Make Believe Ballroom - Ralphie's Record Club List - New Season Episode 5

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It's make Believe Ballom 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 ball and time

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and free to everyone. It's no
time to friend your Dalis said Bob 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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Ballom time. We are a sweet
romance as you make the Come on Joe

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the last dance list. Hi,
folks, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on

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the lights so the Make Believe Ballroom
and welcoming you into my Crystal studio for

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

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I received an email here at the
ballroom a few years ago from Angelo,

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

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

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Saturday night from nineteen thirty five to
the mid seventies to share pot luck suppers

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and listen and dance to the greatest
big band hits of the nineteen thirties and

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nineteen forties, Ralphie in the Club
painstakingly compiled over the decades a list of

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

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listen as I bring you selections each
week from the legendary Ralphie's Record Club List.

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Hi, my wonderful friends, and
welcome back to another edition of Gonna

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Make Believe Ballroom, heard almost continuously
on the radio since Martin Block first took

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to the airwaves at WAW Radio,
New York City back in nineteen thirty five.

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I have some great stuff planned for
you today. I'm going to play

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three selections from the Ralphie's Record Club
List. Then I am going to tell

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you a great story about a vocalist
superstar that ultimately will give you some insight

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into the work ethic of big band
stars. And again, I am really

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taken aback by the support that this
new season, this podcast season of the

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Ballroom is generating. So thanks this
week to some loyal listeners who enjoyed our

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past radio version of The Make Believe
Ballroom and found their way to the podcast

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side. I appreciated emails coming to
me this week from the likes of Mario

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Savaldi, our old friend Mario from
Boston, Massachusetts, Jim Haller from our

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great past affiliate in Santa Rosa,
California. Jim and Paula Franz out of

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Jensen Beach, Florida. Paul Unger, another Floridian from Venice and a longtime

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listener of this show. Sarah Blankstein
from Queens, New York. Anne Lynn

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and Alan Falco from Austin, Texas. Welcome one and all to the podcast

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side of the Make Believe Ballroom.
And with that said, time to move

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over to the left of my console
as I always do, where I have

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the computer that houses over two thousand
tunes in the playlist, and also our

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beloved randomizer, where we will spin
the virtual wheel and reveal a number between

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one and seven hundred and fifty to
play the tune from the Ralphie's Record Club

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list that matches that ranking, and
you know, by luck of the draw

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for the last several shows. Certainly, if you've been listening a mixed bag

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a few top numbers, but mostly
songs that were mired in the middle or

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bottom of the Ralphie from Canarsi's list, So let me warm up my hands

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when I spin the wheel, so
we can see if we could jack things

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up a notch today. And here
I go, I will spend the virtual

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wheel and it lands on Well.
The list has certainly been jacked up to

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start things this week on the Make
Believe Ballroom, as we attained the lofty

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heights of letting you hear. Number
fifteen on Ralphie's list. He was a

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famous trumpet man from a Chicago way. He had a boogie down and no

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one else could playing. He was
a top man at his craft, but

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then his number came up and he
was gone with the draft. He's in

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the army now a blowing reveie.
He's the boogie booge bugle bar a company.

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They made him blow up bar his
uncle Sam. It really brought him

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down because he couldn't jam the captain
teen to understand because the next day Cap

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went out a drafted a band and
now the company jumps when he plays Revelly.

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He's the boogey woge bugle bar a
company B A two A two A

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two diplos to the bar in bogey
rizzle. He can't blow an older list.

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The bass and guitar is playing with
them. He makes a company jump.

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When he plays reveling, here's the
boogey bogey bugle bar of Company B.

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He was a bogey boggy bugle boar
a company B. And when he

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plays Boogy booky boogle, he was
busy as a bub And when he plays

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he makes a company jump into the
bar. Here's a bogey bogey a company

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B diplos to the bar. He
can't blow him out if the bass and

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guitarism when and the company jumps.
When he plays Revelly, he's the booky

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wooky. A company B got some
more to sleep with Boogie every night and

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wakes him up the same way in
the early right. They cut their hands

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and stamp their feet because they know
how he plays. When someone gives him

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a beat, he really breaks it
up. When English revelle, here's the

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book he will give you a bottle
company be a lot of hand the company

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jumps on English rebelly is the book
he will give you a gooba a company

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be. That was indeed the nineteen
forty one Decker Records original version of the

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Andrew Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy also made famous and

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probably the first time many of us
ever heard that tune by watching the reruns

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of the Abincostello film Buck Privates on
TV. Number fifteen on the Ralphie from

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Canarsies Record Club list. I'm Jeff
Bresler, and you're listening to new season

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of the Make Believe Ballroom dedicated to
covering Ralphie's list. And I can as

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always be reached at Jeff at MakeBelieve
Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at

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MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. Now
let's reach over to the randomizer once again

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for our next selection. We started
with number fifteen, so let's see if

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we could keep the streak of top
hits going. And I spin number number

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thirty, another pretty high up number
on the list on site, and you

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will not be disappointed by this.
Glenn Miller toone A B C D E

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F g H. I gott again
in Calabas. Don't want to boast,

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but I know she's a toast of
Calambu su so so years of gone bind

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my I like her looks when I
can read her books in calaber Suit,

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I'm gonna send a way. I've
been on a flame leading today and my

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dreaming I can hear streaming high mister
accent everything. So okay, lay m

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may see what a girl real per
room. I'll make my bed for that

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Franco face cad. I am hurrying
to I'm going to Michigan to see the

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sweetest girl in Calamus Galabaskay, Hey, hey, hey, and Mazie,

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what a guy. We're going to
Michigan to see the sweetest guy the galamazoozzzz

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That was number thirty on the list
I've Got a gal in Kalamazoo Glenn Miller

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and his orchestra vocal by Texa Benecki, Marion Hutton and the Modernaires. Kalamazoo

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of course among the band's all time
best sellers, and the tune was the

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number one charted song for seven weeks. Kalamazoo was you know, I mentioned

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getting some great big band music out
of an abodent Costello film. Kalamazoo was

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one of three classic Glenn Miller tunes
that were featured in a movie I Love,

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the nineteen forty two film Orchestra Wives. Also in that film, Let's

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See there was Glenn Miller playing at
last and I gotta do these off the

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top of my head. Orchestra Wives
serenade in Blue. If you've never seen

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Orchestra Wives, I suggest you go
to YouTube. Just put in Glenn Miller

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Orchestra Wives and you'll have a great
time watching that film. And I'm not

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blue because we have already played two
gems from the Ralphie from Kenarci Record Club

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List. Let's roll the dice and
see if we can make it three classics

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and from the randomizer a classic indeed, I have spun number twenty six and

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a classic. Indeed, I have
spun number twenty six, the Great Bunny

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Brigan with I can't get stars did
over the second the I've blown around the

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world in a plain, I've settled
reb loose, Suns and Thames and the

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North Pole. I have charted.
Still I can get started with you on

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the gold Course. I'm under power. My droug old Win have asked me

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to starve. I've got a house, a show. Please. Still,

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I can't get no place with you, your soul supreme ric climb right of

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you. I dream, dream,
day and night of you, and ask

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him just for the sight of you, Maybe what good does it do?

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I've been consulted by Franklin d right
about has had me to teas still I'm

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broken hearted house, I can't get
started with you. That was I can't

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get started, and I regurs one
Vernon Duke song Bunny Berrigan and his Orchestra

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vocal also by Bunny, recorded on
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seventh, nineteen thirty seven. So
I am satisfied, pleased, beside myself

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ecstatic that I was able to spin
the wheel randomly and bring to you three

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really classic tunes from the Ralphie's Record
Club list on today's edition of The Make

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Believe Ballroom. And I told you
earlier in the program I would discuss a

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vocalist and big band musicians work ethic
earlier in the show. So I am

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going to fulfill that promise in just
a moment. But first, as many

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of you know, I have had
the privilege to present The Ballroom on public

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and community radio stations over several years, but this thirty minute or so new

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version is exclusively on podcast. So
if you're new to the Ballroom, and

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the numbers of listeners are proving that
when I check the statistics also in podcast

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form, you can listen to around
two hundred of our past sixty minute radio

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episodes on this or any of your
favorite podcast providers, and I really encourage

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

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and history of the big band era. Once again to reach me Jeff at

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Makebully Ballroom Radio dot com, Jeff
at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com, and now

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friends story about Frank Sinatra and the
great band leader Harry James. Harry James

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actually was the first bandleader to give
Frank Sinatra big break and that happened,

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believe it or not, as a
result of Harry's wife listening to Frank sing

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on the Make Believe Ballroom And I'll
tell you that whole story on another program.

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But as I just said, Harry
gave Frank his first big break.

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And in the summer of nineteen thirty
nine, Frank Sinatra and the Harry James

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Band played Atlantic City's famous Steele Peer
Doing this is just incredible eleven shows a

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day. So I want to give
you a quote from Frank Sinatra about that

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frenetic schedule. Frank said, quote
unquote, in those days, they used

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to run people in and out so
fast that you barely had time to turn

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around between shows. Can you imagine
that eleven shows a day. I remember

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one day I had just gotten a
bottle of soda and a sandwich, and

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I was still up on the stage. The curtain had just come down.

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I was hungry. I weighed all
of about one hundred pounds back then.

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So I'm there munching on this sandwich
and I turn around to say something to

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Jack Leonard, and up goes the
curtain. They were so fast that they

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brought in a whole new audience,
seated them and everything. The band starts

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up and I'm standing there, expected
to sing with a sandwich in my mouth.

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Well I finished that sandwich. Believe
me, I needed it. It

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was brutal back then. But let
me tell you something I treasured those days.

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A great story about Frank Sinatra performing
with Harry James at the legendary Steel

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Pier in Atlantic City. So,
folks, I think it only appropriate that

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I play for you back to back, first a vocal by Frank with the

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Harry James Orchestra, then one of
Harry's most beloved tunes. Both these records

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recorded in nineteen thirty nine, the
year that that story took place, and

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I'm sure both were played live and
in person to the thousands who were on

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hand at the Steel Pier for those
eleven shows. From the bottom of my

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heart, I love you. What
more can I say? From the bottom

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of my heart? I need you. You're part of my day. My

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spirit is your to call my own. I love you, I love you

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from the bottom of my heart.
I want your going. It's your door.

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Every moment we're apart, I miss
you, And Darling, what's more,

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I beyond my way or heaven?
If you would say I love you

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from the bottom of my hall,
from the bottom of my heart, my

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miss it's you wild every moment we're
a mon I wonder and Darling, what's

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more, I'd beyond my way or
if you would say, I love you

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from the bottom my home. First
we heard a Frank Sinatra vocal with the

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Harry James Orchestra that being from the
bottom of my Heart, a song that,

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if I recall, never hit the
charts. And then a tune that

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definitely did two o'clock jump by Harry
James and his orchestra, both recorded in

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nineteen thirty nine and now ends It's
time for me to jump. But first,

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thank you for listening to this week's
edition. Of the Make Believe Ballroom

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Ralphie's record club season. I can
be reached at Jeff at Makebelie Ballroom Radio

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dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve
Ballroom Radio dot com. So until next

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week, this has been Jeff Bresler
Room Maga Your Ballroom,