April 3, 2026

Make Believe Ballroom - 4/3/26 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 4/3/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 4/3/26 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 4/3/26 Edition
On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, Hawaiian swing, a bandleader with no biography, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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It's make Believe Ballroom time. Put all your cares away.

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

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It's make Belief Ballroom time and free to everyone. It's

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no time to friend your Dalis said Bombas. Close your

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eyes and visual lize in your solitude. Your favorite bands

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are on this dance.

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And mister Miller, but you're in the mood.

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It's make Believe ballroom time. We are a sweet romance.

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Is to make it.

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Come on, Jo, last dance, Last, Hello world. I'm Jeff Bresler,

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turning on the lights of the Make Belief Ballroom and

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welcoming you into my Crystal studio for another program of

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classic big band music from the nineteen thirties and forties.

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Please get ready as I play for you some amazing jazz, swing, blues,

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

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

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one and all into the Crystal Studio. Thanks so much

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for joining me today. I'm a little hungry so to

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get things underway, especially for you. If you enjoy these

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to accompany your hamburgers, I offer you this disc.

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Why she says that's no night, I said shot.

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I put it in my pocket. It is, and I

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lost it somewhere.

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My pup gave me a nickel to buy your pickle.

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Somehow I lost the nickel. That's why I'm crying.

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You knows I like psycles. He'll cay come pickle. If

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I don't find a nickel, I'll get up crying. I

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can't go home.

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Yeah, I can't stay away. If I should go, I

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mass to take my arm bake today.

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My pup gave me a nickel to buy your pickle.

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Somehow I lost the nickel, not a people. I can't

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go home.

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Yeah, I can't stay away. I should go ims to

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take my arm back today. Mother gave me a nickel.

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If I don't find that nickel, I'm in a bickle.

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From Bluebird Records, My pop gave me a nickel to

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buy a pickle. By Harlon Leonard and His Rockets vocal

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by Myra Taylor, arranged by the legendary Eddie Durham, recorded

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in Chicago, Illinois, July the fifteenth, nineteen forty sounded very

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chick webb Ella Fitzgerald like that arrangement. For Harlan Leonard.

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Harlon Leonard, the great band leader and clarinetist from Kansas City.

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Harlan led his own band for just a few years

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in the early nineteen forties. He was very popular, but

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with the war and well, I guess you combine it

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with changing tastes and music, Harlan folded the band for

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lack of profit. And you know, Harlan really did know

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about profit and losses because when he folded the band,

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he didn't stay in music. First, he worked in a bank,

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but the bulk of his career Harlan Leonard was an

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i RS agent. Here's another one by Harlan. This one

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a first time ever recording of a hit tune.

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I don't want to set this whirl on fire. I

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just want to start aflame in your heart.

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In my heart, I have but one desire and that

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wouldn't you know what they will do. I've lost all

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ambition for worldly acclaim. Just want to be the one

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you love and.

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With your admission that you've done a think I reads

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the gold I'm dreaming. I I don't want to set

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this wirlow fire. I just want to start a.

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Flame in your bar.

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Yes, sir, The first recording of this popular tune was

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a real swinger, not the ballad tempo love song that

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would eventually catch on a year and a half later

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to spend four weeks atop your hit parades, radio survey

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and become a standard for the ink spots we just

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heard on Bluebird Records. I don't want to set the

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World on fire. Harlon Leonard and his Rockets, vocal again

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by Myra Taylor, recorded in New York City, May the eleventh,

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nineteen forty. Harlan Leonard, I'm Jeff Pressler, and you're listening

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to the weekly edition of the Make Believe Ballroom. Why

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don't we now go from pickles in Harlan's first number

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two jelly Beans via Phil Harris.

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He's a Gurbstone cuty. His mama's bright end beauty. They

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call him jelly bean parts. He's hair, bring the veddal

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and clashes it down and scatters little jelly beans all

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around town. Why the boys all love him? They think

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he's a riot if you know what I mean. Won't

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drink that beef old beer wine, eats ice cream soldiers.

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But all the time I'm a Gerbstone beauty. Mama's fright

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and beauty. They call him jail Levan. I mean they

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call him jail Living. He's a Girbstone beauty, his mama's

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frid End beauty. They call him jelly Bean. Pots his

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hair bread the bed and then flashes him down, scatters

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little jelly beans all around town. Why the boys all

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love him? They think he's a riot. If you know

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what I mean, I won't drink that be vote beer wine.

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Just keeps that ice cream all the time of Girdlestone beauty,

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mama's frightened beauty. And they call him Jealsey Bean, I

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mean jelf.

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From the Vocalion label Jellybean. He's a curbstone qtie. They

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call him Jellybean. By Phil Harrison, his orchestra vocal by Phil,

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recorded in Los Angeles, California, December the seventeenth, nineteen thirty six.

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Well the turntable is hot. Let me spend one more

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than a listener's email, anything anything.

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Super when.

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From Victor Records, recorded in New York on July the

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twenty sixth, nineteen thirty nine. We just heard Glenn Miller

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and his orchestra with Glen Island Special. Mister Miller's ode

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to one of his stomping grounds, the Glen Island Casino,

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which was located in New Rochelle, New York, where he

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played so often and did so many radio remotes. Matter

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of fact, I think the Glen Island Casino was still

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in New Rochelle Catering Hall. If I'm not mistaken, I'm

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Jeff Pressler, and you're listening to the one, the only,

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the original Make Believe Ballroom and for you now, I

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am trying to find it here. It is an original

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email from a listener in Hawaii who listens to the program,

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a loyal listener on the radio. He is one Wilson

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Lee and Wilson in a long email, so I will

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not read a lot of it. But who in that

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email discusses a mutual friend we both have on Maui.

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But let me get to the cruxt of it. Let

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me find it, and here it is, He writes, I

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have attached to this email to MP three's of Hawaiian

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Jazz swaning. Yes it's true. Andy Lona was an iconic

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Hawaiian musician, composer, and bandleader. He led the group Andy

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Lona and His Islanders or audience might be surprised and

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delighted to know that Louis Armstrong recorded with Andy. I

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have attached that song along with another Lona Swing record,

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So thanks Wilson Lee for that email. I have also,

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under a separate cover, responded to some of your other questions.

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So as Wilson stated and sent me, Sachimo, did indeed

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go Hawaiian?

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Who gim I whom I all on the beach? Why

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giggy off o wahi is waiting for me with hot

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dog eyes and lovable charms on very sweet Hawaiian hospitality

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beneath the moon, strong, the long and life is just

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like a beautiful song when she whispers coming to my

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arms is just in old Hawaiian hospitality. And though my

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heart mays hop too, I know why when I say

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away o, my heart will drive to the thought coming

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by some day, and when my dream love comes true

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they're well then oh call le how for two all

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it blaha. My d is just in old Hawaiian hospitality,

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and so my heart, miss oubdu.

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I know when I sail away.

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How my heart would drive to the thuds coming back someday,

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and when my dream.

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Love come true, there will be ok.

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Alika, my dude.

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It's just Nowayian.

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Hospitality recorded on March the twenty fourth, nineteen thirty seven.

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We just heard Louis Armstrong with Andy Loona and His

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Islanders songs title Hawaiian Hospitality not recorded in Honolulu but

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in New York City. So well Louis Armstrong and Andy Lona.

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Now let me play the other MP three. Wilson Lee

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sent me this one and Andy long own a Hawaiian swinger.

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Wa wo.

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Lea.

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It's like like oh.

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Like comman up.

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Lay make it like lake.

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Oh don't.

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Like n nothing, Yeah like la.

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It's a little traditional Hawaiian music steal guitars and such

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and a little swing. And you just had Andy Lona

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and his Islanders with Hawaiian stomp recorded on Columbia Records

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August twenty ninth, nineteen thirty four. So thank you Wilson

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Lee and Maui for introducing us to Andy Lona and

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his Islanders. If you would like to reach me, like

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Wilson did, I'm Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot Com.

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That's Jeff fun Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot Com.

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Well they do.

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They need they look at Mary. They get in Frank

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und seven Robles friend.

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From San Sam say se.

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Fa on Bluebird Records. We just enjoyed Taft Jordan and

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the Mob with Devil in the Moon, recorded in New

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York City, February the twenty second, nineteen thirty five and

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Taff Jordan was a long time trumpet player for Chick Webb,

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starting back in nineteen thirty three. He stayed with the

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band after chicks death when Ella Fitzgerald took over the reins,

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so Taft left in forty three. Spent ten years with

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Chick web but during that time he had the opportunity

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to cut four tunes in studio with the band that

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he called Taft Jordan and the Mob. Teddy Wilson playing

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the piano. Never led that band on stage anywhere, but

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some nice jazz from Taft Jordan. Let me play another record.

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Then a bandleader who you'll find absolutely no information on

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sounds like a dead air segment to me with nothing

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to say, but I will on the other side, indeed

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have plenty to say.

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Don't lap my hair, don't flap my fingers.

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I'm shutting like Bect, feeling like a millionnaire.

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Don't don't start you don't I'm shutting like Bect, feeling

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like a mallyonnaise.

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He said, you love me, you want to make the pies.

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Joy. You're telling by don't clap my hands, don't stap mo.

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Thing I'm struck like becomes feeling like a man. I'm

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gonna clap my hands. I'm onna tap mo linger I

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shout like he can't be.

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Like a man.

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Stop.

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I'm going to stop you with.

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All love me by looking at model.

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Me like a like an on the Bluebird label. I'm

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gonna clap my hands by Dolly Dawn and Her Down

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Patrol in Actuality George Hall and His Hotel Taft Orchestra

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vocal by Dolly, recorded in New York City, January the

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thirty first, nineteen thirty six. I'm Jeff Presler and this

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is the Make Believe Ballroom and now friends onto a

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band leader you will probably never find in any biography

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of the big band era. Let me play a record

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from the Bill Dodge Orchestra. Then a story about the man,

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or maybe I should say men behind the BANDA That

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was Bunny Berrigan and Manny Klein with the trumpets, Jack

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Jenny the trombone, Benny Goodman the clarinet, author Rolini the tenor, Sacks,

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Author Shutt the piano, Dick McGregor guitar, Artie Bernstein the bass,

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and Gene Croup of the drums, recorded as a transcription

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for the World Broadcasting Company in New York City back

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in early nineteen thirty four. The tunes name was Old Pappy.

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So well, hey, wait a minute, I didn't credit Bill Dodge.

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I named everybody else in the band. So what role

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did mister Dodge play on this record as the Bill

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Dodge Orchestra. The answer, folks, is simple, It was none.

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There was no Bill Dodge Bill Dodge Orchestra, or as

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many referred to it, Bill Dodge and His All Star

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Orchestra was a jazz ensemble best known for its legendary

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nineteen thirty four recordings featuring some of the most prominent

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musicians of the swing era. Who I just named you see,

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the Bill Dodge name was actually a pseudonym used for

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transcription recordings made in early nineteen thirty four, I think

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in March in April of nineteen thirty four in New

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York City. Now, these sessions are historically significant because they

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captured future jazz legends really just before they achieved worldwide fame.

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Particularly Benny Goodman. It's said that it was either Benny

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alone who conceived the idea of getting these then up

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and comers together to form Bill Dodge, while others say

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it was the brainchild of both Benny and Bunny Berrigan.

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But whichever version of the origins are true, it really

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doesn't matter. More importantly is that these historical pieces are

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still here to enjoy decades almost a century later. Let's

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enjoy another one from the Bill Dodge Orchestra.

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And sup as.

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A past.

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Bunny Berrigan, Mayny Kleine, Jack Jenny, Benny Goodman, author Rolini,

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Arthur Shutt, Dick McDonough, Artie Bernstein, and Gene Crooper, recorded

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as a transcription for the World Broadcasting Company, New York

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in April of nineteen thirty four, Your mother's son in law,

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So take your choice to Bill Dodge Orchestra, or as

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many referred to it as Bill Dodge and his All Stars.

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Because the.

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N and.

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On Deco records Honeysuckle Rose, the Wonderful Thomas Fatzwaaler Andy

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Razov piece by the King Cole Trio here recorded in

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Los Angeles December sixth of nineteen forty that King Cole

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playing the piano, Wesley Prince the bass, and Oscar Moore

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playing the guitar. I'm Jeff Bresler and I'm playing with

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the console here as I spend the turntable, turn a

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bunch of dials, press a bunch of buttons on the

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computer screen, and play some wonderful music here in the

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Crystal Studio on this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom.

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If you want to hear past shows in this series,

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please go to MakeBelieve Ballroom dot com. Make Believe Ballroom

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dot com. Let me go now to a multi talented

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gentleman from the era who has been lost in time,

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but certainly needs to take a bow. Sho, we just

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heard from CP McGregor transcriptions Rocket for Me by Chick

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MacGregor and his Royal Highlanders, recorded back in nineteen thirty eight.

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So who was one CP Chick MacGregor.

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Well.

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His CP MacGregor company was founded in Los Angeles in

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the nineteen twenties. It was a sound recording company. Chick

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was a former manager at the San Francisco office of

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Brunswick Records before he started his own company. He was

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very successful and the company, CP McGregor lasted until his

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death the nineteen seventy seven. They produced numerous radio commercials

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radio transcriptions. Chip produced a number of nationally syndicated radio

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shows under his name, very famous for public service announcements,

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and he also had through his studio, recorded music for

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a number of different record companies between the thirties and seventies.

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A lot of record companies trusted him because he owned

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the Network Quality Recording complex in Los Angeles. As a

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matter of fact, and I'm just trying to recall this,

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when Johnny Mercer and his partners founded Capitol Records, which

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I think was in nineteen forty uh actually before their

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own studio was built, and I have to look this up.

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I think Johnny Mercer made a number of records at

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the CP McGregor facility under the Capitol label. So I

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just wanted to take a moment to talk about a

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radio pioneer and musical band leader, CP Chip McGregor. The

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Bombers have a dancer.

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They all like to do killer though it never was new.

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They got it in the barnyard away before the Greeks

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from the chickens that were grubbing in.

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I think it was a bagball.

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You better loosen up your collar, Lie John with your tail,

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fellas out dickens until it makes you want a holiday.

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The checking gonna man get you, don't bread out?

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There's the bunny.

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Letting lick, where's the boogie woogie based Fanny help chicken?

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Put the fever in your face?

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Put and something like a rooster scratch with your feet.

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But whatever you do, don't you lose up.

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Beat Recorded in New York City on January the sixth,

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nineteen forty one, for British Parlophone Will Bradley and his

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Orchestra with chicken Gum boogie boogie woogie version of the

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Chicken Reel. Why don't we listen to a real fiddle

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version of the Chicken Reel for a couple of seconds here?

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You know, it's funny in that the Chicken Reel was

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composed and published as a dance tune back in nineteen ten.

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Really would have thought that Chicken Reel has more of

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that sometime in the eighteen hundreds kind of sound to it.

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But nevertheless, the next tune certainly was not from the

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eighteen hundreds.

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Stop if you're breaking my heart, hit joke, it's going

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too far. Come out wherever you are. I come here

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like me like you do, and stop your driving me wild.

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It's toss take it angrined man, how are.

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You rubbing it in?

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Because you know that I'm in love with you? I'm

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so your soul. Oh, I don't know. I'm just losing

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all holes. You arm much too. I'm just about at

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the end of my rope. Go stop setting my cars

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look out and starting to burn. No worms will certainly

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turn if you don't stop.

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Stop Stop Stop Stop your Breaking my Heart.

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On Bluebird record Stop Your Breaking my Heart by Willie

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Farmer and his Orchestra, vocal by Ann Seton, recorded in

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New York City, June the eleventh, nineteen thirty seven. And folks,

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we are out of time, or as they would say

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in Chicken Real Country, we are plumb out of time.

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That's because the big hand on the big bull of

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a clock here in the Crystal studio is approaching the

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top of the hour. Thank you so much for joining

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

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