 The Road Hour. It's the summer show train you most of the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and all the other things you use in your daily life. Brings you the railroad summer show train starring Gordon Macrae and featuring Lucille Norman with the music of Carmen Dragon in the orchestra, stripped by Gene Holloway and the choir under the direction of Norman Lubbock. And now, here's our star, Gordon Macrae. Thank you, Marvin Miller and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight, we're going to ride the summer show train back through time and memory to one of the most beloved eras that America lived yesterday, the gay 90s. My wife, by the way, you kids! It was the year of the celluloid collar, the tandem bicycle, and horse cars on Broadway. Ladies' skirts were well below their modest ankles and their necklines were well up to their modest chin. The hourglass here was the figure to strive for. And one of the most famous of those figures belonged to the incomparable Lillian Russell. If you were a gay young lady back in those days, you may have had her picture on your dresser. Or maybe you had a girl of your own, then. And on Sunday afternoons, you dressed up in a blazer and white flannels and took her canoeing. And, as she'd strum on her mandolin, you'd sing her a song that went like this. Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey. Hello, my ragtime gal. Send me a kiss fly-wise. Baby, my heart, then you'll be left alone. Oh, baby, telephone. Tell me our smoke is darkening the blue sky. The darkness will spread as the news blazes across the American headlines and angry accusations. And an accounting will be demanded. From a Cuban shore, you have watched the beginning of a war. It will be one of America's great heroes in Juan Hill, a group of American cavalrymen known as the Left Riders. The man leading you is charging into history. You stand Juan Hill. He will be elected Governor of New York. And later, he will be elected the 26th President of the United States. We adore Roosevelt. We're talking about Teddy Roosevelt, Commodore Dewey, and Edwin Booth, and Mort Adams. You were singing a Waltz song whose story brought a tear to your sentimental life, a song that went like this. I'm sorry, Mrs. Jones. If you don't like it, don't buy it. I have to pay 10 cents a pound for it myself. Well, we won't be taking our house for the time being. Now, how much are you asking for pork chops? 11 cents. 7 cents for pork chops? Don't buy pork chops. He is coming to bother 26 a pound. A dozen. Bacon, 14 cents a pound. It's a positive disgrace. I'm going to write to Washington about it. She may have... Looking at the garden theater in New York. In 1898, Alice Nielsen starred in Victor Herbert's newest operetta, The Fortune Teller. And for the first time, America heard this unforgettable melody. Cyrus Tenor sang this well-known love song. And then almost everyone's imagination was working overtime. I tell you, it's the greatest idea that's ever been brought to the New York Queensborough. I can't say it. What do you mean you can't see it? You want the police force to be efficient, don't you? You want it able to move from place to place quickly, don't you? Well, listen, I'm telling you this. You want the police force to be able to catch up with the criminals in this town? The thing to do is to put them on roller skates. Legically. We'll go by you. Hurry up, head in the sand. Go ahead. Someday all policemen will operate on roller skates. Vanellie Bly went around the world in 72 days, six hours, 10 minutes, and 58 seconds. Those were the days when the famed engine number 999 scooted down the track at the rate of 112 and one-half miles an hour between Crittenden and Wendy, New York. And those were the days when America first sang a beautiful new song by Adam Guyville. Chuck E. Bay. These are going to be important some days. Motion pictures? I had a part of his theater. I wouldn't have a motion picture playing it. The motion pictures will kill off part of it. That's what they'll do. Back in the K-90s, and so were a lot of other things that seemed small at the time and were to achieve great stature in the new century. The game of basketball had started in 1891. Electric trolley, the horseless carriage, the first golf championship match. The K-90s was the era of Lillian Russell and Diamond Jim Brady and Mrs. Leslie Carter. The derby hats and high button shoes and police-lined underwear. It was the era of the waltz and of the investor and of dreamers who began to glimpse the wonders that lay ahead. The K-90s. Over 50 years back into time and memory. To a September evening in 1891, when Jesse Bartlett Davis stood on the stage of a Boston theater and in the opera of Robin Hood, sang a song that was destined to become a legendary part of the American wedding ceremony. A song that will live forever. For it belongs to all people in love. Transportation in the world. Now they accomplish this through the unbeatable combination of safe men and safe equipment. On the railroad, Safety First is much more than a slogan. It is a guiding principle every mile of the way. Railroad men know by experience and training that only a safe worker is an efficient worker. And railroads have spent billions of dollars in providing the safest plant and equipment money can buy. Yes, that's why the railway is the safe way for you to travel. Sitting on top of the world was one of America's biggest hits back in 1925. The next summer, the summer show train is the next week. That is, the summer show train is going to take you on a trip to that year to relive some of its interesting happening. And hear many of its greatest songs. Songs like Only a Road, Always and He for Two. So folks, be sure to join us again next Monday and ride with us aboard the summer show train back to the year 1925. Looks is over, ready to pull out. And so until next week, goodbye. This is Marvin Miller with a hearty invitation from the American Railroad to join us again next week and drive the summer show train back to the year 1925. Now stay tuned to your Monday night of music on NBC.