Make Believe Ballroom - 5/22/26 Edition

About this episode

This episode features a song about a woman in the military and discussions on various artists and records from the big band and jazz era.

On this week's edition of the Make Believe Ballroom hosted by Jeff Bressler, a song about a woman in the military, listeners' emails about Louis Jordan and Bill Finnigan, the A and B side of a great Ray Noble 78rpm, and more records and reminiscences from the big band and jazz era.

People in this episode

Host: Jeff Bressler

Topics covered

• military songs
• listener emails
• big band era
• jazz era
• 78rpm records

Keywords

• military song
• Louis Jordan
• Bill Finnigan
• Ray Noble
• big band
• jazz
• 78rpm

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Ray Noble

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