On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – how a song gave a morale boost to WWII airmen, two musicians with great performing longevity, a long forgotten record label, listener emails and requests - this and many more great records to enjoy on the show!

On this three-hour edition of the after-midnight Milkman's Matinee, Jeff Bressler offers his top 50 hits of 1940. The show, heard on public, community, and university radio stations, has been divided into three parts for podcast consumption. 
 

On this three-hour edition of the after-midnight Milkman's Matinee, Jeff Bressler offers his top 50 hits of 1940. The show, heard on public, community, and university radio stations, has been divided into three parts for podcast consumption.

On this three-hour edition of the after-midnight Milkman's Matinee, Jeff Bressler offers his top 50 hits of 1940. The show, heard on public, community, and university radio stations, has been divided into three parts for podcast consumption. 
 

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a program dedicated to enjoying the music of some long forgotten big bands and their leaders  - this and many more great records to enjoy on the show!

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – the macabre ending for Henry Busse, a Tommy Dorsey work party, some videos to watch on YouTube, a lyricist comedian, Make Believe Ballroom's original theme  - all this and many more great records to enjoy on this show!

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a legendary female singer was also a talented composer,Johnny Guarnieri played an instrument that put him in the recording record books, a British selection and story  - all this and many more great records to enjoy on this show!

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – two famous Harlem hotels, a song written in 1941 about a famous wartime cartoon character, big bands on a beloved American variety show  - all this and many more great records to enjoy on this show!

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom – a listener request for some more A and B side record stories, the first time recording of one of the big band era’s most treasured toons, a Louis Armstrong Broadway flop, Benny Goodman lends a hand to an ill vocalist  - all this and many more great records to enjoy on this show!

On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and on other fine radio affiliates across the United States as well as in the United Kingdom - music you have heard all your life and never paid attention to, a song salute to a new affiliate, what many say was the first ever jazz festival - all this and many, many more great records to enjoy on this show!