June 6, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 6/6/25 Edition

Make Believe Ballroom - 6/6/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/6/25 Edition
Make Believe Ballroom
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/6/25 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 - we take a close look at a song that won an Academy Award in 1937, but more importantly, holds a musical world record that has never been broken! Also, listeners' emails and Lenny from Down the Block with his Record Pick of the Week—this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on the program.

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

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Time kets make believe falling time, But all your cares away,

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all the bands are here to bring good cheer your way.

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It's make really falling time and free to everyone. It's

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no time to friend your dalis said by mine.

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Suppose your eyes.

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And visual lie in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on the stand.

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And mister Miller, what you're in the mood?

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It's make believe falling time. We are of sweet Roman.

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Is you make believe? Come on, Joe.

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Last, Das Last, Hello World, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on

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the lights of the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you

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into my Crystal studio for another program of classic big

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band hits from the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether

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you're listening today 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 on a podcast or even on internet radio in

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the United Kingdom, anyway you've arrived. I am delighted as

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I get ready to spin for you some amazing big

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band jazz, swing, blues and boogie woogie classics. Folks, you're

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listening to the Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting almost continuously since

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nineteen thirty five. Once again, welcome one and all into

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the Crystal Studio. I've promised our listener in the United

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Kingdom that I would play at least one British big

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band orchestra per show some weeks, though unfortunately I have

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to admit I'm neglect so to make sure I cover

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my obligations, here for you to open the show is

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one Scott Woods and his six swingers.

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Swinging high, swinging low every night and day on the

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goals making door. Got no time for player that Sammy

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the Wonder Boy still pend us the realm of God.

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Hear him more, hear him go, but just this way say?

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And that guy got personality and the cute old ragionality

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he's telling with Rudy Balley. He's a virtuo. So under me,

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little Bolo when he plays and oh go off, wasn't

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mine the keys that remind you of the Japanese Saint

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Louis to drive his groove we went and placed by

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Sammy Dack's uphone. He's gonna wrong, he can't start, sees

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the names go all of passionato when he plays his

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oblega medicos who speaking Bolton. He's got a swell as

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ben and patient for a creation and his name Dammy.

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That's the phone.

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Recorded on Columbia Records in London on June the second,

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nineteen thirty six. That was Sammy Saxophone, Scott Woods and

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his six Swingers. As I honor my commitment to presenting

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you with at least one British big band orchestra per week.

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George Scott Woods, the band leader we just heard he

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was a very popular musician in the United Kingdom. He

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was a Scottish born pianist, arranger and bandleader. Played the

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accordion and by coincidence with George scott Wood Scottish heritage.

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Another segment a little later on in the program today

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will also key in on Scotland. I didn't even think

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of that when I was putting the playlist together, but

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that will be later. And here in the present I

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think I will just remain in the United Kingdom with

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this selection.

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Being something.

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On Carlophone Records recorded in London on August nineteenth, nineteen

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forty three. We just heard the beloved song Ida Sweet

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as Apple Cider, the Eddie Cantor standard presented to you

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today by one Harry Parry and his radio sextet. Harry

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Parry was a Welsh born clarinetist and bandleader. And I'm

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sure you probably heard, as I did, a little Benny

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Goodman in his style. Perhaps so two big band orchestras

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from the United Kingdom to get things underway here today

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on the Believe Ballroom. And before I forget, I just

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wanted to mention that I discussed a few weeks back

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the evolution of how folks listened to music. Records were

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played on the gramophone as the primary way to listen

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until the late nineteen twenties when radio started to become

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the predominant way people would enjoy the music of the times. Now,

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another popular way to listen to music was in one's

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own paller and in order to hear a song like

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Ida Sweet as Apple Cider, which was first recorded in

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nineteen twenty four, many folks bought the sheet music of

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the song to play on the piano, usually in families

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at that time, families that could afford a piano, many

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members of the family could play at least the piano,

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if not multiple instruments. So it said that when the

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song was released in sheet music form, in nineteen twenty one.

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Over the next several years, a half million copies of

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the Eddie Munson Jack Leonard tune was sold. And my

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own discussion here on sheet music, it's piqued my own interest.

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If you give me a second, I want to google

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what the number one selling piece of sheet music of

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all time was. Let's see if we can come up

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with that answer. And I'll do that, do the research

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while I play this song.

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Don't know.

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Anything You don't It's.

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To me.

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Very Recorded in New York on the twenty first of

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January nineteen thirty eight on Columbia Records. Johnny Dodds and

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His Chicago Boys twenty ninth and Dearborn Johnny Dodds was

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one of the greatest clarinetists of the nineteen twenties, especially

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when it came to the New Orleans style. He worked

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with most of the major hot jazz bands of the era.

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Dodds was in Kid Orley's, King Oliver's, and Louis Armstrong's bands.

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Now Johnny Johnny Dodds had a drummer brother that was

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called Baby Dodds, and they had a great but sometimes

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contentious sibling rivalry, but ended up joining forces for a

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while as an important part of Louis Armstrong's classic Hot

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five and Hot seven recording sessions that he did for

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o K Records. Johnny Dodds loved Chicago and he was

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not one to travel too much, so he really didn't

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get the credit he deserved, at least I feel he

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deserves as a top clarinetist. I mentioned Baby Let's play

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One for You with him featured on the drums.

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M M.

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Think they.

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Don't the.

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First Baby Dodds and his wonderful snare drumming from an

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album called drum Parade. I think if I'm not mistaken,

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and I don't have the information from that album in

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front of me, but it sure sounds like Albert Nicholas

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was playing the trump at the great Albert Nicholas. I'm

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Jeff Bresler, 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 it's certainly an honor to host this program,

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a radio show that has seen the likes of al Jarvis, Martin, Block,

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William B. Williams, and the legendary Steve Allen all share

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this seat. So certainly an honor. I could be reached

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

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. And in just

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a moment a few folks who have reached out to

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the show will be featured an email and a voicemail

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coming your way shortly. But now, I said before the

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Dodds Brothers played for us, that I was going to

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check on which song sold the most copies of sheet music,

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and Mike Googling has come up with a song named Sweet,

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composed by Harry Owens for the nineteen thirty seven film

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Waka Ki Wedding. It won the Academy Award for Best

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Original Song, and de Bing Crosby's record of that song

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became one of the biggest hits of nineteen thirty seven.

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Now it is said, and I checked this out a

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few times, that the sheet music to Sweetlilani sold over.

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Get ready for this fifty four million copies.

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Sweetly Long, Heavenly Long, fashq sweat.

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Lolly Earth.

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Then she plays name in a Bomay lordy.

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It was the star on you.

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Sweet lay Loney, heaven lay Loma.

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Why me lookar andized fortunes.

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Lolly Earth, you.

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Are my paraized complete.

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Lolly.

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You are my dream Come.

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Sweetly Lody, Heavenly.

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Fo Tropic scars are jealous as they shine my sweet

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Clay Lovely. I think they're jealous of.

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Your blue eyes, Lovely lay Lon. Jealous because your sweet

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lay Lord, Heavenly Flo.

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I dream of paradise. Hold my sweet name. You are

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my paradise compleat.

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Lovely you are my.

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Love.

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You arema paradise home Leader. Lovely, you are my dream.

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Cah on Decca Records. Sweet Lalani by Bing Crosby with

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Lonnie McIntyre and his Hawaiians, recorded in Los Angeles, California,

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February the third, nineteen thirty seven. In addition to winning

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the Academy Award, this was a number one record on

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the Billboard Charts four in nineteen thirty seven. And now

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I am literally scratching my scratching my head, and Dylan

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here in the studio is laughing because that's I really

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am scratching my head, because this whole thing's a little bizarre.

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If you ask me, I told you I double checked.

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The sheet music did indeed sell in the vicinity of

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fifty four million copies. Now, the opening to the song

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is quite odd since Bing Crosby was the number one

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singer on the whole planet at the time in nineteen

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thirty seven, and the opening vocal was not by Bing

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by by Lannie McIntyre until Bing joined in. And now

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I'm reading and this makes me certain that I'm not nuts.

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I'm reading some back on this song, so it says

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Les Paul, a close friend of Crosby, said in an

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interview that Jack Capp, founder of the American Decca record Company,

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and to Bing Crosby, they had an ongoing disagreement about

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having Lannie McIntyre sing the first half of the recording.

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And to make it even more odd, I also mentioned

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earlier that this song, Sweet Leilani, in addition to being

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number one on Billboard, was also the choice for the

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Academy Award for Best Song in nineteen thirty seven. Let

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me now, because I'm starting to get obsessed with this,

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so bear with me. I'm looking now to see who

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the competition was against Sweetlilani for Best Song in thirty seven. Amazing.

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Let me see if I have it on the playlist

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and I do this, friends, is the song that was

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beat by Sweet Lailani for the Academy Award.

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The way you wear your hat, the way you sip

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your teeth, the memory of all oh oh, They can't

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take that away from me. The way your smile just means,

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the way you sing off keys, the way you haunt

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my dreams. No, no, they can't take that away from me.

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We may never never.

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Meet again, flung a bumpy road to love, but I'll

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always always keep the memory.

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The way you hold your n the way we dance

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still free, the way you change my life. No, no,

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they can't take.

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That away from me.

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No, they can't take that all.

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Away from the film. Shall we Dance on Brunswick Records.

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They can't take that away from me. By the Gershwin

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Brothers vocal by Fred Astaire Orchestra conducted by Johnny Green

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and recorded in Los Angeles, March fourteenth, nineteen thirty seven. Amazing,

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totally bizarro, as we just delved into the history and

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I don't even remember how we began. Yeah, by looking

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at which song solo most sheet music in history, So

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in essence, they did take it away from them, the

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Gershwin Brothers, who, in my humble opinion, should have won

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the Academy Award for they can't take that away from

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me in nineteen thirty seven. Time for me to stop

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foaming now by playing.

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This letters letters.

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Ay, yes, we get many letters in the form of emails,

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and occasionally a brave soular two still laughing about that record,

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will step forward and up to the mic by sending

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me a voice email to play on the show. All

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you have to do for that is go to Make

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Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com. Make Believe Ballroom podcast dot Com,

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where I archive past shows. Go into the lower right

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hand corner of the web page. You'll see a microphone icon.

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Press it and their record away with your comments and requests.

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So for you both comment and request from a listener

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via the voicemail microphone that I just mentioned.

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I tuned into the show where you were deciding if

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an email you received from someone named tam was from

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a male or a female listener. You said tam could

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be short for Tammy as a woman's name, or tam

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o'shanner as of the name of a man. To assure

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us that tam O'shanner was a male, you referred to

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the character created by Robert Burns, the Scottish poet. The

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name Tam is actually short for Thomas. The Tommy Dorsey

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song Coming through the Rye used lyrics from a Robert

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Burns poem. Can you humor me by playing that record? Thanks?

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It's Neil Reid here.

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Thank you Neil Reid. You are both a gentleman and

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a scholar. So I am delighted and honored to play

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that record for you.

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Baaaaaaamaakky. If a body meets another body coming.

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Through the ride, if fy kiss and all the body

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need a body.

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Cry, every lady has her lighty plain.

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I say, hey, I.

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All the life.

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They smile on me well, coming through the ride. If

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the body need the body, come to the if the body,

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if the body need a body crime.

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Coming through the Rye Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra, vocal

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by Edith Wright, lyrics by the Scottish poet Robert Burns,

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who was born in seventeen fifty nine and died in

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seventeen ninety six. So I'm sure, I'm very confident that

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he wasn't at the Victor Records recording session on February

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the tenth, nineteen thirty eight, New York City. Possibly they

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are in spirit, but not in the flesh. But with

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sweet Leilani winning the Academy Award, anything is and was possible.

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So here let's get back to Neil's excellent voicemail. So

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here's an interesting fact as the story goes. After Benny

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Goodman managed to beat him to the punch in covering

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a ranger and bandleader Claude Thornhill's update of Loch Loman

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a few months earlier, Tommy Dorsey wasn't going to take

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any chances in letting this other Scottish classic get past him.

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Maxwell Maxwelton's banks a Barney wherever early all the du

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and the.

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Lorry gave me her love and promise.

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True, gave me her promis to and then for God

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will be.

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But for Bony Bony Anne Lorry, I name me do and.

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For her for.

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My Victor records Annie Laurie by Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra,

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arranged like Claude Thornhill and recorded in New York City

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on February third, nineteen thirty eight. I just mentioned Benny

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Goodman's big hit lock Loman, another Scottish folk song turned swing.

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That song was sung by Martha Tilton during Benny Goodman's

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groundbreaking Carnegie Hall concert that took place on January sixteenth,

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nineteen thirty eight. And here is the record release of

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that song on Victor.

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Oh you take the high road, now I'll take the

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low road. But I'll be in Scotland a fire for

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me and my true love may never meet again on

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the Bonny Bonny Banks of lot Lormans, by on Bonny

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Banks and by young Bonny Brays where the sun shines

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spread on lot Lormans, where me and my true love

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forever want to games.

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On the Bonny Bonny fan go lot load. Now you

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take the high road and I'll take the low road.

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I'll be in Scotland, a fire for me and my

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true love may never meet again on the Bonny Bonny Bank.

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Some Lo Loaman.

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That we parted in yon Shady Glands on the Steeg

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Steve side from ben Loma, where it for you the Highland,

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He'll be you and the sign coven is lo.

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Now you take the herold.

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Is commander for.

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You, for me and not too low. Then again on

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the Bunny Bay, on the Bunny Bunny Babe, on the

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Bonny body. Bye Long Loan lock Loman.

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Via Victor Records loch Loman by Benny Goodman and his

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orchestra vocal by Martha Tilton, recorded in New York City

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November the twelfth, nineteen thirty seven. So a little ping

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pong match of sorts between Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey

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when it came to Scottish themed songs. Benny came out

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with loch lomand on November the twelfth, nineteen thirty seven.

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Tommy Dorsey countered with Annie Laurie on February the thirdnineteen

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thirty eight, and that song did very well. So Tommy

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came right back with Coming through the Rye on March

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the tenth of nineteen thirty eight. So Neil read, thank

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you so much for your voice message to us. I'm

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sure it was painless for Neil to record it, and

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I encourage you to do the same by going to

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Make Believe Ballroom podcast dot com. Let's make Believe Ballroom

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podcast dot com and hitting the microphone icon in the

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lower right hand corner.

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Of the page.

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That was a wonderful email. And now we go to

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another listener, and I'm also happy to read and delve

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into his email. Always love when we get emails from

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high school or college students, and here is one recently received. Hi, Jeff,

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I'm a college student in Rochester, New York who started

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listening to the show on Jazz ninety point one not

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too long ago. But I have become a big fan.

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I especially like hearing you talk about the history behind

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the songs and artists, and Lenny's segment is a nice

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recent edition. Anyway, I'm a little bit behind on episodes currently,

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but a few weeks ago you played something featuring the organ.

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I'm a big fan of organ music, so I was

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hoping you could play another song featuring it. Keep up

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the good work and have a good one and that

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sign Chris and Chris goes to the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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And yes, Chris, we did play some organ music a

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few weeks back when we played a song by the

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soprano Loulie Gene Norman that she did as a special

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record for the Ice Capades. So, Chris, I think that

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the number one proponent of playing the organ for a

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number of songs that were recorded was the great Fats Waller,

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the well known piano player and singer, comedian entertainer. We

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play so much Fats here on the program. Of course,

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songs like I Ain't Misbehaving and join us jumping. But

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I don't think in the history of this show I

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ever played anything he did on the organ, So I'm

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very glad you asked Fats. Fats Waller wrote over four

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hundred songs, and he was indeed an amazing composer as

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well as entertainer. So how did Fats Waller become acquainted

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with the organ? Well, Fat's dad was a Baptist preacher,

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the Reverend Edward Martin Waller, and he had a congregation

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in Harlem, New York. So at ten years old, Fats

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Waller began playing the organ in his father's church, and

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later in his career he never forgot the joy he

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received from playing the organ in church. So unknown to

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many today, Chris Fats Willer pioneered the use of the

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pipe organ and Hammond organ in jazz. Fats referred to

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the instrument as the god box, and he used the

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organ as only he could, given it a sense of

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swing swing to the pedals. So let me play one

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by Fats Waller on the organ. I just mentioned ain't misbehavin.

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The name, and.

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I don't want to walk with all by myself.

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No one to talk with the mesion shelf Emmy's.

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Face and saving my love for you.

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Find you our baby, I know the.

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One I love.

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I'm through it, flitting the cheer that I'm thinking out

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Emmy's raving, saving my love for you.

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Oh yeah, like a chawner in a corner.

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Don't go nowhere?

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Why the bagging y'rsel.

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Lady.

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Bullyvern, don't stand ladies, I know, mis go.

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Hey, I'm a move.

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About it fun really, amen, faman raman oh my loggin vogin.

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Loger, ain't misbehaven Fats Wailer on the organ and his

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continental rhythm swing. This record recorded in London on August

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the twenty first, nineteen thirty eight. And thank you so

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much Chris for your outstanding email and your interest in

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hearing some organ music vintage nineteen thirties. Again to reach

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me Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. Jeff at

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. And now let's reach out

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to our our producer Emeritis. Lenny from down the Block

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in Tampa, Florida with his record pick of the week.

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

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record pick of the week. Two songs were recorded to

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be used as a theme music for the Make Believe Ballroom.

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The earliest tune was written in nineteen thirty six by

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Andy Rozoff in Paul, Deneka. It was recorded by Charlie

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Barnett and his Glen Island Casino Orchestra with vocals by

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the Modern Airs. Martin Block, the original host of the

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Make Believe Ballroom for w NEW Radio in New York,

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quickly made it the show's theme song. It's the version

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that Jeff used is to close out many of his shows.

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The theme song that Jeff opens each program with is

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Glenn Miller and his Orchestra's Make Believe Ballroom Time, which

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was written in nineteen forty to replace the older Barnett tune.

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It was written by Block, Green and Stoner, that Block

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being the one and only Martin Block. It's interesting that

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the Modern Airs also provided the vocal for that version

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of the theme. I recently found another record titled Make

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Believe Ballroom that perhaps was never released. It featured vocals

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by the Pied Pipers with the Selburg Orchestra. It was

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used in the nineteen forty nine Columbia film Make Believe Ballroom,

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which was loosely based on both the Martin Block New

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York version of the radio show and Al Jarvis's Los

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Angeles program. The record you were about to hear was

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recorded on the Exclusive label with no B.

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Side nas.

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Article to be there.

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You're making me fall. That's a canopy above the spies

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and after that onto your end, shielding your.

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Friends hot been your cardad for that time over the sky,

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same mister change showed you the way, the way you'll

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stay the ball, take the one you hove along with you.

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To the brief ball maybe ball rude where maybe b

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breees come to.

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I been your f hand on that start, all over

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that story, saying mister rag jay, j'ge you the way,

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don't stay. I w take the one you.

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Long with you.

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The long maybey Bob.

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When they believe, some don't.

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And I'm bonn baby go with you.

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I think by looking at the bull of a clock

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on the wall here we might have time for one

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more song.

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I want to zoo with thee, sleep with the grape

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shape and stuff we've come to look sharp enough to

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see my Sunday girl. I want to read sleep with

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the ripe stripe at the best best and read flat

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and the lady's bed see that Sunday again. I want

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to look keen so my three will say you don't

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look like saying bow, so keen, that's your screen. He

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comes to walk in rainbow sweet to magazine with three

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fleet with the brain shape and stuff. Come to look

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sharp enough to see my girls.

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I want a brown gown with the dog up with

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the heads left fand the lad.

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Wet in the shoppers taste to see mine.

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Made the water can pat.

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With the trim and bag back with the rids to

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twenty years to see my son this, sir.

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I want to look keep so my dream.

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Will say, hey, I the lucky fella don't, but he'll scream.

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Babies in technic color.

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I want brown gown top talk with the lay with

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in the shopper ta to see.

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On Columbia Records from nineteen forty two, a zoot Suit

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for My Sunday gal by Kay Kaiser and his orchestra,

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vocal by Sully Mason, backed up by Trudy, Dorothy Jack

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and Max. This song hit climbed to number eight on

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the Weekly Singles Sales charts, and that My Friends concludes

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another broadcast of the Make Believe Ballroom to reach me

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Jeff at make Believe Ballroom or radio dot com. That's

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Jeff at make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. To hear

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past shows in this series, or to leave a voicemail

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message to be played on the air with your requests

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or comments like Neil Reid did I'm Jeff at make

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Believe Ballroom podcast dot com. Jeff at make Believe Ballroom

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

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this has been Jeff Presler.

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Lets and imagine a full room here to make me

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leave ballroom.

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It will double my shot.

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I can see it your glance. Room wild