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