March 20, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/20/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/20/26 Edition
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On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a British bandleader comes to the US and makes history, a female vocalist who had two number 1 hits in a span of a month, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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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 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 lize in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this 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 a sweet romance.

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Is to make me come on job last.

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Das last, Hello world, I'm Jeff Pressler, turning on the

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lights of the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into

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my Crystal Studio for another program of classic big band

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jazz from the nineteen thirties and forties. Please get ready

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

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

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Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. And

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welcome one and all into the Crystal Studio, and thanks

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for joining me. Today we start spinning records with a

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jazz master work.

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What it.

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Recorded in New York City on May the eighteenth, nineteen

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thirty three, under the baton of British born Spike Hughes.

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We heard Henry Allen, Leonard Davison, Bill Dilliard on the trumpets,

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Dicky Wells, Wilberd de Paris and George Washington on trombone,

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Benny Carter Wayman Carver, Howard Johnson, Coleman Hawkins and Chew

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Berry on the reids, Louis Russell playing the piano, Lawrence

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Lucy the guitar, Ernest Hill the string bass, in Sydney

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Catlet on the drums, and all Black Orchestra with a

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song called Fanfare recorded on British Decca. Let Me Play

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One More by Spike Hughes, and then the amazing story

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of this ground breaking bands.

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The tramper.

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A hand.

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Pastor Rally Spike Hues and his orchestra, recorded April eighteenth,

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nineteen thirty three in New York City for British Deca

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Records and the now Friends The interesting story behind the

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two records I just played. Spike Hughes was a British musician,

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composer and arranger. He had an interesting combination because he

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was equally involved in the worlds of classical music and jazz.

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When it came to jazz. He Spike was called Britain's

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earliest jazz composer, although that phase of his career with

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the jazz music only lasted a few short years. So

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I earlier called the two records I played as groundbreaking,

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and that's because back in nineteen thirty three they represented

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a rare, if not a first, high level collaboration were

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a white European band leader specifically traveled to New York

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to record his own compositions with an all star, all

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black orchestra. So how did he do this? Well, the

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orchestra we just heard was essentially the Benny Carter Orchestra,

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augmented by legendary soloists like Coleman Hawkins, Henry Allen, and

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Chew Berry. Now Hughes did not just conduct standard jazz hits.

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He recorded fourteen of his own original compositions in New York,

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two of which we just heard, which certainly have, in

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my opinion, in ellington Esque sound and complexity to them.

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Now Hughes was so satisfied with these sessions that he

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felt he had reached his artistic peak, and he retired

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from playing jazz shortly thereafter to focus on classical music.

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Classical music, criticism, journalism and humorous writing. Now the orchestra,

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and we have to understand it was nineteen thirty three.

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Was called on the British Deca label Spike Hughes and

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his Negro Orchestra. Again, it was nineteen thirty three. And

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although it had that name, it was amazing that in

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the early thirties a white musician collaborated with an all

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black orchestra. You see, Spike Hughes was colorblind and he

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wanted his pieces played by the most talented musicians of

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the era, and he found that with Benny Carter and Company.

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Spike Hughes name from the movie I DoD It back

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in nineteen forty three, we just heard the fabulous piano

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of Hazel Scott with Taking a Chance on Love. Hazel

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one of the great female jazz pianists of the era,

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also a staunch civil rights advocate and leader. And if

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you've ever followed the history of New York City politics

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or of Congress, she was married to Adam Clayton Powell Junior,

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the Harlem Congressman, Baptist pastor, and civil rights leader. I think,

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if I'm not mistaken, Adam Clayton Powell was the first

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black congressman from the state of New York. Why don't

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we listen to one more from Hazel Scott.

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School about Buck You have any bungs um M?

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That was Hazel's Boogie Woogie on Decca Records, recorded back

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in nineteen forty two. I'm Jeff Wrestler and you're listening

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to the one, the only, the original Make Believe ballroom.

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Ushu you baby hushes Baby, Bye bye bye baby, Your

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papa is off to the seven Seize Don cry baby,

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doll side baby, Bye bye five baby.

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When I come back with him like bubbies that he

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seems kind.

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Of tough now to say goodbye this way, But Papa's

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gotta be rough now, so but he can be sweet

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to you another day.

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Bye bye baby, Don cry.

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Baby shoes shoeshoe Baby, Your papa soft the seven seeds.

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Bye bye bye baby, cry baby shoes you baby. Your

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papa is up to the seven seas. Your Papa's up

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to seven sees your.

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Papas on Hit Records Shoe Shoe Baby by Jan Garber

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and his orchestra vocal by Liz Tilton, Liz being the

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younger sister of the great Martha Tilllton that song recorded

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back in nineteen forty two. Let me play another record then,

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a female vocalist who was blazing hot for a short

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period of time, and.

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The reason do.

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Hi fellos.

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Foot soups soup steps six.

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Six six.

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On a v disc from back in nineteen forty five,

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The Gene Crooper Trio with their version of Stomping at

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the Savoy, Charlie Ventura on the tenor, sacks, George Walter's

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the piano, and the legendary Gene Crouper on drums. So

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I told you before Croupa that I was going to

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introduce you to a female vocalist who was blazing hot

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for a short period of time. Here's one of the

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reasons why.

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I can't be true to no one, no matter how dry,

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on account of my big glipi liphic glyphi glave.

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Now I may say I love you and then bid

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you good buy.

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On account of my big classic lipic LIPI line. When

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I look at someone my got a door, I see

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know this somewe much better than the one before, And

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so I guess I'll always remain a single girl. On

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account of my thick lipic lific life and glafe, I can't.

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Be true to no one, no matter how I try.

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On account of.

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My thick life think.

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I think, I think lie.

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Now I may say I love you and then did

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you good bye?

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On account of my thick lie think, I think, I.

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Think love.

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Dude.

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When I look at someone I could adore, I see

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a mother someone much better than the one before, And

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so I guess.

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I wontways stay a single guy on account.

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Of my think glfing clothing glove.

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Where I look at someone I could adore, I see

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there's someone much nicer than the one before, And so

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I guess I'll never be true to any guy on

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account of.

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My big gloves. O thick glove, My big Gloves.

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From Decca Records, we just heard a catchy tune, My

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Fickle Eye Evelyn Knight and the Tunechwesters, recorded in New

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York City on May the seventh, nineteen forty six. Now,

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Evelyn Knight is a vocalist you might not be familiar with.

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She was a Virginia born.

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You know.

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It's strange because Evelyn had a relatively short recording career

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but was not really that well known in the mainstream.

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Many band leaders and vocalists who preferred to perform in

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clubs and not on record in the thirties and forties

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are really lost to history because if there was no

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radio remotes from those venues or they didn't appear on

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radio programs, they were basically unheard of across the country.

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Now.

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One of Evelyn Knight's earliest bookings started in the mid

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to late nineteen thirties, and that was at the King

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Cole Room in Washington, d C. She signed an initial

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two week contract and that eventually turned into a five

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year stay. A critic once commented, and let me find

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that comment. He said that for five years she has

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held down the entertainment assignment at the King Cole Room,

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and in that five years she has grown into a

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local trade edition cool with plenty of glamour. This girl

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delivers her stuff in a sophisticated manner, so well known

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with the club set in DC, but she was a

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virtual stranger to everybody else. In late nineteen thirty nine,

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Evelyn moved to New York City, where she began headlining

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at Manhattan clubs. She was at the Blue Angel and

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the prestigious Plaza Hotels Persian Room. She finally ended up

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launching her record career in nineteen forty five by signing

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with Decca Records. Later moved to Los Angeles in the

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late forties, where she headlined at Ciro's and Coconut Grove.

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So quite a club resume for one Evelyn Knight. Now.

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The song I played My Fickled Eye was one of

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over a hundred she recall worded four Decca records. Really

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over just a five year span, two of those really

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stand out. Let me play those as we pay a

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mini tribute to Evelyn Knight.

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A little bird told me that you love me, love me,

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and I believe that you do. I believe this little

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bird told me I was falling, falling no one.

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But.

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There's no use denying. I'm matters.

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Welcome best from.

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All the boys.

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I know you.

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I'm sure I love you best.

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The little bird to we'd be.

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Happy, also happy and believe.

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That it's true, So true, a little bird totally. We'll

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be married, to get married and believe.

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That it's true.

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There's a little to me when we marry. When we

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get married, we'll have a prea in.

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College, not too far of than stem like a movie star.

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All a great thing, public colonies, lion there by the

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by a plane, don't fish, palm and wishing well. Everything

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is going to turn else well.

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Married, that's true, have family, smart, God.

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You'll have a break cottage not too far. Oh thankstein

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like a movie star. Stop breaking up column mates, lying

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there back fire place, stop goldish bound, then wish him well.

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Everything's going to turn out Swell little birds, don't red.

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Be happy and busy.

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That's true.

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And now.

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I know.

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That it's true.

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Come on DECA Records. A Little Bird Told Me by

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Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters, recorded on April the twelfth,

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nineteen forty eight, in New York City, and that Handclapper

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of My Friends was among the year's most popular recordings,

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spending seven weeks atop the bestseller chart and a certain

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number one hit for Evelyn and Not to Rest on

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her laurels. On November the sixteenth of that same year,

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nineteen forty eight, another number one hit.

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Where did you get that cute? Look?

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You look great?

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Well? Thank you?

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Does I have got a way to keep in style?

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Powder your face with side shine, put on a great

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big smile, make up your eyes with laugh. Those folks

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will be laughing.

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With you in a little while.

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Whistle too, bloundness bloom never was in Stars the Futures

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brighter wim hats a lighter smile.

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He's my smile.

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You found fasts a disposition, You're Jewish rise laughing.

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Keep it twinkling your own fats.

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We'll be laughing with you in a little Why don't.

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You whistle that loves.

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Blue? Never was.

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The futures Brighter wim hurts a lighter smart smart f.

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Whistle too. Love Gladness.

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Was ever Instard.

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The Future's writer when.

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Hot's a letder s.

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Evelyn Knight revisited Billboard's number one spot in that positive

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thinking follow up to her million selling A Little Bird

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told me we just heard powder your Face with Sunshine.

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So two smash hits over a two month period back

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in nineteen forty eight, and I'm glad if you never

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heard her saying that, I was able to present to

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you a mini tributes to Evelyn Knight. I'm Jeff Bresler,

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and you're listening to the Make Believe Ballroom.

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The ms Kelish to.

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That Larry Clinton composition was one of the Dorsey Band's

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most popular instrumental releases of nineteen thirty seven on Victor Records.

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We Just heard Satan takes a Holiday Tommy Dorsey and

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his Orchestra, recorded in New York City, April of fifteenth,

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nineteen thirty seven. So before I played the Krupa trio,

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how about now the full blown orchestra with how about

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that mess?

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I took a trip through harlems by Ways to dig

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my mouth back smoking Joe, but smoke it, don't you?

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Other Highways is off that job. I ain'tkle enough to

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stay up late spot where all the hecats used to go,

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but now it's just a second race spot.

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They're off that job.

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I even went to Tony's house and swinging and bets

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Johnny's pickle for but everywhere it was the same old thing.

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All the jive is gone.

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I made the streets to wait by seven, so listen,

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get I take it swow.

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There's something wrong with Harlem's help them. There rain's no job.

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The lays the fay.

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I did the streets two went by seven, so listen

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gat taking slow. There's a wrong with Holland's Heaven. There

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ain't no job.

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How about that mess? Jane Kruper and his Orchestra vocal

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by Irene Day and recorded for Okay Records back in

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nineteen forty one. I just played two swingers. How about

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a triple play?

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My heart gets a chill. I feel such a thrill.

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My feet won't keep still when they swing that music.

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Rhythm like that puts me.

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In a trend.

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You can't blame me from wanting to dance.

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From what I understand, you're simply grand to blame a

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band when they swing that music. I'm so happy asking

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me when they swing that music.

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Falls on Decca Records. Swing that music. Louis Armstrong and

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his Orchestra recorded in Los Angeles, California, on August the seventh,

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nineteen thirty six, and in my estimation, one of the

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greatest swing records of all time, the great satchmoh and

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now let's see here, Oh yeah, why don't we take

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a quick look at a couple of emails received this week,

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first one from Chick Ludwig and Chick writes, I have

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a bunch of cassette tape recordings from Jim Kelso's Make

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Believe Ballroom that was a local program on public radio

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in Newbern, North Carolina. I found them in a house

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that I had bought to flip. I was excited to

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get them as I listened to the program often while

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spending weekends on my little cruising sailboat around Beauford in

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the early two thousands. I still listened to them to

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this day. I'm listening to one right now. Jim died

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not long after that. He had been a member of

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the Big Bands back in the day. His program played

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recordings he had collected over a lifetime with his personal

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stories of the bands and band leaders. Thanks check. I

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have over the years identified I guess right around ten

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iterations of the Ballroom, and I am familiar with the

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Jim Kelso version. Of course, this edition of the Make

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Buley Ballroom you're listening to right now traces its lineage

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back to the original Martin Block version of the show,

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dating bank to February of nineteen thirty five, and as

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I mentioned, often broadcasting almost continuously since that date. Thanks chick.

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If you know of a version of the Ballroom that

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you enjoyed that was not in the New York market,

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as a matter of fact, even if it was in

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the New York market, if you enjoyed The Ballroom with

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William B. Williams or Julius Lorosa or Steve Allen or

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a host of other disc jockeys who have carried on

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the tradition since nineteen thirty five. Please let me know

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at Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff at

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MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com and I will honor that version

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on the air. And I have another email from a

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listener looking for information, This one from you put the

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old cheaters on here to read this. This one from

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Olivia Ferrell, who says, Hello, I am looking for information

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on my great great grandfather Eddie Chase. I know that

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he had worked for WXYZ and CKLW. He was one

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of the original disc jockeys. I'm looking for an actual

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recording of his show or any other information on him.

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It's been very hard to track down. Thank you, Olivia.

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If anybody knows of Eddie Chase, any reminiscences of him,

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or if you have any actual tapes of Eddie Chase

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as a DJ on WXYZ or c k LW, please

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let me know it Jeff at Make Believe Ballroomradio dot com,

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com and I will

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get that out to Olivia Farrell. You know every show

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I seem to always run out of time.

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So now.

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Let me dip into the old record ben the old

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milk rate, and pick on one I wanted to play

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last week.

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Hine neighbors, Hine neighbor, Body in more, anybody, say hine neighbor,

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Hine neighbor, for all your worrying away. Come on and

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shake my hand and let a grin to the rest.

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It makes you feel so grand to get your chin

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off your chest. I'm shot and high neighbor, Hine neighbors.

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Time to play and say hi, Hi, high neighbors.

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What.

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High neighbors? Come on and shake my hand and let

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a grin through the rest. It makes you feel so

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grand to get your chin off your chest. Hop shouting,

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high neighbors, My neighbors, Time to play and say hi.

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A Consaurus transcription Al Donahue with his orchestra High Neighbor

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vocal by Phil Brido, recorded back in nineteen forty one.

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We now play another of the three records that missed

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getting on the air last week.

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What did you mind?

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I gave you my line you wrote to my baby.

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Take it to your faith. You can't escape from me.

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Just take my advice and keep back.

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Then nice, don't give me a face.

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That's from It's insight.

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You can't escape from me.

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You know that I can.

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I'm walking on it.

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We'll start shore a ball.

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I'm glowing with love, baby.

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I think you agreed to my new be greed mom

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to your.

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Jail ocase he's your pail.

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Can't escape from me.

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The Things.

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And the.

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From Bluebird Records, You Can't Escape Me by Erskine Hawkins

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and his Orchestra, vocal by Jimmy Michelle, recorded in New

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York City on October the second, nineteen thirty nine. And folks,

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we are out of time. Thanks so much for joining

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me today. To reach me, I'm Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom

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

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To hear past shows, please go to MakeBelieve Ballroom dot com.

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MakeBelieve Ballroom dot com. Thanks to our syndicators and distributors

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for offering the Make Believe Ballroom cost free to commercial, free, public,

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community and university radio stations. Those syndicators are the Public

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Radio Exchange PRX, the PACIFICA Network, and Global Community Radio.

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The program's flagship affiliate is Jazz ninety point one WGMC

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in Rochester, New York. The Ballroom is also heard on

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your favorite podcast provider, So until next week, this has

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been Jeff Breslersportation

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Level English