Jan. 17, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 1/17/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 1/17/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 1/17/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 1/17/25 Edition

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a contemporary swing band, two great radio remotes, a look at one...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a contemporary swing band, two great radio remotes, a look at one of the most historic recordings of all time - this and many more great records to enjoy on the show!

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Time.

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It's make believe ballroom time. 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 yours,

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close your.

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Eyes and visual life 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.

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We are of sweet romances.

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You make the lea.

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Come on, Jim 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 great big band hits

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of the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether one of

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my longtime listeners are new list there on public, community

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or university radio stations across the US as well as

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in the UK, please grab your dance ticket. It's free

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and let's listen to some wonderful big band jazz, swing,

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blues and boogie woogie classics. 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 and other fine radio affiliates. I

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welcome you all to the Make Believe Ballroom, the one,

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the only, the original Make Believe Ballroom, broadcast almost continuously

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since February of nineteen thirty five. And I want to

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open this edition of Today's Make Believe Ballroom with an

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email from listener Errol Leon, who listens on KPOV in Bend, Oregon.

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And you know Errol. There was a comedian named Leon

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Errol who was featured in a number of very funny

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movie comedy shorts in the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties.

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You could still see a lot of those on YouTube.

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Errol perhaps a backwards relative to you, but not Leon Errol.

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Errol Leon wrote, Jeff, longtime late night listener to your show.

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My wife and I have purchased many downloadable online albums

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from contemporary big band swing artists on band Camp. One

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of my favorite groups is Jonathan Stout and his Campus

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Five with vocals by Hilary Alexander. They are a great

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band that recreates the sounds of the late thirties and

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early forties. I have attached to downloads from them in

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hopes that perhaps you will share their music with your listeners. Well,

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of course, Earl, I will do that. I will share,

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I will share both. Let's listen to the first.

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Marry marrying.

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Something I.

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Didn' any day.

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That was Savoy blip from Jonathan Stoutness Campus five from

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their album Crazy Rhythm that was released in twenty seventeen

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and can be purchased on band camp and for the uninitiated,

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because I also visit band camp on occasion. If you're

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not familiar, it's a website bandcamp dot com, and on

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the site it allows artists and labels to upload music.

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There are literally tens of thousands of downloadable pieces on

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band camp and you can download music for a small fee.

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Either you could buy one song at a time, or

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you can purchase a downloadable full album. Let me now

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play the second song. Errol sent us and it's an

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old standard.

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There's a change in the weather, there's a change in

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the scene.

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From now on, there'll be.

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A change in me. My walk will be different, my

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talk and my name ain't nothing about me going to

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be the same. I'm gonna change my way living. And

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if that ain't from now on, I'm going to struck

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my stone. Noboddy loves you when you're old and gray,

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There'll be some changes made to days. There'll be some

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changes made. Now there's a change in the weather, there's

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a change in the sea. From now on, there'll be a.

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Change in me.

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My walk will be different, my talk and my name.

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Ain't nothing about me going to be the same. I'm

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gonna change my way living. And if that ain't enough,

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from now on, I'm going to struct my stuff. No

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buddy loves you. When you're old and gray, There'll be

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some changes made today. There'll be some shame ches made.

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There'll be some changes made. Jonathan Stout and the Campus

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Five with a vocal by Hilary Alexander from the twenty

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seventeen album Crazy Rhythm, And you want to talk about

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a song that has stood the test of time, There'll

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be some changes made. Was published way back in nineteen

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twenty one, but the song is really flourished for over

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one hundred years as a jazz standard. The song in

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that time period has been recorded over four hundred times,

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and I find that to be pretty amazing. So thank you,

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Errol Leon not to be confused with comedian Leon Errol,

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and thanks for introducing us to the Campus Five by

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sharing those two songs with the audience and myself here

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on today's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom and Friends

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to share, request or comment like Errol did. I'm Jeff

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at Makebelie Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff at Makebelie Ballroom

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Radio dot com. And coming up in just a moment,

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the legendary pianist performs on a radio remote that is

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rarely heard. But first, this.

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Her tst a tasket, a brown and yellow basket.

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I send a letter to my mummy.

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On the way, I dropped it, I dropped it. I

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dropped it. Yes, on the way I dropped it. A

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little girl he picked it up and put it in

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her pocket. She was trucking on down the avenue, not

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a single.

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Thing to do.

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She went pickpack, pecking all around.

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When she spied it on the raft, she took it.

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She took my.

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Little yellow basket.

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And if she doesn't bring it back, I think that

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I will die a tsket a tisket. I lost my

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yellow basket, and if that girl don't return it, don't

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know what I'll do.

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Oh d I one dude, where my basket can be?

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Oh gee, I wish that little girl I could see

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Oh my, was that so careless with that basket of mine?

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That any fitty baskets a joy? Young my, A tiskett

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a tasket? I lost my yellow basket. Won't someone help

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me find my basket and make me happy?

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Yugin look and.

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No no no, no, no, no no no no no

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no no.

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Just a little of.

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Your loop basket.

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Ah Lodonia Love.

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Basket On Deco Records, A Tisket a Tasket by Chick

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Webb and his orchestra vocal by Ela Fitzgerald, recorded in

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New York City, made the second nineteen hundred and thirty

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eight and that song My Friends, based on a nineteenth

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century nursery rhyme, was one of the best selling seventy

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eighths of the entire decade of the nineteen thirties. So

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I told you before Ella and Chick that I would

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discuss a rarely heard radio remote. Radio remotes, as many

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of you know, during the big band era of the

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thirties and forties, were simply live coast to coast transmissions

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of those bands. Big bands playing from hotels, ballrooms, and

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other musical venues like clubs, and I left out also restaurants.

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A large majority of the big bands did remotes to

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gain national exposure, to ultimately find sponsors, sell records, and

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assure that when they came to a specific town, they

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would play to a large crowd who heard them on

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the radio. Now, Fats Waller did some remote work, but

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he was certainly not a regular on any radio remotes

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weekly or every few nights radio remotes. Fats, of course,

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did not lead a big band, but he had a

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six piece group that he called Fats Waller in his

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rhythm and they accompanied him as he played the piano

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on most occasions. In October of nineteen thirty eight, Fats

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did do two remotes for NBC Radio from the Yacht

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Club at sixty six West fifty second Street in New

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York City. Of course, fifty second Street was the heart

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of jazz in New York City, with probably close to

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twenty clubs, all pretty much one right next to the

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other on fifty second Street, and it certainly had to

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be magical back then to walk down the street and

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hear the music coming out from behind the doors of

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each club and trying to make the decision on whose

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music you're going to be listening to that evening. So

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Fats did these two gigs, and unlike a ballroom, hotel

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or restaurant remotes, the yacht Club being a jazz club,

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it was a much more intimate setting. And on these

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remotes that I'm going to play, you can hear Fats

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banter with the crowd, a crowd that appears to be

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pretty laid back enjoying his music between clicks of what

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were probably whiskey and beer glasses. You'll actually hear those

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clicks in just a couple of minutes. Let's play a

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few songs that Fats performed on the radio from the

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yacht Club in October of nineteen thirty eight.

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As I'm talking about, and let me last it all

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about in the season, and I will bring our new

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themes song the yacht Club swipe.

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It says take it away, ass, Let beat it out

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yacht club swingers in foods.

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Man.

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I know, Mama, I'm getting something from Papa.

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I know.

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That.

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M No, Fats, I just like come in and it

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an official word here.

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Boy, Well, you know, I guess have to tell the

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pols that this person is coming from the new Yacht

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Club over here on West Clift, the second street, just

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off the Great White Way, and it's the old Admiral himself,

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Fats Waller in his orchestra. Yes that boy, yeah boy,

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that that tune you just played, That yacht Club Swing

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is very apropos very apropole.

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Boy.

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Come on down to what you're talking about anyway, Old

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Fats Waller's right here at the piano.

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That was a song that was aptly named Yacht Club

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Swing from Fats Waller on October fourteenth, nineteen thirty eight,

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during his radio remote from the Yacht Club Jazz Club

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in New York City. Let me play another from Fats

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at the Yacht Club.

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A man, the color pops. This is your premier performance

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here at the New Yacht.

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Club on fifty second Street, just off the Great White Way.

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And we're glad to have you on the air, Fats,

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And I'm glad to be bad.

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And you're doing a swell, swell job.

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You're really burning up that piano.

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Boy.

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I can't yeah, lord, but listen, I got a surprise

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for you. What's that new tune you never heard? I

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can't believe it. The flat first floture bit fo.

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Hit it boy, hit that d It's gone.

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Hello h.

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A flat foot fruture with Fod Frocks.

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Plain food fruits with floes.

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Fla food fruits with bod fustop, damn god down baby

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dam guy there who is said.

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Babes are you sing out there?

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But all right there.

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Say whenever your cares upon it, you just tell them,

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well go hang and you'll find the ray of.

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Tony get gone swinging with the gangmin flat foot brute

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with bad righty. I take it away from that, baby boy,

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take it away games.

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They think out and.

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Let me let me go. You have one day sun,

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I don't.

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I'll get ahead, give it had.

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I know, I'm all right. That's fast boy. I hardly

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recognize that gual she has. She had high arches there, boy,

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that she had flow.

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Fats Waller and his rhythm with Flat Foot Flugie from

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the Yacht Club on New York City's West fifty second

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Street and broadcast on NBC Radio in nineteen thirty eight.

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

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the original Make Believe Ballroom coming to you on the

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radio and then in podcast form from my Crystal Studio.

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And let me before we move on, play a radio

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remote from the great Artie Shaw and one of my

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favorite big band song treatments of all time, and I.

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Heard Tom's the one you've all been waiting for.

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The kilodella that's going to knock the place, probably the

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roof right over, we hope not, because it's a long

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way to the ground.

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Like Carrioka.

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The face of the.

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S That was already Shaw with Karrioka from a nineteen

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thirty nine radio remote. And I think that was probably

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from the Cafe Rouge in the Hotel Pennsylvania in New

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York City. It could have been from the Hotel Lincoln,

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but I think it was from the Cafe Roge, And

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that we cannot dispute was already Shaw at his best.

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Hands down. The nineteen thirty nine band with Buddy Rich

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was the hardest swinging band that already ever had. It

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was pure magic. Man from Mars is another classic from

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this Artie Shaw band.

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In the.

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Assisi Everything, Artie Shaw and his orchestra performing Man from

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Mars on the Old Gold Radio show Old Gold the

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Old Brand of Cigarettes. It was the September nineteenth, nineteen

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thirty nine program The Great Artie Shaw and I Am

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a Happy Man, two of my favorite Arti Shaw classics,

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played back to back for you here today on the

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Make Believe Ballroom. And speaking of the Ballroom, here is

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the first record ever played by Martin Block on the

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first Make Believe Ballroom ever broadcast on February the sixth,

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nineteen thirty five, on Decor Records. We just heard Sugar

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Blues by Clyde McCoy and his Orchestra, recorded in Chicago,

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January the thirty first, nineteen thirty five, and played just

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days later as the first record ever on the brand

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new turntable to be played on the first ever broadcast

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of the Make Believe Ballroom. Let me play one more

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record then, one of the most historic recordings of all time,

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at least in my estimation, and unfortunately long forgotten.

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To to.

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Any to the.

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End, folks.

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I just played few Earl Hines and his Orchestra with

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Blue Drag recorded on Brunswick Records July the fourteenth, nineteen

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thirty two. And that was Omer me on with his

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wonderful clarinet playing. I now want to talk about a

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recording that was so historic. I think the story needs

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to be told and this record heard by as many

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jazz and blues fans as possible. I don't think there

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has ever been a more American recording than Blue Yodel

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Number nine. I'm going to play that record in just

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a few minutes. But friends, think about this. You can

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discuss the roots of African and European influence on American

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popular musical day long if you wish. But what has

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American music, pure American music actually created. Well, here in

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the US, we created jazz, country, and blues. Almost any

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pure American music can be traced to some combination of

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those three foundations. On July the sixteenth, nineteen thirty, all

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three met for one single, unforgettable recording. That recording, as

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I mentioned, was Blue Yodel number nine, also referred to

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as Standing on the Corner. The leader of the session

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that recording session with singer, songwriter and musician Jimmy Rogers,

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known as the Singing Brakesman. His father worked on the railroad,

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and I think Jimmy did for a while, but he

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was more often referred to as the father of country music.

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His accompanist on this record will be none other than

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Louis Armstrong, also referred to in many quarters the father

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of jazz, and some say about Louis that he was

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the most important musician of the twentieth century. Now what

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common ground did Jimmy Rodgers, a white country blues singer,

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and Louis Armstrong, a black trumpeter, jazz trumpeter, carnate player.

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Two legends? What did they partner on to explore? How

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about the blues?

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Now?

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I've done research, but I have found that everything surrounding

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the record is shrouded in mystery. I don't think it

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was intentional, just not a lot of history about this

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recording session. But how the heck did it happen? Did

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these two get together? Well, Louie and Lil Armstrong who

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you will hear on the piano Lil Armstrong piano player

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in Louie's wife. At the time, they had just moved

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to California, but Louie hadn't made any records out there

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at this time. But somehow Louie and Lil ended up

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in the Victor studios to back up Jimmy Rodgers, even

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though Louie was signed to Okay Records and waiting for

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his first record making opportunity. So Rogers and Armstrong must

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have bumped into each other somewhere along the line, and

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Louie must have enjoyed his music, Jimmy Rogers music and

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probably early country music in general, and Rogers was clearly

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a fan of Armstrong's. For Blue Yodel Number nine, Rogers

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lifted a chunk of the lyrics sung on Blue Yodel

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Number nine by an obscure blues singer named Nolan Walsh

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on a nineteen twenty six recording of Well Blues, and

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who on that record was Walsh's accompanist yep Another then

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Samo himself in a dramatic set up, let me now

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play for you the Bridewell Blues.

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And all the Connam.

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Not me, no.

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Ho don and all the Conna model.

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Not all.

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Other more love me Barb.

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Of the brothers, you'n't quatch me Bubbles, the Clenty roll

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and don't you watched me puzzle? The Coldy Roll and down,

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don't tell you want child?

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Nolan and what you want to leave?

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Sam to the Nobles, Lo, the b.

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A to the brom.

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Lo the Bow, Jimmy.

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Dre the.

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Quarry out done done, then the stone Quarry.

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Undone in the I'm not in the world and.

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Love And that's the history, or in a lot of

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ways lack of history concerning the recording of Yodel number nine.

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And I think I just want to mention that Jimmy

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Rodgers made a series of yodel number recordings. I think

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his last recording. I'm not one hundred percent sure, but

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I think it was Yodel number thirteen. And as they say, friends,

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I told you there's not a lot of history that

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was that. Louis and Lil in the Victor Recording Studio

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were done for the day, and Blue Yodel number nine

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was eventually issued on September the eleventh, nineteen thirty one.

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So with all that build up, folks, I sincerely hope

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you enjoy the record.

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Standing on the ConA, I didn't mean no. Along come

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a policy to me by the arm. It was down

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in Memphis corner rough Beel and Ma.

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He says, big boy.

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You'll have to tell me your Namely.

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Only, I said, you'll find my name on the tail

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of my shirt. I'm a Tennessee hustler, and I don't

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have to wait and listen all you round us. You

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better leave my women alone, cause I take my special

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and run all.

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You round us home. The Oderly Only, my good girl

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loves me.

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Everybody he knows, and she paid a hundred cash dollars

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just for me.

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A pseudo clothes.

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She come to you the giant aforded four when each

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hand she said, stand aside all the women.

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And men.

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Looking bom My Man da.

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Blue Yodel number nine aka standing on the corner. And

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with that I encourage you, I really encourage you to

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google and read about and listen to some of Jimmy

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Rodgers' music on YouTube. He was not a well man.

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Tuberculosis plagued him, but he recorded right up until his

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death in nineteen thirty three, really bravely recording in the

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studio to the point of where he had to sit

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to sing and during any production breaks he would have

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to lay down on a cot right on the studio floor.

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The Great Jimmy Rogers accompanied by the equally great Louis

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Armstrong with Lil Armstrong on the piano. And with that,

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as I look at the big bull of a clock

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on the wall here in the crystal studio, I have

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just about hit the wall, as we are close to

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being totally out of time. An eclectic broadcast today, to

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say the least, some contemporary swing by the Campus five

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thanks to Errol Leon little Rare Fats Waller remote from

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the Yacht Club in New York City Artie Shaw with

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back to back heavy remote swing and a historic blues

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record featuring polar opposites, Jasey Louis Armstrong with country Jimmy Rogers.

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Folks to hear past episodes of The Make Believe Ballroom,

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please go to Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com, Let's

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Make Believe ball Podcast dot com, or visit your favorite

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podcast platform. So until next week, on the radio, this

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has been Jeff Bresler, SA