April 17, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 4/17/26 Edition

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On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a salute to a female blues vocalist, little remembered, a rare Artie Shaw record, 15-year-old Judy Garland, how a song got an unusual name, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.

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It's make Believe ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away. All the bands are here

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to bring good cheer your way. It's make Belief ballroom

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time and free to everyone. It's no time to friend

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your Dalis said bombs. Close your eyes and visualize in

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your solitude. Your favorite bands are on this dance and

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mister Miller, but you in the wood.

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It's make Believe ballroom time.

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We are a sweet romance.

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Is make Believe.

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Come on, Jon, Last dance.

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

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of the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into my

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Crystal studio for another program of classic big band music

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from the nineteen thirties and forties. Please get ready as

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

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

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broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five, and to welcome, Welcome,

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Welcome one and all into the Crystal studio, and thanks

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for joining me today. You know, for consistent hard swing,

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in my estimation, nothing beat Bunny Berrigan and his orchestra,

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especially in the late nineteen thirties, and to prove that

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the turntable waits with this recording, The Thing The Things

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from Victor Records, a study in Brown, written by Larry Clinton,

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Bunny Bergan and his Orchestra, recorded in New York City,

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August the eighteenth, nineteen thirty seven. Like I said, I

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loved the Bunny Bergan Band, one of my favorites of

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the swing era. And you know, honestly, with better breaks

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and more importantly though proper treatment for Bunny Bergan's really

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tragic alcoholism, I think this very talented outfit could have

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well literally set the world on fire and gone down

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as one of the greatest on any list. I just

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loved this hard swinging record we just listened to with

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the solos by Bunny and Georgie Auld, Joe Dixon, Sonny Lee,

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great bass playing there by Harold Wayland, Buddy Bergan and

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his orchestra, and speaking of the greats of the big

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band era. One of the reasons Benny Goodman was called

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the King of Swing.

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Shame sham.

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An up tempo Benny Goodman Swinger, written and arranged by

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Jimmy Monday. The title is a wordplay on the popular

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nineteen thirty song hit when It's Springtime in the Rockies

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from Victor Records. We just heard Swingtime in the Rockies

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Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, recorded in New York City,

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June fifteenth, nineteen thirty six. I'm Jeff Brestler, and thanks

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for joining me today on this edition of the Make

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Believe Ballroom. Let me play one more than a two

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recording tribute to a long forgotten blues singer.

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Usually everywhere feet of passion with the Temple in Old.

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Manhattan, everybody is out hide has spreading rhythm around everywhere

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you go, trumpets, blast drums and saxophones, ripping task.

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Everybody you meet us rad spreading.

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Rhythm around, or been hollering in there any flat day.

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Give it that me with your carding to one and

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all is what they called swings.

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Those who panaforn self Satin James Gigolos, who are ladder come.

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From y offers of rock and sattin, spread and drilling around.

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Don't know.

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You.

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From Brunswick Records and she could certainly sing the blues,

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although not in this recording. We just heard Billy Holliday

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with Teddy Wilson and his orchestra, Spreading Rhythm Around, recorded

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in New York City January of nineteen thirty six. And

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listening to that record, I think it was Fats Waller

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that first recorded that song. Let me take a look

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from my discography list here. Yes, Fats recorded Spreading the

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Rhythm Around one month prior on December the twenty first

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of nineteen thirty five. I'm Jeff Presler, and you're listening

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

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And I promised I would do a two record mini

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tribute to a wonderful female blues vocalist little if any

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remembered today. Let me play this record for you as

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an introduction.

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Double crossing paper. You can't double cross me. I can

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beat you doing that cage when you say it.

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Out all night and said you was vishing, came home

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next morning and find me missing.

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If you drink with he, I'll drinking.

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If you cheat with all the women, I'll cheat with

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all the men.

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You said you with fish, Then you stay up, lade

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an official bite.

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If you got good base the line going fishing tonight.

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You see you, Dady.

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Miss Peter. You can all be calls me.

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Double crossing Copper.

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You can't double cross me. You can't have your cake

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and eat it. You see you said you was that

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a lodge met last week?

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I was with my other Papa with the new technique.

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If that's the way you wanted, that's the way will be.

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I'm brod mind.

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It's okay with me.

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They don't hold lote me too all night long, so

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I didn't come home until the early.

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Mom it's sy sippy the you see the double crossing Pappa,

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you turn dob me.

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That was Rosetta Crawford and James P. Johnson's spcats Double

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Cross and Pap recorded on Vocalion Records back in nineteen

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thirty nine. Now, of course we know James P. Johnson,

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one of the granddaddies of jazz and the certified musical genius,

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most often credited with originating the uniquely East Coast style

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of piano playing known as stride. The greatest stride pianist

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of all time, I would say, in his lifetime, Johnson

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composed and recorded jazz tunes, show music, movie scores, and

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major symphonic works. As I said, a music genius. Now,

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this tribute is not for Johnson, but for Rosetta Crawford,

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and she just might be a world class blues vocalist,

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so virtually nothing is known about it. Said she was

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born in nineteen hundred. No records show where she was

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one of the earliest recorders of blues. Her first time

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on a record disc was back in nineteen twenty three.

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Think she recorded then again in twenty six. But after

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that she disappeared. I don't mean physically, I mean there

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was a long gap where nothing is written about what

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she was doing. Nothing that I could find that was recorded.

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But she got together with James P. Johnson in nineteen

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thirty nine, where she recorded four sides with him, one

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that we just heard. I was also able to dig

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up that. In nineteen thirty nine, she appeared on Broadway

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in lou Leslie's Blackbirds of nineteen three nine, a show

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with the music written by Johnny Mercer, and that lasted

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only nine performances. I don't know if it was a

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flop or limited run, not sure, but something is for sure.

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That's the last time I could find her name credited

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to anything. Nothing more, no more proof she worked after that.

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No obituary, so our tribute does not come with flowery

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descriptions of her life, but rather with her music.

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Gals around here.

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I just like Leaches playing your orchidizt No Peaches, I'll

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be all these GEO wouldn't let my man.

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Cause all his law belongs to me.

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So nice.

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I'm tired of fattening.

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Frolls, false names.

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When the moon was any cliff, I hid one in

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the dark, but he was gobbled up by some daddy

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grabbing sharp.

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I dressed him all long so he would look good.

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He cheered with all the chicks in my neighborhood. So night.

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I'm tired of fattening frolls, false names. S no Oh,

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Lucy Jane so braisen Man Bowl left in my face

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and stn't mind. Jelly Bowl followed my man wherever go

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Jah until.

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She took him right from under my nose.

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So nice.

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I'm tired of burdenant falls.

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Fay Rosetta Crawford with James P. Johnson and his hepcats.

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I'm tired of fatten and frogs for snakes On Vocalion

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Records back in nineteen thirty nine, Rosetta Crawford and I'm

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glad I was able to bring you two songs from

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this little remembered blues vocalist. An email from a listener

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in just a moment.

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Miss.

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Here comes Miss Clamentine, that baby from Newball Teams. She's

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only seventeen, but a wind. No, my, she's got those plans.

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She I the kind of game hypnotized. And when she

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rolls pal kiss you gathered bye, And when she starts

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dancing she plays them me casting it. You won't forget.

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I'm mean down in not for.

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All time, our wonderful galls around, but nothing like Clamorine from.

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New d.

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Issued on a world transcription Clementine from New Orleans by

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Glenn Gray and the Castloma Orchestra vocal by Peewee Hunt,

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recorded in New York City late July of nineteen thirty nine,

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and this song was one of numerous tracks recorded in

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nineteen thirty nine and forty by the Castloma Orchestra for

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the World Broadcasting System and issued on their What was

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the size of those transcription discs was issued on a

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sixteen inch broadcast transcription disc. Those discs for radio only

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use to be used on stations for their musical programs.

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Glenn Gray in the Castlona Orchestra. So I got an

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email from a listener, Beth Miles, who informs me she

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is part of the Sarasota Condo group. This is so

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cool and always makes me feel good. There's a group

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of music lovers who in this Sarasota condo complex sit

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at the pool together every Saturday morning and communally listen

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to the Make Believe Ballroom and they've done that for

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many years. So thanks guys for listening as a group

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oop to the program in the nice palm swaying warm

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weather of Sarasota, Florida. Now, Beth, in her email says,

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let me get to that part. We all enjoyed when

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you told the story of how Desi Arnez, who played

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Ricky Ricardo in the I Love Lucy Situation comedy series,

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was the actual person who invented the conga line in

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the nineteen forties. That was a real revelation. Do you

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have any more Desi Arnez music to play? And that's

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signed by Beth Miles. And if I recall Beth, I

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told that story some months ago, and I didn't play

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Bob Beloo, but I played Cuban Pete. So here now

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I offer for you, not Bobba Loo, but Desi Arnez,

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paired with Yes Believe it or not. The Andrews Sisters.

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All done One? What a Lover was old done one?

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Or mad love with a magical song.

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All of Spain was enchanted by my refrain. I sang

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this song and I could not go wrong.

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I grina me Amiami ama mojo a grida mi amiami ayode.

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Senorita lenga Glinda.

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All don one?

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What a lover was one?

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Long one?

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The man.

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I'm the ladies would.

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It's been said that the we nearly lost her head,

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lost her becaustic king cat her singing this team.

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Ida me, I mean me, I.

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Am a mo joke.

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Mean me, I am.

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Come with me.

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It was Spain, Oh don one? What a Lover was.

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One?

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Now he's gone?

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Where the rascals o boat?

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They don't care for you, guy, love, I love.

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I am sure that he must be below must.

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From Decca Records. Dessi arnez a k a, Ricky Ricardo

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along with the Andrews Sisters and Old don Wan. And

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you know I recall from the reruns Dessi singing both

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Bob a Loo and Cuban Pete on the Old I

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Love Lucy Show. I actually think he's sang Cuban Pete

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with Lucy. I don't think he ever did old don One.

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Not sure, but don't remember that number being done in

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his fictitious Tropicana club in New York City. I'm not

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in New York City, but in the Crystal Studio bringing

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to you Coast to Coast this week's edition of The

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Make Believe Ballroom. And I want to thank Beth Miles

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and the folks in Sarasota for that email to reach me.

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Jeff at make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff

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at make Believe Ballroomradio dot com.

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Gee, but it's tough to be broke.

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It it's not a joke.

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It it's a curse.

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My luck is changing.

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It's gone from simply rotten to something works.

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Who knows.

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Someday I will win too. I'll begin to reach my

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prime now, though I see what our end is.

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All I can spend is just my time.

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I can't give you anything but love, baby, and that's

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the only thing.

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I've plenty of.

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Baby, Dream a while, scheme a while, and we're sure

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to find.

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Happiness, and I guess all those things we've always fined for.

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She I'd like to see you looking swell, baby, diamond bracelets,

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wool words doesn't sound.

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Baby till that lucky day.

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You know, darn well, my baby, I can't give you

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anything but love.

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I can't give you anything but love.

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Heaven.

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That's the onless thing I'm pludy of.

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Have it dreamer wha steamer who.

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You should have found a love of happness?

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And I guess all those things?

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Did you know?

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Ebody for she?

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I'd like to see Lukan swapa well that buddy, No

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Dimond prices Worldward doesn't cell baby.

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Till that lucky day you know, don well, baby no,

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I can't give you anything.

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But get.

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On the Brunswick label. I can't give you anything but love.

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Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra, the vocal by Ethel

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Waters and recorded for Brunswick Records in New York City

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back in nineteen thirty two. I'm now going to play

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let me just key this up. I'm not going to

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play for you a rare offering from Artie Shaw. And then,

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if you're a movie fan of the thirties and forties,

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a song that might be older than you think, and

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a song with a wonderful history.

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First though, if you ever should leave, why would I

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want to live, Darling, you must.

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Be leave, won't you try to? Fucking What a fool

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I would be if I fool with your love? Oh me,

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I'd be wrong from the snow. I'd be unbre to

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my heart.

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So whatever you do, don't you say that with you?

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I do nothing.

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Sorry if you ever.

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Shore From a Brunswick test pressing, If you ever should

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leave by Artie Shaw and his New Music vocal by

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peg Le CenTra, recorded in New York City, July the

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twenty second, nineteen thirty seven. Now, what makes this record

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special is that it was the second take of an

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unissued test pressing of the semi khn Saul Chaplain written

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tune we just heard, and not just this second test pressing,

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but all test pressings of records were never issued, So

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you might be asking the question why warrant they issued? Well,

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a test pressing of seventy eight RPM records was, well,

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it really was a I'll call it a preliminary, very

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limited run copy of a recording created to verify audio

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quality and a check for a physical defects in the

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stamping before mass production. They were usually made on shellac

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with no label or handwritten white labels. They were then

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sent to artists or studios for approval, often being first

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generation pressings with high audio quality. So I'm sure this

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very test pressing we just heard was actually in the

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hands of Artie Shaw for his approval. So I told

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you before Artie that I was going to discuss a song.

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Let me play that song for you first, then the

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great story behind it.

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Dear mister Gable. I am writing this to you, and

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I hope that you will read it.

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So you know, my heartbeats like a hammer, and I

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stutter and I stammer every time I see you at

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the picture show.

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I guess I'm just.

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Another fan of yours, and I thought i'd write and

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tell you.

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So you made me love you.

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I didn't want to do it.

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I didn't want to do it. You made me love you,

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and all the time you knew it.

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I guess you always knew it.

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You made me happy, sometimes you made me glad.

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But then we're time, sir. You made me feel so sad.

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You made me sigh because I didn't want to tell you.

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I didn't want to tell you.

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I think you're grand, that's true, Yes, I do, Indeed,

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I do, you know I do. I must tell you

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what I'm feeling, the very mention of your name since

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my hard freeling.

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You know, you made me love you.

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Gee, mister Gable, I want to bother you, yes, because

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you've got a lot of girls to tell you the

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same thing. And if you don't want to read this letter,

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well you don't have to. Then I just had to

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tell you about the time I saw you, And it

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happened one night. That was the first time I ever

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saw you, and.

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You're right, then, you were the nicest fello in the.

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Mar This I guess it was because you acted so it.

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Was so natural life, not like a real actor at all,

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but just like any fellow you'd meet at school or

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at a party.

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And then one time I saw you in a picture

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with John Corcord, I had to cry a little because

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you loved it so much and you couldn't have them,

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not till the end.

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Of the picture anyway.

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And then one time I saw you in person.

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You were going to the Coconut Girl all night and I.

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Was standing there when you got out of your car

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and you almost knocked me down. Oh God, it wasn't

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your fault, I was, in a way, but you looked

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at me, smiled Yeah, you smiled right at me as

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if you meant it, And I cried all the way

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home just because.

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You smiled at me for being any way.

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I'll never forget it, mister Gable, honest engine, You're my

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favorite actor.

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I don't care what happens.

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Let the whole world stop.

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As far as I'm concerned, You'll always.

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Been the talcause you alone.

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You Me.

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Love You.

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From Decca Records. You Made Me Love You by Judy

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Garland Orchestra conducted by Harry Sassnik, recorded in Los Angeles

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on September the twenty fourth, nineteen thirty seven. And I

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must add that was the fifteen year old Judy Garland

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and the history of this song is wonderful in addition

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to the fact that Judy was only fifteen. You Made

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Me Love You originally was a song from back in

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nineteen thirteen, composed by James V. Monico with lyrics by

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Joseph McCarthy. Was actually introduced by the legendary Al Jolson,

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who made the song famous. Now we move up to

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nineteen thirty seven, where Roger Edens wrote additional lyrics to

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the song for Judy Garland. The new lyrics cast Garland

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in the role of a teenage fan of Clark Gable.

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Now Judy, though initially, and this is a true story,

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sang this song to Clark Gable in real life at

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a birthday party that was thrown for him by the

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MGM Studios. Now MGM executives were so charmed by her

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rendition that she and the song were added to the

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film Broadway Melody of nineteen thirty eight. Garland recorded the

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Gable version on September the twenty fourth, nineteen thirty seven,

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for Red Decca Records. As I mentioned earlier, so I

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think a lot of us remember seeing Broadway Melody of

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nineteen thirty eight, or the scene of Judy Garland sitting

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at her desk writing a letter to Clark Gable with

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a portrait of Clark right there on the desk with

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her fifteen year old Judy Garland. Now, how about the

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fourteen year old Judy Garland.

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Swing mister Charlie or swing mister Charlie.

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I don't care what to just make it a hortuon

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play an R or tune of a theme that's dood

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and don't you hit his hard than anything I've had

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since time? Beginner, Swing mister Charlie. Or swing mister Charlie.

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No one can swing in live you do.

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I can't get enough of that.

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Swingable rhythm stuff. Swing mister Charlie. Swing a swing, mister Charlie.

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Or swing mister Charlie. I don't get what you just

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make it a hot tunes, play a borrow twe of

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