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Aug. 30, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 8/23/21 Edition

On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM we break down a Fats Waller song to figure out and discuss its meaning. Also, a look at some of the top-selling sheet music from the big band era.

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Aug. 30, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 8/30/21 Edition

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM we look at an interesting fact about purchasing sheet music in the early 20th Century and some music we didn't get a chance to play on past shows.

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Aug. 17, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 8/16/21 Edition

On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM - A star is born, entertainers for started their careers with big bands, territory bands.

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Aug. 4, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 8/2/21 Edition

On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM a look at the legendary AMATEUR NIGHT IN HARLEM at the Apollo Theatre in NY with some great history, stories, and music.

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July 26, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 7/26/21 Edition

On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM - A band that the senior set listened to, listener emails, songs of some great UK band leaders.

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July 19, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 7/19/21 Edition

This week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM looks at the origin of song names, songs that sound the same, movie and Broadway musicals, and songs from the legendary Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert that were never recorded.

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July 13, 2021

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.

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June 29, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 6/28/21 Edition

On this edition of the Ballroom - All TRIVIA all the time.

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June 24, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 6/21/21 Edition

This week's Ballroom takes a look at the Metronome All-Star Band

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June 7, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 6/7/21 Edition

This edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM takes a look at Big Band theme songs.

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May 24, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 5/24/21 Edition

On this edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, we look at some bandleaders of the era who were popular but somewhat forgotten today.

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May 17, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 5/17/21 Edition

This week the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM looks at Coca Cola's Victory Parade on Spotlight Bands. The show was a musical morale booster during WWII.

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May 10, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 5/10/21 Edition

This week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM looks at some possible reasons for the passing of the big band and swing era.

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May 1, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 5/3/21 Edition

On today's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM we look at the origins of Gold Records, the Your Hit Parade, and Billboard weekly song charts plus a trivia contest you can enter.

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April 27, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 4/26/21 Edition

This week's Make Believe Ballroom does a spring cleaning and finds first-time recordings of popular records and big band era musicians who could neither read nor write music.

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April 19, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 4/19/21 Edition

This week's Ballroom focuses in on a historic big band event that took place May 29, 1938, but is little remembered today.

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April 13, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 4/12/21 Edition

By popular demand, we present VDISC 2 a follow-up to our program on the recordings distributed to the troops during WWII.

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April 5, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 4/5/21 Edition

This week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM features a special program about SOUNDIES. MTV did not invent the concepts of music videos. They were wildly popular in the 1940s and played on a coin machine in restaurants, bars. clubs and a host …

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March 29, 2021

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.

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March 22, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 3/22/21 Edition

An hour of some great favorites of the 30s and 40s with some wonderful stories about the records we play.

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March 15, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 3/15/21 Edition

An hour of some great favorites of the 30s and 40s with some wonderful stories about the records we play.

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March 8, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 3/8/21 Edition

An hour of some great favorites of the 30s and 40s with a look at one of the early founders of the Make Believe Ballroom.

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March 2, 2021

Make Believe Ball Room - 3/1/21 Edition

An hour of some great favorites of the 30s and 40s with a look at Benny Goodman's clarinet teacher and some of his star pupils.

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