant, don't you remember you promised me
[10:34] Speaker 6: that Betty Boop record for helping you kids out?
[10:36] Speaker 3: Yeah, and Molly, you said I could have Goodbye Ma,
[10:38] Speaker 3: Goodbye Pa, Goodbye Mule with the old hehaw.
[10:41] Speaker 2: No she didn't. That was the one I wanted, a.
[10:43] Speaker 6: Troy doc yours just Tiger Red.
[10:45] Speaker 2: Oh well, I think I'd rather have our sweet Mystery
[10:47] Speaker 2: of Life unless.
[10:48] Speaker 3: I can have both?
[10:49] Speaker 2: Could I? Oh?
[10:50] Speaker 4: I guess so.
[10:51] Speaker 2: But now let's sell a rect Hey wait a minute,
[10:53] Speaker 2: Wait a minute, who puts Dardanella back on the pile? There?
[10:56] Speaker 2: I want that I had to put aside.
[10:58] Speaker 4: Well, if you're gonna keep that, I'll take.
[11:00] Speaker 2: Yeah, then why can't I have Colln on the telephone?
[11:02] Speaker 6: Well, if you kids are gonna have another choice, I
[11:04] Speaker 6: want this record by Morris Chevalier.
[11:08] Speaker 4: Took that out on the Moonlight and Roses.
[11:12] Speaker 3: What was that?
[11:13] Speaker 2: Yeah? Who left? Oh him?
[11:16] Speaker 4: Yes, poor man, he looks so sad. I guess his
[11:19] Speaker 4: is not an easy life.
[11:21] Speaker 2: Oh well, now stop grabbing everybody. We'll play him again
[11:24] Speaker 2: and draw straws form. Put Dartenell on again, Kittle, I'll
[11:26] Speaker 2: make a list of what we got here, and then
[11:28] Speaker 2: we've got left.
[11:38] Speaker 1: Well, you'll say good night to Fiber and Molly in
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[12:55] Speaker 4: It's been a wonderful evening just the two of us
[12:58] Speaker 4: dancing every day. Oh silly boy, of course I like
[13:04] Speaker 4: you better than that rich oldis Cadwallader with his stuts
[13:07] Speaker 4: bear kiss you can kiss me? Hey, Molly, what are
[13:12] Speaker 4: you gonna turn that dad raded thing off?
[13:14] Speaker 3: Who comes to bed?
[13:16] Speaker 2: You played it fifteen times? I want to get some sleep?
[13:19] Speaker 4: Uh huh, Dad's still awake. All right, dearie, I'll be
[13:23] Speaker 4: right up.
[13:24] Speaker 2: Okay, good night, good night.
[13:26] Speaker 5: If bebber.
[13:40] Speaker 1: McGhee and Molly is an NBC Radio Network production transcribed
[13:44] Speaker 1: with Bill Thompson as the old timer and Mister Rapperty
[13:47] Speaker 1: Arthur Q. Bryan is Doctor Gamble. This is John Wall
[13:50] Speaker 1: saying don't miss McGhee buying Molly a Parisian hat for
[13:54] Speaker 1: Valentine's Day tomorrow, good night.
[14:06] Speaker 5: Join the Great Guildress League form more fun in Summerfield
[14:09] Speaker 5: to night on the n b C Radio Network
[14:13] Speaker 2: O

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