March 6, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/6/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/6/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 3/6/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 3/6/26 Edition
On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a bandleader in the Guinness Book of Records, a TV dad who started his career in music, battling brothers, and more records and reminiscences from the golden age of the American songbook.
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It's make Believe Ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away.

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All the bands are here to.

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Bring good cheer your way. It's make Belief Ballroom time

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and free to everyone.

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It's 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.

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And mister Miller, what you're in the mood. It's make

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Believe Ballroom time.

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We are a sweet romance.

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Is to make boom.

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Come on jo last das.

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Last, Hello World. I'm Jeff Pressler, 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 played 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 welcome one

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in all into the Crystal Studio. Thank you so much

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for joining me today. You know I usually end each

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program with the Charlie Barnett version of Make Believe Ballroom,

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so why don't I switch things up and start the

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program today with a Barnett Selections affect ferment at as.

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Soon as the last back.

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This can of.

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That was Washington World Gig Charlie Barnett and his Orchestra,

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recorded on Decca Records in New York City, July the seventeenth,

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nineteen forty two. Let me now play a record from

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Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. Then an interesting Nelson family

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trivia question.

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I think you're gorgeous, you're charming, darling, you're Bertha, and

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then some you got me dazzled and frantic, excited, romantic,

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and then some I used to think I was called

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as could be, but I'll agree the joke is on me,

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quick as a wink.

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I knew I had it bad.

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If love can drive.

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You crazy, then I want to go mad.

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I want to go mad.

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I'll kiss you, caress you, swear you, and yes you,

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and then some.

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I'll be your shadow, your.

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Slavey, your army and navy, and then some.

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I crossed my hog. I'll be yours from tonight.

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You've got me right under your thumb.

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By your gorgeous.

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Darling.

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You're perfect, and.

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Then a little remembered so but oh so popular in

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nineteen thirty five that it made it to the number

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one spot on the weekly Your Hit Parade survey. We

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just heard on Brunswick Records and then some by Ozzie

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Nelson and his orchestra. Vocal by Ozzie, recorded in New

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York City, June the thirteenth, nineteen thirty five. Ozzie Nelson,

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and I think many of you are familiar with him,

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was popular for generations as a band leader, an actor,

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and a television pioneer. He liked to control things, so

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he was best known for producing, directing, and starring in

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the long running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,

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one of the original TV sitcoms. I think that show

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probably started in the early fifties and ran I know

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it ran into the sixties, probably right around the mid sixties.

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And he starred in that show with his real life wife,

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Harriet Hilliard, who sang for Ozzy in his big band.

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Now.

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Ozzie was a pretty intense guy as a youth. He

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was an eagle scout, an attorney by trade, and an

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atheist when that was a really mainstream or something people

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discussed now. Ozzie also had two sons Ricky and David,

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who appeared with him and Harriet on the TV program.

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Now Ozzy and some members of his family, they actually

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have a unique place in the Guinness Book of World Records.

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You know something, I'm going to keep you in suspense

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because that's the kind of guy I am. As to

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what that record is. While I play one more seventy

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eight RPM disc.

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The four.

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Fall in Love, Fall in Love, says my horror. It's romance.

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Take a chance, says my horror. But each time not

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I'm almost in your arms.

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This old schoolteacher brain of mind keeps ring an impalse alarms.

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Then my head rules instead, and I'm wise to the

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scheme of that gleam in your eyes. So I kiss

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sand run.

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But the moment we're apart, oh you fool, that was love, says.

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My hart.

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Via Bluebird Records. We just heard Save My Heart by

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Ozzie Nelson, vocal by his wife Harriet Hilliard and recorded

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in Hollywood, California, April sixth, nineteen thirty eight. So the

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Nelson family holds the unique Guinness World Record four, being

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the only family to achieve number one hits across three

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successive generations of the same bloodline. Now those hits were

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from Ozzie Nelson, the song we Heard a little while ago,

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and then some from nineteen thirty five. Then his son

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Ricky Nelson had two hits, Poor Little Fool in nineteen

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fifty eight, Traveling Man in nineteen sixty one. Well of

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my favorite Ricky Nelson song had to be Garden Party.

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And then Ricky's twin sons, Gunner and Matthew Nelson had

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a song called Can't Live with That Your Love and

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Affection that recorded back in nineteen ninety, so a unique

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family record held by Ozzie.

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And his kin.

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Somehow, I always knew that some day we see through.

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Now that has happened.

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I just can't believe.

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I've done the best I could do.

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You keep frumphee in blue. Can't get you.

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Off my mind.

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What my god MoU will do and shall do?

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My Daddy, I didn't know you.

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I'm right, he'll looking at you, my shadow.

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Do you think I send you far away from me?

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She stay away from me. You got me that, you

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left your voodoo all around.

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I left my trunk in town.

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I got for you. Thought I kill the great for you.

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I'm my heart.

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A gray for you your kisses.

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Keep on hunting me, ever we won't let me.

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Yes, I got.

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I wish you had a weed for me.

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Oh tell me what?

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Why am I that think about you? Oh Staddy?

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Tell me what can all without you?

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On? Nod for me and nothing now.

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For me?

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You've got me craying night, Come back, can take these blues.

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I'm gonna take your pail week then play.

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Me some trapping in your original.

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Oh tell me what.

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I think?

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Tell you? Tell me why can I can tell me that?

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That?

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That?

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That is?

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Now?

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You've got me craving night day, come back and take

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my blues I got.

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I'll want you know I got a need for You.

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Recorded in New York City on June the fourteenth, nineteen

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thirty five, via Victor Records. We just heard Adrian Rolini

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and his tap room gang got a Need for You

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the male spoken word there by the great trumpeter Wingy

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Manoni and a vocal by Jeanie Burns. Thanks for taking

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the time to join me today on this edition of

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The Make Believe Ballroom. I'm Jeff Bresler. Now I mentioned

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Genie Burns was the vocalist on the Adrian Rollini record,

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but in addition to being the vocalist. She also wrote

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that song. A very skilled composer and did she composed

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another that was also recorded by Adrian Rolini and the

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tap Room Gang. And looking at my computer, here here

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it is. Let me play that one for you.

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It's not done, tam novel and I'm not heard?

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What does she mean? I'm ready that little world?

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It's deadpa, The little word.

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Needs me, don't you? What kind of music is the

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routing you call it using?

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What do you call it?

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You can give me the red.

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Ohwa lovel?

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Oh, okay, she's your opera any all day, But don't

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take away my past.

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Make it hot or I said hot. It's the watch

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times you complain.

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It any old things?

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And if it all swing your jack, you keep your

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crudifal your honeymoon, take a knock a ball.

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When you don't visit me, say when I loved it

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on the red Hot is my prince chat?

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Please deal?

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I can't hell man isn't keep.

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The opera any old day?

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Yeah, don't take away I got it.

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Adrian Rolini and the tap Room Gang. A Genie Burns

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written and also vocalized song Jazz Oh Jazz, recorded in

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nineteen thirty five, and while I was playing Adrian Rolini

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and Jeanie Burns, I was looking something else up. We

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were talking about Ozzie Nelson and his wife Harriet Hilliard

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a little while back. Now, the song I played save

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My Heart was introduced by Harriet in a paramount motion picture,

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not one that has been remembered over the years. It

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was called Coconut Grove. Now, Ozzie, he didn't appear in

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that film with Harriet, but Fred McMurray did. The legendary

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actor Fred McMurray, you know, great films like Double Indemnity,

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And of course Fred's most famous role on TV was

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in the sitcom My Three Sons, where he played the

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pipe smoking what was his name, Steve Douglas. Now Fred

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actually started his career, and you may not know this

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in big bands, playing the sacks and clarinet and doing

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vocals for both Gus Arnheim and George Olsen. So let

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me play one here with Fred McMurray. From one he

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played the sacks and sang for George Olsen.

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Yeah, I'll have to see my broker find out what

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he can do.

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Bye bye, I'm in the market for you.

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There won't be any joker with my den.

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I'm all through bye bye and want you up right.

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It's to you're going up the up in my estimation,

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I want a thousand shares of your presses to.

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We'll call in the market.

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Kind of an old Laurel and Hardy kind of vibe

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for that one. The music on Victor Records I'm in

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the Market for You by George Olsen and his music

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vocal by Fred McMurray, recorded in Culbra City, California, February

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the ninth, nineteen thirty. I'm Jeff Bresler, and you're listening

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

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coming to you today from the Crystal Studio. Let's now

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listen to a little pearly May then brotherly love or.

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Not RelA wa dua.

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Dona.

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All you wanna do is bill and but you empty

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handed when the bill is due.

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If you really love me, and you love me true

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the gale real lie, kiss you easy issue. You've been

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telling everyone you've mess.

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That you want a sample of the way I pet

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you had all the sample that you're gonna get legal life.

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My name for we ever can dwell all of one valley.

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You must learn how to spell justness of of peace.

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And I spelled that piece with an e A my

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heart blow in box show you.

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If you want those little spox to bust into place,

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you got to leave.

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God live my knees.

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Don't care where I live at?

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Oh what? I live in.

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House, a apartment, off flat, any place but sin and

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I might even live there, not alone.

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If you prize me, no, no, rise me emmy O

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piece of part. I can't play.

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You that.

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Lomon on Capitol Records legalize my name. Pearl Bailey recorded

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in Los Angeles back in nineteen forty six. I mentioned

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brotherly love or not. So let's start the story with

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this record.

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I've got a feeling you're falling. I've got a feeling

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you're having fun. I'll get a go by when you

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are done falling with me. I've got a feeling you're falling.

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I've got a notion that.

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Make me leave.

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I think you're letting right up your sleeve fallen with me.

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Life is worth living while you are giving moments of paradise.

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You're such a standout. But how you hand out and

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august focus from your eyes.

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I've got a feeling You're falling.

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I've got to.

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Feel in this hall a frame.

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It's just the well known alarmy game.

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Falling with You.

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From Decca Records. I've Got a feelin You're Foolin' by

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the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra vocal by Bob Eberley, recorded in

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New York City, September the eleventh, nineteen thirty five. And

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you know, I didn't realize that Bob Eberley was recording

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that far back. But I bring that to you as

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a footnote because it's not relevant for the story I'm

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about to tell. That record that I just played. I

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Got a Feeling You're Fooling was one of the last

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by the Dorsey Brothers. Tommy and Jimmy were both huge

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stars in the thirties, forties and beyond. As many of

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you probably know, Jimmy played the clarinet and the saxophone.

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Tommy Dorsey the trumpet and the trombone. Now, there was

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just one minor issue in their relationship. They hated each

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other for many, many years. It didn't start out that

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way though. In nineteen thirty three they formed their own band,

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the Dorsey Brothers, and did they play to big audiences

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and ballrooms all over the country and had a pretty

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solid recording contract all set up with Decca. But other

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bandmates of Tommy and Jimmy couldn't help but notice a

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rift was continuing to grow between the brothers, and over

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time they started fighting literally viciously with each other about

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anything and everything, especially about music, specifically the tempo of songs.

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They also fought about musical decisions that had to be

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made between them, the style they wanted a record in

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for Decca, and even when and where they performed their

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live shows, so they was all encompassing. They fought around

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the clock, and as I mentioned, other bandmates saw that

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they were so notorious for their vicious fights that it

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was well it was a regular thing for them to

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break each other's musical instruments. Amazing but true. As an example,

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Jimmy would snatch Tommy's trombone and step on it. Then

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Tommy would yank away jimmy saxophone and smash it on

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the floor. Talk about a blood feud. You know, what

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did those instruments ever do to them? So sometimes they

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didn't even use the instruments, They just punched at each other.

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And after more than two years of that, in nineteen

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thirty five, Tommy walked away from the band for good. Interestingly,

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both brothers turned out to have a monumentally successful solo careers.

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Each of their assembled orchestras produced major hits through the

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nineteen forties, but in the early fifties they reunited to

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do club dates and quite a bit of television, And honestly,

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I think personally, even if they didn't fight, due to

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each one enormous talent, they they probably would have split anyway.

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Both strong enough and it was proven out to carry

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their own orchestras. The Dorsey brothers.

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Hi and Valace wants new, not much, not much?

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Well, Hello, Edith wants new with you.

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I've got a new dance.

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I'd like to show it to you.

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If you've got rhythm to burn, here's the dance. It's

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easy to learn.

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If you don't, then your name is.

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Much If you don't, your social course.

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Everybody's learning how to do the big Apple, the big Apple.

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And it isn't very hard to do the big Apple.

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The big Apple.

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Keen can do it just as well as too.

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The big Apple, the big Apple.

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Everybody's learning how to do that brand new apple dance,

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the same.

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Apple a day will keep the doctor away.

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Hey, hey, it's.

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Easy to dance your cares away. Everybody's learning how to

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do the big Apple.

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Come on, learn to do that apple dance.

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First you gather around, then you come a ground, do

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a bit of things, a bit of that, and then.

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Do a bred a stair, hands up the el truck

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around them. Then you start right in again. You must

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do anything that you know. The most important thing is just.

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To let yourself phone.

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Say you just what's an apple you're talking about?

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It's a new dance.

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They're all raving about your truck.

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On down and Susan cue Nan shag a bit and.

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Some posing too, a Lindy hot.

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You pick a lot, put them all together, and what

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have you got?

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The big Apple, the big Apple, the big Apple.

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Well, my, my, yes, yes, my.

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Victor Records, We just heard the Big Apple by Tommy

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Dorsey and his clam Bake seven vocal by Edith Wright

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and chorus, recorded in New York City, August the thirteenth,

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nineteen thirty seven. From Tommy, We now go to Jimmy

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Dorsey in a classic.

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Greennies with their salt Live.

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Your eyes, the promised sweet nurs bring to my soul along.

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A first full of device.

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In dreams, I seem to hold you, to find you,

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and in pull you our lift smid at our hearts too,

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with a throw sours of bliz, those cool and limpid green.

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Nights A fool were in my love life so deep

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that in my serty.

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For happiness, I've been that they will ever hold me

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all through my life.

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They'll talk me, but will they ever loved me? Agreed

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eyes to make my dream call.

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Salt lines and ives and promer sweet lines bring to

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my soul along.

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Athirstful love, divine.

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And beams.

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I seem too wholdy to fund you and then fol

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you our lips met and our hearts.

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Too, with a thrill saur sublime, those cool and limp.

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Green eyess of cooler in my I love line.

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That in my searching for happiness, I've been that they

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will ever haunt me my life, But will they ever

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want me?

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Green e as I love him?

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On Deco Records, a number one hit, green Eyes by

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Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra, vocal by Bob Everley and

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Helen O'Connell, recorded in New York City March the fourteenth,

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nineteen forty one. I'm Jeff Wrestler, and thanks for joining

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that are posted at make Believe Ballroom dot com. Now

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here's two guys. They weren't brothers, but they made some

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great music together.

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And then sting.

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Happen and.

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Happens times.

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They don't say.

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From Columbia Records, Hey, Young Fella by Joe Venudi and

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Eddie Lang's Blue Five. The Blue Five Nudi Lang, Jimmy

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Dorsey and Adrian Rolini in addition to Phil Wall, recorded

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in New York City February the twenty eighth, nineteen thirty three.

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And I played that for two reasons. First, of course,

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the wonderful violin of Joe Venudi and the guitar of

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Eddie Lang. But on that record Adrian Rolini, who I

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played early here here playing the vibes and bass sacks,

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and Jimmy Dorsey also on the recording on clarinet, Cornett

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and his familiar alto sacks. One more by the Nudie

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and Lang.

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After you Gone then and let me crying. After You're gone,

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There's no use denying. You'll be blue, you musa, You'll

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met the DearS. Bow you ahead. Now've come my dime.

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Now don't forget it. I'll come my time when you

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regret it. Some day, when you grow lonely, yard will

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break like money. You won't be only after you go,

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after you gown no wait.

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From Vocalian Records, After You're Gone Joe Venudi, Eddie Lang

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and their All Star Orchestra, recorded in New York City,

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October the twenty second, nineteen thirty one. And on that record,

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if you want to talk about talent, you had Charlie

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Tea Garden on the trumpet, Jack Tea Garden on the

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trombone and providing the vocal and the great Benny Goodman

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playing the clarinet. And I think, yes we do. I

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think we have time for request. I actually have two

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this week, but because I threw Fred McMurray in before,

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I'll do one now and the other one next week.

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve

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Ballroom Radio dot com with your requests, And this request

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comes from Lane Shilling, who listens in Philadelphia. He writes, Jeff,

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you haven't played in many moons Artie Shaw's Man from Mars,

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Get it moonin' Mars, and that's signed Lane. I get it, Lane,

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But your choice in music is much better than your puns.

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That did be.

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Mad Everything everything, anything, nothing, anything anything.

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From the September nineteenth, nineteenth thirty nine edition of the

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Old Gold Cigarette Radio Show, we just heard Alreadie Shaw

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and his orchestra perform Man from Mars, and folks, we

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are out of time. The big hand on the big

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bull of a clock here in the Crystal studio is

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approaching the top of the hour. Thanks so much for

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

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

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So until next week, folks, this has been Jeff Presler