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It's make Belief ballroom time.
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Put all your cares away. All the bands are here
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to bring good cheer your way.
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It's make belief ballom time and free to everyone.
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It's no time to friend your Dalis said Bamba yours.
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Close your eyes and.
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Visualize in your solitude. Your favorite bands are on this
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dance and mister Miller, but you're in the wood.
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It's make believe ballroom time.
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We are a sweet romance.
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You make believe Bob, Come on.
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Joe Last Das Last, Hello World, I'm Jeff Presler, turning
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on the lights of the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming
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you into my crystal studio for another program of the
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great big band hits of the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties.
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Whether you're listening on the radio via great affiliates like
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Jazz ninety point one WGMC in Rochester, New York, or
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maybe enjoying a podcast of this program, or perhaps you're
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tuning in via Internet radio across the United Kingdom. Any
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way you've gotten here, I'm certainly delighted and already to
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bring you an hour of some wonderful big band jazz, swing,
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blues and boogie woogie classics. Folks, you're listening to the
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Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five.
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And welcome, Welcome, one and all into my crystal studio.
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Plenty of music and a story of two playing for
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you today. I just said plenty of music, and here
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is exhibit A.
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I don't want friends fried potatoes, read ripe tomatoes. I'm
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never satisfied. I want the frim fraB songs with the
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Ason fail which your five fi on the side. I
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don't want folk jobs and bacon. That one awaken my
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appatite inside. I want the friend fav songs with the
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Osen failure, which you five five on the side. Now
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a fella he's really got to eating, and a fella
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shirty rise five will get you in. I'm gonna feed
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myself right tonight. I don't want fishcation ripe.
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Bring you heard what I said?
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Way to please serve mind fried. I want the bram
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Rab salce with the Osmon fad WHICHI fire fire on
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the side.
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I don't want French hart potatoes, red ripe tomatoes.
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Believe me, I'm never satisfied.
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I want the friend of bram sas were the arms
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fail with a baffle on the side. I don't want
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por chops and bacon that water wagon, my apo tarrants.
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I want the friend of friends sway other some fai
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with a toffle.
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On the side.
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Now, a fella was really god to eat and a
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fella should eat right.
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Fine, will get to tell I'm gonna fit myself like tonight.
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I don't want fish cakes, right Bray, you heard what
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I said. Waiter, waiter, please, sir, my father, I want
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the friendly fad so husband me ah some fair with
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a tougher on the side.
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The frim fram Sauce vocals by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong,
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of course Louise Trumpet all under the leadership of Bob
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Haggard and his Orchestra, recorded on Decca Records in nineteen
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forty six. Probably the most famous rendition of the song
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was by Nat King Cole and his trio. They recorded
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that I Think in nineteen forty five for the up
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and coming newest record label, Capitol Records. The frim fram
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Sauce opening the program today on this edition of The
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Believe All Road.
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He's a Gurbstone Cuty, his Mama's pride and beauty. They
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call him jelly bean parts. He's hair in the bed
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and flashes 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 the bold beer wine eats ice cream sodas.
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But all the time, I'm a Gerbstone cuty, Mama's fright
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and beauty. And they call him jelly bean. I mean,
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they call him jail Libby. He's a Gurbstone beauty, his
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mama's fried end beauty. They call him jelly Bean. Potts's
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are in the bed and then flashes him down, scattered
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little jelly beans all around town. By 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 bean Bolt beer wine.
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Just keeps that ice cream all the time of Gurbstone beauty,
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Mama's fright and beauty. They call him jeal y Bean,
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I mean Jellybden.
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From Vocalion Records, jelly Bean. He's a curbside cutie. They
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call him jelly Bean. By the Great Phil Harris and
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his orchestra vocal By Fell recorded in Lost Angelus December
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the seventeenth, nineteen thirty six, and you know what, I'm
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in the mood for three in a row. And this
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song is an excellent lead into our first major segment
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on today's edition of the Make Believe Ball.
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Rom I'm going to say right down and range myself
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a lot of.
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And make me leaeve the game from you. I'm going
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to rain for her own.
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So sweet that all allows me all my being a
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lot of kisses on the bottom.
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M M, I don't be glad I got home.
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I'm gonna smile and say I hold your feeling.
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Better him clothes with long.
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The way you do.
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I'm gonna sat right down and write myself, let her
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him mad believe it came from you. Gonna smile and
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say I hope you're feeling better, and.
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Long and loud away.
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I'm going to.
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Write my letter.
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And make.
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Bad Game for him.
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A Victor record disc I'm gonna sit right down and
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write myself a letter by Fats Waller and his rhythm
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vocal by the unmistakable voice of Fats, recorded in New
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York City, May the eighth, nineteen thirty five, and that
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record was actually the first time I'm going to sit
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right down and write myself. A letter was ever recorded
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Fats Waller, and I did say before the record that
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that song was an excellent lead into today's first segment
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on the Make Believe Ballroom. And this segment comes not
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as the result of a letter, but rather an email.
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And this email I am about to read comes as
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a result of another email we received a few weeks
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back here in the Ballroom. That email was from John
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and Elaine Stewart of Los Angeles, California, and John and
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Elaine loved to swing dance as a couple at various
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venues in the LA area, and they wrote to us
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that they were inspired by past programs on the Ballroom
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where we played records from the Ralphie from Canarsi Record
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Club list. As many of you know, that's a list
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that Ralphie Carbone and his record club began in the
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mid nineteen thirties, and that list of big band favorites
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grew over the decades, swelling to over eight hundred songs.
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Not just eight hundred songs, but the record club over
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the decades ranked each and every one of those songs.
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So the Stewarts decided to create a record list of
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their own, and I was delighted to play a series
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of their favorite records. I mentioned that if any of
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our listeners were interested in sending us their favorites and
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list form, we'd be happy to play some of those
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selections on the show. Well, Lo and behold, we got
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a nice response on my call to action, and today
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we're going to delve into some of the songs from
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two lists we received, and next week we'll look at
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two more lists that were emailed to the show. For
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the first list, I go to an email from Jim
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Halsey h a u l S, one of our dedicated Sarasota,
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Florida listeners, and Jim writes, Jeff, I have put together
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a list of some of my favorite swing songs. I
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hope you like it. I'm not a musical genius, so
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the list is not an analysis of scholarly selections. It's
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just music I like and I hope you like it too.
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Keep up the good work, Jim. Well, thanks Jim. Jim
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is a frequent emailer to the Make Believe Ballroom. Now,
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Jim's list, just counting has eight songs, and to me,
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each is a winner. And folks, you don't have to
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be a musical sk s. Coll Or to send me
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a list. Just let me know what big band music
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moved you or had some significance in your life. You
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simply love the tune. So let's start Jim Halsey's list
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with this selection.
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By Protect Us Again.
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We just heard Keep Them Flying Glenn Miller and his Orchestra,
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recorded on Bluebird in nineteen forty one, and an excellent
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choice from your list, mister Hulsey, a record I have
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not played for a very long time here on the
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Make Believe Ballroom. I think what we'll do is play
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three from your eight record list. So let me choose
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another one.
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Things didn't him Nothing the means to st.
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From the Studios of Columbia Records, recorded in Los Angeles
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on November the eighth, nineteen thirty nine, avalon Harry James
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and his Orchestra. That's another pick from the eight song
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favorites list of Jim Halsey from Sarasota, flow Arta. I
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said I'd play three from Jim's list. I am certainly
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a man of my word, well at least where where
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music is involved.
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Sling I give, but never does the same.
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Please don't get something.
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Just the same.
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Please scale don't get something Yeah, m.
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Let's says good Night, caw Dounia, sail me out, sell
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mell down.
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The.
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Beautiful Caledonia, what do you Heard?
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And his orchestra vocal by Woody recorded on Columbia Records
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back in nineteen forty five. And thank you very much,
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Jim Halsey for your outstanding list of eight favorite big
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band songs, and it was a pleasure to play three
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of them here today on the one, the only, the
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original Make Believe Ballroom and Folks, if you have a
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favorite big band playlist, please feel free to email it
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to me Jeff at Make Believe Ballroomradio dot com. That's
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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. And we'll be
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back in just a little while with another listener's big
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band swing favorites list. A few weeks ago, I told
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you the story of the almost decade long journey for
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the Ted Weems orchestra recording of the song Heartache to
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become a bona fide hit record, and I was ready
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to play an additional Ween song on that show, but
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I saw that we would not have the time to
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do that, so I now present you with that Ted
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Ween's leftover, but Leftovers still taste pretty good.
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There's play alas. I want normal with dreamon whiskey.
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Fla.
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Someone to go to old hokey Mom, back to the
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awful slimon.
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The Virgil tree and the honeybee clinging honey circle.
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Bar boy with wade phase really is not playing for me?
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Back you old smoky mind.
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Back to their home in Temantry.
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Beyond your gang lasers or labor Leon gay labors on labor.
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If thence slipped my home I've in from.
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Roam up in so long time.
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Fall the slip.
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I want to go.
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Back to old Smoky Mond, back to the awful tone,
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the birds.
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In a tree and the honeybee lnge honey circle bar.
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Bas war rever.
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Waitingly Moday for me bad smoky Mom. Back to the
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home in Tennessee.
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Ya Yo gay labor on neighbor maoyond.
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Gay labor onla.
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Mony from Decca Back to Smoky Mountain by Ted Weiams
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and his orchestra, vocal by Mary Lee and also Elmo Tanner,
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recorded in New York City, October the fifth, nineteen thirty nine,
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and on this record, the vocalist Mary Lee Mary Lee Wooters,
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was all of fourteen years old, when she sang that song,
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and with her fine yodeling and country presence, it was
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no doubt a match made in heaven. When she went
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on to appear in a number of singing cowboy movies
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in the nineteen forties, she was also a pretty good actress.
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She also performed in something like thirty different Hollywood movies.
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Let me play another Make this a little mini tribute
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to Mary Lee another song by Mary Lee Wooters.
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Life has been so empty since today you went away.
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Nothing seems to have a meaning.
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Once I used to greet each night and welcome every day.
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I've lost all interest somehow, all alone. Every day I
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keep wasting away, and you made me so hard sick.
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And so.
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It's the stars never glow, or the flower or no
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brow without you.
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I don't care anymore. You was a gammon. I mean
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nothing to me since you walked out through the door.
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If the birds never sing with the sweet breath of
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spring without you, I don't care anymore.