Jan. 16, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 1/16/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 1/16/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 1/16/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 1/16/26 Edition
On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom - a scholarly way to start a band, a look at two clubs that served military members during WWII with music and cheer, Bing and Andrews Sisters duets history, in addition to many more songs and reminisces.
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It's make Believe ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away.

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All the bands are here to bring good cheer your way.

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It's make Belief ballroom time and free to everyone.

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It's no time to friend your Dalis said Bombas.

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Close your eyes and.

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Visual lize in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this dance and mister Miller,

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what you're in the wood.

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

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as you make believe bottom. Come on to the.

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Last das last.

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Hello world, 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 classic big band jazz from

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the nineteen thirties and forties. Get ready as I play

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for you some amazing jazz, swing, blues, and boogie woogie favorites. Folks,

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you're listening to the Make Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously

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since nineteen thirty five. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome one and all

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into the Crystal Studio, and thanks for joining me today.

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I play music that makes you want to jump and shout.

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I sincerely hope in many instances, and one of those

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instances is coming your way right now.

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Show let the ba bad thing of the passing.

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It's time that jump and shout A classic Jimmy Lunceford

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and his Orchestra tune arranged by the legendary Eddie Durham,

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recorded in January of nineteen forty on Vocalion Records. Jimmy

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Lunceford he might just have had the most unusual way

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to start his own orchestra that eventually went on to

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become one of the most successful of the big band era.

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And Lunceford's career didn't start in a nightclub or a

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a sidemen on a road somewhere with a band or orchestra.

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He actually started his music career in a classroom. Lunceford

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was academically trained. He studied music and graduated from Fisk University.

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In the late nineteen twenties. He became a music teacher

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and athletic coach at Manassas High School in Memphis, Tennessee.

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While there, Jimmy organized a student band made up largely

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of his very own pupils, and that began the blueprint

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that Jimmy Lunceford would follow during his entire career, which

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included very tight rehearsals, precision timing, and strict musical discipline.

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And you could hear that in all of his recordings

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and believe it or not. As many of those students graduated,

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Lunceford kept the group together, and he gradually turned it

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to professional. So in swing history, Jimmy Lunceford stands almost alone,

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a major big band that grew out of education rather

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than nightlife, and whose academic roots shaped one of the

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most disciplined sounds of well of the entire big band era.

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Let's hear one more from Jimmy Lunceford and his orchestra.

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Us, Give me Leaves. The leaves did leave.

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The whip Wills called whipple will he is nine. Where

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to mine Heaven? It turns it out right, old.

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Little White.

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Lead you to mine.

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You see a smile of face. Fireplace calls it bloom.

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Left on Nelson Nestles where old ness that is, where

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the rose is blue. Molly and Baby make streme itself

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is there? Mallow, Mallow and Molly and me. We're happy.

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Just we three.

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My Blue Heaven. Recorded October the twenty ninth, nineteen thirty four,

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at New York City's Decca Studios. Let Me Play one

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more record. Then we're going to take a look at

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two venues, one in Hollywood and one in New York City,

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where celebrities and band leaders ask for nothing in return

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to spread their good cheer.

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Half a society is seen. He'll not give it the

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mother name. Wing it Bugets quig, won't be jumping on round?

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Won't it tear it down?

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Wing it Bugets way? Donald Ump, Queen hadn't known enough?

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Way from Queen? Wag it brother? Are really all right?

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Whanging a night? Whang it Buggets play?

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What's the name?

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Yeah? Please take that way way.

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Three of the era's piano giants got together for Parlophone

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Records on July the thirtieth, nineteen thirty nine, to record

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the wonderful record we just heard the legends Albert Ammans,

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mid Lux, Lewis, Pete Johnson and their three pianos Cafe

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Society rag the vocal on that one by Joe Turner.

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

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the original Make Believe Ballroom coming to you today from

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the Crystal Studio. So I mentioned before the record that

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I wanted to talk about a time when two venues

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one in Hollywood and the other in New York City

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featured celebrities of stage and screen and all the big

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orchestras of the big band era who asked for nothing

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in return other than to provide some entertainment and comfort

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to those doing an important job. During World War Two,

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two legendary clubs opened their doors to American servicemen. One

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revolved around Broadway and the other around Hollywood's motion picture industry.

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And they were the Stage Door Canteen in New York

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and the Hollywood Canteen in California. Now, they weren't nightclubs,

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and they weren't USO shows. What they were were free,

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volunteer run clubs where music, dancing, and human connection mattered

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more than glamour. And by that I mean these clubs

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were staffed by celebrities who weren't looking for public recognition

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but the personal personal recognition of knowing that they were

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making a small difference in the lives of servicemen and

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women during a very difficult and perilous time for the USA,

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that being World War Two. The Stage Door Canteen opened

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in March of nineteen forty two on Broadway, and that

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was run by the American theater wing, and there Broadway

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actors served food, They danced, they sang, and performed sketches

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right alongside the audience. Music at the stage door Canteen

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reflected Broadway itself, a lot of storylines, singing there you know,

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vocal numbers, comedy, familiar tunes. Swing music was present at

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the stage door Canteen, but it shared space with theater

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songs and more intimate performances of songs by vocalists, a

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lot of them having to do with World War Two.

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Let's play a couple of songs that refer to the

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stage door Canteen for your listening pleasure, and we'll start here.

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I love my rot the stage door cante.

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This cute story of army life romance by Don Cornell.

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I left my heart at the stage door County. I

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left it there with the girl maid Nally. I kept

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deserving doonahs. Tell all she had, we're gone.

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I sat there drunking donuts till she cut all. I

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must go back to the army, and.

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Every boy knows what that will me.

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A soldier boy with other heart has two strikes on

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him firmly stars.

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And my heart at the stage door Canti.

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I left my Heart at the Stage Door Canteen, that

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one written by the legendary the great Irving Berlin Swing

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and Sway with Sammy Kay and his orchestra vocal by

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Don Cornell, recorded on Victor Records back in nineteen forty two.

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One more directly related to the Stage Door Canteen.

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He had led him mone in nineteen twenty two.

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You let other women make a fool of you?

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Why don't you do right? Write some other men do?

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Get out of here and get me some money to.

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If you had prepared twenty years ago, you wouldn't be wander.

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Now from door to door.

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Why don't you do right.

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Like some other men do?

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Get out of here and get.

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Me some money to?

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Why don't you do right like some mother men do?

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Like some mother men do?

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From the nineteen forty three film Stage Door Canteen, Benny

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Goodman and his orchestra played the classic song by Kansas

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City Joe McCoy and Herb morand why don't you do

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it right? With the vocal there by Peggy Lee and

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that film. The forty three film Stage Door Canteen was

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made in support of the American war effort and contained

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many cameo appearances. By well known and lesser known stars

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of the day. You can watch the entire film on YouTube.

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It's a wonderful film. I just watched it again for

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probably about the twentieth time last week. And in that film,

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if you watch probably gee, I'd say close to one

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hundred celebrities, both superstars and lesser knowns, were featured in

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that nineteen forty three film. I'll talk in a minute

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about the Hollywood Canteen. Both canteens were open for a

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relatively short period of time that paralleling the war from

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forty two to forty five. Let's play a popular song

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of the era that was most probably played live or

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on a jukebox at either one of those canteens.

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Scott, have you anything to say to me? Won't you

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tell me where my love can be? Is there a

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medal in the middle.

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Where someone waiting to become Scott? Have you seen a

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valley green with spring.

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Where my heart can go?

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A journey.

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Over the shadows and the range to a blossom covered lane?

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And in your lonely fly, haven't you heard.

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The music of the night.

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One of them?

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Never there's a willow who as crazy.

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As lou said as a gypsy serenading Losky.

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I don't know if you can find me sting, but

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my heart is riding.

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On your winds.

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So if you see them anywhere, won't.

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You lead me there?

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Skylark Harry James and his orchestra vocal by Helen Forrest,

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recorded on Columbia Records back in nineteen forty two. I'm

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Jeff Bresler, and this is the weekly edition of The

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Make Leave Ballroom, and currently on the program, I am

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discussing two iconic venues from the era of World War Two,

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the Stage Door Canteen and the Hollywood Canteen, where celebrities,

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many of the biggest names of the era to grace

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a Broadway stage or Hollywood motion picture selflessly donated their time,

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many over and over again, to wait on tables, serve coffee, perform,

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and interact with the servicemen and women who were serving

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the United States during World War Two. I don't know

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if we could have a Stage Door or Hollywood Canteen

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today with the dynamics of today's personalities, and that's certainly

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a shame. So after the establishment of the Stage Door

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Canteen later in nineteen forty two, the Hollywood film community

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created its own canteen, and that was founded by the

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legendary actress Betty Davis and matinee idol John Garfield. The

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Hollywood Canteen emphasized dancing, and that meant that they featured

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many swing bands in addition to the hundreds of the

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celebrities who volunteered their time and talent to chat, serve food,

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sign autographs, and take pictures with military members, much like

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at the Stage Door Canteen. Very frequent visitors to the

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Hollywood Canteen and the Stage Door Canteen both not only

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to perform, but also to interact with servicemen and women

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was the andrew Sisters.

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I'm getting called on for my country at the Hollywood Canteen.

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The hardest working junior rosters she never seen. I'm doing

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my bit down here for Uncle Sam. I'm a patriotic jitibug,

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that's what i am. I'm getting called.

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For my country.

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You should see the Flounes fly.

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I'm getting down the waistline and I told.

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Even try I don't need to do berry or with

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more cord.

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Both.

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My weight's been taken over.

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By the Army Air Force.

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We're not the tea sweet John Leslie. But then we

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never mind when those tea eyes knocked us out. We're

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glad that we're the healthy guid the way those cowboys

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from the prairie expect us to sashay, I thank.

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God, rather to step with their horses.

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Any game, getting barns for our country, though the going

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is stuff.

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When we think we can go on, we find we

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can get enough to If you.

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Hear of the soldier sailor all Maureen, tell them to look.

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Gus up bad Hollywood Canteen.

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I used to be aesthetic, they say, oh yes, I was,

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Rarey I was. I built the drama, art and the ballet.

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But the Peter Hill came over and said, forget about.

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Pavlover, learn to cut a right.

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So now we're jenner By.

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I'm getting calms for my country.

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So I'm really hold in a week from now we'll

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be here with our usual of him.

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So if you him from the Bronx to Moine or Aberdeen.

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Come down the nass for a side.

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Wood again, A song about working real hard at the

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Hollywood Canteen, which the Andrews sisters also performed in Warner

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Brothers highly entertaining all star feature film Hollywood Canteen, issued

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on Decca Records Corns for My Country the Andrew Sister

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Orchestra conducted by Vic Schoen, recorded August twenty fourth, nineteen

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forty four, and much like the Stage Door Canteen, you

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could also watch the Hollywood Canteen on YouTube. Give that

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one a look.

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One of the features great features of both canteens is

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that they were racially integrated performers and audiences mixing together,

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and that, unfortunately, very unfortunately, wasn't common in wartime America.

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Let's let me look at my list here. Let's do

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another song from the era of the Stage Door and

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Hollywood canteens.

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I want to tell you a story from way back.

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Truck on Down and Nigmy Jack das.

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Big moul moam.

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No more.

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Look got brother, look cat brother love cat brother in more.

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Mama, Ma, Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama.

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Who's the greatest band around?

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Makes the cats jump up and down?

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Who's the talk of rhythm town?

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Five guys name more?

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When they start to beat it out, everybody jumping shout?

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Tell me who do the critics rape about?

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Five guys name more?

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They came out of nowhere and that don't mean a thing.

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They're red hide you'll know why when you get them

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Swim high brown love Brown. All agree they're the best harmonide.

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I'm telling you, folks, you really ought to see it.

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Five guys name more.

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Both and both then looking.

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Hand and then ender thing and I hand my hand.

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They both look anything, had anything everything.

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One guy Big Mo, two guys little bit of move,

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Three guys bid move, Old guys no Move, five guys

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eat more, five little guy.

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Name, five guys named Mo. Louie Jordan and his Timpany

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five vocal by Louie and Ensemble, recorded on Decor Record

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in New York City back in nineteen forty three. And

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I play that song because it's said that Louis Jordan

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did perform with the Timpany five at the Stage Door

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Canteen that year, the year he recorded that record, nineteen

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forty three. You know, it's strange because thousands of service members,

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scores of bands, and hundreds of celebrities graced the Hollywood

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and Stage Door canteens. Two movies, as I mentioned, were

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made about each canteen, yet not much live ever came

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out of either. Maybe the occasional newspaper article and photo,

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perhaps a newsreel, but with all that celebrity power. There

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were virtually no live broadcasts, records, or movies made at

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either location. A special experience for military members to kick

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back and relax in a comfortable, joyous location without being

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placed under the hot lights of Hollywood or New York

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City was a pledge that was vowed by the celebrities

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who both ran the Hollywood and Stage Door canteens. So

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a little about the stage Door and Hollywood canteens. Here

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on the make believe ballroom, Say it's only.

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Your paper.

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Sailing over a cardboard seat, but it wouldn't be badly

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if you believed in me.

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Yes, it's only a canvasca hanging over a mustan tree,

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but it wouldn't be vaguely if.

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You be ead in me without your love.

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It's a honkey tongue forade without your love. It's a

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melody played in a penny arcade. It's a parliament, barey world,

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just as.

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Funny as it can be. But it wouldn't be vaguely

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if you be head in me.

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Say it's only a formal.

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Over a card, but.

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It wouldn't be.

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If you really true who is?

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It's only a can the sky pang and over a muslimry.

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It wouldn't be magbie if you believe in me.

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Without God.

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It's a huckey time parade with your love.

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It's a melody plane in a penny arcade.

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It's a bunnament belly world, just as phony as it

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can be.

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It wouldn't be mag believe if you really in me.

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It's phoney. It's plain to see how happy I would be.

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If you be.

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Then It's only a paper moon by Ela Fitzgerald and

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the Delta Rhythm Boys, recorded in New York City back

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in nineteen forty five, and now on the Make Believe.

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Oh before I forget, I have an email from a

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listener that I didn't get to last week, Jeff at

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com Jeff, MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot

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com and that email it pertains to the Andrews sisters

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in Bing Crosby. We played the andrew Sisters a little

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while ago with their Hollywood Canteen song, but you can

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never get enough of the andrew Sisters. The email reads,

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Make Believe Ballroom, the dear Jeff, but just addressing us

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as an entire entity, the Make Believe Ballroom. Why did

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Bing Crosby records so many duets with the Andrews Sisters,

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and that's signed by John Turner Owens from well now,

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he didn't tell us where he was from, but thank you,

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John Turner Owens. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters recorded

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around fifty, yes, fifty songs together John, and of those recordings,

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twenty three of them charted on the Billboard charts. And

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it said that Bing, who was a millionaire crooner movie

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star and also a very shrewd investor first and foremost

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like to make money, and knew he had it good

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with the andrew Sisters because they were both wildly popular

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at the time and just about anything they would record

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became a hit. But Bing, from a musical stand and point,

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did say that he enjoyed recording with the andrew Sisters

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because they're well, they're upbeat, energetic and tight harmonies. Those

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blended perfectly with being smooth crooning, and he flat out

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also enjoyed their company and talents. And it's reported that

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there was very little stress in the recording studio and

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being like that laid back atmosphere. Although the andrew Sisters

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among themselves had a voluntari volatile relationship behind closed doors.

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But case in point and why they mixed so well

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together musically is emphasized here.

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Lay that pistol down, Babe, Lay that pistol down. Pistol

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packing Mama. Lay that pistol down. Drinking beer in a cabaret.

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Was I having fun until one night she caught me.

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Right now, I'm on the run.

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Oh, lay that pistol down, babe. Lay that pistol down.

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Pistol packing Mama, Lay that pistol down. Oh, I see

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you every night, beg and I'll woo you every day.

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I'll be your regular mama, and I'll put that gun away.

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I'll lay that pistol down, babe. Lay that pistol down.

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Pistol packing Mama, lay the thing.

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Down before it goes off.

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And heard somebody.

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Ah, she kicked out my wind. She lay and she

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hit me over the head. She customed cried and said

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I'd lie, and she wished that I was dead.

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Lay that pistol down, Babe, Lay that pistol down. Pistol

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packing Mama. Laid pistol down with three tough girls from

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deep down Texas way.

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We got no pels. They don't like the way we

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play it. Wear a rough rooteoot and shoot and tree

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of bout. You see my sister or clail, she's a

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terror mader hair. But there ain't no last affair. Here's

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what we tell her.

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I lay that pistol down, Babe, Lay that pistol down.

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Pistol becking, Mama, lay that bistol down.

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Happy made of batch corne. The rev newers came. The

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drawer was slow, so now they know you can't do

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that dune name.

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Oh lad that prystal down, Babe, Lay that pistol down.

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Pistol packing.

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Mama, lay that pistol.

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Down, singing songs in a cabaret.

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Was I having fun.

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Until one minute?

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Now, Mama, Oh lay that pistol down, Babe, Lay that

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pistol down.

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Pistol packing Mama, last.

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Pistol packing, Mama.

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Lay pistol.

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Pistol pack and Mama. Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters

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Orchestra conducted by Vic Shoen, recorded on Decca Records in

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Los Angeles, California, back in nineteen forty three. And thank

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you John Turner Owens for that email about Bing Crosby

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and the Andrews Sisters. Once again, Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom

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Radio dot com, Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com.

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And because I answered the email from John Turner Owens,

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it cut time off a segment I wanted to do,

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but now we don't have time for that. But I'll

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do that segment next week. So why don't I play

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a few additional songs I was holding in abeyance that

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were recorded during the time of both the Stage Door

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and Hollywood Canteens.

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I didn't I don't want game became.

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To Don't Know about.

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Father, Tell You what to f the.

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To Blowing Up the Storm. Waddy Herman and his orchestra

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recorded on Columbia Records in nineteen forty five. And here's

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another one. Leap frog Less Brown and his Orchestra also

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recorded on Columbia Records back in nineteen forty five. And folks,

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that's all the time we have as the hands on

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the big Bullova clock come to the top of the hour.

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Thanks so much for joining me today to reach me,

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I'm Jeff at Make Believe Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff

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at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com. I want to take the

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I'll see you all again next week.

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Lime, so your magic shop, ray, let your sweeden. Chance,

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comes a rainstone, Put your rubbers on your feet. Comes

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a snowstone.

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You can get a little. Heat can come live.

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Nothing canby dies.

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Comes a fire, Then you know just what to do.

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Now attire, you can buy another shoe? Comes bly, Nothing

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canby die.

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Don't dry had cause? Isn't you start? Lad when you're

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do not?

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Juice comes to a headache.

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You can lose it in a day.

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Comes the two things.

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See your dentist right away.

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Comes fly.

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Nothing can re