June 12, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 6/12/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 6/12/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/12/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/12/26 Edition
On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, some songs never before played on the show, an eerie premonition relayed by a big band songstress, a female songwriting team in the 30s, and more records and reminiscences from the big band and jazz era.
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It's make Believe ballroom time. Put all your cares away.

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All the bands are here to bring good cheer your way.

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It's make belief.

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Ballroom time and free to everyone. It's no time to

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friend your Dalis.

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Said, baby.

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Yours.

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Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude. Your favorite

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bands are on this dance and mister Miller, what's you

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in the mood?

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It's make believe ballroom time.

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We are a sweet romance is to make Believe Ballroom.

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Come on, Joe the.

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Last Dans Last, Hello world, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on

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the lights of the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you

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into my Crystal studio for another program of classic big

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band music from the nineteen thirties and forties. Please get

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ready as I play for you some amazing jazz, swing, blues,

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and boogie woogie favorites. Folks, you're listening to the Make

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Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five, and

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to welcome, Welcome, welcome, one in all into the Crystal studio,

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and thanks so much for joining me today. You know,

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one of my favorite things to do on the ballroom

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is to play music. Music that's never been heard on

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this program, provided by bands and band leaders who weren't

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exactly household names. And you would think that after hosting

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this program for over ten years, in substituting for many

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ballroom DJs prior to that, that I would have played

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just about all there is to play. Well, obviously not,

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and I have a number of new, well relatively new

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artists to offer you today on the Make Believe ball Row.

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You Pole.

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Boeople everything they were.

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Naming on a standard transcription disc produced by the Standard

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Radio Company, I just played Freddie barn and his orchestra

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with a Well, it was a pleasant treatment of the

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popular tune at the time. I haven't changed a thing

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recorded back in nineteen thirty eight. Freddie was the CBS

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Radio music director for a good portion of the nineteen

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thirties into the nineteen forties, so most of his work

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took place in the studio on the radio, and he

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was not really that well known as a mainstream bandleader.

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Per se. Freddie barns to start things off today on

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the Make Believe Ballroom, And as I play some of

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this first time ever recordings, please understand that due to

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the nature of the band leaders, these recordings were not

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mastered as you would do with Dorsey or Goodman, Miller

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or Shaw, so a few scratches and pops here and there,

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although I have tried my best to remove most of them.

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Let's see, how did I do with this one? Trying

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to clean it up by a band leader and trumpeter

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who you might never have heard of, but was voted

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nineteen forty's number one hot trumpeter.

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Their soon, he said, lonely the rocks and ray the

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lonely too. The airs.

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He wants you only no one but.

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You ser soon.

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The rosses wee, their tears are falling. The gentle die

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no longer cool? Or can't you hear?

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Is that hort calling calling for you?

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On Varsity Records recorded in nineteen forty, Johnny McGhee and

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his orchestra with the popular tune and see Arasoue vocal

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by Betty Bradley McGhee. Johnny McGee was riding high back

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in nineteen thirty nine and forty, having his own radio

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show on NBC and being hailed as the second coming

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of Bix beider Beck, But due to the musicians strike

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the next year and some other financial factors, he sort

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of petered out after nineteen forty, but I was still

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delighted to bring to you for the first time ever

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on The Make Believe Ballroom Johnny McGee and his orchestra.

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I'm Jeff Presler, and you're listening to the weekly edition

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of The Make Believe Ballroom, And during this segment, I'm

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playing some artists never before heard on the program, including

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this wonderful blues vocalist.

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Oh my mellow man, Can nobody thrilled me like my

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mellow man?

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Can?

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He don't stand on no corners, he don't ribe and steal,

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come home to me, He stay to getting me as

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Oh my man, can nobody thrilled me like my mellow

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man can? Now he ain't a logan grinder, He's just

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nice and sweet.

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I love that.

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Man from his head down to his feet grind hole.

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Ah my mel man, Can nobody three of me like

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my mellow man?

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Can?

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My man?

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It's so mellow They call him sponge boy, but that

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ain't his name. His name is Sainley Roy. Oh my

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melow man. Can nobody thrilled me like my mellow Mankin.

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From Bluebird Records with Simeon Henry on the piano, Big

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Bill Bronzie, the guitar Ransom Noling the bass. Was Lil

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Green singing the Blues with My Mellow Man, recorded in

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nineteen forty one, the popular Lil Green blues favorite in

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the thirties and forties, who unfortunately died in the very

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early nineteen fifties, but partnered with the guitarist Bill Bronzie

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quite often during that time, playing the club circuit together.

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Happy to introduce to you, Lil Green. Let's play one

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more never heard on the Ballroom courtesy of pianist Eddie Oliver.

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Pianisteady Oliver is orchestra really dished down a nice instrumental

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swinger with off the Deep End that we just heard

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record played for the first time ever here on the

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program Eddie Oliver and his Orchestra, recorded in a standard

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radio transcription back in nineteen forty four. I'm Jeff Prestler

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in the Crystal Studio. When you're listening to the one,

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the only, the original Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting since nineteen

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thirty five, and the nation's third longest running music program

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ever on the air. Now, let's see here, let me

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look at my playlist. Well, let's go from some artists

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who we played here on the ballroom for the first

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time to a drummer that is a frequent guest.

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Ask him anything, fan.

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My Wild Irish Rose. Chick Web and his orchestra recorded

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live at the Southland Cafe in Boston, Massachusetts, on May

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the fourth, nineteen thirty nine, and unfortunately just weeks before

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the death of this legendary drummer who had a host

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of medical issues, but fortunately here still with us today

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through his music and now here on the Make Believe Ballroom. Well,

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you know, I'm thinking chick Web's broadcast from the south

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Land were a radio listening treat has heard from My

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Wild Irish Rose, and I can't leave that May fourth,

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nineteen thirty five broadcasts that easily. We have some time

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on the show today. So let's go back to the

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Southland as I multitask here talking to you and looking

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for what I need from my playlist. All right, let's

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go back to the Southland as if you were listening

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to your radio in nineteen thirty nine for a Chickweb

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Back to back.

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Chickweb, King of a dum from the South and in

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the city of Boston, we present a.

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Program of dance music played by chickweb. In this orchestra,

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I'm featuring the first Lady of Swing, Ella Fitzgerald. Chickweb

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warpings with an obvious contradiction, but a really fine.

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Tone is a real chickweb specialty. Breaking them down.

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And ever the.

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Was the awa to them.

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For he later, go birl.

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Campa, have ourcluding number, hell, I really go to come

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with queue cue.

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Your follow gun.

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To cho cho cho your bumble gum cho cho cho

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your bubble gum.

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To to to chu your bble gum j jujo baby.

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To to to chew, to ju too to your boun

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to to to chew your bblegum juj your baby.

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Birst you then you stop.

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The gum gets bigger round.

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No, your somethings were like vocals.

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When you hear that funny little sap to to to

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to you up to to to, you've a gone to

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to you've overcome to to che your bubble.

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Gum your boys you ride.

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I'm having fun chewing bone of my bubbles.

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Come bubble gum. It makes me sing.

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Here Joe up will make good.

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Stop the stuff. Don't get big around y.

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When you hear about your song, joy your.

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Jo your moot.

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Jr.

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Jo music.

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Chick Webb from the south Land Cafe back in nineteen

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thirty nine. Let me play one more than a weird

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story has relayed by a big band vocalist.

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Name A.

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I played an extended chick Web at the Southland So

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why not the extended both A and B sides? I

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just played to Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra's famous two

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part big band swing arrangement of the classic jazz standard

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Millenberg Joys from January the nineteenth, nineteen thirty nine for

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Victor Records. Millenberg Joys If You're Not Familiar is considered well.

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It's considered a seminole New Orleans jazz standard. It was

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originally co written by the great Jelly Roll Morton, Paul

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Maris and Leon Roppolo all the way back in nineteen

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twenty three. Dorsey's swinging iteration successfully transformed that classic Dixie

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Land tune into a high energy, seventy eight rpm big

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band classic and hit record. I'm Jeff Pressler and this

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is the Make Believe Ballroom from the Crystal Studio in

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broadcast Stink to public, university and community radio stations across

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the United States, as well as in the United Kingdom.

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So I told you before Tommy Dorsey that I was

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going to tell you a bizarre story as related by

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a big Van vocalist. Let's hear her sing first, then

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her eerie tale.

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I say, I love you really, for I am yours sincerely,

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with all my hart, with all my hart, with all

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far or wayfore your all.

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I lever came all with all my hart, And if

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I were lyricals, I would write a thought telling all

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the miracles to the day came along, and very night

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I'll tell the stars of you to stay again.

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I of you.

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With all my hart.

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From Brunswick Records. With all my Heart by Hal Kemp

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and his Orchestra vocal by Max seen Gray, recorded in

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New York City November the twenty first, nineteen thirty five,

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and that record number three hit on Your Hit Parade

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back in thirty five. So Max Seene Gray, as mentioned,

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was the primary vocalist for Hal Kemp and his orchestra,

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both in ballrooms, in records, on the radio, and in

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addition to being with Hal, she was on the very

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popular California Melodies radio program that hosted by conductor Dave Rose,

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and we played many of those broadcasts songs from those

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broadcasts here on the ballroom over the years. But she had,

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as only can be described, an eerie tale that carried

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with her throughout her life. And it happened on an

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overnight train. And as the story goes, the train was

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going at about eighty miles an hour to Chicago. The

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hell Camp band had been arousing success the night before

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at the University Saint Louis, and Maxine was very lucky

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to be the girl vocalist, earning one hundred dollars a

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week singing with a great group of musicians. The hal

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Camp Orchestra voted twice by Metronome magazine readers as the

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best suite band in America. True, there were other outfits

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capitalizing on the swing craze, but the college kids, for

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whatever reason, were partial to the sophisticated, cheek to cheek

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style of hal Kemp. So, nevertheless, Maxine had been awakened

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on that train by a persistent in her voice as

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the band slept, and as she explained it to the

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writer Walt Beauprey, granted, Walt, I'm a religious person, but

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I heard my guardian angel say, Maxine, there'll be a

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train wreck, and I kind of listened. I argue, though

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we've traveled on trains so many times. Then the voice asked,

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will you be dressed? I said I probably will be,

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because I'm always up before the rest of the guys.

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The voice then said, Maxine, you should get yourself a room.

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Met no, I thought, the boys will laugh at me

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if I get a room. Unable to shake off a

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premonition of disaster, she made her way to the ladies room,

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careful not to jostle any of these sleeping musicians. As

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she was leaving the ladies room, it happened the train

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broadsided at eighty miles an hour a truck at a crossing.

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The engine became uncoupled from the passenger cars, and the

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final coach, where the Kemp band was sleeping, whipped off

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the tracks. The engineer and the truck driver were killed instantly.

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Many others was seriously hurt, including some band members. Maxine's

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shoes remained at the door of the lady's room while

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she was thrown the length of the train car, landing

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in a heap under some seats. She had a concussion

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and remained unconscious for three days. The full extent of

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her injuries wasn't known until later in a small hospital

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just outside of Chicago. Ironically, bandleader Kemp had been in

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the men's room at the other end of the car

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and wasn't injured. Maxine chuckled when she noted that Hal

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was standing up at the time. He just held out

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his hands and braced himself. With a broken back and

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foot injuries, along with symptoms related to the concussion, recovery

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from Maxine Gray was to be a long, slow process.

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Kemp generously continued to pay her salary during her convalescence.

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So a tale relayed to many by Maxine Gray about

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her guardian angel and a troubling night outside of Chicago.

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PLEASESE, keep me in yardrys, in your sweet dreams.

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Let me hold you.

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When through your window. Not frease comes winging. It's just

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bringing this love song that I'm singing.

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Please keep me in yardreams. My kisses scenes must I've

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told you.

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My heart you barb hunt chairs.

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To my role Solf.

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Please keep me in your dreams.

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PLEASESE.

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Keep me.

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Ya dreams in yon sweed dreams.

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Let me hold you.

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Win through your window, No breeze come winging. It's y'all

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bringing this love song.

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That I'm singing.

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Please keep me.

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In yr dreams, my kiss it things, my path, No, you,

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my heart, you borrow I'm fil tomorrow.

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No, please keep me in y'all.

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From Vocalian Records with vocalist Billy Holiday. We just heard

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Please Keep Me in Your Dreams, recorded in nineteen thirty seven,

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music by the Lawnhurst, lyrics by Todd Seymour. Let me

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spend a moment talking about Lawnhurst and see more. Because

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they were notable in the nineteen thirties, the Tinpaan Alley

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songwriting team of composer v Lawnhurst and lyricist Todd Seymour

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were trailblazing pioneers. Is one of the first successful all

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female commercial songwriting partnerships in the American popular music industry.

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They wrote a lot for Fats Waller and Tommy Dorsey,

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and also for Benny Goodman.

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No other one, no other one can even do what

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you do when you do what you can't no other one,

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no other one can ever make me like you, like you,

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like that, like you constantly.

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Talk about have resident with an eighteen charac thrill, I

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don't have to make me guess when thinking of someone

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to build the fill no other one.

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Yes, no other one can ever make me want to

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want to say on the Great Big Way all no

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other one.

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From Victor Records with Benny Goodman and his orchestra. Vocal

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by Helen Ward, no other one recorded back in nineteen

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thirty five. Music by V. Lawnhurst, Lyrics by Todd Seymour

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and friends. We are now at that time in the

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program when I play a few requests. I'm Jeff at

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom

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Radio dot com. And first up, Joel how our good

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friend in Dallas, Texas who writes, and I am looking

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for his email on the cell phone here. So bear

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with me, since the studio computer I use for emails

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and stuff just went on the fritz. Does anybody use

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that expression anymore on the frets? Well, my cell phone,

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my smartphone is not on the fritz, because I found it,

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and here it is. Dear Jeff, I just listened to

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last week's program that was actually a number of weeks ago,

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and heard you read Walter Coleman's request for recording by

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his distant relatives Stuart Allen. I do indeed remember that

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segment and you responded with you hit the Spot sung

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by Alan with Richard Himber's orchestra. Stuart Allen recorded another

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song with Himber that I really like, but I never

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heard it performed by any other singer. The song is

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Monday in Manhattan. Could you find it and play it

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for me and for Walter. The show continues to lift

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my spirits each week. Thanks for all you do, and

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that's regards Joel, and I appreciate that email, Joel, and

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I do indeed have that record, and I did indeed

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read that email off the smartphone without my reading glasses.

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So big victory they are in a big victory for you, Joel,

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because I do have the record.

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Woo flatic oring in my ears and booms my DearS.

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I'm in my flat in man patterns. My vapatient days

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are in the pals they went to pass. Why couldn't

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they lie?

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Jeez?

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Monday in Madden where it ends my holiday.

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I hate Monday in Manhattan when my heart is miles away.

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Streets of leaning.

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Power seem to be my only view. But I'll close

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my eyes for hours and I know that I'll see you.

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Then.

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The Paven changing into Harwood is glad beyond is my

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arms again, and it all seems so real.

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Near the sky line of Steel.

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Shouts it's Monday in Manhattan.

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That away your dreams have low jee.

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It's Monday in Manhattan, and it means that I'm alone.

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From Victor Records, Monday in Manhattan by Richard Himber and

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his Ritz Carlton Orchestra, vocal by Stuart Allen, recorded in

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New York City, January the nineteenth, nineteen thirty five. And

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thanks Joel for the kind words and the request.

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Now some.

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Not so kind words by a frequent listener in the

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Great State of Wisconsin, the One and only while Bill Adams,

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who says you used to play a lot of kay

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Kaiser but no more. Well, Bill, I be with you.

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I want to sit suit with the ree, sleep with

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the great shape and stuff. Come to look sharp enough

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to see my Sunday girl. I want to read sleep

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with the right stripe and the dress best, and the

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black flat and the ladies bad, the seeld Sunday a girl.

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I want to look keen, so my dream.

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Will say you don't look like the same boat, So Keen,

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that's your screen. Here comes walking Rainbow Sweets and Mega

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Sue Suit with the ree cleep with the great shape

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and stuff. Come to look sharp enough to see my

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Sunday girls.

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A zoot suit for my Sunday gal Cade Kaiser and

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his orchestra recorded back in nineteen forty two, and folks,

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we are totally out of time. The big hand on

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the big Bullova clock is approaching the top of the

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hour here in the Crystal studio. Thanks so much for

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joining me today. To reach me Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom

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Radio dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com.

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