On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY, and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – early Glenn Miller, a kind of offbeat public service announcement song, a bandleaders famous first name, the Paradise Ballroom, America’s biggest annual birthday party from the 1920s-40s --  All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.   
 

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – some contemporary big bands,  British big band plays a popular tune, how many children were named during the big band era, a ballroom from days gone by -- All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY, and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – How a Basie song got its name, a nostalgic look at how people listened to recorded music, and some musical trivia. All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.   
 

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY, and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – Big Band Era singer and bandleader brother combo, how Louis Armstrong got his nickname, Who’s Yehoodi??,  All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY, and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – A short lived but very talented small band,  did Phil Harris record the first “rap” record in 1946, a post Glenn Miller hit, a bandleader we’re sure you never heard of -  All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – Who was Shelton Brooks? More train songs. A historic award in the recording industry. A famous phone number. An Artie Shaw story.  All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM’s weekly big band record party broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – the Make Believe Ballroom goes to court circa 1936, Jack Teagarden’s obsessive hobby, a song that was censored by the record company once, then not censored a second time! All this and more of the greatest hits of the big band era are played for your musical enjoyment.

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – an hour of the finest music from the big band era of the 1930s and 40’s plus an email question related to the popularity of swing music, how an old expression in a song title got its roots, a tune popular in the late 1950s t was a well liked song in the 30’s and much, much more!

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY, and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – some old tunes from the 1920s that were given swinging updates, a new band never heard on the Ballroom, another classic Sinatra story, a radio duo that made great music together-  all this in addition to many more record gems from the big band era of the 1930s and 1940s

On this week's edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM broadcast over member supported Jazz 90.1 WGMC-FM in Rochester, NY, and other fine affiliates across the US as well as in the United Kingdom – a couple of records and bandleaders never heard on the Ballroom, the first time recording of a song tune that went on to become the theme of a famous singer, a band of individual musicians who each went on to become all-stars, some hand-picked tunes by Norton, the only member of the Make Believe Ballroom studio audience - all this in addition to many more record gems from the big band era of the 1930s and 1940s