July 4, 2025 • 57 mins
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a look at a listener's somewhat controversial list of the most influential jazz musicians and vocalists of the swinging 1930s—this and many more great songs and stories to cherish and enjoy on this week's program.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
It's make Believe ballroom time.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Put all your cares away.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
All the bands are here to bring good cheer your way.
It's make Belief Ballroom time and free to everyone. It's
no time to friend your Dalis.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Said Bamba yours.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude. Your favorite
bands are on this dance and.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Mister Miller, what's you're in the mood?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's make Believe Ballroom time.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We are a sweet romance. Is make Believe Ballroom. Come
on to the last dass last.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Hello world, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on the lights of
the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal
studio for another program of classic big band hits from
the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether you're listening on
the radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point one
(01:26):
WGMC in Rochester, New York, or on a podcast, or
perhaps on internet radio in the United Kingdom, please get
ready as I spin for you some amazing big band jazz, swing, blues,
and boogie woogie favorites. Folks, you're listening to the Make
Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. Hi, folks.
(01:55):
You know over the over the last few weeks, the
ballroom has been the best way to describe this, I'd
have to say on autopilot instead of me handpicking all
the music played on the show. It's been great since
I've been able to play song lists submitted by listeners.
(02:16):
And last week, if you were with us, we did
a get well wished to Angelo Carbone and let you
hear the Ralfie from Canarsi Brooklyn Record Club's top ten
big band record hits of all time. Well, on today's show,
I had put together my own playlist. When Hello and Behold,
(02:37):
I received not an email but one of our sporadic
voicemails from one, in this case Dick Gert in Clearwater, Florida,
who wanted to share his unique list and to seek
some playtime from that list. I'm going to play his
voicemail and music from his list than just a moment.
(03:01):
But let's first go to one of the hand pick
tunes I wanted to play on today's program.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
For Robinson Crusoe. For Robinson Crusoe No. One meters of
gallis he did?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
He wanted to Russo No, his faithful man Friday be
cast everything tidy, yet he stared for some hidie home
for Robinson Cruso. He only olive, don't need to follow him.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
He lived in salin.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Till he wasn't satisfied up to heaven.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
He cried, please send me a pride.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I'll take her with or without a Truso.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Said Robins and Bruso for Robinson Crusoe. Oh for p
Robinson Crusoe.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Now no one met old.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Woman mikingness God, he wanted to wooto.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Now here's old faithful man Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Why had just cast everything.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Body and yet his side for somebody?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
For Robinson Cruso.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
He only alis don't need to follow.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
He lives and fall in.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
And still he wasn't satisfied up to heaven.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
He cried, all please send me all fried. I'm a
baker with or without unbruso that old Robinson Crusole, for
old Robinson Crusoe.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We just listened to the swinging novelty tune Poor Robinson
Carusoe from George Hall's Great Crew with Dolly Dawn on
the vocal, recorded back in nineteen thirty seven. Friends, I'm
Jeff Bresler, and you're listening to the one, the only,
the original Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting on the radio almost
(06:18):
continuously since nineteen thirty five. To reach me, I'm Jeff
at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve
Ballroom Radio dot com. And you can, like Dick Gert,
who we will hear from in a moment, also send
me an addition to an email, a voicemail. To do that,
(06:41):
go to MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com. That's MakeBelieve Ballroom
Podcast dot com. Then look for the microphone in the
lower right hand corner of the page, tap on that
and record away. Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot Com is
where I are. I've all passed radio broadcasts of the
(07:03):
Make Believe Ballroom and put them into podcast form. So again,
if you want to record a message, hit the microphone
icon and it should end up sounding something like this, Hello.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
To the Make Believe Ballroom crew. This is Dick Gert
from Clearwater in Sunny Florida. I immensely enjoy your program
each week and love the lists people send in for
you to review and play.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
While most of my fellow listeners lists pertain to individual songs,
the list I present to you is a most influential
list in no special order.
Speaker 11 (07:41):
These are my top most highly regarded musical titans of
the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
The great Artie Shaw.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Count Basie,
Billie Holliday, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and from France Django Reinhardt.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
I know some of you will disagree, but that's my list.
Perhaps you could play some of their music. Thanks for
your wonderful program.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, thank you, Dick Gert from Beautiful Clear order for
your list. So let's head to the Make Believe Ballroom
playlist computer and fulfill your order. And in no special order.
Let me first play this one warning on Decca Records
(11:27):
that was topsy written by the Great Eddie Durham, Count
Basie and his orchestra, recorded in New York City August ninth,
nineteen thirty seven. Count Basie considered to be by Dick
Gert one of the most influential musical powerhouses of the
(11:47):
nineteen thirties, and I can't argue one bit with that assessment.
Now another Gert.
Speaker 12 (11:55):
Icon, I.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Swinging on the reservation beating tibble syncopation e y'all, and
how on the reservation. No more hunting in the winter,
and more fun if you begin to swing, swing hand
sing on the reservation. Tom Tom a savage raven battle playing.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
Chah, that's what the warriors are saying. Swing Music's god everyty.
Then his relation lacks a Jampan celebration. Oh, how days
swing on the reservation?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Swinging on the Reservation. Chick Webb and his orchestra vocal
by Ella Fitzgerald, recorded on Decca Records in New York
City back in nineteen thirty six, and Dick Gert, in
putting together his most influential musician and vocalist list of
(15:19):
the swing in nineteen thirties, said the list might have
some disagreement among our listeners, and certainly some might feel
that chickweb himself belonged on Dick's top ten most influential,
But of course that song dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald. Friends,
(15:42):
let me know who you would have put on this
list that Dick Gert perhaps didn't. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio
dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot Com. Many on
(18:58):
Deco Records are Beatam and his Swingsters with body and Soul,
recorded February twenty sixth, nineteen thirty seven, in Los Angeles, California,
and I certainly agree with Dick gart for putting Art
on his ten most Influential of the nineteen thirties list.
(19:19):
Tatum was a jazz pianist considered by fans and fellow
musicians to be regarded as one of the greatest, if
not the greatest jazz pianist ever. And speaking of the
greatest ever, the legendary Lenny from down the block, the
producer emeritus of the Make Believe Ballroom who many of
(19:43):
you enjoy through his record Picks of the Week. He's
not going to be with us today. From Tampa, Florida,
Lenny and his wife Cookie are off on a cruise
to Ports unknown in the Caribbean. Lenny leading the life
of the rich and fa amous. He used to own
a restaurant in Brooklyn called the Palermo Palace. I think
(20:08):
he sucked away every dime he ever made from there
for his current fabulous lifestyle. But he will return to
these very airwaves next week. And now on these very
airwaves from Dick Gertz's Most Influential list.
Speaker 14 (21:27):
One two Buttons shoes will run your coat and hat.
I play a game like that while I'm waiting for you.
Three four open the door refer Heaven says I can't
eat stuff you take while I'm waiting for you. Five
(21:48):
says my heart does tricks as I picture.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
All the child.
Speaker 14 (21:53):
Seven eights you at the gate and you walk into
my narm. Nine ten gives me again. Tell me you
get a through just as I hope you will while
I'm waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That was a little early Artie Shaw via Brunswick Records.
One two Button Your Shoe vocal by Tony Past recorded
in October of nineteen thirty six. Artie Shaw certainly holding
a well deserved position on the Dick Girt list of
(23:32):
ten of his most influential musical talents of the swing
years of the nineteen thirties. Let's go to another record.
Speaker 16 (24:01):
Don't do.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Now all you Now, it's your.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Now over me.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Every roll.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Have the journey.
Speaker 16 (25:09):
For that one thing on learning.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
I cried for you.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Water fool I used to be.
Speaker 16 (25:26):
Now I'm found you.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I just a little, the blue, I found the hard
just a little, the sure.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
I cried, Now your turn you cry me.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I cried for you Billie Holiday Vocal on Brunswick Records
featuring Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra, recorded June the thirty,
nineteen thirty six, in New York City, and that record,
many say that record is the recording that brought the
Great Billy Holiday into prominence. And just as a coincidence,
(27:16):
I was recently reading a story that I Cried for
You was Billy's biggest hit for the Brunswick Record Company. Now,
in that article it said that average sales of the
Holiday recordings with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra at that
(27:36):
time would have been in the three thousand discs sold mark. However,
the record we just heard sold more than fifteen thousand,
seventy eight. And one of the reasons this did so well,
the story surmised, could be in the fact that I
(27:56):
Cried for You was one of the first stands that
Billy ever recorded and had some popularity prior to her
going into the studio. That tune had been around since
nineteen twenty three and recorded many times. So a little
side fact about Billy Holliday, just by coincidence that I
(28:18):
had read, I guess it was last week I Cried
for You I'm Jeff Bresler, and I'm not crying for
Dick gert who has presented the Make Believe Ballroom and
our listeners with pretty solid list of what he considers
to be his top ten most influential musicians and vocalists
(28:38):
of the nineteen thirties. Let's continue the journey.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And then they go, Then they get, and sometimes they
want to.
Speaker 16 (29:26):
Let stand.
Speaker 17 (29:36):
Food, don't stuck, dot expect got stomus lad like I
do that.
Speaker 18 (29:55):
Then I don't w then I fall. I do not
happen anything different, things different, anything anything better.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I don't know it.
Speaker 16 (30:24):
Had a lady.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You may find.
Speaker 16 (30:38):
The set about anything.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
How can you not include a musical great on the
Dick girt list whose nickname was pres or President on
Vocalion Records, one of the most definitive tenor sax players
of his generation, and I guess of all time on Vocalion.
We just heard Lester Leaps in count Bases Kansas City seven,
(32:17):
featuring the tenor sacks of Lester Young, recorded in nineteen
thirty nine. Lester Young on Dick Gertz's most Influential list.
I'm certainly not that influential, but I am Jeff Bresler,
and we're listening to music today on the ballroom that
comes from the artists who Dick Gert of Clearwater, Florida
(32:39):
considers to be the ten most influential of the nineteen
thirties and the swing era. Look forward to seeing your
list of your favorite bands, musicians, vocalists or composers, and
like with Dick, I'd be happy to share them with
our big make Believe Ballroom audience. Jeff at Make Believe
(33:00):
Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom
Radio dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Nothing work.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Jango Reinhard and his Hot Club Up France with Dina
Violin by Stefan Grippelli, recorded in Paris December the twenty eighth,
nineteen thirty four, and that record the sole international musician
on the Dickert list of most influential musicians of the
(36:00):
nineteen thirties.
Speaker 19 (36:40):
When I'm with you, I be so small right in
my shell, I water brawl. I wonder why I had
to fall for you, Oh you dog, Why do you
make my life?
Speaker 17 (36:49):
Some time?
Speaker 19 (36:50):
It seems like I love you hopping up.
Speaker 16 (36:53):
You don't have them leave much too much for me.
Speaker 14 (36:57):
I wish that I would win you went me baby.
Speaker 19 (37:00):
Kings, so I could love you twice as much as
hide you. I'd have four loving oms to embrace you.
Whise why do like you just hide? And I'd made
you with who I was writing through?
Speaker 14 (37:16):
What wouldn't the bole iff do?
Speaker 19 (37:18):
When boy is he.
Speaker 15 (37:19):
Saying I'm your.
Speaker 16 (37:22):
You? Rid me baby him?
Speaker 14 (37:25):
Is it I a drims or I could love it
wipe as much.
Speaker 20 (37:27):
As I do.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
You running Mamy Hims waiting.
Speaker 19 (38:31):
Im twem so I love you?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
On Victor Records, I wish I were twins. That's Waller
and his Rhythm, recorded May sixteenth, nineteen thirty four in
New York City. And that's Waller, the pianist, the entertainer,
the composer of over four hundred songs in his brief
life of only thirty nine years, without a doubt, a
(39:01):
musician who no one will argue belongs on the Dick
Gart list.
Speaker 21 (40:21):
Let us go the other, no body, huh turn up.
Speaker 16 (40:32):
N don't.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
D don't tin, don't do the last, o't er.
Speaker 16 (40:41):
Don't.
Speaker 21 (40:43):
Let baby, don't no, no, no, don know, don't know you,
don't don't over.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Baby, don't don't don't tell me A lot like trouble lad.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Why A Columbia records I'm Rhythm Crazy Horace Henderson and
his Orchestra featuring the unmistakable tenor sacks of Coleman Hawkins.
That recording was made on October third, nineteen thirty three,
in New York City. Coleman Hawkins nicknamed Hawk and sometimes
(42:41):
what was his other nickname? Hawkins's other nickname was Bean,
and in my estimation, Bean or Hawk or Coleman Hawkins
was America's first prominent jazz musician to make the tenor
sacks an important part of a jazz band. There were
(43:03):
some great tenor sacks players before him, like Guys Well,
like Hap Calledwell, but the instrument was not an acknowledged
jazz horn until the Hawk came by Coleman Hawkins. And
due to that fact perhaps is why Dick Girt put
(43:26):
him Coleman Hawkins on his list one more on the
Dick Girt list of top ten most influential Musicians and
Vocalists of the nineteen thirties. To round things out.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
Sus.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Y'all giving me her song and as.
Speaker 20 (45:26):
Telling me her tale of row Man, but heaven eye
those words.
Speaker 15 (45:36):
Before no y'all telling me y'all gonna be true, But
I shouldn't listen and do you.
Speaker 8 (45:54):
For having my heart been fool.
Speaker 20 (45:58):
Before me. Now you want me because you ain't got me.
You'd even promise them.
Speaker 15 (46:15):
Once you got me right away you want me, you'd.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Be changing your dude.
Speaker 15 (46:25):
You're giving me a song ever da.
Speaker 16 (46:31):
And I'm falling for your rowns.
Speaker 20 (46:37):
But haven't high heard those words before?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
What top list of musicians in voguets of the thirties
would not include the great Benny Goodman And we just
heard him on Victor Records. You're giving me a song
and a dance. Benny Goodman and his orchestra Helen Ward,
longtime vocalist of Benny Goodman Singing There recorded in New
(47:19):
York City on October the seventh, nineteen thirty six, and
we played so many of Goodman's standards on the show recently,
I thought I would choose a record more lightly played
Benny Goodman tune. So a huge thank you to Dick
Girk from Clearwater, Florida, one of our Make Believe Ballroom
(47:41):
family of listeners, who was nice enough to take the
time to sit down and put together his list of
the top ten most influential musicians and vocalists of the
nineteen thirties. Why don't you drop me a line at
Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com, Jeff at MakeBelieve
Ballroom Radio dot com, or better yet, send me a
(48:02):
voicemail via Jeff at make Bully Ballroom podcast dot com
to give me a new list to share with our listeners,
or perhaps make adjustments to the Dick Girt list we
just played through. We certainly now as I look at
the clock, the big Bulivar clock here in the wall
(48:22):
in Crystal Studio, realize that we do have time for
some additional music. So let's spin a few.
Speaker 16 (48:48):
Or a.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Brighton swinging version of the song Sapphire from Clyde Lucas
and his California Dons, recorded back in nineteen thirty six. Folks,
time for one more before we have to go.
Speaker 15 (51:48):
Li the cat's got the bit.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
It is really cutting it.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
Lose the collar and the moon play.
Speaker 12 (51:53):
A double was soon, So swinging mother Goose let a
Jack Horner went back to his honor to see what
the buy news you putt need some? And he pulled
out and drums some Swinging mother Goose, get those old
rhythms up today, freshing up your lives.
Speaker 14 (52:09):
If you don't you get the gage, you help sister
prod do not.
Speaker 12 (52:14):
Do not days little miss mother, you really can pump
it in trump as hot as the new Little boy
Blue isn't blowing intooso swinging mother wos my mother Goose.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
Bring out your eating and turn them loose.
Speaker 20 (52:27):
They all swinging.
Speaker 11 (52:28):
You can refuse to let the arm come go nursey loose, Harry,
don't you be compare of You haven't gotten excuse, Just
get in your place.
Speaker 16 (52:37):
Starts shaping the babs hands in your mother goose.
Speaker 12 (52:41):
If those rhythms up, today's freshing up your rhymes.
Speaker 16 (52:45):
If you don't you get the game, you gotta get him.
You gotta keep heaving.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Yeah that so come on, mother Goose, you gotta keep
up I.
Speaker 15 (52:56):
Jumping rock.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Swing it, mother Goose. Irish Adrian and the Kingsmen provided
the vocals for Charlie Barnett and his orchestra that song
from the nineteen forty two film Jukebox Jenny and Friends.
That's all the time we have for today. Big thanks
again to Dick Girt from Florida for constructing his great list.
(53:28):
Very enjoyable going through it on the show Jeff at
MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio
dot com. Past shows go from radio to podcast on
MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com.
Until next week, this has been Jeff Bresler and I
(53:51):
was just thinking before we actually do go out for
those that follow Angelocarbone, whose late parents Ralph and Rose
started the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club, just a quick
update for you on his health. He took a spill
by his condominium pool in Naples, Florida. A few weeks back.
(54:12):
Lenny from down the Block paid him a visit, and
if you listened to last week's show for Angelo, we
played the top ten songs from the Ralfie from Canarsi
list of top hits from the Big Band era. Lenny
from down the Block took the trip from Tampa to
Naples to visit with Angelo and played that broadcast for
(54:34):
him on his phone. Well, Angelo, at ninety two years young,
is back up and on his feet, and once again
I hear sitting by the pool and that's just great news.
So again, friends, for a second time, until next week,
this has been Jeff Bresler.
Speaker 14 (55:43):
Let's din and imaginal for room. He is a make
believe ball room.
Speaker 17 (55:51):
Let's din, Let's dann.
Speaker 7 (55:55):
It will double my chancells.
Speaker 19 (55:58):
I can see it your glance.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
Room man, for while we slaying and the man is
playing music.
Speaker 6 (56:07):
Dammy sharp, if you.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
Bro tender sweetly, surrender in my willing arm.
Speaker 16 (56:14):
Let's down.
Speaker 19 (56:16):
So it's only a small room.
Speaker 6 (56:18):
You know, make me leave for room.
Speaker 19 (56:21):
Let's din
Speaker 18 (57:28):
Of
It's make Believe ballroom time.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Put all your cares away.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
All the bands are here to bring good cheer your way.
It's make Belief Ballroom time and free to everyone. It's
no time to friend your Dalis.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Said Bamba yours.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Close your eyes and visualize in your solitude. Your favorite
bands are on this dance and.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Mister Miller, what's you're in the mood?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
It's make Believe Ballroom time.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We are a sweet romance. Is make Believe Ballroom. Come
on to the last dass last.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Hello world, I'm Jeff Bresler, turning on the lights of
the Make Belief Ballroom and welcoming you into my crystal
studio for another program of classic big band hits from
the nineteen thirties and nineteen forties. Whether you're listening on
the radio via great affiliates like Jazz ninety point one
(01:26):
WGMC in Rochester, New York, or on a podcast, or
perhaps on internet radio in the United Kingdom, please get
ready as I spin for you some amazing big band jazz, swing, blues,
and boogie woogie favorites. Folks, you're listening to the Make
Believe Ballroom, broadcasting almost continuously since nineteen thirty five. Hi, folks.
(01:55):
You know over the over the last few weeks, the
ballroom has been the best way to describe this, I'd
have to say on autopilot instead of me handpicking all
the music played on the show. It's been great since
I've been able to play song lists submitted by listeners.
(02:16):
And last week, if you were with us, we did
a get well wished to Angelo Carbone and let you
hear the Ralfie from Canarsi Brooklyn Record Club's top ten
big band record hits of all time. Well, on today's show,
I had put together my own playlist. When Hello and Behold,
(02:37):
I received not an email but one of our sporadic
voicemails from one, in this case Dick Gert in Clearwater, Florida,
who wanted to share his unique list and to seek
some playtime from that list. I'm going to play his
voicemail and music from his list than just a moment.
(03:01):
But let's first go to one of the hand pick
tunes I wanted to play on today's program.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
For Robinson Crusoe. For Robinson Crusoe No. One meters of
gallis he did?
Speaker 5 (04:17):
He wanted to Russo No, his faithful man Friday be
cast everything tidy, yet he stared for some hidie home
for Robinson Cruso. He only olive, don't need to follow him.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
He lived in salin.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Till he wasn't satisfied up to heaven.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
He cried, please send me a pride.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I'll take her with or without a Truso.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Said Robins and Bruso for Robinson Crusoe. Oh for p
Robinson Crusoe.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Now no one met old.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Woman mikingness God, he wanted to wooto.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Now here's old faithful man Friday.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Why had just cast everything.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Body and yet his side for somebody?
Speaker 5 (05:25):
For Robinson Cruso.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
He only alis don't need to follow.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
He lives and fall in.
Speaker 8 (05:33):
And still he wasn't satisfied up to heaven.
Speaker 7 (05:37):
He cried, all please send me all fried. I'm a
baker with or without unbruso that old Robinson Crusole, for
old Robinson Crusoe.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
We just listened to the swinging novelty tune Poor Robinson
Carusoe from George Hall's Great Crew with Dolly Dawn on
the vocal, recorded back in nineteen thirty seven. Friends, I'm
Jeff Bresler, and you're listening to the one, the only,
the original Make Believe Ballroom broadcasting on the radio almost
(06:18):
continuously since nineteen thirty five. To reach me, I'm Jeff
at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at MakeBelieve
Ballroom Radio dot com. And you can, like Dick Gert,
who we will hear from in a moment, also send
me an addition to an email, a voicemail. To do that,
(06:41):
go to MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com. That's MakeBelieve Ballroom
Podcast dot com. Then look for the microphone in the
lower right hand corner of the page, tap on that
and record away. Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot Com is
where I are. I've all passed radio broadcasts of the
(07:03):
Make Believe Ballroom and put them into podcast form. So again,
if you want to record a message, hit the microphone
icon and it should end up sounding something like this, Hello.
Speaker 9 (07:16):
To the Make Believe Ballroom crew. This is Dick Gert
from Clearwater in Sunny Florida. I immensely enjoy your program
each week and love the lists people send in for
you to review and play.
Speaker 10 (07:29):
While most of my fellow listeners lists pertain to individual songs,
the list I present to you is a most influential
list in no special order.
Speaker 11 (07:41):
These are my top most highly regarded musical titans of
the nineteen thirties.
Speaker 9 (07:46):
The great Artie Shaw.
Speaker 11 (07:47):
Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Count Basie,
Billie Holliday, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and from France Django Reinhardt.
Speaker 9 (07:59):
I know some of you will disagree, but that's my list.
Perhaps you could play some of their music. Thanks for
your wonderful program.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well, thank you, Dick Gert from Beautiful Clear order for
your list. So let's head to the Make Believe Ballroom
playlist computer and fulfill your order. And in no special order.
Let me first play this one warning on Decca Records
(11:27):
that was topsy written by the Great Eddie Durham, Count
Basie and his orchestra, recorded in New York City August ninth,
nineteen thirty seven. Count Basie considered to be by Dick
Gert one of the most influential musical powerhouses of the
(11:47):
nineteen thirties, and I can't argue one bit with that assessment.
Now another Gert.
Speaker 12 (11:55):
Icon, I.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Swinging on the reservation beating tibble syncopation e y'all, and
how on the reservation. No more hunting in the winter,
and more fun if you begin to swing, swing hand
sing on the reservation. Tom Tom a savage raven battle playing.
Speaker 13 (13:47):
Chah, that's what the warriors are saying. Swing Music's god everyty.
Then his relation lacks a Jampan celebration. Oh, how days
swing on the reservation?
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Swinging on the Reservation. Chick Webb and his orchestra vocal
by Ella Fitzgerald, recorded on Decca Records in New York
City back in nineteen thirty six, and Dick Gert, in
putting together his most influential musician and vocalist list of
(15:19):
the swing in nineteen thirties, said the list might have
some disagreement among our listeners, and certainly some might feel
that chickweb himself belonged on Dick's top ten most influential,
But of course that song dedicated to Ella Fitzgerald. Friends,
(15:42):
let me know who you would have put on this
list that Dick Gert perhaps didn't. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio
dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroomradio dot Com. Many on
(18:58):
Deco Records are Beatam and his Swingsters with body and Soul,
recorded February twenty sixth, nineteen thirty seven, in Los Angeles, California,
and I certainly agree with Dick gart for putting Art
on his ten most Influential of the nineteen thirties list.
(19:19):
Tatum was a jazz pianist considered by fans and fellow
musicians to be regarded as one of the greatest, if
not the greatest jazz pianist ever. And speaking of the
greatest ever, the legendary Lenny from down the block, the
producer emeritus of the Make Believe Ballroom who many of
(19:43):
you enjoy through his record Picks of the Week. He's
not going to be with us today. From Tampa, Florida,
Lenny and his wife Cookie are off on a cruise
to Ports unknown in the Caribbean. Lenny leading the life
of the rich and fa amous. He used to own
a restaurant in Brooklyn called the Palermo Palace. I think
(20:08):
he sucked away every dime he ever made from there
for his current fabulous lifestyle. But he will return to
these very airwaves next week. And now on these very
airwaves from Dick Gertz's Most Influential list.
Speaker 14 (21:27):
One two Buttons shoes will run your coat and hat.
I play a game like that while I'm waiting for you.
Three four open the door refer Heaven says I can't
eat stuff you take while I'm waiting for you. Five
(21:48):
says my heart does tricks as I picture.
Speaker 15 (21:51):
All the child.
Speaker 14 (21:53):
Seven eights you at the gate and you walk into
my narm. Nine ten gives me again. Tell me you
get a through just as I hope you will while
I'm waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
That was a little early Artie Shaw via Brunswick Records.
One two Button Your Shoe vocal by Tony Past recorded
in October of nineteen thirty six. Artie Shaw certainly holding
a well deserved position on the Dick Girt list of
(23:32):
ten of his most influential musical talents of the swing
years of the nineteen thirties. Let's go to another record.
Speaker 16 (24:01):
Don't do.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Now all you Now, it's your.
Speaker 8 (24:59):
Now over me.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Every roll.
Speaker 8 (25:06):
Have the journey.
Speaker 16 (25:09):
For that one thing on learning.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
I cried for you.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Water fool I used to be.
Speaker 16 (25:26):
Now I'm found you.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I just a little, the blue, I found the hard
just a little, the sure.
Speaker 7 (25:40):
I cried, Now your turn you cry me.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
I cried for you Billie Holiday Vocal on Brunswick Records
featuring Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra, recorded June the thirty,
nineteen thirty six, in New York City, and that record,
many say that record is the recording that brought the
Great Billy Holiday into prominence. And just as a coincidence,
(27:16):
I was recently reading a story that I Cried for
You was Billy's biggest hit for the Brunswick Record Company. Now,
in that article it said that average sales of the
Holiday recordings with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra at that
(27:36):
time would have been in the three thousand discs sold mark. However,
the record we just heard sold more than fifteen thousand,
seventy eight. And one of the reasons this did so well,
the story surmised, could be in the fact that I
(27:56):
Cried for You was one of the first stands that
Billy ever recorded and had some popularity prior to her
going into the studio. That tune had been around since
nineteen twenty three and recorded many times. So a little
side fact about Billy Holliday, just by coincidence that I
(28:18):
had read, I guess it was last week I Cried
for You I'm Jeff Bresler, and I'm not crying for
Dick gert who has presented the Make Believe Ballroom and
our listeners with pretty solid list of what he considers
to be his top ten most influential musicians and vocalists
(28:38):
of the nineteen thirties. Let's continue the journey.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
And then they go, Then they get, and sometimes they
want to.
Speaker 16 (29:26):
Let stand.
Speaker 17 (29:36):
Food, don't stuck, dot expect got stomus lad like I
do that.
Speaker 18 (29:55):
Then I don't w then I fall. I do not
happen anything different, things different, anything anything better.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I don't know it.
Speaker 16 (30:24):
Had a lady.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
You may find.
Speaker 16 (30:38):
The set about anything.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
How can you not include a musical great on the
Dick girt list whose nickname was pres or President on
Vocalion Records, one of the most definitive tenor sax players
of his generation, and I guess of all time on Vocalion.
We just heard Lester Leaps in count Bases Kansas City seven,
(32:17):
featuring the tenor sacks of Lester Young, recorded in nineteen
thirty nine. Lester Young on Dick Gertz's most Influential list.
I'm certainly not that influential, but I am Jeff Bresler,
and we're listening to music today on the ballroom that
comes from the artists who Dick Gert of Clearwater, Florida
(32:39):
considers to be the ten most influential of the nineteen
thirties and the swing era. Look forward to seeing your
list of your favorite bands, musicians, vocalists or composers, and
like with Dick, I'd be happy to share them with
our big make Believe Ballroom audience. Jeff at Make Believe
(33:00):
Ballroom Radio dot com. That's Jeff at Make Believe Ballroom
Radio dot com.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Nothing work.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Jango Reinhard and his Hot Club Up France with Dina
Violin by Stefan Grippelli, recorded in Paris December the twenty eighth,
nineteen thirty four, and that record the sole international musician
on the Dickert list of most influential musicians of the
(36:00):
nineteen thirties.
Speaker 19 (36:40):
When I'm with you, I be so small right in
my shell, I water brawl. I wonder why I had
to fall for you, Oh you dog, Why do you
make my life?
Speaker 17 (36:49):
Some time?
Speaker 19 (36:50):
It seems like I love you hopping up.
Speaker 16 (36:53):
You don't have them leave much too much for me.
Speaker 14 (36:57):
I wish that I would win you went me baby.
Speaker 19 (37:00):
Kings, so I could love you twice as much as
hide you. I'd have four loving oms to embrace you.
Whise why do like you just hide? And I'd made
you with who I was writing through?
Speaker 14 (37:16):
What wouldn't the bole iff do?
Speaker 19 (37:18):
When boy is he.
Speaker 15 (37:19):
Saying I'm your.
Speaker 16 (37:22):
You? Rid me baby him?
Speaker 14 (37:25):
Is it I a drims or I could love it
wipe as much.
Speaker 20 (37:27):
As I do.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
You running Mamy Hims waiting.
Speaker 19 (38:31):
Im twem so I love you?
Speaker 3 (38:39):
On Victor Records, I wish I were twins. That's Waller
and his Rhythm, recorded May sixteenth, nineteen thirty four in
New York City. And that's Waller, the pianist, the entertainer,
the composer of over four hundred songs in his brief
life of only thirty nine years, without a doubt, a
(39:01):
musician who no one will argue belongs on the Dick
Gart list.
Speaker 21 (40:21):
Let us go the other, no body, huh turn up.
Speaker 16 (40:32):
N don't.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
D don't tin, don't do the last, o't er.
Speaker 16 (40:41):
Don't.
Speaker 21 (40:43):
Let baby, don't no, no, no, don know, don't know you,
don't don't over.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Baby, don't don't don't tell me A lot like trouble lad.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Why A Columbia records I'm Rhythm Crazy Horace Henderson and
his Orchestra featuring the unmistakable tenor sacks of Coleman Hawkins.
That recording was made on October third, nineteen thirty three,
in New York City. Coleman Hawkins nicknamed Hawk and sometimes
(42:41):
what was his other nickname? Hawkins's other nickname was Bean,
and in my estimation, Bean or Hawk or Coleman Hawkins
was America's first prominent jazz musician to make the tenor
sacks an important part of a jazz band. There were
(43:03):
some great tenor sacks players before him, like Guys Well,
like Hap Calledwell, but the instrument was not an acknowledged
jazz horn until the Hawk came by Coleman Hawkins. And
due to that fact perhaps is why Dick Girt put
(43:26):
him Coleman Hawkins on his list one more on the
Dick Girt list of top ten most influential Musicians and
Vocalists of the nineteen thirties. To round things out.
Speaker 6 (44:00):
Sus.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
Y'all giving me her song and as.
Speaker 20 (45:26):
Telling me her tale of row Man, but heaven eye
those words.
Speaker 15 (45:36):
Before no y'all telling me y'all gonna be true, But
I shouldn't listen and do you.
Speaker 8 (45:54):
For having my heart been fool.
Speaker 20 (45:58):
Before me. Now you want me because you ain't got me.
You'd even promise them.
Speaker 15 (46:15):
Once you got me right away you want me, you'd.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Be changing your dude.
Speaker 15 (46:25):
You're giving me a song ever da.
Speaker 16 (46:31):
And I'm falling for your rowns.
Speaker 20 (46:37):
But haven't high heard those words before?
Speaker 3 (46:57):
What top list of musicians in voguets of the thirties
would not include the great Benny Goodman And we just
heard him on Victor Records. You're giving me a song
and a dance. Benny Goodman and his orchestra Helen Ward,
longtime vocalist of Benny Goodman Singing There recorded in New
(47:19):
York City on October the seventh, nineteen thirty six, and
we played so many of Goodman's standards on the show recently,
I thought I would choose a record more lightly played
Benny Goodman tune. So a huge thank you to Dick
Girk from Clearwater, Florida, one of our Make Believe Ballroom
(47:41):
family of listeners, who was nice enough to take the
time to sit down and put together his list of
the top ten most influential musicians and vocalists of the
nineteen thirties. Why don't you drop me a line at
Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com, Jeff at MakeBelieve
Ballroom Radio dot com, or better yet, send me a
(48:02):
voicemail via Jeff at make Bully Ballroom podcast dot com
to give me a new list to share with our listeners,
or perhaps make adjustments to the Dick Girt list we
just played through. We certainly now as I look at
the clock, the big Bulivar clock here in the wall
(48:22):
in Crystal Studio, realize that we do have time for
some additional music. So let's spin a few.
Speaker 16 (48:48):
Or a.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Brighton swinging version of the song Sapphire from Clyde Lucas
and his California Dons, recorded back in nineteen thirty six. Folks,
time for one more before we have to go.
Speaker 15 (51:48):
Li the cat's got the bit.
Speaker 5 (51:50):
It is really cutting it.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
Lose the collar and the moon play.
Speaker 12 (51:53):
A double was soon, So swinging mother Goose let a
Jack Horner went back to his honor to see what
the buy news you putt need some? And he pulled
out and drums some Swinging mother Goose, get those old
rhythms up today, freshing up your lives.
Speaker 14 (52:09):
If you don't you get the gage, you help sister
prod do not.
Speaker 12 (52:14):
Do not days little miss mother, you really can pump
it in trump as hot as the new Little boy
Blue isn't blowing intooso swinging mother wos my mother Goose.
Speaker 3 (52:25):
Bring out your eating and turn them loose.
Speaker 20 (52:27):
They all swinging.
Speaker 11 (52:28):
You can refuse to let the arm come go nursey loose, Harry,
don't you be compare of You haven't gotten excuse, Just
get in your place.
Speaker 16 (52:37):
Starts shaping the babs hands in your mother goose.
Speaker 12 (52:41):
If those rhythms up, today's freshing up your rhymes.
Speaker 16 (52:45):
If you don't you get the game, you gotta get him.
You gotta keep heaving.
Speaker 2 (52:50):
Yeah that so come on, mother Goose, you gotta keep
up I.
Speaker 15 (52:56):
Jumping rock.
Speaker 3 (53:06):
Swing it, mother Goose. Irish Adrian and the Kingsmen provided
the vocals for Charlie Barnett and his orchestra that song
from the nineteen forty two film Jukebox Jenny and Friends.
That's all the time we have for today. Big thanks
again to Dick Girt from Florida for constructing his great list.
(53:28):
Very enjoyable going through it on the show Jeff at
MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio dot com. Jeff at MakeBelieve Ballroom Radio
dot com. Past shows go from radio to podcast on
MakeBelieve Ballroom Podcast dot com Make Believe Ballroom Podcast dot com.
Until next week, this has been Jeff Bresler and I
(53:51):
was just thinking before we actually do go out for
those that follow Angelocarbone, whose late parents Ralph and Rose
started the Ralphie from Canarsi Record Club, just a quick
update for you on his health. He took a spill
by his condominium pool in Naples, Florida. A few weeks back.
(54:12):
Lenny from down the Block paid him a visit, and
if you listened to last week's show for Angelo, we
played the top ten songs from the Ralfie from Canarsi
list of top hits from the Big Band era. Lenny
from down the Block took the trip from Tampa to
Naples to visit with Angelo and played that broadcast for
(54:34):
him on his phone. Well, Angelo, at ninety two years young,
is back up and on his feet, and once again
I hear sitting by the pool and that's just great news.
So again, friends, for a second time, until next week,
this has been Jeff Bresler.
Speaker 14 (55:43):
Let's din and imaginal for room. He is a make
believe ball room.
Speaker 17 (55:51):
Let's din, Let's dann.
Speaker 7 (55:55):
It will double my chancells.
Speaker 19 (55:58):
I can see it your glance.
Speaker 3 (56:01):
Room man, for while we slaying and the man is
playing music.
Speaker 6 (56:07):
Dammy sharp, if you.
Speaker 1 (56:09):
Bro tender sweetly, surrender in my willing arm.
Speaker 16 (56:14):
Let's down.
Speaker 19 (56:16):
So it's only a small room.
Speaker 6 (56:18):
You know, make me leave for room.
Speaker 19 (56:21):
Let's din
Speaker 18 (57:28):
Of
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.