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Dean opens with a song, . In their apartment, Jerry and Dean are excited over going to the studio to make their next record. So much so that Jerry and Dean get into a minor domestic dispute over the breakfast table. Florence the secretary pops in to change the topic, and complain about her paycheck.
At the studio, the exec wants the guys to do something different on this album. Classical? Operetic? Ethnic? With Burl Ives in the studio today, the studio exec decide on doing a folk music recording, even though Dean doesn’t know anything about folk music. Dean and Jerry go looking for Berle Ives, and pop into a few wrong studio booths or two,
the guys find Burl. Jerry tries to impress him with his knowledge of Western ways, and Burl gets to use one of Jerry’s catch phrases against him. The guys all compare notes on what it takes to sing folk music, having a rural background, and the diference between folk and pop music. In the process,Burl sings, Lavender Blue.
As the guys finish trying to get the hang of the country, folk, style of music, lines are flubbed, but time runs short as it often does in live radio, and the show is over.
