Nov. 15, 2024

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/15/24 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/15/24 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 11/15/24 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 11/15/24 Edition

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a legendary female singer was also a talented composer,Johnny...

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On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a legendary female singer was also a talented composer,Johnny Guarnieri played an instrument that put him in the recording record books, a British selection and story - all this and many more great records to enjoy on this show!

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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 believe ballroom time and free to everyone.

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It's no time to.

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Friend your Dalis.

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Said Bamba yours. Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this dance and mister Miller,

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but you're in the wood. Its make believe ballroom time.

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We are of sweet romance as you make it bottom.

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Come on Joe the last dance lets.

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Hi, folks, I'm Jeff Presler, turning on the lights of

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the make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal

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studio for another program of the greatest hits of the

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nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. I'm hosting the show to

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keep the music in traditions of past hosts Martin block Al,

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Jarvis William B. Williams, and the legendary Steve Allen alive.

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Whether one of my longtime listeners, or perhaps today a

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new listener on public broadcasting or community radio stations across

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the US or in the UK, grab your dance ticket.

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It's free and let's listen to some wonderful big band

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era music. Hello world, and from coast to coast on public,

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university and community radio stations, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, one and

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all to the Make Believe Ballroom, and thanks for joining

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me this sour as I share some wonderful swing, jazz

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and big band music and many of the stories behind

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the records and the personalities who recorded them. I hope

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you're all having a great week. Let's start today's program

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with a well known big band tune. Then a beloved

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female vocalist who you may not realize was also quite

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a composer.

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When I was a kid, about half past three, my

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daddy said, son, come here to me. Says, things may

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come and things may go, but this is one thing

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you want to know.

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It's the way how did you do it? It's the

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way how did you do it? It's the way how

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did you do it?

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My ma mama.

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It's the time that you do it. It's the time

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that you do it. It's the time that you.

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Do That's what.

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Don mean nothing, e cree sake.

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Then you to wait.

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It's the place that you do it. It's the place

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that you do it. It's the place that you deal

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with That's what.

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Tain't what you do It's the Way that You do

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It by Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra vocal by James Young.

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That record recorded in New York City, January the third,

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nineteen thirty nine. And I said before that Lunceford recording

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that I would spend some time talking about a popular

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vocalist who had an amazing career. It spanned seven decades,

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from her beginnings as a vocalist on local radio to

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singing with Benny Goodman's Big band. She created. What's the

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best way to describe this, I guess you would call

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it a sophisticated persona. But for those that were affixed

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on Peggy Lee's singing abilities, many you didn't realize that

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she composed tunes, tunes like this.

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Yes, it's a good day for singing a song, and

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it's a good day for moving along.

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Yes, it's a good day.

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How could anything be wrong? A good day from morning

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until nine. And it's a good day for shining your shoes.

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And it's a good.

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Day for losing.

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The blue leves everything again and nothing the losers. A

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good day from morning until nine. I said to the sun,

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good morning, sun rise, and shine today. You know you

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gotta get gone if you gotta make a show once

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and you gotta ride away, because it's a good day

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for playing your bills, and it's a good day for

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curing your ills.

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So take a deep breath.

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And throw away the bills, for it's a good day

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from morning till night. Good morning, Sun, good morning son,

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Rise and shine today.

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You know you gotta get going if you've gotta make.

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A shower and you got the ride away it was.

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It's a good day forgiving your eels, and it's a

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good day for paying your bills.

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So take a deep bread and throw all the pill

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because it's.

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A good day from morning till night. Because it's a

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good day for until.

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A good day.

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It's a good day. By Peggy Lee Orchestra, conducted by

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Dave Barber on Capitol Records, recorded in nineteen forty seven.

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So today, as we know, it's almost the norm for

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singers to write their own songs or have them ghost written.

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But in the nineteen forties, when there was a proliferation

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of music coming out of Tinpan Alley, Broadway and Hollywood,

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that was not the case, at least not until Peggy Lee,

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who was truly the first famous singer songwriter. She began

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writing songs in earnest with her husband, guitarist Dave Barber,

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And that's an interesting story if I recall the details.

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When Peggy was singing for Benny Goodman, he had a

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policy that female vocalists and bad members could not date

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or even fraternize. After a gig or a rehearsal well.

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With Peggy and Dave, it was sort of love at

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first sight and they both decided to leave the band.

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Benny did, though, encourage Peggy to work.

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With him again.

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It's a good day that I just played and the

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record I Don't Know Enough about You were her first

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two hits. But in nineteen forty eight, she wrote a

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song that topped the charts for nine weeks and was

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Capitol Record's biggest hit single by a singer songwriter until

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a certain group broke that record over twenty years later.

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I'll play that record and let you guess, well you're

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listening which singer song writers broke Peggy Lee's record.

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The Bossa.

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She is dripping and the fence's falling down. My pocket

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needs some money, so I can't go in the town.

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My brother isn't working, and my sister.

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Doesn't care the car.

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She needs the motor, so I can't go anywhere, Banana.

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My mother's always working, She's working very hard, but every

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time she looks for me, I'm sleeping in the yard.

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My mother thinks I'm lazy, and maybe she is right.

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I'll go to work, Maniana, but I gotta sleep to night.

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Oh.

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Once I had some money, but I gave it to

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my friend. He said it baby double. It was only

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for a land. But he said a little later that

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the horse he was so slow. Why he gave the

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horse my money is something I don't know. My brother

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took a suitcase and he went away to school. My

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father said he only learned to be a silly fool.

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My father said that I should learn to me good chili.

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But but then I burned the house down.

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The chili was too hot.

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The window she is broken, and the rain is coming

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in if some one doesn't.

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Eat it out was talking to my skin.

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But if we wait a day or two, the rain

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man go away, and we don't need a window.

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It such a sunny day.

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That was Manyana, written and sung by Peggy Lee and

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just heard here on Capital Records with her husband Dave

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Barber's Orchestra and recorded in nineteen forty eight. So Peggy

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wrote Manyana, which topped the charts, as I mentioned, for

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nine weeks and was Capitol Record's biggest hit single by

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a singer songwriter until and I asked you to try

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to guess until the Beatles came along, and then it

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took four men to rest the title away from one woman.

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That was the great mini tribute to Peggy Lee.

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And the need to.

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Bet that the.

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Bag from a Savoy Records set entitled Hot Piano We

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just heard New Exercise in Swing with the Johnny Grenieri

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Trio Johnny Guarneri on the piano, Sam Stewart playing the bass,

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and Sammy Weiss on the drums, Recorded in New York

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on September the twentieth, nineteen forty four. The great Johnny

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Yuarnieri who accomplished everything a musician would really want to

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accomplish in a successful career. He played piano for the

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likes of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw, and he served

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as a sideman for so many greats of the era,

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as well as leading his own groups. One fact that

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places Johnny though in the jazz history books, was this

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record by Artie Shaw's Gramercy five. In it, Gwaneri played

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an instrument that was heard for the first time ever

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on a jazz recording.

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I like to.

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The recorded in Hollywood, California on September third, nineteen forty.

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That was the popular special delivery stomp already Shaw's Grammercy five,

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already of course on the clarinet, Billy Butterfield on the trumpet,

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Al hendrickson the guitar, Judge Denot the bass, and Nick

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Fittoul on the drums with Johnny Guanieri. And I asked

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you what instrument he was playing, Well, it was Johnny

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Gwaneri on the harpsichord, and his solos for the Grammars

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were the first examples of jazz recorded four records using

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the harpsichord. How about now a little pearly may then

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a listener's request.

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Tie.

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All the life I lead, Tie all the blues I breathe,

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tie cotton things I need gonna.

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Cut out, widen that's the truth to get a brand

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new guy. While of God my youth.

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Tie.

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Other clues, eyeway, tie iron, all the patches, lead tire

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of the crows, eyes, scale.

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On the truck downtown and spin my mood gets some

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short bamped shoes and a new guy too. Why shout

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I a topping, cleaning and a scrubbing shawl leaves my

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glamor with a scar, a mending and a mopping, a

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starting and a shopping. Don't make me look like no

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heady long mar.

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Tie all the tears, high shade, tire of living in

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the red tying all the same old big gonna leave

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the life of Cindy Lou going to do the things

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that I know she do cause I I'm tired, mighty tide.

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I guess by now, brother, you have the young idea.

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I am tired. There's no need of me kidding myself.

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Maybe you all right, but I'm just tired. I think

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I'll go to a psychiatrist. It's one of them rich

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people doctors, you know, And I guess he'll tell me

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a lot of big words.

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All about the psychiatrics and.

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Metaphysics and a whole lot of stuff I don't understand.

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Why not much He's charge me for them. Whatever you charge,

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he'll probably end up saying, the same thing, Bro, You're

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just tied. I guess I better go to a plane

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doctor so he can tell me what I need in fact,

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I know what I need. I need a little change

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so I can lead the life of Sindelu and do

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the things that I know she do.

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Goes on Die Mighty time of You.

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Pearl Bailey with the Mitchell Airs Orchestra a little blues

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number titled Tired, recorded on April twenty fourth, nineteen forty five,

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and Pearl Bailey, of course performed for decades as a

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singer in theater, on records, heard on the radio, and

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scene on television. And one of the great performances I

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saw as a youth on Broadway was when Pearl Bailey

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starred in the All African American version of Hello Dolly

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as the character Dolly Gallagher Levy and believe it or not,

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right next to her as co star playing the role

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of what was his name in the show, Horace van

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der Gelder, that was the legendary Cab Calloway. It was

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a memorable show for me, but maybe not as memorable

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as it should have been at that time, because I

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really didn't fully understand the contributions of Pearl Bailey and

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Cab Calloway to swing in jazz, and I probably didn't

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appreciate it as much as I should have. So there

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you have it. A Jeff Bresler lament. I told you

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I was going to read a listener's email, and I will.

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But first, how can I not mention Cab Callaway without

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playing one of his songs? And for that, at this

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improvisational moment in the broadcast, I must roll my chair

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a little closer to the other side of the console

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while staying in range of the microphone. I'm going to

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the playlist computer here in the Crystal studio so I

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can select a Cab Callaway piece. And let's see, I

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think this one should fill the bill nicely.

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Have a banana, Hannah, Travis, Salami, Tommy, you without the gravy, Davy.

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Everyban begins. When to come to my house, try on

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to me to plead too. Here's catch a turret, all right,

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Teas de Bologna, eat Tony, everybody eats Swhen to come

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to my house. I fix your favorite dishes, hoping this

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good food fills you. Work my hands in the bone

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in the kitchen alone. You better eat a bit kilchin.

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Hass me a pancake man, Drake having a.

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Derby Irvy here look in the fend man. Everybody eat

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swim to come to my house. Hannah did Tommy, Dora Andrea.

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Everybody eats swim to come to my house. Pasta Maazula

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to Lula. Oh do have a bagel? Bigel?

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Now, don't be so fashionable, Nashville. Everybody eats swim to

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come to my house. Hey, this is a body Mary, Yeah,

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you get the cherry Jerry.

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Now look, don't be so picky.

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Mickey conce. Everybody eats when they come to my house.

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All of my friends are welcome. Don't make me coax

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you moke. You eat the tables and chairs, the napkins.

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Who cares?

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You gotta give if it's chokes you? Oh, do have

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a cliche?

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Nitia as him the latkey Magie Chili Come County from Bonnie.

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Everybody eats when they come to my house. Face must

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shame chops from Everybody eats when they come to my house.

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Everybody is when they come to mind.

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One of my favorite Camp Callaway recordings a novelty tune,

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Everybody eats when they come to My house Cab Callaway

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and his Orchestra, recorded in nineteen forty eight. I'm Jeff Wrestler,

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and you are listening to the one the only the

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original Make Believe Ballroom coming to you by the power

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of good old terrestrial airwaves from the Crystal Studio in

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New York. And please remember, as I mentioned, each week,

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once the program is played on all of our affiliates,

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the show gets transformed into podcast form and a large

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number of past shows can be heard over your favorite

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podcast provider. And to reach me, I'm Jeff at Make

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Believe Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com.

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And someone who availed themselves of communicating by the email

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route is one William Bill Barnes, who listens to the

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program over the great Community Radio station UK nineteen forties

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Radio across the Pond in England. And Bill writes to me,

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thanks for throwing us a bone occasionally by exposing the

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world to great British band leaders such as Bert Ambrose,

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Jack Hilton, Heraldo Roy, Fox, Billy Cotton, Harry Roy, Lewis

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Stone and so many more to my recollection. Over the

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last few years, you have not played a record featuring

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Ray Noble. Can you correct that? Injustice?

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L O L l ol.

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Love the show and have listened each week for many years.

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Signed William Bill Barnes, Well, thanks, Bill, and I will

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correct that wrong in a few moments. You know, Ray

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Noble spent much of his career in the United States.

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He was really a jack of all trades. Ray was

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a bandleader, He was a composer and arranger, as well

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as a radio host, television and film comedian, and also

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an actor. Noble provided music for many radio shows such

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as The Chasing Sanborn Hour, The Charlie McCarthy Show, Burns

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and Allen. His most famous gig, and what really made

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him a versatile star, was when he was working with

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Edgar Bergen on The Edgar Burgh and Charlie McCarthy Show

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for nearly fifteen years. Ray was the foil to ventriloquist

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dumby Charlie McCarthy and his slow witted pal Mortimer Snurd.

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Ray was excellent both as the show's bandleader and the

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comic foil. As I said, and Ray was so excellent

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he stayed with Edgar Bergan for over fifteen years. After

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he retired, Ray moved from Hollywood to Santa Barbara, California,

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but then back to the Channel Islands towards the end

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of his life. Let's play one of Ray's hits. Then

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two interesting facts, one about Ray and on about the

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record I am about to play.

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Sure that.

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On Brunswick Records, Alexander's Ragtime Band, the Irving Berlin classic

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by Ray Noble and his orchestra, recorded in Los Angeles

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March the twentieth, nineteen thirty eight. And I promised you,

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my friends, a few interesting facts before that record. The

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first is about Ray Noble, and it was reported that

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each month after Ray Noble died, which was in November

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of nineteen seventy seven, his late wife, Ray's late wife

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received a dozen roses, a story that lets you know

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what a romantic and thoughtful person Ray Noble was. And

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the other fact is about the song Alexander's Ragtime Band.

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The song was written by Irving Berlin in nineteen eleven,

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but it had a resurgence in popularity in nineteen thirty

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eight when a hit movie of the same name was released.

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And it was said that when the Titanic was sinking

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on April fifteenth, nineteen twelve, one of these ship's bands

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was requested by an officer to keep on playing well.

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The band, understanding the circumstances, began by playing light, cheerful

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music to keep the passengers calm, including Waltz's ragtime Tunes

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and the popular comic songs of the day from the

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London music halls. All of this done, as I mentioned,

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to reassure Titanic passengers after the collision that everything would

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be okay. Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band was very popular

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at the time. The song was about a year old,

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and the Titanic's fourth officer by the name of Boxhall,

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who survived the sinking of the Titanic, recalled that this

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was the first tune the band played after the collision,

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which he noticed as he came through the first class

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lounge on the way back from his inspection tour of

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the ship. And it was also said major author Perchin,

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Missus Lily Firtrell, and gambler George Brereton all confirmed that

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the band played Alexander's Ragtime Band that night. So an

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interesting fact about the song Alexander's Ragtime Band played at

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a desperate time in maritime and human history and friends,

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speaking of history, the first time Benny Goodman was heard

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on a record that right after this.

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A at.

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Thing country boy Erskine Hawkins and his orchestra recorded in

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nineteen forty two, and now time to listen to the

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first time Benny Goodman's clarinet was heard on a distributed recording.

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His first record pressed to disk was on Victor and

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it occurred on December ninth, nineteen twenty six, in Chicago.

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The song When I First Met Mary also included the

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great Glenn Miller, Harry Goodman, and Ben Pollock. It was

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recorded for the Ben Pollock Orchestra. Let's take a listen

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to this rare record.

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M any Me.

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Mine Anymore brings back days long ago when fire first

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met married my speed heart Mary. There's farmery and the

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Delks games. We played love so well Square five, first

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met Mary, leave me eyes a blue heart was true

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us the whole wide world. No just I care a

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thing we did in Lison too, how that we are

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bold and gray. I just laid the blessterday I first

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met Mary.

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My recall the pain music play.

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It seemed like only yesterday.

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The nons and beds are falling down, and there were

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farmers in the new Jack.

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And Jill went up by him.

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Then that's one Humpty dumpy Phil much more. I seem

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to me childhood age, come back to me, and with

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them comes the memorials off.

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When I first met Mary, When I first met Mary,

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Ben Pollock and his orchestra featuring the first time ever

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sound of Benny Goodman's clarinet on a record, and folks

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I earlier played a little tribute to Peggy Lee with

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some hit recordings she made for Capital Records, And how

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can we play Capitol Records on one of our programs

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without one from a Capitol Records founder, mister Johnny Mercer.

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Crazy rhythm, here's the doorway. I'll go my way, you

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go your way. Crazy rhythm from now on where through

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here is where we have a showdown. And I'm too,

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I had you to load down a rhythm.

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Here's good bye to you.

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They say that when a high bride meets a little

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brow walking along Broadway, soon the high brow he has

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no brow at it a shame you're to blame. What's

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the use of prohibition? You've produced the same condition.

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Crazy rhythm. I've gone crazy too.

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They ain't tell me when a high brow eats a

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low brow walking along Broadway. Soon the high brow he

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has no brow. Pop is knocking on the happy day

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he first went walking down that mellow way.

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What's the use of prohibition?

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Did you produce the same condition crazy rhythm?

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I've gone crazy to.

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Crazy rhythm? Johnny Mercer vocal Paul Weston and his orchestra,

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recorded on Capitol Records in nineteen forty six. And now, folks,

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how about a little trivia quiz for you, with a

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prize of a let's see a hearty handshake. How's that

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from me? If you could name whose theme song this was,

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that was Max Kaminsky and his jazz band. And what

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a band it was, with Max on the trumpet and featuring,

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among others, James P. Johnson on the piano and Eddie

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Condon playing the guitar. The name of the song was

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Love Nest, written for the nineteen twenty musical comedy Mary.

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It was recorded on Commodore Records in nineteen forty four,

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and the recognizable tune in response to my question, was

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the theme song for the legendary comic duo of George

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Burns and Gracie Allen Friends. How about one more theme song.

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Let's see if you can guess who this tune was associated.

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With, Blue No.

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And You.

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Alone with Me? My heart has never known such extagy.

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I'ma honor, I'm on in heaven.

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Can it be the dream that till the breath with

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rare and magic perfume?

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All all, it isn't a dream. It's loving blue. Can

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it be the spreame that seems to breathe the stars right.

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Into this room?

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On all?

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It isn't a stream, it's loving blue. My heart was

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a dasert, you flamous sea, And this is the flower?

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This all, sweet old filman?

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Is it all agrieve? The joy suppreve that came to

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us in the gloom?

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You know?

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Isn't it dream? It's love?

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And move?

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My heart was a desert what you plan had to see?

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And this is the fower in this all? Is it

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all a dream? Joy? The game to us in the

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google real love? It isn't a dream? It love?

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On Brunswick Records, we just heard Love and Bloom by

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Bing Crosby Orchestra, conducted by Irving Aronson and recorded in

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Los Angeles, July the fifth, nineteen thirty four, and of course,

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in the future years that tune was firmly associated with

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the wonderful comedian Jack Benny and his violin. The song

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was one of nineteen thirty four's most successful ballads and

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among Bing's most popular Depression era recordings, and was introduced

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by being himself in the film She Loves Me Not

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Jack Benny's theme song and before that Jack's best friend

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George Burns theme song here on the Make Believe Ballroom,

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and folks with that, I am unfortunately ready to shut

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down the Make Believe Ballroom for another week, but do

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not despair. The doors will reopen once again next week

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for your listening pleasure on stations like members supported Jazz

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ninety point one WGMC in Rochester, New York, and on

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other fine affiliates across.

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The US, as well as in the UK.

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So until then, this has been Jeff Bresler