Strike Up the Band Page #2

of your time...

...and I'll brush that burden

off your shoulders.

Go ahead, Jimmy. It would be a pleasure.

Well, I've been talking to the fellows

and we'd like to organize...

...our own dance band.

- Dance orchestra?

Certainly. Instead of a brass band,

we'd like to have a modern dance orchestra.

Let us go ahead and form this band and give

a high school dance instead of the concert.

And I'll guarantee you that within one night,

we'll wipe out that debt.

I know it. I've been thinking it over

for a long time.

If we don't bring in as many people

at the dance as at the concerts...

...in the past 10 years,

we'll forget about the whole thing.

Just a minute. You're going to organize

a dance orchestra, ready to play...

Not only are we gonna have

a great dance orchestra...

...but we're also gonna have

a great singer too.

Oh, I see.

- You're going to arrange the whole thing?

- Yes, sir.

Publicity, selling tickets...

...paying off the debt of the band.

The whole thing, all in three weeks?

- In a breeze.

- In a breeze?

You've taken on a pretty large order,

Jimmy. I don't believe you can do it.

Oh, he can do it.

I know he can do it, Mr. Judd.

I'm sure I can do it, if you'll only

give me the chance, Mr. Judd.

All right. I'll buy the first ticket.

Oh, thanks, Mr. Judd.

Mary, the principal shook hands with me.

We certainly slipped it to him all right.

- We certainly did.

- There's a great old guy.

- He's a great old guy.

- Vision. That's what he's got.

There's a man that can see

over the transom.

- Yes sir, he's gonna go places.

- He sure is.

- You know what that was?

- What?

A springboard. He just launched

the biggest ship that ever sailed.

- You're absolutely right. Okay.

- Let's take a short cut.

You know, I misjudged that man.

- Heart, that's what he's got. A lot of heart.

- Here, I'll help you.

- Something's been troubling me lately.

- What?

Do you think "our Love Affair"

has enough punch in it?

"Our Love Affair."

Oh, well,

now that you mentioned it, Jimmy...

Because I've got

a new arrangement on it.

Oh, it's a dynamite love song

just made-to-order for you.

I'll play it.

Wait until you get a load of this intro.

I've got some chords

that are really out of this world.

Listen.

It starts off a little flairy.

Are you listening to me?

Then it softens down here.

It's violins, you know?

Then the orchestra sneaks back in

for the vocal.

Our love affair will be such fun

We'll be the envy of everyone

Those famous lovers

We'll make them forget

From Adam and Eve

To Scarlett and Rhett

Flutes and oboes.

When youth has had its merry fling

We'll spend our evenings remembering

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