 Autolight and its 98,000 dealers bring you Miss Dinah Shore in tonight's presentation of South Spence Tonight, Autolight presents the recreation in song and story of an American legend You're about to hear what happened to Frankie and Johnny our star Miss Dinah Shore Hey, hono, weren't those circus actor bats wonderful? Yes, sir have you know they remind me of the auto light electrical system in every auto light equipped car Working together just like the coil distributor generator starting motor Batteries spark plugs and all the other important parts of the complete auto light electrical system Well, there's one big difference. 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You love me, honey Johnny Johnny What do you want now talk to me, baby? That's all I want All right, come here That's what you wanted me You're my man Johnny. That's right. I'm your man except sometimes What are you talking about except sometimes Johnny when you go away? Where do you go when you go away, baby? Where do you go Johnny coo-coo's on Basin Street, you know that they don't serve nothing there I can't make you Johnny. What says a back room Backroom in a place to play my music Place to sit and play nobody bothers me in a couple others You know that baby, don't you worry? You can play your music someplace else and get money for it I worry about get away from here Frankie take yourself a walk Town on New Orleans so many places to play your music and you sit in a back room you go away from me Told you something baby. You don't like it. You can take that long walk to Georgia where you come from You leaving No Couple of girls I used to know never bothered me about not going down to coo-coo's. I won't bother you Johnny Got any money Frankie. I got some I saw me a suit Walking down Basin Street. I saw me a suit in the store window. I Didn't eat me that suit honey. You sure look good in it. Was it cost Johnny? I mean a cheap suit. I didn't say that Johnny. I just asked how much dollars You got a hundred dollars, baby. I got it. Well, it's good. That's fine We walk real slow along Basin The girls all calling by name But I'm too much Johnny Cuz I'm no feeling gay this one came Frankie while I put it on Johnny and me we went walking And Johnny had a brand new Show me off We'll walk down here to Esplanade and down Esplanade where the lights are and everybody can see you fine Hey lights are right in there, baby. We won't have to walk so much I kind of like it where the lights are inside in here anyway You want Johnny sure Hi, hi Nellie Yeah, Frankie bought it for me I need me a beer Frankie Get you one. Oh, I ain't thirsty honey. I'm thirsty. I'm real thirsty. Oh, I got $9. I ain't that thirsty Just give me one of them. All right here Come on. I'll sit you down near the piano wait here Frankie. I'll bring me back my beer and sit with you. Hi, Frankie Want me to play your song? Just do what you're doing T. So I like it Dreamy like yeah, I feel dreamy. How are you and Johnny getting along Frankie like that music you're playing I'm glad I'm mighty glad ever get home sick Frankie. Oh first. I did. I never think about home no more George is a real nice place a girl 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 him. I'll do that When he comes back He ain't at the bar Frankie bartender. Yeah, what you want, man? Where's Johnny your name Frankie, ma'am? Yeah Where's Johnny he told me to tell you something he said he had to leave he said don't wait up for him He said not to worry. Where'd he go? I don't know. I just don't know I ran to the street in a hurry. My Johnny was nowhere around A gal who leaned in a doorway made a soft laugh and sound They sell me some night time Tried to kiss away tears and hit come along pretty Frankie. I love you for years and years Forget your man Forget you man But I just walked toward North rampant search the dark night in between Keep on looking for Evening Frankie. Oh Hello, Miss Willie pretty evening ain't it? I haven't noticed. It's a real pretty evening Frankie You out stroll no alone. I guess I am come on inside 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. I gotta walk some more Who you're looking for? It don't matter. I got something to tell you Frankie What I Sit here all day long all night long. I never sleep. I see all sorts of things people Things going on You see Johnny come by here miss Willie. He's waiting for you Have you seen him? Oh, sure a good-looking boy black hair plaster down like that. My my the way he walks Yeah, you notice the way he walks on people step back and let him come past the way he walks my Johnny What's your interest in him Frankie? He's my man You see him come by here lately I Seen a gal come by here lately. Well, I I gotta go look for Johnny This gal wasn't alone In the night for a gal to be alone real pretty gal Who was she with miss Willie had gold hair and red lips and her name was Nelly Bly Nelly Bly He said hello to a gal named Nelly in a place. We were in he was with a Frankie Where'd they go to show off his new suit? I guess where did they go up the street down that way Frankie? Down to jelly cakes place. I leaned out the window and I think I saw them go into jelly cakes I ain't sure now, but I think they did Where are you going Frankie? Jelly cakes the other way I'm gonna find me a pawn shop Why Frankie? Gotta buy me something Gotta buy me a gun What are gonna do with the gun Frankie? 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You're always right with auto light Now auto light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage Miss Dinah shore in Elliott Lewis's production of Frankie and Johnny a true story Well calculated to keep you in South Spence They're gonna take fire be with you soon jelly cake. Hi you miss Frankie. Can I talk to you a minute jelly cake, please? You big please sit down Can I get you something to drink? Johnny been in here. You've been here with a girl. He was calling on Nellie. What did they do here? They were sitting over there. 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 aren't asking me things like that miss Frankie. I want to know what he did He had a little fight while he's in here Wasn't much of a fight just hit a man. That's all Johnny never hit a man on account of me or it wasn't that miss Frankie Some man walked up and spilled a little gin on Johnny's new suit It was an accident man didn't mean nothing but Johnny hit him said the man that ruined his suit Johnny might have killed that man except for the lady the one he called Nellie. She fixed it. Fixed it How took Johnny out of here for a little while then they come back Johnny was smiling Johnny was smiling and leaning close to the one he called Nellie. Tell him a thing Then she'd be smiling too Man I hit up against time his new yellow suit yellow suit. I didn't buy him a 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 a kind of yellow the one I bought him cost a hundred dollars Or you couldn't buy that yellow suit for the hundred dollars. This was five pearl buttons on the coat and the vest was silk There was a big gold chain across the front That Johnny lighted up the place Saw pretty light how to bought him a suit like that if he'd asked me to out of bought him anything he wanted Never asked you for no diamonds did it 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 of the shoes and the king and I guess she likes him real well Guess Danny got himself a woman Where'd they go jelly cake? Out of here sometime ago Must have been an hour. Where? Well, he give me a dollar to play him a tune Call me a tune said play it before I take my loving Nellie home. You know where she lives Where earth line crosses charters 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 him. Yeah. Good night miss Frank He is my man But he's doing me wrong Got a big rock on his finger And a yellow suit on his back Making love to that Nellie fly so driver over tax gonna kill that man What'd you say lady? Gonna kill that man Turn here the three houses down and stop you want to go someplace after you leave here lady You want me to wait you can wait Where's Johnny I know what you're talking about lady Nellie Bligh live here. She's gone lady She ain't never coming back a man with a wearing a yellow suit and a gold chain and a diamond ring There's Johnny. I'm a giant real giant. He's going to he's gone with Nellie Bligh They talk about where they were going they talked about Memphis and St. Louis by riding the riverboat come on and That Johnny is a real sport Later $5 bill right here where my hand is I only got two dollars Right here where my hand is Thank you kind What do you buy for $5 mr. What I'm going to sell you for to Johnny sent me to his place to pick up something your line Johnny ain't got nothing except what's on his back got a clarinet That's what told me to get that song What you want Johnny for I? Got something to give him to what's that? I've done you find him lady. I know where he is. I know for sure where he is Is that where we're going to Cuckaloo's on base history. That's right. I know where that is Won't take long. I got no more money. Oh, I can't pay you for this ride cabbie You weren't kidding were you about what you said before 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 gal like you Love me so much. She'd kill I wouldn't do a gal like that. No wrong Get out of my way Nellie Blime you can't go in that back room Johnny won't let me go in there So ain't gonna let you I got no argument with you so get out of my way You got an argument with my sweet man. You've got an argument with me. You want to go to Memphis Nellie? 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 but you're gonna find another sweet man to go with not Johnny I mean, he don't love you no more. He's tired of you. Tell me Tell me lots of things Tell me about my gold hair and the red lips. Tell me you ain't going with Johnny No I guess I am get out of here Nellie Where you hold that gunner? Guess I better get on that riverboat and never come back. I never coming back Frankie He ain't much of a guy, but Johnny plays a lot of clarinet get out You leave here, mr. Close the door Johnny goodbye Johnny roll them over easy boy roll them over slow. How do you feel Johnny? Hmm, I guess you don't hurt no more John. What happened to him? He got shot He died You do it Frankie. I got to take you to the jail house Frankie We better go Your chair to stand on Frankie in case you want to look out the jail window You want to look? You want to look Frankie? What do you see? I see a long black coffin people in funeral clothes Johnny's gone Caches chicks to the graveyard My Johnny go is that rubber-tired carriage? 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You're always right with auto light next week A man leaves his home drives to work talks to his friends excuses himself for a moment and is never seen again The story is called the missing person the star mr. McDonald carry The program will be presented next week on South Spence Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis with music composed by Lucian Morawick and conducted by Ludblom skin Tonight's Frankie and Johnny was written for suspense by Morton Fine and David Friedkin In tonight's story Lamont Johnson was heard as Johnny Featured in the cast were Alvina temple Martha Wentworth Sydney Miller Joseph Kearns Roy Glenn Harry Bartell and Jack Rusian Dinah shore may be seen each Tuesday and Thursday in her own television show on another network And remember next week on suspense mr. 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