Speaker 1: And now eighteen eighty six to nineteen thirty six, I
Speaker 1: half century of breathtaking change. I've increased temple, the most
Speaker 1: exciting half century in America's history. Swiftly new phrases bet
Speaker 1: us the rhythm of the passing years. Listen to the
Speaker 1: echo and catch the breathless progress of modern times. Now
Speaker 1: streamlined automobiles, transoceanic aeroplanes, cosmic rays, radio televisions.
Speaker 2: But then it was different.
Speaker 3: Listen to the fat echoles of other days, when cigar
Speaker 3: stole Indians and barber.
Speaker 4: Poles lined the main street.
Speaker 1: When cast iron deer guards the bond of gingerbd gabled houses,
Speaker 1: when all America embrace the fans which, in a sober
Speaker 1: opinion of observers of such things, walk here to.
Speaker 5: Stay as I well hope you'll like it.
Speaker 6: Oh shoe, what a beauty?
Speaker 1: Whiners stand a bicycle on the market. Others, Oh ma,
Speaker 1: jose tandem, Oh it's you.
Speaker 7: She's a Jim's Dandy.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a sterling, you know, the kind built like
Speaker 1: a watch. My old one was a monarch. But what
Speaker 1: a fella gets engaged. He's got to have a bicycle
Speaker 1: built for two, And nothing's too good for my girl, Daisy,
Speaker 1: Daisy gives me your yo.
Speaker 4: Wish my name wasn't Daisy?
Speaker 8: Everybody Josh's knee show a bunch.
Speaker 1: You're getting a patient, Daisy. We've got to get to
Speaker 1: the edge of town in ten minutes. If we want
Speaker 1: to see that entry run starts here.
Speaker 2: Now, off you go, said, he's there, comfortable who.
Speaker 9: He is for the one, Isaac oh masy.
Speaker 6: You make you.
Speaker 4: Are you ready?
Speaker 8: Take it easy?
Speaker 2: Now, I'll do all the work at the start.
Speaker 4: Hang on, We're all. Oh.
Speaker 3: The bicycle craze in America, sometimes as many as a
Speaker 3: thousand riders.
Speaker 2: Would start out from a club or essentially run over.
Speaker 4: Sundays or holidays.
Speaker 1: Some man all the more black tights, the women bloomers.
Speaker 3: Road signs began to appear on the turnpike, and the
Speaker 3: nation faced its first.
Speaker 1: Marking bottoms in all America. Forty years ago. There were
Speaker 1: less than ten miles the concrete roads. But such road
Speaker 1: as the nation has, we're strong.
Speaker 3: With happy cyclists singing as they peddle.
Speaker 1: It is a blistering July day in nineteen five across
Speaker 1: the Parks Mohave Desert toward the sunbake town of Barsta
Speaker 1: California joggles, a hard rock miner a top of plodding
Speaker 1: burrough Unknown excepting to the desert rats of the Mojave,
Speaker 1: this strange figure is destined within the next week to
Speaker 1: become the most talked.
Speaker 2: Of man in America.
Speaker 1: For this is Death Valle Scotti riding to fame on a.
Speaker 3: Mule pers then and now it's pound to present mister Guy.
Speaker 2: Kibby as Death vally Scotti.
Speaker 1: Get along there, la buzz this yere Fuckaroho's gonna cut
Speaker 1: it high, wide and handsome. Yes, Sir Deli World will
Speaker 1: set up and take noice when Death Valle Scotti needs
Speaker 1: with the sumptub whoa get along you s devil pick
Speaker 1: up their fety yorks. The eye boys eyes bug out
Speaker 1: when they see my bank rolls, and won't they all
Speaker 1: want to know where I got it? But only you
Speaker 1: and me knows that, Nelly. Only you and me knows
Speaker 1: where my nine is located down man in the valley,
Speaker 1: Only you and me and the Indians. You can't talk,
Speaker 1: and the Indians won't They better not. You're a grand
Speaker 1: old desert going hack, Nelly. But what I want is feed.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to show the world speed like
Speaker 1: they've never seen before. I'll get along with you, Nellie.
Speaker 1: We gotta be in bars though by sundowns.
Speaker 8: Whoa your blasses?
Speaker 1: Wa holish strangers that time. I'm mule here.
Speaker 2: I got the business with a station agent.
Speaker 1: Well I'm the agent. What's on your mind? I'm a
Speaker 1: right to the point. I want to facial train to
Speaker 1: take me to Chicago.
Speaker 2: Why boy, do you.
Speaker 1: Hear that Scotty wants to hire a special train to
Speaker 1: go in Chicago? Cockys, you're getting there fascinating for that,
Speaker 1: don't you listen to them? Desert rats? Mister, I mean business,
Speaker 1: we'll Did it ever occur to you?
Speaker 9: Its?
Speaker 2: Facial trains costs money, and lots.
Speaker 1: Of money money, I got it to burn. Just look
Speaker 1: at this.
Speaker 4: Want.
Speaker 1: Well that's a lot of money you got there, dord is.
Speaker 1: I've got lots more where it's come from media. How
Speaker 1: did you get that money? Shudder? I got a secret
Speaker 1: mine down in the bottom of Death Valley. Only me
Speaker 1: and my mule don't where it's that, and I ain't
Speaker 1: tell her. You can ask the mule if she'll tell you.
Speaker 6: Here.
Speaker 1: But you don't find thousand dollars pills in no gold mine.
Speaker 2: Where'd you get the cash?
Speaker 1: That's my secret tool. I don't recommend of you, any
Speaker 1: of you trying to find it out the water and
Speaker 1: there marsty wells in the valley.
Speaker 2: It's so healthy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, just how soon do I get my
Speaker 1: special train? No scuty bit I can do. He gets
Speaker 1: your train into Los Angeles. I don't handle those specials
Speaker 1: to Chicago and anyway.
Speaker 2: I never had a requiz quite like.
Speaker 8: This before.
Speaker 1: Gott He got a special train and rode into Los
Speaker 1: Angeles in the cab of the engine, flowing the whistle
Speaker 1: most of the way, grime and dirty. He drove through
Speaker 1: the streets of the city and the buckboard with two
Speaker 1: kegs of coin.
Speaker 6: Here you are bo.
Speaker 1: Sney, the over cartels, fluting.
Speaker 8: Your spine and quiz.
Speaker 6: Wherefore here's another.
Speaker 1: Where, Hey, Bob, where's the office of the railroad company?
Speaker 6: Let's talk the street missters cotton.
Speaker 1: Thanks Bob, here's one hundred dollars for you yesterie folks.
Speaker 1: That's funny in the United States, right out of Scotty's
Speaker 1: Secret five.
Speaker 2: Here you are, friends, waver.
Speaker 1: Oh, here's a railroad company. Hey there, friends, going and
Speaker 1: tell the boss of the railroad company, but death Vallet
Speaker 1: Study is coming in to see him talk. I ain't
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, now hold out your hat. Hey,
Speaker 1: huh there, take that small change home. You're old woman
Speaker 1: and tell her death Vallet Scotti wants her to buy
Speaker 1: a new draft.
Speaker 2: Whoa, that's for super dollars?
Speaker 4: Ain't Scottie?
Speaker 1: I got an umbrella here?
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, you.
Speaker 1: Don't have nothing to get biggish about. Watch more where
Speaker 1: this come from?
Speaker 2: Folks?
Speaker 1: Here's another fifty bucks that ain't seen nothing like this?
Speaker 1: A foreign Los Angeles?
Speaker 9: Huh?
Speaker 1: Where's the boss of this railroad?
Speaker 8: Burn?
Speaker 4: Is this sm passenger traffic managers in charge?
Speaker 1: Did you wish to see him? Is he the boss?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 8: Is this office here?
Speaker 1: Well, in that case, he wants to see me? Who
Speaker 1: shall I say it?
Speaker 5: Calling?
Speaker 1: I'll tell him myself this. Don't troll of yourself. Here's
Speaker 1: ten dollars going by yourself? Something nice, mister Burns.
Speaker 2: Yes, Scott's the name, Waller Scott of Death Valley.
Speaker 1: Yes, reckon, you heard of me? I can't say as
Speaker 1: a hell you ain't well brand me for a maverick?
Speaker 4: What can I do for you?
Speaker 1: I'm going to hurry to get Chicago. I want you
Speaker 1: to put me there in forty six hours? What I
Speaker 1: want to hire a special trade to get me to
Speaker 1: Chicago in forty six hours? Can you do it? Worry
Speaker 1: mister Scott. That's nearly twelve hours past ter than we've
Speaker 1: ever made that run. Can you do it?
Speaker 2: Well? That kind of speed costs money, mister Scott.
Speaker 1: Here there's partner. This here, old's got nothing in it
Speaker 1: but thousand dollar bills. And I'm willing to pay any
Speaker 1: figure you at four thousand, five thousand, six thousands your name,
Speaker 1: and I'll pay it.
Speaker 2: Well, might be arranged, but it would take a couple
Speaker 2: of days.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm in a powerful hurry. But if you'll arranged
Speaker 1: to break the record for me, I can arrange the
Speaker 1: wait a couple of days. The deal is made for
Speaker 1: five five hundred dollars. The railroad guarantees to hurld that's
Speaker 1: Pally Scotty from the Pacific to the Great Lakes in
Speaker 1: forty six hours. On July ninth, nineteen five. Scotty makes
Speaker 1: this very well speech to an adulating prout from the
Speaker 1: rear platform of the special train. Friends and ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Just watch your up.
Speaker 1: We're going fast.
Speaker 2: It all get out one mother to one Scott.
Speaker 1: We're going to Scott across the country like a care
Speaker 1: jack rabbit. Less forty six hours, we'll be in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Go off press within fifteen seconds that that family special
Speaker 1: with out of side of the churning crowd. An hour
Speaker 1: and five minutes later, it's pulling out of ten Nino
Speaker 1: sixty five miles away. I'll put your engine pust left
Speaker 1: the steep straight. It'scot holme pash. Once over the high
Speaker 1: flattel of the Mohave, the race begins downhill two hundred
Speaker 1: miles to the Colorado River in kinds of special with
Speaker 1: wildcatshop watch the matter, conductor, what the watch my wile
Speaker 1: pool shoteys or whippo press like a wine tool cone
Speaker 1: fleet like them for.
Speaker 2: That last mile.
Speaker 1: Time didn't the conductive happy miles alone.
Speaker 6: I'm a shock corner. Don't you think of it?
Speaker 1: Sometown said, Hold down, honey, we ain't goodness travel, Yes.
Speaker 8: Time to pay it ain't boll there, listen, don and.
Speaker 2: I'm buying speed.
Speaker 1: I'm paying for speed, but I ain't.
Speaker 4: Getting near enough of it yet. Don't go not why.
Speaker 6: Conductor, oh, why don't you just sit down and.
Speaker 8: Read a book.
Speaker 1: You just forget about how fast we're going.
Speaker 5: Oh, you can't even keep the space away, this plane
Speaker 5: jumping all over the desert.
Speaker 1: Why don you're the luckiest woman alive. You were worrying
Speaker 1: about how this face jumping over the desert while the
Speaker 1: eyes of the whole world on you today.
Speaker 8: I potick.
Speaker 5: I don't know why I ever came on this lock.
Speaker 1: Of chick, because you're married to the highest step great issue.
Speaker 1: Bilty is rich? Is that Ratnam a hobby?
Speaker 2: That's why?
Speaker 1: And what's more, you're proud of him and you love him.
Speaker 1: Open up that product. Conductor oprop Wide who Woo three
Speaker 1: hundred and said he had tons of equipment curl against
Speaker 1: the outer rail of shop curve. That's seventy five miles
Speaker 1: an hour. Men in steel, baffling against time, incredible speed
Speaker 1: over four mountain ranges. Winds blow eighty nine miles per hour,
Speaker 1: Albuquerque seventy one miles an hour. That's Veaga, seventy two,
Speaker 1: Trinida and eighty was only a matter of a few
Speaker 1: hours and the death Malley Special had bolted the Rockies
Speaker 1: and was bringing up the Kansas planes that Dodd said
Speaker 1: he while engines were being changed in record time of
Speaker 1: two minutes. Hey, conductor or something, Uncle Scott, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: got a telegram for the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: All right, don't send it for you, sir. This is
Speaker 1: what I want to say. The telegram goes to President
Speaker 1: Theodore Roosevelt. The white owl. Why in the DC USA?
Speaker 1: An American cowboy coming east of spacial trade fast? The
Speaker 1: ready cow puncher ever rode a boar? How much shall
Speaker 1: I break? Fast? Cut a little record?
Speaker 6: Whoa miles?
Speaker 1: Menaced magically on the straight level stretches at times one
Speaker 1: n fifty seconds. At the Illinois line, the coyote cut
Speaker 1: loose a home run across the state was a triumphant finish,
Speaker 1: faster and faster each minute, achieving a new world record
Speaker 1: one hundred, one hundred and one until between the tiny
Speaker 1: towns of Cameron and Surrey, the indomitable engineer made one
Speaker 1: hundred and six miles an hours, forty four hours and
Speaker 1: fifty four minutes. Out of Los Angeles. That Death Valley
Speaker 1: Special came to an exhausted stop in the Darby Street
Speaker 1: station in Chicago. Houty four party.
Speaker 6: Yes, we made it like we said we won.
Speaker 1: I'm a scut may I present his honor, the Mayor
Speaker 1: of Chicago.
Speaker 8: Woll Well, it's the Mayor.
Speaker 1: I'm right glad to make York waits. This is timeime
Speaker 1: honor to Coogo Hunter, You're made history.
Speaker 8: To Dame of the Cut and the half of I
Speaker 8: want to present.
Speaker 4: You hoige the city.
Speaker 1: Well thanks, thanks your honor God, I'll be horn swaddle.
Speaker 1: The key is Chicago.
Speaker 9: WHOA.
Speaker 1: Thus, then, in nineteen five did death Vali Scotty travel
Speaker 1: faster than any man had ever traveled before, and American
Speaker 1: railroading chalked up a record which was to stand for
Speaker 1: thirty years until the present era of diesel power streamline trains,
Speaker 1: and still today, death Vally Scotty remains an enigma, still
Speaker 1: a legend of the desert, where he rains in baronial
Speaker 1: splendor in a tremendous castle built from the proceeds of
Speaker 1: his hidden mind.
Speaker 2: Desert rats say they.
Speaker 1: Never saw much gold dust in Scotty's folk, yet in
Speaker 1: twenty years he has spent three million dollars. The secret
Speaker 1: remains locked in Scotty's heart. For two generations of prospectors
Speaker 1: have failed to find Scotty's mind, a mind so well
Speaker 1: hidden that Scotty has never even filed the claim on it.
Speaker 1: Scotty still makes headlines whenever he emerges from the silence
Speaker 1: of Death Valley, the chamber of a romantic quest. The
Speaker 1: world still act What will death Valiscatti?
Speaker 4: You neck?
Speaker 3: While an expanding America, breathing the vital air of the
Speaker 3: twentieth century, was taking its place in the modern world
Speaker 3: from the depths of its soul beat, an old rhythm,
Speaker 3: the rhythm of the jungle drums, the wail.
Speaker 2: Of the slave ship, the nostalgic song.
Speaker 3: Of the bundsman, the thin patter of evanjol played before
Speaker 3: a neatros cabin under a southern moon. They played it
Speaker 3: in New Orleans, they played it in Memphis. They played
Speaker 3: it in river bottomtowns along the Mississippi for a decade
Speaker 3: while the rest of the world jiggled two rag time.
Speaker 3: They coined a name for it, and they gave America
Speaker 3: it's only distinct contribution to music.
Speaker 4: Yes, while the air of the ward jaded.
Speaker 3: Nation was caught curiously toward the sick plus a rhythm,
Speaker 3: a young student at the University of Indiana was sitting
Speaker 3: spellbound at the feat of masters other than college professors,
Speaker 3: masters of the four bar break thereafterbeat than the hot Link.
Speaker 3: His name was Hogey Carmichael, and he was still an
Speaker 3: undergraduates when he wrote.
Speaker 2: Liver Boat Shuffle. There's Then and Now.
Speaker 3: Is honored to present a composer who, in the opinion
Speaker 3: of many musical critics, has written the most thoroughly American
Speaker 3: music sent Stephen Fuster. He is Hogey Carmichael, composer of Washboard,
Speaker 3: Blues Rock and Chair lesy Bone and.
Speaker 4: The Immortal Stardo.
Speaker 3: It was on a player piano he rebuilt himself in
Speaker 3: the book notes on the campus of the University of Indiana,
Speaker 3: that Hogey Carmichael wrote most of the numbers that made
Speaker 3: him famous. It was on that same piano in nineteen
Speaker 3: eighteen that he was playing.
Speaker 2: Hot one stepsoo.
Speaker 1: By nineteen twenty hog Karmiaelheady buys a new technique. He
Speaker 1: was sucking on the beat. Nineteen twenty two the year
Speaker 1: of the upbeat, a.
Speaker 8: Year of doodling Z doty dodd.
Speaker 5: D d and.
Speaker 9: Lead.
Speaker 1: The happy musicians in those days were worshiping a trumpet.
Speaker 8: Player by the name of Thick Spider Macks.
Speaker 1: And by nineteen twenty four og Kramichael adapted his technique
Speaker 1: to the piano. Okay called it one finger jazz. That's
Speaker 1: the development of what we know now as swings. How
Speaker 1: much of it came from Hoge Carmichael and that mattered
Speaker 1: old piano at Indiana's booknot remains for future historians to decide.
Speaker 8: But we do know for certain that on that piano, HOGEI.
Speaker 1: Carmichael wrote Rocking Chair, Sirs, then and now raise that
Speaker 1: Hoge Carmichael and the Dorian Sisters, three little girls of
Speaker 1: deep as blue in rocking chair.
Speaker 7: Oh racking game by my side?
Speaker 9: That me and Jesus, what genuine m I change it
Speaker 9: from the scabin, my going nowhere.
Speaker 11: Seppy here, grand news at the flies bun, the drug teacher.
Speaker 9: Monkey when when how long in heaven you've been?
Speaker 6: Say sweet Shelly, other trouble see chine day.
Speaker 9: My kin shack.
Speaker 6: Judgment day change Mr rub.
Speaker 2: Cheeze she.
Speaker 9: Thank you girls. That was great.
Speaker 11: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 10: This is Hogy Carmichael speaking just before going to Hollywood
Speaker 10: and do a picture. My collaborator Stanley Adams and I
Speaker 10: wrote a song called Little Old Lady.
Speaker 8: We wrote this for a show called The Show.
Speaker 10: Is On, which will soon open in New York, and
Speaker 10: I would like to take this opportunity to dedicate it
Speaker 10: to my two grandmothers, Missus Taylor Carmichael of Indianapolis a jd.
Speaker 10: Five and Missus Elick Robertson a eighty eight, who is
Speaker 10: living down there in Bloomington, Indiana.
Speaker 1: They were the.
Speaker 9: Inspiration for this song Little Old Ladies.
Speaker 11: Back in eighteen eighty six, when President Cleveland kissed you
Speaker 11: that you were the favorite debut. To goodness, how the
Speaker 11: title six because no.
Speaker 9: One can resist you.
Speaker 7: You are still so gaily on chill.
Speaker 9: And as for all our modern things, there are planes
Speaker 9: that don't have wings.
Speaker 8: I bet that you did pretty.
Speaker 11: Well without them, didn't you? A low lady passing by,
Speaker 11: catching everyone's eyes.
Speaker 9: You have such a charming manner, sweet and shot, a
Speaker 9: little low bonnet at in place, and a smile on
Speaker 9: your face. You're a perpet picture in your lavender and
Speaker 9: l A little bit.
Speaker 6: Of business, A little bit of business there.
Speaker 9: I bet you were a big girl.
Speaker 8: Have a little old lady time forty, here's a.
Speaker 6: Kiss, two or three.
Speaker 8: You were just like that little old lady, I hope,
Speaker 8: dear little old lady, so pretty as the cop on
Speaker 8: the beach. You'd be glad to help you.
Speaker 9: When you cross the street, Little old lady, you wear
Speaker 9: your shawl.
Speaker 7: It's so lady.
Speaker 9: In a fall you might start to.
Speaker 8: Sneeze in my That wouldn't be a little A little
Speaker 8: lott of air and jack, a little thing you can't forget.
Speaker 8: I bet you were the favorite bell at every minue.
Speaker 8: Had little old lady so fully close your eyes.
Speaker 7: That's all right.
Speaker 9: You deserve a sweet balcase, a pleasant dreaming.
Speaker 6: Mh no, the.
Speaker 3: Doorings, the turs chorus and the twos orchestra with hogy
Speaker 3: clmaca letters alo piano bring you startus.
Speaker 6: Why be read? And I am once again with you.
Speaker 6: When my loss the lady, and now my complain is me, we.
Speaker 4: Must no dream.
Speaker 6: All w.
Speaker 5: It will be.
Speaker 1: Hell. Friends, this is the old guy.
Speaker 8: Kive you back again.
Speaker 1: A little while ago, I was trying to portray how
Speaker 1: my longtime friend death Valley Scott. He discovered a hidden
Speaker 1: mine out in the Mobby desert. I had a little
Speaker 1: goal of mine alone out in the Southwestern country years ago,
Speaker 1: when I was just a kid. Only mine wasn't a
Speaker 1: hole in the ground. It was a book. A Here's
Speaker 1: Roebuck catalog Psycha, there's Roebucking Company.
Speaker 2: Invite you to listen again next Thursday evening at this time.
Speaker 3: Whence there's no what brings you Another review of America's past.
Speaker 1: Half century with their guest stars Mischa Elman.
Speaker 4: And Miss Cobley
Speaker 2: Sears Then and Now, Part ten,