March 7, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/7/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 3/7/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 3/7/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 3/7/25 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 – It's all Ralphie from Canarsie Record Club list of Big Band Hits...

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 – It's all Ralphie from Canarsie Record Club list of Big Band Hits all the time as we play selections from the over 800 tunes that comprise this iconic file.

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It's make Believe Ballom time.

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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 ball and.

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Time and free to everyone.

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It's no time to fret your Dalis said bombs. Close

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your eyes and as you lie in your solitude, your

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favorite bands are on this dance and mister Miller, but

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you're in the wood.

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Its Make Believe Ballom Time.

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We are a sweet romance.

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As you make Come on, Joe Last, dast Last, Hello world,

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

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Believe 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 maybe on podcast, or perhaps

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on internet radio across the United Kingdom, I'm delighted to

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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 Believe It or

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not nineteen hundred and thirty five. Welcome friends, and if

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you were with us last week, one of the things

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I wanted to accomplish was to play some songs from

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the Ralphie from Kenarsi record club list, a popular feature

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whenever we do that here in the ballroom. But I, unfortunately,

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due to time, was only able to actually play one song.

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And I promised you folks that this week I would

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devote the better part of the program to Ralphie's list,

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and I certainly will. I first, though, want to honor

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an email request I received and it reads, Hello, Jeff,

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this is Alice. I listen in Philadelphia in honor of

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my husband Al and our sixtieth wedding anniversary. Can you

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play any version of the anniversary song? It would mean

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a lot to us. Well, Happy anniversary to you and Al.

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Happy sixtieth anniversary. Boy, you guys, that's quite a mile

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stone and Alice, the most recognizable version of the anniversary

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song was the one that was recorded by Al Jolson,

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and that melody was actually the melody for the anniversary

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song was actually taken from a tune which was a

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Romanian tune that was called Waves of the Danube. And

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in nineteen forty six the songwriter Sal Chapin put lyrics

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to it and it was published under the name of

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the Anniversary Song. And I was, Alice, very surprised to

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realize that the song was not the al Jolson oldie

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that I.

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Thought it was.

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I figured he was singing it most of his career,

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when in actuality he first recorded it really basically towards

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the end of his career. Enough about the Joelson version,

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because for you, Alice, you asked for any version, and

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many were recorded, including this one.

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How we danced on the night we were well to revolved.

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Our true lawn.

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Wasn't sand.

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The world was.

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In blue, There were stars.

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In the skies, access for the few that were there.

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In your ear as I held you so cold in

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my arm, angels were singing.

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Him to your charm.

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Stadly beading.

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England, Why Darling, I love.

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You so.

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And seemed to face.

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In summing.

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The song Sto anew got the dam slain god.

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On b rel.

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Sweet subplo. We find that along is an order by time.

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That was the anniversary song we just heard, And the

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version was by Tex Bennike with the Glenn Miller Orchestra,

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of course, text took over the Glenn Miller Orchestra after

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Glenn's tragic death during World War Two, and in the

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version we just heard the text Benikee Miller Orchestra version,

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the vocal was by Gary Stevens and the Mellow Larks,

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recorded on RCA Records in nineteen forty seven, and that

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version was the number one tune on your hit Parade

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for six consecutive weeks. So Al and Alice, once again, congrats,

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many congrats on your sixtieth vent of ursy and we

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here at the ballroom we're delighted to honor your request

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for the anniversary song. And folks, if you have any

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requests or comments or want to share music or even

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complain about the ballroom, we get some of those. I'm

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

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com and now friends, as promised,

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all Ralphie from Canarsi all the time, Yes, the famed

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Ralphie from Canarsi Record club List, and a few times

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a year we do a mostly Ralphie show, so haven't

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done one in several months. So a question frequently asked

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to me is how we got this unique list, and

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now to answer that question via audio tape, I take

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you to Tampa, Florida, where our producer Emeritus, the virtue

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so of the virtual turntable, Lenny from down the Block,

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will give us the scoop.

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Hi Gang, Lenny from down the Block here reporting from

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sunny Tampa, Florida. Jefferino asked me to send a tape

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to let you know how we hear it. The ballroom

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got our hands on the Ralfie from Canarsi Record Club

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list of big band hits. Well, we received an email

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in the Crystal studio where Jefforino still broadcasts from. I

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guess it came to us probably about ten years ago.

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It was from a gentleman named Angelo Carbone, and he

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let us know about his love of big band music,

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a love that started in his Brooklyn home when he

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was a child. Angelo was born in Brooklyn but currently

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resides in Naples, Florida. Mister Carbone, God bless him recently

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turned ninety three years old. Angelo and his email let

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us know that his father, Ralph and mom Rose started

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a record club in their home in the mid nineteen

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thirty in Canarci, Brooklyn. The club met every other week

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for can you believe it? Guys, over forty years. Ralphie

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in Rose over the decades would entertain neighbors with great records,

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pot luck suppers, and conversation about the events of the times,

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and I'm sure a little gossip here and there on occasion.

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As the members enjoyed and danced to the records, Ralphie

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came up with the idea of starting a list that

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ranked all of the records they played when the club

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got together. Owner of the years, believed it or not,

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Over eight hundred songs were added to the list and

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constantly revised. Angelo wrote in his email that mister Bilestrie,

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one of Ralphie's closest friends, was the club secretary and

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keeper of the list. Angelo got a call one day

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for mister Bileustrie's daughter with the sad news that her

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dad had passed away. She met Angelo and gave him

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the list that she found among items in mister Bilestrie's

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record collection. Mister Carbohm wanted us to be the new

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keepers of the list. For the hours of enjoyment he

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received from listening to the ballroom. I've gotten the mail

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mini pages of typewriter and handwritten pages with scratch outs

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and hedits reflecting the ever changing list. Jeffarino always loses

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or misplaces stuff, so I have the original list here

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in Tampa. I still speak to Angelo frequently. He says

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the list has been imitated but never duplicated. He always

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asks me when Jeff is going to do another Ralphie show.

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I guess I can tell him today is one of

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those days. So that's it, kids, That's how we got

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the Ralphie from Canarci Record Club list of big band hits.

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Thanks so much, Lenny. And you know, Lenny never wanted

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to speak on the air during his long run as producer,

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but it's great that each week now he contributes to

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the program and one way or another in a format

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where he feels comfortable and can edit along the way.

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So thank you very much, Lenny. So that's the list.

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That's how we got the list. And to play selections,

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our traditional format is for me to spin the virtual wheel,

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which is in essence a random number app and after

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I come up with the record number from our playlist computer,

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I then play the song. So let's spin for our

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first selection today and the wheel comes up. The virtual

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wheel comes up, with number number forty six and number

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forty six. Is this classic Mills Brothers Hel McIntyre Orchestra.

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Collaboration Shine, glimmer, shine, the blower, glimmer.

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Glimmer, lead us less too far we wonder love sweet

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voices calling yonder shine, the glow glimmer, glimmer. Hey, there,

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don't get dimmer, dimmer.

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Like the bathy load and lead.

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Us on to love.

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Glore le gloomer fly.

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A fire glore I can in contested wire glow or

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the femail of the species. Turn on the S and

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the DC. This night could use a little brightening. Light

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up you little loo buck of lightning. When you gotta glove, you.

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Gotta club blue, little glow worm glow flowing blow worm,

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glow and gliver. Swim through the sea of night, little swimmer.

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Now every article movies.

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For ill loominate yon woods, prime bot. See how the

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shadows deep and darken You Vana chick should get to sparking.

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I gotta gallop that I love.

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Song low, little glow worm blow.

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Blow worm.

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Turned the key on.

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You are equipped with tail lightning on.

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You got a cute fast pocketmaster which you can make

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boslow and faster. I'm I don't know who you took

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the Shantu, who You're up to make a Santu?

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I Gotta go then I love song.

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And the Glowworm by the Mills Brothers with orchestra conducted

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by Hal McIntyre, and this Mills Brothers number one jukebox

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hit was based on a song that goes way back

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to nineteen o two, but it was updated with modern

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lyrics that had been written and first recorded by the

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legendary composer and songwriter singer Johnny Mercer in late nineteen

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four seven. The record we just heard was recorded on

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a forty five rpm disc on Decca Records in nineteen

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fifty two, and as most of you know here on

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the Make Believe Ballroom, I usually stick to music from

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the thirties and forties, but as Lenny mentioned, the Ralphie

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from Canarsi Record Club met for many decades, so some

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of the songs on the list, still staying pretty much

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true to the music of the thirties and forties, were

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indeed recorded in the fifties and beyond. Nevertheless, a great

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way to get things started on this Ralphie from Canarsi

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Odyssey here on the Make Believe ballroom. So let me

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spin again, and this time we land on number number

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sixty three and sixty three was recorded in forty six.

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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

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Louis Armstrong and his Dixie Land seven?

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Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans

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and missity each.

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Night and day?

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I know I'm not wrong, the feelings getting strong on

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the longer I stay. Miss the moss covered vines, the

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tall sugar pines where mocking boys used to see. And

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I'd like to see the lazy Mississippi hurriing to string.

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All the.

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Girls, the memories of Creole.

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Students that will I dreams of old Eganders and June

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and soon I'm wishing I love the.

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Dear?

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Know what it means to miss New Orleans when that's

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where you left your hall?

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And there's something more I.

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Missed, the one I care for more than I miss?

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Newly originally recorded on Victor Records in nineteen forty six,

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We just heard a nice clear remastered version.

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From nineteen ninety six. Do you know what it means

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to miss New Orleans? Louis Armstrong and his Dixie Land seven?

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So two spins, two great songs. So let's see if

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the virtual wheel stays red hot and folks hot. It's

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not because the random number shows US seven hundred and

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fourteen deep down in the list, but still a great tune.

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We have a Hey Boba Rebop Lionel Hampton and Band.

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Hey my Breath by Baba, Hey my breath, yea, hey,

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I breathe, I'm bream, hey, I blave I heah, I

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bereave ye yes your baby No.

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But til the brown Tono King Tuck said, if you

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can't say rebob, keep your big mom shut.

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Ain't heay my breath, bob my hey.

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I breathe, heah, I bereave i'.

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Yes you're faby No.

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Bama was on the chair, Baba's on the cod babies

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on the blow blown.

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Is not you stop say he blea mob bream, eh

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my brea, eh my berie bob.

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Yees your baby.

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I'm going to mountains man as I can be looking

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for that cat that stole my baby from saying.

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Hey more up here woud.

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Yeah No, Hey Boba Reebop by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra.

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Vocal by Lionel and the Band, recorded on Decca Records

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in nineteen forty six, and this recording was a huge

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hit for the Hampton band, spending sixteen weeks at number

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one on Billboard's Rhythm and Blues Jukebox chart, and it

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also reached number nine on the Pop listings. By coincidence,

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we just heard tex Beneke with the anniversary song to

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open the show. Texts also sings a wonderful version of

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Hey Bob or Rebop and maybe we'll key that one

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up in another few weeks. You know, it's funny And

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I told this story recently. When we first started to

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do segments from the ralphiea from Canarsi Record Club list,

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I brainstormed with Lenny on the best way to accomplish

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the mission of what tunes to select from the more

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than eight hundred that the club put on the list.

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So Lenny, and this is a true story, he dragged

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a raffle barrel into the Bristol studio Raffle drum. Now

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that drum, a handmade drum, was used by the Sons

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of Italy during their annual Raffle dinner.

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And what a dinner that was.

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There were hundreds of raffle prizes, great raffle prizes that

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were drawn throughout the evening, and finally it became more

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and more difficult to secure raffle prizes for free to

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be donated to the Sons of Italy, so the dinner ended.

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But the drum was built by mister Kusamanni, who was

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also active in the Sons of Italy, and it went

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into his basement. When mister Kusamanni passed, his family gifted

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Lenny with that raffle drum, and Lenny put it in

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his basement and was collecting dust, and he said, hey,

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why don't we use this barrel as a way to

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pick Ralphie from Canarsi record club songs. And we thought

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it was a good idea, and Lenny, god bless him,

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had the patience to write numbers on pills that were

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replaced in the drum. And the drum was a handspun

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here in the Crystal studio. It made a huge racket,

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which obviously wasn't conducive to a decent radio. So we

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decided to get into the twenty first century with our

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current high tech version of drum, the virtual drum, which

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I will spin again now and the virtual wheel lands

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on number number five four to three and five four three.

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How about a little territorial jazz. No, we just heard

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the legendary territorial band, the Original Yellow Jackets with Swinging

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at the Cat and Chew recorded in Hot Springs, Arkansas,

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March the fifth, nineteen hundred and thirty seven, The Original

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Yellow Jackets number five forty three on the Ralfie from

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Canarsi Record Club list, a list to which we are

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devoting all of our time here today on the Make

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Believe Ballroom. And speaking of original, you are listening to

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

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almost continuously since nineteen hundred and thirty five. And you know, friends,

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considering we play random numbers from the Ralfie from Canarsi

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Record Club list rankings that were determined by the members

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of the record club, we've done pretty well so far

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today with a number of great records. Let's try for

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another one, and here the wheel land.

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On number.

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Number two seventy four. How about Harlem Congo, Chick Web

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and his Orchestras.

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Three the position rock Sta.

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The Amazing Chick webon Is Orchestra with Harlem Congo recorded

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on Decca Records in nineteen thirty seven. And let the

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spinning continue and with this spin we land on number

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three fifty six, three fifty six, which is Moonlight Cocktails

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Glenn Miller and his Orchestra with ray Ebery and the Modernaires.

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Yeah, oh boy.

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As so often happens when we do Ralphie from Canarsi

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Record Club shows, I can't immediately find recordings. And this

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is since I can't find this recording h okay, for

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whatever reason, the number was out of order, but I

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found it, and I'm now ready for a cocktail myself.

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A couple of jiggers of the moonlight.

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The stars or in the blue of a June, and one.

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Guitar makes it a couple of dreamers and.

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Lomer's umble light contain now at a couple of flowers,

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a drum of dew, stir for a couple of hours

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till dreams come true.

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As to the number of cases, it's up to you.

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Like cocktails, need a few.

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In the summer breezes servered in the starlight underneath the trees.

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Discovered tricks like the are sure to make your moon

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lie cocktail.

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Please follow the simple directions and they will bring life

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of another complexion where you became.

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You will awaken the morning and start to sing.

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Moon Lie Cocktails the thing.

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Follow the simple directions and they will bring.

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Life of another complexion.

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Were you.

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Juell awake in the morning and stall two? Singstails?

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Moonlight Cocktail by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, vocal by

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ray Ebery and the Modern AIIRs, recorded on Bluebird Records

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in nineteen forty two, ten weeks at number one on

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the Billboard chart four Moonlight Cocktail. And what a big

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year nineteen forty two was for Glenn Miller. Moonlight Cocktail

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was one of I guess it was three including that

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record the chart toppers for the Miller band that year,

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with the other two Calamazoo. And this is what happens

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when you don't write things down. And a string of pearls,

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A string of pearls, those three big hits for Glenn

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Miller in nineteen forty two, and that was number three

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fifty six on the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club list.

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And you know, guys, I have to disagree with Ralphie

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and the club. Number three fifty six in my mind,

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way too low down the list.

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What do you think.

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Let's see if we can get more fair and balanced

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here on our next spin, and the wheel lands on

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number number four twelve. I got a right to sing

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the blues, Jack T.

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Garden think.

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I gotta ride to sing the blues. I'm gonna ride

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you deal down.

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I've gotta ride to hang around round around the A

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certain gallon is little down. He's dragging my board around.

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All I see for me as mils. I've gotta write

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this thing the blues. I'm gonna ride your moon and side.

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I'm gonna ride you and cry down around the.

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I know the d Boozy will soon be calling me.

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It must be love. They want to juice. I've gotta

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ride to sing the blue.

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That was a nineteen thirty nine version of a song

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that was written by Jack T. Garden and originally recorded

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with Goodman and his orchestra back in nineteen thirty three.

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I got a right to sing the blues, Jack T.

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Garden playing the trombone and providing the vocal. And that

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was number for twelve.

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Folks.

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I'm Jeff Pressler, and you're listening to the radio version

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of The Make Believe Ballroom. And, as I like to mention,

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after the radio show is broadcast, I placed the program

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in podcast form with many of our past shows, and

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you can listen by going to Make Believe Ballroom Podcast

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dot com Let's MakeBelieve Ballroom podcast dot com, or you

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can visit your favorite podcast platform, Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio.

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We are on all of them.

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Make Believe Ballroom on the radio, then on podcast. And

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as I say that, I see the snotty kid as

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I call him, as look to make entry into the

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Crystal studio Blue Hair and all this week, the snotty

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kid who does a gaming podcast and a studio here

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that used to be devoted to purely radio but is

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now subdivided into podcast booths. As we see, times are

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indeed changing, and I'm sure he's not standing outside with

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a musical request. I will certainly buzz him in after

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I play another selection from the Ralphie from KNARSI Record.

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Club List.

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And the Wheel lands on number twenty nine, Number twenty nine. Well,

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we just heard Jack Tgarden singing a song that he

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originally played with Benny Goodman but recorded with his own orchestra.

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And now I drew a song number twenty nine that

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is actually played by Benny Goodman.

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Hannas the.

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Friends.

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We just heard where or when the Benny Goodman Trio

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recorded on Bluebird Records in nineteen thirty seven, and that

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was twenty ninth on the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club list.

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And folks, this is certainly amazing. The snotty kid came

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in to actually tell me that it was very nice,

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tell me that he was enjoying the music, which is

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pipe through the hallway here as I do the show.

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So case in point that the music of the big

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and there is certainly timeless as this obnoxious kid that

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I call a snotty kid digs what we are playing

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here on the make believe ballroom. So honestly, thank you

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very much, Dylan. And let's see, for Dylan's sake and

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musical enjoyment, if we can get two more Ralfie from

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Canarci Selections in before we call it a week. And

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the instructions go like this, spin the wheel, hit the

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number randomizer and come up with number one seventeen one

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one seven. Interesting. We just played Benny Goodman's small group

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trio here now count basies Kansas City seven, A.

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Gay guy about the boy.

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Oh, then they got.

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The d.

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Then they get a lot.

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And I don't let the mother and.

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Foo suck suck about falling nothing that day, but the

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little anything anything, anything anything.

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Then.

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You don't have any.

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Thet tything you Nihodhood the sig.

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On Vcalion Records from nineteen thirty nine. Lester Leaps in

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count Bases Kansas City seven with Lester Young number one

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seventeen on the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club list of

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Big Band Hits. And we do have time for our

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last and final spin on today's special edition of random

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selections from the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club list here

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on the Make Believe Ballroom. So our final pull on

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the virtual wheel, and it lands us on number well,

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sort of midpack at number three seventy four. How about

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some Buster Bley.

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Fill play.

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On Decca Records Call of the Delta Buster Bailey and

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his Seven Chocolate Dandies, recorded in nineteen thirty four. Friends,

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There are over eight hundred songs on the Ralphie from

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Canarsi Record Club list, and I played just ten today,

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So so much music from this iconic list that unfortunately

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so little time. But don't despair. In a few months

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we will revisit the list, and I will revisit you.

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Not in a few months, but once again next week

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here on the make Believe Ballroom.

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This has been Jeff Bresler.

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Just keep on dancing, small room, Maga, your ballroom, ba,