Make Believe Ballroom - 5/13/24 Edition

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It's make believe ballroom time. Put
all your cares away. All the bands

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are here to bring good cheer your
way. It's make believe ballroom time and

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free to everyone. It's no time
to friend your Dalis said Bamba yours.

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Close your eyes and visualize in your
solitude. Your favorite bands are on this

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dance and mister Miller, but you're
in the wood. Its make believe ballroom

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time. We are of sweet romance
as you make it. Boo, come

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on Joe the last dances. Hi, folks, I'm Jeff Pressler, turning

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on the lights of the Make Belie
Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal studio

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for another hour of the greatest swing
jazz and big band hits of the nineteen

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thirties and nineteen forties. I'm hosting
this show to keep the music in tradition

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of past hosts Martin block Al,
Jarvis William B. Williams, and the

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legendary Steve Allen alive. Whether you're
one of my longtime listeners or perhaps a

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new listener to the program, I
invite you to grab your dance ticket.

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It's free and let's listen to some
swing in jazz. Hi folks, and

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thanks for joining me on another edition
of the Make Beley Ballroom, broadcast in

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one form or another almost continuously since
Martin Block first took to the airwaves at

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w New Radio, New York City
back in nineteen thirty five. And why

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has the Make Believe Ballroom had such
a great longevity over all these years,

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Well, it's because her records like
this, Oh blame me, come out

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and play with me. We're Sally
Amazon, and later little Audrey and her

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playmate, Oh playmate, to come
out and play with me, and bring

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your dolliver, climb up, back
out, food, read, look down

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by ring bowl, slide down my
cellar door, and we'll be jolly friends

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forever more. Now she couldn't come
home and play. It was such a

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sunny day with him, she breathed. I Am. I could hear her

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say, I'm sorry, playing fate, I cannot play with you. My

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dollars have the fruit, ain't got
no rainburrow, ain't got no cellar door.

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But we'll be chilly friends, yes, forever more. My reno way

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me, come out and play with
me and bring your doll with free.

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Clim up my three, look down, my way down, sigh down my

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now we're going and we'll be jolly
friends more flaming. Oh say wait,

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I'm so we flaming. I cannot
play with you, my god. He

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never bool google boo boo. He
got no way now he got to sell

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widow, but he'll be joy friends
forever more. He got no way,

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bel folks. That was Playmates,
Kay Kaiser and his Orchestra vocal by Sully

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Mason and his Playmates, recorded on
Columbia Records in nineteen forty. Let's go

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uh, let's see here, Let's
go back to back. Then we will

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come back and I will spind the
virtual wheel to play a selection from the

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storied Ralphie's Record Club list. When
the d Urbo ball over, sleep,

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Big God Wall and the star begin
to flicker in the sky. Through the

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me of a memory, you wander
back to me, breathing my name with

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a sigh in the stell of the
night. Once again, I hold you

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did, though you're gone, your
love lives on when moonlight be and as

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long as my heart will be lover
will long wais me here in my de

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purple dream. Through the maze of
a memory, you wander back to me,

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breathing my name with a sigh and
there's law as my Lord will be

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lover will all alwas me he my
Ferple friends. That was Bing Crosby with

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the eight piece orchestra of violinist Maddie
Malnick with Robert Maxwell on harp, Manny

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Klein on the trumpet, and Milton
Deluge on accordion. Deep Purple, recorded

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in nineteen thirty nine. Milton Delug
If that name sounds familiar to you,

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well, he was for a time
the band leader on the Tonight Show with

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Johnny Carson. One of my all
time favorite Bing Crosby recordings, Deep Purple.

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And now, ladies and gentlemen,
let's take a quick spin of the

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wheel to play a selection from the
Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club list. As

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many of you know, Ralphie car
Bone and his wife Rose started a record

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club in nineteen thirty five in the
living room of their Canarsi, Brooklyn house.

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The club met every other week right
up until the nineteen seventies, and

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over all those years a list was
compiled of their favorite hits, all ranked.

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The list has over seven hundred songs, which we have packed into one

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of our playlists here in the Crystal
Stuy studio. Each week I spin the

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wheel to pick a random number and
play that corresponding Ralphie from CANARSI selection.

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So without any further ado, I
will spin the wheel and it is number

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number two three nine Rose Room by
the Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian on

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the guitar, recorded in nineteen thirty
nine, and do that was Benny Goodman

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on the clarinet, Charlie Christian the
guitar, Fletcher Henderson played the piano,

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Lionel Hampton vibe, Artie Bernstein on
the bass, and Nick Fittoule playing the

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drums and perched at number two thirty
nine on the Ralphie's Record Club list Rose

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Room. You know, folks,
come to think of it, there's an

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interesting story behind this recording of Rose
Room, and I don't think I've told

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it in a few years, so
why not talk about it once again because

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this song was very important in helping
Charlie Christian join Benny Goodman's band. The

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story goes that Charlie sat in unannounced, yes unannounced, just went up on

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the bandstand platform with Goodman's group at
a live performance at the Victor Hugo restaurant

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in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty nine, Charlie got on stage covertly got on

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stage at the instigation of the legendary
impresario John Hammond, who had heard about

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Charlie's electric guitar work in Oklahoma City. Now, apparently Benny had not shown

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much interest in Charlie, who auditioned
briefly on acoustic guitar at a recording session

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earlier than day in Los Angeles.
Now, according to Wikipedia, a displeasure

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at the surprise of Charlie Christian going
on stage at the instigation of Hammond,

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A Goodman called for Rose Room,
which was a tune he assumed that Christian

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would be unfamiliar with. But unknown
to Benny Goodman, Charlie had been reared

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on that tune, and he came
in with his solo, which was to

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be the first, believe that or
not, of about twenty of them,

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all different, all unlike anything Benny
had ever heard before. That version of

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Rose Room, played by Benny Goodman
in the Victor Hugo Restaurant, was said

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to last an incredible forty minutes,
and at its end Christian was indeed playing

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with Benny Goodman. So in the
course of a few days, Christian went

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from making two dollars and fifty cents
a night on various gigs to making one

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hundred and fifty dollars a week with
Benny Goodman and his orchestra. An interesting

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story about Benny, Charlie Christian and
the song Rose Rome. So we have

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already warmed up the virtual wheel,
so why not take another spin to see

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which ranked Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club
list. Number will emerge and the wheel

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spins and it is number ninety and
number ninety is this record? It seems

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to me I've heard that song before. It's from an old familiar score.

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I know it well, that melody. It's funny how the recall the favorite

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dreams, the dream that Robb is
a close to me. I'm each word

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because of her. That song before
the lyrics said forever more, forevermore,

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the memory, please have them player
again, And I remember just when of

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her. The lovely song friends that
was I've never heard that song before by

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Harry James and his Orchestra, vocal
by Helen Forrest and released on Columbia in

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nineteen forty three. Now among the
several number one recordings by Harry James.

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During the decade, this one really
stood out. It was thirteen weeks atop

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Billboard's bestseller chart and the most popular
big band hit of the year. Now,

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let me try to get this story
right if I can recall hold on

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for one second. I'm getting in
d f because I have to recall a

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story. It was number one that
long, in part due to the fact

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that it had the market pretty much
to itself song wise. It was recorded

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for Columbia actually, I think in
mid nineteen forty two, and it didn't

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begin its a cent until early forty
three, when the musicians strike was in

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effect, that devastating musicians strike.
Now, if music was recorded prior to

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the strike and not released, it
was still allowed to be released. But

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what happened here is because the record
was released during the strike, other major

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labels weren't able to mount any competition
by producing new versions of the song on

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their own. As many of you
know, during the big band era,

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one band would have a very popular
tune and just two or three weeks later

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a number of other recordings by other
orchestras would start appearing. Well, it

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was Harry James. I've never heard
that song before. Written by Julie Stein

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and Sammy Kahn, number ninety on
the ralfi's Record club list, and thanks

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for bearing with me as I tried
to remember all the details of the interesting

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facts behind that record. I'm Jeff
Wrestler here in the Crystal Studio in New

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York, and you're listening to this
week's broadcast of the Make Believe Ballroom.

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I can be reached as always at
Jeff make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com.

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That's Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio
dot com. And I keep on forgetting

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to announce that you could also be
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com, and the mail list box
should pop up and appear on the homepage.

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That's Make Believe Ballroom Podcast. And
it also has most of our past

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episodes over the last few years archived. That's MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com.

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And now a selection from our friends
at Past Perfect, distributor of Crystal Clear

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remastered albums with jazz and swing music
from the Big Band era. The I've

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got an invitation to Adam, but
I don't think I'll go. I'd be

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sorry. I know. I'm afraid
I might see the one who should be

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with me with somebody else. I've
got an invitation to an It's the town's

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big affair. All our friends will
be there. They may talk when they

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see the one who should be with
me with somebody else. I don't want

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to start a lot of gossip out
of side. It is out of mind.

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Maybe there is still a chance to
make up. We may make up

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and find we're leaving happiness behind.
I've got an invitation to adell. I

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could bring some on you, but
what good would it do. It would

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hurt me to see the one who
should be with me with somebody else.

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That was I've got an invitation to
dance by the American born but later British

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band leader Roy Fox. And this
selection is on the past Perfect album Great

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Dance Bands play hits of the nineteen
thirties. Friends, if you're a regular

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listener on the program, you know
that. A few years back, the

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nice folks that Past Perfect allowed us
here in the Crystal Studio to use many

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of their digitally remastered songs to play
on the Make Believe Ballroom. Past Perfect's

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vintage music library. Go to past
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And while we are in a plugging
mode, I want to remind you

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that Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks are
performing this spring and summer in full and

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intimate Birdland Jazz Club on the lower
level the Birdland Theater. Birdland Jazz Club,

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located at three point fifteen West forty
fourth Street in New York, has

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been a New York institution since Charlie
Parker first open there back in nineteen hundred

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and forty nine. Vince Giordano has
dedicated his musical career to keep the big

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band era alive and thriving, and
Vince and the Nighthawks carry on that tradition

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with some great jazz music. There's
two shows a night, five thirty and

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eight thirty, and I encourage you
to hear Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks at

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the Birdland Theatre three fourteen West forty
fourth Street in New York City. You

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can purchase tickets in advance online by
going to Birdland Jazz dot com. That's

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Birdland Jazz dot com. Vince Giordano
and the Nighthawks playing throughout the spring and

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summer. And now, I think
several of you know that the great one,

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the Great Jackie Gleason, star of
the Honeymooners, also had a great

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love of music. As a matter
of fact, throughout the nineteen fifties and

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nineteen sixties, Jackie enjoyed a prominent
secondary music career, producing a series of

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best selling mood music albums with jazz
overtones. He recorded all those albums for

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Capitol Records. Jackie believed that there
was a real market for romantic style instrumentals

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mood music. He was one hundred
percent right, because Gleason's first album,

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Music for Lovers It's still to this
very day, holds the record for the

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longest stay on the Billboard Top ten
charts for an amazing one hundred and fifty

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three weeks, and the first ten
albums that Jackie Gleason recorded sold over a

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million copies each. I want to
play for you now a selection not from

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one of those albums, but some
music from Gleason directing the orchestra on his

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old Jackie Gleason American Scene TV show. This was originally telecast on May the

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second, nineteen sixty four. Lelcome
let the prefect Jackie Gleeson conducting the orchestra

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on the Old Jackie Gleeson Show with
the bonus saxophone solo by the legendary the

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one and only King Curtis. Now
Jackie Gleeson, as you know, partnered

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with Art Carney for many years on
both the original Honeymooners as well as the

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Jackie Gleeson Show. Now. Art
Carney in his own right, loved playing

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music on the piano and he was
pretty good at it. As an example,

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let's head out and we mentioned the
show earlier, the Tonight Show.

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Here at the end of the May
eighteenth, nineteen seventy three broadcast, Art

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takes to the keyboard, Johnny Carson
plays the drums, and the legendary comedian,

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the brilliant Sid Caesar is on the
saxophone. Only what what are we

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back on? All right? Pick
it up, let's go on. This

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problem was pre recorded Mark Carney,
Sid Caesar and Johnny Carson from a nineteen

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seventy three broadcast of The Tonight Show. And come to think of it,

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the talented Sid Caesar, as we
heard, was an excellent saxophone player for

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younger members of the Make Believe Ballroom
audience. And I know there's plenty of

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you who listened to this program,
and I deeply appreciate it. Sid Caesar

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His career spanned sixty years, and
he was best known for two pioneering nineteen

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fifties live television series, Your Show
of Shows, which was broadcast from nineteen

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fifty to fifty four, which was
a ninety minute weekly show watched by over

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sixty million people, and then its
successor, Caesar's Hour, broadcast from fifty

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four to fifty seven. Both those
programs influenced later generations of comedians. Both

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were there stand up acts as well
as television programs. Now, Sid love

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the saxophone, and he joined the
Musicians Union. As a matter of fact,

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he briefly played with shef Field's Claude
Thornhill, Charlie Spievak. I think

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he played with Mooney also and Benny
Goodman, and with Benny on one of

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Sid's own TV programs along with Gene
Krupa. They played a selection from Sing

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Sing Sing. I don't know Shu
people people the m I O I thought

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about, I not THO. I
don't pick come around. They can come

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out a lot of I don't know
about them. And they they they they

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they they they they, Sid Caesar, if you ever have a chance and

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you can find them on YouTube,
you can visit many of those old your

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Show of Show broadcasts. The comedy
still holds up to this very day.

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Very innovative, very funny, Sid
Caesar, we're having fun today on this

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edition of the Make Believe Ballroom.
We just played some perhaps unexpected musicians for

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you, little Ralphie from CANARSI prior
to that, and we have more to

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come. And let's look at the
big Bullivar clock on the wall here in

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the Crystal studio to determine exactly how
much more music we can play, because,

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as I always mention, I run
this program live with no editing,

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so I play place a lot of
attention on how much time we have left

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by looking at the clock. And
you know, speaking of Bulivar Bullivar watches,

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I want to introduce you to the
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fifties. As we're talking about old
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the classic style of Frank Sinatra,
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My favorite watch in this collection is
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a magnificent collection based on some of
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in tribute to Frank Sinatra and the
William B. Williams era of the Make

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Believe Ballroom of the nineteen sixties.
Let's listen to a studio cut of that

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Old Black Magic, That Old Black
Magic, written by Harold Arlin with the

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lyrics by Johnny Mercer, written for
the nineteen forty two film Star Spangled Rhythm.

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The old black magic as me,
old black magic that you we I

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see fingers up and down in my
spine, same old witchcraft when your eyes

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me mind, same old thingle that
I feed inside. Then that elvates star.

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It's it's right down and down.
I go round and round. I

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go like a leaf that's caught in
the tide. I should say, way,

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but what can I do? I
hear on and I'm aflame a flame

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with such a burning desire that only
your kits can put out the fire.

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You are the lover I have waited
for, the maid that Fate had me

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created for. And every time your
lips made mine a baby down and down,

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I go round and round. I
go in a spin, love,

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And the spin that I'm in under
that old black magic called load. You

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are the lover that I waited for. The make that faith had me created

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for and every time, and your
lives me my a baby down and down,

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I go all around, I go
in a spin, crazy about spin.

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I'm in under that oh black logic, cold love, that, oh

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black logic, cold Low, that
oh black logic call Low. That was

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the chairman of the Board Francis Albert
Sinatra and a tune that was played over

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and over again on the Make Believe
Ballroom during the William B. Williams era

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of the sixties, seventies, and
eighties, That old black magic and now

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this thing. Music puts me in
the strangest mood. Music puts me in

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the strangest mood. If arm should
see around you, you can bet their

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mind has found you. Because music
puts me in the strangest moves. Music

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makes my heart go pit up pack
when it starts. I don't know where

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I live. Don't need intoxication for
a thrill on your sensation, because music

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always takes good care of that.
It seems that when I hear love the

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strain, I can't explain the way
it gets me upsen me. I find

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I must be in some on his
arms. When the charm rommelody gets the

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best of me music puts me in
the strangest mind. It makes me leave

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the strangest Angelou a rhythm Pat writing
to the hand of Satan, because usually

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puts me in The music put me
and the stranger. It makes me leave

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the strangest Andelou said, the hand
into music put me in the room.

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That was a British song stress of
the nineteen thirties, Pat Hyde and her

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swing music music put Me in the
strangest mood, recorded on Parlophone Records in

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Great Britain back in nineteen thirty five. And folks, it is not nineteen

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thirty five but twenty twenty four.
This is not Great Britain but New York

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where from the Crystal Studio you are
listening to this week's edition of The Make

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Believe Ballroom. You can reach me
at Jeffitt MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com.

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That's Jeffit MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com
and please feel free to email me.

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You can always ask for a request
and let me find this note on the

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Crystals Studio console. Yes here it
is. I got an email this past

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week from Ivan Parker out of Naples, Florida. Gay, we have so

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many listeners in Naples including Angelo Carbone, the son of of Ralph Carbone from

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Ralphie's Record club List. But let's
go back to Ivan Parker because he requested

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this song baver, change me,
let me learn, let me line,

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Let men broadcast from the Crystal Studio
in New York all the way down to

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Naples, Florida, at the request
of Ivan Parker. That was Tuxedo Junction,

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a million selling Bluebird record recorded in
nineteen forty and featuring Glenn Miller and

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his orchestra. And speaking of the
Crystal Studio, it is now, friends,

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unfortunately, time to turn out the
lights and thank you for joining me

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on this week's edition of The Make
Believe Ballroom once again. I could be

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reached at Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio
dot com, Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio

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dot com, and please don't forget
to view the special Frank Sinatra watch collection

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at Bulliva dot com bullivar dot com. Peruse the vast collection of digitally remastered

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hits of the twenties, thirties,
and forties at past perfect dot com.

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Past perfect dot com, and book
your seats for Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

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appearing this spring. And summer in
the Birdland Theater on forty fourth Street in

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New York City. Birdlandjazz dot com. That's Birdland Jazz dot com. And

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we'll go out today with let's see
how about the same way we started k

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kaiser. Ma, she's making the
orchestra go. My Sony Mason, quartered

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down Colonia in nineteen forty. I
will see you all next week. Well

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look at here mama's boys, says
Sunny Mason. Oh Ma, she's making

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eyes at me. Oh my,
she's awful nice to me. And Ma,

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she's almost breaking my heart. And
I BESI alwasy. Let her conscience

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got her. Ma, she wants
to marry me and be my little honey

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bee. Well, every moment she
gets bolder. Yes, she's leaning on

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my shoulder. Ma, mar she's
kissing me. Ah Ma, she's almost

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breaking my heart. And if you
beakin now, can't you see I'm going

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weaker, man, I'm eating with
resistance. I shall holler forristern. Mama.

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Mama, she's kissing me, mister
old mar Can, and give me

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this. God has got me crazy, old man. She's making those eyes

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and oh mom,