Dec. 13, 2024

Make Believe Ballroom - 12/13/24 Edition

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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 – a special show featuring listener requests and random selections from the famous Ralphie from Canarsie Record Club List - this and many more great records to enjoy on the show!

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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.

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Good cheer your way.

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

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It's no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said bombs, close.

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Your eyes and vis you lie in your solitude. Your

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favorite bands are on.

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This stance and mister Miller, but you're in the mood.

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Its make Believe.

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Fallom Time be are a sweet romance.

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As you make it.

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Come on to the last dance 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 great 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 Al,

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

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Whether one of my longtime listeners or a new listener

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on public broadcasting or community radio stations across the US

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as well as in the United Kingdom, please grab your

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

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big band era music, Hello world, and from coast to

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coast on stations like Jazz ninety point one WGMC in Rochester,

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New York, another fine public, university and community radio stations.

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Welcome to the Make Believe Ballroom, and thanks for joining

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me this hour as I share some wonderful swing, jazz

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and big band music and many of the stories behind

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the records and the personalities who recorded them. I hope

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you're all having a great day. We have two orders

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of business on today's program. I want to read and

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fulfill a few email music requests, but I want to

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spend the bulk of time on the show spinning the

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wheel for random songs from the Ralphie from Canarsi record

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Club list. So many of you email me to say

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how much you love when I play music from this list,

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So why disappoint you. Ralphie's Record Club coming your way

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in just a little while. But first our traditional warm

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up record, then an email request.

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An exact.

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Mem SUPPI bas.

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Name Les Brown and his Orchestra a mellow bit of

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rhythm recorded on Deca Records in nineteen forty folks, I

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received an email from Alice Penny spelt like the pasta

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not the coin from Scottsdale, Arizona, who listens to the

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podcast version of the program versus our original radio broadcast.

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She sent me a rather long email, but the part

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that I would like to read says, let me see

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where I highlighted this here it is My mother loved

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Buddy Clark the way later vocalists like Sinatra, Elvis and

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Tom Jones were admired by me. I still own a

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record by Buddy Clark that I found in my mother's

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house after she passed. Its title is Foolin' Myself. Buddy

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Clark sings the song and the band is Johnny Hodges

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and his orchestra. It would mean so much if you

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can play it on your show. Well, Alice, your wish

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is certainly my command.

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I tell myself I am through with love and I'll

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have nothing or to do with love.

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I stay away.

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But every day I'm I'm jog fooling myself.

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I tell my friends that I don't care.

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I shrug my shoulders out the.

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Hole affair, but they all know.

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It isn't so I'm.

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JOm fooling myself.

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Then every time.

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I'm pass and see myself in the looking glass, I

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did my.

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And say, how do you do you fool?

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You're throwing your life away.

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I'm acting game, I'm.

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Am a crown.

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Then every time I see you in a cry not

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me Britain.

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But in the end I'm.

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On Variety Records Fooling Myself. Johnny Hodges and His Orchestra

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vocal by Buddy Clark and recorded in nineteen thirty seven.

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Buddy Clark was a crooner who well, he really hit

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his sweet spot during the emerging era of the vocalist

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in the nineteen forties. And that was an era when

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vocalists such as Frank Sinatra were becoming the real feature

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of big bands and not relegated to delivering their vocal

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briefly in the middle of a song. So Buddy Clark

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became a millionaire. By millionaire, I guess he was earning

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around one hundred thousand dollars a year, which in today's

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money was certainly make him a millionaire. I think he

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lived next to Clark Gable in California, and Clark Gable

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became sort of a god grandfather figured Buddy's little daughters

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because Gable was pushing about sixty at the time. We're

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talking about the late nineteen forties. Unfortunately, though at the

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peak of his success, Buddy Clark's life ended in tragedy

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on Saturday, October the first, nineteen forty nine, hours after

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the then thirty seven year old Clark had completed a

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Club fifteen broadcast on CBS Radio with the andrew Sisters.

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He was actually subbing for aling host Stick haymes Well.

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Clark joined five friends after that broadcast and renting a

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small plane to attend the University of Michigan versus Stanford

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University college football game that was taking place in Stanford,

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and on the way back to Los Angeles after the game,

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the plane ran out of fuel, that lost altitude, and

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it crashed on Beverly Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Clark

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unfortunately didn't survive the crash. Buddy Clark's last radio broadcast

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that I mentioned a few moments ago on Club fifteen,

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Well our broadcast found him in very high spirits. He

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was clowning around on the air with Maxine Laverne and

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Patty Andrews. He joined them for a comical rendition of Babyface,

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during which Buddy Well He amused the CBS studio audience

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as well as the famous swing trio of Citters with

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his spot on Al Jolson impression. And I have that

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song Babyface from the radio here for you, performed just

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hours before Buddy Clark's untimely death.

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Now shall we try this arrangement of baby face?

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I have almost learned, Yes, baby Pa.

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You've got the cuts mat of baby ba.

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There's got another one to take your face?

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Baby face? Why we're hardest jumping? You should have started something,

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baby peace.

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Heaven when I'm in your fondom brain.

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I didn't need to show because I'm just fell.

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Enough with the bread, baby Bay.

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Who am I?

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Babye?

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What if I got?

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You?

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Gotta cut it? Little baby?

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Is there anyone else?

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There's not another one? Good? Take your place?

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Oh am I?

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Baby?

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Tell me?

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Who are you broken?

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You should have started something?

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Who am I?

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Baby? Bathe?

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Oh buddy, where are you laughing?

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I'm up in heaven when I'm in your phone.

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So, Alice Pennay, thanks for that email request for a

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Buddy Clark tune. Let me play another request. Then onto

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the Ralphie Record Club list. This one comes from our friend,

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a regular listener, and I call him the ballroom ghost hunter,

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Michael Fusco, who has a wonderful knowledge of big band

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ballrooms and their history. Michael asked for me to play

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it Can't Be Wrong by Ambrose and his Orchestra with

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a vocal by Anne Shelton.

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Wrong.

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Would it be wrong to kise.

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Seen?

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I feel like this?

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Would it be wrong to talk.

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Wrong? Would it be wrong to stay?

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You're in your homes way?

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Under a story score?

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It is wrong?

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Then? Why were you sent to me?

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Why am I content to be.

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With you for aver.

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When I need you so long and I have waited

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so long?

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Must be wrong?

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At lousy.

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Me for Michael Fusco on UK Decca It Can't Be

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Wrong by Ambrose and his Orchestra vocal by Ann Shelton,

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recorded in London, November the twenty sixth, nineteen forty three.

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I'll mix in a few more requests during the broadcast

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to make requests like Michael Fusco and Penney did you

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can email me at Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com.

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That's Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com and now

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friends onto Ralphie's List. So for the uninitiated. The Ralphie's

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Record club List was conceived and edited by a wonderful

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group of folks that got together every other Saturday night

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from nineteen thirty five all the way up to the

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early nineteen seventies. Ralphie Carbone and his wife Rose, they

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got the idea to start a record club in their Canarci,

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Brooklyn home, inviting neighbors to visit, bring their favorite pot

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luck dishes, and listen to and dance to in Ralphie

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and Rose's living room the top records from the big

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band era. Even after the big bands fell out of favor, Ralphie,

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Rose and their friends continued to meet playing popular new

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tunes and still reverting to playing their now nestae algic

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favorites from the thirties and forties. So Ralphie and the

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gang decided to create a record list of their favorite

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ranked records, and that list grew to eventually hundreds and

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hundreds of ranked in order songs. Ralphie said that sal

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Altamary was the keeper of the list and made adjustments

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as they were warranted. Now, how do I know all

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of this? Well, Ralphie from Canarsie's son, Angelo Carbone, was

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nice enough several years ago to give us a copy

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of the list. Angelo, now in his nineties, left Brooklyn

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many years ago and now resides in Naples, Florida, where

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he remains an avid listener of this program. I'm sure

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he's listening to today's show. The A list has been

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adopted by others, but as Angelo always says, Jeff, you

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have is the true list, many times attempted to be imitated,

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but never duplicated. So a few years ago we got

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the idea here in the ballroom of randomly selecting numbers,

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drawing them and playing the corresponding songs. The first way

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we did this was one our producer emeritus Lenny from

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down the block dragged down this heavy wooden contraption to

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the studio that had bingo sized balls in it. I

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think he got it from the Sons of Italy he

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belonged to, that used it during their yearly prize raffle.

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But today I have modernized that process. I spent a

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virtual wheel, press a button on a random numbers app

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and come up with the number of the song I

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am going to play.

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So let's just do it.

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You'll get the idea. So I now spin the wheel,

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pressed random number button and come up with number one

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for one number one forty one. I then go to

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my Ralphie's computer at playlist, one of the many playlists

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we have here in the Crystal studio, and I see

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that number one forty one corresponds with this tune.

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Because the alley from the album lived the Pinto pony

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and Navaho who saying a sort of Indiana who to

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the people bassing by, the Pinto spend as I'm as

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wishing paso watch the lizzes guys, and very rarely did

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the bresdas on the people bassing by. One day they

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were walking along the railroad check.

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The wish and looking.

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They never came back off across the alley from the

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island move and the somber desires to settle loo A

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flying sings and indeed hardey to the people passing by

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across the alley from the alaba.

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If the bindor.

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Who used to make ferolis in gorn door for the

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people passing by, they thought that they would make some

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easy bucks by watching their friol is indoors and lucks

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a pair of very concientious clerks to.

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The people passing by.

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Then they took their cheap vacation.

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The shoes were polished by though they never heard the

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whistle they're clear out inside across the alley from the Alabo.

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When the starlight means it's tender glue, the means go

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to sleep and innu for.

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The people passing by.

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The way walking along the railroad track, there was visual

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looking June, They're never gain back across.

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The alley from the Alamo when.

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The summers undesigned to settle. The fly scenes an Indian

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Lady to the people passing by across the alley.

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From the Alum.

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Across the alley from the Alamo by the Mills Brothers,

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the quartet's most popular late forties release, reached number two

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on the National Jukebox Charts, recorded on Decora Records in

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nineteen forty seven. Now that you hopefully get the process,

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let's take another spin. Okay, here we go down the

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list two, number three, one, four, three, fourteen.

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Anything out, Don't.

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That was Smoke Rings Glenn Gray and the cast Looma Orchestra,

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recorded in Hollywood on July the twenty third, nineteen thirty

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seven on Decca Records. This tune was the radio theme

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song for the Castaloma Orchestra, and it's regarded by many

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as one of the smoothest and most beautiful ballads recorded

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during the Big Band era, and it landed as number

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three fourteen fourteen on the Ralfie from Canarsi Record Club list.

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Another spin now for your enjoyment, and we go back

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up the list to number one forty three, one four

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to three for this hit nineteen forties tune and.

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The movie A moving.

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Don't Don't Not an.

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Artie Shaw and his Grammar C five the December fifth,

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nineteen forty recording of My Blue Heaven on Victor Records,

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and folks, I'm Jeff Wrestler and you're listening to the one,

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the only, the original make believe ballroom broadcasting minus a

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few years here and there since February of nineteen thirty five,

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and we are randomly listening to selections from the Ralphie

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Record Club list. So let's spin away and we land

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on down the list, number five seventeen, number five seventeen

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a tune you may be hearing for the very first

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time name that was Swinging at the Chat and Chew

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by the original Yellow Jackets on Vocalian Records, recorded and

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to my knowledge, one of the only songs during the

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Big Band era to be recorded in Hot Springs Aukansas

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on March the fifth, nineteen thirty seven, and it certainly

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made sense. The Yellowjackets were a territorial band out of

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Little Rock number five seventeen on the Ralphie Record Club

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List Our Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club List Marathon. Now

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continue use as I spin again and come up with

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the number number one two eight.

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Oh you take the high road.

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I'll take the long road.

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But I'll be in Scotland, a fire for me and

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my true love may never meet again on the bonny

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bonny banks of lot Lormans by Bonnie Banks and.

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By young Bonnie Brays, where the sun shines.

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Right on lot Lorman, where me and my true low wever.

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Want to games on the bonny bonny ban Go lot

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load o Oman.

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Now you take the high road.

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I'll take the low road.

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I'll be in Scotland, a fire for me and my

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true love may never meet again on the bunny.

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Bonny banks of light Loman.

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Well there that we parted in yon Shady Glands, on

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the Steege Steve side of ben Lorma, wherey.

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For you the Highland he'll be view and the sign covenn.

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No Mobby is Gallenmya Lommy and Tu long Manever mead again.

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On the Bunny Bay, on the body Bunny Bane, on

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the Bonnybody Bane long.

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Load lock Lo.

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From Victor Records, Loch Lomand by Benny Goodman and his

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orchestra vocal by Martha Tilton, recorded in New York City,

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November the twelfth, nineteen thirty seven and landing at number

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one two eight and folks another virtual spin to obtain

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the random bird needed to play our next Ralphie from

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Canarsi Record Club List song and do we go way

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down the list to number seven hundred and forty five.

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I want to tell you a story from way back.

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The truck on down and nig me Jack. That's big

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mottle mood mo at.

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No Mo, look at brother, look at brother, look at brother.

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In more.

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Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, mama.

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Who's the greatest band round makes the cats jump up

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and down? Who's the talk of rhythm town?

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Five guys named Mo.

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

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tell me who do critics rape about it?

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Five guy's name Mos.

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

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They're red high and you'll know why when you hear

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them swim high Brown, little Brown all agreed, they're the

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

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Five guy's Name Mos.

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Had th handy looking anything, They had anything.

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Everything very.

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

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Three guys Bid Move, Old Guys No Move, five guys

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Eat Move, five Little Guy Name Mo.

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Five Guys Named Mo by Louis Jordan and his Timpany

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five vocal by Louis Jordan and Ensemble, recorded for Decca

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Records back in nineteen forty two. Nice song but sitting

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seven hundred and forty fifth on the Ralfie from KNARSI

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Record club list. And you know, five Guys Name Mo

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might sound familiar to you, And here's why. There was

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a musical production featuring the songs of Louis Jordan that

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was a hit in both London and New York on

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Broadway in the early nineteen nineties, and the title of

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that show was five Guys Guys Named Mo. Also, that

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song was written five Guys Name Mo by Jerry Bresler

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and Larry Winn Bresler, same name as mine, but with

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only one s like in bresler ice Cream, is there

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still a Bresler's ice cream? I'm not sure if you

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have a Bresler's ice Cream near you, especially out in

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the Midwest.

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I'd like to know.

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Jeff of Mcbullyballroomradio dot com. Jeff at Mcbullyballroomradio dot com.

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So let's take a quick break from the Ralfie from

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Canarsi Record Club list, which I hope you are enjoying.

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I certainly am, and as I said earlier that list

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today will be sharing the bill with the requests from

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our listeners. And our next request is from Norby Hill

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who lives in Richmond, Virginia. Norby Wrights. Hi, Jeff love

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to make Bully Ballroom. Thank you very much, look forward

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to hearing the program each Saturday. I attended Washington and

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Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Here is a fact that

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many of your listeners may not know. The Washington and

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Lee Swing is the official fight song of the university.

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It's also used as the primary school song by other

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universities and high schools, and is frequently heard during college

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football games. Many big bands recorded the song, including Glenn Miller,

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Can you play the hal Kemp version. I'm sure your

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listeners will say, I didn't know this song was recorded

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by big bands. Thanks in advance, Norby Hill, and now

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here on the Make Believe Ballroom for you, Norby, I

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was Hell Camp and his orchestra the Washington and Lee Swaying,

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recorded on December the fourteenth, nineteen thirty four. And thank

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you very much Norby Hill for suggesting we play a

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recognizable college fight song that so many big bands actually recorded.

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And now friends, before we go back to Ralphie's list,

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a reminder that past programs in this series can be

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heard in podcast form. After all of our affiliates have

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played the radio version, we then put that broadcast into

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podcast form. You can hear many many past shows by

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visiting your favorite podcast provider iHeartRadio, Apple, Spotify, perhaps tune in.

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We are on over twenty podcast platforms, so you could

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simply go to Make Belie Ballroom podcast dot com. That's

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Makebelie Ballroom Podcast dot com to hear past shows in

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this series. And now folks, time to spa in the

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wheel to come up with our next Ralphie's Record Club

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selection and it is number Wow. The furthest we have

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gone down the list today, number six hundred and twenty.

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But friends don't despair because the recording artist is a legend.

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We had to have something new, but has to drew

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up here in Harlem.

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So it at once start troubling. As soon as the news.

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Got around, the folks downtown came up to Harlem, saw

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everybody truckled him getting big law. It's balls High Avenue,

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and its Park Avenue, and it all over town.

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You see them troubling, troubling, froking dog.

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It's read like a boris place. Who became a phraise

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that's to Halem. Now everybody's trucking. Chuck it on out

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