Make Believe Ballroom
Hosted by Jeff Bressler, The Make Believe Ballroom, each week, brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s.
The program has been broadcast almost continuously since 1935. Each program mixes beloved 78 rpm records, stories, listener requests, and special guest features, all geared to bring you the music and history of the big band era.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 9/5/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - one of the forefathers of swing, a song from the 1920s that took decades to get its just d…
00:58:01 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/29/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a second string band that was anything but second best, a crooner of the 1930s whose life …
00:58:01 |
Fri 29 Aug 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/22/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - some Bing Crosby duets, a long-forgotten female vocalist, a battling composer, a couple of…
00:58:01 |
Fri 22 Aug 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/15/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s -Frank Sinatra turned down for a job, a song that became a gold record 43 years after it was…
00:58:09 |
Fri 15 Aug 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/8/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a one hit wonder, a lightly played Benny Goodman tune, how Marilyn helped Ella, listners e…
00:58:01 |
Fri 08 Aug 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 8/1/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a historic big band colaberation, a singing sisters nick name for a wildly popular comic a…
00:58:01 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 7/25/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - we spin a couple of lightly played Glenn Miller recordings, two great classic Jam Sessions…
00:58:00 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 7/18/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a big band leader who had to change his name, a popular bandleader who had a second career…
00:58:02 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 7/11/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - an email from a 95 year old veteran who played in the Air Force Band, a song written for t…
00:58:01 |
Fri 11 Jul 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 7/4/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a look at a listener's somewhat controversial list of the most influential jazz musicians …
00:57:53 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/27/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a special tribute to Angelo Carbone and the Raphie from Canarsie, Brooklyn Record Club, al…
00:58:19 |
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/20/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a game show hosts famous uncle, a longtime listners special playlist, a gambling song, Len…
00:58:06 |
Fri 20 Jun 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/13/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s -One of the all time great female vocalists first record as a younf teenager, a dubious reco…
00:58:12 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 6/6/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom with Jeff Bressler brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - we take a close look at a song that won an Academy Award in 1937, but more importantly, ho…
00:58:01 |
Fri 06 Jun 2025
Make Believe Ballroom -5/30/25 Edition
This week's Make Believe Ballroom brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s - a look at what Jeff Bressler feels is the primary reason for the demise of big bands, a story on how opposite…
00:58:43 |
Sat 31 May 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/23/25 Edition
On this week's Make Believe Ballroom, bringing you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s – one of those shows where we go totally off script almost as soon as we begin and end up with a list of…
00:57:45 |
Sat 24 May 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/16/25 Edition
On this week's Make Believe Ballroom, bringing you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s – a band vocalist who was second only to Bing Crosby, more listeners submit lists of their favorite big b…
00:58:04 |
Sun 18 May 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/9/25 Edition
Join Jeff Bressler for some great Big Band Music of the 30's and 40's on this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates ac…
00:58:01 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 5/2/25 Edition
Hosted by Jeff Bressler, the Make Believe Ballroom brings you Classic Big Band Hits from the 30s and 40s
This week's show, broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radi…
This week's show, broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radi…
00:58:04 |
Fri 02 May 2025
Make Believe Ballroom - 4/25/25 Edition
On this week's Make Believe Ballroom broadcast on member-supported Jazz 90.1 in Rochester, NY, and other fine radio affiliates across the United States and the United Kingdom – a long-forgotten New Y…
00:58:04 |
Fri 25 Apr 2025
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