Speaker 1: Man, you know what that music says?
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Amos Sandy, how do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, This
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Tonight is quite a amorable evening in the history of
Amos and Andy, the ten thousandth time they have come
before the microphone. And to take you back in spirit
to those early days. Here is the voice that was
so long associated with Amos and Andy, Bill Hay.
Speaker 4: Yes, And it seems to me like it was only yesterday.
I was introducing amoson Andy. Only yesterday. When the boys
first came to New York from the South. I remember
they took a furnished room up on one hundred and
thirty fourth Street, And the first day Amos came home,
he found Andy doing.
Speaker 2: A little figuring seven million, eight million, ten million?
Speaker 1: Is my blue tail?
Speaker 3: Evin?
Speaker 5: What is you figuring over the.
Speaker 2: Hun Well, as in New York, I'm going in the
broker business. I'm figuring on the money I gonna make here.
I'm counting on being another j Ping Pong Morgan.
Speaker 5: Well, I think Wall.
Speaker 3: Street and is a little too high for us, son,
But I tell you what, we ordered to get some
kind of job.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. We don't want to keep on nibbling
on our savings.
Speaker 3: There. You know, I got the eating in paper here.
I think we could look into help on of the
ads and and see what they got in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, give me that thing. Let me see here. Look
at this news item here, it's saying we are exporting
cheese to France and all the Frenchman's as happy about it.
Speaker 5: H Where do we see that?
Speaker 2: A right here in this headline? Look of their thousands
chair as Limburger arrives in Paris.
Speaker 3: No, any that's g Linburgh. Oh oh the one as
is inside the people and toward the back there.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, there is here is Yes.
Speaker 3: They look at that and there sure is a lot
of ads for taxicab drivers.
Speaker 2: You think we could get a job driving a cab?
Speaker 3: No, we got four hundred dollars thieved, and I was
just thinking, you know, maybe me and you could get
a cab of our own.
Speaker 2: Buy a cab emers check and double check.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: It was soon after this that Dams and Andy met
one of their fabulous friends. It was Andy who met
him first. One afternoon, Andy joined the crowd on the
sidewalk watching a new skyscraper going up in downtown New
York or the.
Speaker 2: Show puts these bills up high? Yes, sir, they're really
a hey, excuse me for protruding, mister, But.
Speaker 5: Andrew got a hold of my watch.
Speaker 2: Jane question, Uh.
Speaker 3: Well, well so what does Yeah? Well, how you like that? Yeah?
These solid gold couplings of mine must have hooked on
your watch, chander, because the lucky.
Speaker 2: I don't remembered what my grandmother told me before I
left home. I got my watch chain patched them underwear.
As soon as I felt my bvd's creeping up on me.
Speaker 5: I know it's.
Speaker 3: Well. Allow me to introduce myself Danger. The name is
Stephens George Kingfish, Stephens Kingfish. Uh. Yeah, they called me
that because I was the head of that bread fraternity,
the Mystic Knights of the Sea.
Speaker 2: How do you do? I is Andrew Hogg Brown from Marietta, Georgia.
You see, me and my friend named Jones just got
to New York and we thinking about buying a taxi.
I got three hundred and forty bucks right here in
my wallet.
Speaker 1: Got three hundred and forty bucks.
Speaker 3: Huh, I got about buying a taxi here he Now,
lucky you run into me, son. It's just what happened
that I got just the right call for you. No, I.
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, amos. There she is parked at the curb,
our new taxicab.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, I know this fella you called the Kingfish
that you met. Give you a bargain handy. But the
top of the thing is all shear right off, look
at that while you drive in the breeze is gonna
come right in there and hit the passengers right in
the face.
Speaker 2: Well now that's all right, amos. And you know what
we can call it the Fresh Air Taxicab Company of
America Incorporated. Well that's good, and uh, let's start up
the thing here and take a little ride.
Speaker 3: I won't hear that SUTs back heat engine? Boy?
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me open the door.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go ahead, they pick up the door then there, throw.
Speaker 2: It in the back seat. Let me get the things started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, start up.
Speaker 2: And listening to that bear cat moder Yes, sound like
the bears chasing.
Speaker 3: That cat all round.
Speaker 2: And if she's barling over, Oh, they're going to Radiator cab.
Speaker 3: That was the radiator to hat.
Speaker 5: And of the fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: Despite the defression, the boys didn't do too bad with
their fresh air taxi cab. Then one Sunday, after church services,
love came to Amos Jones. The ministry is standing at
the front door of the church talking to a young
girl as Amos approaches.
Speaker 3: Uh me, sir, I just want to tell you how
much I enjoyed the services today. They sort of hit
home with Lee, especially that party about the Golden Rule.
Thank you, Amos.
Speaker 5: Do you two know each other?
Speaker 3: Amos Jones? This is miss Taylor, Miss Taylor, Yes, Ruby Taylor. Yeah,
hey you do. I'm glad to know you. Thank you
same to you. Well. I hope you'll be here next Sunday, Yes,
I'll be thank you something goodbye, goodbye. Is you going
down this week? Yes? Mind if I walk with you,
Miss Taylor?
Speaker 6: Uh Ruby, not at.
Speaker 7: All, mister Jones, h Amos.
Speaker 4: And it was just about that time that love came
to Andy Brown, but in somewhat different surrounding. You know something,
you is about the sweetest, prettiest, gentlest flower that I
have ever had the press of. Honeyman, No, big boy,
would you mind still?
Speaker 1: Why didn't you just manicure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know something, you is the cutest hunk
of female gender done. I bawled in a long time.
Speaker 1: You're just wasting your time.
Speaker 3: I'm the winner and knows all about men.
Speaker 8: When it comes to the Lord, It's gonna take a
real man to kidle the flame.
Speaker 2: Kindle the flame, shake hands with old lamplighter.
Speaker 3: You is kind of cute as that I see you,
isn't sure good?
Speaker 8: That's my one big requirement.
Speaker 2: I can see you as a woman. That is my
one big vert all rather, you know, my nighme is
Andrew H. Brown. What's yours money?
Speaker 3: You can just call me Madam Queen.
Speaker 4: Probably nothing caused as much comment in those days as
Andy's romanced with the fascinating widow Madam Queen. One month,
the wedding was on, the next month it was off.
But finally, back around nineteen thirty two, something happened that
led up to the most exciting event in the lives
of Amos and Andy. Andy and Madam Queen signed a
marriage agreement in the presence of her attorney.
Speaker 2: Sit down here at the desk with me, Amos.
Speaker 3: Yeah tell me this then, Yeah, howrd the wedding coming along?
Old boy.
Speaker 2: Oh, the wedding is a week from today. I'm finally
gonna ask fixate myself with the orange blossom.
Speaker 9: Well this is.
Speaker 3: Something, man, say. I know Madam Queen is a winner,
but whatever happened to her first husband.
Speaker 2: And he was lost at sea or something. I think
he tried to spare a whale and fell off the
poop deck.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, just marriage and Madam Queen may be
all right, but I think I know somebody who's gonna
take it a little hard. And and that's your secretary. Hey,
you've been stringing her along for the past few months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. I better get her in from the
back office and tell her the bad news. Wait a minute,
your call her on my winner commune system and minute.
Speaker 3: So any you can't signal for her when you put
that buzzer system in You done got it in backwards.
You put the footing in her office and the buzzer
in here in yours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I got it all worked out. Now watch
this bust me, miss Blue, Miss Brown, hour you'll come
in here. I hope you don't take this too hard. Yes,
mister Brown, say, miss Blue, there's something I want to
tell you.
Speaker 9: I think I know what it is, mister Brown. I
read in the paper about your coming marriage to Madam Queen.
Speaker 2: Well, I miss blued. The ain't no sense getting sore
about it. I don't sign the barriers agreement in front
of the lawyer.
Speaker 9: Oh, Andy, I'm not angry. I think you're the one
of the finest men I ever missed. He doesn't so, Andy,
all my life, I'll cherish the memory of the time
we spent together, these hours in the office, and the
way you used to hold my hands, and the way
we lingered in the hall over those long good nights.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, I uh uh, Amos, I wonder how finding that
agreement is. Amos, Let me down, call up the newspapers
and tell him. I don't give Madam Queen the gate.
The Nuphiles has just been nipped.
Speaker 4: Well, if you remember, Madam Queen didn't take the news
sitting down the next handing you she had started legal.
Speaker 3: Action you me, and Madam Queen is going to you
for breach of promise.
Speaker 2: Andy, Yeah, and Amos, I are scared she has done
engaged the law from a steel stone, hard rock and flint. Oh,
I want to tell you something that is the roughest combination.
Since snowed Dame like the four horse Woods, is the
after ending after me, I'll say it is. I has
been hiding for ten days. They're trying to serve me
with a summons. I was scared to go home, and
I jump in the closet every time I see a stranger.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well see wait a minute. And then here comes
somebody across the street that might help you know it?
Speaker 2: Oh boy, I need help. Who is it?
Speaker 3: It's your old friend, Fred Gwyndell, the newspaper man.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, good old Fred.
Speaker 2: Let me let him in here. I'm all in Fred,
old boy, there boy, greeting and fallmutations.
Speaker 1: Fair to see you.
Speaker 3: I suppose you.
Speaker 2: Come over here to get the newspaper story about me
busting up with Madam Queen.
Speaker 3: No, no, boy, no no, I threw in the newspaper.
Bundess through with the newspaper. Yeah, all right, done, give
it up, Fred?
Speaker 1: What happened?
Speaker 5: Red?
Speaker 1: The editor want me to write a.
Speaker 3: Gossip column, tell him scandal about my friend in town.
But I wouldn't do a dirty trick. Fack, that's my friend.
So why then quit that job? Don't quit the drive?
Speaker 2: Well, now that's what I call a gentleman and a
true friend. What kind of job you got now, Gwndell,
I as.
Speaker 3: A process survey.
Speaker 1: Here's you Someone's Annessy and courtpor.
Speaker 2: Right now.
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Speaker 4: I don't believe anything in the history of Amos and
Andy ever got a more exciting grip on the people
of America. From the trial of Madame Queen versus Andy Brown,
it was the Kingfish who got Andy the lawyer. Yes,
I remember the day that Andy and the Kingfish walked
into the office of the one and only Algonkin J.
Speaker 3: Calhoun.
Speaker 1: Oh well Calhoun, excuse me, I didn't know you.
Speaker 5: Was bewitching a minute. Boys, I own a phone. You're
talking to a plant. Tom mount up and sing sing hello.
Speaker 1: You say it does see to his.
Speaker 8: And you said it in Switchel Charles A lay. You
can have anything you want for zever whoa and you
want my advice?
Speaker 3: Well, whatever you do, don't shut.
Speaker 1: Down, go wrong, and I do mean goodbye.
Speaker 2: Awm me And this is my lawyer, King Fish, I
have regusted.
Speaker 4: And then at last the fatal day arrived. The courtroom
was packed with pressed and spectators, and the whole country
awaited the fate of Andrew H.
Speaker 3: Brown.
Speaker 4: As the trial got under way.
Speaker 5: The court will now come to order.
Speaker 3: I'd like to warn the spectators that although this is
a highly controversial case, the court will tolerate no emotional
outbursts from anyone in this courtroom. Is the council for
the plaintive, ready, we are ready, you're on It is
the council for the defendant.
Speaker 5: Ready we will we all don't be come for the
painter present his case.
Speaker 2: Oh I are scared, amos. They got all woman jury.
Look at him sitting there in that box and it's
their duty though to be fair, fair, They're sitting up
there like twelve cats in front of a rat hole.
She believe me, amos, I as the rat there waiting
to pounce on.
Speaker 3: Unless the hard.
Speaker 5: Rock is going to speak.
Speaker 3: Now, your honor, ladies of the jury, we intend to
prove that my client, Madam Queen, has suffered the mortification
of a woman's scorn, the bitter heartache of chilted womanhood,
the financial loss of an unsuspecting widow who put her trust.
Speaker 5: In a scoundrel Andrew H.
Speaker 3: Brown. I intend to prove to this court and jury
the this vicious, reptile line. Yes.
Speaker 4: In the next two days there was a long parade
of witnesses for the plaintiff. In the heat of the trial,
even some of Andy's old friends testified against him, including,
of all people, he's old buddy, brother Crawford.
Speaker 3: Now, Brother Crawford, would you please tell the court just
what happened when you introduced the defendant, Andrew H. Brown,
for the first time to your twenty one year old niece. Well,
he came to call one evening. I introduced him to
my niece. My wife and I went into the kitchen
to get some coffee for them, and when I returned
three minutes later, I found him with his arms around her,
hugging her.
Speaker 5: Did he offer any explanation for his conduct?
Speaker 8: Yes, he said he was teaching her that ju jitsu.
Speaker 3: I see, what did you accept that explanation? Well, all
I know is if that was the jiu jitsu, the
Japanese certainly have a wonderful time. Thank you, Brother Crawford.
Speaker 1: You're witness counselor, and you think all the cross examine.
Speaker 2: Him better not calon he might tell what happened with
the other niece.
Speaker 1: How Joanna.
Speaker 4: Yes, Madam Queen's attorney left no stone unturned to prove
his case. But Andrew H. Brown was a philanderer. Even
poor Lightning had to take the stamp.
Speaker 3: Now, Lightning, you're employed as janitor for the Fresh Air
taxi cab company at the time a certain Miss Blue
was employed as secretary by Andrew H. Brown. Yes, that's
what I was during during the time of Miss Blue's employment.
Would you say that mister Brown spent more of his
time dictating to her or making advances?
Speaker 1: Well, all I.
Speaker 3: Know is that in the two years she was there,
she has me to shop on a pencil only once.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 3: You may step down like, yeah, now where or have
y'all how to my next witness I would like to call.
Speaker 4: The Then came the long awaited bombshell on the third
day Madame Queen took the stamp.
Speaker 3: Here there's another disturbance for Madam Queen is testifying. I
shall order the courtroom clearers proceed. Counselor, Madam Queen, this
document marked Exhibit A is the marriage agreement that mister
Brown signed in my presence? Is it not? Yes? Thank you,
Madam Queen, your witness, counselor.
Speaker 8: And was me regis on girl around my fingers Now,
Madam Queen, I'd like to ask you a few questions.
Speaker 7: Where say that you think you are shaking your finger
against will the matter with you?
Speaker 3: Ain't you learn no matis of.
Speaker 1: T y ram is whodrum up in a rebound to
no man like this?
Speaker 9: You think in my face?
Speaker 3: Ain't you look at my trouble?
Speaker 5: Johnah, Yes, counselor.
Speaker 8: If the wides is due with me, she can get
out off the stead.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: The next day, Madame Queen's attorney arrested his case and
Algonquin J. Calhoun took over for the defense. Amos took
the stand and did the best he could, and then
came the.
Speaker 8: Thank you mister Kingfish Stephens. I think you has given
a glow on account of Poul mitter Brown's sterling reputation
as far as women's just concerned, never be.
Speaker 3: All well, Let me, get out from here, sit where
you are?
Speaker 1: Oh me, I was afraid.
Speaker 3: Stephens, do you know the meaning of the word perjury?
Do you know you can go with the penitentiary for
deliberately lying to protect your friend? Do you realize that
giving false testimony is a criminal offense? Do you realize
that everything you've said here can be used against you? Now?
What do you have to say about that? R?
Speaker 5: Yes, mister Stephens?
Speaker 3: How does I go about turning state's evidence?
Speaker 4: And on the last day of the trial, the defendant,
Andrew H. Brown, took the stands and he had a
pretty rough time of it, especially in the cross examination
when Madame Queen's attorney read and the love letters.
Speaker 1: I just listen to this next one.
Speaker 3: Honey, baby, sweetheart, darling, you you is everything in the
world to me, my precious one. When I looks at you,
my poor heart melts like hog fat on a hot griddle.
I cannot wait until the day I makes you my
child bride A sweet baby doll, signed Poopsie, mister Brown,
did you write this letter? Well?
Speaker 2: Seems like I is, seem like I ain't like I is,
and a duw like I ain't.
Speaker 4: The next day, the testimony was at an end, and
the judge made his charge to the jury. Ladies of
the jury, in view of the evidence presented by the
plaintiffs and the futile attempts at the defense attorney to
refute the charges, I can hardly see how the jury
can sail to bring in a verdict other than duty
has charged. I hereby order that the jury be locked
up until such.
Speaker 3: A time to make.
Speaker 2: Oh me aim, as the jury has been out for
two hours. I don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, see listen, Andy, Yeah, here he come back now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're filing in the jewry box. Look at Madam
Queen sitting over there. They're gonna throw me in jail
and everything else.
Speaker 5: Ladies of the jury, have you reached the verdicts?
Speaker 9: Yes, your honor, we have.
Speaker 3: We the members of the jury.
Speaker 7: Find the defendant Andrew H.
Speaker 1: Brown.
Speaker 2: Holy Michael, that's Madam Preen.
Speaker 3: Look at nobody do something.
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 4: When Madame Queen screamed and fainted in the courtroom, people
everywhere wondered why she had screamed. Very shortly the judge
spoke to the courtroom and we reached the turning point
of the famous Madam Queen's breach of promise trial. The
court has just ascertained why Madame Queen fainted. She fainted
because she saw her first husband, the husband she thought
had been lost at sea, seated in the back of
the courtroom. Therefore, in view of the that Madame Queen
already has a husband. The suit against Andy Brown for
beach your promises invalid case dismissed.
Speaker 3: A wonderful and the congratulations.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thank you, thank you, amos, thank you everybody,
thank you.
Speaker 3: Enough course, mister Brown is exhausted. Here, please stand back there. Yeah,
come on over here and sit down here, come on
over here.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Amos, I has done in you know, I'm
going to tell you one thing I have done. Learn
my lessons. Women's has been the ones that's got me
into this mess. Women's has got me in the trouble
all my life. And I tell you, Amos, I promise
you right now that I ain't never gonna look at
no woman again as wrong as I live.
Speaker 3: Well, that's fine, and.
Speaker 1: I uh excuse me, please.
Speaker 3: Uh what is it? Miss Yeah?
Speaker 2: You want something?
Speaker 7: Well, I've been sitting in the court through the home trial,
and my sympathies have been with you through the whole case,
and I just wanted to tell you I know that
a man with such beautiful soulful eyes just couldn't be guilty.
Good easing.
Speaker 2: Uh, why are you going in to find her name
and address? That is the cutest honey baby doll.
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Speaker 2: Good night, See you next Sunday.
Speaker 3: We've hardly wet us. At the same time, Next Sunday,
when you're recol Ruggers well again presently Amos and Andy Show,
directed and sanscribed by Cliff Powell. Stay tuned for the
Edgar Burg and Charlie McCarthy program, which follows immediately over
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