May 8, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 5/9/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 5/9/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/9/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/9/25 Edition

Join Jeff Bressler for some great Big Band Music of the 30's and 40's on this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States and the United Kingdom –the...

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Join Jeff Bressler for some great Big Band Music of the 30's and 40's on this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States and the United Kingdom –the majority of today's program is dedicated to two listners who were so kind in sharing lists of their favorite big band musicians and tunes - this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on the program.

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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.

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What one used to be, you know, means nothing to me.

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I forget what a love song is for though this

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guy's always now.

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With the moon peeping through Without you, I don't care anymore.

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Now that you're gone. I don't care to go on

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crying and walk in the floor.

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When the knights starts to fall, it means nothing at

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all without you.

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I don't care anymore.

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I don't care anymore. Mary Lee Wood's vocal along with

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Bob Crosby and his Bobcats, recorded on Decca in nineteen

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forty two. Mary Lee Wooters. Let's play another tune, then

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an additional big band Favorites list sent to us by

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a listener.

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Long ago.

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Swung the young gorilla through the tree's wha to kill adilla.

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Ever since thanks to that gorilla, some like it harm

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later on fiddled mister Nero down and roll.

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He was quite a hero ever since thanks to mister Nero.

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Some my kid ha. When the rooster bus went peck

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pecked the community, bend his neck butted rhythm perish with him.

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No no, no, no no, but I should say not.

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Everywhere you can.

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Buy survivors nowadays, people calling givers thanks to those who

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send sand rivers.

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Some my kid ha. Everywhere you can thanks Barbers.

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Now worth day there's people kong jivers thanks to those

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senders and robbers like it.

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Hot recorded on Brunswick Records. Some like It Hot by

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Gene Krupa and his Orchestra vocal by Irene Day, recorded

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back in nineteen thirty nine and now folks, much as

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Jim Halsey did. Another list compiled by a listener. This

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is a substantial list of favorite big band swing tunes.

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The email from this listener reads, and it's a very

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short one. He says, Hello, Make Believe Ballroom. I have

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attached a list of my favorite Lindy hop songs. I

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look forward to sharing a few with others. Paul Poga.

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That's the whole extent of the email. I thank you, Paul.

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This is quite a meaty list. As I look it over,

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it's close to one hundred songs on this one. Where

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to even start? I've loaded many of these into my playlist. Well,

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Artie Shaw is indeed as good a place as any

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to start.

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Do m.

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Grab Town Grapple Artie Shaw and his Grammacy five recorded

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on Victor Records in nineteen forty five, and Cold from

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the list of Paul Polga here on the Make Believe Ballroom.

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And as I look down Paul's list, I see he

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also chose Caledonia, not the one I just played a

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little while ago by Woody Herman. But Paul's favorite rendition

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is by Louis Jordan and his Timpani five. I like

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that to different emails, two sets of lists, and two

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different versions to satisfy the taste of two different music lovers.

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Let's see for another Paul Poga selection. I go through

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the playlist, well, I can play one that Paul loves

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and mix that with my sometimes broken pledge to play

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at least one British band leader per show.

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Paste the floor, stop and stead. I drank a cup

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of coffee, started coming out my hair. I drank body

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cups of coffee. I drank barty coups of coffee. Crank

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Barty coups of coffee. Nin fin you to come home.

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Now.

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It's a quarter to twelve and you're still not in them.

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The way you run around, there's a dog asin.

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I drank body cups of.

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Coffee, body cups.

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I drank Barty cups of coffee, rank forty cups of coffee.

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I wait for you to come home. It's a quarter

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to three. I started watching the clock, the phone.

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Warning rings, waiting for your notck and drank body cups

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of coffee. I drank party cups of coffee, crank party

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cups of coffee point fo you to come.

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Ma.

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Now it's a quarter afore you didn't got home yet.

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I try to keep cool, sauce, smell.

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A cigarette and drank body cops the coffee, drink body

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cops the coffee. Drank body cops the coffee wait for

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you to come home.

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Now.

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You knocked on my door about a quarter to five

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out a.

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Hundn't kiss you.

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I'm a glad just then, and I haven't drank body cops,

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a coffy, I drank.

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Body cops, the coffee, drank body cops of coffee.

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Waiting for you to come home.

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Now.

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All I want is my man for myself. Drinking all

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this coffee. Ain't a government.

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My drink body cops a copy. I drink body cops

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the coffee I drink at off a lot of copy

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waiting for you to come on.

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Hi.

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They am.

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Jump tied.

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On.

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British Victor His Master's Voice, forty cups of Coffee with

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a vocal by Betty Miller, released in December of nineteen

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fifty four. I like that one, Paul Polga, you have

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a really great list. Let's play another one.

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Just to driggle.

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Though everywhere I go.

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People know the part.

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I'm playing.

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Tree for ever dance, selling it romance.

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Oh what they said there will come a day, youth

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will pass a way, and what will they say about

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me when the incomes? I know there's as to do

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the load.

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This life goes on without me.

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Oh, I.

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Ain't got tilbody, and there's nobody.

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Cares for me.

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So sad and lord hell lonely.

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Want some sweet mama, come take a chance with me.

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I'll sing a sweet.

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Love song.

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All of the time, and she will.

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Only be a little baby, but the baby by ha

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ha ha god body, and there's nobody that cares for me.

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Bad baby, I'm a good baby. Ba ha ha ha.

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He've got nobody.

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And there's nobody can't form me's standing love me or

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such Mam will come to the chairs, see I am

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so bad.

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They as we.

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Love songs all of the time, sen and all of me.

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M baby baby, He've got no body, nobody cheers for me.

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That was recorded on a World War Two v disc

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Just Jigglow by Louis Prima and his orchestra vocal by

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Louie recorded in New York City, made the seventeenth, nineteen

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forty five. I think most remember the later version of

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that song that Louis did during the fifties, but a

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different kind of take here from this nineteen forty five version.

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And I think now what I'm going to do is

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make an executive decision. I was going to tell a

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story about a bit ban feud that could have been explosive,

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and it didn't even involve the Dorsey brothers. I think

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I'm going to tell that story next week because I

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am really intrigued with some of Paul Pogus's record list selections.

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So I'll play a few more. Oh and I wanted

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to mention before I play another record. I know many

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of you wait with baited breath whenever that expression means

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for Lenny from down the Block and his record pick

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of the week each week. Well, Lenny will not be

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heard for the next couple of shows. Lenny and his

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wife Cookie are in Europe on one of those extended

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river cruises. Mister Excitement himself, Lenny from down the Block,

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I am sure is merrily engaging with fellow passengers on

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the ship or not. But I'm sure or his wife

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Cookie is because she's the Perennial Life of the Party.

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Bad the.

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Father Hines and his Orchestra with Riding and Jivan, recorded

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in nineteen thirty nine on Bluebird Records, and another stellar

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pick from the quickly becoming a big favorite of mine,

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the Poga Favorites list, which he sent email as a

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result of a list that was sent to us a

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few weeks ago by John and Elaine Stewart from Los

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Angeles and Folks. As I mentioned earlier, I'd also love

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to have your big band favorite record list. The selections

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I chose from Jim Halsey had eight songs on it.

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Paul Poga's list that we're delving into now has close

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to one hundred songs, But you can send me your

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list of either two or two thousand, and I'll be

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happy to play some selections. Just email the list to

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me at Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. That's

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com.

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And if you have.

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Perhaps just a handful of favorites, you could also go

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to Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com. Make Believe Ballroom

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Podcast dot com and you'll find a microphone. It's in

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the lower right hand corner. Of the homepage, and there

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you can record a voice smell for all the world

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to hear with some of your favorite song requests. And

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also at make Believe Ballroom podcast dot com you can

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hear close to two hundred past programs, two hundred past

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radio programs that I have archived. Enough with that, and

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now another from the Paul Poga list.

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God, now we're ready to jump. Be dumb.

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Dumb dumb, says dumb dumb, dumb, dumb, dum.

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Dumb.

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When you've been a fine high, don't you think about

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thirty in the sky, Mama, never.

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Tell you Just fall right end into this group. Because

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the rhythm is jumping jump sessions. Rhythm is jumping jump sessions.

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Rhythm is dumping jump.

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Say right.

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All right down, silent.

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Yeah.

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Rithm is jumping jump session. The rism is jumping dump session.

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Rythm is jumping dumping Saxons Ladder on ladder on.

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That ladder.

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Was jumping Bully Slim Gaillard and Leroy Elliott Slam Stewart

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Slim and Slam with jump session on Vacalian records, recorded

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in nineteen thirty eight. Folks, we are believe it or not. Unfortunately,

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out of time for this week's show was certainly an

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easy ride for me, since our two friends Jim Halsey

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and Paul Poga presented me via their big band swing

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favorites lists most of the music that we played on

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today's program to reach me. I'm Jeff at make Believe

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Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff at Makebelief Ballroomradio dot com.

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So until next week, this has been Jeff Bresler