May 18, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 5/16/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 5/16/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/16/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/16/25 Edition
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On this week's Make Believe Ballroom, bringing youClassic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s– a band vocalist who was second only to Bing Crosby, more listeners submit lists of their favorite big band songs, Lenny from Down the Block with his Record Pick of the Week - this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on the program.

The Make Believe Ballroom is broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC in Rochester, NY, as well as on other fine radio affiliates across the United States and the United Kingdom, and is also available as a podcast.

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Time kets, make believe fall 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 really falling time and free to everyone. It's

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no time to friend your Dalis said, by bye. You

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suppose your eyes and vis you lie in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this stand, and mister Miller,

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once you're in the wood, it's make believe falling time.

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We are of sweet Roman.

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Is you make really?

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I'm on last Dass.

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Last, Hello world, I'm Jeff Presler, 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 the great big band

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hits of the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether you're

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listening on the radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety

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point one WGMC in Rochester, New York, or on podcast,

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or perhaps on internet radio across the United Kingdom, any

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way you've gotten here, I'm delighted and ready to bring

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you an hour of some wonderful big band jazz, swing,

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blues and boogie woogie classics. Folks, you're listening to the

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Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five,

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and once again welcome one and all into my Crystal studio.

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Good show planning for you. Today, I'm going to continue

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i did last week, and that is to play selections

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from big band record lists that were put together by

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a few of our listeners who have graciously shared them

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with us. Also the lost tapes of Lenny from down

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the Block on today's program. What tapes were lost? Well,

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I'll discuss that in just a little while, and in

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just a moment, a mini tribute to a banded vocalist

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whose popularity, for a while at least well at rival

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that of one of the greatest crooners of all time.

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First though, how about a little Charlie Barnett.

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The moby hllerybove you.

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Hamny be wit for fam Ribbon is the thing for

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me is the kinder direct It puts you in the

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good bisdom enough hamed to be waitful.

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Is the thing for me.

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If you want to be your sender, you don't live

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out of to be November. You can't a major Steve

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when you run that bound.

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The boy.

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Hot money hab to be wit for that Famy Ribbon

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is the thing.

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For me, The.

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Me that did me, bog.

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Cock.

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If you want to be a sender, you don't give

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out with being novendor.

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You grab a major.

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Steve and then you run it.

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Thrown by.

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Rhythman is so fine it makes the trouble off your mind.

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Me wit mod.

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The thing for me?

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Why a thing for me?

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From Deco Records, we just heard I Like to riff

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Charlie Barnett and his Orchestra, trumpet and vocal by Peanuts Holland,

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recorded in New York City, April thirtieth, nineteen forty two,

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and the music and lyrics on that song I Like

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to riff or by Nat King Cole into Peanuts Holland,

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probably one of the more underrated musicians of the big

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band era. So I said, I wanted to discuss and

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play some music from a crooner who had an enormous

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amount of popularity in the late thirties and very early

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nineteen forties. In nineteen thirty six, Tommy Dorsey recruited three

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vocalists from Bert Bloch's orchestra to join his band and

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to under block. These three vocalists were known as the

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Three Chirps. When they joined Tommy Dorsey, he changed the

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name and they became the Three Esquires. Now the three

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Esquires were trumpeter vocalist Joe Bauer, arranger vocalist Axel Stordahl.

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Axel later became the driving force behind so many Sinatra arrangements,

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and the third member of the Esquires was Jack Leonard.

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And I want a key on one of those Esquires,

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specifically Jack Leonard. Now Jack, in addition to his vocals

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with the Three Esquires, eventually became Tommy Dorsey's primary solo

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singer in the late nineteen thirties, and he actually rivaled

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for a while, believe it or not, the great Bing

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Crosby as the country's top male singer. To add to

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his superb voice, Jack Leonard was said to be a

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very handsome guy that had many female admirers. Now due

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to his status as this romantic singer, Jack Leonard, who

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was not only liked by his fans, but literally by

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everyone in the music industry. Well, Jack actually was a

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little self conscious because he was nearsighted and he refused

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to wear glasses in public. I guess so as not

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to spoil his persona as a romantic figure. You know, folks,

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I was just thinking about this many of you who

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were around prior to contact lenses and laser surgery. You

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folks also might have been self conscious wearing glasses, and

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I can certainly remember so many friends and girlfriends who

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would not wear their glasses for that very reason, and

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they would squint through movies and dates that couldn't identify

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everyone at a party that was more than six feet

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out of range. Remember that there were a lot of

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people walking around squinting back. Then let me get back

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to Jack Leonard though, and play one with him and

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Tommy Dorsey, and then the circumstances that curtailed Jack's long

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term popularity.

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Marie the Dolly Spray, Marie.

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You Sue two.

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Five, Rbot, Dorry.

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And Tims go back as you recall the.

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In all its.

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Flames of your kids so many.

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The word.

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Would you Surrey go.

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Nen't in any way?

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On Victor Records the Irving Berlin classic Marie by Tommy

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Dorsey and his orchestra vocal by Jack Leonard, recorded in

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New York City January the twenty ninth, nineteen thirty seven.

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So Jack Leonard was sitting on top of the world

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in the late thirties and early forties. An ever popular vocalist,

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with his popularity growing liked, as I mentioned by everyone

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he ever met, it was a real shocker that just

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a couple of years after joining Tommy Dorsey and with

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whom he Jack actually helped raise that already massively popular

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orchestra to even greater heights. Well, Tommy Dorsey let him

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go in November of nineteen thirty nine. Now his bandmates

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were equally shocked and surprised at this news. The rumor

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at the time was that Tommy Dorsey had grown well,

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he'd grown suspicious of Jack's intentions, fearing that he was

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going to leave soon for a solo career, so he

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decided to force lener it out now himself, maybe a

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Tommy Dorsey's suggestion, who might have thought Tommy Dorsey might

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have thought that it was a bad idea to let

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Jack go. Well, Jack went out and said that he

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needed a break and would return soon, And indeed, an

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announcement was made a week later that Leonard and Dorsey

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had patched up their differences and that Jack would return

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to the band permanently. He unfortunately though never did. Now

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Dorsey had just lost his other full time vocalist, Edith Wright.

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The previous month and ultimately decided to in the end

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use the opportunity of shedding Jack Leonard to revamp his

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entire orchestra, which might have also played a part in

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the singer's departure when it came to Tommy Dorsey's strategy.

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So Jack Leonard was replaced in the Dorsey Van by

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Alan de Witt, a huge mistake on Dorsey's part as

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he failed to work out and Tommy Dorsey decided to

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cut his losses and Alan de Witt was replaced after

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less than two months with the Dorsey Orchestra who replaced him,

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who replaced Alan de Witt well, and only Frank Sinatra

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so over. In the next few years, Jack Leonard, at

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the height of his popularity, found a lot of work

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on radio. He was appearing three times a week on CBS.

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Now.

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When Leonard wasn't on the radio, he was either performing

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in theaters or in the recording studio. He had signed

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the contract with Okay Records. Now he was about to

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head to Hollywood for a screen test for a movie

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when he received his draft notice in March of nineteen

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forty one. It was a long run for Jack in

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the Army, as he spent the entirety of the war

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in the military. Now he didn't request any special privileges

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to serve with an orchestra, but due to his popularity,

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he was eventually singing and leading his own military band.

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When he was discharged in nineteen forty six, he received

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many offers, but many of those offers sort of fizzled

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after a while because his recording style, maybe due to

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his long time in the military, became a kind of

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old and passe, so Jack by the late nineteen forties

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had pretty much finished off his career. He did work

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as an executive with Natkin Cooldo for many years, but

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his old days of fame and adulation were a forgotten memory. Marie,

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one more as we pay tribute to vocalist Jack Leonard.

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You are.

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The promised kiss of spring time that makes the lonely

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winter seem low.

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You ware.

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The breathless Hussha evening that trembles on the drink of

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the love the solve. You are the aims you b

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that might ditar the dearest things. I know.

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What you are, so.

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My happy arms will hold you, and so that moment

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provide when all the things.

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You are.

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More, all the things you Are a familiar song by

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Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra vocal by Jack Leonard, recorded

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on Victor Records in nineteen thirty nine. A little mini

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tribute to Jack Leonard. I'm Jeff Bresler and you're listening

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

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How about another record then, a listener's favorite big band

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eras song.

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List are.

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Somehow Us.

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From Decca Records, Chick Web and his Orchestra with Lyndy

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Hopper's Delight, recorded in nineteen thirty eight. So friends, last

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week I played selections from the favorite big band songs

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record lists of Paul Poga and Jim Hulsey, two of

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our listeners. Jim a longtime listener and Paul Poga new

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to us here in the Make Believe Ballroom. I played

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selections from their lists. They were inspired from the list

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of swing dancers John and Elaine Stewart who listened to

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the Make Believe Ballroom in Los Angeles, and they had

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sent us a listo about a month ago. I have

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two more lists to peruse today that also came from

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listeners after the Stuart's list was broadcast, and the first

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is from an iHeart radio listener Tam Morgan and Tam

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Wrights love to Make Believe Ballroom, A regular listener inspired

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to give you my list of favorite swing era songs.

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I hope you enjoy them, and that's sign Tam. Thanks Tam.

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I don't know if you're Tam as in Tammy or

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perhaps Tam as in Tam O'Shanter. Nevertheless, male or female,

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it doesn't matter. I'm thinking about those tam O'Shanter hats. Yes,

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Tam o' shanter was a man, and there was a

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poem written Tam o' shanter which I think was it

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was by uh Robert Burns. Yes, Robert Burns wrote that poem,

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and Tam O'Shanter was indeed a man, So I guess

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maybe Tam Morgan is male. And to why I kind

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of on this tangent about Robert Burns and tam O'Shanter

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hats is beyond me. What does matter is that Tam

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Morgan gave us a great fifteen songs on a list

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I'll be happy to play three. Let's start with this one.

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Say look here, looking, what's this place up town? And

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all the helpcats rave about stuff?

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Boy at that stuff Savoy.

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Well tell me Jack, what's this place, Mike?

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So I can come up and swaying.

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Some night where the folks start jumping, where the man's

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keep romping, where your feet start stopping, where your heart

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keeps stopping. So by boy, come on and jump for joy.

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We just want to go. We want to go.

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We want to go where where your feet calls Panny,

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let your hearts go, Freddy rather cook out mc kenny,

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Where the drive time, Tanny. We want to go, We

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wanna go, We.

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Want to go there.

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From Decca Records, Savoy, Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra, recorded

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in New York City on February eighteenth, nineteen forty two,

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and the first of three selections I will play today

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from a Favorites lest submitted by Tam Morgan. Folks feel

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free to submit your list of favorite Big Band era

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songs Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. That's

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Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot Com. And now

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how about another one from TAM's list?

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Nothing in.

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Me for Dancers only on Decca Records, Recorded in New

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York City, January the twenty sixth, nineteen thirty seven. Jimmy

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Lunz Bird and his orchestra with that Christopher Columbus sounding

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riff as part of four Dancers Only. Let me play

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one final tune from listener Tam Morgan's list.

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You've seen him up and down the oven, and now

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he's wearing the navy blood.

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She had a tear in the corner of her eye.

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As he said.

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His last goodbye.

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Shoes, shoes, shoe, baby, shoes, shoes, shoe, baby, bye bye bye,

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baby Ba.

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Papa's off to sepencs.

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Doll, Cry, baby.

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Doll, sid baby.

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Bye bye bye baby live.

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Would I've come back like futh seems come the top

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now to say good bye this way.

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My Baba's gonna be rough now.

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So that he can be sweet to you another day,

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by by by.

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Baby doll, cry baby, she she's shoes baby, Papa's off

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to the Sepency Shoot baby?

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Do they baby? Do they shoot? Baby? Shoot? Shoot?

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What don't want to go to a bitter quiet in

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the house?

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Please?

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She wants a little bit of quiet. And the father's

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on his way across the seven see, so don't you cry?

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Don't you say goodbye?

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Now?

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Shoose you baby, sho you my baby?

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Sure, goodbye baby don't you call on more? You pick

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Papa's after the sepan see.

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Seems kind of top now to say goodbye this way.

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The father's kind of be rough now so that he

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can be sweet to you another day. Baby, baby, she baby, goodbye,

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good bye papas.

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Up to sepency sen you before by and after.

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The seven see.

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Shoeshoo Baby The Andrews Sisters recorded on Decca in Los Angeles,

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October the fifth, nineteen forty three. A wonderful World War

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Two recording from the Sisters. And thank you so much

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Tam Morgan for your list of fifteen songs, and I

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chose three to play here today on the Make Believe

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Ballroom once again. You can send me your list of

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big band favorite tunes and we'll play a few of those.

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Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. Jeff at

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Make Believe Ballroomradio dot com another list a little later

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on in the program.

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Did you mean it.

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When you made that mischief dance give your Rise? Didn't

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you mean it when it ended in a kiss? Didn't

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you mean it when you made me see your stars

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give the skies?

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Didn't you mean it?

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Once my It's too sweet? Junis and did you mean that?

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Remind that you whispered in the dark, you said you'd

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be absolutely on the up and.

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Up with me.

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Didn't you mean it when you held me by the

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night you did?

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Did you mean it?

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Hope you didn't, because so did I.

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We just heard Jack Hilton and his orchestra vocal by

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these swing atts. Did you mean it? And with that record?

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I certainly did mean it, because I think I have

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fulfilled my weekly pledge to play at least one British

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dance band leader per show. At recording was made in

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London on December the first, nineteen thirty six. The British

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band leader Jack Hilton. I'm Jeff Bresler, and thank you

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for joining me today on the Make Believe Ballroom. So

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last week I mentioned that there would be no Lenny

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from Down the Blocks record pick of the week for

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two weeks while Lenny and his wife Cookie were away

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in Europe on a river cruise. But lo and behold,

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it appears Lenny did send me one record pick. I

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wasn't expecting one, so I did not peruse my emails

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closely enough. I figured the emails I was being sent

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from Lenny were about other subject matter and business. So

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for you, my friends, sort of, we'll call it Lenny

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from down the Blocks Record pick of the week the

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Lost Tapes.

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Hi, Gang, Lenny from down the Block. Here with my

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record pick of the week. May Questelle. She was one

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of the most famous personalities of the nineteen thirties and

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forties whose face was never seen by her many fans. No,

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May was not a radio star or a studio vocalist.

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What May did do was served as two of the

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most famous cartoon voices of those two decades. The creator

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of Betty Boop, Max Fleischer, heard May doing her famous

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boopoop a dooop routine in a theater and hired her

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to do the character's voice in nineteen thirty one. She

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was the voice of Betty on more than one hundred

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and fifty animated shorts until the character was retired in

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nineteen thirty nine. Her recording of the song on the

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Good Ship Lollipop sold more than two million copies during

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the depression. Best known as the voice of Betty, she

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was also the voice of the equaliest famous olive Oil

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in the Popeye cartoons, as well as the voice of

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Little Sweet Pea. In those animated films, She even did

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Popeye once when his voice actor Jack Mercer, was serving

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in the military during World War Two. May sang many

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original songs in the cartoons, both as Betty Boop and

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Olive Oil. She also had a recording contract with Decca Records.

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Here she is on January eighth, nineteen thirty six, along

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with the Red Norvel Orchestra. And the music goes round

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and round.

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One night, while playing in the band, a girl came up.

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He said, your grand so I replied in words, low down.

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Now, this is how them.

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Music goes round eye gloat, real gear. The music goes

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round and around Ho ho ho ho an. It comes

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up here. I pushed the first valve down. The music

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goes down and around.

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Ho ho.

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An.

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It comes up here. I pushed the little valve down.

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The music goes down on round below be Lo be

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loadingle ho Ho. Listen to the das comes out.

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Oh. I pushed the other valve down.

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The music goes round.

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And around ho ho.

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An It comes out here.

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Listen to the jack comes.

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Oh boy mother goose. You see she likes this mellody

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ho It's her favorite song.

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Se litla ha ha.

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The cow jumped over the moon when she had this

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tune moo.

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Now did she do long.

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Set white boo boo bom? The giants men did umbilo

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be lo be lordle little Jack was not afraid on

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a little too hot down. He played the musicals round

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and around and the giant bell down, round and down.

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Thanks Lenny, and we will indeed have another pick again

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next week. And now why don't do we delve into

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another listener's list of favorite big band era toons. This

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list is from Noel Landers, another longtime listener. Noel listens

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on w XDR and New Orleans on Saturday mornings. He writes, Jeff,

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time to do my part a list of my favorites.

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I tried to stay away from standards, though that would

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be cheating with a big exclamation point, and that signed Noel. Okay, Noel.

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Let's see if that is the case as I play

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the first of three.

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At that.

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Said s.

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S same.

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Recorded on Decca Records, Leap Frog Louie Armstrong and his Orchestra,

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recorded in Chicago, November the sixteenth, nineteen forty one. In

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a good selection by you, Noel, first of three records,

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I will play from your eleven song list. So let's

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move right on to the next one.

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Say there, say there, say then say you Then if

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you say best, PC says then.

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Then say Basi.

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Games Edgar Hayes and his orchestra Meet the Band. They're

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recorded in New York City, January the fourteenth, nineteen thirty eight,

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on Decca Records. And now one more from the Noel

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Landers list.

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I've been doing thirty days, Nobody to Go My Bill,

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I've been doing fatty days, Nobody to Go My Bill.

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And I'm doing very Moore, the kind of Miss Martin Gale.

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I'll bet he's gonna be my woman.

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You've gotta stop running loud.

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You're gonna be my woman.

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You've gotta stop running loud.

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Who's mother?

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And Gail?

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Yeah?

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And I gotta put you down?

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Oh fooloo, don't fool.

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Miss Martingale, Hot Lips Page and his orchestra recorded on

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a V disc April eighth, nineteen forty five. And thank

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you Noel Landers for your list and the three songs

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we had a chance to enjoy today. And that, my friends,

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concludes another broadcast of The Make Believe Ballroom. To Reach Me,

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I'm Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot Com. That's Jeff

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at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com to hear past shows

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in this series, or to leave a voicemail message to

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be played on the air with your requests or comments.

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom podcast dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve

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Ballroom podcast dot com. So until next week on the radio,

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this has been Jeff Presler.

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Let's dwn and imagine or fore room.

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Isn't make me leave ballroom.

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Let's down.

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Let's dann it.

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Will double my chances.

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I can see at your glances, room man, for while

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we're swaying and the man is playing music.

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Dammy charm, you.

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Brow tender, sweetly, surrender in my willing arm.

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Let's down.

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So it's only a small room, you know.

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Make me leave ball room.

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Let's down.

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Tiportition the bish