July 10, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/10/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/10/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 7/10/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 7/10/26 Edition
On this week’s show: a historic “jass” record, Benny Goodman’s first job, an on-air mistake corrected, emails from listeners—this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on the program.
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It's make Believe Ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away. All the bands are here

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to bring.

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Good cheer your way.

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It's make Belief Ballroom time and free to everyone.

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It's no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said bombs, close your eyes.

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And visual lie in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this dance and mister Miller,

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but you in the mood.

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It's make Believe Ballroom time.

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We are a sweet romance as you make believe bo Come.

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On Jo the last dance last, Hello world, I'm Jeff Presler,

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turning on the lights the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming

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you into my Crystal studio for another program of classic

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big band music from the nineteen thirties and forties. Please

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get 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 and all into the Crystal Studio.

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And thanks so much for joining me today. It was

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going to take a sip of coffee, but this record

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is certainly caffeine enough for me.

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Several things anything, don't any of you?

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From Bluebird Records and recorded in New York City on

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July the first, nineteen thirty seven. We just heard under

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the baton of bandleader Lucky Millinder the Mills Blue Rhythm

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Band with jammin for the jackpot, a jack pot winner,

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to get things underway here today on the make believe ballroom.

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So let's roll the dice for another Lucky seven, another

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winning seventy eight RPM. And the odds are certainly in

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our favor. With Benny Goodman, Why you know, I just

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met old boy Sylvester.

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And what he had to tell me was pleasant.

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That man knows everything about everybody, you.

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Really think, so I should do well.

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Let me tell you about some folks you ain't doing

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that on yet. Who gathered all the dog of the doom?

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Who gives it to you?

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Does it?

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A brown who catered to the gossip a tribe. Doctor

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Hagel and mister Jib, they corner eat and all of

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the clues they've published what soon become news Live. Wise,

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you had better subscribe doctor Haggle and mister Jib from

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the room bar argument, get out them, murmur and home.

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They don't know from nothing, so they always wind up

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bigging up on way. If you want to hear him again,

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just bring around the bottle agend he gonna let us

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know how to him. Buy him and Doctor Haggle and

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the Surgis.

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From Columbia, Doctor Heckel and Mister Jibe by Benny Goodman

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and his Orchestra vocal by Jack T. Garden with Dick

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Madonna and Charlie T. Garden, recorded in New York City

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on October the twenty seventh, nineteen thirty three.

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Jack T.

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Garden and Benny Goodman great friends from their time with

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the Ben Pollack Orchestra. Now, not only did Ben Pollack

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have one of the top orchestras in the country in

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the late twenties through the thirties, but he had a

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nickname Pollock did and that was the Father of swing.

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And he had that name due to his uncanny ability

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to discover legendary teenage musicians. Benny Goodman started working for

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Ben Pollack when he was only sixteen years old.

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Jack T.

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Garden was in his very early twenties when he started

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with Ben. Some other Pollock proteges included Harry James Glenn Miller,

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who did a lot of arranging and composing for Pollock,

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Jimmy McPartland, Bob Crosby and many others got their starts

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with Pollock. Why don't we listen to Ben Pollock and

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his orchestra with Harry James in a song that they

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co wrote together.

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How might you talk about the packing?

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Is?

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That's the day that you should do? Hold you get away?

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No?

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How do the no?

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And if you pack? What's you going to pay?

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Sob holda?

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You packing to the side and the back.

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Were looking on him.

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He's taking on the back.

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I'll pack it to me.

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There's a line of well you pecked one, then we'll

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pay for How shall I pack?

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You do?

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The shall I do?

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Whoa peck?

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Peck peck? Tell you peck holloll o?

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Okay, oh well hey, hey wow what lina my at?

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That's taken? Boy, okay, we don't take, we don't take,

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we don't take up of the word.

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We're all rid.

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Ben Pollock and his orchestra Peckin recorded for Vocalion Records

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on December the eighteenth, nineteen thirty six, trumpet of course

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by Harry James. And when Ben Pollack wrote that song

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with Harry James, Harry was just nineteen years old at

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the time. I'm Jeff Presler, and you're listening to the

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weekly edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, And what started

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as a single Benny Goodman recording has turned into a

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mini discussion about the great bandleader Ben Pollock. So why

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don't I stay on that topic for a few moments now.

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Although Ben made some great choices in selecting teenage and

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young twenties talent, some of the personal choices he made

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didn't have the same results. Ben had a singer in

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the band named Dorus Robbins, and her and other things

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caused a crack in the foundation of the band, which

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caused it to come to a dramatic end in December

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of nineteen thirty four. And as the story goes, the

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members of the band were totally infuriated by Pollacks both

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romantic and managerial preoccupation with Dorus Robbins. So the entire

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ensemble staged a mutiny and walked out on Ben Pollock,

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and that collective group of musicians stayed together to form

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the nucleus of the highly to become successful Bob Crosby Orchestra.

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As I mentioned, Bob Crosby originally one of the Pollock

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young proteges. Now Ben married Doris and he reformed a band,

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the same band we heard in the song Peckin I

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played with Harry James and I don't think I mentioned,

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but also Irving Fasola was on the clarinet in that one.

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Why Don't I now play for You? The first recording

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of the Bob Crosby Band formed after the mass exodus

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from Ben Pollock.

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It was in a little gypsy te ro when I

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was feeling blue. It was in a little gypsy tea

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room I first laid eyes on you when the gypsy

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came to read the teele. It made me feel quite

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gay when she said that someone in the tea room

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would steal my heart. Aware, I really thought it inconceivable,

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but just imagine my supply. You made the story quite

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believable right there in front of mind, with a smile

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and sweeter than the roses. You made a dream come to.

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It was in a little gypsy tea room I gave my.

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From Decca Records. In a little Gypsy tea Room by

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Bob Crosby and his orchestra Vocal by Bob Crosby, recorded

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in New York City, June, the first nineteen thirty five,

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and that song reached the number one spot on the

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Lucky Strike Hit Parade on the radio. I'm Jeff Brestler,

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and you're listening to the One, the Only, the original

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Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting since nineteen thirty five, and currently

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the third longest running musical radio program behind The Grand

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Old Opry and The Real Opry. The weekly broadcasts of

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the Metropolitan Opera when they are in season. I played

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Benny Goodman to start the segment that led to Ben

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Pollock and his musical teenage Proteges. Did you guys know

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that nineteen year old Ella Fitzgerald recorded with Benny Goodman

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for a very short period of time. While Benny's regular vocalist,

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the long running Helen Ward, was on a short leave

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of absence, Goodman hired teenage Ella to step in. She

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recorded three tracks X during the hell Award absence. Let

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me play one for you.

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Now, good night, my lord, you tie your owning, lending.

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You not.

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My lord, my moment with you now in nehing.

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In your heaven.

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Holding you go to me.

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It will be heaven. Leave to hold it again.

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Dream that the boat.

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Have promised to lead us to marble till then, my lord,

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how do we read the new navil SA.

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So all the presence we'll have to pull Fleap.

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My Love good not my lord remeber that.

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You mo.

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On Victor Records, recorded on December seventeenth, nineteen thirty six,

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Benny Goodman and his orchestra with Goodnight, My Love, featuring

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the then nineteen year old Ella Fitzgerald and a Benny

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Goodman twosome here today on the Make Believe Ballroom. And now,

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as I look at these shows itinerary, why don't I

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read a letter from a listener to reach me. I'm

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

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Makebelie Ballroom Radio dot com. And this email is from

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Fred Clark in Sherman Oaks, California, and he writes, Jeff,

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I enjoyed the guitar of Django Reinhardt on last week's

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show as you played him on a military radio program.

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Do you have more of his music? And that is

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signed Fred, and of course we do. Fred. Djangle was

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a guest on the radio remote I played last week,

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but certainly he was one of the greatest guitarists of

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all time, specifically known for his work, as many of

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you know, with the quintet of the Hot Club of France,

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which he led with the legendary violinist Stefan Grippelli. So

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let me play a selection for you from the Hot

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Club of France.

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Dodger, Dodger, the whole stand new dust, That old sweet

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song keeps Dodge on my mind.

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Oh my man, Dodges' dog.

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The song of you comes, that soft and clean as

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the moon lights to the vine of the arms reached

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out to me, other eyes.

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Smiled tenderly still, then.

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Peaceful dreams I see the road leads back to you with.

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Dodger does.

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No peace are fine?

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Just mostly sounds Dodger on.

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Mama, Recorded in Paris on Victor Records, October fifteenth, nineteen

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thirty six. We heard Stefan Grippelli on the violin, Django Reinhart,

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Joseph Reinhart and the Pierre Foray with the guitars Louis

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Vola string bass and Freddie Taylor with a beautiful vocal

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Georgia on my mind. And thanks to Fred Clark in

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California for keeping us in his mind by sending an

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email again to reach me. Jeff at Make Believe Ballroomradio

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dot Com. That's Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot Com.

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Ything Parsons pass Christ.

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From Vocalion Records at the jazz band ball written by

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Laraca and Shields Bobby Hackett and his orchestra, recorded in

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New York City on February the sixteenth, nineteen thirty eight,

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and the name of Larraca quite important in the annals

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of Dixieland jazz, and I think I will talk about

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one Nick Larraca after this record.

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Thank you God, verisig.

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Think that.

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Don't worry my thank till the day you die. It's

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good for you thing while your death are made, think

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till the bills are paid.

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Thing.

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Don't you be afraid it's good for you. When I'll

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gluncome drowned, you don't have to brown. It won't mean

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a thing to thing.

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Brother.

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It's a ring say.

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Nay thing and with all your mind it's good for you.

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Via Brunswick sing It's Good for You by the Dorsey

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Brothers Orchestra vocal by Jene Bows, recorded in New York City,

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September the twenty seventh, nineteen thirty two. So before the

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Dorsey Brothers, I promised to talk about the composer who

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wrote the Bobby Hackett song I played at the Jazz

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Band Ball his nickname. The composer's nickname was Nick laraka

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Pie Near, A groundbreaker, a talented a musician, composer and bandleader,

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but also an extremely polarizing character. Why don't we start

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our journey with Nick Laraka going way back in time

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to nineteen seventeen Dad from Victor Records, Livery Stable Blues,

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composed and played by the original Dixieland Jazz Band, recorded

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in New York City, February the twenty sixth, nineteen seventeen. Now,

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I'm going to tell you a little about Loraca. Much

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can be disputed. As I said, he was a polarizing figure.

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But the song we just heard Livery Stable Lose from

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back in nineteen seventeen was, without dispute, the first successfully

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recorded commercial jazz band record. It was also the first

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time the word jazz spelt on this record as jazz

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jass was ever used on a record. And that has

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nothing to do with the African American roots of American jazz,

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who no one disputes but Laca, As I said, he

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was polarizing, and he declared himself later on as the

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quote unquote father of jazz. So while the original Dixieland

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Jazz Band helped greatly introduce jazz to the masses, music

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historians and experts and anyone saying for that matter obviously

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credits pioneers like King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong,

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King Oori, so many more as the true founding fathers

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of the genre of jazz. So Lraca in the early

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nineteen twenties had a nervous breakdown and he left the band,

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only to return in nineteen thirty six to make a

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few what turned out to be successful recordings. Now, one

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of the tracks that he recorded in nineteen thirty six

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was one of early jazz's greatest tunes.

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I think It's Anything to do.

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Anything?

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Do any think they?

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On Victor Records. Tiger Rag, written by Harry da Costa

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and Nick Laraca, performed by Nick Larraka and the Original

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Dixieland Band featuring Larry Shields on the clarinet, Recorded in

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New York City on September the second, nineteen thirty six. Now,

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Tiger Rag was a officially copyrighted and composed back in

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nineteen seventeen by Laraca and the original Dixieland Jazz Band. However,

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its true origins are highly debated, with the early New

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Orleans musicians, including the before mentioned Jelly Roll Morton, claiming

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they played versions of it for years before the band

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ever recorded it. So another bone of contention surrounding Nick Laraka,

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who also claimed when he reunited the band in nineteen

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thirty six, that they were the original inventors of, at

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that time, the newly popular nationwide craze called swing music.

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He heavily publicized this claim, most notably appearing with the

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reunited band to perform Tiger Rag that We Just Heard

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in a nineteen thirty seven March of Time newsreel segment

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that was explicitly titled Birth of Swaying.

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So a highly.

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Talented guy with an interesting take on the world of music.

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He lived in Nick Laraca. And I think, as I

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do this show live and try to retrace my steps,

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I think I erroneously as a slip of the tongue

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called kid Ori King or just a few moments ago,

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or maybe I didn't, but I extend my apologies to you,

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kid Ori.

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The city.

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Its sting.

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Very many.

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That the legendary trombonist, the band leader and composer kid Or,

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one of the pioneers of American jazz with muskrat Ramble,

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recorded on the Crescent label March the twenty first, nineteen

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forty five, kid Or, who gave Louis Armstrong his first job,

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only for kid orri himself, later on to join Louis

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Armstrong's very own Hot.

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Five an any any.

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Poooooo question.

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Person strutting with some barbecue, Louis Armstrong's trumpet, kid Ari trombone,

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Johnny Dodds the clarinet, Lil Harden the piano, also the

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composer of that song, later to become Lil Harden Armstrong

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and Johnny Saint Syr playing the banjo. Recorded for Okay

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Records in Chicago, December the ninth, nineteen twenty seven, and

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by suspecting I called kid Uri Kay Laurie, I played

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as penance, one by him and one by Louis that

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I didn't intend to play. So let me look at

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the playlist and see what I had next in the

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regular rotation.

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No man, he bought bottles wiet Can you use that

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jib on my milk diet?

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So milk man and keep blow bottles quiet, then jumping

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on the swingship all day, turning out my quarter. All

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right now, I'm beating right down.

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To the side.

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Gotta catch myself some righteous snod. So milk man, keep

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lost bottles quiet. Milk man, stop bad great ay, right,

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god on, if you can't love bite it, oh, milk man,

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and keep los bottles quiet. Being knocking out a fat

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tank all day working on a bottle. Okay boy, you

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blast my wig with those clinkers, and a guy who

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catch my forty every week. So milk man, keep bus

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bottles quiet. Noise off the river to right, Go on, mindy,

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cause the man with the whiskers has a light behind it.

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But I can't keep punching with a victory crew when

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you're making me punch you with that bottle boo. I

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wanna give my all if I'm going to give it,

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but I gotta get my shirt out if I'm going

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on a ribbit, So Bill, I fight without milk barage,

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go to don patriotic gets a bootle touch and knocking

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out a fat tank all day working on a bottle.

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Wookay boy, you blast my wig with us clinks and I.

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Got to catch my bot it with so Milkman and

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keep booth Bottles Quiet movement, keepod Bottles Woo Movement and keeboard.

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Bottle Milkman, Keep those Bottles Quiet by Ella May Morris Orchestra,

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conducted by Dick Walters and recorded on Capitol Records back

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in nineteen forty four. And folks, we are out of time.

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The big hand on the big bull of a clock

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is approaching the top of the hour. Thanks so much

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for joining me today to reach me, I'm Jeff at

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

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