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COMMAND PERFORMANCE
May 24, 1945
Command Performance was a radio program which aired between 1942 and 1949. It was broadcast on Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) and transmitted by shortwave to the troops overseas. It was not broadcast over domestic U.S. radio stations. The show entertained requests from the troops overseas. It was produced in front of a live audience in Hollywood, California.
“The best wartime program in America.” ~ Time Magazine
“SUPPRESSED DESIRES” ~ May 24, 1945
Ken Carpenter (Announcer)
Lucille Ball
Kitty Kallen
Jack Carson
Phil Reagan
Robert Benchley
The Town Criers
Ken Carpenter and Lucille Ball read a request from Sergeant Jim Blaine of APO 129 that asks about ‘suppressed desires’. Lucy asks Ken about his ‘suppressed desires’ and he replies that he hates Harry James. James was a bandleader married to one of Hollywood’s sexiest stars, Betty Grable.
In 1958, James and Grable appeared on an episode of “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour” titled “Lucy Wins a Racehorse”. They played themselves.
Lucy laughs and Ken reveals he wants to do an ‘honest’ radio commercial. He demonstrates by talking frankly about a fictional breakfast cereal named Squishy Squashies.
Lucy introduces Kitty Kallan, who sings “I’m Beginning To See The Light” by Duke Ellington, Johnny Hodges, and Harry James, with lyrics by Don George. Her recording reached #1 for two weeks in January 1945.
Ken askes Lucy what her ‘suppressed desire’ is and Jack Carson enters to infer that it is him! Carson had appeared with Ball in the films Stage Door (1937), Having Wonderful Time (1938), and Go Chase Yourself (1938). Lucy asks about his reputation as a womanizer. Carson says that his secret desire would be to be Lana Turner - so that he could make love to Jack Carson!
Lucy introduces The Town Criers, who perform “Idaho”, a song by Jesse Stone written in 1942. Originally comprised of the four Polk siblings, Gordon, Elva, Vernon and Lucy Ann, the Town Criers are probably best remembered today for their work with Tommy Dorsey.
Lucy introduces Robert Benchley. Benchley’s secret desire is to play ‘cryptogram’ with Lucy. He finally reveals his hidden desire is to be a mother! He wants to have 18 children.
Lucy introduces Irish tenor Phil Reagan who sings “Irish Lullabye”, written in 1913 by James Royce Shannon. The song became a hit for Bing Crosby who sang it in Going My Way (1944).
Carson implores Lucy to reveal her secret ambition. She says she’d like to be someone like Humphrey Bogart. She’s admired him since seeing him in To Have and Have Not (1944).
Bogart, Bacall, and To Have and Have Not would figure into a 1969 episode of “Here’s Lucy” titled “Lucy and the Bogie Affair.”
LUCY: “If you’re going to be Lana Turner, I can be Humphrey Bogart. I could cut off my hair, put on long pants and a man’s shirt and nobody’d know the difference.” CARSON: “You’d never fool Lauren Bacall...or me, for that matter.”
Lucy reveals she’s written a little play in which she’ll play Bogart, he’ll play Lana Turner, and Benchley will play Lana’s mother.
CARSON: “My Mother??? That’s what I get for not reading Winchell’s column.”
Gossip columnist Walter Winchell was a powerful figure in Hollywood. He was the first to break the story about Lucy and Desi losing a baby in the late 1940s. His name was mentioned in Desi’s song “We’re Having a Baby”. On television, he was the voiceover narrator for Desilu’s hit “The Untouchables,” later lending his iconic intonations to an episode of “Here’s Lucy” that satirized the crime drama.
Lucy reveals the title of the play: “Aunt Becky Got Her Bustle Caught in the Wringer or That’s What Made Her Hangover Square.” The play imagines Lana as a naive 18 year-old about to go on her first date with Humphrey. Mother tells her the story of the birds and the bees - literally. Ken briefly interupts with a commercial for Squishy Squashy. Humphrey arrives.
LUCY (as Bogart, to Benchley as Mother): “Who’s this broken down broad? She needs to shave.”
Mother warns them to be home by ten o’clock.
[Gunfire]
LUCY (to Benchley as Lana) : “Now we can hang out till midnight.”
End of Episode
#Lucille Ball#Command Performance#Radio#Jack Carson#Robert Benchley#The Town Criers#Walter Winchell#Lana Turner#Humphrey Bogart#Kitty Kallen#Harry James#Betty Grable#Phil Reagan#1945
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DON'T FORGET!!!
50 is a rough page estimate. The accurate length is 15,883 words.
If you want to visualize and compare it, I've graphed the length of each entry and given some other entry stats in another post linked here.
Google says it takes approximately 5 minutes to read 1000 words, so plan accordingly!
#dracula daily#dracula daily statistics#longest entry#October 3rd#October 2nd#A day full of Action#book data#beware#town crier#50 page entry#approximately#alt text#market peaches
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we needed to make an announcement to a room of people at work and my coworker was too nervous to do it so she asked me to do it and i was like "yeah i have no problem with making a declaration to a crowd" and she said "yeah i figured that about you." assigned town crier by coworker.
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MULTIPLE PLANES HAVE HIT THE TOWERS
#WAILING INTO MY HANDS#WAILING#BAWLINH#PLEASE BRING THEM BACK#YOU DONT KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE ATTENDING AN MIKKSY SIGNING DURING FA DAY THE DAY AFTER THE FUCKING PARADE#AND HEARING ALL THE PANTHERS WE LOST MINUTES AFTER EACH OTHER WHILE SOMEONE YELLED ABOUT IT IN THE LINE LIKE A TOWN CRIER#THAT CAUSED ME MORE PYSCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE THAN ANYTHING ELSE#SOBBING INTO MY HANDS PLEASE RETURN THEM TO US#THEIR MICROCHIP SAYS FLORIDA. SO BRING THEM BACK#THEY GOT THEIR RINGSSSS#THEYRE SO SMILEY#TANDEM FACEOFF#WE ALL NEED TO DIE
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ougghh the Beaft…. The Creature
#petting and cooing the stray cat that comes into my yard at odd hours while shaking my head to show I dont condone outdoor cats#sadly hes not my cat.. hes the only cat in the neighbourhood Ive met who’s friendly with ppl#my mom named him Swiper bc he likes to steal snacks we leave out for Joey#but she really really loves him she stops what she’s doing and comes downstairs whenever I announce his arrival like the town crier#and she is the generous benefactor for that catnip toy in the second photo#we dont know if he belongs to someone or if he’s just a really friendly stray but interestingly he isnt scared of mirrors#it makes me so sosososo happy when he comes for a visit but my house isnt exactly made for cats so Ill content myself with this#diary#yapping#Swiper#cats
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8LJfhFo/
Nico the petite princess that you are I can’t handle the cuteness of it
“You think I’m small? 🥺”
NO CAUSE THAT VIDEO IS GONNA DO IT TO ME EVERY DAMN TIME!!!!
he almost seems….giddy?
like, maybe nico just wants to be babygirl sometimes. maybe he just wants to be small and petite!
and with me he can be. c’mere i’ll let you be little spoon sometimes
#alliyaps#huggy’s hearsay 🗣️#i want this video played at my funeral#tattoo it on my forehead#gonna turn into the town crier fr#but it’s just me yelling about this video#hockey#nhl#new jersey devils#nico hischier
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Call the nurse I think I slipped a Franklin in her purse And on the way out I asked her very nicely "make it hurt"
DISGUSTING! Vana (2024)
#vana#music#vanaedit#bandedit#musicedit#mystuff#blood tw#userallisyn#userangelic#userhallie#tuserheidi#alexlook#usersapphi#usersunflower#usertal#userridge#userspacey#usertuni#useroaks#[ringing bell like im the town crier] GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GAY PEOPLE U NEED TO LISTEN TO VANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#GAY PEOPLE YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO VANA NOOOOWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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WONDERLUST DAYYYYY
#honestly feel like a town crier every two weeks at this point#hear ye hear ye who up wondering they lust#jrwi#jrwi wonderlust
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MY WIFE SUCKED HER GIRLFRIEND'S DICK IN THE WOODS YIPPEE!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
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i have one divine calling in this life and it is to render w/ utmost care the softest elf men you have ever seen
#this is my mission this is my goal#elf boys elf boys elf boys#i am calling to u all in the streets like the town crier#dragon age#bg3#solas#davrin#text post#art stuff
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HEAR YE, HEAR YE!!!!!!!! STARK MEN INTO BODY WORSHIP 🚨🚨🚨🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔
-another anon who KNOWS stark men are into body worship and WILL NOT be taking any criticism at this time
OHHH YOURE SO RIGHT. THIS IS RIGHT UP THEIR ALLY. the 1k celebration and jon snow angst has me booked and busy but i’m putting this on the back burner to drop when you least expect it thank u and goodnight
thank you for this very real very canon decree town crier anon!!’n
#dippys asks#the stark men#cregan stark#robb stark#jon snow#game of thrones#house of the dragon#town crier anon
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Me when I remember digital footprints are very real:
#the libertines#pete doherty#peter doherty#libs#2000s#indie music#oasis#uhm actually its eleven years ago 🤓#how long have you been here?#hmm at least seventeen minutes#can you sum up oasis in one sentence#uhm well i subscribe to the umberto eco view that Noel's a poet and Liam's a town crier#later on he says he stole a noel cutout because he wanted to be on the news
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i’m gonna piss myself 😭😭😭
#i’m replaying gow 4 rn 😋#the scream is so funny#THE WAY HE GETS TAKEN OUT#i think the funniest part of this is that i thought the fight was over 😭#my friend said he be the town crier with those yells#gow 4#god of war 2018#kratos#atreus#god of war#atreus god of war#kratos god of war#sorry for the shitty quality :(#my phone is on the verge of dying
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someone on the bodies production team you have to release more layout/bts pictures of charles whiteman's flat please. this is a great start but i need to know him better. particularly if it's got about as much mould as a second year uni house and if he owns as many chairs as it seems LOL
#ok the joke is at his expense but im already romanticising this shit#20-something loser karl weissman moves into the worst flat of all time and makes it a home#hangs a picture of his parents' wedding against the worst wallpaper you've ever seen#just buys what he likes and calls it decor#how else can you explain the fucking model boat next to the fucking telephone. AND YOU MAY TELL ME 'oh thats just random set stuff'#NOT TO ME!#and it stays until he's in his mid 30s. develops a habit of not cleaning up along the way#the shot where he seems to have taken off his shirt/tie/jacket and then dropped them off on various pieces of furniture. HE LIVES LIKE THIS#also entertaining the idea that its his parents' old stuff that he can't bring himself to throw out ..#i will created a fully fleshed out character using 8 episodes and fever dream visions if i have to#karl weissman#bodies netflix#edit: the original tags are above but since then i joined the discord and got to add these pictures LOL#saved this post as a draft bc i was like. i cant annoy people on the tag any more than i already have#doesnt matter. forcing this into the tag like a week after i made it anyway#im still so interested in the fact that it seems like there are more rooms that we never see#outside this bedroom and living space (and the bedroom isnt clear in the show either)#like. i rly need a 360 house tour NOW.#ALSO I FEEL LIKE A TOWN CRIER NO I DONT THINK HE HAS MOULD BUT IT WOULD BE FUNNY!!!!#the chair next to the liquor rly is something. hes MY babygirl
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reasons to hire me as a town crier:
cries a lot
loves yelling
would serve absolute cunt in one of them frilly outfits.
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Crail Town crier Robert Kircaldy passed away on May 23rd 1912.
I first posted this in 2012 and all I had on it was the pic titled Crail Town Creir 1905,but after a wee bit research found what I believe to be his name on this quote from the obituary page on the 23rd May 1912 edition of the East of Fife Record.
"A well known figure has passed away in the person of Robert Kirkcaldy, late Postman, Church Officer and Town Crier at age 84. He was quite a character in many respects, and nothing awakened Robert’s sense of greatness more than when out with his Drum."
The drum is now lodged in The Crail Museum.
The harbour village of Crail, situated in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland, hosts the annual Crail Festival during the third and fourth weeks of July. Nearly 40 events for adults and children spread over 11 days is supplemented by longer-running activities such as a putting green.
Crail Town Crier, still opens the Crail Annual Festival, the latest incumbent is Baille Paul Hutchison, as seen in the second pic .
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