Nov. 7, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/7/25 Edition

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The Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s.

On this week's program: a funny Billie Holiday story, some of the wealthiest bandleaders of the era, an out-of-this-world record - plus many more great records and stories to cherish and enjoy on this week's broadcast.

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It's make Believe Ballom 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. It's

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no time to friend your Dalis said bombs. Close your

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eyes and visual lize in your solitude. Your favorite bands

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are on this dance and mister Miller, but you in

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the wood. It's make Believe Ballom time.

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We are a sweet romance.

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Did you make believe?

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Come on, Joe, last dance least.

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

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the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my Crystal

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studio for another program of classic big band hits from

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the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Please get ready as

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I play for you some amazing big band jazz, swing, blues,

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and boogie woogie favorites. Folks, you're listening to the Make

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Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. Hello friends,

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and welcome once again into my Crystal studio. A great

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show planned all designed to bring you some great music

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and two or three great stories today that I think

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you will enjoy. So let's get things started as I

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invite you to enjoy this.

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Ill some folks like here to be it. Really I

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don't go for that stuff no more.

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Anytime you really want to send me Bounce me brother.

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The saut let four come on in the wh please

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is jumping. Everybody's out on the floor. If you want

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to keep the rhythm, pump and just bounce me brother.

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Though in the st let for the Dixie Land Beads

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was never like this. We got a new bed and

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no one can miss if the boogie work he sent

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you like I think it did, go to the bar,

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flift your lins.

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Move the table and roll the rug up, shut the

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windows and lock the door, clears the floor, and while

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a digger chug up a bounce me brother.

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But it's a hollid for.

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This show.

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S from Columbia Records. Bounce Me Brother with a solid

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four Will Bradley and his Orchestra featuring Ray McKinley, recorded

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in New York City in nineteen forty one. How about

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one more than a Little Lady Day two fur.

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Swinging, keep your fingers taped swinging, anything can happen. It

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started in Harlem and then in a flat. It traveled

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from Harlem now Park Avenue has taken the kid Dames swinging,

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slowing out a normal bird.

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Swinging.

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Do it on the wrong buzz.

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They'll do it in London, They'll do it in Frank.

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It's hot and smokey honkey, don't you.

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That's from Victor Records. Let's Swing It by Ray Noble

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and his Orchestra. Vocal by the Freshman, recorded in New

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York City, June eighthineteen thirty five. And well, it's been

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a long time since I was a freshman. But I

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am the host of the Make Bully Ballroom. My name

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is Jeff Wrestler, and welcome into the Crystal Studio today

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as I now play for you or record by Lady

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Day aka Billy Holiday.

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Good morning honey, you ow Loomis say good morning honey.

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That we said goodbye last name at ten and task

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until it seen you head.

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But he h with the un.

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We're chad forgive you, but you're here to stay here.

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It seems I met you when my love went away.

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Night.

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Every day I stop by say to you, good morning, hurry,

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what's new? Stop haunting me?

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Now?

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Had change? You know how? Just leave me alone. I've

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got those Monday blues. Straight blues, Sunday Blues. Good morning, Honey,

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here we go again. Good morning, honey, you the one

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who knew me when might as well get used to

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you hanging around? Good morning heartache, Sit down, stop haunting.

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Now, can chase you know how?

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Just leave real loone. I've got loads Monday blues, straight

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through Sunday blues.

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Good morning, Hardy.

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He good again, Good morning Hardy. You the one who

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knew me with man as well, getting used to you

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hanging around? Good morning, hotay, sit down.

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From Decca Records. Good morning Heartache. The wonderful blues singer

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Billy Holiday recorded in New York City January the twenty second,

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nineteen forty six, and heartache, as you may know, Billy

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Holiday did have personally and unfortunately throughout most of her life.

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She was born into poverty, became an alcoholic and heroin user.

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Being black and a woman, she got an extra dose

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of racism and sexism, and then ultimately suffering failing health

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that prematurely led to her death at the age of

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forty four in nineteen fifty nine. So really, truly, Billy

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Holiday understood the blues, but at times, though there were

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lighter moments in her life, and one I would like

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to relate to you that had to do with when

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she was singing with the Count Basie. The band was

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on a trip from West Virginia back to their home

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base in New York City. Now, Billy Holiday at the

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time was earning fourteen dollars a day, and in the

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late nineteen thirties, it might sound to you like a

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fair wage. But let me read to you how Billy,

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in her own words, looked at that, and the bus

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trip she was on fourteen dollars a day sounded really great.

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Nobody bothered to tell me I'd have to travel five

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hundred to six hundred miles on a hot or cold,

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raggedy assed blue goose bus, or that it would cost

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me two or three bucks a night for a room,

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or that by the time I was through having my

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hair fixed and gowns pressed, to say nothing of paying

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for pretty clothes to wear, I'd end up with about

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a dollar and a half a day. Out of that,

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I had to eat and drink and send home some

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lut to Mom. Whenever I had a couple of bucks,

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it was always so little I was ashamed to send

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it home, so I would give it to Lester young

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to invest. I hoped he could shoot enough dice to

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parlay it into a bill big enough I didn't have

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to feel a shait to send it home. The first

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time out, we had been riding for three months, and

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neither Lester nor I had a dime. Both of us

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were actually hungry. Jimmy Rushing, the blues singer with the band,

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was always the only one who had any loot. We

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went to him once and asked him real nice for

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a buck to buy a couple of hamburgers. He wouldn't

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give us nothing but a lecture on how he saved

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his money and how we petered hours away. When we

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were on the bus coming back to New York from

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West Virginia, I couldn't stand the thought of coming home

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to mom broke. I had four bucks when that craft

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game started on the bus, I said, you're not shooting

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these four I said that to Lester. I'm shooting these myself.

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I got on my knees in the first time. Up

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it was a seven. Everybody hollered at me that the

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bus had swerved and made me shoot it over. Up

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came eleven. I picked up the four bucks right there

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and won the next three pots before somebody said something

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about comfort. I thought they said, what do you come from?

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I said, I come from any damn thing you come from.

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I didn't know the dice lingo, but I knew Lester did,

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so I told him I'd do the shooting and he

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could be the lookout man. I was on my knees

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in the bottom of that bus from West Virginia to

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New York, a few hundred miles and about twelve hours.

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When we pulled up in front of the Woodside in Harlem,

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everybody was broken crying. I was filthy, dirty and had

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holes in the knees of my stockings, but I had

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sixteen hundred dollars. I gave some of the cats in

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the band enough luke to eat with and for carfare,

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but not Jimmy Rushing. I didn't give him a dime.

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I took what was left and split on uptown to Mom's.

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When I walked in, she looked at me and liked

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to die. I was so dirty and beat up up.

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I just waited for her to say something, and she did.

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I'll bet you ain't got a dime either, Mom said,

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I took that money over one thousand dollars and threw

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it on the floor. She salted a lot of it away,

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and later it became the nest egg she used to

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start her own little restaurant, Mom Holidays, something she always wanted.

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A great Billie Holiday story, one where she finally got

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some fun out of life.

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When we want too long loan, When we want.

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To kiss, we kiss with the little penny.

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We're getting some phone out of play. When we want

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to work, we work.

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When we want to play.

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We play and not happy secting. We're getting some fall

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out of play.

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Maybe we do the right thing.

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Maybe we do the long, spending each day just winding

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our way alone.

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When we want to sing, we sing. When we want to.

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Dance, e lays, you.

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Can do your Betty.

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We're getting some fall out of play.

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Happen the.

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May, we do the light. Maybe we do.

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Not spending each day just when.

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We no, but when we want to sing weezy, when

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we want to day's wee day.

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You get you your meeting.

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We get me some fun.

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Some vocalion records Getting some fun out of life Billy

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Holiday with Lester Young, recorded in New York City, September thirteenth,

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nineteen thirty seven. I'm Jeff wrestler and you're listening to

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the one, the only, the original make Believe Ballroom coming

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to you today from my Crystal Studio.

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It was a lucky for shower.

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It was the most convenient doll. I found a million

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dollar baby in a five intens and stall. The rain

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continued for an hour.

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I hung around for three or four.

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Around a million dollar baby in a five intense and store.

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She was selling chin.

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And when she made those eyes, I kept buying china.

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Until the crowd got war.

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Incidentally, if you should run into a shower, just step

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inside my cottage door and meet the million dollar baby

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from the five and ten cent storm. Love comes along

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like a popular song any time or anywhere at all,

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rain or sunshine, spring.

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All fall.

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Say.

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You never know what it may say. Hello in a

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very unexpected place for eggsample take my case.

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For the bad babble Babby didn't but evil mable level

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babble level.

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Work.

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I did learn.

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She was selling china, and when she made.

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All I kept buying china.

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Until the clouds got by.

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Incidentally, if you should run in Jewish hour, step inside

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my cottage doll.

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And meet my million dollar baby from the five hand.

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Same doll.

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From Brunswick Records. I found a million dollar baby bing Crosby,

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recorded in Los Angeles, June the twelfth, nineteen thirty one.

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Years later, I think it was in forty one or

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forty two, Crosby re recorded that song, but I always

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found the song recorded in thirty one by Brunswick to

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be a lot jazzier. So that's why I chose that

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of my two choices where I found a million dollar

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baby by Bing Crosby. The guys I am about to

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talk to you about didn't find their million dollar babies,

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or maybe they did, but what is true is that

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they became millionaires or the equivalent of millionaires in today's money,

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that through their talent and hard work. So I wanted

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to devote this segment of the ballroom to the let's see,

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what shall I call them? Why don't we call them

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the super six? A list of from what I've researched,

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is the six wealthiest band leaders of the big band era.

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And I think the way we'll do this is I'll

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play one of their songs and then tell you all

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little about their wealth. So let's proceed with number of

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sex of the super sex of big band earners.

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I never thought that.

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You would be standing here so closed to read. There's

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so much I feel that I should say, but words

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can wait until some other day. Kiss me once, then

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kiss me twice, then kiss me once again. It's been

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a long long time. Haven't felt like this, my dear,

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since can't remember when it's.

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Been a long long time.

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You'll never know how many dreams I dream above, or

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just how empty they all see with you. So kiss

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me once, then kisney twice, than kissney once again.

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It's been a long long time.

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From Columbia Records, It's been a long long time by

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Harry James and his Orchestra vocal by Kitty Callen, recorded

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in nineteen forty five. Harry James I have ranked as

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the sixth wealthiest Big Band era band leader, and from

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what I have come up with, Harriet his peak during

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the era was making right around ten thousand dollars a week,

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which today would be around two hundred and twenty five

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thousand dollars. And he made this money from the Harry

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James Orchestra as well as working very hard to establish

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a high quality horse racing stable. And of course it

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didn't hurt one bed, It didn't hurt his prestige or

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bottom line that he was married for some time to

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Betty Grable, making them one of the wealthiest couples in Hollywood.

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So Harry James at number six, who was the fifth wealthiest.

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From the.

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Business chang.

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Yeah, what do you know what gen O Joe?

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I don't know nothing.

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Watch your Joe.

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Tell me something.

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Watching old Joe.

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Ain't come nipping. I hate jiving. I don't know.

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Watching old Joe Well, I don't know what happened.

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Watching old Joe ain't hog heaven.

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Watching old Joe, I ain't fooling.

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I need schooling.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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Mom, try to tell me.

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So my boy, let me go. Courtn't even see a

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movie show Watching O Joe, Well.

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I just can't what j Joe Well, I don't take it.

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Watch Jo Joe.

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We're just walking.

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I'm talking.

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I just don't know.

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Via Victor Records, What You Know Joe by Tommy Dorsey

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and his Orchestra vocal by the Pied Pipers, recorded in

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New York City, February the seventh, nineteen forty one. So

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Tommy Dorsey, by use of the Jeff Brestler make believe

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ballroom calculator was the fifth wealthiest band leader of the era.

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He was also in that ten thousand dollars per week range. Now, Tommy,

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in addition to being a great bandleader, was a great

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promoter of his orchestra. It said that he was a

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superb at getting radio sponsors and also finding his way

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to Hollywood to make some lucrative films with his orchestra.

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Tommy also published a lot of music and it certainly

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didn't hurt in the nineteen forties to have Frank Sinatra

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as his premier vocalist, which assured Dorsey of getting the

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most high paying band gigs. So, Tommy Dorsey, sitting at

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number five, now number four, I think will be a

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big surprise to you.

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Oh You've got me crying for you, And as I

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sit here and silent say I I can't believe it's true.

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I'll tell my mama I'm you.

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A little game that you played has made.

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Her baby oh so blue.

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You left me in the lurch, You left me waiting

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as a church.

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Boo.

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That's why I'm playing for you. Some day you'll be

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like I do, and you be boo hoo hooing to.

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From Victor Records Boo Hoo. Guy Lombardo and his Royal

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Canadians recorded in New York City, February the second, nineteen

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thirty seven. Guy Lombardo the fourth wealthiest big band leader.

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Guy Lombardo. You may ask why him, Well, I guess

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the keyword here is probably, Oh, it's probably longevity. You

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may not be aware, but Guy Lombardo, in a sweet

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style of music over the decades, led to the sale

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of over one hundred million records. His name was also synonymous,

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as many of you might remember, with New Year's Eve,

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something he ushered in on television for years and years,

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and that kept his name in the public eye. I

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guess staying the steady path in the business for over

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forty years would indeed make you a millionaire. So Guy

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Lombardo is number four as the wealthiest band leader of

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all time. Now down to the top three and in

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third place.

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Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me,

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anyone else but me, anyone else but me.

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No, no, no, don't sit under the apple tree with

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anyone else.

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But me until I come marchin home.

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Don't go walking down Lovers Lane with anyone else.

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But me, anyone else but me.

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Anyone else but me.

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No, no, no, don't go walking down Lovers.

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Lane with anyone else but me till I come marchant home.

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I just got word from a guy who heard from

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the guy next door to me. The girl he met

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just loves to beat and infit you dote, So don't

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sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me

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till I.

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Come my chan on.

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Don't give up with those slips of yours to anyone else.

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But me, anyone else, anyone else but me. No, no, no,

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Watch the girls on the foreign shows. You'll have to

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report to me when you came marching home. Don't hold

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anyone on your knee. You better be true to me.

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You better be true to me. You better be true

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to me. Don't hold anyone on your knee. You get

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not third degree When you come marching home.

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You're on your own. Weather is no phone, and I

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can't keep tab on.

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You be fair to me.

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I'll guarantee you this is one thing that I'll do.

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I won't sit under the apple tree with anyone else

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but you till you come marching home.

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Under the apple tree with anyone.

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I know.

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The apple tree is deserved by you.

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And me.

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From Bluebird Records. Don't sit under the apple tree with

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anyone else but me. Glenn Miller and his orchestra, vocals

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by Marion Hutton, Tex s Beneke and the Modernaires, recorded

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in New York City in nineteen forty two. Glenn Miller

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number three in the top wealthiest via the Make Believe

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Ballroom Jeff Bresler Research Center. Now Glenn was earning twenty

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thousand dollars a week, twice that of James and Dorsey.

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And although his music lives on forever in actuality, we

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all know we had a very short career. But due

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to the success of dozens of hits and shrewd planning

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by Miller and ultimately his estate, his catalog continues to

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make money, believe it or not, to this very day.

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So Glenn Miller at number three in wealth. Now, folks

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were down to the top two. You probably know at

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least one of the two, or maybe both, but in

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what order, definitely subject on Victor Records. A Rollum by

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Benny Goodman and his Orchestra recorded in Hollywood, July the seventh,

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nineteen thirty seven, three sevens in there Benny Goodman number

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two on the Make Believe Ballroom list of wealthiest banned leaders,

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and Benny at his peak was earning around fifteen thousand

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dollars a week. And then he racked up quite a

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bit of wealth from radio films, music royalties, and in

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no small part to intelligent investments. And it didn't hurt

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him one bit that he married into wealth. His wife, Alice,

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was a member of the Vanderbilt family. So Benny Goodman

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sitting at number two, and now, ladies and gentlemen, the

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Numero Uno the number one wealthiest big band era band

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leader of all time.

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No, it's like a cigarette.

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You know you held my heart of love between your fingery.

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I just like a cigarette.

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I never knew the girl of life until I join me.

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Then y's like a cigarette. Y'all seem to pay it

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away and leave behind.

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That is of megare.

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Then with a bliss of your finger nip it was

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easy for you.

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You forget it.

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