Mr. ZZ and Daughter Z did this skit at a talent show this year.
Hank:
Hi folks! We would like to do our own abbreviated version of a 1936 radio show starring Hank Keene.
In 1936 radio was king and Hank Keene was one of its shining stars.
Yes Hank Keene was a cowboy singer, not a country western singer, a cowboy singer.
Now I got to warn you the songs will be doing tonight are kind ah corny, so think of these songs as a musical journey and not a destination.
Will be doing part of one of his songs and a part of one that we made up to be done by his radio gang called “The Connecticut Hill-Billys”.
We won’t be totally accurate to the time period but – wait a minute.
How many of you ever heard the show?
Can you get a count?
Miss
Oh no:
1,2,3,4,5, ah nobody.
Hank:
Nobody?
Miss
Oh no:
Ya Nobody.
Hank:
OK, well then this will be a historically accurate representation of the show worthy of a doctorate.
Hay they’ll never know.
Miss
Oh no:
Right!
Hank:
Anyway on his show he also had “Miss Ohio,” Jean Fadden.
I don’t have a Miss Ohio but I got a Miss Oh no to do her part.
All be the handsome cowboy singer and at times will step out of character to do someone else.
Back in 1936 cowboy singers would yodel in a part of some of their songs.
You might ask, “What is yodeling?”
Can you help the folks out with that Miss Oh no.
Miss
Oh no:
According to Webster’s Dictionary: Yodel to sing or call out with frequent changes from the ordinary voice to falsetto and back again.
Hank:
Thanks, I can’t yodel but I’ll have Miss Oh no do all the Yodeling tonight…
Miss
Oh no:
What a minute!
I’m not doing nooooooo yodeling!
Hank:
No?
Miss
Oh no:
No!
Hank:
No?
Miss
Oh no:
Nooo!
Hank:
OK ah folks because of time restraints there will be no yodeling tonight.
So with out any further ado here we go with the “Hank Keene Show”
Hi folks and welcome to WRDO’s broadcast of the Hank Keene Show.
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Now Miss Oh no was suppose to sing a nasally hill-billy part to this first song.
But her own sense of good taste and what she’d do for no pay won out so she will be assisting me to do the part instead.
Won’t you Miss Oh no.
Miss
Oh no:
(Miss Oh no nods yes as she slips on a glove.)
Hank:
Well You’ll see what I mean.
(Miss Oh no uses her gloved hand to hold Hanks noise at every *.)
Song:
[C] Let the Moon shine down * Let the Moon shine down
Let the Moon shine [F] down * Let the Moon shine down
Let the Moon shine [C] down, From [G] above.
Will be married [C] soon -neath the harvest [F] moon.
Let the [C] Moon shine [G] down from [C] above.
(Step to side for solo and end song.)
F C F G C5 G5 END C G C G C
Hank:
Lets hear it for Earl on mandolin. Might pretty there Earl.
Thank you, thank you.
Now I think I hear our own Connecticut hill-billys coming on stage.
My goodness what do you have there.
Miss
Oh no:
That’s my brand new citified gee tar.
It’s a city gee tar because I found it…in the city.
Yes sir absolutely brand new…
To me anyway.
Hank:
Can you play that thing?
Miss
Oh no:
Why sure! Ya wanna hear somethin?
Hank:
Sure!
Miss
Oh no:
I call this one the Sweet Honey Dew…Melon
(Starts to strum it badly Hank puts a hand on the strings to stop her.)
Hank:
Wait a minute know, whoa.
Why don’t you play the spoons like you usually do.
Now that’s what you shine at.
Miss
Oh no:
You want me to do what I usually do?
Hank:
Yes, that’s right.
Miss
Oh no:
And what I shine at?
Hank:
Why sure that’s right.
Miss
Oh no:
OK
(She goes and gets a couple of jars and hands one to me as she starts to drink from the other.)
Hank:
Now what a minute now, what’s all this?
Miss
Oh no:
Well you told me you wanted me to shine and this hear is some of the best moon-
Hank:
(Hank puts a hand to her mouth to stop her from talking.)
Don’t say it, why this is 1936 prohibition. We can’t have you saying things like that.
What I meant why don’t you play the spoons that’s what you’re good at
Miss Oh no:
Ok.
Hank:
Oh here comes the rest of the hill-billys now..
So I’ll give the stage over to them now.
(Step into character)
Song
To [C] France in the [G]spring I’ve never [C] been.
Never seen the Roman [F] Coliseum
[C] But there’s one [G] place I have [C] been.
I’ve been to [G] Buckland [C] Mall.
[C] They got stuff you can buy there.
They got stuff you can perches [G] too.
[C] And if you’re nice and have some luck.
They might even [G] say thank [C] you.
END CGCGC
All:
Thanks and good night.
