Feb. 27, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 2/27/26 Edition

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On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a look at a musical couple married for over 50 years, a famous brother from a comedy team who raised the baton on his own band, a musician and arranger talked out of law school, and more records and reminiscences from the golden age of the American songbook.

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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 Belief.

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Ballom time and free to everyone.

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It's no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said bombs, Close your eyes and visual.

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Lize in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this stance and.

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Mister Miller, but you in the wood. It's make Believe

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Ballom time. We are a sweet romance.

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As you make me.

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Come on, gentlemen, last das.

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

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of the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into my

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Crystal studio for another program of classic big band hits

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from the nineteen thirties and forties. Please get ready as

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I play for you some amazing jazz, swing, blues, and

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

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broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five, and you'll welcome

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one and all into the Crystal Studio. Thanks for joining

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me today. When do we get started? With something sweet

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as chocolate?

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At this?

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Don't do.

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You think you think?

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At from the Colombia label, we just heard I Never

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Knew by the Chocolate Dandies, directed by Benny Carter, recorded

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in New York City, October tenth, nineteen thirty three. And

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what a sweet group they were. In this iteration of

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the Dandies, you had, among others, Sidney Catlett playing the drums,

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Teddy Wilson on the piano, jew Berry the tenor sax,

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Max Kominski playing the trumpet, and Benny Carter himself doing

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double duty playing the trumpet and the alto saxophone. What

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a band they were, So I never knew? Was recorded

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on October tenth, nineteen thirty three. On December the twentieth,

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nineteen thirty three, this tune was recorded in the Columbia

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Study videos in New York City.

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Lap Go and get Her Leap warby his song just

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Down Regular be On Sonny inside of the Sweet can't

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you hear the bit of bed Babe happy to the.

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Lam can Bus, We own Sunny sign Up, The street

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goes and you ball in.

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With those blue son paray O baby and I'm manna

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rain go over men, blast over.

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If I have ever sen outreach Froggy Fellow Baby.

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Came on.

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That was Chick Web and his Savoy Orchestra with Sunny

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Side of the Street from Columbia Records. So I never

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knew by the Chocolate Dandy and Sunnyside of the Street

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by Chick Web were actually combined as the A and

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B sides of a Columbia record that was released in

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early nineteen thirty five. It was kind of unique, two

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great bands, Chocolate Dandies on the A side and Chick

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Web on the B side, although it was not totally

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rare but also not that common for two bands to

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appear separately on the A and B sides of the

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same seventy eight RPM record.

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S con.

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We just heard.

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Mexican American bandleader Clyde Lucas Ennis California Dons playing Cotton

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Pickers Congregation recorded in nineteen thirty eight, And I don't

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remember this song that sounds like it has Southern roots

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was actually British in origin, I think, and I'm trying

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to recall now was either Sid Phillips or Ambrose that

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first released that tune Across the Pond. And you know

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in live radio where mistakes do happen with announcers, there

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was one classic slip up for the Ages that involved

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Clyde the California Dons frequently appeared on radio programs throughout

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the thirties, and one misspoken announcer once said, and folks,

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this is a true story. You're listening to the mucus

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of Clyde Lucas.

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He met her.

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Gal in Calicat down inside of fame. He used to

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be her Sunday boat till.

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He rode away?

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Does he water?

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Does he water? Love?

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Yes?

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Sirree? Will he win her? Will he win her? Love?

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Wait and see?

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Walking with the road day.

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Goes from town to town, sees amost every kind of

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gal in every.

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Kind of goal.

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But who makes his heart sing?

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Here be I?

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If you be old? The Little Gal and cal and

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a gold.

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From Columbia records A Gal in Calico Benny Goodman and

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his Orchestra Vocal by Eve Young, recorded October the twenty second,

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nineteen forty six.

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Eve Young.

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If you're not familiar with her, she sang for about

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a year with Benny Goodman in parts of nineteen forty

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six and forty seven. Then she married a record producer

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in nineteen fifty fifty two by the name of Jack Police,

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and then she mysteriously after she got married, changed her

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name to Karen Chandler for unknown reasons and began to

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record as a soloist. Certainly not of the caliber of

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Helen Ward, Peggy Lee or Martha Tilton passed Benny vocalists,

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but still a very pleasant voice. Eve Young aka Karen Chandler.

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Here on the one, the only, the original Make Believe

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ball Room. Let me play one more for you, my

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fine listeners, than a famous comic brother grabs the baton.

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I earlier played Sunny Side of the Street. Now we

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moved to Blue Skies from Decker Records, the Irving Berlin standard.

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Here performed admirably by one of the true forefathers of

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the electric guitar, Les Paul. Les Paul and his Trio

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recorded in Los Angeles, December fourteenth, nineteen forty four. Les

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Paul for many years married to Mary Ford, the singer,

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and some old timers out there listening to the Ballroom

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today perhaps remember from days gone by on many TV

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programs and variety shows, sing Les Paul and Mary Ford

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perform from the big console in the crystal studio. You're

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listening to the Make Believe Ballroom, and thanks so much

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for taking the time today to tune in and listen

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to some great music from the nineteen thirties and forties.

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And I'd mentioned before Les Paul that I was going

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to talk about a comic brother, a legend who picked

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up a baton.

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To lead a band.

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He was one Chico Marx of Marx Brothers Fame, the

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pre eminent comic trio in my mind, at least of

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all time. Their movies were hysterical, Duck Soup Night at

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the Opera, Let's see Horse feathers, go on and on.

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So the question is, how did Chico Marx, with all

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his fame, end up in the nineteen forties leading a band. Well,

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it was pretty plain and simple. Chico gambled like such

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a lunatic. The consequences were all too tragically clear, and

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he needed constant additional revenue streams to live on and

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defeat his gambling addiction. And by the early nineteen forties,

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at a time when his brothers were all rich enough

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to retire to their mansions with their beloved ones, Chico

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could still be found playing cards in the same dingy

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card rooms that he went to when he first began

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a career in the entertainment industry in California many years

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before that the Marx Brothers moving from the vaudeville stage

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in New York to the motion picture industry in California.

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So it was pretty much a tragic kind of scenario

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for Chico. And you know, as just as a quick aside,

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because I know the story as an ultimate act, I

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guess of what you would call brotherly love. The Marx

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Brothers returned to the screen for the sake of Chico

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and what would become their second to last movie outing together.

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That film was entitled A Night in Casablanca. Shortly after

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that movie, Chico was put on an allowance by a

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groucho and harpo, which he stayed on until his death.

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So to wrap up Chico's woes, he had a concert

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attempt to find other areas of revenue to stay afloat,

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he briefly did a TV show in the early fifties

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musical comedy. Was pretty bad. You could still watch that

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on YouTube. And in nineteen forty two he started his

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own band. Go back to forty two. He started his

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own band. Chico, of course an outstanding pianist. He had

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the knowledge of music to pull it off to have

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his own orchestra. So the Chico Marks band was formed

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and very well received. It was actually in reviews more

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like a vaudeville show which mixed music with comedy. Now

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it said that Chico Marx, a terrible gambler, happened to

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be a magnificent judge of musical talent. So let's listen

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to this remote broadcast by Chico and the Orchestra, and

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you'll hear the name of a vocalist he helped discover

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one of the greatest of all time.

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You know, I suggest one that features the latest Chico

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Marx discovery. He's a composer, musician, singer, arranger, radio actor,

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always a lot of things. Very young fellow too, only

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seventeen years old. Meltarney, and he's going to sing one

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of those arrangements for which Chico Marx is so famous,

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This one in title Abraham.

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Adan Februe wearing March tiny baby.

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Boy was born.

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Farm Overhebraham. When he grew up this kinsh being, the

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folks off called him honesty.

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By wait wait, wait, how.

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He really came off?

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In eighteen sixty he became our sixteenth president and now

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he's in the Hall of Fame.

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Almost respected you, and that is why we so breed

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this blood, said February.

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Hebrahm May.

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Now when someone told him General.

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Brant was drinking of him n he answered, pressing.

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If you can't get on my general side, and that

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is why we celebreed this blessed.

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February hebra.

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From a broadcasts of a radio program named band Wagon.

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On December the twentieth, nineteen forty two, Chico Marx and

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his orchestra with the then seventeen year old mel tour

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May singing Abraham.

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Onnday Tuesday, I'll get busy Tuesday, breathy.

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You give me me breezy for the kiss some morning.

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Let's start coming higher by by, let's.

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Get lining the sixty husby wet sixty seventies.

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My heart on.

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Numbers.

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Going song is.

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Fun rowing and.

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We'll have fun Saturday. I see, oh my bad, I say,

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ninety eight is.

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Fine, ninety tenzy style against me?

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What did you say?

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I love us?

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And will did you see? I get us? Tuesday? Breezy,

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you get easy three.

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Dorsy kiss some Morsey.

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Web start counting high you hosy five day, Let's get

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lives fiveday six day, hot meat quickly sixty seventy distance heavenly.

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My hearts on applying.

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The numbers going until a long and no lom. We'll

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keep on going and we'll.

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Have lots of bonsie mans.

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I see You're my Dainty eighteen ninety, Katine ninety Tansy start.

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Aginsy On Dosy, I Love Music.

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Seventy I s You're.

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My Bacy eighteen ninety eighty nine ten Start Again Bonsie.

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Two from Columbia Records. Onesie Twosie by Kay Kaiser and

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his orchestra vocal by the Moonbeams, recorded February the fifteenth,

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nineteen forty six. Let's Spend Another then a husband and

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wife who went their own career paths and music, but

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teamed together again to star in one of the greatest

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comedy radio shows of the era.

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Isn't this a lovely day to be caught in the rail?

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You were going on your way. Now you've got to remain.

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Just as you were going, be reworded.

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The clouds broke, they broke an all one pray for me.

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I can see the sun of high though we're carved

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in a storm. I can see where you and I

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would be coldy and warm.

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Let the rains in a paddle, but It really doesn't

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matter if the sky or rain, long as I can

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be with you.

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It's a Lovely Day.

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From Bluebird Records. Isn't It a Lovely Day? Written by

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Irving Berlin by Frank Daly and his meadow Brook Orchestra

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vocal by Howard Dulaney, recorded in New York, York City,

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July the eighteenth, nineteen thirty five. You know, Frank Daily

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had a decent band, but he was better remembered as

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the proprietor of the iconic Meadowbrook Ballroom. Frank Daily's Meadowbrook

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really became a household name as a dance hall in

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the nineteen thirty six for its remote radio broadcasts that

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announced famously and now from Frank Daily's Meadowbrook on the

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Newark Pompton Turnpike in the heart of Cedar Grove, New Jersey,

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comes the music of and then the name of the

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band that was playing. And as some, well actually most

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of the most popular big bands of the era when

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in the New York, New Jersey metropolitan area all wanted

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to perform in the Meadowbrook. Frank Daily. I mentioned before

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Frank a husband and wife musical pair. So why don't

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we start with the female side.

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Swell of you reading me so kindly. Swell of you.

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I was heading blindly, then your smile showed me the

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way to love.

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Its swell of you, just to let me share the

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spell of you. Funny, what a pleasant word will do

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to bring out the blue up a bar. When I

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have you has an inspiration I'm sure to get by

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and an appreciation.

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I'd promise that I love you here until the day

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I died of you. While I live, my lips will

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tell of you just how grand you are, and that

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you be the one for me.

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You'll never know exactly what you've done for me, but

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it's all so probly mighty.

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Swell swell of you. Swell of you treating me so kindly.

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Swell of you. I was heating blindly in your.

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Smid showed me the way you It's swell of you

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just to let me share a spell of you.

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Funny, what a pleasant world will do to bring out

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the blue off the ball? When I have you has

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an in spray, I'm shoot you get by handing U.

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I promise that I love you dear until Monday, and.

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I will swell of you.

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While I leave.

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My lips will tell of you just how rand you are,

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and that you'll be the one for me. You'll never

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know exactly what you've done for me, but it's all

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so harfly mighty swell.

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It's swell of.

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You from Brunswick Records with cy Fure and his orchestra.

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We just heard from back in nineteen thirty seven, vocalist

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Alice Faye singing Swell of View. Alice Faye was, if

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you're not familiar with her, one of the most beloved

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vocalists and movie stars during the nineteen thirties and forties.

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Exclusively under contract to twentieth Century Fox. Alice was an

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extremely talented actress and singer, probably best known immortalized forever

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when she sang the song You'll Never Know, which became

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an ode to soldiers during World War Two. Literally every

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movie Alice ever made was financial gold for Fox. She

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starred or was a major feature in over thirty one

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fel folms in the nineteen thirties and early forties for

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Fox a money machine. Alice Fay effectively stopped making movies

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in nineteen forty five. Well that was due to a

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combination of frustration with the twentieth Century Fox studio politics

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really specifically having to do with her scenes being severely

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cut in a movie named Fallen Angels, and they were

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cut to promote the up and coming actress Linda Darnell.

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So Fallen Angels was Alice's last movie, and she wouldn't

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return to the screen until a few decades later to

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make one more film. In nineteen forty one, she married

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this gentleman, a man of fame and fortune himself.

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Now I'm a fellow with a heart of gold in

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the ways of a gentleman. I've been told the kind

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of a guy that wouldn't even arm of flee, but

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of me of a certain character. Met that guy that

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invented the cigarette, I'd murder that son of a gun

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in the first degree. Not because I don't smoke myself

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and I don't reckon they'll harm your health. I've smoked

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all my life and ain't dead yet. But nicotine slaves

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are all the same. At a pet and party or

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a poker game, everything misstop while they smoked that cigarette. Smoke, smoke,

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smoked that cigarette.

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Puh puh puff.

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And if you smoked yourself.

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To death, out Saint Peter at the Golden Gate that

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you hate to make him wait, but you've just got

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to have another cigarette.

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Smoke, smoke, smoke.

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In the game of chance the other night, old Dame

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Fortune was doing me right.

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The kings and queens just.

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Kept on coming round, coming around.

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I played him high, and I played him high, but

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my bluff didn't work on a certain guy. He kept

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on raising, laying that money down, laying it down. He'd

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raised me and I'd raised him. I sweated blood, got

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a singer swim. He finally called and didn't raise them that.

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I said, as smool pal, how about you, he said,

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I'll tell you in a minute or two. Right now,

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I've got to have a singer.

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Read dude, small smoke. Smoke that cigarette. If you smoke yourself.

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To death, tell Saint Peter at the Golden Gate that

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you hate to make him. Wait, but you've just got

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to have another cigaret Read.

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Small smop, small.

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Puff puff.

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The other night I had a date with the cutis

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Little Gallon forty eight States of high read up Town,

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fantsy A little day. She said, you loved me, and

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it seemed to me that things were about like they

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ought to be, so hand in hand we strolled out

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of Lovers Lane. She was oh, so far from the

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cake of I start smooching.

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Party was going nice.

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So healthy, and I i'd been there yet. I might

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have been there yet, but I give her a kiss

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and a little squeeze, and she said, Phil, excuse me, please,

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but I've got to have another cigarette, another cigarette, small

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smoke smoke pet cigarette. Pu puh puh fan if you

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smoke yourself to death out Saint Peter at the Golden

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Gate that you hate to make him wait, but you've

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just got to have him No that singer smalk smok smog, Oh,

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Saint Peter. I sure hate to keep you hold of

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that gate open, but I just got to have another

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drag over this cigarette, this sorty thing.

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M m.

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M, Thank you, Peter, Thank you.

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On Victor Records, Smoke Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette by Phil Harrison,

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his orchestra vocal by Phil and the Sportsman, recorded back

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in nineteen four seven, a top ten hit record that year.

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Of course, back in forty seven. If you've ever seen

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any old ads, doctors and white coats, athletes, stars, all

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promoting the healthy benefits of cigarettes. Phil Harris was a

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bandleader who's greatest popularity arose when he joined the Jack

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Benny radio program back in nineteen thirty six is musical

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director and an on air foil to Jack who we

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call Jackson. In nineteen forty one, Phil married Alice Faye

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and they were married for an incredible God Bless him

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fifty four years. Then he and Alice starred in the

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Phil Harris Alice Face Show on the radio from nineteen

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forty eight to fifty four. Was a tremendous a funny show,

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a radio sitcom, and if you listen to any episodes

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and you can hear the entire series on archive dot org,

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I think you will agree with me that the show

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was really the blueprint for all TV sitcoms that would

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follow Phil Harris and Alice Faye. This is the make

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believe ballroom.

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Show them.

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From Victor Records. Swanee River, written of course by Stephen Forster,

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arranged here by Cy Oliver for Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra,

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Recorded in Hollywood on October sixteenth, nineteen forty so. Back

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in nineteen thirty nine year earlier, the multifaceted trumpeter, arranger, vocalist,

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composer Cy Oliver was ready to pack it in with

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the Jimmy Lunceford band in which he had worked well

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for almost all of the nineteen thirties. So Sy left

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Lunceford not because of any disagreement, but because he wanted

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to study law and become an attorney. However, Tommy Dorsey,

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both the driven bandleader and shrewd businessman, had his eye

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on Cy and wanted him very much in his orchestra

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to begin what Tommy at the time was considering an

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overhaul of his band, the Trombonis. Tommy Dorsey offered the

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multi talented psy Oliver five thousand dollars more a year

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than he was making with Lunz and according to Cy,

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his own response was the succinct word that word being sold.

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So he never received his law degree, but did receive

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honors as one of the greatest arrangers of all time.

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