March 14, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/14/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/14/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 3/14/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 3/14/25 Edition

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a little known bandleader with a famous wife, a big band baseball...

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On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom –a little known bandleader with a famous wife, a big band baseball fanatic, Lenny from Down the Blocks Record Pick of the Week, listeners emails - this and many more great records to enjoy on the show.

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Time.

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It's make believe ballroom time. Put all your cares away.

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

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

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no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said Bamba.

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Yours.

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Close your eyes and visual lie in your solitude. Your

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favorite bands are on List Dance and Mister Miller.

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But you're in the mood.

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It's make believe ballroom time.

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We are of sweet romance.

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As you make it.

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Come on, Joe.

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Last, Dast Last, Hello world.

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I'm Jeff Presler, turning on the lights of the Make

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Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal studio for

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another program of the great big band hits of the

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nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether you're listening on the

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radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point one WGMC

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in Rochester, New York, or on podcast, or maybe on

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internet radio being beamed across the United Kingdom, I'm delighted

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to bring you an hour of some wonderful big band jazz, swing,

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blues and boogie woogie classics. Folks, you're listening to the

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Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen hundred and

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thirty five, and welcome back, friends to another week of

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the Ballroom. I always enjoy playing records we have played

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before on the show, records like this.

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Swing mister Charlie. Oh swing, mister Charlie.

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Each time you do it, you add something to with

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if Sweeten.

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Is lotty all, keep the heating in Lotty all.

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When you bon't join them once on one, I'll be

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bouncing into paradisemal.

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Swing mister Charlie. Oh swing mister Charlie. Please let me

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swing it with you. Do what you've done before. Later

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on you can tell me more.

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Swing mister Charlie.

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Swing out, swing out, swing out, Swing out, Charlie. Swing

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mister Trumper, swing at pan all swaying, mister jombone, swaying, everybody.

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Swaying six six six six six.

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We just listened to on Columbia Records, Swing Mister Charlie

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by Herbie K and his orchestra vocal by the Three Ks,

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recorded in Chicago, February the twenty fourth, nineteen thirty six,

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and no, Folks, Herbie Kay was not related to the

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swing and sway of Sammy K.

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But he did.

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Herbie K did have a famous wife who sang with

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his orchestra for a few years. Herbie k was for

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the most part, the leader of a Midwest band who

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played out of Chicago. The band eventually went up and

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down the coast of California for a while. Herbie gained

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some national recognition when his orchestra was heard on the

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radio frequently from a really true big band mecca of

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the big band era, that being the famed Blackhawk Restaurant

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in Chicago. Now, Herbie hired a vocalist in nineteen thirty two,

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and he eventually married her in nineteen thirty five, and

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just one year later, in nineteen thirty six, she decided

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to move to Hollywood to pursue a film career, and

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her marriage to Ka ended in nineteen thirty nine. And

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I would assume that when she decided to go to Hollywood,

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Herbie wanted to keep an eye on her, and that's

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why his band did a California swing for a while,

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also recorded some records out there. And I'm going to

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play now a record from Herbie Kay and his orchestra

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in which she sang. I'm going to give you an

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easy clue to try to figure out who she was,

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and the clue is she went on to achieve fame

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and fortune in Hollywood with the help of a Bing

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Crosbie and Bob Hope. So can you name her? Well, first,

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let's hear her and I'll give you the answer at

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the end of the record.

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Goodness racious, this little lady standing right before my Heaven

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only knows. And these funny clothes you're so hard to

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ragg No dressed up in a gown that trails on

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the floor, in a picture that your mummy wools, living

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in a wood that you never saw, My little lady

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in make releve? What a pair of shoes for two

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tiny feet? And what a pair of gloves? Why the

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fingers don't mean posing in a glass? It's your joy

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is don't cleanse my little lady in maid. Believe in

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your tiny arm. Use the doll you unfold means the

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world and all to you. But you could never love

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the doll that you hold half as much as I long.

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Mom is Bell, dream your little dreams and may they

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come true. May the coming years bring happiness to all

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My future dreams are wrapped up in you, my little lady,

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May be dream your little dreams, and may they all

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come true. May the coming years bring joy and gladness

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to you.

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All.

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My future dreams are wrapped right in.

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My heart for you.

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My bye, Little Lady.

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May recorded on Columbia Records in nineteen thirty eight Herbie

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Kay and His Orchestra with Little Lady Make Believe vocal

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by the great Dorothy Lamore, who was catapulted to fame

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as she acted and sang in a number of Bing

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Crosby and Bob Hope Road series film musical comedies such

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as The Road to Singapore and six more after that.

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Dorothy Lamour who initially got her start on the road

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to fame, and that road to fame was not via

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a Crosby and Hope road picture, but rather by her

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chance to get her career started with Herbie Kay and

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His Orchestra. Now another question, but I'm not going to

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give you a clue. Who was the Big Band Era's

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greatest baseball fan? Who was the Big band eras greatest

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baseball fan. I'll discuss that shortly, but first this record.

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Another thing I have.

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Never folks.

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We just heard a swinging version of a beloved piece

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that goes all the way back to eighteen eighty two.

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I'm talking about Emil wall Tuffles skaters Walltz, and here

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today on DECA Records a piece titled skaters Waltz in

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Swing Time Bob Crosby and his orchestra, recorded in New

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York City, January the twenty third, nineteen thirty nine. So

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we mentioned Bing Crosby before, so I decided why not

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play a record by his brother, Bob skaters Waltz in

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Swing Time here on the one, the only, the original

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make believe ball rom And I told you before a

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Skater's Waltz that I would reveal the Big Band era's

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greatest baseball player and fan, and that had to be

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trumpeter Harry James, who was, indeed, if you've ever read

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about him, a very obsessive type. He loved baseball, women,

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all forms of gambling, blew most of his fortune on gambling.

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He also loved and was obsessed with, unfortunately liquor, horse racing,

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and the aforementioned baseball. Harry was a great athlete. In

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his youth he played American Legion baseball. Harry James, Well,

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it's actually hard to believe that Harry could be one

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of the greatest band leaders of the nineteen forties. And

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also so obsessed with the American pastime that you actually

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had to be, in essence, a decent ballplayer to ever

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be part of Harry Band. So with the James Band,

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how you played baseball, and this is a true story,

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was almost as important as your musical prowess. In the

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nineteen thirties and nineteen forties, just as an aside, there

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were big band baseball leagues that would play in the afternoons.

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Most of those big bands, the big famous big bands

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of the thirties and forties, that indeed have teams. But

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Harry he was determined to feel the best possible team

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he could, and almost the entire Harry James Orchestra team

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members had a background of either having played high school

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or semi pro or college baseball, and what position they

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played and how they did at the plate was almost

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as important to Harry James as their musicals. Now, his

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musicians constructed baseball fields and cow pastures all over the

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East in order to be able to practice constantly while

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on the road. They were home based in New York. Now,

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Harry's devotion to the sport also sometimes made the band

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late for gigs. Now, Harry's insistence on only allowing members

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to join the band who could also play baseball.

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Well.

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That eventually created quite a dilemma for Harry won Francis

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Albert Sinatra back. In nineteen thirty eight, he was employed

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as a singing waiter at a roadhouse called the Rustic

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Cabin in Englewood Cliff's, New Jersey, where he was paid

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back in nineteen thirty eight fifteen dollars a week. Now,

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the roadhouse was connected to the WNEW radio station in

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New York, which was home also to the Make Believe Ballroom,

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and Frank began performing with a group live during wnew's

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Dance Parade show remotely from the Rustic Cabin. Now Harry

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James had heard Frank Sinatra sing on the radio on

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Dance Parade, he made contact with Frank. He went to

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Englewood Cliffs to the Rustic Cabin to talk to him,

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and he eventually signed him to a two year contract

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for seventy five dollars a week after he tried him out,

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he had a tryout at a show at the Paramount

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Theater in New York City. So Harry had a rising

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star as a singer, but as a baseball player. Frank

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Sinatra was anything but an asset. Actually, he really stunk.

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He played right field and his bantning average was in

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the realm of an anemic two hundred. But I guess

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that was one time and probably the only time, Harry

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had any band member on his big band team with

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such lowly statistics. And speaking of stats, the Harry James

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Frank Sinatra combo did not gel well. Initially, in nineteen

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thirty nine, Harry James and his orchestra recorded All or

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Nothing at All with the Frank Sinatra vocal. Now, that record,

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many people do not realize, had very weak sales on

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its initial release and never really gained much traction in

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the late thirties. Now the song aged very well though,

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and it went on to become a huge hit nineteen

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forty three when it was reissued by Columbia Records during

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the tragic I must say nineteen forty two to nineteen

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forty four musicians strike. It became so huge that the

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record topped the Billboard charts in nineteen forty three during

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a twenty one week stay and sold over a million copies.

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So Frank Sinatra by the early forties was becoming quite

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a hit. So Harry really had a treasure in holding

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on to that record and getting together with Columbia to

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re release it in nineteen forty three. So more Harry

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and Baseball in a minute, but now coming too bad

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Harry James and Frank Sinatra.

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Oh or nothing at all? Ah, f love never appeal

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to me, If your heart never could yeel to me,

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then I'd rather have nothing at.

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All, ah.

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Or nothing at all.

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If if it's love, there is no in between, Why

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begin and cry.

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For something that might have been?

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Nor I'd rather.

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Have nothing at all.

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Oh, please, don't bring your lips so close to my cheese.

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Don't smile.

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I'll be long beyond recall.

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The kiss in your eyes and the touch of your

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hand makes me wee, and my heart may grow dizzy

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and fall.

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And if I fell.

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Under the spell.

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Of your cold, I would be caught.

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In the undertoe.

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And so you.

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See, I have got to say.

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No, No, nothing at all.

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Oh, nothing at all, Frank Sinatra, Harry James, all or

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nothing at all. So Harry James was for a long

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time diehard Brooklyn Dodgers fan. He became very close friends

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with the Dodger manager at that time, Leo the Lip

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Darotia and also befriended several of the team's regular players.

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Now when his own Big band League team was not playing,

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Harry spent many afternoons at ebbitts Field before his evening gigs,

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ebbitts Field being the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and

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he also recorded some songs that he gave baseball titles too,

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like this one the.

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Head and the Gasmen Glomming Gloomy s.

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F Columbia Records The Dodgers Fan Dance by Harry James

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and his orchestra, recorded in New York City June the tenth,

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nineteen forty one. The song based on the classic composition

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Dance of the Hours. So Harry eventually became friends with

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the legendary Saint Louis Cardinal Hall of Famer first Basement

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stand the Man Musual, and he changed after meetings stand

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musical his loyalty to that club, the Saint Louis Cardinals.

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So a little baseball and Harry James, I'll be back

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with the listeners email in just a few moments.

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Aurora comes from Real Digon Narrow. She dances in the

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Little Street.

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Cafe, And when you're down in Real.

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Digon Arrow, here's what you hear each Latin lovers say,

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you're a sweetheart in a million, Ahora with your manners

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of Brazilian a horror. When you smile and call me honey.

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H Aurora?

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Is it me or just my money?

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Oh?

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Aurora?

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I'll buy you this and buy you that if you'll

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be true to me. I'll even rent a cottage and

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present you with the key. So if you marry me

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and be my sweet senor ah.

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Auroraorah, be money, be mine, be mine.

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You're a sweetheart and a million.

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Aurora with your men of silbersilion.

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Ha ha Aurora. When you s call me honey, ha

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ha ha Aurora, is it me or just my money?

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Ha ha?

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Aurora, You're a sweetheart in a million, be my Aurora,

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with your man of sour precision, be my orra be mine?

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When you smile and call me.

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Honey, be my Aurah? Is it me or just my money?

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From Decca Records, released in nineteen forty one. Aurora by

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the Andrews Sisters Orchestra, conducted by Vic Shoan and now.

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Letters.

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Yes, we do get letters in email form each week.

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Here in the crystal studio of the Make Believe Ballroom,

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and the letter I have before me, actually not in

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my hands, but on the computer screen, comes from Ronnie Banks,

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who listens on our New Orleans affiliate. The name is

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spelled Ronnie r O n ni E, so I'm not

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totally sure if this is a male or female Ronnie.

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But nevertheless, Ronnie writes, I listened to the show each

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week on WXDR. Jeff, shame on you. A few weeks

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ago you played a song by Kate Smith. After the song,

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you claim that ethel Merman was a greater in your words, belter,

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but you totally missed the boat. My vote is in

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and it's actually Sophie Tucker. Can you give credit where

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it is due? And that signed Ronnie. Well, Ronnie, I

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didn't say I don't think I said that ethel Merman

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could belt out a tune better than Kate Smith. I

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just said she was one of the greatest, and to

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follow up on your request, another one of the greatest.

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And here she is, Sophie Tucker.

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Now, won't you.

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Listen honey while I say, how could you tell me that.

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You're going away?

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Don't say that we must part. Don't break my in heart.

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You know I loved you truly for many years. I

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loved you night and day. How can you leave me?

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Can't you see my tears?

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Listen while I say, after you gone, and let me

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cry after you gone, There's no denial. You feel blue,

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you feel sad, you missed the bestest pal you've ever had.

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They'll come a time now, don't forget it. Come a

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time when you'll regret it. Some days when you grow

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on leave, your heart will break like mine and you'll

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want me only after you gone, after you gone away.

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At that, after you gone and let me cry after

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you gone.

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There's no denial.

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You feel gone, You feel bad, you missed the business

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pile you've ever had. Now come at time, now, don't

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forget it. Now, come a time when you regret it all, Babe,

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seek what you do? You know my love for you

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will drive me the room after you gone, after you've

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gone away.

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Ronnie, that was a well, very well remastered version of

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the Sophie Tucker standard After You're Gone, initially recorded back

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in nineteen twenty seven. So Ronnie, thanks for your email,

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and thanks for introducing the audience through that email to

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the legendary Sophie Tucker. And she is indeed in my

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mind Enshrined with Kate Smith and ethel Merman on the

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mount rushmore of female vocal belters. I'll try to get

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to another email or two in a little while to

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email me. You could send it to Jeff at MakeBelieve

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

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dot com. Big announcement. Now Lenny from down the Block

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and his record pick of the week coming up.

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The.

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Dreaming not Anything.

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By and Say By, Think Dona, Banish Neighbor by Many.

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Neighbors on Bluebird Records. We just heard Mister Ghost Goes

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to Town by Johnny hamp and his Orchestra, recorded in

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New York City December the twenty fourth, nineteen thirty six.

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And now Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, the always Upbeat,

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Well Some Eat producer Heredis of the Make Believe Ballroom

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on tape from Tampa, Florida with his record pick of

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the week, the One the Only Lenny from down the Block.

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Hi there, gang, I hope you're all doing well. Lenny

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from down the Block here and it's time for my

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record pick of the week. I want to talk to

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you about a female vocal group that had a name

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that sounded like, well, it sounded like a punk, rock

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or New age singing group more than a nineteen thirties

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musical trio. The Three Ex Sisters, as in the letter X,

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were an all girl harmony singing trio. They were initially

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known as the Hamilton Sisters in Fortis. They were on

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stage singing together in New York City on Broadway as

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early as nineteen twenty two, and formed their trio in

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nineteen twenty four. The group was composed of Pearl Hamilton

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and Violet Hamilton from Cumberland, Maryland, and Jesse ford Is

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from Brooklyn, New York, which is also where I was born.

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As if you couldn't tell, The Three Ex Sisters were

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known on NBC as radio's foremost harmony trio. Sometime in

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the early thirties, appears a publicity staff member at NBC

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decided to change their name to the Three Ex Sisters.

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I have researched this and cannot produce exactly why that

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was the case. But here they are on a Victor

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record that they recorded with Eisham Jones and his orchestra

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on October thirteenth, nineteen thirty two. It's titled what would Happen?

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To me if something happened to you. I hope you

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enjoy the.

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Song Sta.

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Time is all ad, so one's all.

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The du What would I ever do?

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And what would happen to me?

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There?

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If something happened to you?

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I would always mean?

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What would always means?

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How would heaven be blue?

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And what would happen to me?

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There is something happened to you?

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I'm on the road all the lonely.

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And then we time to meet.

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You leave me no a hall a team to be

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all only tied again or to night again?

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They always be true more likely happy to me?

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Is something happening to you?

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Isiham Jones Orchestra, three X Sisters vocal, What would happen

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to me? If something happened to you? Recorded in New

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York City on October the thirteenth, nineteen thirty two, and

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thank you Lenny from Down the Block with a little

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history and music from a female trio that has long

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been forgotten but remembered via Lenny from Down the Block

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today here on the Make Believe Ballroom, and we look

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forward to next week when Lenny will be back with

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another record Pick of the week, Keep.

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A Knocking, but you can't come in? Keep a knocking,

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but you can't come in. Keep a knocking, but you

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can't come in. Come back tomorrow night and try again.

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I get you knocking, but you can't come in. I

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know you've been drinking gin, you've been cheating around with

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other men. I'm busy, and you can't come in.

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An interesting history behind the song we just heard, with

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a few twists and turns on Decca. That was Keeping

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Knocking by Louie Jordan and his Timpany five, recorded in

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New York City, March the twenty ninth, nineteen thirty nine.

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I don't have this written down, but if I recall correctly,

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that was the first song ever recorded by Louie Jordan

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and is Timpany five.

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Now.

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Keep a knock In is a very familiar tune, but

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it was originally recorded not by Louis Jordan, but recorded

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all the way back in nineteen twenty eight as keep

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a Knocking and you Can't Get In by a gentleman

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named James Boodle. It wiggins quite a progressive sounding tune

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for nineteen twenty eight. So we have a song written

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in twenty eight, updated and made into a hit by

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Louis Jordan in thirty nine and eventually finding its greatest

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success in nineteen fifty seven with a rock and roll

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treatment by Little Richard. Keep a knocking here on the

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door of the Make Believe ball Room, and I'm gonna

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keep on looking at the big bull of a clock

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here on the wall at Crystal Studio to see exactly

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how much time we have left in this week's program,

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and we do have time for one or two more records. First,

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I just remembered I received a note from our friend

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Joel Eatman, as well as several others over the past

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several weeks, asking about my other show, The Milkman's Matinee,

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which plays a real eclectic selection of music. It's an

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overnight program that plays music from the early twenties right

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up until the late fifties and early sixties. Big band, blues, bluegrass,

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early country, just just a great eclectic blend of music.

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I did post a few episodes as podcasts on Make

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Bully Ballroom podcast, dot com and other podcast platforms. Well,

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it appears that show, The Milkman's Matinee is headed for

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commercial radio, not public and community radio like The Make

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Believe Ballroom is on. I'll know shortly and if it

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does go to commercial radio. I will check the c

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with the station group. If I can take those programs

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and put them into our podcast channel. I'll keep you

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posted on that one.

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There is a Richard where the folks on me beat

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every morning for a drink, and it's not so highly

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spa it can't be bet. Between eat teenth and ninety

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dun chest Nutstreet, you'll hear piano played for Stacy Dran.

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He's the famous bookie wook In. And you ot to

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stop there if you please your bed. Between eat teenth

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and ninety lunch chest Nuts Dream come along someday if

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you're feeling right.

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We're a cloud for a.

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You have a reservation, lotsome day breaks and covation. That's

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where the hardy dies need the Bible. The man that

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holds as the best of brown. This girl friend, Bessy

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wears a rstor one gown. It's on the south side,

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on the edge up down between eighty and night be

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Gone Chestnut Street.

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On vocalion records between eighteenth and nineteenth On Chestnut Street

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by Al Donahue and his orchestra vocal by Paula Kelly,

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recorded in New York City, December the fifth, nineteenth, thirty nine,

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we have time for one.

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More coming downs in the Vogusta.

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The free expires coming on Park Avenue. From on the Avenue,

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Let's go slumming, Take me slumming. Let's go swimming on

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Park Avenue. Let us hide behind the.

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Para County glasses.

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And they faces when a member of the classes passes.

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Let's go smelling where there's swelling, sifting everything the way

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they do. Let us all you will stay and why

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can't we do with news. Let's go swimming, no stumming,

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Let Park Avenue.

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From a March fifteenth, nineteen thirty seven Raleigh Cool cigarette

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radio program also known as The Jack Pearl Show, Tommy

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Dorsey and his Orchestra with the Irving Berlin song Slumming

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on Park Avenue and friends. I no longer will be

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slumming here in the Crystal Studio, but rather at home.

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Is this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom has

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come to an end, and I thank you so much

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for joining me To email me. I'm Jeff at MakeBelieve

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

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Radio dot com. And for past shows in the series,

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they are archived in podcast form after our radio plays,

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and you could listen to those programs over Make Believe

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Ballroom podcast dot com. Let's make Believe Ballroom podcast dot com,

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or visit your favorite podcast provider to enjoy past programs.

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So until next week, this has been Jeff Presler.

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Just keep oh a Ballroom, Make your ballroom.

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