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If you're "hep to the jive" and can "dig the scene," then you're in for a treat on this week's "Juke In The Back." Matt The Cat presents Cab Callow...
Bought by KCSM, Royalton Community Radio, KSRQ, KJZX-Austin, WHRV and more
- Added: Nov 13, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
The frank sexuality of 1933's "Baby Face" has made it one of the defining films of Hollywood’s precode era, with Filmspotting marathon subject Barb...
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more
- Added: Jul 01, 2022
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 8
This week, Matt The Cat begins a sporadic series on the music that influenced the R&B that we love so dearly. What better way to begin such a serie...
Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WYAP, WOUB and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
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, ...
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 58:01
On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM - A band that the senior set listened to, listener emails, songs from some legendary British bandleaders.
- Added: Jul 26, 2021
- Length: 58:02
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 l...
- Added: Jul 19, 2021
- Length: 58:01
This week's BALLROOM takes a look at the unique Metronome All-Star Band
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 58:03
This week's BALLROOM looks at the Downbeat Magazine's favorite performers from 1936-1945
- Added: Jun 23, 2021
- Length: 58:00
This week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM features a look at some of the Big Band theme songs from the era.
- Added: Jun 07, 2021
- Length: 58:00
This week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM looks at some of the reasons for the demise of the big band and swing era.
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 59:00
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 contes...
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 58:00
This week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM features a special program about SOUNDIES. MTV did not invent the concepts of music videos. They were wildly popu...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 58:01
This edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM takes a look at the music and stories of big band vocal ensemble groups.
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 58:02
Join us for another selection of hits from the 1930s and 1940s and the stories behind the records. Jeff Bressler hosts and follows the traditions o...
- Added: Mar 22, 2021
- Length: 58:00
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 ...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 57:57
This week's show pays tribute to Jimmy Durante who would have celebrated his 127th birthday in February of 2021.
- Added: Feb 15, 2021
- Length: 58:00
Join Jeff Bressler for this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM as he pays tribute to RCA Victor's budget label, Bluebird records.
- Added: Feb 08, 2021
- Length: 58:04
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 ...
- Added: Jan 18, 2021
- Length: 58:00
Many of our most beloved remakes of songs came originally from the music of the 1930s and 1940s. This edition of the Make Believe Ballroom plays or...
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
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 194...
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 58:03
On this week’s MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, heard on Public Broadcasting and Community Radio stations across the US and in the UK – A Philadelphia Cowbo...
- Added: Dec 27, 2020
- Length: 58:02
On this week's MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM – A song that is child’s play, Oscar, Oscar, Oscar, two brothers from Akron, plus Alice Faye, Dorothy Lamour, ...
- Added: Dec 22, 2020
- Length: 58:00
A salute to the Holiday Season and the impact the music of the 1930s and 1940s has had in creating the beloved Christmas canon.
- Added: Dec 13, 2020
- Length: 58:00
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,...
- Added: Dec 07, 2020
- Length: 58:04
On this weeks edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM – a visit from the past, some clues to a famous female vocalist, one bandleader's loss is anothe...
- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 58:09
