 Suspense and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William and Robeson There is more than one kind of mystery in addition to the who done it's her the how done it's and the why done it's Take the celebrated murder story of Frankie and Johnny Everybody knows who done it Frankie and everybody knows why she done it Because Johnny done her wrong But we feel that how she done it with Miss Margaret Whiting starring as Frankie makes a story well-calculated to keep you in Baby That's all I want, but you really want isn't it? You're my man Johnny That's right I'm your man except sometimes What are you talking about? Sometimes Johnny when you go away Where do you go when you go away? Come on now, baby. Don't start that again. Where do you go Johnny? The cool cool who's on Basin Street, you know that They don't give you nothing there that I can't give you here Johnny What's there's a back room a back room and a place to play my Electric stick the place to sit and play and nobody bothers me and a couple of others You know that baby. Don't you worry you can play your music someplace else and get money for I worry about that. Don't you start riling me Frankie? What you take yourself a walk the whole town of New Orleans so many places to play your music and you sit in the back room You go away from me, and I'll tell you something baby. You don't like you. You can take that long walk to Georgia where you come from You leaving No, the girls are used to don't ever bothered me about going down a cuckoo's all right. I Won't bother you. That's better any money Frankie. I got some I Saw me a suit walking down Basin Street. I saw me a suit in the store window. Oh, I need me that suit, honey That's y'all look good in it. What's it cost Johnny? You want me in a cheap suit? I didn't say that. I just You got a hundred dollars, baby. I got it. Well, that's good. That's fine You are my man Johnny I'm your man Frankie. Show me off, baby. All right, honey We'll walk down to Esplanade where the lights are and everybody can see you fine We walk real slow all this walking's tying me out. I'm showing you off Johnny like you said Showing my man off in the bright lights lights just as bright at Cuckaloo's and I kind of like it Where the lights are inside anyhow anywhere you want Johnny sure So we walk back Just the girl Nelly Bly pretty friendly aren't you? No just polite She why you come down here all the time Frank I told you don't you round me. All right, Johnny Don't you forget? You're my man. Sure sure See I need me a beer Frankie get you one nine thirsty, honey. Oh, I'm thirsty. I'm real thirsty All I got left is nine dollars. I ain't that this just give me one of them. All right here I'll set you down here by the piano and you can listen to T. So you wait here Frankie I'll bring me back my beer and I'll sit with you Frank Lord you like to hear just do what you're playing T. So I like that fine Dream you like Yeah You and Johnny getting along Frankie like that music you play. I'm glad I'm mighty glad You ever get home sick Frankie first I did I never think about home no more George is a real nice place A gal can do real nice there. I'm doing nice. I got Johnny Yeah Sure, I got Johnny He comes back to the table from the bar you ask it. I do that When he comes back He ain't at the bar Frank. He ain't not anymore. Yeah, where's Johnny your name Frankie, ma'am? Yeah Where's Johnny? Well, he told me to tell you something. He said he had to leave He said don't wait up for him. Where'd he go? I don't know ma'am. He didn't say that My Johnny was not aware. We'll have us a chat. No, I'm gonna walk some more. We'll have us some beer No, thanks, miss Willie. We'll have us some whiskey Frankie. No, I gotta walk some more. I Got something to tell you Frankie What day long all night long to I never sleep. I See all sorts of people you see Johnny come by here miss Willie He shows a good little boy black hair plaster down like that You notice the way he walks, huh? People step back and let him come pass the way he walks my Johnny See him come by here lately. I Seen a gal come by here lately Hello, not this gal Ain't a night for a gal to be alone Real pretty gal Who was she with miss Willie had gold hair and red lips. Her name was Nelly Bly Nelly Bly He said a load of a gal named Nelly over cook loose. He wasn't saying goodbye when they passed here Where'd they go? Sure of the new suit again Where'd they go down the street down that way Frankie down to jelly cakes place? I think I saw him going to jelly cakes. I ain't sure now, but I think they did Where you going Frank it? Jelly cakes are the way I'm gonna find me a pawn shop. Why Frank it? I gotta buy me something what Gotta buy me a gun moment. 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Oh, are you miss Frankie? Can I talk to you a minute jelly cake? Sure can Sit down here. You like a little something to drink? No thanks Johnny been in here. He's been here with a girl. Mm-hmm What they do here They're sitting over there and they got up and dance for a while a couple of times when we played them soft But mostly they just sat He kissed her You are not me things like that miss Frankie. I want to know what he did Well, there was a little fight while he's in here wasn't very much of a fight. He just hit a man. That's all Johnny never hit a man of the kind of me. Oh, no, wasn't that miss Frankie? Some man walked by and spilled the little gin on Johnny's new suit It was an accident man didn't mean nothing, but Johnny hit him Said the man ruined his suit Johnny might have killed that man except for the lady He called Nelly she fixed it fixed it How? Took Johnny out of here for a little while Then they come back and Johnny was smiling Johnny was smiling and leaning close to this girl and telling the things Then she'd be smiling too and laying her head up against Johnny's new yellow suit Yellow suit I didn't buy me yellow suit. That's the kind of suit he's wearing when he come back in here miss Frankie Soft kind of yellow not the kind that screams at you whisper it kind of yellow The one I bought him cost a hundred dollars. Oh, you couldn't buy that yellow suit for no hundred dollars This was five pearl buttons on the coat and the vests were silk and there was a big gold chain across the front Oh, that Johnny lighted up the place with a soft pretty light I'd have bought him a suit like that if he'd asked me to How about him anything he wanted? You never bought him no diamonds, did you? Diamonds like the one he's wearing on his little finger miss Frankie That was the biggest diamond in the whole world the brightest one, too That Johnny ain't never gonna need a light to find his way around not with that diamond on his little finger I guess Nellie bought him that too and the pattern leather shoes and the king. I Guess she likes him real well. Guess that Johnny got himself a woman Where'd they go jelly cake out of here sometime ago? Must have been our where He came in dollar to claim a tune You call me a tune and said play it for I take my loving Nellie home. You know where she lives Yeah, that way this line crosses Charteris miss Frankie third house down left side. Thanks jelly cake What you gonna do? You know what I'm gonna do You're gonna kill it Well night miss Franky All yours Nellie You my woman. I ain't nobody else's Oh You're gonna like it in Memphis Johnny. I'm gonna like it fine as long as you're there By and by after Memphis will go on up to st. Louis. I can make out fine in st. Louis. I Know you can You ever been up with a Johnny? No father the matches. Oh, you're gonna like it You're gonna like it We're gonna miss that morning boat less than you get on with your packing. Yeah always something got a spoil of fun I'll get it, honey. Here's a clarinet. You sent me over to your place for Johnny. Oh, oh, yeah, yeah Anybody there? No, no, that's good Thanks, sure Johnny Come on Nellie baby get along with that packing. I Am to play me some music for the boat pulls out in the morning That man took all of my love Gonna kill that man houses down and stuff. I guess you want to go someplace after After you leave here lady You want me to wait? You can wait. Where's Johnny? I don't know what you're talking about lady. He'll be blind. He's gone lady She ain't never coming back a man with her Bearing a yellow suit and a golden chain and the diamond ring names Johnny, huh a Gent a real gent He's gone, too He's gone with Nellie blind They talk about where they were going they talk about Memphis St. Louis About riding the river boat come on That Johnny was a real sport Later $5 bill right here with my hand is I Only got two dollars right here with my hand is thank you kindly Would you buy it for five dollars mister what I'm gonna sell you for two Johnny sent me to his place to pick up something you're lying Johnny ain't got nothing except what's on his back got a clarinet That's what he told me to get that's all What do you want Johnny for? I Got something to give him to what's that a gun You you find him lady. I know where he is. I know for sure where he is Is that where we're going to cook lose Oh on Basin Street? That's right. Yeah, I know. I know where that is won't take long Cabby yeah, lady. I Got no more money. Oh I can't pay you for this ride cabbie You weren't kidding worry about what you said before What about what about killing a man? I wasn't kidding. I'm gonna kill him This ride won't cost you nothing I Wish I had me a guy like you Love me so much. You'd kill for me. I Wouldn't do a guy like that. No Where you think you're going Frank get out of my way Nelly Bly Going that back room Johnny won't even let me go in there So we ain't gonna let you I got the argument with you so get out of my way You got an argument with my sweet man. You got an argument with me. You want to go to Memphis Nelly? I'm going you want to go to st. Louis. I'm going there too. Maybe you're going and I ain't gonna stop you You're gonna find another sweet man to go with not Johnny Honey, he don't love you no more. He's tired of you. You told me Lots of things told me about my gold Red lips told me you ain't going with Johnny. So get out of here Nelly Go on Get out Where you hold that gun? I guess I'd better get on that riverboat and never come back here Yeah Killing miss Franky. He ain't much of a guy, but Johnny plays a lot of clarinet. Get out Teezo Morton to kill him Frankie when you leave here, mister close the door you buy Johnny He got shot officer. He did You do it Frankie. I did it then I got to take you down to the jailhouse Frankie In case you want to look out the jail window while he's passing by you want to look Climb on up and look Frankie. I see a long black coffin With people in funeral clothes Johnny's gone and cashed his checks To the graveyard my Johnny goes There goes that rubber tight There goes that rubber used and directed by William and ropes and listen Listen again next week when we return with another tale well calculated to keep you in Suspense Frankie and Johnny was adapted from the folk song by David Friedkin and Mort fine Music by Leith Stephens the part of Johnny was played by Shepard Menken Also heard in the cast were Shirley Mitchell Amanda Randolph Roy Glenn Joe DeSantis Jane Avello corny Anderson and Dawes Butler