June 13, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 6/13/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 6/13/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/13/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/13/25 Edition
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This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s -One of the all time great female vocalists first record as a younf teenager, a dubious record company executive, 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.
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It's make Believe Ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away. All the bands are here

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to bring.

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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.

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Said Bamba.

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Yours.

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Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this stance and mister Miller,

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but you in the mood. It's make Believe Ballom time.

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We are a sweet romance.

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As you make it.

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Bob, come on, Jole, last, Dass.

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Last, Hello world.

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I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on the lights of the Make

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Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal studio for

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another program of classic big band hits from the nineteen

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thirties and nineteen forties. Whether you're listening on the radio

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via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point one WGMC in Rochester,

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New York, or on a podcast or on internet radio

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in the United Kingdom, please get ready as I spin

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for you some amazing big band jazz, swing, blues and

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

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broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five, and friends. We

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have a show just packed with music today. Let's warm

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things up in the study video to get this engine

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up to pressure.

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Swing mister johnyr swing mister Charlie. I don't care what

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to just make it a hortoon. Play a normal tune

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of a theme that's new, and don't you hit is

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harder than anything ever since time begin. Swing mister Charlie,

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or swing mister Charlie. No one can swing in live

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you do.

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I can't get enough of.

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That swingable rhythm.

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Stuff, Swing mister Charlie. Swing Oh, Swing mister Charlie, or

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swing mister Charlie. I don't care what to just make

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it a hot tune. Play a borrow tune of a

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theme that's snoop, and you don't you hit? His hart

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than anything I've heard since time began. Swing mister Charlie,

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or swing mister Charlie. No one gets swingy.

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You do.

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I can't get enough of the.

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Swing of over thom stuff, Swing mister Charmie, Cling mister John.

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On Decca Records, Swing mister Charlie. You might have recognized

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the vocalist, Yes, of course it was Judy Garland, who

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was just thirteen when she recorded This Swinger with Bob

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Crosby and his band Swing Mister Charlie, recorded on June

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the twelfth, nineteen thirty six, in New York City. How

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about another Crosby Garland collaboration that came out of that

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very same Decca recording session, Sama.

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The Home of Sweet Romance Samo. When you had a glance,

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Samo gives heavy feed a chest your fam just like

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a cleaning line. Your lips are woman, sweet as wine.

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Your cheeks all swarm and close to mine.

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Be bor.

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Have my heart is singing while the bad is swinging.

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Never tired of romping stopping with you at the Savoy

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watch im perfect holiday Saboi where we can glide and

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swing Savoian.

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Let me stump away.

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With you.

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Savoy Tavot table your mom.

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Just like a cringing mine.

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Your lips a woman sweet as wine, Your cheeks were

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salted close to mine.

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Neiby, oh all.

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My heart is singing while the band he's swinging.

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Never tired of robbin stopping when you have the Savoy

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but your.

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Sabot Savon.

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Stomping at the Savoy Vocal by thirteen year old Judy

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Garland Orchestra conducted by Bob Crosby recorded in New York

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June the twelfth, nineteen thirty six. And folks, you know,

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there's a great story that's told about this recording of

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Stomping at the Savoy. This was Judy's very first commercial

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record release, along with swing mister Charlie. So, as the

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story goes, Judy Judy Garland was assigned by Deck of

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Records to sit in with the Bob Crosby band for

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a couple of tracks. But Bob Crosby's band manager, Gil Rodin,

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who also by the way, played sacks with the band, well,

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he wasn't at all impressed with Judy, and he went

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to Deck and told them that the Crosby name should

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not be included on the label. Now, in addition to

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not being enamored by Garland, Gil felt it was a

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bad image for the band to be recording with a

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oh with a little thirteen year old squirt. So the

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record label for Stompin' at Savoy, the Decca record label

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simply reads Stompin' at the Savoy, Judy Garland, thirteen years old.

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Very interesting story there about Judy Garland and Bob Crosby,

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and now friends.

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Gonna smile and say I hope you're feeling better.

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And load with loud a way.

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I'm going with that.

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Yes, we get letters each week in the form of

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emails Jeff at make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. That's

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Jeff at make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com to reach me.

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And today I'm going to read only one email since

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I am going to put a pretty large string of

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music together in just a few minutes. The email that

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I have in front of me, and it's not in

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front of me, it's wait a second, here it is

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the email boy is from Chuck Goosoff, who listens via iHeartRadio,

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and he writes, Jeff, I enjoyed your discussion last week

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on your theory that the cabaret tax might have played

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the primary reason big bands dissolved and the music unfortunately died.

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You mentioned the Great Musician Strike of nineteen forty two

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to forty four, when union musicians were not allowed to

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record for the labels, as another major cause of the

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demise of the big band. I have read that one

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label called the Hit Record continued to cut sides in

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a situation that can only be regarded as underhanded. The

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Genius record empresario who may also be regarded as shady.

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Eli Oberstein might have been the ringleader in this plot.

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It was speculated that Oberstein continued to release new records

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during the band the band Excuse Me, contending that he

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acquired these recordings from Mexico to distribute in the US.

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He said bands crossed the border to make these recordings

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to circumvent their involvement in the strike, But evidence exists

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that selections were actually recorded in clandestine hotel room sessions

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involving non union musicians right here in the USA. Can

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you play a record from the Hit Record label that

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was made during the record strike? Regular listener, I'm glad

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I was able to submit this interesting piece of history

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regarding the musician strike, and that signed Chuck Goosoff. Well,

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thank you, Chuck. A very interesting historic and informative email.

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To be sure, Chuck, I did a little research and

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most of it certainly concurs with your version of events.

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So let's play one from the Hit record label purportedly

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recorded with non union musicians during the strike of nineteen

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forty two to forty four.

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Holiday long Way the Reno Shine, she debard of the

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MB nine.

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She's Magan History Working History shot lookout for the time,

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sailing up there on the.

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Modern road.

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Gotta boy Bramcharlie, Charlie.

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The Marie.

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Rog is protecting Chary working overtime on the evening when

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they gave.

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Her production, she was as fried as the girl could be.

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That's something drew about Gred White and.

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Drew about Rosie Uh.

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On the day long when the raino shine. She's abode

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of the seventy nine.

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She's made in.

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History working inctory, Rosie Uh the resent keep the bark,

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look out for saving times, sitting up there so much.

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Charlie the Marie Rosie is protecting John working overtime on.

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When they gave the production.

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On the hit record label Rosie the Riveter by Alan

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Miller and his orchestra with vocal quartet. That song, of course,

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saluting the women who worked in military airplane factories and

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were riveters during World War Two. So the hit records were,

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as we just heard, if you were listening then, carefully

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subpar in quality, performance and engineering. But that really didn't

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matter at the time because these records did provide record

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buyers with something they could not obtain anywhere else. That

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obviously being newly produced big band recordings of various popular

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song hits that emerged during the strike. To the best

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of my knowledge and some of the research I did,

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there really was no Alan Miller and his orchestra. An

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article I read in the May twenty ninth, nineteen forty

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three issue of Billboard magazine suggested that the name was fictitious.

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So let's play one more on the Hit Record Label,

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this one featuring Willie Kelly and his orchestra, with Tonight

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I'm going to See Baby, that was recorded in nineteen

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forty three.

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To night, I'm gonna see Baby.

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I'm gonna see baby tonight about night.

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I'll be.

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So happy when I'm.

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With just spending my time with that baby I'm mine.

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I'm so excited.

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I can hardly wait.

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Because I'm hoping maybe Baby's gonna name that certain day

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to night.

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I'm gonna see baby, that wonderful baby who's gonna be mine.

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Now, this name was not fictitious. Willie Kelly was at

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one time a trumpet player with Artie Shaw's first orchestra

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in the late nineteen thirties. So again, thank you to

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Chuck Goosa for your informative email about the Hit Record

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Label and the infamous at that time, record pirate Eli Oberstein.

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I'm Jeff Bressler, and you're listening to the One, the Only,

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the original Make Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen

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thirty five, and now for you. I said a little

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while ago that I was going to play a pretty

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large string of music, and I will shortly for an explanation, though,

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we go to sunny Tampa, Florida, where the producer emeritus

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of the Make Believe Ballroom, the Maha of the monotone,

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the platter pusher, the disk driver, the one the Only

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Lenny from down the block.

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Hi, gang, Lenny from down the block, Here with my

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record pick of the Week. Last week, my wife Cookie

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told me if I didn't clean my home office, she

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would throw me off the balcony. Since we live on

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the first floor of our condo in Florida. I didn't

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take her threat too seriously. I did decide to clean, though,

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and I found a notebook that contained many of the

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playlists Jeff has used on the program each week. In

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the notebook was a list from twenty eighteen that, for

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whatever reason, we never used. So this week, instead of

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a record Pick of the Week, I present to you

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many record picks of a week going back to August

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of twenty eighteen.

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Everybody knows that's just the muddy wheeler.

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Bunny seemed like heaven on high where the moon is

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shining rise, letting me dream away the night where the lazy.

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Weaver goes by, go away.

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Let us be.

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Just the reaver, you and beating.

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Everything is due all along the Mississippi. Hey don't want

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as happy as I.

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Why never want to roam?

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Let me live and make my home where the lazy

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reaper goes by, go away. Let us be.

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Just the river, you and me.

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Everything is due on along woman sip the bee. Hey

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don't want us happy aside.

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While I never want to go. Let me live in

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make my home.

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Lazy river goes by, Lazy river goes by, Lazy river goes.

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Bye, Where the lazy river goes by, from the twentieth

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century Fox film Banjo on My Knee. We just heard

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Roy Eldridge and his orchestra with a beautiful vocal by

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Gladys Palmer, recorded on Vocalion Records in Chicago, Illinois, January

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the twenty fifth, nineteen thirty seven, and that was the

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first selection from Lenny from Down the blocks playlist that

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he developed, but for whatever reason we never used. In

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August of twenty and eighteen, you know.

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Glass we were made at bar each other. The range

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your glass that we waited for each other. There we

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agree fardally live to justice some of these theminies range

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of glass, we get along together. Ranger Glass. We can

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laugh at Norman whether bolds declare whatever they can see,

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We're happy Angel glass. Just like two lovers on Victor

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covers and white of Sun or Raine, we find Rawman's

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Everything we meet is lover Lane glass. Lad, I guess

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it's name. The flavor range of glass. Everything is down

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a flavor every day we can say everything is Agent Glass.

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Benny Goodman All Star recording released by Columbia Records, October eighteenth,

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nineteen thirty three. Ain't You Glad? And an All Star

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recording indeed Benny Goodman on the clarinet, Jack T. Garden

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did the vocal and played the trombone, Joe Sullivan on

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the piano, Dick McDonough the guitar, Artie Bernstein bass, Jean

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Croup of the drums, Manny Klein the trumpet, Charlie T.

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Garden trumpet and author carl on the tenor sacks many

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of those musical greats we have played separate recordings of

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in recent weeks and months. Of course, Benny Goodman, Tea Garden, Krupa,

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Joe Sullivan, and Dick McDonough, all heard on the Make

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Believe Ballroom in recent vintage and another winning pick from

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the recently discovered record list that Lenny from down the

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Block had put together but never used for one of

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our shows in August of twenty eighteen. And certainly kudos

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in a big thanks to Lenny's wife Cookie for yelling

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at him to keep his office clean, and that without

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her screaming, Lenny most probably would have never the unearthed

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this great list.

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They don't Don't, they don't.

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Charge?

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What'll I Do? Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, recorded in

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New York City's RCA Studio Number two on March tenth,

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nineteen thirty eight. Friends, thanks for being part of today's broadcast.

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As Chuck Gousof did earlier, you can email me at

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

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Ballroomradio dot com with your questions, comments or requests, as

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we've done on past shows. You can even send me

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a playlist of your top favorite from the Big Band

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era and we'll share a few of those with our

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wonderful audience. You can also go to make Believe Ballroom

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podcast dot com. That's MakeBelieve Ballroom podcast dot com, where

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you can hear past shows that have been archived. I

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have close to probably two hundred shows going back around

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five years or so. I'm trying to clean up earlier

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shows that were of the vintage of the Lenny playlist

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we are playing today. I always promised to do that,

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but one day I will certainly fulfill that order for

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past shows Make Believe Ballroom podcast dot com, make Believe

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Ballroom podcast dot com, or you could also go to

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your favorite podcast provider for that matter. Also on Make

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Believe Ballroom podcast dot com, you can leave us not

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an email, but a voicemail that I will be delighted

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to play on the air, but not.

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Then the dott, the mom, the tera, What.

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Is there to say?

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Bud Freeman and his Windy City five on Deco Records,

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recorded in New York City, December the fourth, nineteen thirty five,

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and another outstanding tune from a list of music we

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never played, but was compiled for an August twenty eighteen

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show by Lenny from Down the Block, our beloved producer emeritus.

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That couldn't tell me that, don't you? Or didn't don't.

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I couldn't do the moment The.

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Sunrise Serenade Glenn Gray and the Castloma Orchestra, recorded on

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Decca Records in New York, February seventeenth, nineteen thirty nine.

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Every Star of bo Babe Me, the one I love,

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sweet Suit, just You.

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And the Moon on High Maybe no thread?

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Why sweet suits.

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You?

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No one else seen.

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Ever has my dreams without you?

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Don't know what I do.

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In this heart of mind?

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You live all the time, Oh Suit, Just You?

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Tavera sweet Sue, Just You.

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Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra. Vocal and arrangement by cy Oliver.

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Another deck or recording, this one from April to twelfth,

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nineteen thirty eight, and coming to you from an unused

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record playlist that we we're going to use on one

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of our broadcasts of The Make Believe Ballroom in August

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of twenty eighteen. And folks, I'm really enjoying this playlist.

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Some great songs and quite Frankly, I'm trying to figure

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out why we did not use these songs on a

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broadcast in twenty eighteen. Perhaps could be Lenny was in

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a foul mood that day and decided to change things around.

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Might have been right around the time, come to think

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of it, that he obtained a very expensive Cuban cigar

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and unfortunately sat down on it here in the record

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room of the Crystal studio, and he turned that cigar

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into just a pile of loose tobacco leaves. Just speculating here,

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I think now, looking at the big bull of a

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clock on the wall here in that very same crystal studio,

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we have time for some more music.

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There's a shadowy.

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Old Cabby that hangs round the square all into everyone there.

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If you take your lady's heart and romancem why not

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take a ride about in my Handsom says the shabby

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old Cabby. An hour or two will pass.

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Very quickly for you.

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If my very weary beast never hurries, that's the very

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very least of your worries.

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As he called giddiad to his horsey, you can kiss

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a little wild with your girl. As he goes to

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his horsey, you can water path, All that shabby old

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Cabby that dried round the park, running along blue.

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If you have a little lady you Papa the call

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for a Cabby to.

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Know Shabby old Cabby. Jan Sabbat and his orchestra vocal

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by Phil Brido recorded also another one on Decca Records

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on July the seventh, nineteen thirty nine.

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Baby anything.

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Anything as.

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At something my mom My.

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Nice Stomping Jones.

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Steve Ellington and his famous orchestra recorded an RCA Victor

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in Chicago on January the ninth, nineteen thirty four. And

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looking at the clock, I have time for another. This one, though,

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was not on Lenny's August twenty eighteen list. How about

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a little blues Jimmy Rushing style.

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Good morning blues blues? How do you do? Good morning

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blues blues?

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How do you do?

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Maybe I feel all right when I come to rad you.

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Maybe Christmas die and I want to see Sonny Claws

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babies Christmas time and I want to see Sonny Claws.

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Don't show me my pretty baby.

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I'll break all of the law.

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Sonny Claus, Sonny Claws, listen to my please, Donny Claw,

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Sonny Claws listen to my Please don't send me nothing

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for Christmas.

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Put my baby back to me.

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Good morning Blues Count Basie and his Orchestra on Decca Records,

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recorded in New York City on the ninth of August

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nineteen thirty seven. So, folks, big thanks to Lenny for

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finding that great playlist from August of twenty eighteen amongst

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the debris in his office in Florida. Folks, we are

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out of time. I'm Jeff at Makebelie Ballroom Radio dot com.

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Effort make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. Please get in

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touch with me. So until next week, this has been

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Jeff Presler.

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Let's DWN and imaginal for rooms isn Make me leave

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ball room.

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Let's durn.

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Let's durn.

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It will double my chances. I can see it your

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glances room man, for while we're slaying and the man

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is playing music. Tammy sharp you goro tender sweetly, surrender

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you my willing RM.

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Let's DWN.

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So it's only a small room, you know, make me

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leave ball room. Let's donatation.

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Level.

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You have no bush