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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.
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Here to bring good cheer your way.
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It's make Believe ballroom time and free to everyone.
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It's no time to friend your Dalis said Bamba.
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Yours.
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Close your eyes and visual lie in your solitude.
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Your favorite bands are on list Dance and Mister Miller.
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But you're in the mood.
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It's make Believe ballroom time. We are of sweet romance
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as you make the bar. Come on, Joe Last.
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Dazz Last, Hi, folks, I'm Jeff Presler, turning on the
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lights of the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into
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my crystal studio for another program of the greatest hits
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of the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. I'm hosting the
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show to keep the music in traditions of past hosts
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Martin block Al, Jarvis William B. Williams, and the legendary
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Steve Allen alive. Whether you're one of my longtime listeners
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or perhaps a new listener on public broadcasting or community
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radio stations across the US as well as in the UK,
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I'm glad you're here to share some of the greatest
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swing in jazz music ever performed, Hello World, and welcome
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one and all into the Make Believe Ballroom, coming to
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you via great radio stations like Jazz ninety point one
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WGMC in Rochester, New York. The Make Belief Ballroom broadcast
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over the radio almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. And
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I am certainly delighted and honored to sit in the
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host seat here in the Crystal studio. So to get
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things started after a tune, to get us in the mood,
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a letter from a listener or in this case, listeners
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asking for a follow up to a segment we did
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a few weeks back.
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There's a sandy in the town, on a little plot
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of ground.
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Where the green grass growing all around, all around the roof.
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So worn, so badly torn added tumbles to the ground
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just to tumble down.
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Shack Cann's built quick back about twenty five feet from
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the railroad track. Fingers on my mind most all the time,
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beats calling me back to my little old shack.
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I'd be just a sassy as highly as a lassie
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if I work team wouldn't be nothing but boots on
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tall reading the writing on the wall, and it wouldn't
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mean a thing, not a dog on things, Queen waiting
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there raid.
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The rocking chair, just blowing her top.
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Bogaers be walking all around them, rocking on down because
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the getting back to Shandy.
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Don't in a shanty and old shanty town by Johnny
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Long and his Orchestra, recorded on Decca Records in nineteen
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forty six, So folks, and let me find it here.
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It is so folks. I received an email from a
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gentleman named Larry Dipper days ago, and Larry wrote, Hello, Jeff,
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I'm Larry Dipper and my wife is Laurie Dipper. We
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are known in these parts as the Big and Little Dipper. Cute.
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I like that.
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We've listened to the Make Believe Ballroom in Ashkosh for
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several years now. It's our favorite Saturday errand Drive show.
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A few weeks ago you told the story of how
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Glenn Miller's Chattanooga Chucca was actually on the B side
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of a record with PAULA Kelly vocal on the A side.
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Can you play another A and B side record that
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you enjoy well, Larry, I guess you are probably from
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process of elimination the Big Dipper And are you an
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A side or a B side. I'm sure Little Dipper
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Laurie is probably certainly the A side. So for you guys,
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I am going to play both sides a Unian B
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side of a record made by Coleman Hawkins back in
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nineteen thirty nine.
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And have loved.
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And lost.
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You don't know.
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O.
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We just heard Body and Soul by Coleman Hawkins and
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his orchestra. That was Coleman's landmark improvisational tenor sax treatment
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of the Johnny Green Melody, and it was recorded for
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Bluebird in late nineteen thirty nine but released in early
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nineteen forty. As a major hit, it has become Body
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and Soul has become one of the most one of
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the most recorded pop and jazz standards of all time.
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And as an interesting fact, it has been said that
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Body and Soul, which first went into jukeboxes and restaurants,
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bars and other venues in nineteen forty, it remained a
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jukebox favorite for at least ten years or more.
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And why not.
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You know, you go out on a long date or
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an evening with friends to perhaps dance and listen to
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big band swing live. Then you head for a diner
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at two in the morning and you wind down by
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putting a nickel in the jukebox and playing Body and Soul.
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So the point is the record was so popular it
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totally overshadowed the B side, which was an up tempo
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Hawkins tune that was Coleman Hawkins and his orchestra with
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Fine Dinner the B side to the huge Hawkins hit
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Body and Soul on the A side, and that B
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side kind of lost to history by the fate of
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having to serve as the stepchild to Body and Soul.
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I'm Jeff Bresler, and you're listening to the Make Believe Ballroom.
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You can write to me like the Dippers did at
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Jeff at Makebelie Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at
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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com with your requests and comments.
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And at Larry's request, we just listened to the A
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and B side of a Coleman Hawkins recording with a
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little history to it. And speaking of history, you know,
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on the Make Believe Ballroom I frequently play first time
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ever recordings of famous songs. Well, this first time ever
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recording was by Edgar Hayes and his orchestra. Let's take
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a listen. You should recognize the tune almost immediately.
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Any day.
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Any name may.
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Lay a man, anything, technical.
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Name, every name, nick name, really.
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Ethnic name.
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That was the original In the Mood by Edgar Hayes
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and his orchestra, recorded on Deco Records in New York
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City February the seventeenth, nineteen thirty eight, and the song,
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of course, featured the famous in the Mood riff, which
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actually had previously appeared in several different title instrumental recordings
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by various artists, but that Joe Garland arrangement was the
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first to be issued under the title in the Mood,
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and seventeen months after the Hayes recording, Glenn Miller would
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record his famous version, though without some of the melodic
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elements included in this earlier arrangement by Edgar Hayes and
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not to sound like a party pooper. I actually find
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the Hayes version to be, in my opinion, better than
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the Miller classic. While we're on the subject of Edgar Hayes,
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let's play one more by him and the orchestra.
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Gather round. There's the jew balley, gather round just for you.
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When we gathered round, there's a sendern Oh, go to town.
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It's a holiday. Go to town with a swing and swing.
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Go to town, swing it down with all your mind.
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Let's get together for the brand jam and party, barbecue
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the chicken and we'll all eat so hearty. Gather round,
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there's the jew Balley. Gather round just for you. When
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we gathered round, there's a sender Gona.
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That was jazz pianist and bandleader Edgar Hayes with Shindig
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recorded on Brunswick Records with a vocal by Bill Darnell.
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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 coming to you from the
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Crystal Studio in New York. And as I mentioned there
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early to reach me, I'm Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio
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dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com.
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And speaking of studios, in just a few weeks we
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will be doing some shows from the Six Palms Recording
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Pavilion Studio in Florida with our beloved old producer Lenny
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from down the block. So for those of you who
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have been longtime listeners, yes, Lenny will be hanging out
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with us. As you know, Lenny spoke on only one
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broadcast of the Make Believe Ballroom, and that was it.
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He wasn't happy with his performance, and for after that
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has a hidden in the confines of the record room
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of the Ballroom. But his presence will be felt nevertheless,
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because Lenny transcends the microphone. For sure, Lenny from down
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the block in the record room once again in just
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a few weeks, but now here on the Make Believe Ballroom.
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A little boogie woogie.
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In Harlan, there's a little place where everyone goes to
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see the way a wash a woman washes her clothes.
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If you like boogie woogie rhythm, she's got a beat.
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Let the boogie woogie wash.
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A woman give you a treat. On every afternoon that
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one the sessions begin, and all the bush from all
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the pants come down and sit in. They sit around
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and knock each other out when they play it while
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the boogie woogie wash a woman washes all day. Roughly
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ub dub, that's just the way she rubs. Roughly ub dub,
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that's just the way she scrubs.
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Roughly up dub. She wears out all her touch. She
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rubs and rubs her knuckles right on down to the
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nubs roughly ub dub. That's how she kicks it off,
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roughly ub dub. She keeps it nice and soft, roughly
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ub dub.
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Because someone hollers, all scrub me Mama with the booget beat,
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and you really ought to visit there if you've never been.
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It doesn't cost a penny.
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Just come down and walk in. If you like boogie
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woogie rhythm, you'll get a tree he let the booget
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will get washed. A woman give you the.
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Beat, said the exploded re exploring.
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Le back to.
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Scrub Me Mama with a bugie beat by Will Bradley
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and his orchestra, vocal by Ray McKinley, recorded on Columbia
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Records in nineteen forty and number two Billboard hit. So
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that was a number two hit in nineteen forty, So
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why not play as I Look on the playlist? A
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number one Billboard hit from the same year, from nineteen forty.
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Darn that dreams my dream eats night.
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You say you love me and you hold me time,
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but when I awake.
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You're out of sighs.
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Oh, darn that dream, darn your lips and darn your eyes.
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They lift me high.
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Above the moonlit Skies.
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Then I told out of Paradise.
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Oh darn that dream, darn that one track mine of mine.
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You can understand that you don't care.
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Just to change the mood I'm in.
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I'd welcome a night so night may.
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Darn that dream and bless it too. Without that dream,
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I never would have you.
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But it haunts me and it come true.
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Darn that Dream by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with
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a vocal by Mildred Bailey, a number one hit for
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Benny and Columbia Records in nineteen forty and there there
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are certainly, as they looked in the notes for that record,
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there are certainly some interesting dynamics behind Darn that Dream.
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The song originated in a poorly received Broadway musical titled
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Swinging That Dream, which starred Louis Armstrong and lasted for
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only thirteen performances. It was kind of a weird Broadway
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show where Louis portrayed the character Bottom in a modern
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day adaptation of A Midsummer's Night Dream.
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Well.
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Nevertheless, the musical supervisor for the play was not other
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than Benny Goodman, who actually also performed in the production
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with his sex stat So you had Louis Armstrong, Benny
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Goodman and a score by Jimmy Van Heusen, and the
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show flopped. The script must have been pretty bad to
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have that amount of talent on Broadway and last only
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thirteen performers. So Benny went on to record the song
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with Mildred Bailey, which is a story unto itself. The
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Great Mildred Bailey previously recorded with Benny Goodman in nineteen
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thirty four, but reunited for this record in nineteen forty.
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Mildred Bailey was a huge talent, a beloved talent in
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nineteen forty, and at that time she was performing with
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her husband who she later divorced, Read Norvo, and they
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were affectionately called mister and Missus Swing. Now, unfortunately, Mildred
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Bailey was not a healthy person and she had to
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leave Red and the band because she couldn't take the
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rigors of being on the road any longer. So her
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doctors suggested that she get off the road and stay
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home in New York City. Benny Goodman learned of this
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and at the time was between regular vocalists on his
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Camel Caravan radio show as well as record dates, so
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he encouraged Mildred not to have to leave New York
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and join him for a while, so that uplifted Heart
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Spirits and produced that number one hit as a result.
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Since I mentioned xylophonist Red Norvo, let me play one
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by Red and Mildred.
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It's very clear.
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Our love is here to stay, not by.
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Butever, and the day, the radio.
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The telephone, and the movies that we know may just