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take a beer Angie one beer for the soldier make it high and they won't wait in Korea for this one here sit down let me have a look yeah oh boy you're looking great I'll give the army that much credit you never look better shape in your life that's right on the house I've been waiting a long while to hear that one of you thanks Angie it's good to be back for a while why wait a minute what's this what's this back for a while stuff I can see you're still in uniform but I figure that's because you hadn't had time to order up some civilian clothes look there hasn't been any follow-up about you're getting out of service has there after all the points you racked up no no there hasn't been any follow-up Steve the only thing okay okay whatever it is long as you're clear and out the minute they had me scared what do you mean scared of what I got plans kid all with your trumpet back in the band we're gonna start climbing right for the top again club bookings here Chicago Florida TV radio recording dates mixed in all the way maybe even the paramount before the year's out wait a minute wait a minute hold it Steve I'm glad to hear it looks like a good season not for me kid for us okay okay it's still my band but we're gonna be featuring Earl Decker and that trumpet that sends them traveling signals off Steve I'm booked up booked up yeah you mean you'd sign with another band after all the music I'll be making won't compete with yours I've re-enlisted in the army you've re-enlisted yeah yeah yeah I signed on my way over here that's what held me up look look girl I figure I'm as patriotic as the next guy but to bury a good horn man like you often the army you stick in the music Steve either back on the seventh division band or some other outfit I'm going through with Army music as my career I'll be Earl you sure you feel okay I never felt better why I just don't get it you're a musician you could rank up there with any of them before you through I mean any of them by the back such Moe any of look I'm not that good Steve you might be if you gave yourself a chance I'll have 27 years of all the chance any horn man could ask for an army band's man's never between bookings yeah I know look you're not gonna tear my hair off I can show you you're wrong well I don't think you can Steve and I'm sorry if I've thrown off any plans you can make it my plans I can sign another trumpet player if I have to and the bookings are lined up no matter who I have the thing is this what about your own kind of guys Earl I mean like every case of searing you don't find guys like that in the army do you Steve Steve men just like them and a lot more I found more real friends in the hourglass division than I ever had in my life some trumpet on this now or do we have to make with a birthday cake birthday cake what do you mean Scotty hey pop do we break down and tell him now you told him haven't you all right Earl here's wishing you a flock of happy returns now is when I go for a cake Kim now is exactly when you go for it and for those cans of chicken and thardines and box of candles okay I go and I'll his wife pay you that five bucks I've owed you since Yokohama many happy returns fellow wait a minute that's just his own money you're giving him back you know what my present is Earl I'm gonna clean your rifle and shine those shoes of yours before inspection tomorrow I might have to borrow your polish and break it off Scotty well if you're gonna surprise a guy what kind of a deal is it to go around selling off about it I had a minute how did you fellas even know it was my birthday I didn't tell it's in your service record is the company clerk tip pop and pop brief hey wait a minute fellas what we still want is some of that trumpet of yours on sunny side do we get it or do we have to send back your cake to the message wait a minute you mean I don't even get a taste of my own birthday cake unless I write right no horn no cake and no chicken no five bucks paid up no rifle pop pop the sandbag sandbag right along with him Earl the to on this hourglass combo coles for some trumpet and I want to hear okay okay let's go but I'm tight when your birthday pop will have you slapping that base from Reveley to taps Scotty and pop and fill and Kim Pee Wee or whatever you know his name is Kim Tae Won Kim Tae Won his little South Korean attached to us back in the fall of 50 I'm telling you butter and eel and mix in plenty of Navajo you still wouldn't have a better scalp and Kim Tae Won I've seen okay Earl I'll take your word for it great guys all around the whole seventh division the Koreans working with him I'd still like to know what a good bandsman does in the army okay if there's a parade a band sounds fine up and front right yeah yeah but how often do they have parades these days and then they just park you guys off under wraps somewhere when real trouble starts don't think look Steve they don't throw us in front line rifle companies if that's what you mean but the 8th Army wouldn't have given the unit this citation ribbon if they just figured us as a peacetime luxury I mean that went over your right pocket some kind of a medal you got no no it's a unit citation I was just lucky enough to be with good men and a good outfit and the name of the place the seventh division went into Korea was in John it was back in the 60 odd bandsmen of the hourglass division were just one small element of the cracked United Nations task force that landed at in Chong on the 17th and 18th of September 1950 and started the drive that was to knock the Communist Loose from South Korea but like every unit of that powerful invasion team the bandsmen had their assignments and carried them out successfully parts of the combination given them the following July tell how Army musicians can double in more than brass by direction of the Secretary of the Army under the provisions of AR 360-15 7th Infantry Division Band is cited for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services in Korea in support of combat operations during the period from 1 September 1950 to 30 June 1951 after the Incheon invasion members of the band set aside their musical instruments and took active part in the defense of the division command post from time to time band members were formed into reconnaissance patrols and comb the rugged Korean hills searching for gorilla hideouts at a time when enemy raiding parties and ambushes were a nightly occurrence and invasion forces were fighting to relieve pressure on embattled United Nations forces to the south the band established road blocks participated in outpost duty and guarded vital supplies on several occasions braving subzero weather and enemy action the small unit served as advanced party for the division command working tirelessly the band organized variety shows and musical combinations for the entertainment of line soldiers whenever the tactical situation permit the entertainment of line soldiers whenever the tactical situation permitted as the armies of the red aggressors were ripped apart and driven from South Korea the bandsmen of the hourglass division were able to devote increasing amounts of time to that pleasanter side of their duties traveling by Jeep and truck were pushing ahead on foot Earl Scott a fill pop and the others of the hourglass combo were one of the small subunits that planned out to regimental battalion and company posts to rest in forward areas to keep bringing straight from home music to the combat men and sometimes music that there wasn't so straight from home guys you call them we play them say that you had good guys and I can see now maybe you're in some of your pay over that career we were just in support Steve the infantry and the rest of them on straight combat assignments were the one who really earned their pay we got a charge out of helping them when we could used to sleep till noon when you're here with us on 7th Avenue yeah I remember look if they kept you so busy over there didn't you miss the good times we used to have and the good easy times you can have again if you'll only sign out of the army and we had our good times over there Steve we had a 15 are an ideal operating as soon as we got by those first four or five tough months what's an aren't our deal rest in recuperation couple of times that even got us to Tokyo look the way they worked it 15% of the men in the unit could be away on leave at any given time we set up the schedule by drawing for dates me a ton of a lottery yeah yeah we could do it you know we'd all going in about the same time and the points were pretty much even I remember the second lottery we had about 50 of us drawing for just five places open I'm going to get your draw so don't crowd in here him shopping up the numbers in his helmet and there's one in there for all of you have the payoff numbers are one to five that's right one to five they get you to Tokyo the higher numbers hold on here till next time you all set their cameras all set subtle all right file by and pull your numbers I'll check and call them out is mine pop up who let be low 37 fail 14 next 31 next 8 to 5 Scotty you're in good sapling kid 1442 not 3 it's yours Earl that's mine I said hey Earl you got it made we're headed for Tokyo wait a minute wait a minute Scotty pop we'll hit the PX's for you you just name any listen you lucky stiffs you better get going before we call a recon we got three more numbers to find here then come on Earl let's get back at 22 tough luck Maggie wow Tokyo yeah solid week of lead to see it mm-hmm Earl that was the jackpot we you are listening to the proudly we hail production our glass combo we'll return in just a moment for the second act young man why not let a thought for tomorrow be your thought for today in selecting your life's work it's important to consider all of the requirements of a satisfactory career opportunities for advancement dignity and importance of your work permanence of your job living standards retirement benefits and value of experience when you choose a career in the United States Army you'll find it's more than just another means of earning a living your Army career will be a way of life rich and fine associations the satisfaction that stems from public service and the opportunity for achievement and adventure in the far corners of the world so why not let a thought for tomorrow be your thought for today visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station right away and ask about the career opportunities in the United States Army you are listening to proudly we hail and now we present the second act of our glass combo Tokyo one of the great lead towns of the Korean War where the musical styles of east and west were meeting in ways that would have startled madam butterfly and where Earl and Scotty on a typical musicians holiday we're touring the clubs and night spots to hear all the town had to offer take that tokyo boogie man is off it's cool cool Scotty's melting at the end where's the left hand this kid's singing Scotty quiet take the size of her she could set up house in a clarinet case keep a block of chickens right in with her cause I'm made won't you forgive, won't you forgive, won't you forget, let's be sweet every chess set all hand card hey you think papa like to have it nah we're overboard on the Sarge now those cans of ravioli and the fly swatters and that Korean Diction how about Phil nah he wouldn't know a chess set from a box of candlesticks we got enough new reeds for him to keep him stocked up till he gets stateside hey hey look look fishpaw oh what about these spinners and glass rods and everything well I'll be they've even got skis we better head back to the food counter Scotty we can pack in a few more cans of lobster meat but I'd hate to try finding room for a pair of those skis hey wait a minute oh man what about those kimonas over there wouldn't one of those green silk jobs be great for my girl what do you mean the redhead of course the redhead you think I'd send stuff back home to anybody but Julie I don't know anyway you pick out your kimono I'm gonna get one of those pipes for Kim sure thing hey that's on the nose for Kim he's been wanting to sit in with a combo ever since I you were picking out a kimono for Julie remember oh yeah well you know maybe Julie get a bang out of one of these too come on let's see how they sound okay you're nearly got me on the ropes you like your time off in Tokyo you like the guys in your outfit and your army band's men seem to have been doing a pretty fair job of being useful over there but I still say you still say what well you were starting to do some arranging for us back before you enlisted remember how you said you were going to get some serious music in before you were through yeah sure don't don't don't take this against the army kid but where would you get a chance in service to learn the kind of things you said you were going to get to what do you mean construction and theory whatever you call it the kind of heavy-duty stuff they teach him over at the Julia places like that Steve, Steve, Chief Warren Officer Margolin's a graduate of the conservatory at Oberlin we had a half a dozen Julia I've been right in our own outfit they've been helping me keep up my studying all along you've been able to keep up with all that stuff? keep up and move ahead in the army I'll be learning more of my own field every year lots more than ever got outside whether I'm good enough to do any real arranging and composing I still have to find out, sure, but if I miss won't be for me not having the chance you sure you don't want another beer? no, no thanks Steve, I'm meeting Laura I should be shoving off pretty soon anyway okay let's get down to bedrock I still got two last points here Steve, I'm staying in the army and Laura's as much in favor of it as I can you haven't heard my points of course if you're too stubborn to listen all right, all right, all right, what are your points? the first one's audiences you could be heard and known by millions from coast to coast I know, I know you never grabbed for the spotlight but being known can be a pretty good feeling what's your other point? dough and it's a crusher you figure you ever can get rich in the army? no, no I wouldn't say rich come on back with us Earl and you can be drawn down hundreds a week before the year is out next year maybe up in the thousands what are you laughing at? oh Steve, how much money you got in your pockets right now? well, look we've got a big deal coming up next month come on, come on, get your wallet out I'm not talking about next week or next year, but right now all right ooh, ooh Steve, you're doing better than I thought a five and two seven all right, so maybe it's just seven bucks right this minute but only last month look, I've got sixty odd in a bank book back with my stuff all right, now don't be so embarrassed who's embarrassed? I know the routine from way back up in the chips one week, flat broke the next didn't I have two years of it with you? those were the old days I've smartened up since then I know all the managers and how to pick our spots for the big build up records, guest shots on radio and television but right now in the army Steve I'm saving more money than I was ever able to outside yeah? if I hit warrant officer Laura and I'll probably have a house built before you get through chasing from room rent and twenty seven years from now Steve when I'm still a long way from the shelf I'll go on three quarters pay for life and be able to take any outside work I want I mean just playing it safe, not gambling on yourself so I mean, I mean just doing what I've always wanted to do make good music and keep on learning more about it and that's exactly what the army's going to pay me to do well I told you about these bookings that I've got I've got a better booking Steve or at least it's the one I want and you talk about audiences, sure I like people to like what I play but I've been having the best listeners I ever had since I was big enough to get my lips up to a mouthpiece Steve I remember one night when it was still rugged over in Korea this hourglass combo of ours was up at a company post running a session from the back of a truck there were six of us counting the driver who doubled on the drums and there might have been about 90 men out listening but then just as we were starting another number a crazy attack Steve and nearly battalion strength Pop and the rest of us grabbed our carbines and started up the hill to see what we could do to help out but the captain told us everything was under control and brother it was the way his men in the artillery chopped up that attack I think they could have chewed up a regiment we were just packing up to clear out figuring we'd only be in the way if they wouldn't let us fight when the first two or three squads started filing back while they were concerned the attack had just been a fast intermission that company wanted its music and no four or five hundred reds were going to keep them from having it well we picked up right where we left off and before we finished the number we had more men out in front than we had to start with get ridin' there, that's an audience you got out there when I get stupid they don't come any stupider what do you mean Steve? Here I've been trying to talk you out of the army and now you've got me thinking maybe I've been missing out on a real deal all along No! What's the age limit for a musician to get in? Oh no, come on, look Steve, I wasn't making a pitch for you I know, I know, I know Maybe I'd fall apart if I ever tried to take a physical How's it about filling me in on what it takes? I'm not saying I am going to try to enlist, remember? I don't want anybody thinking I'm a pushover I want to witness to this, Angie! Come on over here, some Seventh Avenue history being made Okay, now Steve, what was it you wanted enough? 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