July 4, 2025

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/4/25 Edition

Show Notes
Transcript

This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a look at a listener's somewhat controversial list of the most influential jazz musicians and vocalists of the swinging 1930s—this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on this week's program.

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It's make Believe ballroom time.

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Put all your cares away.

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

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It's make Belief Ballroom time and free to everyone. It's

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no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said Bamba yours.

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Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude. Your favorite

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bands are on this dance and.

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Mister Miller, what's you're in the mood?

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It's make Believe Ballroom time.

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We are a sweet romance. Is make Believe Ballroom. Come

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on to the last dass last.

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Hello world, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on the lights of

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the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal

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studio for another program of classic big band hits from

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

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the radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point one

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WGMC in Rochester, New York, or on a podcast, or

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perhaps on internet radio in the United Kingdom, please get

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ready as I spin for you some amazing big band jazz, swing, blues,

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

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Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. Hi, folks.

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You know over the over the last few weeks, the

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ballroom has been the best way to describe this, I'd

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have to say on autopilot instead of me handpicking all

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the music played on the show. It's been great since

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I've been able to play song lists submitted by listeners.

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And last week, if you were with us, we did

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a get well wished to Angelo Carbone and let you

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hear the Ralfie from Canarsi Brooklyn Record Club's top ten

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big band record hits of all time. Well, on today's show,

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I had put together my own playlist. When Hello and Behold,

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I received not an email but one of our sporadic

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voicemails from one, in this case Dick Gert in Clearwater, Florida,

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who wanted to share his unique list and to seek

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some playtime from that list. I'm going to play his

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voicemail and music from his list than just a moment.

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But let's first go to one of the hand pick

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tunes I wanted to play on today's program.

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For Robinson Crusoe. For Robinson Crusoe No. One meters of

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gallis he did?

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He wanted to Russo No, his faithful man Friday be

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cast everything tidy, yet he stared for some hidie home

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for Robinson Cruso. He only olive, don't need to follow him.

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He lived in salin.

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Till he wasn't satisfied up to heaven.

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He cried, please send me a pride.

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I'll take her with or without a Truso.

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Said Robins and Bruso for Robinson Crusoe. Oh for p

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Robinson Crusoe.

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Now no one met old.

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Woman mikingness God, he wanted to wooto.

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Now here's old faithful man Friday.

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Why had just cast everything.

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Body and yet his side for somebody?

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For Robinson Cruso.

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He only alis don't need to follow.

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He lives and fall in.

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And still he wasn't satisfied up to heaven.

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He cried, all please send me all fried. I'm a

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baker with or without unbruso that old Robinson Crusole, for

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old Robinson Crusoe.

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We just listened to the swinging novelty tune Poor Robinson

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Carusoe from George Hall's Great Crew with Dolly Dawn on

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the vocal, recorded back in nineteen thirty seven. Friends, 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 on the radio almost

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continuously since nineteen thirty five. To reach me, I'm Jeff

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

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Ballroom Radio dot com. And you can, like Dick Gert,

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who we will hear from in a moment, also send

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me an addition to an email, a voicemail. To do that,

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go to MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com. That's MakeBelieve Ballroom

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Podcast dot com. Then look for the microphone in the

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lower right hand corner of the page, tap on that

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and record away. Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot Com is

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where I are. I've all passed radio broadcasts of the

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Make Believe Ballroom and put them into podcast form. So again,

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if you want to record a message, hit the microphone

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icon and it should end up sounding something like this, Hello.

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To the Make Believe Ballroom crew. This is Dick Gert

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from Clearwater in Sunny Florida. I immensely enjoy your program

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each week and love the lists people send in for

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you to review and play.

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While most of my fellow listeners lists pertain to individual songs,

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the list I present to you is a most influential

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list in no special order.

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These are my top most highly regarded musical titans of

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the nineteen thirties.

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The great Artie Shaw.

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Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Count Basie,

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Billie Holliday, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and from France Django Reinhardt.

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I know some of you will disagree, but that's my list.

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Perhaps you could play some of their music. Thanks for

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your wonderful program.

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Well, thank you, Dick Gert from Beautiful Clear order for

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your list. So let's head to the Make Believe Ballroom

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playlist computer and fulfill your order. And in no special order.

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Let me first play this one warning on Decca Records

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that was topsy written by the Great Eddie Durham, Count

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Basie and his orchestra, recorded in New York City August ninth,

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nineteen thirty seven. Count Basie considered to be by Dick

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Gert one of the most influential musical powerhouses of the

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nineteen thirties, and I can't argue one bit with that assessment.

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Now another Gert.

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Icon, I.

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Swinging on the reservation beating tibble syncopation e y'all, and

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how on the reservation. No more hunting in the winter,

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and more fun if you begin to swing, swing hand

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sing on the reservation. Tom Tom a savage raven battle playing.

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Chah, that's what the warriors are saying. Swing Music's god everyty.

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Then his relation lacks a Jampan celebration. Oh, how days

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swing on the reservation?

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Swinging on the Reservation. Chick Webb and his orchestra vocal

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by Ella Fitzgerald, recorded on Decca Records in New York

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City back in nineteen thirty six, and Dick Gert, in

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putting together his most influential musician and vocalist list of

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the swing in nineteen thirties, said the list might have

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some disagreement among our listeners, and certainly some might feel

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that chickweb himself belonged on Dick's top ten most influential,

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But of course that song dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald. Friends,

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let me know who you would have put on this

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list that Dick Gert perhaps didn't. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio

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dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot Com. Many on

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Deco Records are Beatam and his Swingsters with body and Soul,

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recorded February twenty sixth, nineteen thirty seven, in Los Angeles, California,

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and I certainly agree with Dick gart for putting Art

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on his ten most Influential of the nineteen thirties list.

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Tatum was a jazz pianist considered by fans and fellow

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musicians to be regarded as one of the greatest, if

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not the greatest jazz pianist ever. And speaking of the

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greatest ever, the legendary Lenny from down the block, the

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producer emeritus of the Make Believe Ballroom who many of

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you enjoy through his record Picks of the Week. He's

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not going to be with us today. From Tampa, Florida,

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Lenny and his wife Cookie are off on a cruise

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to Ports unknown in the Caribbean. Lenny leading the life

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of the rich and fa amous. He used to own

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a restaurant in Brooklyn called the Palermo Palace. I think

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he sucked away every dime he ever made from there

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for his current fabulous lifestyle. But he will return to

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these very airwaves next week. And now on these very

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airwaves from Dick Gertz's Most Influential list.

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One two Buttons shoes will run your coat and hat.

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I play a game like that while I'm waiting for you.

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Three four open the door refer Heaven says I can't

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eat stuff you take while I'm waiting for you. Five

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says my heart does tricks as I picture.

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All the child.

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Seven eights you at the gate and you walk into

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my narm. Nine ten gives me again. Tell me you

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get a through just as I hope you will while

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I'm waiting for you.

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That was a little early Artie Shaw via Brunswick Records.

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One two Button Your Shoe vocal by Tony Past recorded

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in October of nineteen thirty six. Artie Shaw certainly holding

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a well deserved position on the Dick Girt list of

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ten of his most influential musical talents of the swing

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years of the nineteen thirties. Let's go to another record.

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Don't do.

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Now all you Now, it's your.

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Now over me.

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Every roll.

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Have the journey.

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For that one thing on learning.

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I cried for you.

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Water fool I used to be.

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Now I'm found you.

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I just a little, the blue, I found the hard

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just a little, the sure.

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I cried, Now your turn you cry me.

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I cried for you Billie Holiday Vocal on Brunswick Records

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featuring Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra, recorded June the thirty,

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nineteen thirty six, in New York City, and that record,

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many say that record is the recording that brought the

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Great Billy Holiday into prominence. And just as a coincidence,

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I was recently reading a story that I Cried for

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You was Billy's biggest hit for the Brunswick Record Company. Now,

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in that article it said that average sales of the

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Holiday recordings with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra at that

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time would have been in the three thousand discs sold mark. However,

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the record we just heard sold more than fifteen thousand,

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seventy eight. And one of the reasons this did so well,

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the story surmised, could be in the fact that I

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Cried for You was one of the first stands that

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Billy ever recorded and had some popularity prior to her

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going into the studio. That tune had been around since

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nineteen twenty three and recorded many times. So a little

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side fact about Billy Holliday, just by coincidence that I

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had read, I guess it was last week I Cried

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for You I'm Jeff Bresler, and I'm not crying for

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Dick gert who has presented the Make Believe Ballroom and

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our listeners with pretty solid list of what he considers

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to be his top ten most influential musicians and vocalists

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of the nineteen thirties. Let's continue the journey.

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And then they go, Then they get, and sometimes they

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want to.

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Let stand.

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Food, don't stuck, dot expect got stomus lad like I

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do that.

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Then I don't w then I fall. I do not

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happen anything different, things different, anything anything better.

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I don't know it.

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Had a lady.

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You may find.

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The set about anything.

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How can you not include a musical great on the

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Dick girt list whose nickname was pres or President on

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Vocalion Records, one of the most definitive tenor sax players

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of his generation, and I guess of all time on Vocalion.

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We just heard Lester Leaps in count Bases Kansas City seven,

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featuring the tenor sacks of Lester Young, recorded in nineteen

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thirty nine. Lester Young on Dick Gertz's most Influential list.

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I'm certainly not that influential, but I am Jeff Bresler,

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and we're listening to music today on the ballroom that

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comes from the artists who Dick Gert of Clearwater, Florida

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considers to be the ten most influential of the nineteen

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thirties and the swing era. Look forward to seeing your

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list of your favorite bands, musicians, vocalists or composers, and

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like with Dick, I'd be happy to share them with

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our big make Believe Ballroom audience. Jeff at Make Believe

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

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Radio dot com.

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Nothing work.

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Jango Reinhard and his Hot Club Up France with Dina

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Violin by Stefan Grippelli, recorded in Paris December the twenty eighth,

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nineteen thirty four, and that record the sole international musician

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on the Dickert list of most influential musicians of the

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nineteen thirties.

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When I'm with you, I be so small right in

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my shell, I water brawl. I wonder why I had

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to fall for you, Oh you dog, Why do you

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make my life?

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Some time?

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It seems like I love you hopping up.

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You don't have them leave much too much for me.

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I wish that I would win you went me baby.

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Kings, so I could love you twice as much as

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hide you. I'd have four loving oms to embrace you.

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Whise why do like you just hide? And I'd made

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you with who I was writing through?

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What wouldn't the bole iff do?

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When boy is he.

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Saying I'm your.

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You? Rid me baby him?

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Is it I a drims or I could love it

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wipe as much.

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As I do.

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You running Mamy Hims waiting.

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Im twem so I love you?

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On Victor Records, I wish I were twins. That's Waller

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and his Rhythm, recorded May sixteenth, nineteen thirty four in

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New York City. And that's Waller, the pianist, the entertainer,

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the composer of over four hundred songs in his brief

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life of only thirty nine years, without a doubt, a

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musician who no one will argue belongs on the Dick

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Gart list.

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Let us go the other, no body, huh turn up.

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N don't.

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D don't tin, don't do the last, o't er.

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Don't.

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Let baby, don't no, no, no, don know, don't know you,

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don't don't over.

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Baby, don't don't don't tell me A lot like trouble lad.

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Why A Columbia records I'm Rhythm Crazy Horace Henderson and

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his Orchestra featuring the unmistakable tenor sacks of Coleman Hawkins.

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That recording was made on October third, nineteen thirty three,

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in New York City. Coleman Hawkins nicknamed Hawk and sometimes

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what was his other nickname? Hawkins's other nickname was Bean,

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and in my estimation, Bean or Hawk or Coleman Hawkins

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was America's first prominent jazz musician to make the tenor

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sacks an important part of a jazz band. There were

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some great tenor sacks players before him, like Guys Well,

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like Hap Calledwell, but the instrument was not an acknowledged

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jazz horn until the Hawk came by Coleman Hawkins. And

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due to that fact perhaps is why Dick Girt put

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him Coleman Hawkins on his list one more on the

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Dick Girt list of top ten most influential Musicians and

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Vocalists of the nineteen thirties. To round things out.

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Sus.

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Y'all giving me her song and as.

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Telling me her tale of row Man, but heaven eye

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those words.

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Before no y'all telling me y'all gonna be true, But

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I shouldn't listen and do you.

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For having my heart been fool.

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Before me. Now you want me because you ain't got me.

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You'd even promise them.

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Once you got me right away you want me, you'd.

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Be changing your dude.

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You're giving me a song ever da.

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And I'm falling for your rowns.

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But haven't high heard those words before?

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What top list of musicians in voguets of the thirties

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would not include the great Benny Goodman And we just

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heard him on Victor Records. You're giving me a song

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and a dance. Benny Goodman and his orchestra Helen Ward,

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longtime vocalist of Benny Goodman Singing There recorded in New

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York City on October the seventh, nineteen thirty six, and

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we played so many of Goodman's standards on the show recently,

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I thought I would choose a record more lightly played

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Benny Goodman tune. So a huge thank you to Dick

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Girk from Clearwater, Florida, one of our Make Believe Ballroom

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family of listeners, who was nice enough to take the

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time to sit down and put together his list of

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the top ten most influential musicians and vocalists of the

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nineteen thirties. Why don't you drop me a line at

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com, Jeff at MakeBelieve

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Ballroom Radio dot com, or better yet, send me a

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voicemail via Jeff at make Bully Ballroom podcast dot com

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to give me a new list to share with our listeners,

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or perhaps make adjustments to the Dick Girt list we

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just played through. We certainly now as I look at

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the clock, the big Bulivar clock here in the wall

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in Crystal Studio, realize that we do have time for

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some additional music. So let's spin a few.

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Or a.

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Brighton swinging version of the song Sapphire from Clyde Lucas

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and his California Dons, recorded back in nineteen thirty six. Folks,

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time for one more before we have to go.

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Li the cat's got the bit.

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It is really cutting it.

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Lose the collar and the moon play.

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A double was soon, So swinging mother Goose let a

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Jack Horner went back to his honor to see what

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the buy news you putt need some? And he pulled

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out and drums some Swinging mother Goose, get those old

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rhythms up today, freshing up your lives.

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If you don't you get the gage, you help sister

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prod do not.

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Do not days little miss mother, you really can pump

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it in trump as hot as the new Little boy

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Blue isn't blowing intooso swinging mother wos my mother Goose.

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Bring out your eating and turn them loose.

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They all swinging.

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You can refuse to let the arm come go nursey loose, Harry,

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don't you be compare of You haven't gotten excuse, Just

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get in your place.

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Starts shaping the babs hands in your mother goose.

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If those rhythms up, today's freshing up your rhymes.

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If you don't you get the game, you gotta get him.

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You gotta keep heaving.

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Yeah that so come on, mother Goose, you gotta keep

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up I.

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Jumping rock.

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Swing it, mother Goose. Irish Adrian and the Kingsmen provided

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the vocals for Charlie Barnett and his orchestra that song

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from the nineteen forty two film Jukebox Jenny and Friends.

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That's all the time we have for today. Big thanks

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again to Dick Girt from Florida for constructing his great list.

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Very enjoyable going through it on the show Jeff at

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio

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dot com. Past shows go from radio to podcast on

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com.

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Until next week, this has been Jeff Bresler and I

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was just thinking before we actually do go out for

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those that follow Angelocarbone, whose late parents Ralph and Rose

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started the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club, just a quick

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update for you on his health. He took a spill

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by his condominium pool in Naples, Florida. A few weeks back.

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Lenny from down the Block paid him a visit, and

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if you listened to last week's show for Angelo, we

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played the top ten songs from the Ralfie from Canarsi

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list of top hits from the Big Band era. Lenny

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from down the Block took the trip from Tampa to

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Naples to visit with Angelo and played that broadcast for

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him on his phone. Well, Angelo, at ninety two years young,

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is back up and on his feet, and once again

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I hear sitting by the pool and that's just great news.

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So again, friends, for a second time, until next week,

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this has been Jeff Bresler.

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Let's din and imaginal for room. He is a make

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believe ball room.

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Let's din, Let's dann.

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It will double my chancells.

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I can see it your glance.

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Room man, for while we slaying and the man is

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playing music.

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Dammy sharp, if you.

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Bro tender sweetly, surrender in my willing arm.

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Let's down.

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So it's only a small room.

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You know, make me leave for room.

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Let's din

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