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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
The genus Artemisia is found in the sunflower family Asteraceae and there are over 200 species found around the world in the northern hemisphere. W...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 05:04
On this edition of the MAKE BELIEVE BALLROOM, we look at some bandleaders of the era who were popular but somewhat forgotten today.
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 58:01
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
Abigail Jean and her father, Rich Jean, thank their local librarian, Hasina Islam, for encouraging Abigail’s love of reading.
- Added: May 04, 2021
- Length: 03:12
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
Join Jeff Bressler for another trip down memory lane to visit the musicians, their music, and wonderful stories.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 57:57
Join Jeff Bressler for another trip down memory lane to visit the musicians, their music, and wonderful stories.
- Added: Apr 26, 2021
- Length: 58:01
A sequel, by popular demand, to a show the Make Believe Ballroom did on VDISC, the records distributed to the troops during WWII.
- Added: Apr 12, 2021
- Length: 58:01
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
It’s been a rough year. So, we gathered all the good news we could find to brighten your podcast feed. Hear kids read to a therapy dog, a library l...
- Added: Mar 26, 2021
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 2
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
A story of hope for the world. Written and read by Greg Flint
- Added: Mar 17, 2021
- Length: 24:31
An hour of some great favorites of the 30s and 40s with some wonderful stories about the records we play.
- Added: Mar 15, 2021
- Length: 58:19
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
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
This week, a very special 86th Anniversary Edition of the Make Believe Ballroom. Join Jeff Bressler as he takes us back to present the history of t...
- Added: Feb 02, 2021
- Length: 58:18
This week the program features records that highlight some of the great crooners, vocalists, and vocal groups of the 1930s and 1940s.
- Added: Jan 25, 2021
- Length: 58:10
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
What do librarians do all day? When they're not planning programs or working the reference desk, these librarians are also obscure trivia players, ...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Jan 06, 2021
- Length: 14:44
- Purchases: 1
In June of 2020, a 72-year-old man in the UK named Gerald Stratford posted a photograph of himself in his garden on Twitter. He wrote, “Just giving...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Jan 05, 2021
- Length: 25:11
- Purchases: 1
For the last 35 years, Scott Macaulay has hosted Thanksgiving dinner for people with nowhere else to go. At StoryCorps, he tells his friend Loretta...
Bought by WYAP and KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Nov 23, 2020
- Length: 02:50
- Purchases: 2
