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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 believe ballroom time and free to everyone.
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It's no time to.
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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. Your favorite
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bands are on this dance and mister Miller, but you're
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in the wood. Its make believe ballroom time. We are
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of sweet romances.
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You make it.
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Come on, Joe last dance.
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Let Hi, folks, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on the lights
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of the make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into my
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Crystal studio for another hour of the greatest swing, jazz
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and big band hits of the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties.
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I'm hosting the show to keep the music in traditions
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of past hosts Martin block Al, Jarvis William B. Williams
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in the legendary Steve Allen Alive. Whether you're one of
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my longtime listeners or maybe tuning in for the first
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time today, I invite you to join me for some
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of the greatest jazz and swing hits from the big
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band era. Hello World and Welcome, Welcome, one and all
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into the Make Believe Ballroom, coming to you coast to
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coast and across the Atlantic Ocean on stations like Members
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supported Jazz ninety point one WGMC in Rachatern, New York,
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and on other fine affiliates across the United States and
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in the United Kingdom. Let's quickly get the show underway.
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With two records records we have never played on the
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Make Believe.
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Ball Row.
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Love, Sad.
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Smile.
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That was the Texas Territory band of Frank Tanner and
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his Rhythm Kings with a Bluebird Record recording of a
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number called Texas Teaser, recorded in San Antonio, Texas, October
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the twenty fourth, nineteen thirty six, and that is the
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premiere the first time we ever played Frank Tanner here
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in the ballroom. Tanner and his Rhythm Kings mainly performed
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in dancehalls and nightclubs and different venues in the Lone
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Star State. They had only one recording session in their career,
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that being in nineteen thirty six, in total, releasing only
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seven songs on Bluebird, Texas Teaser being one of them.
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Now I mentioned that Tanner led a territory band. So
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you may be asking what exactly does that mean. Well,
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territory bands were dance bands that played and limited their
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work to specific regions of the United States in the twenties, thirties,
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and forties. Most like Tanner, never had the opportunity to
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ever sign record contracts, although there were many territory bands
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that went on to record a number of records that
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became very popular. Those territory bands eventually becoming very mainstream.
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The territory band typically had eight to twelve musicians, and
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these groups played one nighters, six or seven nights a
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week at different venues like VFW Hall's, ELK, lodges, Lions clubs,
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hotel ballrooms, schools, dance halls as I mentioned, and nightclubs.
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Let's say, as a modern analogy, I guess territory bands
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the best way to describe them. They were like top
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forty cover bands or tribute bands that you hear play
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locally today. Territory bands usually relied on stock arrangements of
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nationally famous bands and their hits, although there were many exceptions.
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Let me play one more territory band that's never been
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heard on the Make Believe Ballroom again on Bluebird records
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a little tune named Let's Get Hot in truck Bob
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Pok and his Orchestra.
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He very.
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Very nas.
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That was Bob Pope and his Orchestra with a tune
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called Let's Get Hot, recorded in Charlotte, North Carolina during
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the twenty first nineteen thirty six. Pope was originally Atlanta
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based and also performed dates in a number of Eastern
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Seaboard Southern states. In February of nineteen thirty six, the
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band left Atlanta for a string of one nighters on
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their way to Charlotte, North Carolina, where they were booked
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to play lunch and dinner sessions at the Hotel Charlotte.
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Once they got to Charlotte, they were received very well
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and within a few days got an offer from WBT,
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the local CBS radio affiliate, to broadcast live from the
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Hotel Charlotte several nights a week. And at that point
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Bob Pope saw much greener pastures in North Carolina than Georgia,
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and he changed the name of his band to Bob
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Pope and his Hotel Charlotte Orchestra. So friends, it was
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my pleasure to bring you to territory bands back to
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back whose music we never ever played here on the
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make believe ballroom. Now a guy whose fame brought him
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into ballrooms across the entire country, that being one Bobby Hackett.
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Singers The Peril.
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That was at the Jazz Band Ball by Bobby Hackett
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and his Orchestra, recorded in New York City, February the sixteenth,
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nineteen thirty eight. Coming up next, a great story as
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to how this next song I Am going to play became.
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A hit.
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On the Please down your satur I'm in a cowboy
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right in the rage. One day Ezy John Long I
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heard him saying it a more peculiar cowboys song.
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It was a ditty he know in the city, or
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Comma Goma dip li, Get along, get hip little dog.
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He's get along better be on your.
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Way, get along, get half little dog hees. He trucked
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them on down the old fair Way, singing his cock
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ca bo get in the strangest way, gonna die, Comma
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dip singing his cowboy song.
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He's just too much. He gotta knocked out Western accents
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with a will on search. He would rease ing mop
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weed Hi.
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He's what you call the swing half breed, singing his
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cock co bo get in a stray Gomma die, gomma di.
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I.
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Get a log, better be on you win you wave,
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get along little log.
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And he dropped him on down the old fair way,
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singing his cot cap booge in the strange just way.
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Comma die, Comma.
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Die, Yep.
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Yip Pip, singing his cowboys songs Yip Bip.
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As he was juggling along, Yep Pip, he sing with
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the hole up that.
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Yip Pip.
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That cat is just too much for singing his cock
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up bog the strangest way.
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Comma Die.
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We just listened to Cow Cow Buggy by the great
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boogie pianist Freddy Slack and his orchestra, with a vocal
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by Ella May Morse. Very interesting story behind this record,
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one that shows that scavenging through the trash, so to speak,
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is not really a bad thing. The country boogie style
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blues song Cow Cow Buggy came to us with music
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that was written by Don Ray and the lyrics were
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penned by Benny Carter and Jeane DePaul Now. The song
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was written expressly for Ella Fitzgerald to perform in the
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nineteen forty two Abin and Costello film Rhydham Cowboy, and
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for whatever production reason, the tune was dropped from the movie.
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So Ellame Morse, through an acquaintance, got hold of a
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production recording of Ella Fitzgerald singing the song. Ella Ma
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Mors then spoke to Don Ray and Freddie Slack and
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they decided to partner on the song and release the
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record through Capitol. Now, the song may have been cut
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from the movie, but it went on to become only
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the second record ever released by Capitol Records and their
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first ever number one hit and million seller. Now, I've
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mentioned in the past when we played LM. Morse vocals
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that she was always a little nervous in the recording studio.
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She ended up recording this song in a single take,
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which she had thought was only a rehearsal. So from
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one Ella that being Fitzgerald, to another Ella, that being
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Lma Morse. The history behind the song cow Boogie. You know,
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I mentioned that the song was the second ever recorded
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by at that time the new label Capitol Records. So
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what was the first song ever released by Capitol.
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Dreams All Around my.
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Deal recall a nighte of Paradise s review out of
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the Blue.
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Look came Stroy over the broad.
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Silverware Road, and in the distance the tangle starts.
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And cold like a feather.
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In summer hot.
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We never once questioned whether.
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I'm not a love to gather? What ever die.
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Boys rolling?
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I see them well them beam shy, and once again.
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You are mine.
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And in the.
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Distance a tangle start.
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Lo like a feather.
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Game summer.
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We never wants question weather, are not of love to
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gatherward ever.
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Died mountain.
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Rolling?
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I see him when the moon beam shone, And once
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again in moon Dreams, you are mon.
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That was moondream sung by Martha Tilton with the Melowares,
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music by Chummy McGregor, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, and that
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was the first record ever released by Capitol Records, and
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Johnny Mercer himself, along with Buddy da Silva and Glen Wallas,
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founded Capital in nineteen forty two. Moondreams was first, and
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that followed by the million seller cow Boogie. Dear friends,
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you are listening to the one, the only, the original
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Make Believe Ballroom, broadcast almost continuously since nineteen thirty five
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and heard today on public and community radio stations across
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the United States as well as in the United Kingdom.
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Great stations such as kf QX in Seattle, affectionately known
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as Racketeer Radio and to reach me, I'm affectionately known
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as Jeff at make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. That's
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Jeff of make Believe Ballroom Radio dot com. And now
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for all of our listeners at k f q.
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X, I'm just a little Jackie Honor and my.
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Ugo game.
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The gang of mine has in Dlan the eppievilin.
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I have the lamplight on that old corner all name the.
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World name I'm doing things on never.
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D why not they not ugar do thing?
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All the boys are jealous of me.
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Because I'll never take a where the gangle when I
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take my Sugar Dooty.
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I'm a Rodi Saudy as me.
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She's a high hat baby that cheese.
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So I never take a where the gangle when I
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take my sugar Dooty. Every Sunday after nude, we forget
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about our cats, robbin elbow at the risk with.
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A millionaires when I take my sugar Rooty. I'm as risky.
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Now as I can be, cause.
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I never take a where the gang when.
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I take my Sugar Dooty.
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For no, won't take my jugar Doo.
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Team, all the boys and jonas.
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I'm needing all and never take a where the gang goes?
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When I take my sugarho Jee, I'm riding out of
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that team.
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She's a high baby that she some one ever take
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a where the gang goes? When I take my jugar doot.
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Team rubin elbows at the risk without.
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Sugar gang.
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That was the Boswell Sisters singing with the Dorseyat Brothers Orchestra.
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When I take my Sugar to tea, let me play
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another record. Then on the agenda, the story of a
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popular satirical radio program.
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My very good friend, the Milkman says, then I've been
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losing too much sleep.
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He doesn't like the hour.
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He suggests you shouldn't raby.
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Our d my very good friends, the main Man.
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Says that it wouldn't make his burden less if we
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both have the same address. Then he suggests that.
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You should marry Raby.
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Then a very friendly fellow Blue friends.
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All the latest real.
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Estate news, and every day he sends me.
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Blue friends of cottages.
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With country views.
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My very good.
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Friends and names are saying they've been watching little things
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I do, and they believe that I love him. So
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I suggest that you gimen remain.
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I guess I'm all in the real estate.
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From Bili.
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Like a blue president like.
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But I found that own my family good friends indeed
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was saying they watch the.
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Little things I did.
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If nay, indeed, I love you, tom So, I.
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MA the rd aby.