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00:00:00 [Footsteps]
00:00:04 The following program is brought to you in living color on NBC.
00:00:10 [Footsteps]
00:00:13 Good evening.
00:00:15 For the next 90 minutes, we're going to tell you a little about a man named Manny Sachs.
00:00:23 Who he was, what he did, and what he actually meant to a great many people
00:00:30 whose names and faces shine out at us from the glittering and beautiful world of entertainment.
00:00:38 The story of Manny Sachs is actually a wonderful story.
00:00:45 It's a success story, a typical American success story.
00:00:49 And every time it happens, the lady with the lamp stands just a little bit taller.
00:00:56 Manny started out as a salesman in a very small dress shop in Philadelphia.
00:01:03 And he wound up with a whole fistful of initials after his name.
00:01:08 Just about the most important initials there are in show business.
00:01:12 Initials like NBC, RCA, CBS.
00:01:17 And whether he was called executive vice president of a television network
00:01:24 or a general manager of a recording company or just Manny, his job was always the same.
00:01:32 He was the sort of a right-hand man.
00:01:36 Right-hand man in charge of kindness, health, guidance.
00:01:45 And that's why Manny is a true success story,
00:01:49 because in addition to all the titles and initials, he also wound up with a lot of friends.
00:01:55 Among them were cab drivers, elevator men, shoeshine boys.
00:02:00 And sometimes they were a little better known because, possibly because their names were up in lights.
00:02:08 And that's why we're all here tonight, to help you, rather to help tell a little about Manny Sachs.
00:02:15 Not only as performers, but just simply as some of Manny's friends.
00:02:22 [Music]
00:02:45 The names you see on the screen before you are some of those whose careers were helped and furthered
00:02:52 by a word, a phone call, a lunch, a hand clasp, a gleam in the eye,
00:02:59 or an all day, all night, all year conference with Manny Sachs.
00:03:07 Dinah Shore.
00:03:11 Frank Sinatra.
00:03:16 Kay Starr.
00:03:20 Danny Thomas.
00:03:25 Jane Wyman.
00:03:29 And Jack Webb, your host tonight for the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company.
00:03:36 Better known to you as Chesterfield, L&M, and Oasis.
00:03:42 [Music]
00:03:51 There's so many things I want to say about Manny Sachs, I don't know where to begin.
00:03:56 I guess everyone has a Manny Sachs in his life, if he's lucky.
00:04:00 Your own personal Rock of Gibraltar.
00:04:03 When I was at sort of a low point in my career, it was Manny who turned me around
00:04:09 and set me in the right direction and put me right into the heart of that television picture.
00:04:14 Not of course until he had set me right in the recording picture.
00:04:18 Manny had picked this song for me, and he made me record it because he had such faith in it.
00:04:24 Well, I wasn't too sure because it was a little offbeat for me, but Manny insisted,
00:04:30 and I recorded it, and you know the answer.
00:04:33 It became the biggest hit record I ever had in my life.
00:04:36 Funny thing, when we got to the record date, they made a very fancy arrangement of it,
00:04:40 and it just didn't seem to be right.
00:04:42 It was getting very late, and Manny said, "Now, everybody go home with the rhythm section and the accordion player.
00:04:48 Just sing it nice and easy, Dinah."
00:04:51 And the reason Manny was so concerned was because I was expecting the stork any minute.
00:04:57 Of course, the stork didn't come around that night. I recorded the song and went home.
00:05:01 The stork came the next night. That was some week.
00:05:04 Here's the song.
00:05:06 ♪ East is east and west is west and the wrong one I've chose ♪
00:05:12 ♪ Let's go where I keep on going ♪
00:05:15 ♪ Rings and flowers and buttons and bows ♪
00:05:18 ♪ Rings and things and buttons and bows ♪
00:05:24 ♪ Don't bury me in this prairie ♪
00:05:27 ♪ Take me where the sea grows ♪
00:05:30 ♪ Let's move down to some big town ♪
00:05:33 ♪ Where the lovely gal loves to cut her clothes ♪
00:05:37 ♪ And I'll stand out in buttons and bows ♪
00:05:42 ♪ I'll love you in buckskin ♪
00:05:45 ♪ Or skirts that I've old spun ♪
00:05:49 ♪ But I love you long and strong ♪
00:05:51 ♪ To where your friends don't tote a gun ♪
00:05:55 ♪ My bones denounce the buckboard bounce ♪
00:05:58 ♪ And the cactus hurts my toes ♪
00:06:02 ♪ Let's bamboozle where gals keep using those silks and satins ♪
00:06:06 ♪ And linens that shows ♪
00:06:08 ♪ And I'm all yours in buttons and bows ♪
00:06:14 ♪ Give me eastern trimming where women are women ♪
00:06:17 ♪ In a high silk hose and deep blue clothes ♪
00:06:21 ♪ And French perfume that rocks the room ♪
00:06:24 ♪ And I'm all yours in buttons and bows ♪
00:06:29 ♪ Buttons and bows ♪
00:06:32 ♪ Buttons and bows ♪
00:06:36 (audience applauding)
00:06:49 - Thank you very much, Dinah.
00:06:51 And now it gives me great pleasure to introduce
00:06:53 my very good friend, Mr. Jack Webb,
00:06:55 speaking for Liggett & Myers.
00:06:58 And I'd like to add a word or two, if I may.
00:07:01 This show has been on the dreaming board for a long time now,
00:07:06 but with all the goodwill in the world,
00:07:08 it just wouldn't be possible for it to get off the board
00:07:11 and onto the stage until a man named Terry Kline,
00:07:15 who represents Liggett & Myers,
00:07:17 and one of Manny's very dearest friends,
00:07:19 sat down and worked out all the conflicting commitments
00:07:23 and the problems and, of course, the financial huddles.
00:07:27 Never mind that on that night,
00:07:29 Frank Sinatra might be in Burma,
00:07:31 Nat Cole in Las Vegas,
00:07:33 Tony Martin in Miami, and all the rest of it,
00:07:35 but Terry got on the plane and set the wheels in motion,
00:07:39 and I don't think he's been down yet.
00:07:42 Certainly in my own case,
00:07:43 I have found that the word "sponsor"
00:07:46 means a very real and warm and human kind of a person.
00:07:51 Here again tonight is one more example of it,
00:07:54 ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jack Webb.
00:07:58 [crickets chirping]
00:08:01 This is the city, Hollywood.
00:08:08 My name is Jack Webb.
00:08:11 I'm proud to be with Manny's friends
00:08:13 and to continue my long association with Liggett & Myers.
00:08:17 You know them better as Chesterfield, L&M, and Oasis.
00:08:21 Now, they've asked me to take you on location backstage
00:08:24 to meet some of the stars of their programs
00:08:27 and to show you how commercials are made.
00:08:30 So, let's go.
00:08:32 Now, on our way, we'll be seeing some famous landmarks like these.
00:08:38 You know, here in Hollywood, we have one big job--
00:08:42 to build entertainment,
00:08:43 to make television pleasure for you the year round.
00:08:47 Now, Liggett & Myers works year round to make pleasure, too--
00:08:51 smoking pleasure.
00:08:52 We're kind of partners in the business of pleasure.
00:08:55 The fact is, in Hollywood and New York right now,
00:08:58 Chesterfield, L&M, and Oasis have seven big shows going,
00:09:03 plus two brand-new programs coming up this month.
00:09:07 Here at Mark 7, my home base,
00:09:12 we're shooting "D.A.'s Man."
00:09:15 And there's the star.
00:09:18 Hi, John.
00:09:19 That's John Compton for Chesterfield.
00:09:22 In this studio, we're working on our new show,
00:09:26 "Pete Kelly's Blues,"
00:09:27 starting March 31st for Chesterfield.
00:09:31 Come on in and meet the gang.
00:09:33 Here's Pete Kelly's Big 7.
00:09:36 [music]
00:09:44 And here's the man himself,
00:09:46 Pete Kelly, Bill Reynolds.
00:09:48 Hi, Jack.
00:09:49 Cathcart made me sound pretty good.
00:09:51 Yeah. Now tell me something, Pete.
00:09:52 What can you and the boys do
00:09:53 with the Chesterfield Men of America theme?
00:09:55 Give us the pictures, we'll give you the music.
00:09:58 [music]
00:10:01 Chesterfield
00:10:04 From the farmers on the rolling plain
00:10:07 Driving pressure through the golden grain
00:10:10 Two construction workers going day and night
00:10:13 Caning the fury of a river's might
00:10:16 They're all men of America making the swing
00:10:19 To the top tobacco in Chesterfield King
00:10:22 Chesterfield
00:10:25 Sun drenched top tobacco's gonna mean
00:10:28 That you're smoking smoother and you're smoking clean
00:10:31 Only top tobacco, full king size
00:10:34 Gives the beat clean taste that always satisfies
00:10:37 Chesterfield
00:10:40 Chesterfield
00:10:43 Chesterfield
00:10:46 [music]
00:10:54 We thought a living room setting would be
00:10:56 most appropriate for a show about Manny
00:10:59 because, well, there's the television set
00:11:02 and there's the record player and the radio
00:11:05 and Manny was responsible for so much
00:11:07 of the entertainment that came pouring out of them.
00:11:10 There are other reasons, too.
00:11:11 It seems that a living room is where I always think of Manny.
00:11:15 I mean, sitting there helping me pick out a song or a dress
00:11:18 or a name for the baby or telling me about a fella named Eddie Fisher.
00:11:22 Dinah, I think of Manny on a lonely street corner in Philadelphia
00:11:27 because that's where I think I'd still be
00:11:29 if he and his brother Lester hadn't found me.
00:11:32 What I owe Manny I can never put into 90 minutes.
00:11:35 I used to hang around his office, outside his office,
00:11:38 for many, many hours every day for a long time.
00:11:41 I think you were in at the time.
00:11:43 Oh, yeah.
00:11:44 And finally one day came my big break.
00:11:47 Eddie, he cried, "I found a song and only you can record it.
00:11:50 Not Cuomo, not Sinatra, not Lanza, only you."
00:11:53 Hey!
00:11:54 Yes.
00:11:55 I've been to Cuomo, Sinatra, and Lanza and you're the only one left.
00:11:58 [laughter]
00:11:59 Must have been a darling song.
00:12:01 Oh, it actually was a very beautiful song, Dinah.
00:12:03 But that wasn't the point.
00:12:05 You know what kind of guy we're talking about?
00:12:08 All a song plugger had to do was look hungry
00:12:11 and Manny would get his song recorded.
00:12:13 So you recorded it.
00:12:14 Yes.
00:12:15 And that was sort of a start.
00:12:17 Didn't quite sell a million records.
00:12:19 It fell short by about 950,000.
00:12:22 But it was the beginning.
00:12:24 [music]
00:12:26 With these hands I will cling to you.
00:12:35 I'm yours forever and a day.
00:12:44 With these hands I will bring to you
00:12:54 a tender love as warm as May.
00:13:03 With this heart I will sing to you
00:13:12 long after stars have lost their glow.
00:13:19 And with these hands I'll provide for you.
00:13:30 Should there be a stormy sea, I'll turn the tide for you.
00:13:40 And I'll never, no, I'll never let you go.
00:13:55 With these hands I'll provide for you.
00:14:03 Should there be a stormy sea, I'll turn the tide for you.
00:14:14 And I'll never let you go.
00:14:32 [applause]
00:14:42 It was wonderful, Eddie, and I've been sorry ever since
00:14:45 that I didn't, that I turned it down.
00:14:52 Names and dates and places,
00:14:56 they kind of recede further and further into the background.
00:15:02 The really important thing that remains
00:15:04 is the measure of the man.
00:15:08 And I'd like to tell you a little story
00:15:10 about this very happy character that he was.
00:15:16 It seems that he was known as the man who couldn't say no.
00:15:22 He had a terrific business sense, made deals
00:15:26 involving millions of dollars, and yet he was the fellow
00:15:31 that could never hurt anybody.
00:15:35 And a very great friend of his, a girl named Janet Kern,
00:15:39 who is also a very fine, noted television critic
00:15:43 of the Chicago American, she tells a story about Manny
00:15:48 that really illustrates the point.
00:15:52 Manny was the kind of a guy that they were always trying
00:15:56 to marry off, you know?
00:15:59 And this particular evening, somebody's aunt or cousin
00:16:04 had introduced him to a girl, and they were going out to dinner.
00:16:08 Now, I imagine that the girl was a very lovely person,
00:16:11 but Manny just wasn't in the mood to get married.
00:16:16 Anyway, after dinner, Manny wanted to call it sort of
00:16:19 an early evening, but he didn't want to hurt the girl's feelings.
00:16:23 So instead of saying, "Well, I'm tired, and I think I'd better
00:16:26 get on to bed," he merely said, "Excuse me, I have to leave now
00:16:30 because I'm taking the midnight plane to Chicago.
00:16:36 But of course, first, I'll take you home."
00:16:39 The girl says, "Oh, no, no, you've been so sweet
00:16:41 and so wonderful, I insist that you let me help you pack."
00:16:45 (audience laughter)
00:16:47 And that's Manny, and Manny said, "Well, I've already packed."
00:16:51 And she says, "Well, good, then I'll pick up the bags
00:16:54 and I'll drive you to the airport."
00:16:57 So poor Manny had to go back to the hotel,
00:17:00 and while the girl was waiting in the taxi cab,
00:17:03 Manny threw a few things in the bag, like magazines,
00:17:06 telephone, books, anything he could find,
00:17:08 and just dropped everything in, and off they go to the airport.
00:17:12 To get there, Manny says, "Well, thank you very much.
00:17:14 Now I can take it from here, see?
00:17:16 Now stay in the cab, and the cab will take you home."
00:17:19 The girl says, "Oh, no, no, I insist on seeing you off."
00:17:22 (audience laughter)
00:17:24 Which meant, of course, that Manny had now,
00:17:26 he had to buy a ticket, he had to pay $6 excess
00:17:30 for telephone books and stuff that he had put in the planes,
00:17:34 and he stepped on the plane, and he flew to Chicago.
00:17:39 All because he didn't want to hurt the young lady's feelings.
00:17:44 But wouldn't you know that he made a business trip
00:17:46 out of it, after all?
00:17:48 (audience laughter)
00:17:49 Sure, at 3 o'clock in the morning, he called Janet Kern,
00:17:51 and he said, "Meet me for a cup of coffee in the morning, Jan,
00:17:55 and I'll explain NBC's plans for next year."
00:17:58 This is the way this character did everything.
00:18:01 Hi, Rosie.
00:18:03 (audience applause)
00:18:07 You know, talk about Manny not wanting to hurt
00:18:12 anybody's feelings.
00:18:13 You know how I met him?
00:18:15 No, would you like to tell them?
00:18:16 All right.
00:18:17 I was singing with Tony Pastra's band, and one day
00:18:19 my manager, Joe Shribman, burst into the band rehearsal,
00:18:22 and he grabbed me and he said, "Manny Sax wants you
00:18:25 to make a record for Columbia, and he thinks
00:18:27 you're a pretty fine singer."
00:18:28 Well, at the time, I didn't know who Manny Sax was,
00:18:31 but I wasn't going to ask questions.
00:18:33 I ran right over there, boy, and 10 minutes later,
00:18:35 I was making the record.
00:18:36 So that's how you met Manny, huh, Rosie?
00:18:38 Oh, there's more weight.
00:18:39 The recording session just started out miserably
00:18:42 and went downhill all the way.
00:18:44 Everybody was telling me how to sing a song,
00:18:46 and I was nervous.
00:18:47 Finally, I just got so discouraged that I stamped off
00:18:50 into the control room, and there was one thin,
00:18:52 youngish fellow sitting in a corner,
00:18:54 and I took it all out on him.
00:18:56 Just mumbled, and I don't remember exactly what I said,
00:18:58 but it was something like, "I think there are
00:19:00 too many executives around here."
00:19:03 He just smiled and said that everything was going
00:19:06 to be wonderful.
00:19:07 I was so mad and he was so cheerful that I went out
00:19:09 and did the song in the next take, though.
00:19:12 I suppose the little man in the control booth was Manny.
00:19:15 Yes, it was, of course.
00:19:16 And when Joe finally introduced me to him and said,
00:19:19 "This is the man who gave you your break,"
00:19:21 I finally regained my composure.
00:19:24 I heard Manny say, "You know, you're right.
00:19:26 I think there are too many executives around here."
00:19:29 That's sweet.
00:19:30 He knew something.
00:19:31 How did the record do, Rosie?
00:19:32 Well enough to get me started on my own.
00:19:34 That song will always mean Manny to me, though, Perry,
00:19:36 and it's the one I want to sing right now.
00:19:38 It was called "You Started Something,"
00:19:39 and I guess it did.
00:19:41 Would you like to do it standing up or sitting?
00:19:44 Oh, I think I'll stand.
00:19:45 You won't even--
00:19:46 I'll stand this way.
00:19:47 I'll take the--
00:19:48 [music playing]
00:20:01 You were just passing by, but you started something.
00:20:08 I may never know why, but you started something.
00:20:15 With your glance, a new romance was in the making.
00:20:21 Just like the sun starts the flowers to waking.
00:20:30 I knew all about love.
00:20:33 I said, this can't happen.
00:20:37 But then you came along and caught my heart napping.
00:20:44 Now each hour and each new day will always be spring.
00:20:52 'Cause you really started something.
00:20:59 I knew all about love.
00:21:02 I said, this can't happen.
00:21:06 But then you came along and caught my heart napping.
00:21:14 Now each hour and each new day will always be spring.
00:21:24 'Cause you, you really started something.
00:21:33 [applause]
00:21:42 This is an animation studio where
00:21:47 they make those cartoons you get so much fun out of,
00:21:50 so much pleasure.
00:21:51 They said it couldn't be done.
00:21:53 Couldn't be done, done, done.
00:21:54 Couldn't be done, done.
00:21:56 Well now, who said that?
00:21:58 I'm sure you know that just about everybody in the country
00:22:01 has been saying it.
00:22:02 And you know what it means.
00:22:04 It means L&M brought pleasure to filter smoking.
00:22:07 And now, they're even singing it.
00:22:10 They said it couldn't be done.
00:22:14 They said nobody could do it.
00:22:17 And now let's go over here and see how
00:22:19 they set that music to pictures.
00:22:22 It takes a lot of drawings like this, about a thousand of them.
00:22:27 Each is photographed.
00:22:29 And the final result?
00:22:30 Well, all put together, it looks like this.
00:22:33 They said it couldn't be done.
00:22:36 They said nobody could do it.
00:22:40 But L&M is low and tar with Vorte's to it.
00:22:45 L&M don't sell for any other.
00:22:49 Low tar.
00:22:51 More taste.
00:22:52 Don't sell for one without the other.
00:22:57 L&M.
00:22:58 Low tar.
00:23:00 More taste.
00:23:01 L&M is kindest to your taste.
00:23:04 Yes.
00:23:05 Low tar.
00:23:06 More taste.
00:23:07 Get them both with L&M.
00:23:09 Don't sell for one without the other.
00:23:14 L&M.
00:23:20 Right now we come to the first of many rolls of tape.
00:23:23 The tape that's made so much of this show possible.
00:23:28 Because so many of Manny's friends had conflicting commitments.
00:23:33 But because they insisted on being on the show,
00:23:35 we sort of taped them in advance.
00:23:38 For instance, the young lady I have the pleasure of introducing right now
00:23:43 is currently in Las Vegas.
00:23:46 Her success happened overnight.
00:23:49 Because there came a point in Manny's career when the record company
00:23:53 that he was controlling had nothing but male vocalists
00:23:57 and he had to come up with a girl singer.
00:24:00 And a girl singer that could sell records.
00:24:02 Say, like a million.
00:24:05 So he took a chance on this artist and gave her a song called
00:24:09 "The Rock 'n' Roll Waltz."
00:24:12 But he was wrong.
00:24:13 It didn't sell a million records, it sold two million.
00:24:17 Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Kay Stark.
00:24:20 [applause]
00:24:22 [music]
00:24:28 There in the night
00:24:31 What a wonderful scene
00:24:34 Mom was dancing with Dad
00:24:38 By the record machine
00:24:42 And as they danced
00:24:46 Only one thing was wrong
00:24:49 They were trying to waltz
00:24:53 To a rock 'n' roll song
00:24:57 One, two, and then rock
00:25:01 One, two, and then roll
00:25:05 One, two, and then jump
00:25:08 It's good for your soul
00:25:12 It's old but it's new
00:25:15 Let's do a rock 'n' roll waltz
00:25:22 Let's do a rock 'n' roll waltz
00:25:29 [music]
00:25:33 [applause]
00:25:40 [music]
00:25:50 Old rug and chairs got me
00:25:53 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:25:57 Cane by my side
00:26:00 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:26:04 Fetch me that drink, son
00:26:08 Before I turn your heart
00:26:13 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:26:17 Can't get from this cabin
00:26:24 Going nowhere
00:26:31 Just sitting here grabbing
00:26:35 At the flies
00:26:39 Flies 'round my rock 'n' chair
00:26:41 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:26:45 My dear old Aunt Harriet
00:26:52 How can heaven she be
00:26:59 Send me a chariot
00:27:03 For the end of my troubles I see
00:27:08 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:27:13 Old rock 'n' chairs got me
00:27:15 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:27:20 Judgment day is here
00:27:22 Dooba, dooba, dooba, do
00:27:26 And I'm chained
00:27:29 Chained to my rock 'n' chair
00:27:39 My dear old Aunt Harriet
00:27:46 How can heaven she be
00:27:54 Send me a chariot
00:27:59 For the end of my troubles
00:28:02 My troubles I see
00:28:07 Old rock 'n' chairs got me
00:28:14 Judgment day is here
00:28:18 And I'm chained
00:28:21 Chained, chained
00:28:24 To my rock 'n' chair
00:28:29 Yes, chained
00:28:32 Well, I'm chained
00:28:36 To my rock 'n' chair
00:28:46 [applause]
00:28:58 You know, there are many wonderful moments I think of when I think of Manny.
00:29:02 Talk about being a great audience.
00:29:05 I think Manny must have been the inspiration for that line,
00:29:08 "He laughs at card tricks."
00:29:10 Oh, now, Manny knew about show business inside and out,
00:29:14 but it never made him blase or a know-it-all.
00:29:18 He was sort of like a pushover, as a matter of fact.
00:29:22 And no matter how many celebrities Manny nursed and babied and coddled,
00:29:29 he never quite seemed to lose the wonder and the awe of them.
00:29:33 Stardust just never came off.
00:29:36 And I think that's how Manny came to put those wonderful twosomes together for reference.
00:29:42 If one star was great, then two stars twice as great.
00:29:48 And you should have seen him at a party.
00:29:51 Oh, yeah, sooner or later, Manny would push everybody over towards the piano
00:29:56 and make them all do their act. Now, it got to be kind of funny sometimes.
00:29:59 Once there were about 25 of us, and we were all entertaining.
00:30:03 And Manny, well, Manny was the entire audience.
00:30:08 And he'd put the darnest combinations together.
00:30:12 One night, he had Jane Wyman and me singing together.
00:30:15 Can you imagine? Jane Wyman, a great dramatic actress.
00:30:18 Now, never mind the dramatic actress. We did pretty good that night.
00:30:21 They were throwing quarters at us.
00:30:23 They did, as a matter of fact. Do you remember what they said about us?
00:30:26 They said that you and I were the answer to the Everly Brothers.
00:30:30 Just answer me one thing. How did Manny know you could sing?
00:30:34 Now, you won an Academy Award, and we know that you could--
00:30:36 Manny knew me when I was a chorus girl, you know, hoping in the line.
00:30:41 You mean you were a chorister?
00:30:43 Well, sure. Wasn't everybody?
00:30:45 Again.
00:30:46 You know, it's so funny. I remember a long time ago, Manny said to me,
00:30:49 "Janie, when you go out to Hollywood, keep your ears open and your mouth shut.
00:30:53 Now, just listen. Don't say a word."
00:30:55 And you know, that's all I could think of the night I won the Oscar for Johnny Belinda.
00:31:00 Manny was right again.
00:31:02 Well, all I can say is I wish I'd have been that sure the night he teamed us up.
00:31:08 Remember that night?
00:31:09 Oh, yes.
00:31:10 Just, uh, do you remember--
00:31:12 How about that song we did at the finish of the show?
00:31:15 Man, that was a gasser.
00:31:18 A gasser? Are you sure that you won an Academy Award?
00:31:21 Well, of course, but you know, we didn't have these outfits.
00:31:23 No, as a matter of fact, we didn't.
00:31:25 If I remember correctly, we had, um, looked a little bit more like, uh, lampshades.
00:31:31 Old lampshades.
00:31:33 And we had a whole lot of nerve.
00:31:36 And a piano player who'd studied for years.
00:31:39 Remember him? The racing form.
00:31:41 Ha, ha, ha. Will you ever forget it?
00:31:44 Gladly.
00:31:45 [music]
00:32:14 [music]
00:32:17 Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money
00:32:21 Maybe we're ragged and funny
00:32:24 But we travel along singing a song
00:32:28 Side by side
00:32:32 Don't know what's a-coming to tomorrow
00:32:35 Maybe it's trouble and sorrow
00:32:38 But we travel the road sharing our load
00:32:43 Side by side
00:32:46 All through the weather
00:32:49 What if the sky should fall
00:32:52 Mm, ba, ba, da
00:32:54 Long as we're together
00:32:57 It doesn't matter at all
00:33:00 Now that all has the cold and the party
00:33:04 We'll be the same as we started
00:33:08 Just traveling along singing a song
00:33:12 Side by side
00:33:15 See that sun in the morning
00:33:19 Peeking over the hill
00:33:22 I'll bet you're sure it always has
00:33:26 And it always will
00:33:30 That's how I feel about someone
00:33:33 Somebody feels about me
00:33:37 We're always gonna be together
00:33:40 And that's the way it's gotta be
00:33:43 Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money
00:33:47 Maybe we're ragged and funny
00:33:51 But we travel along singing a song
00:33:55 Side by side
00:33:58 Don't know what's a-coming to tomorrow
00:34:02 Maybe it's trouble and sorrow
00:34:05 But we travel the road sharing our load
00:34:09 Side by side
00:34:12 Through all the times and weather
00:34:16 What if the sky should fall
00:34:20 Long as we're together
00:34:23 It really doesn't matter at all
00:34:27 Oh, we've all had a little at this point
00:34:31 We'll be the same as we started
00:34:34 Traveling along singing a song
00:34:38 Side by side
00:34:42 Side by side
00:34:52 [applause]
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00:35:05 Even the Beverly Hills Hotel.
00:35:07 They're shooting some scenes for our newest product, Oasis Cigarettes.
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00:36:21 [music]
00:36:27 [applause]
00:36:35 Up to now, the talk has been mostly about Manny's world of records and the music business.
00:36:41 Well, I didn't get to meet Manny until he moved into television.
00:36:45 And though the medium was different, the man was the same.
00:36:49 He was always there for you when you needed him.
00:36:52 And there was a certain number that I did that Manny liked.
00:36:57 It was at pantomime of a man playing his first important concert.
00:37:04 And here it is, in pantomime, for you Manny.
00:37:17 [laughter]
00:37:20 [laughter]
00:37:35 [music]
00:37:46 [laughter]
00:37:49 [tapping]
00:37:54 [music]
00:38:09 [laughter]
00:38:17 [tapping]
00:38:25 [laughter]
00:38:27 [tapping]
00:38:29 [laughter]
00:38:33 [music]
00:38:47 [laughter]
00:38:50 [music]
00:38:54 [laughter]
00:38:56 [music]
00:39:16 [laughter]
00:39:20 [music]
00:39:34 [laughter]
00:39:37 [music]
00:39:52 [music]
00:40:05 [music]
00:40:15 [laughter]
00:40:18 [laughter]
00:40:21 [laughter]
00:40:24 [laughter]
00:40:27 [laughter]
00:40:30 [laughter]
00:40:34 [laughter]
00:40:37 [laughter]
00:40:40 [laughter]
00:40:43 [laughter]
00:40:46 [music]
00:40:50 [laughter]
00:41:00 [laughter]
00:41:05 [tapping]
00:41:08 [music]
00:41:10 [laughter]
00:41:12 [music]
00:41:15 [audience laughter]
00:41:17 [music]
00:41:19 [audience laughter]
00:41:21 [music]
00:41:23 [music]
00:41:25 [music]
00:41:27 ♪
00:41:55 (audience laughing) (audience applauding)
00:42:12 (audience laughing) (audience laughing)
00:42:18 (cork popping) (audience laughing)
00:42:22 (cork popping) (audience laughing)
00:42:37 (metal clinking) (audience laughing)
00:42:43 (cork popping) (audience laughing)
00:42:45 (audience laughing) (audience laughing)
00:43:06 (audience laughing)
00:43:16 (audience applauding)
00:43:24 - Thank you.
00:43:25 (audience applauding)
00:43:28 Thank you.
00:43:29 (audience applauding)
00:43:33 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
00:43:35 And now...
00:43:36 (audience applauding)
00:43:38 Thank you.
00:43:39 (audience applauding)
00:43:40 And now I'd like to introduce...
00:43:42 I'd like to introduce the man who played...
00:43:44 (audience applauding)
00:43:46 And now, if I may, I'd like to introduce
00:43:47 the man who played the Greek piano concerto,
00:43:50 Mr. Earl Wilder.
00:43:51 Thank you very much.
00:43:52 (audience applauding)
00:43:59 - Gee, Sid, I thought you did it!
00:44:01 - Oh, I love that, wasn't that funny?
00:44:03 Listening to Sid speak a moment ago,
00:44:05 the thought occurred to me,
00:44:06 when people gather to talk about somebody they love,
00:44:09 you get a...
00:44:11 well, a kind of a distorted picture.
00:44:13 What I mean is, you rush to say the nice things,
00:44:17 to remember only the wonderful moments,
00:44:19 and I suppose, in all honesty,
00:44:21 you've got to say that Manny wasn't the same.
00:44:23 I mean, he was a human being.
00:44:25 - Sure, he had his faults like everyone else.
00:44:28 - You really think so?
00:44:29 - No!
00:44:30 - That's what I said.
00:44:31 (audience laughing)
00:44:32 - See what I mean?
00:44:33 How do you really begin to tell the story of Manny?
00:44:36 Manny didn't just pick songs,
00:44:38 or invent the small print in the contract,
00:44:40 or say just the right thing at the right time.
00:44:44 - What kind of a fellow was he?
00:44:46 Well, he used planes as though they were taxi cabs.
00:44:50 When he had to call California if the line was busy,
00:44:53 he'd fly there.
00:44:54 - And the amazing thing is the way his career got started.
00:44:57 Because the wife of an important CBS executive
00:45:00 dragged her husband out to a dress shop
00:45:02 because it was open late that night.
00:45:05 The executive was so impressed
00:45:06 with the way Manny talked about things,
00:45:08 he felt Manny should be in the entertainment business.
00:45:11 And the next day, Manny was.
00:45:13 I've often thought if the store had closed early that night,
00:45:18 I might be still hooping in the line.
00:45:20 - And I'd be right there behind you singing.
00:45:21 (audience laughing)
00:45:22 With the girls in the line.
00:45:24 Yes, that was the beginning for Manny.
00:45:28 And because of it came the beginning for so many of us.
00:45:32 This song that Manny suggested I record
00:45:34 was the start of many wonderful things for me.
00:45:37 Tonight I sing it to Manny.
00:45:39 (upbeat music)
00:45:43 ♪ They're not making the skies as blue ♪
00:45:49 ♪ This year ♪
00:45:52 ♪ Wish it were here ♪
00:45:54 ♪ As blue as they used to when you were near ♪
00:46:00 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:46:02 ♪ And the mornings don't seem as new ♪
00:46:07 ♪ Brand new as they did with you ♪
00:46:12 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:46:14 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:46:17 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:46:21 ♪ Someone's painting the leaves around ♪
00:46:26 ♪ This year ♪
00:46:29 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:46:32 ♪ And why did the birds change their song ♪
00:46:36 ♪ This year ♪
00:46:38 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:46:41 ♪ They're not shining the stars as bright ♪
00:46:45 ♪ They'd slow in the joy ♪
00:46:50 ♪ From the night ♪
00:46:57 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:47:01 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:47:04 ♪ Mm ♪
00:47:07 ♪ Wish you were here ♪
00:47:11 (upbeat music)
00:47:13 (audience applauding)
00:47:16 - Smoking pleasure, entertainment pleasure.
00:47:24 Liggett and Myers brings you both.
00:47:26 Now here in this rehearsal studio,
00:47:28 a new show for L&M is shaping up.
00:47:30 Let's take a look.
00:47:33 ♪ In Bombay ♪
00:47:38 ♪ That's the day ♪
00:47:39 - Premiering Tuesday, March 31st.
00:47:42 ♪ On the way ♪
00:47:44 ♪ To NBC ♪
00:47:47 ♪ There's a show on the way to NBC ♪
00:47:51 - The Jimmy Rogers Show.
00:47:53 ♪ There's a guy on the show ♪
00:47:55 - Jimmy.
00:47:56 ♪ And a girl with a guy ♪
00:47:58 - Connie Francis.
00:47:59 ♪ On the show on the way to NBC ♪
00:48:02 ♪ A fun kind of show and it's sure kind of fun ♪
00:48:05 ♪ On the show on the way to NBC ♪
00:48:09 - Tuesday nights, premiering March 31st
00:48:11 and brought to you by L&M.
00:48:13 ♪ They said it couldn't be done ♪
00:48:17 ♪ They said nobody could do it ♪
00:48:20 ♪ But L&M is low and tar with more taste to it ♪
00:48:26 - Thanks, Jimmy.
00:48:26 We'll all be looking in on your new show for L&M
00:48:31 starting Tuesday, March 31st,
00:48:33 following Pete Kelly's blues on this network.
00:48:36 Should be a big night for both of us.
00:48:38 (upbeat music)
00:48:42 - Some of Maddie's friends will continue
00:48:49 after station identification.
00:48:51 (upbeat music)
00:48:53 Eileen Farrell and Blythe Howard-Keel,
00:48:59 bell telephone hour tomorrow.
00:49:01 (upbeat music)
00:49:08 - And now we come to a second roll of tape
00:49:17 of a truly wonderful guy who,
00:49:20 although he's playing a club in Miami,
00:49:22 is still here with us this evening.
00:49:24 If I know this gentleman, and I'm sure I do,
00:49:29 I can imagine some of the pictures in his mind
00:49:31 as he watches the show tonight.
00:49:33 The 18 holes of golf that we've played together
00:49:38 in the days and nights at the polo grounds
00:49:40 when we'd be rooting for the Giants
00:49:43 and Manny, of course, would be passionately cheering
00:49:46 for the Phillies.
00:49:48 Yes, I'd say that this gentleman
00:49:50 has a good many other thoughts in his mind
00:49:52 and heart tonight too,
00:49:53 and I'd like to tell you about them.
00:49:55 So it's with great pleasure
00:49:56 that I present an old friend, Tony Martin.
00:50:00 (audience applauding)
00:50:04 (upbeat music)
00:50:17 - Good evening.
00:50:18 - Manny was this kind of a fella.
00:50:22 You were either crazy about him or you didn't know him.
00:50:25 As Grace Kelly's dad, Jack Kelly, always says,
00:50:28 "Manny Sax had no former friends."
00:50:31 You know, I was nuts about Manny,
00:50:34 and I think about him all the time.
00:50:36 You see, he made my show business a lot of fun.
00:50:39 Well, I'm talking now as a performer
00:50:41 who plays in cabarets and nightclubs all over the world.
00:50:44 Well, you hit New York, you crawl into your hotel room,
00:50:47 and right away the phone rings
00:50:49 and there's the voice of Manny saying,
00:50:51 "What can I do for you, son?"
00:50:53 I know he's beginning to sound
00:50:55 like the Albert Schweitzer of show business.
00:50:57 Well, to me, he was.
00:50:59 What a guy.
00:51:01 Incidentally, Manny picked these tunes for me,
00:51:04 and I'd like to sing them for him right now.
00:51:06 (gentle music)
00:51:09 ♪ There's no tomorrow ♪
00:51:14 ♪ There's no tomorrow ♪
00:51:19 ♪ When love is true ♪
00:51:25 ♪ Now is forever ♪
00:51:30 ♪ When love is true ♪
00:51:36 ♪ So kiss me ♪
00:51:40 ♪ Hold me tight ♪
00:51:45 ♪ There's no tomorrow ♪
00:51:50 ♪ There's just tonight ♪
00:51:55 (audience applauding)
00:51:57 ♪ When we are dancing ♪
00:51:59 ♪ When you're dancing ♪
00:52:01 ♪ I get ideas ♪
00:52:04 ♪ I get ideas ♪
00:52:06 ♪ After we have kissed goodnight ♪
00:52:08 ♪ And you linger ♪
00:52:11 ♪ I kinda think you get ideas, too ♪
00:52:16 ♪ Here in this enchanted place ♪
00:52:25 ♪ Here beside your warm embrace ♪
00:52:32 ♪ Here with you so close to me ♪
00:52:39 ♪ Here is where I wanna be ♪
00:52:44 ♪ The world outside may be thrilled by ♪
00:52:49 ♪ Treasures people buy for gold ♪
00:52:55 ♪ I would rather be thrilled by ♪
00:53:01 ♪ Treasures I alone can hold ♪
00:53:07 ♪ Here beside the warmth of you ♪
00:53:12 ♪ Here within a dream for two ♪
00:53:18 ♪ Here for all eternity ♪
00:53:23 ♪ Here is where I want to be ♪
00:53:29 ♪ I want to be ♪
00:53:31 (audience applauding)
00:53:40 - It's wonderful, Tony.
00:53:52 Now there's no question
00:53:53 but that this next roll of tape
00:53:54 brings us another one of the truly greats
00:53:57 of the music world.
00:53:58 He is now on tour.
00:54:00 I think he's in, at this moment, he's in Las Vegas.
00:54:03 But as with Tony, he's here on the show with us tonight.
00:54:08 Ladies and gentlemen, direct from his very deep
00:54:10 and loving devotion to Manny Sachs, Nat King Cole.
00:54:15 (audience applauding)
00:54:26 (gentle orchestral music)
00:54:29 - Good evening.
00:54:45 Although I'm speaking these words
00:54:46 three weeks ahead of time,
00:54:48 I assure you wherever I am the night of the show,
00:54:50 Manny will be in all my thoughts.
00:54:53 Along with so many others,
00:54:54 I owe a great deal to Manny Sachs.
00:54:57 He helped me with my musical career.
00:55:00 He helped me put together my television show.
00:55:02 He helped me.
00:55:05 Whenever we were together, even at a ball game,
00:55:07 sooner or later he'd always ask me
00:55:08 to sing this particular song.
00:55:10 ♪ Mona Lisa ♪
00:55:14 ♪ Mona Lisa, baby ♪
00:55:19 ♪ You're so like a lady ♪
00:55:22 ♪ With the mystic smile ♪
00:55:27 ♪ Is it only 'cause you're lonely ♪
00:55:30 ♪ They have blamed you ♪
00:55:34 ♪ For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile ♪
00:55:39 ♪ Do you smile to tempt a lover ♪
00:55:46 ♪ Mona Lisa ♪
00:55:49 ♪ Or is this your way to hide a broken heart ♪
00:55:54 ♪ Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep ♪
00:56:02 ♪ They just lie there ♪
00:56:09 ♪ And they die there ♪
00:56:13 ♪ Are you warm, are you real ♪
00:56:18 ♪ Mona Lisa ♪
00:56:21 ♪ Are just a cold lonely ♪
00:56:26 ♪ Lovely work of art ♪
00:56:31 ♪ Many dreams have been brought to your doorstep ♪
00:56:36 ♪ They just lie there ♪
00:56:44 ♪ And they die there ♪
00:56:47 ♪ Are you warm, are you real ♪
00:56:52 ♪ Mona Lisa ♪
00:56:56 ♪ Are just a cold lonely ♪
00:57:01 ♪ Lovely work of art ♪
00:57:06 ♪ Mona Lisa ♪
00:57:13 ♪ Mona Lisa ♪
00:57:18 (audience applauding)
00:57:21 (upbeat music)
00:57:34 (audience applauding)
00:57:37 - Thank you very much.
00:57:46 It's a thrill to be here on this wonderful tribute
00:57:47 to Manny Sachs.
00:57:49 With such a great lineup of stars.
00:57:51 Really there's so much talent backstage
00:57:53 that they kept caught Ed Sullivan in the hall with a net.
00:57:55 (audience laughing)
00:57:59 - Oh.
00:58:00 I hope this show is getting through to New York all right.
00:58:08 I understand the Russians are fishing in the Mississippi.
00:58:10 (audience laughing)
00:58:13 - Did you read about the Atlantic cable being cut?
00:58:16 - Now I know what they mean by a party line.
00:58:18 (audience laughing)
00:58:20 No wonder Bridget hasn't called back.
00:58:22 (audience laughing)
00:58:25 - No, the overseas operator kept saying,
00:58:27 "I'm sorry, Europe doesn't answer."
00:58:29 (audience laughing)
00:58:30 And the cable cutting was more serious than we thought.
00:58:33 They not only cut the cables,
00:58:34 they cut Lloyd Bridges' air hose.
00:58:36 (audience laughing)
00:58:39 His next three shows will be nothing but bubbles.
00:58:45 (audience laughing)
00:58:47 But if there's any more cable cutting, we'll get even.
00:58:48 We'll award Khrushchev a Nobel Prize.
00:58:51 (audience laughing)
00:58:54 He'll work his way out of that.
00:58:56 Say, we hope you enjoy--
00:58:58 We hope you enjoy this color TV spectacular tonight.
00:59:01 We have color scenery, color makeup,
00:59:02 color tubes, color cameras, and color cables
00:59:05 so that you can all see it in black and white.
00:59:07 (audience laughing)
00:59:09 Well, it's a great tribute to Manny Sacks.
00:59:11 You know, Manny guided the careers
00:59:13 of some of our top performers.
00:59:14 He guided Sinatra through Thin and Thin.
00:59:17 And Manny--
00:59:18 (audience laughing)
00:59:21 And Manny was wonderful to me.
00:59:23 The first time we met, he shook my hand
00:59:24 and said, "Stick with it, kid.
00:59:25 You're in the right business."
00:59:27 What I didn't like about it was I was working
00:59:28 in my brother's butcher shop at the time.
00:59:30 (audience laughing)
00:59:33 He was always a lot of fun to dine with.
00:59:34 He always grabbed a check.
00:59:36 He was known as the fastest wallet in Tootshore's.
00:59:38 (audience laughing)
00:59:39 Jack Benny used to fly to New York
00:59:41 just to have lunch with him.
00:59:42 (audience laughing)
00:59:44 Manny is perfect.
00:59:45 We all do wrong.
00:59:47 Manny worked for another network.
00:59:49 (audience laughing)
00:59:53 But he rose above it and came through clean.
00:59:55 (audience laughing)
00:59:56 And it's a tribute to this industry
00:59:57 that they forgave him.
00:59:59 (audience laughing)
01:00:00 Then he became one of the gray flannel knights
01:00:02 at General Sarnoff's round table.
01:00:04 (audience laughing)
01:00:05 Stayed quite a while.
01:00:05 He had a safety belt.
01:00:07 (audience laughing)
01:00:08 But he saved many a damsel in distress
01:00:10 and a few comedians, too.
01:00:12 I'd hate to think where I'd be
01:00:13 if he hadn't shown up with the bail money.
01:00:15 (audience laughing)
01:00:17 He introduced me to my first sponsor
01:00:19 and later on counted for the knockdowns.
01:00:21 I was Pepsodent.
01:00:22 (audience laughing)
01:00:24 He gave me this set when I left.
01:00:26 (audience laughing)
01:00:28 In those days, they didn't wonder where the yellow went.
01:00:30 I was right there in front of the microphone.
01:00:32 (audience laughing)
01:00:35 After Pepsodent, I was on for Luxe,
01:00:39 Swan Soap, and Dutch Cleanser.
01:00:41 I have so many old friends in the bathroom,
01:00:43 I kind of hate to leave.
01:00:44 (audience laughing)
01:00:47 When everybody has their problems,
01:00:51 I hear that Congress is investigating
01:00:53 the jukebox and record business.
01:00:55 Personally, I don't think Bing is that bad.
01:00:57 (audience laughing)
01:00:59 Now, there's a big expose of racketeers
01:01:01 muscling into the record business.
01:01:03 Now when they say, "We're pressing,"
01:01:05 you don't know if they mean the record or the singer.
01:01:07 (audience laughing)
01:01:09 Now, it's not easy for Congress to get a clear picture.
01:01:11 Did you ever try to sub subpoena Chipmunk?
01:01:14 (audience laughing)
01:01:16 Keep building a nest out of the papers.
01:01:18 (audience laughing)
01:01:21 They're really in trouble unless they can come up
01:01:22 with a bill of sale for those fur coats.
01:01:24 (audience laughing)
01:01:26 The Chipmunks, you know they've had the thing on--
01:01:28 (audience laughing)
01:01:31 Alvin may be deported.
01:01:32 (audience laughing)
01:01:33 That's funny, I mean, I don't know what to make out of it.
01:01:35 If you can't trust Rosemary Clooney, who can you trust?
01:01:38 I'd hate to think that Tom Dooley got it
01:01:40 because he wouldn't pay protection.
01:01:41 (audience laughing)
01:01:44 You want a stereo, they put an extra hole in your head.
01:01:46 (audience laughing)
01:01:49 Everybody's scared, even the disc jockeys.
01:01:51 Now when Peter Potter plays a record, he says,
01:01:53 "Will it be a hit or a hit?"
01:01:55 (audience laughing)
01:01:57 (audience applauding)
01:02:00 I should have known gangsters were influencing
01:02:06 the record business from the time
01:02:08 that some of the albums that were coming out.
01:02:09 The Warden is a fink, cha cha cha.
01:02:11 (audience laughing)
01:02:14 Marches for the Last Mile.
01:02:18 It's a gasser.
01:02:19 (audience laughing)
01:02:21 Everybody's making albums now.
01:02:22 Jane Mansfield's got a new album.
01:02:23 South America put it back.
01:02:25 (audience laughing)
01:02:28 Macmillan and Khrushchev just made an album together.
01:02:31 Just friends, lovers no more.
01:02:33 (audience laughing)
01:02:34 The Gassers put out a single,
01:02:35 "Batista, Won't You Please Come Home?"
01:02:37 (audience laughing)
01:02:39 Edward R. Murrow and Arthur Godfrey
01:02:41 put out an album together, "I Can Do Without You Very Well."
01:02:43 (audience laughing)
01:02:44 It's on the Sneer label.
01:02:45 (audience laughing)
01:02:47 Now Ed Murrow's taken a year off.
01:02:49 He had to, all the ashtrays at CBS are full.
01:02:51 (audience laughing)
01:02:54 Anyway, I want to tell you it's a thrill
01:02:55 being on this show and I leave you with a word
01:02:56 from that great Chinese philosopher, Henny Youngman.
01:02:59 (audience laughing)
01:03:01 Who said, "Money can't buy happiness,
01:03:02 "but it can help you choose the type of misery
01:03:04 "that is most agreeable to you."
01:03:05 Thank you very much.
01:03:06 (audience applauding)
01:03:10 (upbeat music)
01:03:12 (audience applauding)
01:03:16 - We're way out on location, friend,
01:03:18 back in the frontier west.
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01:04:42 - That's the fella.
01:04:48 He was singing in a little place called the Rustic Cabins
01:04:50 out in New Jersey and I grabbed him.
01:04:52 Well, he sang with my band, all right,
01:04:53 and after that he sang with the great Tommy Dorsey band.
01:04:56 And in that whole marvelous big band era,
01:04:58 with all the great instrumentalists and singers,
01:05:01 the sight that sort of well, always stays with me,
01:05:04 is the one when he was almost hidden by the microphone,
01:05:06 the kids were dancing, and this is the picture.
01:05:09 (audience applauding)
01:05:13 ♪ This love of mine ♪
01:05:24 ♪ Oh, darling, mine ♪
01:05:31 ♪ Though life is empty ♪
01:05:38 ♪ You have gone ♪
01:05:43 ♪ You're always on my mind ♪
01:05:48 ♪ Though out of sight ♪
01:05:54 ♪ It's lonesome through the day ♪
01:06:00 ♪ But oh, the night ♪
01:06:06 ♪ I cry my heart out ♪
01:06:11 ♪ It's bound to break ♪
01:06:17 ♪ Since nothing matters ♪
01:06:23 ♪ Let it break ♪
01:06:30 ♪ I ask the sun and the moon ♪
01:06:36 ♪ The stars that shine ♪
01:06:41 ♪ What's to become of it ♪
01:06:47 ♪ This love of mine ♪
01:06:53 ♪ This love of mine ♪
01:06:57 ♪ Goes on and on ♪
01:07:00 ♪ Goes on and on ♪
01:07:03 (audience applauding)
01:07:10 - You know, in my mind's eye,
01:07:22 I can see Manny kind of wading through a floor full of kids
01:07:26 to put in a kind word and a pat on the back
01:07:28 of the thin singer singing with the band.
01:07:30 We grew very close, Manny and I,
01:07:34 from the time I started with Harry James
01:07:36 and then later with Tommy Dorsey.
01:07:38 And finally, when I went out on my own,
01:07:41 out on my own, that meant that every time I needed help,
01:07:44 I yelled for Manny.
01:07:46 He was our caro, derosier, and the seven blocks of granite.
01:07:50 And with a parlay like that, how can you miss?
01:07:53 But you know, a ladder goes two ways,
01:07:55 and it's not all the time up.
01:07:58 And there was a while there when the days grew leaner
01:08:00 than the thin singer himself, but Manny never wavered.
01:08:04 And one day he went out into the left field
01:08:06 and came up with the idea that became a record
01:08:08 called "The Birth of the Blues."
01:08:10 And with that, the carousel started turning again,
01:08:13 this time much brighter, much louder,
01:08:15 and more merrier than ever before.
01:08:16 So you can see that what I own,
01:08:20 there's a little bit of Manny in everything
01:08:22 that's ever happened to me,
01:08:24 everything that was ever good that's ever happened to me.
01:08:27 And there'll never be a word big enough to say thanks.
01:08:29 (audience applauding)
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01:09:53 - Of all the songs that I've sung,
01:09:59 there was one that seemed to mean a great deal to many.
01:10:02 Tonight, as I sing it again,
01:10:04 you can just imagine what it means to me.
01:10:07 (audience applauding)
01:10:11 (audience cheering)
01:10:14 - Hi, Matthew.
01:10:23 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
01:10:27 Right now, it's, the time has come
01:10:30 for us to hear from Manny Sax himself.
01:10:34 The record is a wonderful thing.
01:10:35 I think basically, the recording business
01:10:38 was Manny's first true love.
01:10:40 How apt and how fitting that the medium
01:10:43 he was so much a part of,
01:10:45 so instrumental in developing,
01:10:48 should be the medium through which
01:10:50 we can now hear Manny's voice again
01:10:52 and share another laugh with him.
01:10:54 The occasion was the magnificent dinner
01:10:57 tendered him in 1955
01:11:00 by the Bene Brith Organization of Philadelphia,
01:11:04 honoring Manny as the man of the year.
01:11:06 When General David Sarnoff presented Manny
01:11:09 with this wonderful award,
01:11:12 this was the sound that was heard.
01:11:14 (audience applauding)
01:11:37 - Mr. Toastmaster, distinguished guests,
01:11:42 and my dear friends,
01:11:45 it is a little hard to express yourself
01:11:50 when you have tears in your throat.
01:11:53 I must tell you of a little personal,
01:11:57 a little secret that happened between my mother and myself.
01:12:03 I think it's very fitting at this time.
01:12:07 When some of the boys dropped over in New York to see me
01:12:12 about accepting this honor,
01:12:16 I was somewhat reluctant and hesitant
01:12:20 because I always felt that it was best
01:12:25 if I sat on the outside where you're sitting
01:12:28 and watched others receive honors.
01:12:30 So I went to some of my good friends
01:12:33 and spoke to them about it.
01:12:34 And they tried to convince me it was the thing to do
01:12:37 because it was the first dinner that I've ever had.
01:12:41 And then I thought I'd take the advice of my prophet,
01:12:46 my mother.
01:12:47 And I went to her and I spoke to her
01:12:51 and told her about this dinner.
01:12:53 And before I could say very much,
01:12:56 she said, "Son, you must have a dinner.
01:12:59 "You've never had a dinner.
01:13:02 "And I want you to have a dinner."
01:13:04 And then she said, "After the dinner,
01:13:08 "maybe you'll get married."
01:13:10 (audience laughing)
01:13:13 (audience applauding)
01:13:16 - A great friend of Mandy's, Leo DeRosa,
01:13:23 sent a letter on behalf of a sponsor in the network
01:13:26 inviting all the distinguished faces you just saw.
01:13:29 (audience applauding)
01:13:32 And they all wanted to contribute something to the show,
01:13:34 even if it meant just sitting in the audience.
01:13:36 In his letter, Leo simply said this,
01:13:41 "I was wrong.
01:13:42 "Nice guys never finish last.
01:13:45 "Nice guys like Manny Sachs
01:13:47 "finish head and shoulders above anyone else."
01:13:50 And I think that's what we're really honoring here tonight,
01:13:54 the nice guy.
01:13:55 We've been saying thank you to what Manny represents,
01:13:59 all that's fine and good in people,
01:14:02 all that makes it such a proud thing
01:14:03 to be part of this family of man.
01:14:05 Because of Manny, there is an existence today,
01:14:11 a fund known as the Emmanuel Sachs Foundation,
01:14:14 which Manny started and somehow found time
01:14:17 to devote so much of himself to.
01:14:18 It provides the financial means to enable medical men
01:14:23 to contribute their services to research,
01:14:25 research to fight all the big guns.
01:14:28 Now the stars have appeared here tonight
01:14:30 in front of the camera and back of it,
01:14:32 have given so wonderfully of themselves
01:14:35 so that the Liggett & Myers Company could take the money
01:14:39 that otherwise would have gone into these 90 minutes
01:14:42 and put it into Manny's foundation.
01:14:44 $200,000.
01:14:47 Now if any of you out there would like more information
01:14:51 about this fund, just write to any one of us
01:14:54 you've seen tonight.
01:14:56 Send it along in care of Manny's friends, NBC Burbank.
01:15:00 Now I see these 90 minutes are almost over.
01:15:04 We've all been very privileged and proud to be part of it.
01:15:09 Good night.
01:15:10 Good night, Dinah.
01:15:12 - Good night.
01:15:14 Good night, Perry.
01:15:16 - Good night, Dinah, and good night, Manny.
01:15:22 - Good night.
01:15:24 - Good night, Manny.
01:15:25 - And now a word on behalf of RCA from Vaughn Monroe.
01:15:35 - The Radio Corporation of America
01:15:44 has relinquished its normal commercial time tonight.
01:15:47 We'd just like to say that we're very proud
01:15:49 of Manny Sachs' great achievements
01:15:51 as an executive both for RCA and NBC.
01:15:55 We're even more proud of Manny's many important
01:15:57 contributions to his fellow man.
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01:17:12 - Next week, at this time, be sure to watch
01:17:22 "Dragnet" starring Jack Webb with Ben Alexander,
01:17:26 followed by "The George Goebel Show"
01:17:28 with Johnny Cash and special guest Patrice Monson.
01:17:32 Now this is Bob Lamont inviting you to stay tuned
01:17:37 for "The George Burns Show" with guest star Jimmy Rogers.
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