Aug. 7, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/7/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 8/7/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/7/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/7/26 Edition

On this week’s show: the "Mayor of Harlem," a song about a profession that helped bring black Americans into the middle class, and three crooners who caused swooning—this and many more great songs and tales 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 good cheer your way.

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It's make believe.

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

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friend your Dalis said bombs. Close your eyes and visualize

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in your solitude. Your favorite bands are on this dance and.

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Mister Miller, but you're in the wood. It's make believe

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ballroom time.

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We are a sweet romance.

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Here's your mother.

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Come on, Joleen Last das Last, Hello world. I'm Jeff Presler,

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turning on the lights of the Make Belief Ballroom and

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welcoming you into my Crystal studio for another program of

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classic big band music from the nineteen thirties and forties.

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Please 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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welcome one and all into the Crystal Studio. And thanks

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so much for joining me today. How about a little

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rag to get things going day? We say that that

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was eccentric rag buster Bailey and his orchestra, And what

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an orchestra. It was you had Charlie Shavers playing the trumpet,

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Buster Bailey himself the clarinet. Benny caught her very strange.

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On the record label he is listed as Bill Kyle

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playing the piano. Of course, Benny best known for the alto,

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sax and trumpet, but also a fine pianist. John Kirby,

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the Bass, Zudi Singleton the Drums, recorded in New York

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City June of nineteen forty. Buster Bailey and his Orchestra.

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Why don't I take a moment to zero win on

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the bass player on that record, John Kirby, who led

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a wonderful sex tet in the nineteen forties.

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The Lady Ny the Badger.

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On Okay Records. The John Kirby Sextent Jumping in the

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Pump Room, recorded also in nineteen forty. I'm Jeff Bresler,

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and thanks for taking the time today to listen in

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on some of the finest music of a bygun eron.

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I'm happy to keep that era alive here each and

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every week on the Make Believe Ballroom. In just a moment,

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three men who many other men well, quite frankly, sometimes

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went to jealous rages over. But first my Friends, A

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Little Benny Goodman.

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The Y, the The The.

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Taking, the.

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Law An.

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Benny Goodman and his Orchestra was Undecided, recorded on December fifteenth,

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nineteen thirty eight, in New York City for Victor Records.

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

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of the Make Believe Ballroom Bing. Crosby, Russ Colombo, and

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Rudy Valley were the three biggest crooners in the early

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nineteen thirties. Their popularity soared on records but also on

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the radio. These three young crooners were the equivalent of

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movie matinee idols, and many younger women had crushes on them. Now,

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this created jealousy among their bows, so much so that

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they were considered all in fun quote unquote public enemies

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of the young men who had to tolerate their dreamy

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eyed girlfriends. Waxing poetically about the trio. The dilemma, so

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to speak, was so well documented that a song was

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written about it, and I play that for you now.

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I hoe everybody.

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There's lots of public enemies, but I know only three. Crosbie,

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Colombo and Valley.

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They've made a million married women wish that they were

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free Rosy.

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Colombo and Valley.

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Those crooning vagabonds are stealing all our blonde.

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Now I know what has become of Sally.

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And every time you.

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Kiss your girl, who is she thinking of? Crosby, Colombo

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and Valley.

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Listen on, you bachelors, all you married men, we must

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stick together once again. There's too many crooners, too many

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saxophone break up our happy home.

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Who are we? Sings about a couple of weeks the

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stars above crosbe Glumbone.

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Valley, And though I call it nonsense, they insist that

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it is love.

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Crosbeak, Alumbon and Valley.

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Before the radio, a married man could throw any gigglo

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out in the alley.

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But now who comes into your home and you.

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Can't say a word Crosbeaklumbone Valley.

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Each time I go out, all I hear him and

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talk about is the Saprosby, the Colombo and the Valley.

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You know, I buy the banana from the Greek and

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all the time I hear him speak about the Prosby

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Colombo and the Valley.

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I buy the radio and I put him a soft

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bin alow and I hear him singing. I like him too,

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By Galley.

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Everything will be okay if they sing pagliats.

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These grows Bey Colombo and the Valley.

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Our children think.

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America was first discovered by Crosby, Colombo and Valley.

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The women only laugh at me, but who can make

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them cry? Crosby, Colombo and Valleys. A girl can close

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her eyes and listen to those.

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Guys and do what you will be did to old

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Sven Galley.

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My baby can't say poppy yet, but he can play

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me say crows be Cologne.

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Bo and Balley.

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On Perfect Records, released on December nineteenth, nineteen thirty one. Crosby,

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Colombo and Valley with the vocal provided by Dick Robertson,

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and that song and the whole mystique surrounding bing Crosby,

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Russ Colombo and Rudy Valley actually led to Warner Brothers

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creating a cartoon feature, a Merry Melodies feature that appeared

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in theaters in nineteen thirty two and for decades thereafter

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when television came into vogue for many many years. You know,

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it's interesting that while Crosby, Colombo and Valley were America's

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favorite crooners and stealing all the musical headlines. The vocalist

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who sang that song, Dick Robertson, was toiling away in

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the record studios record awarding hundreds of sides over his career.

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Robertson did not have a contract or loyalty to one band.

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In particular, he was best described, I guess as a

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vocal freelancer, working as a studio singer, most notably from

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Millowtone Perfect Banner, Oriole Romeo, Crown and Bluebird Records. Dick,

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who has provided the vocals for many a record, spun

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here on the make the Lae Ballroom, was joined by

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Chick Bullock, Let's see put Scrappy Lambert in that class,

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Irvin Kaufman, Elmer, Ruffeldcamp, and a whole bunch more is

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the core of the freelance studio vocalists, especially the nineteen thirties,

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and among them responsible in totality for literally thousands of

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sides coming out of the record studio. Why Don't I

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Play One? By Chick Bullock?

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I got the world on a string, sitting on the rainbow,

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got the string around my pain? What a world? What

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a life? I'm in love? I got a song that

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I sing. I can make the rainbow anytime I move.

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My pain now gave me? Can't you see I'm in love?

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I'm is a beautiful pain as long as I hold

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a string. I do you still the towel? If I

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should ever let go? I got the world on the string,

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spitting on the rainbow, got the string around mat Why

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the bird?

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What a life?

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Time?

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In love? Life is a beautiful pain. As long as

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I hold the string, I'd be a Silney Somn's gold

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if I should have to let go. I got the

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world on a string, pitting on the rainbow, got the

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string around my pair, Watch the world?

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What the life?

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Fim in life?

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On Oreo Records, I've Got the World on a String

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Chick Bullock and his Levy Loungers, recorded on February the ninth,

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nineteen thirty three. Folks, you're listening to the one, the only,

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the original Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting since nineteen thirty five,

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and in the Record Books says the third longest running

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music radio program. I'm Jeff Wrestler, and we do two

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things here on the Ballroom. We tell stories like the

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Crosby Colombo and Valley Tale, and play some great music

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that I know you love music like this, I'm pols.

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The leaders, make them green again.

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Shake out the trees, change the scene again, sprink cleaning,

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getting ready for love.

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I'll sweep out the nook down in lover's lane, turn.

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On the book, making a run again, sprink cleaning and

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getting ready for love.

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Our dust does win. Three flowers watched them out with

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their brill showers. Cover them with fragrant flowers. Sign up

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the silvery move.

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Consume you and I am under the sky like we

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used to do, and sprink leading, getting ready for lawns,

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swing out balls, Consume you and I am.

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I'm the guy like we have to do. Ring cleaning,

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Get a readyble Love.

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Recorded on March the twelfth, nineteen thirty seven, Bob Howard

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and his Orchestra. Vocal by Bob with a pleasant swinger

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titled Spring Cleaning, from Decca Records. Let's listen now to

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a record by drummer Joe Daniels, then an occupation that

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was partially responsible for moving Black Americans into the middle class.

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A music ode to that profession in just a few moments.

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Tell me.

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Very Much.

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For Recorded in London, June the thirtieth, nineteen thirty eight,

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Joe Daniels and his hot shot in Dromnastics with ultra

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modern sway. You know you've seen them in old movies,

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read about them, maybe actually had an encounter with one

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of the members of this uh, well affable and friendly lot.

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The first red cap was worn by a black railroad

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porter on Labor Day of eighteen ninety to stand out

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from the crowds at Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

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His name was James Williams, and he wore a red

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cap to distinguish himself from railroad personnel like conductors who

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wore blue caps. Red caps, as many of you know,

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carried luggage to trains and attended to passengers other needs

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before they boarded. It is said that with limited job

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opportunities for Blacks at the turn of the century, that

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the whole red cap profession, which was pretty much an

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all African American enterprise, was responsible due to stability, good

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salary and tips. Was responsible because it became a major

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factor in Black Americans being elevated into the middle class.

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Louis Armstrong performed a song about red caps, both informational

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for the general public and need I say, a morale

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booster for the red caps themselves. Let's enjoy that record.

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Now, Red Cap Cap every day's working it for you,

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so don't rig you got to hustle now the age

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fiue d.

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Red that's what you keep shouting to the throne. It's no.

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And yet you have to tote that baggage all day long.

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When have folks go on.

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Vacation, you at the railroad station, ready to lend them

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a hand. What some of them don't understand that a

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nickel or two lack a dollar to you.

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So read Cavil save the tips you get.

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Well if you do the caravel, oh travel, perhaps some

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day you will be calling Red.

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Captain from Decca. Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra with Red Cap,

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recorded July the second, nineteen thirty seven in New York City,

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attributes to Red Caps and working hard every single day.

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And I really don't have to work very hard to

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flip that Armstrong record over to the other side.

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New kind of.

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Enemy on Newsay's course of the melody when it comes

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your way, saw the sneaks right up up on you

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kind of puts the finger on you. So look out

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for public melody number one. It should be your luck

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and it needs you face to face, in your feet

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at chucking all around the place. No use to call

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on who was g men? Why they're just a lot

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of head fmn when it comes to Public Melody number one,

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Oh Frankenstein, fun love, John Jesse, James Tachers, bet me

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gott con only your time combat the notes shot from

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hot con Net. So get on the cover, you rhythm rascals,

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and run, who you dog? I ain't no use hiding.

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I'm gonna take you line. Look out the public medine

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number one.

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All right, then, no, I don't know.

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Louis Armstrong and his orchestra with the flip side of

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red cap. We just heard Public Melody number one. You know,

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if you think that the legendary Bob Wills and his

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Texas Playboys were all about strictly Texas swing, well think again.

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This is.

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Won't you Come along with me?

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Come along with me to the Mississippi. Through the Mississippi.

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We'll take a board to the land of dreams, steaming

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down the river down.

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To oldly O.

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The Bend's gonna meet.

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Us, all our old friends to greet us old friends agreed.

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That's where the dog and the light bulb meet.

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Heaven owners they.

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Call it Basin Street. Basin Street Street is the street

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we're all of dark?

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Can lightfoot me down?

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Yes?

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Lands of Dreams.

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You'll never know how nice the series are, Just how

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much it really mere? Glad yel Surrey Houn't Joe, Welcome Street?

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Did you do me?

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Where I can?

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What about the news boy on my bass and street blues?

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Come in little turn him with that old saxophone.

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Yes, ram fluent, I've laid his member down and picked

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up a beautiful golden spo.

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I was playing for it.

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Yes, Yes, it's just.

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Like old time.

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I'm in norm that is going bar still guitar.

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Old Basion Street. Yeah, here's the street We're all of dark.

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Can the light boote me new Olean? Land of dream

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You'll never know how nice it s? Just how much

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you really means?

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I know to be hooray?

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Yeah, I read Welcome Street?

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Here's you mean?

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Where I can?

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Blue?

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My m's a street Blue.

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I'm conning.

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Recorded September twenty nineth, nineteenth thirty six Bob Wills and

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his Texas Playboys with Basin Street Blues via Vocalion Records.

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You know we just heard a couple from Louis Armstrong,

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Red Cap and Public melody number one. How about one

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now from his ex wife, Lil Harden Armstrong, You're.

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Gonna read what you saw in the sweet sweet bye

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and bye.

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When the fire all my love shall cease.

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To burn, you will call me in.

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Vain and hang your head and cry.

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But I'll be far away.

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I'll not return.

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Now many times when you're blue, you will miss my

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hug yankies when.

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Your new love quips and turns to going.

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If you make your own that.

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Harm, don't you call on the Lord, because he's promised

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you shall reap just what you saw.

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Verything, very bay.

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Showing from Decca Records in nineteen thirty eight, Lil Hardened

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Armstrong with you shall reap what you sew here on

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the weekly edition of the Make Believe Ballroom. Men, Now

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it's time to listen to a record by his Honor,

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the Mayor of Harlem, New York.

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You got no boy, got ready to do the rigmarole?

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Well I'm going round, don't because everything is look God,

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now you can go watch it.

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Whatever thing never.

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Happen, scuse me.

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Saying, recorded in New York City on May the eighth,

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nineteen thirty five. Rigamarole via Victor Records, Willie Bryant and

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his orchestra, And I said Willie was the Mayor of Harlem,

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and although not an elected position, it was an honored title.

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In March of nineteen fifty two, the prestigious black newspaper,

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The Amsterdam News, decided to elect a new quote unquote

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mayor of Harlem, filling the vacancy created when the longtime

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title holder, dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson died in forty nine.

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Ten prominent citizens of business, the arts and civic life

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were placed on a ballot, and Willie Bryant won, and

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after Willie's death there was never another Willie Bryant. Now,

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Willie was also skilled DJ, one of the first black

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entertainers to appear on TV. Many achievements for that talented musician.

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And by the way, he was the first to ever

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record this song, You've got to give.

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Little, take a little, Let your poor heartbreak a little.

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That's the story of That's the glory of love. Oh

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then you've got lamp, little fine a little before the

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clouds drawn by a little that's the story of. That's

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the glory of love. As long as.

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There's the do 'em.

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Uh, we've got the world and all its charm.

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And when the world it's you with us, we've got

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each other arm. You've got the wind, little, lose little,

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and always have to lose the little. That's the story

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of That's the Glory of Love.

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An from Bluebird Records. The Glory of Love by Willie

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Bryant and His Orchestra vocal by Willie Bryant, recorded in

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New York City, April the ninth, nineteen thirty six, the

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first time that standard was ever recorded. I think we

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have time for one, possibly two more tunes.

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A trans still.

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On Victor Records, Sugarfoot Stomp by Connie's Inn Orchestra aka

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Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, recorded in Camden, New Jersey,

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April of twenty ninth, nineteen thirty one, and let Me

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squeeze in one more.

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The pilot and the Barbadier were ready for a Tripps.

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The navigator checked his course and climbed aboard the.

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Ship, but there was someone missing, so.

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They all began to call for the very very very

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most important one of all.

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The support to me.

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Who has written them and the things he left.

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He's a part of a team, and that the bas

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for you when you.

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Sign the Man with.

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Everyone, the.

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Gun Sizavid There Squid, Captain Glenn Miller and the Army

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Air Force Training Command Orchestra Guns in the Sky vocals

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by Johnny Desmond and the crouch Es, recorded in nineteen

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forty four, and folks, we are out of time. Thanks

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so much for joining me today. To reach me, I'm

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

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. For past shows or recorded requests,

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go to MakeBelieve Ballroom dot com. Let's MakeBelieve Ballroom dot com.

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until next week, this has been Jeff Bresler.