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On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a Doo Wop surprise, a dancing trivia question, an email from a...

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a Doo Wop surprise, a dancing trivia question, an email from a beloved listener, Lenny from Down the Block's Record Pick of the Week, listeners emails - this and many more great records to cherish and enjoy on the 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 believe ballroom time and free to everyone.

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It's no time to friend your Dalis.

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Said Bamba yours, close your eyes.

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And vis you lie in your solitude.

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Your favorite bands are on this dance and mister Miller,

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what you're in the mood.

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It's make believe ballroom time.

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We are of sweet romance.

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As you make it.

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Boo, Come on, Joe the last dast last.

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

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the make believe ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal

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studio for another program of the great big band hits

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

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on the radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point

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one WGMC in Rochester, New York, or maybe you're listening

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today on the podcast, or perhaps even on internet radio

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across the United Kingdom. Any way you've got here, I'm

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happy as I am delighted to bring you an hour

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of some wonderful big band jazz, swing, blues and boogie

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woogie classics. Folks, you're listening to The Make Believe Ballroom,

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broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen hundred and thirty five, and

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once again, welcome one and all into my Crystal studio.

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And why don't I start today's program with a question,

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that question being do you guys like leftovers? I certainly do.

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Leftover Chinese food is my favorite. But I also have

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for you today on this program a big band leftover,

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and maybe a few more a little later on in

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the program. Last week, if you were with us, I

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discussed Harry James love and total obsession with the game

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of baseball, and to follow up that story, I played

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a couple of Harry James tunes and I was hoping

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last week to play one more, but I looked at

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the clock and I knew I wasn't going to be

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able to squeeze that one in, and that specific tune

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has in essence become a leftover that I will now

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play for you to get. The thing is underway. On

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today's edition of The Make Foley ball Room.

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And fo.

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Partners, we just heard Texas Chatter. Harry James and his Orchestra,

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recorded on Brunswick Records in New York, City on January

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the fifth, nineteen thirty eight, A tasty leftover. Indeed, here

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on the one, the only, the original make Believe Ballroom.

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Let me play one more tune, few nice folks and then, well,

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you know, many of you might have thought that duop

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started in the nineteen fifties. And if that's what you think,

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I have a surprise for you right after this record

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and a stet I just played for your listening pleasure,

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Rollum Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, recorded on Victor Records

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in Hollywood, California, July the seventh, nineteen thirty seven. So, friends,

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many of us think that doop started in the early fifties. Well,

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it did become extremely popular in the fifties, as we know,

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with the groups like well, groups such as the Well,

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the Orioles, the Platters, the Moonglows, the Five Keys. I

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could go on and on, But in actuality, the origins

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of the dou wop sound go back to believe it

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or not, a group called the Triangle Quartet who recorded

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a song titled Doodling Back for Paramount Records way back

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in nineteen twenty nine. But in my humble estimation, I

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think the true fathers, the forefathers of do wop, And

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if you're in aficionado of duop, you might disagree with me,

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But I think they were a group called The Cats

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and the Fiddle. They were an African American singing group

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that formed a nineteen thirty seven in Chicago, and they

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stayed active until nineteen fifty one, in that time, releasing

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more than forty recorded sides. So it busy fourteen years

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for them for the Cats in the Fiddle. On December seventh,

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nineteen thirty nine, on the Bluebird Record label, they released

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their signature song. That was a tune called I Miss

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You So I want to play that song for you,

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A little doop my friend's nineteen thirties style, those.

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Happy hours that counts for ours. I'm missing your signo.

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Most of all.

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I misusal.

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Now then I'm lonely. I want you only to share

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my dreams once for jeez, come back, I misusal, I

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don't and jusy we never got my.

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And now I'm longing for you to be. I'll always

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love you and I'll need you.

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Oh honey doors you know, Oh stove fall, I miss

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us the ooh stove wall.

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I missus.

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Bose stove fall.

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I missus.

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I don't use it indeed ever, And now I'm long.

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On you to.

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Be.

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I always love you and I'll be honeyed, you know, mos.

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Do I love yousue more than I miss you.

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So the early roots of do up via the cats

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and the fiddle, another swinging tune for you all. Then

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I have a great trivia question, ma'am.

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Listen what I've got to say. The King has.

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Called for us to come and wait for him today.

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Now our music will be out of place, and this

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key's caught, you'll fly. So here's what I've got to say.

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And please marry in line that every night.

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The executed trump attack trumbone drum. You to houses swinging

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This one fall.

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Of the game.

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All the saxophones play soft with while we played that

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royal coll swinging.

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There one fall of the game.

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Oh when we play shake that thing, everybody shake. I'll

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take it nice and easy. House King will take the place.

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Look at Pats, he's all excited.

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You're not sure he will be nicer?

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Houses swinging.

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There's one fall of the kid.

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Uh huh.

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We just heard Joe Haims and his orchestra with swinging

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for the King vocal on that one by Toots Mondelo

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re recorded on the Perfect Record label in nineteen thirty five.

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So I told you I had a trivia question. A

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little background. A Broadway musical comedy show called Funny Face

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was composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by his brother

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Ira Gershwin. Now a show which opened at the Alvin

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Theater in New York City in nineteen twenty seven, starred

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Fred Astaire and his sister Adele as his dance partner.

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Adele dancing with Fred long before Ginger Rogers. But in

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regard to that show Funny Face, there's a great trivia

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question about us Stare that came out of his appearance

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in that production, and it had to do with the garments,

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as in clothing garments. Can you figure out what garments

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I am talking about? Think about it while we hear

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from the man himself, mister Fred Astare, ha ha.

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He he you think the laps on me. They all

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laughed at Bristopher Columbus when he said the world was wrong.

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They all laughed when Ederson recorded sounds. They all laughed

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at Wilburan's brother when they said the man could fly.

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They told Marconi wireless was a pony. It's the same.

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Old Friday laughed at me, wanting you. He said, I

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was reaching for the moon. But all you came through.

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Now they'll have to change their tune.

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They all said, we never could be happy.

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They laughed at us, and how but Paul, who's got

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the last last job?

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The odds were one hundred to one against me.

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The world, but the heights were too high, too high.

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But people from Missouri never incensed me. Oh, I wasn't

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a bit concerned.

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Or from history, I had learned how many many times

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the worm had turned. They all laughed at Rockefeller Center.

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Now they're fighting to get him. They all laughed at

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Whitney and his cotton gin. They all laughed at Bolton

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and the sea boat, Hershey and his chocolate.

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Bar Ford and is busy kept the lapper's busy. That's

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how people are.

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They laughed at me. Why you said it would be

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hello goodbye? But all you came through now they're eating

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humble pie. They all said, we'd never forget together. Darling,

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let's take a bound for who's got the last laugh?

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And while the last laugh, who's got the last laugh?

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Now?

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Brunswick records They All Laughed, written by George Gershwin with

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lyrics by Ira Gershwin here sung by Fred Astaire, with

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the orchestra conducted by Johnny Green, recorded in Los Angeles,

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March the eighteenth, nineteen thirty seven. And They All Laughed

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first appeared on the movie screens in the nineteen thirty

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seven film Shall We Dance, where it was introduced by

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Ginger Rogers as part of a song and dance routine

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with fred Astaire. Ginger also went on to make her

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own recording of They All Laughed. So my question was

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not about the movie, but the musical Funny Face back

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in nineteen twenty seven, where that song was first introduced,

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where I asked what clothing did Fred Astare wear for

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the first time in his career? And the answer is

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it was in this show Funny Face, that Fred Astaire

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first danced in evening clothes and a top hat. A

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little trivia if you hear today on the Make Believe Ballroom,

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in just a minute, the listeners recorded comment, yes, folks,

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not an email like we traditionally read to you here

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on the show, but a recorded comment.

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Every magazine gives attention, Every magazine gives a mention two

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or three danceyly, why once you visits there, once your

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business there before ist you listen to my story.

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It's five street I swing.

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It was just the normal street bill It got that

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all time. Be now with the place when this wing

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can be fifty second Street, it's an endless whoho ho

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where the tall.

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Rest from esclo.

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It's find the thing when you're beating all this sagum

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street a few times you like the rhythm rocking making

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a runaboot go. The swing is absolutely shock in the

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Mama Thank book or Tomama Swing too. It's a world

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that's set upon. It's west swinging, got it all.

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It's not complete.

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I'm a swinging hot.

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It's like fifteen you'll.

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Find the lifting fifty second Street. This to so swing

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har on on next coming from the well, No, n next.

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It was swinging visual ready you should mean the young

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man that travel is the cad they and deck when

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the way the swing, glad.

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Wall Street swings its corporations. But if the second Street

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has increpation.

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Money.

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Man.

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That was a great swinger from Barney Raps Orchestra with

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a Ruby Wright vocal as Barney and his New Englanders

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paid tribute to New York City's iconic fifty second Street,

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where during the thirties and forties and into the early fifties, scores,

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literally scores of jazz clubs graced that block fifty second Street.

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Barney Rapp and his New Englanders on Variety Records, recorded

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in nineteen thirty seven. I'm Jeff Bresler, and this is

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the Make Believe Ballroom. I hope you're enjoying the program

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so far, and I love to hear from you. I'm

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Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot com. That's Jeff at Make

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Believe Ballroomradio dot com. And a big thumbs up to

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one Mark Dagan who took the time not to send

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an email but record lord some wonderful comments and a request.

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On Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com. You could go

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on the website, which archives all of our shows. We

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do this after we air them on the radio. We

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put those radio programs into a podcast form for posterity.

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So if you go to Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot

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Com on the homepage, you're going to see a little microphone.

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I think it's at the bottom right of the page.

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Well you hit that, it's going to take you to

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another page where the instructions are on how to record

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a message and press another button. Go ahead and record

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away your requests and comments that I will play.

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On the air.

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And I think Mark was I know a woman wants

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use the record button. So I guess Mark, you're just

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the second person in a number of years who took

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the bowls step of recording a message. You are also

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welcome to do that friends. As I said, enough said,

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So what did Mark say on his recording?

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Hi, Jeff Mark Gagan from Carmel, Indiana. A number of

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weeks ago, you spoke of a big band radio show

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that parodied a famous highbrow classical program. During the segment,

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you mentioned the name of Lui Gen Norman as a

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featured singer. While I had never heard her mentioned in

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this context, I recognized her name as the soaring, otherworldly

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soprano who vocalizes on the original nineteen sixty six Star

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Trek TV show theme. I had always assumed she was

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merely some La based opera singer with Hollywood studio connections.

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Now that I know she was a big band singer,

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I'm curious to hear one of her solo recordings. Will

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you oblige me many thanks. Keep up the great work

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you're doing.

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Mark, that was really great. Please whenever you want a

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recorder request or some additional information for us. You sound

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like a true pro. And whenever you want to send

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something in, I'll play it on the air. As Mark

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mentioned a few weeks ago, we did talk about the

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Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, which was a

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musical variety radio program on NBC that started in the

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early nineteen forties. The program was an essence, I guess

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you would call it a tongue in cheek satire of

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the highbrow symphonic broadcasts hosted by the legendary radio host

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Milton Cross. Although I wasn't around in the forties or

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part of the fifties, Milton Cross did those broadcasts until

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the mid nineteen seventies, and I remember driving around as

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a young guy flicking the dials on my car radio

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and hearing some of those broadcasts. I think they were

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on Saturday afternoons, not sure, but nevertheless, back to the

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Chamber of Society of Lower Basin Street. As more commented,

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Luly Gen Norman was one of the programs featured singers,

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and Mark I honestly didn't know about her connection to

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Star Trek. I found that to be just an amazing fact.

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Let me play one of her records now. This song

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is titled Tinkle Ting Ting, and it was recorded in

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nineteen forty seven by Louly Gene Norman and the Woodbury Singers.

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Now it appears to me that it was either a

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special recording or part of an album or music that

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was possibly heard in arenas for the ice Follies of

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nineteen forty nine. Many of you may remember the ice Follies,

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the Shipstat and Johnson ice Follies that eventually became. I

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guess it became the Ice Capades, which is with us today.

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I guess that is what happened to Shipstats and Johnson.

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Let's listen though, to the operatic voice of Lily Gene Norman.

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It sounds so.

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Nice with the isa the sky, they deep party, but

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they sounds o good.

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It seems like a bright sunny day drink thinking, thinking.

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Your heart feels as light as a kiny.

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Monastrap, your ideal hit quin building of internal hid using

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that nice little nice and song.

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Look not.

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Think thinking, think thinking.

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It sounds so nicely a simpering that's time may be cloudy,

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but they sounds okay. It seems like a bright.

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As a tight constring your eyes a deeply comment producing the.

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Nicer ycles.

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Now onto Star Trek where Loulie Gene Norman was the

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beautiful soprano voice minus lyrics on the Alexander Courage composed theme.

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Once again, thank you Mark for your audio comments and

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please stay in touch. And as I mentioned, you can

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also stay in touch via recording by hitting the microphone

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button in the lower right hand corner of the screen

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at MakeBelieve Ballroom podcast dot com. MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot Com.

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Another more traditional email for one of our favorite listeners

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in Rochester, New York, coming your way shortly.

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I think.

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The US.

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And Union.

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And living.

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On DECA Records. That was Yard Dog Mazurka by Jimmy

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Lunsford and his orchestra, recorded in New York City on

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August the twenty sixth, nineteen forty one. And folks, we

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are into the second half of today's musical extravaganza and

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as is a recent tradition, during the second half of

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the program, we head down to Tampa, Florida for our

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producer emeritus Lenny from down the blocks record pick Up

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the Week, and we will get to that shortly. First, though,

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those who listen to this program on a regular basis

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know that Gerald Coles from Rochester, New York, who tunes

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in on Jazz ninety point one WGMC, is an iconic

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listener who was born in nineteen thirty five, that being

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the first year to make Believe Ballroom with Martin Block

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aired on WNEW radio in New York City. And Gerald

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has sent us an email which I will read shortly.

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But first, Gerald, I must find a record to play

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from the month and year you were born, that being

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in March of nineteen thirty five. So let's shoot over

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to the playlist computer. There was a few selections up.

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Here's a catchy one.

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What is this thing?

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Well?

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Alright, Oh Susannah, dust off that old.

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Pianta I ansle you for those kids.

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Brumbles with no winging. The moment we start singing all

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our favorite mellow dads, Let's get the gang around. Let

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used to hang around, and when.

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The neighbors said me singing Tanna bet forget about Canada

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and Mr Penner, Oh Susannah, I'll let you say so Brown.

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Come on, baby, dust off that old piano to night.

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Yeah, yeah, ah dust at all ah huh.

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Y Yeah. You don't got no rag around here, no

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you fab money rags?

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Yeah.

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Well on Victor Records, Oh, Susannah, dust off that old piano.

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Fats Waller and his rhythm recorded on March the sixth,

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nineteenth five in New York City in Victor Records Studio

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number two. So a record honoring Gerald Coles and here

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is his email. Hi Jeff, Greetings from the longest listener

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of The Make Believe Ballroom, and I certainly don't doubt

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that you'll recall from my previous correspondences. I was born

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in March of nineteen thirty five, and my mother listened

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daily to the show from its inception a month before

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my birth, and I in turn, listened to it from

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my crib in the living room of our three room

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apartment in a Brooklyn tenement. Since Martin Block, I've listened

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to all its variations, including William B. Williams, Jonathan Schwartz.

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Up to your version. To my previous comments about the

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show and its music, I'd like to add that The

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Make Believe Ballroom had another important impact to Make Believe

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Ballroom music helped promote my love of an array of music.

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When I was old enough to tune the radio dial.

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I discovered music from jazz to classical music, from Cab

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Callaway to the Voice of Firestone, which played an array

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of classical orchestras and singers. For this young listener, wonderful

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music was wonderful music. So a tip of the hat

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from a listener whose love of the world's music began

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with Martin Block in the Make Believe Ballroom, And another

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tip of the hat to you, Jeff, for continuing to

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play one glorious dimension of the world's music. My best,

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Gerald Coles, Rochester, New York, and for you now, Gerald,

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another one of the glorious dimensions of the music world

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that we play here on the Make Believe Ballroom.

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You think money, give you not any day?

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Honey and a.

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Honey, are you give me my last?

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Give that honey hide in your soul.

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Keep this handy high in your soul, riven.

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Game driven in your feet, keep that honey hides in

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your soul.

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Give me.

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Honey the good time, not your rod, Honey high in

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your ball honey, honey, eat it.

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And he here, yeah, who.

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He need not?

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When you any honey an he's yeah, oh.

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Yeah, keep that behind that hold behold, keep down.

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In my third.

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From Brunswick Records, Keep that Hidie High in your Soul

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by Camp Calloway and his orchestra. Vocal of course by

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cab recorded in New York City, January the twenty first,

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nineteen thirty five. Another tune in honor of Gerald Cole's

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birth year of nineteen thirty five. And thank you mister

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Coles for your wonderful email, folks. I would also like

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your emails. You can correspond with me at Jeff at

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Makebully Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at Makebullyballroomradio dot com.

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And now it's time for our producer emeritus, the virtuoso

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of the virtual turntable, mister Excitement himself, Lenny from down

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the Block with his record pick of the week.

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Thanks Jeff, and hi there gang, Lenny from down the

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Block here with my record pick of the week. Today,

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I want to play record with the vocalist name Nita Bradley.

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Bradley is best remembered for her time with Artie Shaw's

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band in the late nineteen thirties, during which she shared

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the stage with Billy Holiday She worked a little in

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the early nineteen forties before disappearing entirely from the business

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in the middle part of that decade. Nothing is known

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of Nita's early life or career before first joining Shaw

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in late nineteen thirty seven. She stayed with Artie only briefly,

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then leaving the band in March of nineteen thirty eight.

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Soon after Bradley's departure, Artie Shaw hired Billy Holliday as

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her replacement. Billy was already a well known star, and

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her hiring was a big promotional win for Artie Shaw.

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Her presence in the band, however, was problematic for many reasons.

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While she wasn't the first black singer with a white band,

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she was certainly one of the first. Artie Shaw was

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eventually was to rehire Nita Bradley to meet contractual obligations

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at clubs and theaters that wouldn't allow black artists like

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the talented Billy to perform on stage. Shaw, in addition,

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really needed Nita Bradley for studio sessions. Holiday was signed

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to the Vocalion label, who flat out refused to let

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her sing with Shaw's band On Victor's Bluebird Records. It

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was reported that there was great tension between Billie Holiday

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and Nita Bradley. It was said that they did not

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get along. Well, that's the backstage view on Nita. Now

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let's hear her sing. I want you to hear a

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recording of a song titled one Song by Artie Shaw

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and his Orchestra, which was recorded in New York on

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December thirtieth, nineteen thirty seven. The song was featured in

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, released at theaters also

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So in nineteen thirty seven. Enjoy the music.

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One so, I have but one song, one so.

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Only for you, one how.

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Tenderly be.

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Ever and reading.

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Constantly true, one line that has fo sessed me, one

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lone thrilling me through.

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One song.

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My heart keeps singing.

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On one line.

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Only for you.

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Thank you, Lenny. I appreciate your picks of the week,

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your stage presence, well not yet on the level of

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Frank Sinatra or even Perry Como, is getting better each week.

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And speaking of each week, we have come to the

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end of this week's program. The hour certainly flew by.

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I hope you enjoyed the music and stories, and I

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hope you enjoyed it enough to come back again next week.

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I'll be waiting for you until then. This has been

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Jeff Presler.

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Can sing. They res