WEBVTT - Trask's Time Tunnel - 1955 - Kevin Trask with Simon Owens and Andrew McLaren - 08 Jun, 2025 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.640 It's time to go back and remember the peel events. 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.240 As using to the soundtrack of Our Lives, we transs 0:00:08.480 --> 0:00:43.440 time time. Ah, Yes, indeed it's that time where that's 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:43.959 sort of. 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:46.960 Snitchy. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.160 Old keV comes to the microphone revenge time. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.880 Yes, yes, going an old thespian. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:58.640 Wandered so much from life and didn't get it and 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.040 pays out on people, And now time for him to 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:02.760 go back to what ears at this time? 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.880 keV, Well, it's the old nineteen fifty five. Oh glory, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:07.959 how were you in nineteen fifty five? 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:12.920 And no, I wasn't even born. I just loved Hey, 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:14.160 what are you looking at me like that? 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:15.400 I didn't say anything. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.360 What I enjoy is just hearing you two old guys, 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.120 Simon and You reminiscent with all the anecdotes about that era. 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:26.120 No, it's wonderful. Yeah, have fond memory. I'm looking forward 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.479 to this because to me, it's all a blank canvas. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:30.240 Yes, for it is, but it won't be by a 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:31.320 limited About. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.440 Twelve o'clock, I'll feel I'm part of fifty. 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.720 Five Old fifty five, that's you, Andrew Old fifty five, 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.640 that's me. Well, what happened here in nineteen fifty five 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.040 as Johnny Cash went on radio for the first time. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.080 It's one of those low banned radio stations in Memphis, Tennessee, 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.920 and it was a Saturday afternoon show and he did everything. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.520 He did the ads, yeah, asking people to call in. 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:58.640 We're going to sing a song we'd like to hear 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:03.080 from you. The highlight of this piece is we have 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:07.440 Johnny Cash introducing Johnny Cash sings a song, and I've 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.119 tailed in the end of the program where they're announcing 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.840 a show that Johnny Cash is going to be on. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:15.840 And also there it squeezed in there is an artist 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.760 called Elvis Presley and he starts talking about this ten 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:22.080 year old boys going to play the drums on Elvis 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.600 will be on. And then if you listen to this, 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.240 it is hysterical because Elvis was just studying to be 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.400 you know, popular around about that time in nineteen fifty five. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:33.880 So let's have a listen. 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.320 To her, folks. 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.359 This is our first time to be coming out your 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.639 way by way of radio, and we sincerely hope you'll 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.040 enjoy our program. If you do, we hope you'll write 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:45.880 us a card or a letter telling us so, and 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.079 maybe we can do your favorite song for you. Sometimes 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.640 with nothing, we'd like better if we can, if we 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.079 know it. If we don't know what, we'll try to 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:53.760 learn it for you. 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:55.520 This program is. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.200 Brought to you by Home Equipment Company twenty five twenty 0:02:58.280 --> 0:02:59.280 nine Summer Avenue. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:02:59.720 Right here. 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.440 We'll tell you more about home Equipment coming in a minute. 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:05.840 But to good things rolling here, we want to do 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:15.600 one of our own songs, one called wide Open Road. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:17.640 Well, you said you had enough. 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:22.760 You said that you were leaving. I said, shove of hony, baby, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:28.600 think grieving, pack your back and pull out this evening. 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.840 There's a wide Open roll. 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.000 Early this morning. 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:39.160 You were nowhere about until I searched the town, but 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.360 you had done pulled out. I look northeast and west, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:47.080 and then uh leading south of all wide. 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.440 Open and frand I don't forget about that big show 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:56.520 tomorrow night at Overton Park shell Uh the Big Country Jamboree. 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.520 It's gonna be one of the biggest ever to come 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.760 to Memphis. And oh, you won't want to miss seeing 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.760 and hearing in person. Web Bears and all the wondering Boys, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.640 Reds of Iron, Elvis Presley will be there. Jim Wilson 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.480 and his little four year old daughter, the boy that's 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.160 got such a big hit record on Daddy you know what. 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:19.680 And Sunny James will be there too, Bud Deckleman, Johnny Cash, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.719 Wonda Jackson, the little Gal from Oklahoma, and of course 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.280 yours True, and just many many others. Don't you miss 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.679 it now tomorrow night at eight o'clock, one show only. 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:35.000 Isn't that wonderful reference to you get to mention that 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.400 place where they did the show. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.039 The Everton Park shell is a bit like the Hollywood Ball, 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.960 you know, of those big shells that everybody's on stage in. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.480 And they wanted to pull it down and build apartments, 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.080 and the Hall of Memphis were up in arms. They said, 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.120 this is where Elvis Presley did his first paid job 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.240 in this show. Yeah, I'm pulling it down. So they won, 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.440 and they stuck it on them and it's still there. 0:04:57.680 --> 0:04:57.920 Yeah. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:04:59.360 Good, that's through for good on them. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:00.920 Yeah that's good all right. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.720 Quick quiz time, Kevin, Yeah, quick quiz time. Boys, the 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.600 time to push sharpen your pencils and doss. You've got 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.359 to take part in this quiz, So pay close attention. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.159 Just listen to this, doss. You'll hear this Which of 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:16.120 the following films won Best Picture at the nineteen fifty 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:21.120 five Academy Awards. Was it A The Country Girl, B 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:27.279 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, c On the Waterfront or 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:33.000 d The Cane Mutiny won the Academy Award for Best 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.480 Picture Country Girl, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers on the Waterfront, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.960 or The Cane Mutiny on the Waterfront? 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.279 Is the Marlon Brando movie, isn't it? He was really 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.760 hot at that time, the Wild One. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:45.040 And all that. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.800 I'm going to I'm going to go for the for 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.680 the Branda movie on the Waterfront. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:57.080 Okay, on the Waterfront second, Doss' second, all right, just 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.039 for a point of difference. 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:00.760 I was. I was also meaning in that direction. 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.840 But I'm going to go Cane Mutiny, which I think 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.320 might have been a dark horse in that race. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:13.040 Very good selection, Simon. It wasn't The Country Girl? Which 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.080 was that even a movie? Been Christmian Grace County. Oh. Yes, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.839 they won the Academy Awards for that rubbish for acting, 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:25.039 I mean, not for the picture. Rubbish rubbish. Okay, Seven 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.560 Brides for Seven Brothers was the MGM musical. No, they 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:28.120 didn't win. 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:33.400 Now music will still never win quest sometimes, don't they're 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.520 not off a little. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.000 Off quite right there, quite right there, quite right there. 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:39.240 I think they should. 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:41.280 And Simon, I'm sorry to say it's not the Cane 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.200 mutiny with Humphrey Bogart with the marbles. 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:45.920 Yes it was. 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.400 It was on the waterfront. Andrew and Doss have both 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.720 got it. Congratulations guys. Yes, there are no prize that 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:53.440 by the way. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:56.400 For this, just the sense of a good glory. 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:00.880 It's the glory and the second helping of June Mornee. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.200 Those who missed the first half hour of this program. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.640 There was a Tuna More Day bakeoff. 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.840 Yes, Simon, Well, we don't need to dwell on who 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.520 won and who didn't. I think we both prepared lovely meals. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.720 And I appreciate your efforts. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:20.480 How very magnanimous of you, very gracious in victory you are. Yes, 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.400 it's not I'm impressed. Well, it's I just always knew. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.280 Yes, I might include that in the quick quiz next week. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.880 Who won the twenty twenty five bakeoff? 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.000 Yes, that's the quick quiz next Hey, we've got to 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.360 move on because we've got a whole lot of things here. Yes, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.320 we've got some films happening in fifty. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:43.440 Five marvelous films. Oklahoma. I remember seeing Oklahoma on the 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.720 big screen at the Regions and I couldn't get over 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:50.000 that Toddeo process. That was absolutely fantastic. And guys and 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.960 dolls came out, the Cane Mutiny, as we mentioned, Brigadooon, 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.880 the tender Trap, the Blackboard Jungle and Fast Parker me 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.000 o mate Fess who has been gone for fifteen years now. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.119 He died fifteen years ago. He was a terrific bloke 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:10.120 and he played Davy Crockett in the TV show Disneyland 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:14.840 for Walt Disney. Because when it came out we didn't 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.600 have television in Australia. It was nineteen fifty five, no TV. 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.040 So they chopped it together with the pair of scissors 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.560 and they made a film out of the episodes that 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:23.800 were actually on Disneyland. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:25.360 So we go and see it at the So we 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:25.720 go to the. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:30.280 Esquire in Burke Street to see Fess Parker. I didn't 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.880 fancy the old coonskin cap to be quite nice. That 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.040 smelly old thing on your head didn't appeal to me. 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.880 What about you, Andrew? Do you have one? 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.000 But I said I was way too young. 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.400 But it was interesting to watch you old guys wandering 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.880 around with them on the street. But I tell you 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:49.480 what they did with them with the episodes of TV series. 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.720 That wasn't the only thing the only time they did 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:53.600 it with Davy Crockett, because they did it with the 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:54.559 Man from Uncle. 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.000 I went on to see The Man from Uncle the movie. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:00.000 I thought, oh, this is great. 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.640 It was two episodes of the TV series that I 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.360 had already seen linted together. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.040 Oh, I'd be good money to sit up there in 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:08.640 the Belcone. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:09.439 Oh. 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:10.360 I was outraged. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:14.520 Yeah, I would have demanded your buddy back, stomped out 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:16.120 of the box office, but they'd closed up. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:16.400 For the night. 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.760 Yeah. But anyhow, Davy Crockett was the song that accompanied this, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.360 and it was sung by Fess Parker, So I spoke 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:25.120 to him about this. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.760 Raised in the woods, sows in you every tree killed 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:35.560 him the bar when he was only three, Davy day 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:37.839 King of the Wild Front Tier. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.360 And the song itself, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, became 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.280 a big hit. I don't know if people realized, but 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.280 right at the beginning there we did play you singing 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.600 the song, which is actually a version you did. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.480 Well I have to tell you something, Kevin. I was 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.600 the first person to record it. I was signed in 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.240 August of nineteen thirty four, and I had sign a 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:00.640 little song that I'd written for Walker Disney with my 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.600 little guitar. I wasn't much of a singer, but I 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.719 convinced him that I could sing well enough, and they 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.400 two weeks later they called me in and I recorded 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.800 The Battle of Davy Crockett. Up for thirty years, Walt 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.000 Disney and his brother Roy had resisted having a record 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.200 company or having anything to do with the record royalties, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.280 but with the ballot of Davy Crockett that changed, and 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:28.000 so he kept my first recording, and the Cadence Records 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:33.319 were able to bring out Bill Hayes first, while Walt 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.520 organized his record company. I finally got out and I 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.040 did very well. But there were sixteen major artists in 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.560 America in about six weeks that recorded that song. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.120 Oh wanted to get into the act that tennesse Andy 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:48.360 Ford was one of them too, and. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:49.080 Oh he was. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.600 Yes, indeed, that's who I was thinking of. Tennessee. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.040 Onnie Ford did a version two didn't he did, and 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.280 he had the beautiful, deep rounded voice. 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:01.280 To me, yep, yep singing it. You couldn't It was 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:01.920 very catchy. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:03.840 Yeah, it's a good song. It was a good of 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:05.880 the spoof version of the Joki version. 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.920 I was going to mention it, but if you want 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:08.640 to mention it, that's. 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.960 All on the tabletop of Yeah dirty stump in the USA. 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.480 I hope you wouldn't go that shot his mother when 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.120 he was only three. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.640 Oh yeah, I don't know that one. Oh well it 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.280 was you know, everybody knew. 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.920 It was never released as a record, but everybody knew 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:25.840 those lyrics, Yes, more than. 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.319 More than the real lyrics. 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.439 That was the only version was Yes, very popular, So 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:34.000 I could have sold a million that that's right, all right. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.080 Now, Kevin tell us about Dogface Soldier. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.280 Well, there was a film that came out in CinemaScope 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.240 in nineteen fifty five called to Hallenbach, which was based 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.200 on the biography of Audie Murphy. Because he was one 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.640 of the most decorated servicemen in the Second World War. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:58.000 He was absolutely incredible. He was highly decorated, and he 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.800 also had a film career. He was well, he didn't 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:02.920 set the film untill he came back after the warning, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:07.640 but he mainly specialized in westerns. I loved Audie Murphy. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:08.360 I it was terrific. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.920 I saw all these pictures and I saw this at 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.160 the State Picture Theater which is now the Forum in 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.520 nineteen fifty five, and it was on the big screen 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.760 and they had a great cast of actors, and there 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.920 was this song that still sticks in my mot Andrew 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.480 might have some good lyrics to this, but this is 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.119 talent back the theme song. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:34.840 Like I Am. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:35.560 From the Davies Thunderies. 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:42.080 It said the. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.800 Down over. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:58.520 Dote soldier were the right soldier, and come give me. 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:02.840 Your dog bas soldier by dog. 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:22.880 On all the. 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:27.360 Pols I read, it says the bills I go there 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.080 with me down to build me over again. 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:32.640 I'm just a dog based soldier. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.200 I have a right both on this soldier and I'm 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:41.720 ready for or whatever. I won't take my horn any 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:45.240 take a dot ho. I'm a dog based soldier. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:49.160 What does dog face soldier actually mean? I'm a dog 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.280 face side. 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:51.880 I don't know, but I walked out of that Picture 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:53.880 theater after seeing that film, and I've thought I've found 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.880 my career. I want to be a dog face soldier soldier. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.160 A good day you would to please it's. 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.160 It sounds like it's on mos like a put down. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.800 You're the lowest level of song. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.280 Maybe he'd be an infantry man, wouldn't he. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:12.319 That would be literally Yeah, I'd leave Andrew is the 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.120 word smith. I'd let him pronounce that he's the teacher. Yeah. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.160 Now moving on now, because we must. We got shows 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.280 of nineteen fifty five Kevin. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.640 Well The Bob Hope Show. Bob Hope was brought over 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:27.840 by Lee Gordon, and financially the show was a disaster, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.880 had lost a heap of money, and Bob was aware 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.040 of that, and when he got back to America, he 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.640 sent Lee Gordon some money apparently to get him out 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.320 of the financial difficulty he was in. 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:39.600 That was really nice of him. 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.520 Yeah, I don't know why it didn't work, because Bob 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.720 Hope was a big, big star, wasn't he. 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:45.400 Yeah. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.960 I think Lee Gordon had trouble again with he brought 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:52.400 out Costello too. I don't think that was particularly successful. 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.280 No, I didn't have finished up down at the Palais, 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.720 and no, it wasn't particularly successful. So there are a 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.360 couple of momen but he made a lot of money 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.200 out of Sinatra and people like that. When he did 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.640 concerts and Johnny Ray. He made a lot of money, 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.040 Johnny Ray, the Prince of Wales. He was terrific. I 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:08.800 never know you interviewed him, didn't you. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.200 I did, yes, once upon a time. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.600 And I did happen to see him at the Fellow 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.840 Theater with Mom and Dad many years ago. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:16.040 Did you. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:16.560 Yes? 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.880 Phil was there and Phil records. The sound broke down 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.160 and he wasn't too happy with the sound man. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.160 Must have been a different shows while I saw. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.720 Probably probably that he did a number of shows down there. Anyhow. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.360 Ronnie Rosenberg, my mate was has passed on. But Ronnie 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.120 was a pianist. He was musical director on him Moment's 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.920 Night and we did shows together with Teddy Hamilton. We 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.960 to it all over the place with Ronnie, and Ronnie 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.560 never had any music in front of me. He just 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.480 said at the piano. I didn't think you know every 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.040 song that you could think of. He was fantastic. Anyhow, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:51.760 he did work for Bob Hope. Gee, you must have 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:56.360 met some real big stars in your time. Ronnie Rosenberg, Oh, 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.520 now tell me any stories about Bob Hope. 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:00.640 Look, I didn't get very close. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:01.320 I wanted to. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.000 I want he was on the town all but I 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.680 wanted to because I loved him, you know, yes, I 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:12.200 do remember one night I had to play something for 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.040 him and I had to give him the peggio to 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.160 get in and he said thank you Liberaci, which destroyed 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:19.600 me a bit. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:24.560 Yeah, life goes. 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:27.640 On, Roddie. You are wealthy stories and it's lovely talking 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:27.880 to you. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:29.680 That's a funny story, that's cute. 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.320 Ronnie was fantastic. Have no idea all the fun we 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:34.120 had on those shows. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.960 It was terrific. And Frank Sinatra, Yeah. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.000 Frank Sinatra. Frank Sinatra came in nineteen fifty five with 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.880 his daughter Nancy and it was the first visit to 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.960 Australia for Sinatra and he loved him being here and 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.760 he came back on a number of times and he 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.280 was someone that you know, was what would you call him? 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.520 He was a superstar really in those days. And they 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.360 were doing something like three shows at night at the 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:04.480 West Melbourne Stadium, but unfortunately the West Melbourne Stadium burned down, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.040 so they moved Frank Sinatra. Do you know, I reckon 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.280 I should have a pluk up outside the Melbourne Town 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:14.120 Hall because Sinatra did concerts at the Melbourne Town Hall, 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.879 and I never knew yes, because they had no venue 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.879 and so and Sinatra was quite happy to play a 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.160 town he is, I'll play anywhere. I was singing the streets. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.679 People bought tickets. They want to come and see me. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.440 Let's go wherever you want to go. So they went 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:31.639 to the Melbourne Town Hall and it was. It was 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:32.320 very good of him. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.359 I would have thought he would be very setting his 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.080 ways about both understand. 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.720 We had a pile of ashes out in West Melbourne 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.800 with the place that they're supposed to be in. And 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.280 I remember going pasting the train to school and looking 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.680 down and seeing that all burnt out because it was, Yes, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:55.200 it was, And I saw Sinatra actually before built burnt down. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.800 I must have been very young. All I can remember 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.480 is him singing one from My Baby in One for 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:04.800 the Road in the boxing ring in the middle of 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.639 the West Melbourne stadium where they used to run all 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:07.520 the fights, and is. 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.320 That where they had a sort of an upstairs section 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.280 and that was behind chicken wire. 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.119 It was all that sort of stuff. Yeah, it was 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.320 pretty primitive, wasn't it. 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:14.840 Yeah. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.440 My father used to take me to the boxing and 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.040 we used to hold up the newspapers to keep the 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:19.400 Blood Office from the front fright. 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:24.400 It was terrific. What a life? 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:24.919 Anyhow? 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:25.479 What a life? Say? 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:28.080 Sinatra had a song He's going to sing it now, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.840 Nancy with a laughing Face, which was written by Phil Silvers, 0:18:32.080 --> 0:18:35.200 of all people, and it became a big hit for 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:36.440 Frank Sinadra. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:37.840 Around nineteen forty. 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.840 Ladies and gentlemen, they was a song written about a 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:46.480 little girl who was then two years old, I should 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:47.119 say forty once. 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:48.120 I'm two years old. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:54.560 And she's grown a good deal since then. I'm glad 0:18:54.560 --> 0:19:00.560 of that. And the song was written about because she 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.880 had all of the qualities that the words describing the song, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:06.320 and she still has them. And I'd like to do 0:19:06.359 --> 0:19:09.480 this tune for you now. It's about my oldest daughter. 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.080 It's called Nancy with a laughing Face. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:26.200 If I don't see her each day, I miss her. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.960 Gee, what a thrill each. 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:38.720 Time I kiss her. Believe me, I've got a case 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:49.080 on Nancy with a laughing face. She takes the winter 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:52.240 and she makes it. 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:55.720 Some lovely to hear Sinatra in Melbourne way back when, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:59.840 in the mid nineteen fifty five and Nancy with a 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:01.880 laughing face. We are in the midst of the Time 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.280 Tunnel with Kevin, and we're back with more of nineteen 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:05.639 fifty five right after these. 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.120 It's Mystery Voice time in Trask's Time Tunnel. If you're 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.400 wondering why are we doing trash Time Tunnel in this hour, 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:14.000 it's because we didn't get to start till ten thirty 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.320 this evening, so it's an hour delay for Trask's Time Tunnel. 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:20.439 But here we are and it's Mystery Voice time. He 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.960 wants you to take part by texting us your answer. 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:25.159 Kevin's going to play a mystery voice. We're going to 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.600 try and guess. If you think you know, text your 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:31.200 answer to zero four double seven six nine three six 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:34.840 nine three and will name the first person who correctly 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:38.240 gets the answer right. Kevin, do we have a clue? 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:41.920 Well, I think this is particularly easy, and I think 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.480 I would ask you both to hold back and give 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.600 the listeners a chance to have a little think about 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:49.960 this before you dive in, because I think you will 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:53.200