Nov. 22, 2024

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/22/24 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/22/24 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 11/22/24 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 11/22/24 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 – the macabre ending for Henry Busse, a Tommy Dorsey work...

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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 – the macabre ending for Henry Busse, a Tommy Dorsey work party, some videos to watch on YouTube, a lyricist comedian, Make Believe Ballroom's original theme - 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 friend your Dalis said Bamba.

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Yours, close your.

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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 it.

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Come on, Joe, last dance least.

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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

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Al Jarvis William B. Williams, and the legendaries Steve Allen alive.

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Whether one of my longtime listeners or perhaps a new

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listener today on public broadcasting or community radio stations across

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the US as well as in the United Kingdom, grab

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your dance ticket. It's free and let's listen to some

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wonderful big band era music. Hello world, and from coast

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to coast on stations like Jazz ninety point one WGMC

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in Rochester, New York, another fine public university and community

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radio stations. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, one and all to the

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Make Believe Ballroom, and thanks for joining me this hour

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as I share some wonderful swing, jazz and big band

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music and many of the stories behind the records and

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the personalities who recorded them. I hope, friends, you are

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all having a great day, and hopefully to make your

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day even better. Let's get started with this.

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I'll leave my way to heaven.

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After we say goodnight.

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My aunt will hold you tightly in dream.

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I'll drift upon a moonbee. Soon I'll be where you are.

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Leaving in heaven just like a star.

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We'll die so conor rainfall and go romancy for moonless

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skyes Pardi open the moment I close my eyes, You'll

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need once more, my darling, be in our own un.

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I'll be my way to heaven and you.

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I'll dream my way to heaven. Tommy Dorsey and his

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orchestra vocals by the Three Esquires who were in actuality,

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Jack Leonard Joe Bauer and Axel startall recorded on Victor

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Records in New York City, February seventeenth, nineteen thirty seven,

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and in just a few moments a musician whose story

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was bizarrely closely related to Heaven. Well, what am I

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talking about? You'll have to hang in there while I

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first play another record by Tommy Dorsey that features one

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of the just listened to three esquires. I'm talking about

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Jack Leonard, who served as Dorsey's longtime primary vocalist.

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Blue Moment Me.

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You saw me standing along in this row about of

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dream in my father, about a love of my own.

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Blo whatever ring.

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You knew just what I was there for.

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You heard me say in the prayer for someone I

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really could care for, And then there suddenly appeared before me,

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the only one of my arms hold. I heard somebody

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whispers the door me, and when I looked, I know

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I'm no longer alone without a dream in.

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My home, without a love of my own. Get out

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the people it listen.

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But on Victor Records, we just heard Blue Moon the

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Great Lorenzo Heart Richard Rogers standard by Tommy Dorsey and

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his orchestra vocal by Jack Leonard and the members of

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the band recorded in New York City, February sixteenth, nineteen

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thirty nine. An interesting story behind Blue Moon, And as

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the legend goes, it was a darkly gray winter afternoon

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in January of nineteen thirty nine when a production meeting

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was held by Tommy Dorsey at his mansion in Bernardsville,

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New Jersey. The gathering was attended by our executives and

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Tommy's top arrangers. And if you've ever read anything about

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Tommy Dorsey, you quickly come to realize that he was

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a very gracious host. So at this get together in

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January of nineteen thirty nine, special food and drinks were

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served by the band leader and his wife and hostess Mildred,

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who he finally called Tutts. Stories and laughter were in abundance,

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but most importantly, on that day, arrangements of Marie Who,

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Blue Sky's Blue Moon, and three others were created and

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later developed at recording sessions. So the arrangement of the

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just heard Blue Moon was indeed written at that get together,

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and just one month later recorded by Tommy Dorsey. I'm

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

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the original Make Believe Ballroom, and during today's program, I

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will be reading in a little while a few emails

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received over the last few weeks here in my Crystal studio,

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I did mention that I would discuss a musician whose

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story was bizarrely closely related to heaven Let's first play

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one of his records.

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Or maybe what I couldn't do.

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With plenty of money and You, in spite of the

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worry that money brings just a little filthy lucre bas

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a lot of harm things. And I could take you

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to places you'd like to go, but outside of that

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hard no use for though it's the root of all evil,

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of strife and up ev But I'm certain, honey, that

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life could be Sney with plenty of Money and You.

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Sung by Dick Powell in Gold Diggers of nineteen thirty

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seven and Al Duban and Harry war in tune that

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made it to number one on the weekly Your Hit

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Parade Survey from Decca Records, with Plenty of Money and

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You Henry Busey and his orchestra vocal by Bob Hannin,

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recorded in Chicago, November thirtieth, nineteen thirty six. Henry Busey,

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in my humble opinion, was one of those band leaders

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who was very popular but today remains under the radar

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when we think of band leaders from the nineteen thirties

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and nineteen forties. Henry was born in Germany and emigrated

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to the United States way back in nineteen sixteen, where

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he found work playing trumpet in a movie theater pit band.

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He went on to form his own band, and he

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toured the country, ending up in San Francisco, where that

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band then disbanded. In nineteen seventeen, he was playing trumpet

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with a group called the Frisco Jazz Band, and in

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nineteen eighteen he joined the famous Paul Whiteman Orchestra. Busy

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was a major contributor to Whiteman's orchestra and its success.

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He co composed several of the band's early hit songs,

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including Hot Lips and Wang Wang Blues. Bucy stayed with

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the White Men until nineteen twenty eight, when he left

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the band and formed his own group, aptly named the

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Henry Busy Orchestra. This group, led by Henry Busy, which

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was more of a sweet dance band than a jazz band,

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still had a very successful run that lasted for decades.

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As a matter of fact, they continued to record and

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perform right up until Abusi's death in nineteen fifty five.

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And I mentioned a heavenly encounter, a date with destiny,

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so to speak, that involved Henry Bucy. I'll tell you

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about that after one more Henry Bucy tone. That was

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the Busy Bounce and Rebucy in his Shuffle Rhythm Orchestra

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on the radio backend nineteen forty one. And now for

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a bizarre and unfortunate final act for Henry Busey. As

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I said, Henry led his orchestra for many years. Henry

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and his band continued to record and perform in hotel ballrooms,

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at special events and various conventions around the United States

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up until his death in nineteen fifty five. On April

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twenty third, nineteen fifty five, Busy unfortunately died at one

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of those conventions, which happened to be as mccarb as

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it might sound, an Undertaker's Convention at the Peabody Hotel

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in Memphis, Tennessee. He actually died while he was playing

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on stage with the Shuffle Rhythm Band, a strange coincidence

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on the evening of a convention performance, but friends to

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end this segment on a high note for Henry Bucy.

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One of my favorite big band videos that you can

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watch on YouTube is a clip from Starlet Days at

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the Lido. That was a nineteen thirty five short and

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it was released by MGM to showcase a technology at

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the time called three strip technicolor. The Alito was the

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outdoor resort venue of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California.

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The vivid color you're going to see in that short

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makes the black and white era of the nineteen thirties

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seem like just yesterday. The color is amazing. It's actually

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kind of eerie in a good way, and I encourage you.

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To watch it.

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It's called Starlet Days at the Lido, and we just

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pay tribute to one Henry Bucy.

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Long with a dance.

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Let the melody be mellow, and let it beave.

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A spell older You and me on with a dance.

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When they play a love song for us, my heart

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will sing the forr us song benderly.

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Then from the seeing, let it from stealing.

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That blood of colored love like a rainbow in the night.

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When the romance and each not the band is playing,

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you can't blame me for saying.

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The die.

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And folks, the record I just played is good bridge.

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That will close out our last segment and start up

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a new one on Brunswick. We just heard on with

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the dance written by Mercer and Whiting by gus Hnheim

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and his orchestra vocal by Jimmy Farrell, recorded in New

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York City, July the twenty second, nineteen thirty seven. Gus

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Hnheim for several years led the orchestra which was the

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house band that the aforementioned Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles

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and it's Coconut Grove nightclub. From nineteen twenty eight to

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nineteen thirty one, Arnheim had an extended engagement at the

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Coconut Grove, and during that engagement, speaking of YouTube and films,

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gus was featured in a film where his orchestra played

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Tiger Rag. It was produced in nineteen twenty eight. Gus

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Hnheim's famous West Coast Orchestra playing Tiger Rag in that video,

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which featured young violinist Russ Colombo, who went on to

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become a bing Crosby vocal rival until his premature death

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when he was accidentally shot. A great film to watch,

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on YouTube to see how orchestra members interacted with each

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other in the late nineteen twenties. And you know, it's

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one thing to listen to a record, it's another thing

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to see these performers actually working on film. And here

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we go way back to the late nineteen twenties. So

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I said that record from Arnheim On with the Dance

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is good bridge to our next segment, and I mentioned

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that that tune was written by Johnny Mercer and Richard

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Whiting for the Dick Powell Collegiate Musical Varsity Show. And

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the mention of Johnny Mercer brings me to one of

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the emails I wanted to read on today's edition of

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The Make Believe Ballroom, and it comes from Arnold Morris

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from Sarasota, Florida. Arnold has written to us in the past,

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and it's good to hear from you again, Arnold, and

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he writes, Jeff, I hope all is well with you.

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As you know, I have listened to The Make Believe

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Ballroom since the William B. Williams days, and I appreciate

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you carrying the torch.

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This week.

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You played Crazy Rhythm with Johnny Mercer singing the lyrics

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Mercer wrote and sung a song named Strip Polka. My

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uncle Timmy played that record until the grooves were totally

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worn out. Strangely enough, the comedian Phil Silvers aka Sergeant

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Bilko from television was featured on that record. I could

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never figure that one out. Have you thanks for all

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you do? Signed Arnie Well Arnold, I think I figured

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that one out. Let me play the tune. Then the

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Phil Silvers appearance on that record.

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This is the Strip Polka. Say let's listen and have

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some fun to the gay lyrics of Handsome Happy.

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Cruise about that.

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There's a burlesque theater where the gang loves to go

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to see Queenie, the cutie of the burlesque show. And

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the thrill of the evening is when out Queenie skips

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and the band.

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Plays the poco while she strips.

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Take it off, take it off.

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Cries of voice from the rear, take it off, take

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it off soon, it's all you can hear. But she's

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always a lady, even in a hand of mine. So

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she's and always just in time. She's as fresh and

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as wholesome as the flowers in May. And she hopes

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to retire to the farm someday. But you can't buy

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a farm until you're up in the chip. So the

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band plays the Poco while she strips.

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Take it off, take it off.

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All the customer shout down it try then band itzza.

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But she's always a lady, even.

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Instead she hits corny waltzes, and she hits the vat

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So the band plays the Poco. Watch she stripped. Take

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it in. It's the best in the West. Take it

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I'll take it off. You can yell like the rest,

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take it up. She's a peach when she's and just

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in time.

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Time.

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We owe them all.

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We someday you some day church Bell's butcher right right.

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It's the bi.

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Strip Polka written and vocal by Johnny Mercer with Phil

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Silvers and the Mellow Wares, recorded on Johnny's old label,

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Capitol Records back in nineteen forty two. And the question

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at hand is why the legendary comedian Phil Silvers appeared

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on the record. Well Arnold First, just to let you

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know that was Johnny Mercer's debut single for his own

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Capitol label. And Phil Silvers in the early forties was

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a well known, burlessed comedian and in the forties he

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was starting to make inroads into Hollywood and the movies,

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as well as making appearances on Broadway and somewhere along

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the way, Johnny Mercer developed a friendship with Phil. Johnny

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Mercer asked Phil as a matter of fact, to be

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the lead in the nineteen fifty one Broadway show Top Banana,

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which Johnny wrote the words and music for Rose Marie,

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who was well known as Sally Rodgers, one of the

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comedy writers along with Maury Amsterdam on The Old Dick

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Van Dyke Show, another friend of Johnny's was also featured

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in the cast of Top Banana. So it appears Johnny

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Mercer was loyal to his closest and most talented friends.

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And I assume Arnold Morris that is why Phil Silvers

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was featured on the strip Polka Records. And we are

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not here on the Make Believe Ballroom, a Broadway music program,

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although I do love Broadway music, but I will play

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for you. How Mercer and Silvers collaborated on the Broadway

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hit Top Banana.

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Hey, mister Biffle, what's the top banana? See what I'm

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up against? Mom, Johnny come lately. The top Banana is

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the first comedian in a burn I show.

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It comes from an old barrel lesbit.

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Don't talk about it, Pinky do it for him? Oh,

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I watch this kid.

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I just came back from the fru mank and I

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have free bananas, and I'm going to give you one

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of Know just a minute, you only have two bananas there? No,

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that's three bananas here, and I'll prove it to him.

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One banana, have I? That's right? To bananas?

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Do?

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That's true? One banana and tow bananas?

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Make three bananas.

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You're out of your mind. It's treating your own words.

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I'll show you you're wrong. I had one banana, have I?

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Yeah?

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Two bananas?

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Duer Yeah, one banana and two bananas makes by golly,

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he's right same.

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Oh will you join me in the banana? I'd be delighted.

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One banana for you, banana for me?

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Well, how about me?

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You eat the fade banana?

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What the hell? See what I mean?

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Kid?

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Tade banana? Second banana? Top banana?

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Well do walk comedians have to go through this.

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The big time is a small timers kid. Nobody makes

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it the easy way. Here's the way it usually goes.

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The star comes first, then the leading man, then the

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actors in the play.

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But there are no comics. Like no comics.

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Who finally made the great clear?

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He recalls Sweethearts while the phony starts and the lousy

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pots day play. If you wanna be the tom Burna,

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you gotta start at the bottom of the punch. You

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gotta know the joke about the farmer's daughter, then take

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it in the kiss her with her soda water. If

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you wanna be a burr less coming, it's basic training.

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For you to take a punch. You gotta roll your

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eyes and make a funny face. Then do a take

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and on a dismust be the taste. If you wanna

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be the top banana, you gotta.

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Start from the bottom of If you wanna.

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Be the top banana, you gotta start at the bottom

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of the bunch.

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A dancer wears a safety pin. The key per tights up.

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The top banana's gotta wear a nose that lights up.

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You may want no immitape, no old cowards.

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You'll get more laughs by saying what he we hardly

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find a driving roma.

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Sauce of fight, but put a sup and romauper bit.

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If you wanna be the top Banana, you gotta start

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from the bottom.

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All you gotta start at the bottom. It doesn't matter

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if your voice is shovel flatten. If you know how

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to fall upon your pr.

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You gotta start.

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Phil silver is with the signature song from the Johnny

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Mercer written musical Top Banana on Broadway and recorded as

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a record album in nineteen fifty two. And I think

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I neglected to mention that Phil Silvers, like his friend

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Johnny Mercer, was also a pretty good songwriter.

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If I.

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Don't see her each day, I miss her. Gee, what

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a thrill each time I kiss her.

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Believe me, I've got a case.

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On Nancy with a laughing face. She takes the window

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and makes it summer, But summer could take some lessons

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from her.

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Picture a tomboy in a way, that's Nancy with a

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laughing face. Did you ever hear mission bells ringing? Well,

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she'll give you the very same glow when she speaks.

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You would think it was singing.

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Just hear her say.

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Hello, I swear too good news. You can't resist sorry

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for you.

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He has no sister, no angel could replay Nancy with

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a laughing face.

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Keep Betty Grable, Lama a turner.

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She makes my heart a charcoal burner. It's heaven when

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I embrace.

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My Nancy with a laughing.

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Nancy or Nancy with the laughing face. Music by Phil

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Silvers and Jimmy Van Hewson, Frank Sinatra vocal orchestra conducted

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by Axel Stordahl, recorded on Columbia back in nineteen forty five,

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and strangely enough, and this is a great story, folks.

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Silvers wrote the lyrics for Frank Sinatra's Nancy with the

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Laughing Face, although he was not a songwriter. He wrote

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the lyrics while visiting composer Jimmy Van Hewson. The two

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actually composed the song for Van Heuston's writing partner Johnny Burke,

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for his wife Bessie's birthday, substituting Sinatra's little daughter's named Nancy.

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At her eventual birthday party, the trio pressed the singer

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to record it himself, and the song became a popular

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hit in nineteen forty five and certainly went on to

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become a staple in Sinatra's recordings and live performances throughout

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his career. So Arnold Morris from Sarasota, Florida, a long,

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music filled explanation to your question about why Phil Silvers

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appeared on the Johnny Mercer recording of Strip Pulka and Friends.

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I encourage you, like longtime listener Arnie Morris, to email

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me at Jeff at Make Believe Ballroomradio dot com. That's

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com, and I am

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happy to answer your questions, play your requests and read

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your comments. And now from the Crystal Studio in New York,

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this selection.

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Stop beating around the Marlberry Bush, Marlberry Bush, Maulberry Boys,

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stop beating around for Maulberry Bush, come out and say

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you love me. Stop beating around the Mobberry Bush, the

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Marberry bushes, the Mobberry bus Stop beating around the Marberry bush.

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When there's a moon a movie.

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This is the way to win my heart, Win my heart,

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win my heart. Better.

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Begin bit buff, we fie blue and rock again hard

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and stop beating around the Marlberry Bush. Marlberry Bush, Marlbury Buys.

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Stop beating around the Margaret Bush. Come out and say

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you love me, Stopping I stop beating around the mobbery boys,

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stopping round shopping, I stop beating around the mobbery bush.

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Stop beating around the mulberry bush. By Al Donahue and

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his orchestra, vocal by Paul mc kelly, recorded in New

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York City, August the eleventh, nineteen thirty eight. And folks,

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if you missed any portion of today's program or want

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to hear past shows in the series, we have many

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of them posted in podcast form. After our programs are

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played by our affiliate radio stations, we quickly turn them

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around for replay as podcasts. You can go to Make

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Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com. That's MakeBelieve Ballroom podcast dot com.

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Or you can visit your favorite podcast provider, whether that

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be Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio. We are on all of them

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to make Believe Ballroom on radio and then in podcast form.

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And now friends and email from an astute listener who writes,

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Dear Jeff, I listen to your podcast each week here

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in Dallas, Texas. After discovering by way of the online

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UK nineteen forties radio station that the show was still

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on the air, I really enjoyed hearing Edgar Hayes's recording

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of in the Mood this past week, which prompts my question.

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This email goes back a few weeks when we did

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play Edgar Hayes's first ever recording in the Mood. He

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goes on to write, because the Make Believe Ballroom first

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air to nineteen thirty five, and Miller's recording of in

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the Mood was recorded in nineteen thirty nine, the current

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theme song with the line and mister Miller puts you

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in the mood could not have been used when the

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show premiered. It's talking about the Make Believe Ballroom? Was

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there another theme song from nineteen thirty five to thirty eight?

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And if so, what was it?

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And could you play it? I love the show and

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I look forward to each episode appearing in my podcast

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library each week. Cordially yours, Joel Eatman. Well, Joel, thanks

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for that astute question, and indeed you are correct. The

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opening theme I play on each broadcast was recorded in

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nineteen forty by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, with the

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vocals by the four Modern Airs Martin Block, who's credited

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with inaugurating the Make Bully Ballroom on WEW Radio New

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York City back in February nineteen thirty five, went to

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Glenn Miller to ask him to record a new theme

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song for the program. Martin Block was actually one of

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the composers of the Miller version of Make Bully Ballroom.

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So your question was was there another theme song from

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nineteen thirty five to thirty eight? And if so, what

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was it and could you play it? I will play it, Joel.

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Then tell you a little more about it, and.

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Imagine our room.

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Here's your Mandy bob room.

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Wraw Man.

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At the tip of your fingers while the melody legers,

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Let's dance, dance, dance, just.

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Started swaying while the band is playing music is worth

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your wise?

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Let this station give you dancipation.

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Simply turn the die and keep on dancing.

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Though you've only a small room.

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Make it your ballroom leads dance.

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Just keep on dancing. Oh, you've only a small Maggager ball.

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On Bluebird Records, Make Believe Ballroom, Razoff and Denneker by

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Charlie Barnett and his Glen Island Casino Orchestra. Vocal by

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the Barnett Modernaiirs, recorded in New York City, August nineteen

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thirty six, so friends, that was the original theme song

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for the Make Believe Ballroom, And it was interesting that

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the modernaires were singing on both the Barnett and Miller records,

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both totally different melodies and lyrics. And Joel, what did

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Martin Block sound like with the theme music we just

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heard in the background.

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And good evening, ladies and gentlemen, have passed five Saturday evening,

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February the third, my own mind, five years coming gone.

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Five years.

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We've been doing our level best.

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To entertain you from the Make Believe Ballroom tonight tonight

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because you folks have all been so nice to us.

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We're here to bring you our fifth anniversary birthday party,

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and we're bringing it to you from the beautiful Gold

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room of the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue in New

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York City.

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Everything is very cool.

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The founder of the Make Believe Ballroom, the one, the only,

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mister Martin Block, back in nineteen thirty nine, and since

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Charlie Barnett played the first Make Believe Ballroom theme song,

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let's play another one by mister Barnett. Skyliner by Charlie

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Barnett and his Orchestra, recorded in Los Angeles, August the

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third nineteen forty four, and that's song was written by

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Dale Barnett. Dale was actually a pseudonym for Charlie, so

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Charlie Barnett himself both wrote and played Skyliner, one of

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the Big Band era's most memorable songs. And as I

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look at the big bull of a clock on the

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wall here in the Crystal studio, I think, and I'm

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happy about this. We have time to play one or

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two requests that have been sitting in the email pile

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here on the console of the Crystal Studio. Let's see now. First,

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for Ben Long from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, another longtime listener, a

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request for any version of the song back Home again

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in Indiana.

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Back home a game.

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In in me, And.

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And it seems that I can see a gleaming candle

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light still shining bright through the sycamore. For me, the

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new moon Hay sends all its fragrance from the fields.

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I you still roll.

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When I dream about the moonlight on the.

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War line, and I long for my.

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Indiana all.

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M HM.

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Back home again.

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In Indian.

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And it seems that I can see a gleaming candlelights

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still shine and dry through the sycamore.

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For me, the new mown Hay sends all.

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Its fragrance.

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From I used to roll.

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When I dream about the moonlight on the Wobber.

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Then I love Ohm.

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From the playlist here in the Make Believe Ballroom that

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was Chick Bullock and his All Star Orchestra back Home

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Again in Indiana, recorded in nineteen forty and that, of

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course was one of the hundreds of times that song

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has been recorded. But folks, I would have to say

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my all time favorite version is any one of the

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many years that Jim Nabors sung the song just prior

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to the start of the Indianapolis five hundred. That sort

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of just brings goosebumps every time I hear it, and

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any additional goosebumps on this program, we'll have to wait

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until next week because we are just about out of

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time 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 to hear past shows in podcast form make Believe

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Ballroom podcast dot com, Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com,

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or go to your favorite podcast provider. So until next week,

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this has been Jeff Pressler