Dec. 5, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 12/5/25 Edition

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On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom hosted by Jeff Bressler: the first time a specific instrument was used in a jazz recording, Jeff’s favorite crooners from the era, a most underrated big band song, plus many more stories and music from the 30s and 40s.
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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. It's

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no time to friend your Dalis said Bombas, close your

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eyes and visual lie in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this stance 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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Did you make it bottom? Come on, Jole, last.

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Dash, last, Hello world. I'm Jeff Presler, turning on the

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lights to the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into

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my Crystal studio for yet another program of classic big

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band jazz from the nineteen thirties and forties. Please get

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ready as I play for you some amazing swing, blues,

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

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Make Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. Hi, folks,

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thanks again for joining me today in the Crystal Studio.

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You know, jazz and rhythm is our business here on

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the Make Believe Ballroom, so why not a song with

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the most appropriate title.

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The st.

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Rhythm is all business.

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Rhythm is what we selling. Rhythm is our business. Business

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show as well.

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Now if you feel rhythms, what you need, If you

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got rhythm, you show to succeed. Rhythm is all business,

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business show as well. He's the drummer man in the band.

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In the band crawl beats on them drums in the.

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Band already does tricks with sticks. Boys in the band

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all play hot legs. He plays saxophone in the band.

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In the shoe, plays the saxophone in the band. Already

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goes up that scales.

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He didn't fuck do that?

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Do that?

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Molese plays on the base in the van. Moles plays

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on that base in the van.

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Now when he.

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Picks all those strings, happleness you he brings. He blows

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on the trumpet in the man in the Steve.

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Blows all that trumpet in the band. Oh he's a guy.

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It's a mine.

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Makes you think he's in the sky. Al Rhythm is

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our business.

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From Decca Records. That was Rhythm is our business. The

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Wonderful Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra with vocal by Willie Smith,

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recorded in New York City, December the eighteenth, nineteen thirty four.

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Let me play one more to keep the rhythm at

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a maximum pitch.

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And listening happen if you didn't in.

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The Via Deco records, It's time to jump and shout.

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Jan Savatt and his Orchestra, recorded in New York City,

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February the fourth, nineteen forty I'm Jeff Bresler, and you're

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listening to the one, the only, the original Make Believe

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ballroom broadcasting today as every week from the famed Crystal Studio.

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Let's hear one. Now, let's see what segment will do. Well.

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Let's hear one from the Johnny Gwanieri Trio. Then, a

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record that made recording history.

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Do you bring me by living the blame the way.

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From the late Great Savoy Records that whole black magic

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Johnny Guanieri Trio recorded in New York City back in

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nineteen forty four. Johnny Guanieri one of the titans of

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the jazz piano of the thirties and forties. Now, with

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all the accolades that were bestowed upon Johnny him being

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one of the most versatile, swingingest pianists of the era.

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Also well known as one of the stars of the

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small group era, he Johnny holds a unique distinction of

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being the first to ever be heard playing a certain

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instrument on a jazz recording and a famous song at

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that Let's listen to try to decide what instrument played

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by Johnny Guanieri earned him that honor.

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Done the.

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Door and.

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I we just heard on Columbia Records the iconic and

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beloved Summit Ridge Drive Artie Shaw and his Grammarcy five

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recorded in New York City September the second, nineteen forty

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and Johnny Gwanieri's harpsichord playing on that record was groundbreaking,

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historic and easily identifiable. This recording, the recording of Summit

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Ridge Drive We just heard, made Johnny Gwanieri one of

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the very few jazz musicians ever known for bringing the

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harpsichord into swaying another record, friends, then a listener's email.

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You're listening to the weekly edition of the Make Believe Ballroom.

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You must have been a beautiful baby.

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You must have been a wonderful.

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Child when you were only starting to go to kindergarten.

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I bet you drove the little girl's.

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While, and when it came to winning Blue.

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Rhythm, I bet you showed the other kids how I

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can see the.

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Judge's eyes as he handed you the pipe.

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I bet you made the cutest by Oh, you must

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have been the beautiful baby boy, cause baby look as you.

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Know the father.

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Recorded by Victor Records. You must have been a beautiful baby.

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Tommy Dorsey and his clam Bake seven vocal by Edith Wright,

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recorded in New York City, September the twenty ninth, nineteen

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thirty eight. So I backed up the Gramercy five and

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Summit Hill Drive with another small group band within a band,

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that being the clam Bake seven. So I am now

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I'm going to make an executive decision and when I

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insert music into the program between stories or emails today,

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it will be music featuring small group recordings. I got

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an email this week. Let me just pull it up

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on the screen here I will paraphrase from it. It

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came from one Andrew Leebowitz, who purported to be a

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great great cousin of the late Steve Lawrence of Steve

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Lawrence and Edie Gore may Fame. And Andy asked me

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if I could devote a segment to some of my

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favorite male Ballard singers and their songs from the era.

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And Andy, I'm most happy to do that for you,

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perhaps not an entire segment, maybe a couple of records,

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and two came to my mind, not just for the vocalists,

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but also equally for the songs they sung. And then

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in playing those songs preparing for the segment, I realized,

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perhaps subconsciously, that they were both songs that appeared in

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a movie that was one of my favorites of all time.

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The songs were not sung by the two crooners I

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admire in that movie, but the songs were used. Let

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me play those two tunes for you, then I'll tell

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you about the movie and its setting.

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Easy Come, Easy Go. That's the way. If love must

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have its day, then as it came, let it go. Oh,

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no remorse, no regret. We should call exactly as.

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A met just easy.

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Calm, easy go. We never dreamt com Amankee, Dames ug

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Now that it ends, Let's be friends and not too

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strange ers.

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Easy come, easy go.

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Here we are so darling or a war. It's easy calm,

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easy goal.

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On Decca Records. Easy Come, Easy Go Loose Stone and

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his Band vocal by the legendary Al Boley, recorded in London, England,

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June the twenty fifth nineteen thirty four. Alboley one of

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my favorite crooners of the era, who was most well

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known for his work with Ray Noble, and who tragically

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died on April seventeenth, nineteen forty one, during the London Blitz,

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when a German parachute mine exploded right outside of his home.

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Al had just returned from a performance and was extremely tired,

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and he chose to sleep at home instead of heeding

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the warnings of the air raid sirens asking him to

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go to a shelter. So tragically, the blast shattered the

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building that De Boli lived in, and Al was killed

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instantly by the force of that explosion. His death was

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not only tragic, but it hit the British population especially hard,

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and that Al's passing became one of the most poignant

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wartime losses to the British people, uncertainly to British music.

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Al Bowley, my second most beloved ballad during the era,

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was sung by my favorite crooner of all time.

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And then she holds my hand, and then I understand.

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Ah with one desire and a heavenly kiss God a

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resons and then she did the lid ladadid not on.

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A all.

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And then she holds me time Lady not on at all,

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her kids eats fun press. They lead the way to happiness.

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She takes me.

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To power.

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Rad and then she did the last Lada did not know.

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And then she hauls me tis per kiss each fun careers.

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They lead the way to having a She takes me.

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To Bad.

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On the Brunswick Label Paradise Bing Crosby and the Brunswick

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Studio Orchestra, recorded in New York City, March the fifteenth,

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nineteen thirty two. Bing Crosby my favorite crooner of the ages,

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and many of you know this. We play quite a

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bit of Bing Crosby music on this program. Being my

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favorite crooner and one of my favorite movies of all

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time that these two songs I just play appeared in,

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as well as a number of other era classics that

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also were in the film. The movie was They Shoot Horses,

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Don't They So? Rather depressing movie that had the setting

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of the Great Depression right right in the heart of

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the Great Depression, and the film which I think was

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made probably probably in sixty eight or is sixty nine,

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But the film followed a group of desperate contestants who

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entered a NonStop dance marathon, hoping to win a cash

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prize that might save them from poverty. Jane Fonda, she

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starred in the movie, and she played a tough and

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tough and cynical young woman, and she was paired with

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as her dance partner in the film. I think it

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was the actor Michael Sarazon. Red Buttons and Gig Young

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were also wonderful in that film, but Sarazon played a

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down and out drifter who paired with Jane to compete

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in the dance marathon. And as the marathon stretched on

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for days and then weeks, it gets really depressing the movie,

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as exhaustion, manipulation, and emotional breakdowns turned the contest into

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nothing short of a cruel spectacle. The film, though, was

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my mind, a true study of human endurance, despair, and

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the extremes people would reach out to when all hope

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ran out. So the two songs I played, as well

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as a wide array of era tunes played by a

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band while the contestants danced, some slow tunes, some upbeat tunes.

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I certainly encourage you to watch the film for its message,

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but also how expertly I think it was a Sydney

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Pollock film of how expertly. He totally captured the flavor

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of the era. And if you love the nineteen thirties

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and forties and live through it, or like me, got

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to know it so well, especially through the music, you're

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going to feel like you're sitting in the audience viewing

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these contestants. They shoot horses, don't They Easy to find

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on your favorite streaming movie platform or Google it. It

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might even be on YouTube. I'm not one hundred percent sure.

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What I am sure of, though, is that dance marathons

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were certainly real, and during the nineteen thirties, dance marathons were,

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as in they shoot horses, don't they? A strange a

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mixture of entertainment and endurance. Couples danced for days and

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sometimes weeks at a time, hoping to win a cash

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prize during the worst years of the depression. Now audiences

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they paid to watch the exhaustion, the drama, and the

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human struggles unfold on the ballroom floor. Promoters kept contestants moving,

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with only brief rest breaks, turning they desperation. Increasing desperation

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is the day's war on into a spectacle for the audience.

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For many, dance marathons or less about glamour and more

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more about survival. And it was a grueling sign these

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actual dance marathons of just how hard times had become

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during the depression. Now, in many actual nineteen thirties dance marathons,

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the most dreaded moment was an event called a derby,

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which is also depicted and they shoot horses, don't they.

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The derby was a brutal elimination round where exhausted couples

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were forced to run laps around the dance floor, and

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they had to continue to make contact with their partner

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as they moved fast and stayed upright, with the weakest

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at one or two teams eliminated at the end. So

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let me play an example of a tune a popular

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in the thirties, a Louis Armstrong tune that would have

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fit perfectly into the derby.

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Five ye, and then come about saying.

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Mister, I'm Brunswick Records Super Tiger Rag Louis Armstrong and

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his Orchestra, recorded in nineteen thirty four. So a little,

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maybe a little too much about my favorite crooners of

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the thirties, one of my favorite movies, and some information

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on dance marathons. Actual dance marathons, all evolving out of

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an email sent to me by one Andrew Leave aware.

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That's bad, I got.

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Anything. I don't see.

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Okay, that's a stub about the subtle.

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And keeping with our small group within a big band theme.

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Bob Crosby and his Bobcats recorded in New York City

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January the twenty third, nineteen thirty nine. And now why

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don't I go to another email I received from a

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listener once again, Jeff at Makebelie Ballroomradio dot com. Jeff

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at Makebelie Ballroomradio dot com to reach me here in

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the Crystal studio. This email reads, Hi, Jeff, just wanted

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to let you know how much I enjoy your show,

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especially the background anecdotes. I grew up in Elmira, New York,

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and went to college at the University of Rochester, but

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live in Hawaii now, and surprisingly, as it may seem

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to you, I'm not returning with not in capitals. My

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other comment is that it seems I rarely hear Dinah

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Shore on yours or any of the other swing radio

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programs and stations. I understand she was the top charting

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female vocalist all through the forties. Beyond that, I'm a

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fan because she was one of the nicest people in

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the business, rare for a celebrity. I think nobody could

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do a ballad like she could. Like these examples. He

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gives me a few examples of Dinah Shore records. Then

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he goes on, thanks for all your efforts. Regards Rich amateur,

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Thanks Rich, And there is an interesting connection between this

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very Make Believe Ballroom and Dinah Shore, since you like

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the show's stories. It's said that Martin Block, the original

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host of the New York version of The Make Believe

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Ballroom that started in nineteen thirty five, was a huge

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Dinah Shore fan, and her deco recordings became one of

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the signature voices to be heard on this very program.

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Albeit in the nineteen forties, Martin Block's frequent airplay helped

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turn Dinah from a rising radio and record vocalist into

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one of America's most beloved stars. Martin made her a

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constant presence on The Ballroom's rotating recording list. Why don't

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we listen to one just at a time, Not on

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Decco records, but on Victor Records, Just at a time

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when Dinah was starting to establish herself as a vocal star.

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They asked me how I knew my true load was?

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Of course, replied something here inside can didn't? They said,

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some day you'll find all load our blood when your

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heart so you most realize. Smokekets in your So I

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chid them as gaily land to think they could die.

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My love.

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Yet today my love has blown away.

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Come with.

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My love.

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My laughing friends ride teas I cannot hae, so I

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smile and say, well.

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Lovely flame dies smoke cats in New York. So I

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chant them all like gaily to think that they could

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doubt my love. Yeah, today even my love has blown away,

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and without my love, my love, no.

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Laughing friends deride tease.

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I cannot so smile and side when lovely flamder smoke

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its in New York.

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From Victor Records. Smoke Gets in your eyes Paul Weston

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and his Orchestra vocal by Dinah Shore, recorded in New

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York City, June the twenty fifth, nineteen forty And thank you,

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Rick for your email and my pleasure to play some

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early Dinah Shore for you today here on the Make

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Believe Ballroom. Let's see I think I have time for

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one more email, always time for our good friend Joel

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out of Dallas. He writes, Dear Jeff, you have a

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birthday coming up next week, and I won't mention the

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day in case you want to keep it secret. But

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you let it slip last year, and that was a

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shame on me. And I'll explain that in a minute.

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And I made a note of it so that I

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could make this request in honor of your birthday, please

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play a recording that you especially like that doesn't get

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played as much as you think it deserves. Wishing you

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a happy birthday and many happy returns of the day,

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yours faithfully, and that's signed by Joel. Thank you so much, Joel.

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You know it's strange I don't really mention any current

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events in my life or in what's happening around us

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in the world. The Make Bullieve Ballroom is what is

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known as an evergreen show, meaning we are on a

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multitude of public and community radio stations across the country

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and also on podcasts that play the Ballroom at different

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times and different days of the week. Most of our stations, though,

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play the program the week I record it. On others,

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it could take a month on other stations before it

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hits the air. So an evergreen program is a perpetual

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And you know, the really creepy thing is someone right

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now maybe listening to this show in the year twenty

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one thirty seven. Who knows. So I keep it as

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generic as possible. And if you are listening to the

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Make Believe Ballroom, this very broadcast in twenty one thirty seven,

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please excuse me if I don't acknowledge your email. I

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think I'll be busy somewhere else now, Joel, on the

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question of a record that I liked that doesn't get

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played a lot, I would have to apologize for not

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playing this song more. It was, in my estimation probably

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i'd say, one of the top five most underrated songs

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of the Big band era, maybe the top underrated song.

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It was titled Benny Rides Again, recorded by the Benny

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Goodman Orchestra on January the fifteenth, nineteen forty one. Now

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this was not just a record. I think it stands

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as one of the most forward thinking swing arrangements of

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the early nineteen forties. It was written and arranged by

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the great Eddie Souder. It's actually well, it's actually more

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of a show piece, a jay's concert piece than a

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swing record word, so why don't we have a listening?

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But then.

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Benny Goodman, Benny rides again, and Joel, I hope you

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will agree with me that this wonderful piece was one

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of the most underrated songs of the big band era.

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And shame on me much too lightly played here on

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the Make Believe Ballroom. And also shame on me because

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the clock snuck up on me. We have run out

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of time and I have to say goodbye. To reach

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me Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff

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at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. And to hear past

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programs in the series, just go to make Believe Ballroom

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dot com, Bellie Ballroom dot com. So friends, until next week.

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This has been Jeff Wresler