Nov. 8, 2024

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/8/24 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 11/8/24 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 11/8/24 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 11/8/24 Edition

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – two famous Harlem hotels, a song written in 1941 about a...

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On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – two famous Harlem hotels, a song written in 1941 about a famous wartime cartoon character, big bands on a beloved American variety show - all this and many more great records to enjoy on this show!

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Time.

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It's make Believe ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away.

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

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

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no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said Bamba yours, close your eyes and vis you lie

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in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on list Dance and mister Miller.

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But you're in the mood.

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

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As you make it.

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Come on, Jo Last Dat Last.

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Hi, folks, I'm Jeff Presler, 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 the greatest hits of the

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

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keep the music and traditions of past hosts Martin Block,

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

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Whether one of my longtime listeners or maybe today a

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new listener on public broadcasting or community radio stations across

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the US as well as in the UK, I invite

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

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To some wonderful big band Arab music. Hello world, and

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from coast to coast on public, university and community radio

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stations will welcome. Welcome, Welcome, one and all to the

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Make Believe Ballroom, and thanks joining me this hour as

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I share some wonderful swing jays of big band music

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and many of the stories behind the records and the

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personalities who recorded them. I hope you are all having

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a great week. Let's have a swinging warm up for

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today's show, then a visit to a legendary Harlem hotel.

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Over the.

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Room for the.

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Jack Webb and his orchestra playing a great swinging version

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of the classic number clap Here comes Charlie, powered by

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Chickweb's obvious superb drumming, and a great way to open

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today's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom. You know, friends.

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At one time in Harlem there was a famous hotel,

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a hotel call the Woodside. It was located on Seventh

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Avenue at one hundred and forty second Street in Harlem.

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It was operated by one Love B. Woods, an African

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American who, for whatever reason, with the popularity of the Woodside,

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was still probably even more well known in Harlem in

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the nineteen thirties for operating a number of dingy flophouses,

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some of which had very unsavory reputations to say the least.

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But the Woodside did distinguish itself by becoming a popular

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place for both jazz musicians and Negro League Baseball team

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players to stay a while in New York, obviously during

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a period of segregation. Account Basie was one guy who

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loves staying with his band at the Woodside Hotel when

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he was in New York City. He actually loved the

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Woodside so much that he wrote this classic.

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Name cock Cock Cock Cock Cock.

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Cock cock Cock. It just.

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On Decca Records, Jumping at the wood Side by Count

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Basie and his Orchestra, recorded in New York City, August

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the twenty second, nineteen thirty eight. And an interesting fact

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about this tune, believe it or not, it never ranked

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higher than eleventh on the Billboard charts in the four

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weeks that it did make it onto the charts. But

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Jumping at the Woodside certainly aged well with time, since

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we all know that it went on to become since

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then one of the most recorded and played jazz standards

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in history, and that in no small part was due

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to a number of wonderful solos on that recording, Earl

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Warren on the alto Sacks, Buck Clayton the trumpet, Lester

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Young the tenor Sacks and Herschel Evans playing the clarinet.

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So let's jump from the Woodside Hotel back to its owner, LOVEB.

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Woods.

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Later, Love Woods would become better known for his involvement

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in operating the Hotel Teresa, which was a much more

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upscale hotel than the Woodside was. In actuality, folks had

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called the Teresa. The Waldorf of Harlem. Woods purchased the

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Hotel Teresa in nineteen thirty seven in addition to holding

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on for while to the Woodside Hotel, and he welcomed

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there just as he did at the Woodside. Many African

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American jazz musicians and the vocalists to spend time there.

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So let's delve into one of those vocalists. How about

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the Duke.

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M m Man.

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That was take the A Train by Duke Ellington and

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his famous orchestra, the original recording of the famed Ellington

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theme And of of course, for those uninitiated, the A

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Train was and still is a famous subway line that

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goes through Harlem Take the a Train was written by

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Billy Strayhorn, and he was once asked what inspired him

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to write the song. So Strayhorn said he was once

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writing subway directions as there was a new subway line

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and people were getting confused about the best way to

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get to Harlem. Sugar Hill, referred to in the song

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was an upscale area of Harlem in which Duke Ellington

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eventually moved and made his home. Just as an aside,

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I mentioned that Strayhorn was once writing subway directions, writing

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them obviously on a piece of paper a pre cell phone.

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I used to like to.

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Write directions for other folks on matchbook covers.

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Why I like to do that?

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I never came up with a logical explanation, but that's

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how we used to communicate. Or if we were in

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a gas station, we would take a map, or somebody

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would take a map for us and point out the directions.

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Another frequent visitor, Sorry about that aside to the hotel Teresa,

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who liked it so much he actually went to work there.

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Why hey, good and get.

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Good, and get good, and get.

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And get and get.

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Take it again, So it, ma'am, I got it.

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Make it again?

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They again, by again.

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They again.

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Again, Okay I got it?

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Maybe again?

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Make you again?

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By again.

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Again, take it again?

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Why I got.

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About my father.

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Again? Make you again?

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Okay?

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I got it? Ain't good and good?

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Now?

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Why you got it?

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In gone?

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Take it and get which? On October the twenty fourth,

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nineteen forty two, became the first single to hit number

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one on the Harlem Hit Parade. The Harlem Hit Parade

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was the predecessor to the Billboards Rhythm and Blues Chart.

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Andy Kirk Andy Kirk and his Clouds of Joy Andy

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Kirk a frequent guest at the Hotel Teresa. So a

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few years later, in nineteen forty eight, to be precise,

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Andy Kirk disbanded the Clouds of Joy, but he continued

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to work as a musician, but he eventually switched to

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hotel management and real estate. He also served as an

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official in the Musicians Union, and with his involvement in

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hotel management, Andy Kirk went on to become in the

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Hotel Teresa, a venue I mentioned he stayed at so

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many times in the past. He went on to become

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for many years the hotel's bar manager.

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What did you mean when you made that mischief? Dance

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in your rise? Didn't you mean it when it ended

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in a kiss?

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Didn't you mean it?

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When you made me see your stars in the skies?

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Did you mean it? Wasn't much too sweet? You miss

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w and did you mean that?

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Remind that you whispered in the dark?

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You said you'd be absolutely on the up and up

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with me?

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Didn't you mean it when you held me by the

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night drifted by?

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Did you mean it? Hope you didn't, because so did I.

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One of the greatest of all British dance bands, Jack Hilton,

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Did you mean it? Re recorded in nineteen thirty six

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and certainly one of the best renditions of that very

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popular song? Did you mean it?

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And?

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Speaking of the United Kingdom? And I certainly must say

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that I appreciate the many listeners we do have on

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a number of affiliates across the pond. I want to

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read an email I received last week. This one actually

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did not come from the UK, but rather from a

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listener in Rockford, Illinois, and it reads, Jeff Love listening

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to the make Bully Ballroom each week. I came upon

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the show a few months ago while reading posts on

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a nineteen thirties. Nineteen forties Facebook group I belong to,

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which is really not about music at all. I do

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enjoy listening to the music on your fine show, but

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equally important I look forward to hearing your stories about

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that time period. Can you play a song your choice

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that includes references to something that was specific to the

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time that song was written. Keep up the great work,

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Nelson Tippin Nelson, thanks for those kind words. I just

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played Jack Hilton, So why don't I, in reference to

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your request, stay in England for this song by the

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great British band leader, radio and TV host and auto

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racing driver Billy Cotton.

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Big osmall shut on Potato, Pete has on on.

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Potato.

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There's a finely little man with the funny little man

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keeps coming down our street. If you got a little

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leisure and you never had the pleasure, then we like

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you all to meat Potato, Pete Potato Peat. See him

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coming down the street shouting, here's good things to eat.

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Get your hot potatoes from potato beat. Hear him sing,

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I see he goes by all the kidd is no

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his cry love to hear him shout Hi, Hi, here's

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your hot potatoes coming. Bye bye bye. Have him in

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a packet, take him home tomorrow, have him in the jacket,

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eat em where you are. He might sell out, So

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don't be laid if you haven't got a penny beetle

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bodied on the slate. He's Potato Pete. Potato beat. Now

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he's going down the street. He's got orders to repeat

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because he's got the best potatoes. Has potato beat? Big

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or small shot or tall potato beat has gone on

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all big or small shot a toe Potato Pete.

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Has got.

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Potato Pete? What a great name by Billy Cotton and

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his band, recorded on Rex Records in nineteen forty one.

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So Nelson, mister Tippin, that was a catchy and fun

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tune to listen to. But you wanted me to play

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a song that was historic to the year it was recorded.

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So the question at hand would be who exactly was

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Potato Pete? Well? During nineteen forty one when that song

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was written, the UK, as we all know, was deeply

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embroiled in the Second World War and the British Isles

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were subjected to a Nazi naval blockade, the aim of

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which was to disrupt food imports and in that case,

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attempt to starve the British people into submission. Now these

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are frightening figures about that blockade ships with whatever they

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were carrying, how to get past German U boats before

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they could safely deliver their cargo. Of course, the Allies

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were also trying to prevent ships from reaching Germany. This

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was the Battle of the Atlantic. By the end of

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the war, and what a horrifying figure. More than twenty

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four hundred British merchant ships had been sunk, with the

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loss of over thirty thousand men, just staggering. So with

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the pressure on shipping and the you need to bring

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in munitions and other materials for the war effort, the

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British government encouraged folks to eat more homegrown potatoes and

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less bread, which was made from imported wheat, which obviously

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had to be shipped into the British isles. So one

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of the ways they did so was to invent a

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cartoon character, Potato Pete, who ended up being very popular.

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Potato Pete had his own recipe book published by the

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Ministry of Food, which utilized as the main ingredient unrationed

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potatoes and those spuds made it into all kinds of dishes,

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from pastries and sandwich fillings to desserts. So a little

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about the history of one potato pete and thank you

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Nilson Tippin from Illinois for your email. If you'd like

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to send me an email, I'm Jeff at Make Believe

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Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at Make Bully Ballroom

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Radio dot com. Let me play one more. Then I

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want to spend some time talking about a gentleman, A

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gentleman who for many years was probably the most impersonated

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individual of comedians. I mean for decades, but a gentleman

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who had a big influence on keeping big band music

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alive in the nineteen sixties.

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You can't have everything, be satisfied with the little you make.

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You can have everything.

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Don't end ever the fortunes that they get.

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Gentle listen, don't be greedy.

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Help and you gotta get lucky. Yes in d Man Richmond.

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Game By, you can have everything.

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All thank the stars about one song in your my line,

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getting in your part or someone in your too.

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Lord c study me.

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Re coming coming back to un They didn't got to.

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Come back, come down, come map my road. How many.

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Louis Prima and his New Orleans gang with You can't

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have Everything recorded on July the seventh, nineteen thirty seven,

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So I asked the question before the Prima record who

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was one of the most impersonated individuals by comedians, possibly

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of all time, and who helped keep big band music alive,

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especially in the nineteen sixties. The late great comedian Alan

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King said of him, he can't sing, can't dance, and

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can't tell a joke, but he does it better than

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anyone else. This gentleman began his career as a sports

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reporter for a small paper in Westchester County in New

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York State. He went on to become a Broadway columnist,

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eventually writing a column called Little Old New York, which

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concentrated on Broadway shows and gossip, simultaneously delivering show business news.

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He eventually became a rival of the great Walter Winchell

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in the late forties. He got his start during the

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infancy of television and eventually started his own show, which

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became the longest running variety show to this very day

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in US broadcast history. It was a program that was

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totally ingrained in American culture of the period. And I

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am talking about the one, the only Ed Sullivan and

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Ed who personally chose the talent that appeared on each show,

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that being from comedians to novelty acts, the vocalists and musicians.

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He was very fond of big bands and music of

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that era, so he had many legendary big band icons

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appear on the show. And I'd like to play some

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that music now, and I will start with a wonderful

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version of Sing Sing Sing, a song so closely associated

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with Gene Krupa.

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The Man, the Man, The man compla.

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Yeh, yeh, don't but they.

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Fat any.

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Dire anybody that if anybody abber anybody or you never know.

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The bbut bout that.

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That's the sort to be at.

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Everything about thinking about all nay se.

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Gene Croupa in a quartet version of Sing Sing Sing

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on The Ed Sullivan Show, first broadcast Sunday evening, June

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the twenty sixth, nineteen sixty Gene Croupa Sing, Sing Sing. Now,

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for a next look at some big band royalty who

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performed on The Ed Sullivan Show, I offer you a

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band leader who was a frequent guest on the program.

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I'm talking about Woody Herman. Here on stage, Woody Herman

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and his band's metropol Pain Caledonia.

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So let's have a great had for Yeah.

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But baby straight big bee b lonely lank had nothing

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but she's my favor love ad justice, Saint praise about

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that one called scale, don't get Sundae Hello, yeah.

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Yeah, what are your figin.

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Love you justice single phrase about that.

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One called tail don't get Sundae?

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Hello yeah, geo yeah, what make you figure?

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Bassistant step.

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Still sto, well yeah, it.

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Looks so nice to night.

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Chill, don't ya tell me everything?

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Tell me more, tell me ChIL.

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Don't you love your Colley?

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Spotty call Dona Calonna, come in your bank Al.

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Woody Herman and his orchestra hot version of Caledonia on

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The Ed Sullivan Show, recorded Sunday Night, March the twenty fourth,

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nineteen sixty three. Vocal and sacks by Woody Herman and

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that one and wood He first recorded Caledonia back in

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nineteen forty five. And now let me look down my

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playlist for a few more Ed Sullivan performances from big

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band legends. How about this one. Here's Harry James with

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one of his post Big band eraheads s Harry James

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and his orchestra just Lucky on the Ed Sullivan Show,

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July the thirty first, nineteen sixty And I'm enjoying this segment,

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and I hope you are as well. So perhaps two

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more before we ring the curtain down on the old

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Ed Sullivan Show. And here are two members. I mentioned

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that Woody Herman was Big Band Royalty, but here are

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two members whose names also indicated that they were Big

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Band Royalty. Here joining forces on Ed Sullivan, Duke Ellington

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and Ella Fitzgerald.

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The Duke and Ella.

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So let's have a wonderful JO mean a day?

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Is the Nycat swing?

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Get?

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Don't mean a thing?

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You gotta do we sing?

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Do what?

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Do? What? Do?

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A makes no difference if it's sweet, you know hot?

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Give that dmy thing?

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You got to mean up thing?

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If you ain't got that swing do what do I do?

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Do? What?

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Do? What?

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Do? I? Do?

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I do what?

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It does not need a thing, but it ain't got

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that swing?

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Don't need a thing?

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Or you gotta deal with see do I do I do? I?

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What do I? What do I make?

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The said that sweet or hot that rhythm.

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Everything you got mad a thing and the they got that.

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Swee do I do? I do?

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I do?

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I do?

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What do I do?

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Wad I thing?

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Thing? You got?

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That way lit it literally.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, get up, don't.

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Let up down.

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Yet.

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No it is that comes to me.

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Yeah, gotta it don't mean no, say boy do it?

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Don't do that?

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Do it?

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Do?

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You got do we say do dream? Da make a

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different that read up stream gay that everything everything you got.

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Dada cut.

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A queen and a duke, the Queen of Jazz el

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Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. It don't mean a thing if

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it ain't got that swing. A wonderful rendition from The

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Ed Sullivan Show March the seventh, nineteen sixty five. And

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let us now conclude the segment with Louis Armstrong, who

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was probably the most frequent guest from the Big Band

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era to grace the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater

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in New York City. Louis Armstrong, so let me remind.

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Me the ship.

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Mine dist.

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Louis Armstrong with his beloved muskrat Ramble on The Ed

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Sullivan Show July the fifteenth, nineteen fifty six, and that

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my Friends ends our segment on Big Band Icons who

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kept the music alive from men years on the old

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Ed Sullivan Variety TV show, presented live every Sunday night

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on the CBS Television network. And as we ring the

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curtain down on the Ed Sullivan Show, so must we

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do the same with the Make Believe Ballroom program. For

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this week We're go now with a little more Andy Kirk,

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this time with a lot of sas appeal recorded back

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in nineteen thirty six. I want to thank you so

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much for joining me this past hour in the Crystal

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Studio here in New York to reach me like Nelson

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Tippin did earlier in the program, which led to the

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playing of Potato Pete. Just email me at Jeff at

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