Make Believe Ballroom - Ralphie's Record Club List - New Season Episode 4

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It's make Believe Ballroom time. Put
all your cares away. All the bands

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are here to bring good cheer your
way. It's make Believe ballroom time and

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free to everyone. It's no time
to friend your Dalis said, baby yours.

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Close your eyes and visualize in your
solitude. Your favorite bands are on

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this stance and mister Miller, but
you're in the mood. It's make Believe

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Ballroom time. We are a sweet
romance as you make it. Come on,

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Joe the Last Dance List. Hi, folks, I'm Jeff Bresler,

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turning on the lights of the Make
Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into my Crystal

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Studio for a very special new season
of programs that I'm calling Ralphie's Record Club

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List. I received an email here
at the ballroom a few years ago from

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Angelo, a longtime listener from Naples, Florida, by way of Canarci Brooklyn,

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whose parents Ralphie and Rose started a
record club inviting neighbors to their home

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every other Saturday night from nineteen thirty
five to the mid seventies to share pot

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luck suppers and listen and dance to
the greatest big band hits of the nineteen

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thirties and nineteen forties, Ralphie in
the Club painstakingly compiled over the decades a

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list of over seven hundred and fifty
of their favorite ranked tunes. So sit

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back and listen as I bring you
selections each week from the legendary Ralphie's Record

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Club List. My friends, and
welcome, Welcome, Welcome back once again

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to another edition of The Make Believe
Ballroom, hurt almost continuously on the radio

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since Martin Block first took to the
airwaves at WEEW in New York City back

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in nineteen thirty five. And a
little different format for today's show, But

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don't despair, I will be playing
a selection of tunes from the Ralphie's Record

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Club List, which in essence,
is what this new season of the Ballroom

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is focusing on. But I think
I'm going to split the program in two

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because after playing let's see, I
think I'll play three selections from the list.

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Then I'll be doing a very special
special which will happen on the show

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in just a little while. I
also must say, before we begin playing

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some music, that I'm overwhelmed at
the support this new season of the Ballroom

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is generating. Thanks to some great
listeners like Larry Arnett, Gail Gail tis

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Stern. I always love want to
hear from Gail Gail. Her first name

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is spelled Gail g A I L
and her last name g l GA.

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Excuse me, Elie Gail Gail very
much like the old actress Gail storm Well.

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Also back to who's contacted us?
How about Anne Lucas and Dottie and

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Paul all from Sarasota, Florida.
How about Arnie Koletta. Good to hear

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from you, Artie Dale Green and
Gabe Leonard, those gentlemen coming out of

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the great state of Arizona. And
special thank you to good friends Troy Workman

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all the way from Sydney, Australia, and of course the legendary one and

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only Gerald Coles from Rochester, New
York. All great past radio listeners who

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have come over to the podcast side
to listen to this special season of the

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Make Believe Ball Roam. And with
that, friends, it's time to move

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over to the left side of my
console where I have the computer that houses

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over two thousand tunes in the playlist, most of those thanks to our former

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retired producer Lenny from down the block. And also the left side of the

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console is our beloved randomizer, where
we will spend the virtual wheel and reveal

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a number between one and seven point
fifty to play the tune from the Ralphie's

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Record Club list that matches that ranking. So let's spin the wheel and for

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our first number today, it lands
on number three hundred and fourteen. And

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that's great because this is the first
time we will be listening to an Artie

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Shaw selection from the Ralphie's Record Club
list. And how about the great American

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standard number three fourteen September Song and
a little that was September Song recorded by

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Artie Shaw and his orchestra back in
nineteen forty five. And the song September

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Song was originally com posed by the
German composer Kurt Wile with lyrics by Maxwell

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Anderson, and it was originally introduced
by Walter Houston, the great actor in

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the nineteen thirty eight Broadway musical production
of Knickerbocker Holiday. You know, we

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actually think of the song probably made
most famous. I think made definitely most

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famous by Sinatra. I also love
the Nat King Cole version. But as

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you know, the song's a reflection
of a person's lifetime, and that's what

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the song was intended to do.
The Kurt Wild song in Knickerbocker Holiday.

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The tune actually originated from Walter Houston's
request that he should have one solo song

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in the stage play. As I
mentioned nicker Bocker Holiday, that play Broadway

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play focused on the later life of
the Governor of New Netherlands, Peter Steiversant,

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and if any of you know your
New York history, New Netherlands eventually

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became New York. So that was
September song number three fourteen of Ralphie from

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Canarsi's Record Club list of well over
seven hundred rated songs from the Big Band

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era. And I'm Jeff Wrestler.
You're listening to new season of the Make

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Believe Ballroom dedicated to covering Ralphie's list, and I can be reached at Jeff

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

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Now let's reach over to the randomizer
once again for our next selection,

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and to obtain that tune, I
spin the virtual wheel and it lands on

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lands on six six three. We
down the list an underrated number, though

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stand by one second I'm not finding
this tune on the playlist, so perhaps

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it's even more underrated than I thought. Stand by, as many of you

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know, when we did the Make
Believe Ballroom on the radio, also here

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on podcast. I don't edit this. We start to broadcast at the beginning

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and just finish it at the end. No cuts, no shenanigans with the

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editing. But I have found,
Yes, I found the tune six six

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to three. It's Shipyard Ramble.
Erskine Hawkins and his orchestra. Don't think

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then, they don't, they don't
thinking. No, no, they they

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don't mean, they don't the things
no, no, no, no,

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no, no, yeah, and
every every remon that was on Bluebird Records,

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Erskine Hawkins and his Orchestra with Shipyard
Ramble, recorded in Los Angeles back

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on April fifth, nineteen forty five. I have to look this one up,

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but by coincidence, we just played
before Hawkins Artie Shaw with September Song,

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and if I'm not mistaken, Arty, for whatever reason, played the

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clarinet for this recording of a Shipyard
Ramble. I don't have time to look

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it up now, but I will
let you know on next week's program.

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If that was indeed fact, that
was song number six sixty three, way

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down on the list, decided by
Ralphie from Canarsi and his record club members

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who developed the list from nineteen thirty
five right up to the mid nineteen seventies.

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And now one more from the list
before this week's special segment, a

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tribute segment that I discussed earlier in
the program That will come up in just

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a few moments. But first I
spin the wheel and it lands on number

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Wow. Another deep one down the
list, number five eight three. He

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ain't got rhythm with one of my
This is gonna be great, one of

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my truly favorite vocalists of the era, Jimmy Rushing here singing for Benny Goodman

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and his orchestra. He ain't got
a rhythm every night, he say's just

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the house of long balls. He
ain't got a rhythm every night. He

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says, I'm wearing a fry.
He attacked him down my Chinton when he

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found the ball him in job.
Buddy ain't got rhythm. No One with

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him, Dumpy Side in town,
oh domby Beady spending on O his book.

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He's wain't being papacies, He's giving
him dirty the balls, he ain't

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got a rhythm when they call him
my best ball him die with the diving

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and he ain't Thank God, he
wins j Buddy ain't got rhythm and don't

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want well now not me. That
was on Victor Records Benny Goodman and his

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Orchestra with he Ain't Got Read Them
by Irving Berlin Jimmy Rushing vocal, recorded

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back in nineteen thirty six. So, friends, we played three selections from

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the Ralphie's Record Club list. But
I want to do a special, so

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to speak, during this portion of
the program, and I will do exactly

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that after I tell you that,
as many of you know, I have

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had the privilege to present The Make
Believe Ballroom on public and Unity radio stations

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over several years. But this thirty
minute or so new series is exclusively on

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podcast. So if you're new to
the Ballroom, also in podcast form,

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you can listen to around two hundred
of our past sixty minute radio episodes on

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this one or any of your favorite
podcast providers, and I certainly encourage you

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to do so. You're going to
receive a great education into the music and

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history of the big band era and
to reach me I'm Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom

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Radio dot com. That's Jeff at
MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com. And now onto

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a most special non Ralphie's record club
list segment this show. Today's show is

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originally being aired in April, and
of course April is the start of the

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baseball season. Game I love a
game that I played and still bear witness

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to live in the stands a few
times during the summer, but also season

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long on cable and streaming. A
day doesn't go by where I don't watch

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a baseball game. And friends,
if you didn't cry during Field of Dreams,

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maybe this segment is not for you, but maybe after listening you two

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will see how baseball ingrained itself into
the American tapestry, especially during the Big

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band era, and embraced by big
band leaders through actually playing the game,

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supporting the game, and recording about
it. There was an essayist I looked

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this up before we came on the
air, named Gerald Early, and he

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once said, quote unquote, when
they study our civilization two thousand years from

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now, there will only be three
things that Americans will be known for,

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the Constitution, baseball, and jazz
music. They're the three most beautiful things

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America has ever created. Well,
whether you agree or not with those words,

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the next time you hear the word
swing, you can think of two

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great iconic American innovations jazz and baseball. Charlie Parker he avidly followed the Kansas

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City Monarchs, the great Negro League
team, then later Charlie Parker frequented of

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its field when he moved to New
York to cheer on the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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Louis Armstrong was a great baseball fan, and over the years he had sponsored

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a few Negro League baseball team.
James one of the greatest big band era

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and well beyond that, vocalists of
all time whose name was synonymous she just

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loved baseball. That was Ella Fitzgerald
Diehard, both Brooklyn and then to be

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later a Los Angeles Dodgers fan.
During the Swing era, as a matter

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of fact, many big bands form
baseball teams, Benny Goodman, Count Basie,

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Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington and Harry
James. And speaking of that,

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probably the most famous big band leader
attached to baseball was indeed Harry James.

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He not only loved the game,
but he was a very very good and

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at one time minor league baseball player. Now, if you ever read a

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biography on Harry James might know that
he really grew up in a traveling circus

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and Harry's mother and father tried their
hardest to provide him with some form of

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education, but he had an actuality
no real formal education. As a child

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and as a debonair and as a
great band leader and womanizer as Harry was,

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he was embarrassed by the fact that
he wasn't formally educated and it actually

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made him very shy. So Harry
over his lifetime was really not very verbal

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and conversations with Harry were limited to
women, music or baseball. He was

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a big Saint Louis Cardinals fan and
the legendary Hall of Famers musial was a

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great friend. Harry always booked his
orchestras into ballrooms and theaters in southern Florida

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during baseball spring training season. That
would give him the opportunity to actually work

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out with teams along the way big
bands played each other in the Big Band

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League, and I mentioned some of
the band leaders that had teams and during

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a Harry James Lionel Hampton game in
Lake Tahoe. The players were either hungover

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or out of their gords because the
game began after the last set at dawn.

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James didn't care about that because Harry's
baseball team was almost as important to

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him as his band, and he
would play with the team whenever it was

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requested and required. It is a
known fact that Harry hired the then unknown

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singer Frank Sinatra even though he only
batted two hundred, because Harry was known

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to hire band members if it came
down to two for the same job based

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on how they played ball. So
Harry was obviously a fanatic. So now

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here on the ballroom or a few
baseball related records from the big band era,

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and we start with Mabel Scott and
baseball Buggie. If I picked where

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you hold hop ball? Where them
to the plate? When you swing a

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ball? If you play, you
gotta know how done? Can cat candle

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hold on hard one? I mean, Damy, do you know the game?

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I mean, Babby, do you
know the game? I'm a Game

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league pitcher. Can you catch a
hell waiting you head? You hit Paul?

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I don't even look. Can you
hit Paul out through the y?

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Forget that? Baddy? Baby.
Let's see what your candle? Do you

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baby? Know what HA thought about? Do your baby? No, what

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has thought about? I need a
pitcher caught my last match. Your fans

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out to get to that baddy,
baby, cat to that bad baby,

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get to that fraid. Baby.
Can't got your bad bad baby can't a

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bad bay. Baby. I have
something. If you can get that ball,

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you can make a whole lay more. Come on, let's make your

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swing do I've got a drunk that'll
make you swing down loads. You can't

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pick it up? Baby? Let
mean you strump tooth floor? Where Wanda?

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I'm pitching my where, pitching my
all to you? You got to

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bath banny baby here, let see
what you can get that bread baby,

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get a bath, penny baby,
get you back, baby, baby cant.

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That was on the Little Remembered King
Records label. Baseball Boogie recorded by

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Mabel Scott in nineteen forty nine,
and Mabel was a popular vocalist. She

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got her start at the Cotton Club
in Harlem and sang for Cab Callaway and

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his orchestra. That was sort of
a double entendre song featuring baseball and other

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goings on. Mabel King Baseball boogie. Now, let's move on to a

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tune, also from nineteen forty nine, this one in honor of Brooklyn Dodger

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great Jackie Robinson. Then see Jack
Robinson hit that ball, hit went soon

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lapping the wall. Yeah, yes, yes, Jackie hits that fall and

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the song gets back. The crowd
is wod gonna stop that fall solid?

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Yeah, yes, yes, Jackie
hits that ball. Shot your pages now

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U, so it's coming now out
you come and dove it too. But

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it's so not the fact. When
Jackie comes to battle, the team is

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through the boy Jack Robinson hill that
fall. Boy ah so yes, yes,

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Jack is real gone. Sadi page
now out, so is coumping now

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out new come and dove it too. But it's an at the back.

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When jack It comes to battle,
the team is through boy Jack rocks in

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that ball. Boy yez, Yes, Jack is real gone. Jackie is

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a realgone. That was a salute
to Brooklyn Dodger pioneer Jackie Robinson included in

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the lyrics that we just heard.
A tip of the hat was extended to

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several other star players that were welcome
into Major League Baseball from the Negro leagues.

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On Deco Records. Did you see
Jackie Robinson hit that Ball? By

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Buddy Johnson and his Orchestra, vocal
and written by Buddy Johnson, recorded June

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the seventh, nineteen forty nine.
Folks, time for one more record in

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our tribute to the start of the
baseball season. And this record has a

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story because it was the all time
top selling single record version of what has

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to be considered the official baseball anthem. But was it really a number one

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best seller? Rankie Masters and his
represents Take me out to the ballgame,

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Me to the ball game, Take
me up with the crown and buy me

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some pee, and said cracker Jack, I don't care if find never again

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back and then a route for the
whole team. If they don't win,

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it's a shame for it's one,
two, three strikes. Your up at

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the all ball game. Now give
a curve ball you right now, or

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I must be a mask ball.
He right, go one of my as

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I must see a little closer right. That was the familiar tune take Me

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Out to the Ballgame, performed by
Frankie Masters and his Orchestra, recorded on

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RCA in New York City on May
the twenty fifth, nineteen thirty nine,

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So friends, this version of take
Me Out to the Ballgame was actually a

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number one record seller back in nineteen
thirty nine, but perhaps in a small

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part that was by default, because
you see the record on the flip side.

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Scatterbrain was a Your Hit Parade number
one song for eight weeks and Frankiemaster's

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most famous, going on to become
his theme song. And friends, it

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is now time to pack up the
equipment in the dugout and head into the

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locker room because the ballgame is over. Over for today's edition of the Make

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Belie Ballroom and our special Ralfie from
Canarsi Record Club List season. If you'd

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like to contact me, I'm Jeff
at Makebelie Ballroom Radio dot com. That's

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Jeff at Makebelie Ballroom Radio dot com, and please excuse my voice through out

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this broadcast. As I mentioned,
April is the start of the Major League

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baseball season. It's also the start
of the seasonal allergy season, so my

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voice might appear to you to be
a little off, but I'll fine.

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Just some allergies and until next week, as we spin the randomizer to select

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more gems from Ralphie's list, this
has been Jeff Bressler, Just Maga,