Loving You

Loving you, Just loving you

Winter, summer, springtime, too

You know I'm loving you

Loving you...

Glenda!

We're running out of beer, honey.

You better order some more from that Highway Beverage.

Oh, and where's the money coming from, Jim?

I haven't had a check from you in three weeks.

Tend to my publicity, Miss Markle. I'll fret about the money.

Then you better start fretting and start getting.

When I say we'll get it, we'll get it. It takes time.

When you're mad, you're beautiful.

- I ain't mad. - You're not beautiful, either.

Thank you, thank you, my cotton-chopping chums.

We're going to have more music for you in a bit,

but now it's a pleasure for me to introduce the generous gent

that's providing all this fuss and fancy for you and me,

your good friend and mine, the next governor of this bountiful state,

good old Jim Tallman.

Thank you, Tex, thank you.

Well, friends, I see that the county still hasn't paved your streets.

Now, you elect me your next governor

and Delville will get paving faster than a frog on a hot rock.

Well, friends, we're not strangers, you and me.

I've been coming through here for years,

telling you all about my fine rejuvenating elixir...

Tallman's Terrific Tonic.

And I'm here today, my friends,

to tell you that I got a fine batch

of that pepper-upper tonic for the state administration.

They're crying for it. That's what they're doing.

With all the millions being poured into our great southland...

Hey, partner. Fasten your seat belt.

I've got a bulletin for you.

You won't get paid this week. I won't either.

Our loyal campaign contributors Just ain't contributing.

Can you blame them? Dig that clown.

His politics don't taste any better than his tonic.

Well, you're taking the blow rather placidly.

I'm practicing to be a philosopher.

If I had a rusty knife I'd open a vein.

- Whose? - Art Hawkins'.

He's breaking records at the State Lake in Chicago

with my band, my arrangements.

Well, I made that band. I created that sound.

Both: If I didn't get some tough breaks I'd still be on top...

bigger than any man in the music business today.

Have I said it that often?

You're a fool, darling. You always were.

Takes a fool to wear these clothes

and play the tunes that clod wants.

Don't knock country music. It's the voice of our nation.

Our nation should see a doctor.

Folk music's big and it's getting bigger.

If you ever get to the top again...

If, I say... this is your route. All you need is the right gimmick.

Gimmick? What gimmick? I play a quarter-tone sharp

and stomp my foot. What else do I have to do?

If you were a girl, I could tell you.

If I were a girl, maybe I'd get paid.

Oh, Tex, I didn't know this would happen.

I thought Tallman was a real crook... that he'd get somewhere.

- A girl's entitled one mistake. - Yes, but only one.

- I made mine years ago. - Come on, honey.

Let's shake that medicine man and head for the big wheel.

We're big time, you and me.

You could find a gimmick for me... A girl with your mind.

In case you forget, Mr. Warner, my mind is up here

and you better get back up there.

The natives are getting restless.

I wish I were twins. I'd have somebody to blame for this.

Fellas, will you take one of those cases and please put it

in Mr. Tallman's car? That black Job over there?

Over yonder? Yes, ma'am.

Man, if I had me a car like this, I'd get in it, take off

and I wouldn't stop till I was some place else.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

Pretty good beat, huh?

Yeah. Yeah, kinda.

- Wanna get up and dance for us? - Me?

We could use a hometown touch to liven things up.

- Oh, I don't dance, ma'am. - Then how about singing?

You want singing, he's your man. He sings up a storm.

We could use a good storm about now.

He's Just kidding, lady. I don't sing.

Just give this cat a guitar and stand back.

- Come on, don't be bashful. - He's Just kidding you.

Come on over and listen to this. Got some hometown talent here.

Come on over and listen.

- You've got to hear this. - He's gonna sing.

Hey, Tex, give this boy a guitar and let's hear him sing.

Up you go, Hopalong.

- So you sing, eh? - I Just fool with it.

Hey, Skeeter, give Kadiddlehop here your ax.

Handle it easy. I owe money on it.

They're all yours, buddy.

Teddy: Come on, Deke, let's hear it.

Give him a little boogie-woogie. That'll get him started.

Yeah, now go on, Deke. Go on.

There's moon that's big and bright in the Milky Way tonight

But the way you act, you never would know it's there

Now baby, time's a-wasting

A lot of kisses I ain't been tasting

I don't know about you but I'm gonna get my share

I've got a lot of living to do

A whole lot of loving to do

Come on, baby, to make it fun it takes two

Oh yes, I've got a lot of living to do

A whole lot of loving to do

And there's no one who I'd rather do it with-a than-a you

You're the prettiest thing I've seen

But you treat me so doggone mean

Ain't you got no heart I'm dying to hold you near

Why do you keep me waiting? Why don't you start cooperating?

And the things I say are the things you want to hear

Oh, I got a lot of living to do

Got a lot of loving to do

Come on baby, to make it fun it takes two

Oh yes, I've got a lot of living to do

Well I've got a lot of loving to do

And there's no one who I'd rather do it with-a than you

And there's no one who I'd rather do it with

Than you.

Well, y'all got some right lively local talent in these parts.

Deke, that was great.

- You was the most. - You and your big mouth.

Only thing it's good for is to keep your teeth in.

Tex: Once again I want you to meet our own singing sweetheart.

Sweet Susie Jessup.

All right, Susie. Go to work.

Tex: Hey!

- What was the big idea? - I liked him.

He's got something for the girls.

- You notice that crowd? - Only the women.

Another chorus and they would have started throwing things.

Yeah, their door keys.

Hey... Where you going, cowboy?

- Lady, I'm not a cowboy. - You're a whirlwind.

- How long have you been singing? - Oh, I...

What's your hurry?

Look... come on, Teddy. We've got to get back to work.

Yeah, work. I told you he sings up a storm, didn't I, lady?

Get in, Teddy.

You're not going to run over me, are you?

Excuse me, ma'am. I'm in kind of a hurry.

I can see that. Dual carbs,

electrical fuel pump,

nice do-it-yourself Job. What's your cam?

- Three-quarter race. - What's she peak at?

- She does all right. - You ought to install a tach.

- Tach costs money. - Yeah, money.

I'm Glenda Ivlarkle.

You sure know your way around a car, lady.

You have to in my line of work. I'm a girl.

How about a little demonstration?

Go on, cat. Show the lady what the car can do.

Yeah-I already know what you can do.

Takes it a little while to warm up.

Doesn't everyone?

Glenda: Crazy! Head back to earth!

Let's coast so we can talk.

- What's your name? - Deke.

- Deke? - Deke Rivers.

- Short for Deacon? - I guess.

I like the way you sing, Deke. You've got... something.

I don't know what it is. Ever think of doing it for a living?

- Everybody thinks. - Ever try?

Thinking and doing is two different things.

How much do you make delivering beer?

How much do you make doing what you do?

I'm a public relations counsel. A press agent.

And I don't make enough to suit me. Do you?

Does anybody?

You're a hard one to talk to. We better stop coasting.

Now, how'd you like to come with me...

- Sing with Tex Warner's band? - You'd pay me for that?

More than you're making now, and that would be Just to start.

I don't know. There was a guy in St. Joe, Missouri one time

told me he'd pay me to sing in his show.

After I sung he run out on me and took my guitar with him.

- Then what more can you lose? - A steady Job.

It's the first one I've had in a year and I'd like to keep it.

$18 a week in tips. Made 26 bucks last week.

- What would your mother say... - My mother's dead.

- Oh, I'm sorry. - Both of them, a long time ago.

Then you're on your own?

Yeah, that's why I got to hang onto something steady.

Someday I'm gonna have a place of my own, like a farm.

This could be steady. 50 a week to start.

So why not start?

Have we got a deal?

I think I'll stay here, Miss Markle, but thanks anyway.

Why don't you think it over? You've got till 8:00 tomorrow.

We'll be leaving from the hotel.

Operator, may I have the number of Highway Beverage?

I appreciate your vote and thank you for coming.

The pleasure is mine, madam.

Remember, a vote for me is a vote for... Glenda!

Well, where have you been?