Make Believe Ball Room - 9/28/20 Edition | Make Believe Ballroom Podcast

Make Believe Ballroom - 7/20/2020 Edition: This week featuring great stories, reminiscences, and music featuring, the King Sisters, Bing Crosby, Jimmy Durante, Kate Smith, Frank Sinatra, Pearl Bailey, Count Basie,, Jack Teagarden, Billy Mills, Benny Carter, the Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ballroom - 7/27/20 Edition: On this weeks edition of MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM songs and stories featuring the De Marco Sisters and a nickname given to a star, how the song Linda got its name, how the song Beyond the Sea changed from an ode to the sea to a love song, why it took so... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ballroom - 7/14/20 Edition: Hi folks, I’m jeff Bressler, turning on the lights of the Make Believe Ballroom and welcoming you into the Crystal Studio for another program of the greats hits of the 1930s and 1940s. I’m hosting the show in the hope of keeping the music and... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 10/26/20 Edition: A wonderful MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM this week on public and community radio stations across the US and UK as we look at a marvelous big band era French jazz and swing quintet, a singer who liked being off the radar, a Broadway flop that still produced a... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 9/7/20 Edition: On this edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, we look at Big Band era stars whose careers extended into the 50s and beyond, interviews and music of Tex Beneke and Margret Whiting and a historic recording by "Illinois" Jacquet plus a whole lot more... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 8/24/20 Edition: On this edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM. Is it Eberle or Eberly? Bille Holiday’s tenuous relationship with Artie Shaw. Along the way wonderful music by Perry Como, Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse, Jimmie Lunsford, Count Basie with Jimmy Rushing,... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 1/4/21 Edition: Listen to a special edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM where Jeff Bressler plays only Grammy Hall of Fame inducted records from the 1930s and 1940s. The Grammy Hall Of Fame was established by the Recording Academy's National Trustees in 1973. The... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 10/19/20 Edition: On this weeks edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM heard on public and community radio stations around the country: a Benny Goodman Band members universal achievement, the musical history of a famous telephone number, a mid-big band show – no show,... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 8/17/20 Edition: From the Crystal Studio in the Make Believe Ballroom a fun and fast hour this week. Great vintage interviews serve as companions to the music of Connie Haines and Martha Tilton. Hollywood stars meet big band singers in an unusual way. Reminisces of... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 9/14/20 Edition: On this weeks MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, some wonderful small group swing, a hot Charlie Barnet tale, “V-Discs, the great arranger Vic Shoen plus more music with Phil Harris, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrews Sisters, and a whole lot more! by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 8/3/20 Edition: From the Crystal Studio of the Make Believe Ballroom some great reminiscences, history and stories wrapped around the classic music of Glen Miller, Ivy Benson, the Modernaires, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Vera Lynn, Ray Noble, the Mills Brothers, Ted... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 11/2/20 Edition: On this weeks MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM Jeff Bressler features two regal names, a great depression musical sales item, Frank Sinatra has the kids screaming and swaying, Glenn Miller’s first female singer, a popular bandleader who has to wait 12 years... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 8/12/20 Edition: From the Crystal Studio of the Make Believe Ballroom some great reminiscences, history and stories wrapped around the classic music of Glenn Miller, Chick Webb, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Ray Anthony Kay Kyser, Ish Kabble, Jo Stafford, Bunny... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - Holiday Show 1 - 2020: A salute to the Holiday Season and the impact the music of the 1930s and 1940s has had in creating the beloved Christmas canon. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 10/12/20 Edition: On this weeks MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM over Public Broadcasting and Community Radio stations across the county we feature Gene Krupa, Anita O’Day and Ray Eldridge along with a little boogie with Will Bradley, Freddie Slack and Ray McKinley, a Nat King... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room -9/21/20 Edition: On this weeks edition of the Make Believe Ballroom - The story of a song title, a look at big band era fate, the salaries of black band musicians, the great trumpet sideman Johnny Best, the history of Soundies along with the wonderful music of the... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 11/30/20 Edition: On this week’s MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM: Rhumba, a bandleader's mark as a composer, battle of the jazz violinists, from goat to Goodman hero, a grave song, the unheralded Robert Johnson and much more music, trivia, and historic stories. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 12/28/20 Edition: On this week’s MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM – A Philadelphia Cowboy, the Canadian Bing Crosby, Swinging Polka, In the Mood pre Glenn Miller, some 1800’s tunes that went Big Band, a salute to FDR plus more music and great stories from the big band era. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 12/7/20 Edition: On this edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM – A special birthday song, a records heartache, first time ever recording, from the top to the bottom, a song Fred Astaire refused to sing, a mystery singer, plus many more records and stories of the... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 10/5/20 Edition: On this weeks MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM Louis Armstrong and his small band the Hot Five, Larry Clinton and his Orchestra, in addition to Cab Calloway we can’t forget his famous sibling, the Chairman of the Board with a novelty tune, Dick Jurgens and Eddy... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 8/31/20 Edition: Join us in the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM. On this week’s show Jess Stacy’s Monumental Solo. The Andrews Sisters 13 Weeks with Glenn Miller. Red Norvo, the only xylophonist to lead a big band! Reminiscences and music with Harry James, Benny Goodman and Bea... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 1/18/21 Edition: A couple of Kings, music novelty, and many artists you might never have heard. The best of Big Band, Jazz, and Swing on this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 9/28/20 Edition: A wonderful MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM this week as we visit Harry James and his lucky number, Les Brown and His Band of Renown seven decades of music, a Tommy Dorsey “larceny”, the Hit of the Week record label, little remembered Ray Perry, great sideman... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 7/12/21 Edition: On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM. A look at a famous tuxedo, a heroic WWII bandleader, Sinatra's long-lost cousin, a famous bandleader meets a famous accordionist, many more stories and music on this program. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 11/16/20 Edition: On this edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM a great Helen O’Connell quote, jazz, swing and hillbilly all rolled into one, Tiny, Shorty and Big, the history behind the Make Believe Ballroom, and along the way Ella and Louie, Vaughn Monroe and much... by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room -2/1/21 Edition: This week a very special 86th Anniversary Edition of the Make Believe Ballroom. Join Jeff Bressler as he takes us back to present the history of the show which began its broadcast odyssey on February 3, 1935. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 1/25/21 Edition: This week the program features records that highlight some of the great crooners, vocalists, and vocal groups of the 1930s and 1940s. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 3/29/21 Edition: This week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM looks at the history of vocal ensembles in the big band era. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 2/22/21 Edition: After several episodes of specials and tribute shows this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM is back with our usual potpourri of grand music and stories from the 30s and 40s. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 2/15/21 Edition: This week's show pays tribute to Jimmy Durante who would have celebrated his 127th birthday in February of 2021. by Make Believe Ballroom

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Make Believe Ball Room - 9/28/20 Edition

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