May 15, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 5/15/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 5/15/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/15/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/15/25 Edition
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On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom hosted by Jeff Bressler, Count Basie’s ode to the draft, two first-time-ever-recorded hits for Fats Waller, the mother of boogie woogie, and more records and reminiscences from the big band and jazz era.
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It's make Believe ballroom time.

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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 said bombs. Close your eyes and visualize

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in your solitude. Your favorite bands are on this dance

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and mister Miller, but you're in the wood.

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It's make Believe ballroom time. We are a sweet romance.

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Is make Believe.

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Come on, Joe.

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Last dance lest.

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Hello world, I'm Jeff Pressler, turning on the lights of

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the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my Crystal

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studio for another program of classic big band music from

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the nineteen thirties and forties. Please get ready as I

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play for you some amazing jazz, swing, blues, and boogie

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woogie favorites. Folks, you're listening to the Make Believe Ballroom,

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broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen hundred and thirty five. And welcome, Welcome, welcome,

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one and all into the Crystal Studio. And thanks so

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much for joining me today. How about a little Count

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Basie to start the hours?

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The stile.

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Who I thought that I.

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From Okay Records What's Your Number? Count Basie and his

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Orchestra recorded to New York City on October the thirtieth,

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nineteen forty, and the What's Your Number in the title

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that referred to draft registration as the US came closer

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to going to war in World WLD War two. Actually,

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draft registration started on September sixteenth of nineteen forty, with

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the first number being drawn as a draft e to

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number one five eight. Just a little interesting side note there,

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But equally as interesting is that the B side of

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that OK seventy eight RPM record was also draft centric.

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He now, if you've got a loving man, you better

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love him while you gave.

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Perhaps you'll have to do his share.

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To help defend this dear old line. They're drafting many.

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Men right now.

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To give democracy a hand. Before they call your man,

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I'll say these words. You are to understand when all

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concern calls out, ow man, don't die, don't rhyme.

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Called.

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You can't refuse.

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To hold him.

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Bad mind made him slid.

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Just say you gotta go.

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Draft Dan Blue.

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Camp Acy and his orchestra with drafting Blues, Jimmy Rushing

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vocal the B side to the A side. What's your

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number recorded in nineteen forty. I'm Jeff Bresler, and this

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is the make Believe ball room. Why don't we stick

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with Count Basie for a few minutes, the legendary piano

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player and band later the Count had one specific influence

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that led him to the piano at an early age.

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The main guy that really influenced me was Thomas as Sveetzwaller.

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That was the man that I really did analyzka. FETs

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taught me how to play what little bit of organ

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that I do know, and I used to watch him

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lay around him long enough to try to style a

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little piano after him, which was quite difficult.

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Mister Fats Waller with a song many do not realize

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was attributed to him.

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Mister Christopher Lumbus say, uh see without our comfort when

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his men began.

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A rumbers on Christopher Plumber sirs, fad lass time where

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until we get that we would not go wrong if

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we sing sing a song since the world is round,

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though we'll be saying, don't know till our gold is

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bound over.

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We'll just keep rhythm bound over. Since the crew was

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making Merry Marry got up and went home. They came

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up where Isabella, and they brought on the rum and

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Isabel no morem mutine need no What a time.

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It seem Wster Blomber.

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See, Christopher made history gas mister Christopher Lumbus.

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Uh huh.

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He used the rhythm as a compass gash gass music

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ended all the rubbers, guys, Why old Christopher Claus lat

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y'all Christoper?

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Yes, I change.

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No, no, no, well look at that.

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Christie's grandest man of marine and he's going back.

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Yeah that.

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In the year fourteen ninety two, Columbus e the Ocean

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Blue What I think?

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Fats Waller, in his rhythm recorded their hit version of

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Christopher Columbus on April the eighth, nineteen thirty six. The song,

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featuring lyrics by Andy Razoff and music by Chew Berry,

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recorded for the Bluebird label, quickly became a popular swing

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hit in thirty six. It was a wonderful version of

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the song as we just heard, but even though Fats

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introduced it, it was a tune more closely associated with

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the Fletcher Henderson and Benny Goodman. So great music and

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a huge amount of personality from Fats Waller, and a

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number of years ago his son Maurice Waller, I think

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it was in the late eighties, commented on his dad's music.

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They did consider him the the epitome of stride piano playing,

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and he was king.

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Of the stride.

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Now, a lot of people they don't realize that my

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father's biggest thing that made him a real professional that

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get paid him the money. It was not the fact

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that he could play stride piano, but it was the

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fact that he had a personality. So that when my

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father songs like I'm gonna sit right down and write

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myself a letter. I remember distinctly that Victor asked him

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to record that song. They went to everybody else and

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they turned it down, and my father said, okay.

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I'll record it, and he made a hit out of it.

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But it's the way that he sang the song that

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made the thing I hit.

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I'm going to say right down and raise myself a

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lot of love.

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And make me believe the game from you.

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I'm going to raise for her own so sweet that

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all allows me all my.

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Fead a lot of kisses on the bottom.

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HI gonna be glad I got home.

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I'm gonna smile and say, I hope you're.

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Feeling better.

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Him Cloes with long the way you do.

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I'm gonna sat right down and let myself, let her

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him made Believe it came from you, Gonna smile and say,

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I hope you're feeling better, and load and.

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Loud a way.

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I'm going look.

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And write them make.

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Mad Game from Victor Records. I'm gonna sit right down

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and write myself A letter by Fats Waller and his

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rhythm vocal by Fats recorded in New York City May

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the eighth, nineteen thirty five, So two recordings that were

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recorded for the first first time ever by Thomas Fats Waller.

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I'm Jeff Bresler, and you're listening to the one, the only,

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the original Make Believe Ballroom. During Fats, I was thinking

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about Christopher Columbus and Fletcher Henderson, So I picked a record,

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not Christopher Columbus, but another Fletcher Henderson that was sort

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of a novelty tune by him that I think might

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bring back childhood memories to many of you, because that

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novelty lasted for many, many years.

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Many.

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Many many thanks for you. See, she's letting you the

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word ever she go. If you know how plans of men,

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didn't you know how this is playing on your mind

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except go knock knock, knock knock.

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That'st abate you gotta Why must you get away? Now?

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High down?

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How am I doing?

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Hey?

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Hey, lets you.

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Let yourself go oh cofee hop man and do nothing.

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If you know how fun the man, then you know

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how business me and on your mock getting into goom

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knock knock knock, not to brid you got no mind

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out that, no bread, no no the red.

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An, no mon.

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I think many of us remember the knock knock Who's there? Jokes? Well,

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that novelty was at its peak back in nineteen thirty six,

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when Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra recorded a novelty version

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of Knock Knock, Who's There? For Victor Records? And if

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you knock knock, I'm there. I'm being me Jeff Bresler,

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and thanks for joining me today on this week's edition

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of The Make Believe Ballroom.

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Then and the mess Men and Name then.

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Recorded on the Commodore label. On November the thirtieth, nineteen

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thirty eight, we just heard the Bud Freeman Trio and

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their recording of the song three Little Words Bud Freeman

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Tenor Sachs, the Great Jess Stacey on the piano and

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George Wetling playing the drums. The standard Three Little Words

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was written by the legendary Harry Ruby with lyrics by

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Bert Kalmer. How about I offer you.

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Here?

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It is another Harry Ruby standard.

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Oh sorry now?

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Who's sorrynal.

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Whose heart is aching?

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Or preak ing each bom.

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Who's sad and blue.

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And crying?

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Dues?

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Just like I cried over you bought you off.

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Right to the end.

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Just like a friend, I tried to warn you somehow.

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You had your way.

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Now you must pay.

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That's why I'm glad that you're sorry now.

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Anything I.

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Who's Sorry Now? Harry James and his Orchestra recorded for

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Columbia Records on April twenty ninth, nineteen forty six. Vocal

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by Willie Smith, music composed by Harry Ruby. I'm Jeff Presler,

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and this is the weekly edition of the Make Believe Ballroom.

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To reach me, I'm Jeff at Makebelie Ballroomradio dot com.

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That's Jeff at Makebelie Ballroomradio dot com. And a listener

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who did just that. He reached out to us with

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a request, and we will have that said request played

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in just a few minutes a song now probably made

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more famous by the Benny Goodman Sextet, but an admirable

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version Rose Room Jimmy Lunsford and his Orchestra, recorded on

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September the fourth, nineteen thirty four four Decca Records.

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A floor.

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Flooring did.

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Look.

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So you may be asking why Rose Room as the title, Well,

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it takes us back to nineteen seventeen when the band

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leader Art Hickman was playing an extended stay at the

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Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco, and there he penned

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that ode to the very room he and his band

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were performing in the Rose Room. And you know, strangely enough,

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Hickman died in nineteen thirty not in the Saint Francis Hotel,

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but eerily enough in Saint Francis Hospital in the city

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by the Bay Rose Room. And now I think, oh,

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wait a minute, I forgot earlier I was researching during

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records something I remembered but needed to confirm. Swaller had

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a radio program in New York City during the nineteen thirties.

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Fats was big on the radio, both in studio and

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also doing club radio remotes. He was replaced on one

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of his shows by a lady who was not only

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an outstanding vocalist but also a skilled jazz pianist. Let

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me play one of her records and then a little background.

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Random number of folks called boogie woogie. It's a funny

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little song. Now what I tell you to hold it?

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And I want you to move within? And what I

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tell you to get it? I want you to boogie woogie.

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Hold it now, Billy, we'll get it.

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When I tell you to hold it this time, I

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don't want you.

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To move a pang.

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And when I tell you to get it, I want

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you to mess around or stop stop now now mess around.

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I want that girl with a red dress on any

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kind of dress will do to come overhead stand by

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this skill. Now, what I tell you to hold it,

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I don't want you to move for myself. And when

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I tell you to get it, I want you.

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To shape that thing.

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Now.

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From the decal label Pine Top Boogie Woogie recorded on

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March the twelfth, nineteen thirty five, vocal by I and

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piano of Cleo Brown. Yes, Friends, boogie Woogie was indeed

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alive and well. Back in nineteen thirty five, many thinking

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boogie woogie was more of a nineteen forties and on phenomenon.

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In actuality, it goes all the way back to the

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late eighteen hundreds and Pine Top Boogie Woogie, one of

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the most famous boogie woogie songs of all time, was

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first released in nineteen twenty eight by Clarence Pinetop Smith.

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Now Cleo Brown is considered to be certainly the mother

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of female boogie woogie, one of the earliest innovators, and

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heard with her wonderful rendition of the song here on

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the make Believe Ballroom. Cleo was born with a great name,

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Cleopatra Brown. She could have had a very long and

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successful career in music, but she decided to go in

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a different direction. In nineteen fifty three, Cleo was a

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well She was a deeply religious woman, and she decided

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that she had another purpose other than music, So she

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went back to school and then spent the next twenty

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years of her life as a nurse. Why don't we

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play another one by Cleo Brown?

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Goodness, gracious me, I'm so excited.

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I'm so delighted. There's a reason.

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Won my heat have the holy heya tea goodness graciously

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Loki Loki, LOOKI here comes Cookie Walking down the street

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lokal LOOKI LOOKI I call them cookie calls he sweet

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looking Loki LOOKI.

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Here comes looking water lucky brain Loki Loki lookie.

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I call him cookie cause it takes a cake when

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he's near on My lips say, oh my heart says

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a try alive when he kisses old, it's t and

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deep to look a looky looky. Here comes Cookie water

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fix my tie. Just a little anger playing hockey from

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having on high on mine so.

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It is compable looking lucky.

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Here comes to me walking down the street, looking looking.

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I call him cookie House. He's oh looking lucky.

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Here comes Cooky waterlogging looking looky. I call him cooking

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cause he takes a cake when he's kneel My lips say,

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oh my heart says, our trial a lot when it kisses, Oh,

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it's d n D part too looky looky. Here comes

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down God afs my tongue.

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Just a little angel playing looking from heaven on high.

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Oh my sweet is.

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Talking Cleo Brown, Lucky, lucky Lucky. Here comes Cookie A

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great tune off Decca Records, Cleo on piano and vocal,

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Perry Botkin on guitar, Alreadie Bernstein on bass and gene

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Krupa with the drums, recorded in New York City, April

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of twelfth, nineteen thirty five, at.

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His Agar t.

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Everybody man came by a.

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Man meet me.

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There with.

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We just heard a test pressing of Charlie Spevac and

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his Orchestra with Hopskip and Jump recorded in nineteen forty one.

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Charlie Spevac, a sweet tone trumpet player, owned much of

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his success to one giant of the big band era.

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And here is that giant with Charlie Spevac on trumpet

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as well as Bunny Berrigan.

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The difference.

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Different.

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They recorded on April twenty fifth, nineteen thirty five, in

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New York City. It was released by Columbia Records. Glenn

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Miller and his Orchestra with solo hop, that being one

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of the earliest efforts by Glenn and his own orchestra,

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including the sweet trumpet of Charlie Spevac. So, as the

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story goes, Glenn and Charlie became quick friends and professional collaborators,

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Miller playing a pivotal role in launching Spevac's career as

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a band leader. Glenn not only encouraged Spevak to form

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his own band, but also provided financial backing in nineteen

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forty to start his own orchestra. It was Glenn that

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actually coined the nickname that Charlie would use for the

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rest of him his career. Glenn called him the man

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who played the sweetest trumpet in the world. We just

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played for you, some Charlie Spevak.

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If you ever changed your mind, I'll be around where

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I used to be, lonely heart and love, waiting for

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your cold if you.

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Ever changed your mind. Since you've been away at find

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nobody else means a thing to me, and I miss

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you so but you'll only know if you ever change

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your mind. A million times I've wondered how we could

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have said good goodbye. A million times I've wondered if

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you feel the same as I. I'm so long to

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my good cry though you left my love behind, I'd

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wait an endless ee turnuity makes no difference who once

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appeal to you.

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I'll be gentle, sweet and kind.

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If you ever change your mind. A million times I've

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wondered how we could have said goodbye. A million times

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I've wondered if you feel the same as I. I'm

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so long to myke could cry though you left my

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love behind, I'd waited unless e turning makes no difference

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who once appealed to you.

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I'll be gentle, sweet and kind, and.

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If ever change a mind, every ever change a.

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Mine from Decca Records, if you ever changed your mind

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with Ella Fitzgerald and her Savoy Eight, recorded back in

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nineteen thirty nine. Ella and the Savoy Eight a contingent

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of the Chick Web Band, through which, as many of

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us know, Ella became a star. And I think on

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that record the great Tommy Fulford was playing the piano,

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and what a wonderful piano sound that was. I'm Jeff Bresler,

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and we are believe it or not, winding down this

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edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, but still some business

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to attend to. That being an email request submitted by

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Walter Coleman from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it reads, I am

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related many times removed to an old baritone singer named

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Stuart Allen who sang in the nineteen thirties on record

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and radio. Can you play something from him if you

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can find it, it would be much appreciated. And that's

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signed by Walter. And indeed, Walter, I did find the

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recording by Stuart Allen.

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Just for you.

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You hit the spot like.

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A bombie breeze on a night in May. You hit the.

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Spot like a koom in julip on a summer day,

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you hit a new high. In my estimation, I had

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you all because you've got so much on the ball.

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You hit the spot like the first embrace when the

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night is fine. You hit the spot like a pipe

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fast nimbers by a fireside. Matter of fact, ME don't

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know exactly what it is that you've got.

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But you.

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From Victor Records with Richard Himber and his Ritz Carlton Orchestra,

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we just heard the Stewart Allen vocal of you hit

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the Spot, recorded back in nineteen thirty six. In my estimation,

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an unusual recording in that the song was probably never

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played in the stodgy Ritz Carlton by Himber. And I

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think you can hear in the record that Walter Coleman's

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relatives Stuart Allen had the sound of a Ritz Carlton

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exclusive New York Hotel band type baritone voice. So thanks

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Walter Coleman for your request to hear and let our

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audience enjoy a vocalist. I don't think I ever played

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here in the Make Believe Ballroom. Stuart Allen and folks,

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Unfortunately we are out of time. The big hand on

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the big bull of a clock here in the Crystal

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studio is approaching the top of the hour. Thanks so

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

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

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make bel Ballroom Radio dot com. I just want to

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until next week, this has been Jeff Bressler.

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With a small room you know.

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Make me leave All room

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