In this episode of All Star Western Theater, we are transported back to the days of the Wild West with the Riders of the Purple Sage. The episode features a captivating story titled "The Big Holdup," where Buck Farrell finds himself in a romantic dilemma. As Buck tries to win the heart of Kitty Faust, he concocts a plan to stage a fake holdup to impress her. However, things take an unexpected turn when the sheriff gets involved, leading to a series of comedic and adventurous events. The episode is filled with classic Western songs, including "Adobe Hacienda" and "Old Spanish Trail," performed by the talented Riders of the Purple Sage.
Listeners are treated to a nostalgic journey through the Old West, complete with tales of romance, rivalry, and the rugged landscape of the Mesquite. The episode highlights the charm and humor of Western storytelling, as Buck and his friends navigate the complexities of love and law in a small cow town. With its blend of music, drama, and humor, this episode is a delightful homage to the spirit of the great open spaces and the timeless allure of Western adventures.
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The bakers of Weber's Bread present your all star Western theater. Recorded earlier for release at this time.
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From Hollywood comes your all star western theater, starring America's great western singers, boy willing, and the riders of the Purple Sage, bringing you the music, the stories, and the spirit of the great open spaces. And now, the writers of the Purple Sage.
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Deep within my heart lies a melody, a song of old San Antonio. Wherein dreams I live with a memory beneath the stars all
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alone. It was there I found beside the Alamo, enchant but strange as the blue of above.
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Moonlit paths that only she would know, still hears my broken song of love. Wounded all your splendor and only my heart. Call back my
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Hello, friends. A familiar song is something that gets to be a part of you, whether you're a singer or a listener. And if that that familiar song was taken away, life would lose something just as it gains something when the song is heard. Here then is a new number that we hope will become one of your favorites. Lay your little head on my shoulder.
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Lay your little head on my shoulder. Crush away the tears
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from your eyes.
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Love like ours could never grow colder. I'm sorry that I made you cry. You will soon forgive and forget what they say. Someday, you'll forget all those Lay your little head on my shoulder. Brush away the tears from your eyes. Love like cry. Love like ours could never grow colder. I'm sorry that I made you cry. You will soon and forget what they say. Someday, you'll forget all those lies. Lay your
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Somebody heard them sing it before. Somebody asked them to sing it again. And here it is, adobe hacienda.
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When setting sun says the long day is done. Sweet music seems to fill the air in
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my Adobe,
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Well, it's time now for four willing and the riders of the purple sage to tell us another of their adventures in the West. This week they've called their story the big holdup. The land of Mesquite is also the land of the sun, and the sun makes a man inland. His intentions more than often may be the very best, but it's easier to put things off than to do them at once. That's why the shacks, spaced so far apart in the land of Mesquite, look weather beaten and run down. And that's why Buck Farrell hasn't a wife. Ah, but there's the story.
The riders of the Purple Sage had rested overnight in the cow town called Sandyville that hit the trail then met a stranger. And afterwards turned about heading for the shack where Buck Farrell lived all alone.
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Johnny, Al, we've been poking along till our horses are fresher than they were at sunrise. That's how I've hated it. This business with Buck Farrow can't wait. Horses will be alright here. Buck. Hold up. Hey, Buck. Wake up. Buck, your whole life is ruined. Yes. What's the trouble, you hombres? Life's over for you, Buck. A blight settled down on your love. No. Buck coming along the trail just now, we met a rider. Talk about a handsome Caballero. He was it? He must have been rich too. Did you know a silver on his saddle for He wanted to know where Kitty Faust lives, Buck. Kitty?
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My kitty? Your kitty, Buck. A handsome, rich your relative, that's what. He's probably one of Kitty's relatives. I'm afraid not, Buck. We might as well come on out with this boy. This guy said Kitty had promised to marry him. Well, she she oh, that's unfair. Oh, why I have been thinking of marrying Kitty myself. For five years, I've been thinking of I reckon this hombre's got a priority, Buck. Yes?
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The pri what what's that? Well, it seems like he was, carrying on a correspondence with Katie up until about six years ago. He wrote a letter then asking her to marry him and never got an answer until just now. She'd written one alright, but it got lost or something, and the letter just came. She accepted him, and he's riding out to claim him. Oh, there's no justice in the world. You didn't tell him where Kitty lives, did you? Well, Buck, we don't like to lie. But on the other hand, we don't like to see anybody get married either. Marriage is a guess out principle. We compromised, Buck. We told him Kitty wasn't living with her aunt anymore. We told him to come here. Here? My rival is is coming here? You can give him the right directions yourself if you want to, or run him out of the country, whichever you like. Yeah. We wash our hands with the whole affair. We don't want anything to do with romance.
Well, hi, Abuck. I see your handsome Caballero rival didn't plug you after all. Johnny, boy.
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I'm glad I found you. I gotta talk to somebody. Oh, what a terrible day. Let this be a lesson to us. You see what luck can do to a fella? I seen this hombre coming toward my my place, and I thought I didn't know what to do. If I told him Kitty had smallpox, he'd wanna send out a doctor. If I told him she was flying about in heaven with the angels, he he'd wanna visit her grave. Woman sure causes trouble. Sure does. Look at Buck's eyes, how dull they are. In either case, I'd be caught. So I told him the truth. I told him where kitty's living. Only I directed him so he'll take the long way around. What's the sense to that, Buck? Well, it'll be late this afternoon before he gets there. By that time, maybe we can do something about it. What do you mean we? Johnny and Al and I haven't got anything to do with this. Well, I thought we could ride to her house, and I tell Kitty this hombre ain't what he pretends to be. I tell her he's changed since he knew her and that actually he's the worst bandit in the territory. I tell her boys and all you'd have to do is just back me up. He wants us to lie, Johnny. Yeah. Fuck, we can't do that. We're not gonna damage a man's reputation or get ourselves involved through a man's, isn't it? For the sake of our friendship, just come along, will you? You don't have to say a word. Just be there.
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Mhmm. For the sake of justice. What? I've been meaning to ask Kitty to marry me for the last five years. I just didn't get around to a dad's at all. Boy, a thing like this is liable to break up bucking kitty. You're right, Al. We'd be doing buck a good time. We're against drum man. Right now we are anyway. Ever since we spent all our money on those three girls that went home from the dance with three other guys. Yeah. What a dirty trick. Alright, Buck. We'll go. But you'll have to do all the talking. We'll be with you, but that's as much as we'll do.
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Not only that, Kitty, but he defied the law in other ways too. Why he struck terror to the hearts of the whole countryside.
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Well, you don't say, Bob. I'm told he wears a necklace made from the ears of his victims. I'm awfully nice of you to tell me these things. Oh, would you boys like some cake and a nice cool glass of cider, boy?
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No. Thanks, giddy. A man can change a whole lot in six years, giddy. Al,
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I know you would. Well, no.
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Thanks. Well, he's haunted by every sheriff in the country. A price is on his head. Johnny, you'd like a piece of cake. Well, I might. Kitty, you've gotta pay attention to me. I've taken a great deal of trouble to warn you against Tim Carnegie. Who?
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Warn me against who? My Tim Carnegie.
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Tim? Oh, I knew you wasn't listening. He'll be here in any minute. Buck,
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have you been talking about Tim all this time? I certainly have. He's a killer, a thief, a robber. But he'll be here any minute. Well, thank you, Buck. Thank you for telling me.
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You better run along now. Alright. But don't open your door to him. Come on, boys. Oh, sure. Sure, Buck. Don't even talk to him. Well, so long. Goodbye, Buck.
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Goodbye, boy.
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She took that very well, boys. Now let's go wait for a couple of hours just to give her a chance to throw them out, then I'll come back. Now wait a minute, fuck. You gotta stick with me for a little while. I I might even get around to proposing to Kitty when I go back. I'm in that kind of a mood. And if I do, we'll celebrate.
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Is that you, Buck? Yeah. Home kinda early, aren't you? Are you engaged to be married? Engaged?
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You think I'd ask a woman to marry me when she's sitting beside another hombre all evening, running her fingers through his ear? Was Tim there? You mean she let him in after all you told her about him? He was there alright. He's a dancin' figure in her eyes since I told her he was an outlaw. He's a man of adventure. She calls him a naughty boy. She asks to see the necklace made of ears. She clicks her tongue and wonders what she'll ever do with him. Boy, ain't that a woman for you. Sure is. Yeah. And him. He ain't even got the decency to confess he's a law Biden citizen. He just sits there listening to her cool and then promises he'll try to do better if she'll use her influence. He ought to get married. He ought to have to suffer. Well, I've fixed him. She'll be cooing on somebody else's shoulder before the week's out. What do you mean, Buck? Well, if it takes an outlaw to make Kitty skittery, then I'll be the greatest outlaw of all time. Easy, Buck. Boy, what a woman won't do to a man. There's a big thing that's gonna be held in town tonight.
Everybody from this part of the state will be there. And I got a few of the boys to go around saying I'm gonna hold up the place as a joke. What do you mean hold it up as a joke? So, Kitty, you'll think I'm a bigger outlaw than Tim. Folks will give me their rings and watches and money because they'll know I'm joking. Everybody will know that except Kitty and Tim. How will they? Oh, because I sent some of the boys around to tell them. And I said you'd guarantee that I'd give the money back, boy. I'd guarantee. Well, I said for him to tell folks that you give your word to be responsible in case anything happened and I didn't return their stuff tomorrow morning. No. But nothing will happen, boy. Boy, nothing could happen.
Better get inside now and pull a hold up, Foy. Look here, Buck. You got the wrong idea about women. I have, I've already seen what I've seen. And if it takes an outlaw to make a woman coo, then Kitty will coo to me. Now you just let me loose. You have no business working our names into this, No. Loose. I'm going in there. I've got two fellas who pretend to struggle with me. I'm supposed to tap on the head with my pistols, and they'll fall to the floor. Well, I may even have to to shoot a few times too so so don't worry if you hear shots. Buck, come back here.
Stop abusing. Alright. Put your hands in the air. This is a hole up. Fuck, fella. Highlands woman. Anybody who lowers his hands will have his scalp added to the collection my horse wears as a blanket. Give me your money and your jewelry, and no false moves. Is that you, Buck? Oi. Where have you been all day? What have you been hiding in the bushes for? Something happened last night that I didn't count on. Where's the stuff you stole? You were supposed to give it back this morning. Well, somebody reported a robbery. Sheriff doesn't know it's a joke. He's out with a posse looking for me. I can't give
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looking for me. I can't give this stuff back. No. But you can ride into town and surrender and explain it was all a joke. You think the sheriff would believe that? Besides, Kitty would hear about it and she'd think I was a sissy compared to Tim. Yeah. We're sure better off being woman haters, Johnny. Boy, I wish you boys would do something for me. Take the loot back and give it to the people I stole it from. Us? You want us to give the loot back? Why sure. That would We don't dare go into town, Buck. It's not just the sheriff who's looking for us. It's everybody. Certainly. We were supposed to have given our word that the holdup was a joke and the stuff would be returned this morning. Folks are ready to shoot us on-site. Well, they wouldn't even bother to tell us to raise our hands. Buck, where's the loop? Oh, in a burrow just behind that pile of brush. Then get it. As soon as the sun goes down, we'll sneak into town and leave it by the post office where it'll be found. Yeah. But Kitty, what'll Kitty think? She can think anything she pleases, but I've had enough of this. We don't like dodging sheriffs, especially when we're innocent. Oh, wait, boy. You got a great idea.
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Kitty will hear about the loot being found. She'll think I'm a robber just for the fun of robbing. What? I'll be a more romantic figure than ever. Boy, everything is fine now. Boys, I'm sure gonna ask you to the wedding. Why, without any question, Kitty will think this, Aubrey, is just a poor imitation of me. Talk less. Somebody will hear you. Yeah. Let's leave the loot in the doorway. Somebody have been sure to find it, Terry. Shoot. They've seen us. Run. Pick up the loot and run for your lives. Get to the horses. Run for your eyes. Hey, look, fellas. Look, without knowing what I did, I rode to Kitty's place. Without knowing what you did, you got us in a lot of trouble. I must be a romantic figure to Kitty now.
She saw me rob the dance. She knows the sheriff is looking for me. Wait. She's probably dying to see me right now. But this is no time With so many people after me, this may be the last chance I'll ever have of seeing her. What if some of the sheriff's men are waiting inside for you though? That fried buck, they could have staked out the place. Well, you knock at the door, boy. Al and Johnny crowd around it. I'll stand to one side. You forgot something. The sheriff is looking for us too.
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I'm knocking. And I hope the sheriff is here. Then we can either clear this thing up or go to jail. I'm tired of being honeyed by the law.
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Boy. Kate? Al, Johnny. What a nice surprise to see you again. And especially now that you're alone, not in the company of that ill mannered barbarian.
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Ill mannered barbarian?
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Fuck. Holding up the dance. A common outlaw. Why, if Tim oh, you didn't know. I'm hiding Tim from the sheriff. He's here with my aunt and me. If Tim hadn't promised me never to use a gun again, Buck wouldn't have left that dance alive. Kitty, what are you saying? Fuck. Fuck, you get right out of here. Go on now before I call Tim, you ill mannered barbarian.
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You ill mannered barbarian? Tim is a romantic figure, a man of adventure. Yet when I do what he's supposed to have done, I'm an ill mannered fuck. What are you doing? Kitty. Kitty, come back here. Oh, show her. Come back here and bring that outlaw with you. Fuck. I thought I told you to help. Put your hands in the air. Stop this fool. Put your hands in the air. Kitty, what? What? Yours Kitty. Put your hands in the air too. I don't know what's the matter with him, Tim. Boy, can't you voice to There's something I wanna know, Tim. And tell the truth, the poor Kitty. Are you the adventurer,
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the outlaw you pretend to be? Either way, he loses Johnny. If he says no, Kitty gets sore at him. If he says yes, jail. Your last chance, Tim.
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Are you what you pretend to be? Of course I am. Uh-huh. Kitty, last night is a joke, which everyone knows. I agreed to hold up the days. It was just for a joke. I promised to return the loot this morning. But while I was trying to return it, a real outlaw, an ill mannered barbarian of an outlaw, killed Foy, Johnny, Al, and me up at the point of a gun and took everything away. Well, you can't accuse me of You must have done it. There's no other bandits around here, and you admit you're one. Wait. Boy, hold him there. Al, Johnny, keep a close guard. I'm going for the sheriff. This man deserves to be put in jail.
Boy. Boy, open up. Buck back already. Let me in, boy. The sheriff's on his way. Excuse me a minute,
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kitty. I'll let him in.
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Boy. Sheriff is coming. They understood about the holdup being a joke. Now if you'll hand Tim over Tim? The ill mannered barbarian.
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Why, Tim left some time ago, Buck. What? We knew you weren't serious about having him locked up. And as soon as you'd gone, he broke down and confessed to Kitty that he wasn't a robber at all, just a rich wencher like he'd always been. Well, but but, Of course, Kitty couldn't stand the sight of him any longer for being such a pretender. Ah. And of course, she can't stand the sight of you either. You said a pretender held you up and took the loot away. Well, I I Boy,
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you promised to come back and sing for me. You and the boy. You
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you you I guess you'll have to excuse me, Buck. It is But you said and Johnny said it in hell. You wanted no part of any romance.
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Oh, Johnny and Alan and I are just,
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singing to her, sort of soothing her troubles away now that she's so disappointed in you and Tim. Wait. You snake. Oh, boy. Yes, Kitty. You'll have to excuse me, Buck. We'll discuss this another time when Kitty feels better and doesn't need company so much.
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When a great book of Western songs is finally compiled, it will be filled with music that's alive with the real spirit and traditions of the West. And in it, you'll be sure to find this song, Old Spanish Trail, which the riders of the Purple Sage sing for you now.
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Let me tell you a tale of the old Spanish Trail. She and I used to ride side by side down the old Spanish train. Desert stars high above seem to say fall in love. So we talked of a June honeymoon on the old Spanish tree. One night, I was passing the Cantina. That night, she was in somebody else's
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arms.
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Have I seen her since then? Only now and again. When together they ride side by side down the old Spanish tree. Have I seen her since then only now and again. When together they ride side by side down the old Spanish train. Pardon me if I sigh.
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Well, that about closes up our all star western theater for this time, friends. Before we go, we'd like to thank Gene Bates and Joe Duvall for helping us tell our story. This is Floyd Willing speaking for Al Sloy, Scotty Harrell, and Johnny Paul, the writers of the Purple Sage, saying so long and good luck to all of you.
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Drifting along, singing a song. From
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Hollywood, you've heard your all star Western Theater, a VM Ware production starring America's great western singers, boy willing, and the riders of the Purple Sage. The script was by Ray Wilson, directed by Scott Farnworth. This is Terry O'Sullivan speaking.
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The All Star Western Theater came to you by transcription. Listen again next week and every week at the same time for your All Star Western Theater, which came to you from Columbia Square.
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The bakers of Weber's Bread present your all star Western theater. Recorded earlier for release at this time.
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From Hollywood comes your all star western theater, starring America's great western singers, boy willing, and the riders of the Purple Sage, bringing you the music, the stories, and the spirit of the great open spaces. And now, the writers of the Purple Sage.
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Deep within my heart lies a melody, a song of old San Antonio. Wherein dreams I live with a memory beneath the stars all
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alone. It was there I found beside the Alamo, enchant but strange as the blue of above.
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Moonlit paths that only she would know, still hears my broken song of love. Wounded all your splendor and only my heart. Call back my
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Hello, friends. A familiar song is something that gets to be a part of you, whether you're a singer or a listener. And if that that familiar song was taken away, life would lose something just as it gains something when the song is heard. Here then is a new number that we hope will become one of your favorites. Lay your little head on my shoulder.
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Lay your little head on my shoulder. Crush away the tears
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from your eyes.
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Love like ours could never grow colder. I'm sorry that I made you cry. You will soon forgive and forget what they say. Someday, you'll forget all those Lay your little head on my shoulder. Brush away the tears from your eyes. Love like cry. Love like ours could never grow colder. I'm sorry that I made you cry. You will soon and forget what they say. Someday, you'll forget all those lies. Lay your
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It's nice to reminisce about the good old days when every man carried a six shooter and every woman made her own soap and baked her own bread. But few of us would go back to those good old days if we could, especially the women folks. Take the matter of baking bread for example. Think of the labor involved in making enough bread to last a hungry family a whole week. Compare that to the convenience of being able to buy fresh Weber's bread every day at your nearby grocery store. And what good bread Weber's is, far better than home baked bread of the old days. Fine texture, flavorful, and rich in the vitamins natural to whole grains. When you buy your next loaf of Weber's bread in the blue gingham wrapper, feel the soft freshness.
Smell that fresh baked fragrance, then enjoy the better than homemade flavor of good Weber's bread.
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Somebody heard them sing it before. Somebody asked them to sing it again. And here it is, adobe hacienda.
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When setting sun says the long day is done. Sweet music seems to fill the air in
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my Adobe,
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Well, it's time now for four willing and the riders of the purple sage to tell us another of their adventures in the West. This week they've called their story the big holdup. The land of Mesquite is also the land of the sun, and the sun makes a man inland. His intentions more than often may be the very best, but it's easier to put things off than to do them at once. That's why the shacks, spaced so far apart in the land of Mesquite, look weather beaten and run down. And that's why Buck Farrell hasn't a wife. Ah, but there's the story.
The riders of the Purple Sage had rested overnight in the cow town called Sandyville that hit the trail then met a stranger. And afterwards turned about heading for the shack where Buck Farrell lived all alone.
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Johnny, Al, we've been poking along till our horses are fresher than they were at sunrise. That's how I've hated it. This business with Buck Farrow can't wait. Horses will be alright here. Buck. Hold up. Hey, Buck. Wake up. Buck, your whole life is ruined. Yes. What's the trouble, you hombres? Life's over for you, Buck. A blight settled down on your love. No. Buck coming along the trail just now, we met a rider. Talk about a handsome Caballero. He was it? He must have been rich too. Did you know a silver on his saddle for He wanted to know where Kitty Faust lives, Buck. Kitty?
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My kitty? Your kitty, Buck. A handsome, rich your relative, that's what. He's probably one of Kitty's relatives. I'm afraid not, Buck. We might as well come on out with this boy. This guy said Kitty had promised to marry him. Well, she she oh, that's unfair. Oh, why I have been thinking of marrying Kitty myself. For five years, I've been thinking of I reckon this hombre's got a priority, Buck. Yes?
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The pri what what's that? Well, it seems like he was, carrying on a correspondence with Katie up until about six years ago. He wrote a letter then asking her to marry him and never got an answer until just now. She'd written one alright, but it got lost or something, and the letter just came. She accepted him, and he's riding out to claim him. Oh, there's no justice in the world. You didn't tell him where Kitty lives, did you? Well, Buck, we don't like to lie. But on the other hand, we don't like to see anybody get married either. Marriage is a guess out principle. We compromised, Buck. We told him Kitty wasn't living with her aunt anymore. We told him to come here. Here? My rival is is coming here? You can give him the right directions yourself if you want to, or run him out of the country, whichever you like. Yeah. We wash our hands with the whole affair. We don't want anything to do with romance.
Well, hi, Abuck. I see your handsome Caballero rival didn't plug you after all. Johnny, boy.
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I'm glad I found you. I gotta talk to somebody. Oh, what a terrible day. Let this be a lesson to us. You see what luck can do to a fella? I seen this hombre coming toward my my place, and I thought I didn't know what to do. If I told him Kitty had smallpox, he'd wanna send out a doctor. If I told him she was flying about in heaven with the angels, he he'd wanna visit her grave. Woman sure causes trouble. Sure does. Look at Buck's eyes, how dull they are. In either case, I'd be caught. So I told him the truth. I told him where kitty's living. Only I directed him so he'll take the long way around. What's the sense to that, Buck? Well, it'll be late this afternoon before he gets there. By that time, maybe we can do something about it. What do you mean we? Johnny and Al and I haven't got anything to do with this. Well, I thought we could ride to her house, and I tell Kitty this hombre ain't what he pretends to be. I tell her he's changed since he knew her and that actually he's the worst bandit in the territory. I tell her boys and all you'd have to do is just back me up. He wants us to lie, Johnny. Yeah. Fuck, we can't do that. We're not gonna damage a man's reputation or get ourselves involved through a man's, isn't it? For the sake of our friendship, just come along, will you? You don't have to say a word. Just be there.
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Mhmm. For the sake of justice. What? I've been meaning to ask Kitty to marry me for the last five years. I just didn't get around to a dad's at all. Boy, a thing like this is liable to break up bucking kitty. You're right, Al. We'd be doing buck a good time. We're against drum man. Right now we are anyway. Ever since we spent all our money on those three girls that went home from the dance with three other guys. Yeah. What a dirty trick. Alright, Buck. We'll go. But you'll have to do all the talking. We'll be with you, but that's as much as we'll do.
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Not only that, Kitty, but he defied the law in other ways too. Why he struck terror to the hearts of the whole countryside.
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Well, you don't say, Bob. I'm told he wears a necklace made from the ears of his victims. I'm awfully nice of you to tell me these things. Oh, would you boys like some cake and a nice cool glass of cider, boy?
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No. Thanks, giddy. A man can change a whole lot in six years, giddy. Al,
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I know you would. Well, no.
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Thanks. Well, he's haunted by every sheriff in the country. A price is on his head. Johnny, you'd like a piece of cake. Well, I might. Kitty, you've gotta pay attention to me. I've taken a great deal of trouble to warn you against Tim Carnegie. Who?
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Warn me against who? My Tim Carnegie.
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Tim? Oh, I knew you wasn't listening. He'll be here in any minute. Buck,
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have you been talking about Tim all this time? I certainly have. He's a killer, a thief, a robber. But he'll be here any minute. Well, thank you, Buck. Thank you for telling me.
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You better run along now. Alright. But don't open your door to him. Come on, boys. Oh, sure. Sure, Buck. Don't even talk to him. Well, so long. Goodbye, Buck.
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Goodbye, boy.
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She took that very well, boys. Now let's go wait for a couple of hours just to give her a chance to throw them out, then I'll come back. Now wait a minute, fuck. You gotta stick with me for a little while. I I might even get around to proposing to Kitty when I go back. I'm in that kind of a mood. And if I do, we'll celebrate.
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Is that you, Buck? Yeah. Home kinda early, aren't you? Are you engaged to be married? Engaged?
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You think I'd ask a woman to marry me when she's sitting beside another hombre all evening, running her fingers through his ear? Was Tim there? You mean she let him in after all you told her about him? He was there alright. He's a dancin' figure in her eyes since I told her he was an outlaw. He's a man of adventure. She calls him a naughty boy. She asks to see the necklace made of ears. She clicks her tongue and wonders what she'll ever do with him. Boy, ain't that a woman for you. Sure is. Yeah. And him. He ain't even got the decency to confess he's a law Biden citizen. He just sits there listening to her cool and then promises he'll try to do better if she'll use her influence. He ought to get married. He ought to have to suffer. Well, I've fixed him. She'll be cooing on somebody else's shoulder before the week's out. What do you mean, Buck? Well, if it takes an outlaw to make Kitty skittery, then I'll be the greatest outlaw of all time. Easy, Buck. Boy, what a woman won't do to a man. There's a big thing that's gonna be held in town tonight.
Everybody from this part of the state will be there. And I got a few of the boys to go around saying I'm gonna hold up the place as a joke. What do you mean hold it up as a joke? So, Kitty, you'll think I'm a bigger outlaw than Tim. Folks will give me their rings and watches and money because they'll know I'm joking. Everybody will know that except Kitty and Tim. How will they? Oh, because I sent some of the boys around to tell them. And I said you'd guarantee that I'd give the money back, boy. I'd guarantee. Well, I said for him to tell folks that you give your word to be responsible in case anything happened and I didn't return their stuff tomorrow morning. No. But nothing will happen, boy. Boy, nothing could happen.
Better get inside now and pull a hold up, Foy. Look here, Buck. You got the wrong idea about women. I have, I've already seen what I've seen. And if it takes an outlaw to make a woman coo, then Kitty will coo to me. Now you just let me loose. You have no business working our names into this, No. Loose. I'm going in there. I've got two fellas who pretend to struggle with me. I'm supposed to tap on the head with my pistols, and they'll fall to the floor. Well, I may even have to to shoot a few times too so so don't worry if you hear shots. Buck, come back here.
Stop abusing. Alright. Put your hands in the air. This is a hole up. Fuck, fella. Highlands woman. Anybody who lowers his hands will have his scalp added to the collection my horse wears as a blanket. Give me your money and your jewelry, and no false moves. Is that you, Buck? Oi. Where have you been all day? What have you been hiding in the bushes for? Something happened last night that I didn't count on. Where's the stuff you stole? You were supposed to give it back this morning. Well, somebody reported a robbery. Sheriff doesn't know it's a joke. He's out with a posse looking for me. I can't give
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looking for me. I can't give this stuff back. No. But you can ride into town and surrender and explain it was all a joke. You think the sheriff would believe that? Besides, Kitty would hear about it and she'd think I was a sissy compared to Tim. Yeah. We're sure better off being woman haters, Johnny. Boy, I wish you boys would do something for me. Take the loot back and give it to the people I stole it from. Us? You want us to give the loot back? Why sure. That would We don't dare go into town, Buck. It's not just the sheriff who's looking for us. It's everybody. Certainly. We were supposed to have given our word that the holdup was a joke and the stuff would be returned this morning. Folks are ready to shoot us on-site. Well, they wouldn't even bother to tell us to raise our hands. Buck, where's the loop? Oh, in a burrow just behind that pile of brush. Then get it. As soon as the sun goes down, we'll sneak into town and leave it by the post office where it'll be found. Yeah. But Kitty, what'll Kitty think? She can think anything she pleases, but I've had enough of this. We don't like dodging sheriffs, especially when we're innocent. Oh, wait, boy. You got a great idea.
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Kitty will hear about the loot being found. She'll think I'm a robber just for the fun of robbing. What? I'll be a more romantic figure than ever. Boy, everything is fine now. Boys, I'm sure gonna ask you to the wedding. Why, without any question, Kitty will think this, Aubrey, is just a poor imitation of me. Talk less. Somebody will hear you. Yeah. Let's leave the loot in the doorway. Somebody have been sure to find it, Terry. Shoot. They've seen us. Run. Pick up the loot and run for your lives. Get to the horses. Run for your eyes. Hey, look, fellas. Look, without knowing what I did, I rode to Kitty's place. Without knowing what you did, you got us in a lot of trouble. I must be a romantic figure to Kitty now.
She saw me rob the dance. She knows the sheriff is looking for me. Wait. She's probably dying to see me right now. But this is no time With so many people after me, this may be the last chance I'll ever have of seeing her. What if some of the sheriff's men are waiting inside for you though? That fried buck, they could have staked out the place. Well, you knock at the door, boy. Al and Johnny crowd around it. I'll stand to one side. You forgot something. The sheriff is looking for us too.
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I'm knocking. And I hope the sheriff is here. Then we can either clear this thing up or go to jail. I'm tired of being honeyed by the law.
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Boy. Kate? Al, Johnny. What a nice surprise to see you again. And especially now that you're alone, not in the company of that ill mannered barbarian.
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Ill mannered barbarian?
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Fuck. Holding up the dance. A common outlaw. Why, if Tim oh, you didn't know. I'm hiding Tim from the sheriff. He's here with my aunt and me. If Tim hadn't promised me never to use a gun again, Buck wouldn't have left that dance alive. Kitty, what are you saying? Fuck. Fuck, you get right out of here. Go on now before I call Tim, you ill mannered barbarian.
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You ill mannered barbarian? Tim is a romantic figure, a man of adventure. Yet when I do what he's supposed to have done, I'm an ill mannered fuck. What are you doing? Kitty. Kitty, come back here. Oh, show her. Come back here and bring that outlaw with you. Fuck. I thought I told you to help. Put your hands in the air. Stop this fool. Put your hands in the air. Kitty, what? What? Yours Kitty. Put your hands in the air too. I don't know what's the matter with him, Tim. Boy, can't you voice to There's something I wanna know, Tim. And tell the truth, the poor Kitty. Are you the adventurer,
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the outlaw you pretend to be? Either way, he loses Johnny. If he says no, Kitty gets sore at him. If he says yes, jail. Your last chance, Tim.
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Are you what you pretend to be? Of course I am. Uh-huh. Kitty, last night is a joke, which everyone knows. I agreed to hold up the days. It was just for a joke. I promised to return the loot this morning. But while I was trying to return it, a real outlaw, an ill mannered barbarian of an outlaw, killed Foy, Johnny, Al, and me up at the point of a gun and took everything away. Well, you can't accuse me of You must have done it. There's no other bandits around here, and you admit you're one. Wait. Boy, hold him there. Al, Johnny, keep a close guard. I'm going for the sheriff. This man deserves to be put in jail.
Boy. Boy, open up. Buck back already. Let me in, boy. The sheriff's on his way. Excuse me a minute,
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kitty. I'll let him in.
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Boy. Sheriff is coming. They understood about the holdup being a joke. Now if you'll hand Tim over Tim? The ill mannered barbarian.
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Why, Tim left some time ago, Buck. What? We knew you weren't serious about having him locked up. And as soon as you'd gone, he broke down and confessed to Kitty that he wasn't a robber at all, just a rich wencher like he'd always been. Well, but but, Of course, Kitty couldn't stand the sight of him any longer for being such a pretender. Ah. And of course, she can't stand the sight of you either. You said a pretender held you up and took the loot away. Well, I I Boy,
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you promised to come back and sing for me. You and the boy. You
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you you I guess you'll have to excuse me, Buck. It is But you said and Johnny said it in hell. You wanted no part of any romance.
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Oh, Johnny and Alan and I are just,
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singing to her, sort of soothing her troubles away now that she's so disappointed in you and Tim. Wait. You snake. Oh, boy. Yes, Kitty. You'll have to excuse me, Buck. We'll discuss this another time when Kitty feels better and doesn't need company so much.
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Well, Buck certainly doesn't know much about women, and Foy and the riders of the purple sage weren't much help. The bakers of Weber's bread now don't pretend to know all about women either, but they do know all about the kind of bread women want. Dependently fresh, tasty, and nutritious, energy rich and flavor rich, good bread. In short, Weber's bread. Weber's is fine textured for good, good morning toast. It's a mealtime, snack time, and anytime favorite with the whole family. Try a loaf soon. Look for the fresh tender loaf in the blue and white gingham wrapper. That's Weber's
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bread.
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When a great book of Western songs is finally compiled, it will be filled with music that's alive with the real spirit and traditions of the West. And in it, you'll be sure to find this song, Old Spanish Trail, which the riders of the Purple Sage sing for you now.
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Let me tell you a tale of the old Spanish Trail. She and I used to ride side by side down the old Spanish train. Desert stars high above seem to say fall in love. So we talked of a June honeymoon on the old Spanish tree. One night, I was passing the Cantina. That night, she was in somebody else's
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arms.
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Have I seen her since then? Only now and again. When together they ride side by side down the old Spanish tree. Have I seen her since then only now and again. When together they ride side by side down the old Spanish train. Pardon me if I sigh.
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Well, that about closes up our all star western theater for this time, friends. Before we go, we'd like to thank Gene Bates and Joe Duvall for helping us tell our story. This is Floyd Willing speaking for Al Sloy, Scotty Harrell, and Johnny Paul, the writers of the Purple Sage, saying so long and good luck to all of you.
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Drifting along, singing a song. From
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Hollywood, you've heard your all star Western Theater, a VM Ware production starring America's great western singers, boy willing, and the riders of the Purple Sage. The script was by Ray Wilson, directed by Scott Farnworth. This is Terry O'Sullivan speaking.
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The All Star Western Theater came to you by transcription. Listen again next week and every week at the same time for your All Star Western Theater, which came to you from Columbia Square.
Introduction to All Star Western Theater
Musical Performance: Song of San Antonio
Musical Performance: Lay Your Little Head on My Shoulder
The Convenience of Modern Bread
Western Adventure: The Big Holdup
Musical Performance: Old Spanish Trail
Closing Remarks and Farewell
