Episodios

  • Make Believe Ballroom - 4/17/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 4/17/26 Edition
    Apr 17 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a salute to a female blues vocalist, little remembered, a rare Artie Shaw record, 15-year-old Judy Garland, how a song got an unusual name, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.

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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 4/10/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 4/10/26 Edition
    Apr 10 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, Sarah Vaughn’s start; Count Basie reached the masses from a tiny club; the first band Benny Goodman led; listeners, emails, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 4/3/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 4/3/26 Edition
    Apr 3 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, Hawaiian swing, a bandleader with no biography, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 3/27/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 3/27/26 Edition
    Mar 27 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, some "royalty" of jazz, the original King of Swing, a forgotten record label, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 3/20/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 3/20/26 Edition
    Mar 20 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a British bandleader comes to the US and makes history, a female vocalist who had two number 1 hits in a span of a month, plus many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 3/13/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 3/13/26 Edition
    Mar 13 2026
    The Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s.

    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a little-remembered big band singer, the use of the organ in 1930s and '40s jazz, Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman play Klezmer, many more records, stories, and reminiscences from the big band era.
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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 3/6/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 3/6/26 Edition
    Mar 6 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a bandleader in the Guinness Book of Records, a TV dad who started his career in music, battling brothers, and more records and reminiscences from the golden age of the American songbook.
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    58 m
  • Make Believe Ballroom - 2/27/26 Edition

    Make Believe Ballroom - 2/27/26 Edition
    Feb 27 2026
    On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom, hosted by Jeff Bressler, a look at a musical couple married for over 50 years, a famous brother from a comedy team who raised the baton on his own band, a musician and arranger talked out of law school, and more records and reminiscences from the golden age of the American songbook.
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    58 m