[78-L] Movie "NEW ORLEANS" Soundtrack on 4 16" Discs

[Ray Kilcoyne]

Cliff,
Did you do any research into who performed PALS FOREVER?
This site indicates it is the Melody Three.
http://www.worldcat.org/title/pals-forever-from-tiffany-stahl-picture-new-orleans/oclc/81829269

This site says the Melody Three is also known as the Frank Luther Trio.  It 
doesn't sound like professional singers to me, but as you mentioned, they 
may have been acting inebriated.
http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/14183/Melody_Three_Vocal_group
RayK
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From: Clifford Bolling
I recorded the 8 sides and there isn't much dialog until reel 7.  Seems 
'Billy' was a jockey and somehow injured himself and
shouldn't have ridden in the big race, but he did anyway.  His ex-friend 
Morley had his chippy wife take $3000 from the company
safe to bet on Billy's nag.  Not sure if she actually did make the bet, but 
Billy won and also was terribly injured with a cracked
skull in a fall from the horse after the race.  Is he going to live???

In the meantime, Morley gets busted for stealing the $3000 from the company 
safe.  Next scene is 6 months later.  The chippy
wife is canoodling with her new boyfriend.  Morley gets out of jail and 
Billy is OK and there to meet him, once again BFF.  Billy
takes Morley home and they catch chippy with her boyfriend.  Apparently, she 
has been living the high life these last 6 months
with the money from the safe and possibly the winnings from the horse race. 
Chippy's boyfriend skidaddles and she gets
booted out of the house and the 2 BFF walk happily into the sunset looking 
for some new girlfriends.

Reels 1 thru 6 have only music, sound effects like doors closing, trains, 
horses galloping, crowd noise, with a few guttural utterances.

The song Pals Forever is sung by a noticeably inebriated quartet in the 3rd 
reel.